All right, all right, and welcome to Don't Drink Beer Presents

Malka Tour, the world's jankiest beer podcast.

This is batch number one, 33.

And there's no rhyme.

Yeah.

And the reason that there's no rhyme is because the man who rhymes is not with us today.

That's right.

For the first time in 133 episodes, Michael Gabriel will not be joining the Maltie Boys.

We are two-thirds of a malt, and we have a good reason.

Michael, as you may recall, flew home to Ohio and unfortunately has contracted the coronavirus

and cannot fly home. And he's here with us today to discuss it. Just so up top, we're going to

get a little bit of perspective about what he's going through. And then we will proceed as normal.

So let's jump to

Michael. All right, we're on with Michael now, who is quarantining in Ohio and he's going to jump in

here and tell us a little bit about his COVID experience and what's going on right now. So Michael,

what is happening? Yeah. What's up, y'all? Um, uh, yes. I have COVID. I did it. Um, it's this success. Uh, yeah, I'm in Ohio. Um, I never left, uh, because I, I don't think I can. Do you guys know whether there's like a law,

whether you can be on an airplane once you've like...

Yes, recover first, test negative,

and then when you come back,

into L.A. County, you must quarantine for 10 days.

Yeah.

But basically, I, once I found out that I had, I had to push back the flight and I did it.

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