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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

73. Michael J. Fox: When Your Hero Comes on Your Podcast

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

Interviews, Iraglass, Dontthinktwice, Mygirlfriendsboyfriend, Sleepwalkwithme, Mikebirbiglia, Comedy Interviews, Thankgodforjokes, Comedy, Birbiglia, Thenewone

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week Mike welcomes one of his all time heroes, Michael J. Fox. Not only is Michael a five time Emmy award winning actor who has starred in ‘Family Ties’ and ‘Back to The Future,’ but his foundation has raised over 1 billion dollars to help fund Parkinson’s research programs. This week Mike and Michael work out material about not getting the Hugh Jackman treatment at the airport and Michael offers profound wisdom like: “You have to accept the truth of the situation before you address it.” Please consider donating to: The Michael J. Fox Foundation

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, we are back with a new episode of Working It Out.

0:11.0

Today on the show we have Michael J. Foxx, he's just a legendary actor.

0:14.2

I mean, between family ties on television, back to the future, countless films, television

0:21.8

shows that are incredible.

0:24.6

The good wife, the good fight.

0:27.4

We talk about a lot of his acting stuff.

0:30.1

He actually recently wrote a book that I love called No Time Like The Future.

0:35.0

It's a memoir.

0:36.0

It's so funny.

0:38.1

He also wrote another book called Lucky Man, a memoir.

0:41.1

I mean, it's just a fascinating writer, creator, actor.

0:45.3

And we go into a lot of his nonprofit work with the Michael J. Foxx Foundation.

0:49.5

They've raised over a billion dollars for Parkinson's research.

0:53.7

Over the years, I've performed at a bunch of their benefits.

0:57.0

I've done fundraising events.

0:58.7

It's just a great, great group of people.

1:01.8

We talk about this a little bit in the interview, but sleep disorders, like REM sleep behavior

1:06.6

disorder, do have some correlation to Parkinson's.

1:09.8

And so one thing they wanted to mention, the organization, is that if you wanted to volunteer

1:15.8

for a study, if you have sleep disorder, go to their site, which is Michael J. Foxx.org.

1:24.0

I should note that I just got finished with my run of shows at Steppenble Theater in

1:30.2

Chicago.

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