73. Michael J. Fox: When Your Hero Comes on Your Podcast
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out
Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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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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