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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

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Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out

Mike Birbiglia's Working It Out podcast

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4.84K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Michael J. Fox: When Your Hero Comes on Your Podcast (Recorded May 2022) 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 an episode of working it out that I wanted to

0:11.5

re-air today because I just watched the Michael J. Fox movie, which is called

0:16.1

Still. It is directed by Davis Guggenheim. It's on Apple TV Plus. It's gorgeous.

0:24.8

It's just a gorgeous documentary. It's about his life growing up in Canada,

0:30.6

moving to Los Angeles, being completely broke and auditioning for things for a

0:36.5

few years and then almost sudden having everything happen all at once, being

0:42.1

in back to the future and being on Family Ties and everything else. We have this

0:48.2

great conversation in this episode and we recorded this last summer and it's

0:54.0

we talk about his his challenges with Parkinson's and also the amazing work

1:00.6

that his foundation, Michael J. Fox, dot org, the Fox Foundation does for Parkinson's

1:07.1

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

1:11.9

have supported them and continue to support them. I think it's a great group. I

1:17.4

actually recorded a voiceover recently for an animation they did about the

1:22.2

relationship and the correlation between Rem behavior disorder, which I have.

1:26.5

Parkinson's, which you should check out if you're able to, it's on Michael J. Fox

1:33.5

dot org. One cool thing this summer is that we started posting the full video of

1:40.3

the episodes. There's something you've asked for, you folks who listen to the

1:44.6

show, have said, how come these, they're just clips of the show? What about the

1:48.7

full video? And we've worked really hard to put up. We have two episodes now

1:53.3

that are up. I wear a glass and Elise Myers. They're on YouTube and you can

1:58.0

subscribe to our channel. And yeah, we're really proud of it. We think it

2:01.9

it looks great. Sounds great. And you can like and subscribe and all that. All

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