Episode 1176 - Michael J. Fox

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Michael J. Fox didn't intend to be an inspiration but he's glad he can help out. As Marc learned from talking with him, Michael maintains a perspective on life filled with gratitude and optimism as he lives with the effects of Parkinson's disease. Recently, after a run of health setbacks, that perspective faltered. But Michael tells Marc how he got back on track, how he maintains strong bonds with his wife and children, how he felt about giving up show business for a second time, and what he realized about mortality while spending several months on the couch watching re-runs.

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0:00.0	Lock the gates!
0:09.3	Alright, let's do this. How are you, what the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck, Nick?
0:15.0	What's happening? How's it going? Could you just not just don't get the COVID before the cure?
0:22.4	Not the well not the cure, but it seems like there's some
0:25.8	promising things on the horizon here
0:27.8	Maybe we'll get a handle on this. It's a very weird thing. I
0:33.8	Recently had an experience. Oh, let me let me get some business out of the way because I'm very excited about our guest
0:40.7	Michael J Fox
0:43.4	Everybody loves Michael J Fox rightfully so you know him from back to the future family ties spin city and he's
0:51.4	He's been very publicly living with Parkinson's disease since the 1990s
0:55.6	He's written several books about it and his new memoir is called no time like the future an optimist considers mortality
1:06.0	I'd met Michael once I met him once at a
1:11.2	One of the comics come home performances with Dennis Weary
1:15.1	Met him and his wife
1:17.4	And it's a it's a very
1:20.1	heavy thing
1:22.1	How we handle
1:24.1	people who are living with
1:28.7	Real problems physical problems sicknesses illnesses how the
1:35.3	The the natural compulsion or the the natural reaction that someone has a lot of times is like oh my god
1:44.2	What a what a tragedy what you know that's so sad and
1:48.2	and
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