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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Michael J. Fox: Exterior Night Jungle Rain (Re-Release)

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.812.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We're throwing it back to Rob's interview with the great Michael J. Fox! The two discuss the balance of realism and optimism, Transcendental Meditation, being in a jungle for six months with Sean Penn, and dissect some of Paul Simon’s most cryptic lyrics. Plus: we learn Michael’s favorite theme song from one of his movies. This episode originally aired in December 2020. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0

Let's talk books.

0:01.6

The new one is insane. It's great. I love all your books, though. I mean, I loved Happy Man. It was one of the things that inspired me to write my book. The book was great. Oh, thanks. Even my misadventures. Misadventures. I think you make an appearance in my book. Yeah, I do. You're misadventure. It's 28 years sober. All I can say, Tony Brio.

0:19.8

Tonyi is over. 28 years sober. It's all I can say.

0:32.4

Hello, everybody.

0:36.8

I feel like I say I'm excited all the time for my guest. And guess what?

0:38.1

I usually am. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I'm, I feel like I say I'm excited all the time for my guest. And guess what? I usually am.

0:39.8

Sometimes I'm not.

0:41.3

Sometimes I'm acting.

0:44.3

I mean, how excited can a man be?

0:49.0

But Michael J. Fox.

0:50.6

Okay?

0:53.1

Really, there's not much more to say.

0:57.1

I've known Michael since the 80s. We were rivals,

1:02.6

and then we were best buddies. He did not like that he was not in the brat pack. Didn't like it.

1:10.2

Told me that he started his own thing called the snack pack. That's what he said. And then, of course,

1:13.4

we sized each other up and we became fast friends.

1:19.9

And I actually write about some times I had with Michael in my first book, stories only tell my friends.

1:26.7

Which is inspired by the success of Michael's first book, Lucky Man, which is a great book.

1:31.4

And he has a new book out now called No Time Like the Future.

1:40.4

An Optimist considers mortality. And the guy is just a tremendous writer, along with being hilarious and being in the kind of movies that you're going to remember forever.

1:47.3

I mean, the kind of movies that change, you know, the culture.

1:50.8

And of course, I'm talking about Teen Wolf.

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