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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Michael J. Fox: Exterior Night Jungle Rain

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In which Rob and actor/producer/author Michael J. Fox 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.

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0:00.0

Let's talk books. The new one isn't saying it's great. I love all your books though

0:04.2

I mean I I loved happy man

0:05.6

It was one of the things that inspired me to to write my book

0:08.3

He booked his way. Oh thanks. Even my misadventures. Misadventures. I think you make an appearance in my book

0:14.2

I did. Thank you. Misadventure that you did scissors.

0:16.4

What are you doing here, sober? It's all I can say.

0:18.4

Hello everybody. Welcome to Literally. I'm... I feel like I'm excited all the time for my guest and guess what? I usually am. Sometimes I'm not. Sometimes I'm acting. I mean, I'm excited can I man be.

0:44.4

But Michael J. Fox. Okay. Really there's not much more to say. I've known Michael since the 80s. We were rivals and then we were best buddies. He did not like that he was not in the Brapp Pack. He didn't like it.

1:03.4

Told me that he started his own thing called the snack pack. It's reset.

1:08.4

And then of course we sized each other up and we became fast friends. And I actually write about sometimes I have with Michael in my first book.

1:18.4

Stories only tell my friends. And which is inspired by the success of Michael's first book Lucky Man.

1:25.4

Which is a great book and he has a new book out now called No Time Like the Future and Optimist considers mortality.

1:34.4

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.

1:47.4

I mean the kind of movies that change the culture and of course I'm talking about Teen Wolf.

1:53.4

You know let's face it anyway he doesn't like it when I talk about Teen Wolf just watch you'll see is great I can't wait to have my friend the lovely and inspirational and genius Michael J. Fox.

2:06.4

So to book about golf originally.

2:09.4

Well usually we'll go to golf and then I get this fine thing. Just two more on my spine. It was really out of left field and they told me I'm dealing with Parkinson's and that's just kind of like I'm this I'm used to that.

2:23.4

It's like it takes up this much of my life and the rest of my life drives near the spaces but but then this back thing happened.

2:31.4

They found a tumor on my spine was strictly my spinal cord so they had to operate on it but nobody wanted to do it because they didn't want to get the guy said the doctor eventually did it was really great duckish doctor feed or not.

2:44.4

John's happens.

2:46.4

He said that they said do I understand whether they didn't want to do it and I said why and you say because he wants to paralyze my little Fox.

2:56.4

I like the way you're thinking so he is always going to paralyze me anyway so so I'm they they they took a shot that they get arrested stop it from getting worse which is what they did.

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