Michael J. Fox: How to Keep Going When Life Gives You Speed Bumps

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

Bobi NYC

Comedy, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Michael J. Fox was diagnosed with young on-set Parkinson's Disease in 1991. He threw himself into his work and fell into moments of depression and alcohol abuse. But, in 1998, when he went public with his story, he changed the way the world looked at Parkinson's Disease and has now raised nearly a billion dollars in research through the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which he founded. And he inspired many other people with the disease to not let it stop them -- including Alan Alda. Alan was diagnosed 3 years ago and recently went public with his own story about living with Parkinson's. In this exclusive interview, Alan and Michael join one another for a raw and revealing conversation, recorded live in Michael's apartment. This episode is sponsored by Undeniably Dairy. To hear more stories about dairy farmers, visit UndeniablyDairy.org/Devoted Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/clearandvivid

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0:00.0	Since launching in 2000, the Michael J. Fox Foundation has funded more than $800 million
0:06.6	in Parkinson's Medical Research programs.
0:10.1	They've moved the field to the cusp of better treatments as well as ways to slower, stop
0:14.9	Parkinson's progression and to prevent a disease altogether.
0:19.8	The Foundation deliberately holds no endowment.
0:23.0	Instead it chooses to get funding into researchers' hands as quickly as possible.
0:28.5	Turn about all of this and find out how to get involved at www.MichaelJFox.org.
0:35.5	That's www.MichaelJFox.org
0:39.5	I'm Alan Alda and this is Clear and Vivid.
0:49.0	Conversations about connecting and communicating.
0:52.0	I found that as part of a community that had been before.
1:00.5	I've been isolated.
1:01.5	I taught my family.
1:02.5	I told loved ones.
1:03.5	I told some people I'd work with.
1:04.5	And I started to notice more people in the seat like the old lady that before was annoying
1:09.9	when she took so long to get in the elevator and put the button.
1:12.7	I now recognize her seven symptoms of Parkinson's and related and set it on part of this community.
1:18.1	Accepting doesn't mean resignation.
1:20.1	Now I'm not resigned to live with that.
1:23.0	I can never change it.
1:25.4	As a young man, one of the biggest stars of movies and television, Michael J. Fox, was
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