I'm Alan Alda, and this is clear and vivid conversations about connecting and communicating.

For the next couple of weeks, we're taking a short break from recording new conversations, but in looking through our list

of almost 400 episodes, we've come up with two that we think are really worth playing again.

They're personal to me, because each conversation touches on a major turning point in my life.

And they're also turning points in the lives of the people I'm talking with. This week

will be revisiting the conversation I had with Michael J. Fox in 2018. Michael had already spent decades

coping with Parkinson's disease, and I had just been diagnosed with it three years earlier.

It was a welcome chance to compare notes on how we were handling one of the speed bumps

life can throw your way.

Michael, as always, was inspiring.

Michael, I'm so glad to be talking to you today.

I've been looking forward to this because of all the conversations I've had on this show,

this is probably going to be the most personal for me because you and I are now on the same journey together.

And I'm very anxious to hear from you, your end of it, what you've gone through.

How did you first find out you had Parkinson's?

I woke up one morning and I had a twitch my pinky finger.

And then I realized that it wouldn't stop.

And it just continued.

And it was a sooner coming days after by shoulder.

And then by...

A couple of days later days later was not just your

pinky was your shoulder my shoulder and then i was running one day and on my office vineyard and Tracy

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