Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

Got a really special one for you this week with the great Michael J. Fox, special because I know

how all of you feel about Michael J. Fox and special because of know how all of you feel about Michael J. Fox, and special because of the

way I personally feel about Michael. My father has had Parkinson's disease for more than 30 years,

32, 33 years, something like that. He was diagnosed in his late 40s and diagnosed a couple of years

only after Michael himself was diagnosed with Parkinson's.

Michael's diagnosis came in 1991. He was 29 years old. This came at the height of his

popularity after all the back to the future movies, Teen Wolf, Family Ties. He actually was

filming the movie Doc Hollywood when he felt a little

tremor in his pinky went to get it looked at and eventually doctors determined that he had

Parkinson's disease. Didn't reveal it publicly for seven more years after that. And then in the year

2000, he established the Michael J. Fox Foundation, which has been a just bastion of hope and

inspiration and research and fundraising and all the things that you would hope would come in this

fight to find a cure for Parkinson's disease. He has been incredible to so many families,

about 10 million around the world with someone living with Parkinson's.

Michael and I got together at his favorite little restaurant on the Upper East Side of Manhattan,

pulled up a table to talk about his new book called Future Boy.

It commemorates the 40th anniversary, if you can believe, of Back to the Future, which came out in 1985,

and tells the story I didn't really know,

which is he was starring in Family Ties,

the hit NBC sitcom where he played Alex P. Keaton at the time.

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