yeah why not no I got a couple of these uh talk show things to do and then I'm back
in the coast yeah how's the movie doing what was that box office or net how's the sitcom
43 share okay that's okay no no listen you no you just gonna have to tell Spielberg I'm not prepared
to make that commitment excuse me I'm sorry we we like to try and keep that line open if you don't
mind yeah listen I I got to go some uh some guy wants to use the phone all right bye-bye all right
thank you yeah this is he no no no no no no no not the grinder the hero look
you screwed up One More Time Pal your history you're a ghost you're Vapor oh
hey the guy better have the steak fries on him on him he's got him he better have pal
I'd like to keep it open
okay here we go big night my first guest is doing pretty well for him so these days he is the star
of two major major Motion Pictures One is of course Back to the Future and the other is Teen
Wolf as well as a show on this network called Family Ties please say hello to Michael J fox
yes sir
yes sir I'm glad I'm glad you have a growth too I because I left mine on it you have a growth there
it's about a week now let's see Teen Wolf was made actually before Back to the Future is that correct
yeah yeah and these two things are doing amazingly well Back to the Future did what
80 million dollars worth of business or something I I'm not really sure a huge hit as well yeah and
Teen Wolf is doing as well uh not quite as well it's probably doing as well because it was it was
made for a lot less so comparatively if you found out the calculator figured it all out now you so
you don't really need this TV stuff anymore do you this NBC you don't you're really upset with NBC no
no no no no believe me no I I know I'm lucky to have a job well they do that all the time they'll
put you on other bodies and stuff like that that's happened to you as well I'm a veteran in that yeah
yeah water off my back but you you have no plans of leaving the show to be a full-time
Motion Picture star uh not really no yeah how much now are you contractually bound to the
show for another five years or something uh uh not well a couple of years but uh
you know it's I like the show I mean a couple years and then you really hold them up right
no I don't know possibly I don't know um no I I just you know I like the show and they let me
to Back to the Future so to turn around and say uh adios you know how long has the show
been on the air uh we're in our fourth year and and was it uh on the set of the show that you
actually met Steven Spielberg yeah yeah for the first time what was that like well there was we
have a boom man named Murray uh who is a as a beard we always tell me looks like Steven
Spielberg and he left the show and then one day he was back and he was talking to our executive
producer on the set and I came up and said Murray your whole bag of dirt how you doing
and then Gary said you know Stephen and I said no and uh and that's when I met Steven Spielberg did
he no he couldn't have been offended by that he probably thought it was funny didn't he I hope so
he you know he hired me so uh but now I could say Stephen you all bag of dirt just kidding Stephen
you're not old no did you uh was it fun working with a guy yeah I didn't get to see him too much
I worked mostly with Bob's and Marcus you know Stephen would just come by every now and then
but uh yeah good guy yeah pretty basic just a guy you know uh and you also you also have met
other uh huge figures in the film industry here no no no no no no no no no no uh it didn't work
yeah I thought somebody walked in um no but you met uh Robert Redford yeah red red for uh Ordinary
People five years ago for for which part would that have been the uh that was for the yeah the
one I didn't get yeah so that was for that was it did Tim yeah yeah and what was that like meeting
here Robert Redford uh it was I was nerve-wracking um uh but he made me feel real comfortable he sat
back and put his feet on the coffee table and flashed his teeth he flossed his teeth yeah I
felt good about it wow yeah yeah now so so uh what did you say when you went in there you had to go
in and read for the guy uh yeah I went in red and uh and uh of course it was so immediately
relaxed that time now you weren't relaxed no no you know you found that his manner was off-putting
well I mean he might have had a bad day yeah well what did he say to you he said uh thanks
so that was and that was it yeah I didn't I didn't uh bring this up yeah sorry Bob I'll still work
for you though uh and then the Paul Newman yeah yeah now what was he like he no he seemed like
you would be a regular guy popcorn and beer and stuff and he was great what was the film that
you auditioned for well that was uh shadow box I get this already um uh yeah it was a thing called
shadow box that I'd done the play I went in and I had all my reviews and my guitar and stuff and uh
and that worked and I got it but then I couldn't do it because it was doing a series at the time
so it didn't turn out anything it didn't turn out yeah but he seemed like a reasonable fellow he was
a good guy okay yeah no we're pretty sure that's Richard Dawson's body because it's certainly not
my body I think there's a lot of thought put into that there's no golfing there's no golfing in the
show and certainly no Chariot racing in the show uh but John Cougar Mellencamp will be here that'll
be a Saturday night anyway yeah maybe that's John golfing perhaps uh how long ago were you at the
white house uh two weeks ago for which was this the uh reception for uh the prime minister of
Singapore and who else was there yeah a lot a lot of people uh there's about a uh I would say about
a hundred and so people I don't know Sylvester Stallone was there Sylvester Stallone now how
are these people chosen I mean who decided I have no idea I mean a lottery or something I
I don't know they just um they just call people up and I guess when you're the president you know
you get a pretty good shot of them coming you know uh I was you know I wasn't gonna say yeah
uh no I don't I don't know this would be true but I'm guessing you you had not met
the president before no definitely not and did you get to meet him this time yeah just
briefly and and how was that is it a reception line yeah it's you you go up in the line and
um and uh and you go through and we were brief luckily I met Shirley Temple Black before I went
in the line it was real great she used to be the chief of protocol and uh so she kind of
told us yeah what to do and what do you do what is the protocol there um just kind of like smile
and you know don't uh say anything stupid and uh it's the same protocol we use here
just they tell me every night before I can let her smile try not to say anything stupid so yeah
so you'd be right at home do you meet uh do you meet with Nancy first and then yeah you grow up
and then there's a lot of Marines all over the place which is like you know I guess good and uh
I'd won a lot if I was the president uh and and then they they kind of whisper in each other's
ears as you're coming up and then you get up there and then hopefully you'll get up there
at the same time The Whispers have reached what are they Whispering they're saying okay illnesses
you know whoever maybe they're saying go check out this guy's shirt what it is which in my case they
probably were and um look at the tie on this guy that kind of buffoon here comes that maroon from
television and um and uh then you get up there and and uh and then they say to the president
um and say you know Michael Fox and and then I say hello and and I knew
that he had seen the movie and I was hoping that Teen Wolf yeah
I gotta talk the Riders he has the right the writers in the show are sauna and you come
in the door and they make you feel so great he I came in and and uh that was it Fred sure now
he's really gonna kill me but yeah I came in and Fred said I love the movie nice job thanks
very much and he said yeah so I guess you're working on a sequel and I said yeah there's
talk and he said yes it can be Teen Wolf too or Teen Wolf's bloody Revenge now in my own
defense I didn't hear that joke I wasn't there when that joke was we would have heard it no no
but anyway uh yeah so I went up and he'd seen the movie by the way Fred's on a roll anyway
anyway uh so he talked to you yeah yeah yeah you like the movie and uh and uh and I guess
he he wasn't quite sure that the um the name of it but uh he had seen it yeah now do you
think that he really saw it or is he just being I know I think he did yeah yeah what was the the
food like if it was it was good yeah is it like a big chicken or is it real nice stuff
uh no it was uh it was veal it was good yeah yeah this is like tell all I've like alienated
no no no you're not alienating anybody but see you have to understand Michael
that there's a such a tiny percentage of American citizens yeah we'll never guess
yeah it was either me or falling uh anyway uh geez congratulations on everything that
it couldn't be going better for you guys the show was a big hit and your two movies are
still doing great business right geez nice meeting you Mike thanks for everything we'll
be back here uh we're gonna be princess Gloria right after station identification