Michael Fishman - One Damn Great Human

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In today's episode, our guest is Michael Fishman, an actor, and producer. He is known for playing D.J. Conner on the long-running series Roseanne and its spin-off show The Conners.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[4:27]</span> <strong>Why should we listen to you?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The first thing I'm probably going to do is ask you a question because I want to know about you. I'd probably ask you not the thing everybody else is going to ask you like How are you? How's your day all that kind of stuff? I want to know what your dream is. I want to know what is it that you what lights you up? What is the thing that brings your world to life? And that's where I started.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[5:49]</span> <strong>Dream</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I guess the dream is to write, create and produce visceral experiences for audiences. I want to see families that look like ours on TV and I want to show stories from the kind of underrepresented perspectives where we offer inclusion, and you can realize how much we have in common. And then how much we need to learn to listen to each other and grow.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[8:56]</span> <strong>Experiences being the parents of an African American child</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They came into me later in life. I got them, and they were matured in their way. It's disturbing the way some people's minds can't quite get around to that. Here's all you need to know if you can't tell us is the kids loved. You're never going to understand everybody else's life unless you listen to them and then learn because it's so complex. All you need to know is the children are loved and have a support structure, and then how are all of us behaving and acting.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">[11:25]</span> <strong>Handling anger issue with my children</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You don't have to be