Nick Offerman

Thank you, Leslie.

Well, Megan and I never watch anything a second time, so I hadn't heard that since it aired 10 years ago.

So I hope you're happy with the warm tears that are rolling down my cheeks here in my guest room.

And the cast does have a text thread that has never stopped.

As you can imagine, it's mostly congratulations and happy birthdays and so forth with a lot of sincerity and affection and also a good amount of smart-assery and insulting the actor Jim O'Hare.

Yeah, he's the Eeyore.

And he couldn't be a sweeter, more wonderful guy.

And it's a joke we'll never drop.

It was a cast full of wonderful, talented actors and also Jim O'Hare is the running bit.

Yeah, a really nice, just humble little farm town, a couple thousand people, and now it's exploded.

I can never keep the numbers straight, but it was like a few thousand growing up, and now it's pushing maybe 20,000.

It's really gotten big.

I come from a wonderful farming family.

my dad's dad was the mayor for a while back in the eighties.

My mom's family are still farming.

Uh, and so I grew up getting to work on their farms and like just really great hardworking salt of the earth people, um, you know, working hard and then trying to play baseball and have a good time.

Uh,

when they hang up the tractor keys.

It did.

I had an ember through my childhood that when you could start doing plays in high school, I did.