Nick Offerman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And if someone has left it somehow in an unfriendly way, what a horrible thing to do to your neighbors.
You also talk about a trip that you and Megan took together.
And in your book, you describe how at the time, which was just when COVID had really taken hold, both you and Megan had been dealing with your own personal, you termed it flavors of depression, and describe how your general happiness often depends upon your ability to accomplish good productive work,
that does somebody some good.
And you go on to state that whether it's as an actor or a writer or a woodworker or son or husband or neighbor, you've had the very good luck over the last few decades in almost always having been able to be of good use to someone.
And you go on to write, having the vocational side of this personal economy stripped away or
was quite alienating and left you feeling useless and adrift.
And when the pandemic began, all forms of work instantly disappeared.
But you were grateful that you were still needed by Megan to fill your role as spouse or you would have been truly in peril.
And in part three of the book, you write about how a month or two into COVID lockdown, Megan came up with the idea to get an RV or camping trailer to travel across the country to spend Thanksgiving with your family in Illinois.
What did you initially think of this idea?
Megan is the, is the idea factory.
She's an incredible picker of things, which I've, I learned pretty quickly into our relationship.
And so, uh,
Certain things that I don't care what color we paint the hallway or which sink faucet we choose.
And so I learned the many arenas in which I say, honey, please, you go ahead and curate this experience.
I'm never sorry.
And so something as big as like, let's buy some sort of camper situation and become, you know, road tripping campers is pretty substantial.
And I always at first, I'm like, I'm not sure.
I want to bristle.