Nick Offerman

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1,205 appearances 7 recordings 5 series first heard Jan 2022 last heard 2 May

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TED Talks Daily · Nick Offerman | Design Matters with Debbie Millman · 23 Jan 2022 podcast

But again, I didn't understand that that was a creative job.

Like when I used to do it as a teenager, I worked framing houses and I worked on a blacktop crew.

And so those labor jobs didn't seem like something to aspire to.

I had no idea that one day I would become a fine furniture builder or boat builder.

I was a pretty successful mountebank.

I could put on a show.

I could sort of charm people into thinking they should elect me to like student council president or things like that.

When I knew secretly that I was just going to try and steal all the candy bars for me and my friends.

Well, I understand that when you attended the University of Illinois, you would dress up as a carpenter and go to the library to see how many tables you could take apart before somebody stopped you.

And I'm wondering, generally speaking, how many tables were you able to dismantle before being found out?

Usually, I think that our record was probably three.

I forgot about that.

I mean, that was that was before, you know, that was obviously before the Internet.

We needed to find something to do.

And so me and my buddy would go.

And it's it's pretty it's a fun, harmless prank.

I mean, we we always then put the tables back together.

You know, we weren't monsters.

I still feel like there were much more destructive ways we could have been spending our time.

Absolutely.

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