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

And I said, I'm waiting for my girlfriend.

But somehow we got onto the subject of love.

i said what what are you doing here and they said they were theater students and i said what do you mean and they said we're studying to become theater actors and i said what hang on what does that mean and they like you can get a job doing plays is that a thing i mean i had heard of london and i had heard of broadway but i i was in illinois and

And they said, yeah, when we graduate, we hope to move to Chicago where you can make a living performing in plays.

And I just – I mean, it was like somebody just invented electricity.

I –

was so excited.

I went home to my mom and dad and said, you can get paid to do plays in Chicago.

That's what I want to do.

What was their response?

God bless them.

I have always said, you know, I've had some crazy ideas in my life, but I always work really hard and do my best.

No matter what cockamamie scheme I'm up to.

And so they said, look, we'll support you.

If you can try to have something to fall back on it, like you should, you know, try and have a way to make money, which ended up being using my my carpentry skills.

But they supported me and I couldn't believe it.

I went and had to.

do my first audition of my life to get into the conservatory there at the University of Illinois.

And they were short on strong young men to carry the talented people on and off stage.

And so I was able to fill one of those slots in 1988.

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