Nick Offerman
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
That sounds like a big change.
And, you know, who likes change?
But pretty quickly, I was like, well...