Nick Offerman

To my way of thinking,

When I first started reading Wendell Berry, my epiphany was, oh, I'm not going to get this messaging.

It's easy to tune this out and just be a lazy consumer and watch TV and go to work and buy my stuff and then get old and die.

And if we stay...

Within that set of blinders, if we choose that myopic life path, then we will exterminate ourselves on the planet.

The planet's going to be just fine.

She was here long before us, and she'll be here long after us.

So if we care about one another and ourselves and our families and the health of our species, then...

We should try and do the right thing even when no one is watching.

And pay attention to, you know, uncomfortable, inconvenient truths like climate change and corporate agribusiness problems, you know, that need reform.

Just learning about who makes our food, where it's sourced and how, and how that's healthy or not healthy.

I feel like young people really get it.

So I'm optimistic.

I'm hopeful that we can still turn it around in time to enjoy a sandwich in another 50 years.

This is a much more political book than your others, where you're really talking about the state of the world.

But you also manage to keep it really, really funny.

But there is a more serious side that seems to be coming out, not only in your writing, but also in your acting.

Your role in Devs, for example, as Forrest, the...

head of a tech company who suffered a tragedy and trying to sort of remake the world in order to potentially save himself and his family.

What was it like for you to do a totally serious role like this?