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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Good Hang. Boy, what a guest we have today. My brother, Nick Offerman, who, as you know, was instrumental in making Parks and Recreation the hit that it was and played the beloved Ron Swanson, and is just a wonderful friend, person, actor. We talk about so many good things today. We talk about Parks and Rec.
getting the job, how it felt to be on a show that meant so much to us. We talk about Cleopatra, how he feels about her and would he hit that. And we also talk about his book, Little Woodchucks, his amazing new book that is out now and how he feels deeply about how important it is to make things.
Chapter 2: Who is Nick Offerman and what is his connection to Parks and Recreation?
So please get ready for Nick Offerman. But before we get to Nick, we always do this thing, right? We talk to somebody who knows Nick. We get a question to ask Nick. And we have the wonderful Aubrey Plaza joining us. Aubrey, April Ludgate, you know her, you love her. She's Zooming in from New York. Plaza? This episode is presented by Allstate.
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What do you say?
All I ever wanted was a really good day. Hello? Hello. Hi. Hi, Plaws. Hi. Hi. Thank you for doing this. I know you're about to go. I think you're about to go on stage.
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Chapter 3: What unique insights does Nick Offerman share about Cleopatra?
Oh, my God. Have you been sitting there since the last time I did your podcast? Yeah. I'm so sorry.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Nick's book 'Little Woodchucks'?
I live here now. Oh my God. And I know you don't have a lot of time, but I felt like there was nobody better to ask a question to Nick Offerman than you. Oh, I know. Well, first of all, you know that we are birth brothers. Yeah, talk about that. Nick and I have the same birthday, June 26th, the day that the Pied Piper led the children of the rafts into the water. Real story, folks.
And you can feel the Pied Piper energy coming out of both of us. Jason Schwartzman also has a birthday on June 26. So does Paul Thomas Anderson, actually, but he's not in our club yet, but, um, Yeah, so we have this like birthday text message chain, which I almost want to read out loud because it's so funny because we only write on it on our birthday and it's always like in medieval talk.
It's you and Nick and Jason Schwartzman? Me, Nick and Schwartzman, yeah. Can you read just a little bit of it? Okay, hold on, I got my phone. Okay. This is like sacred territory. Okay, here's one that...
Chapter 5: How did Aubrey Plaza and Nick Offerman's friendship develop?
Nick wrote, mighty power. This was a couple of years ago. Mighty powers and health to you, my fellow birthday triplets. Let us dance under the moon and delight Gaia for another 12 moons with our dark japes. An emoji that I can't, don't want to describe. Um, this is another one from Nick.
Dear my birthday beauties, it's 9am on our birthday in New Zealand and I'm sending you both a massive load of my fulsome, oh, ursine love. I thought it said urine when I read it on my birthday. But now I'm seeing it clearly. I thought he said a massive load of my urine. That sounds like it could be him, but ursine love, which... Oh, ursine love. And ursine, I believe, is bear-like, right?
Bear-like. Oh, the bear, right. I wrote back, and my load to you, my brother. But it was a different load that I was talking about. That's just a little taste. That's a little taste. And it is how Nick talks. Do you remember meeting him for the first time? I think it was probably literally on set. I don't remember. I think he scared me, you know, at first. He scared me a lot. Why? In a good way.
No, just because I think... No, he was so funny, but I was always like trying to replicate his... like behavior on set. Like I'll never forget. I mean, you guys all taught me how to really be on set. Cause I didn't, you know, I didn't really, I'd only done one job, so I didn't know. But like, I remember Nick kind of put, not put me in my place, but like kind of reminded me of something.
I've probably told you the story, but like where I was like, you know how when you're on set, you get treated, like actors get treated like babies. Yeah. And it's so such a weird vibe. Like when I haven't worked for a while and then I go back, I'm like, this is so weird. No wonder why actors get so weird because everyone treats you like a baby. Like you can't do anything.
And I remember like I was just sitting in my little chair or something and I wasn't doing anything for a while. And one of the PAs came up and was like, do you need anything? And I was like, uh, sure. I'd take a coffee or something like that. And then Nick was sitting next to me, like reading a book or something.
And he looked over and he went, don't forget that you can get up and get your own coffee. It's right over there. And I know that sounds kind of like an asshole thing to say, but I didn't take it like that. I was like, you're fucking right. I was like, I don't need that little PA over there to get to walk over there in my eyesight and pour me a cup of coffee.
I'm like, cause you get in that zone on set where you just turn into like a couch potato where you're like, and he reminded, it like jolted me. I was like, I'm never going to ask for coffee again ever.
Yeah.
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Chapter 6: What humorous stories does Nick share about his experiences on set?
I'm worried about you. And, um, okay. Thank you for doing this. Thank you. Posse. Love you. Miss you. Love you. Love you. And love Nick. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I hope you get out of there sometimes. Okay. Drink water. Okay. This episode is brought to you by Visible. Let's be honest, wireless can feel like a world of traps, expensive bills, hidden fees, and promises that just don't hold up.
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See visible.com for plan features and network management details. Hold on. Sit down on the mic. Get on the mic so I can... Oh my God, Nick. Okay, listeners, Nick has brought me a bag of treats. God, I love. What do we got?
What do we got? In case we talk about making things.
Yes, which we will.
This is the first project in my book is a slapstick.
Little woodchucks.
Because, and I thought you would appreciate this. When Lee and I, do you remember Lee, by the way?
Of course, yeah.
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Chapter 7: What does Nick Offerman reveal about his character Ron Swanson?
Yeah.
I didn't have any... I knew I wanted to entertain, and I knew that I loved Jim Ignatowski, Christopher Lloyd's character on Taxi.
Oh, yeah.
Where I was like, that guy's so weird and scary, but he's super funny. I feel like that's somehow... That's what I'm drawn to. But I had no... It wasn't until...
late in when i was trying to figure out where to go to college that i was like oh you can i can try and do acting as a job and you know very early on in your career in my career we meet in chicago and we're both kind of in chicago in the early 90s trying stuff just like you know trying to get hired and but how do you get to chicago from like how do you move there
I had this crazy moment where I took my girlfriend, who was a year older than me, to audition at the University of Illinois for their dance department. And to this day, it's so miraculous. I must have been loitering in the hallway because these two theater students who I then came to know, I don't remember how it started. I wish I had a film of this.
Somehow it was like, hey, kid, why are you loitering in the hallway of the theater facility? And somehow we struck up a conversation and they said they were theater students. And I said, what does that mean? And they said, you can study acting. And I was like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. Like, because I told my guidance counselor at school that I want to be an actor.
And he was like, that's not available. You can't do that. And then I said, I want to be a musician. And he was like, come on, what are you going to do with that?
That would be really interesting to dig into this guy's forgotten dreams.
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Chapter 8: How does Nick Offerman view the impact of Parks and Recreation now?
I mean, you've seen the crazy ways I... I never get cast as like good looking people. So I get, I get cast as I'm like, okay, great. I'm going to shave the top of my head off and have like Larry from the three stooges hair. And Megan's like, there was one time I was doing a play and she wouldn't let me get in bed because I looked so upsetting.
And I slept on the couch for two nights before I figured out I could put on a stocking cap. And then I got in, but. Five years ago, she finally said, you know what? I really don't like your facial hair.
Oh, my God. Bless her heart.
I know. After 20 years of it. I mean, I think she has liked it at times. Sure. But it's a practical thing where she said, it's a mouthful of thistles. Right. Yeah. We're getting into it. And I was like, well, when you put it that way, it is like a bristle brush. It's like the kind of brush that people, farmers have to get the mud off your work boots. Yeah. It's a really stiff bristle.
And if you have sensitive skin at all and you have a makeout sash, you can just be totally red faced.
Right.
Yeah.
And so now we negotiate. So I've got some work. And so I'm maintaining a mustache for the moment. But in a couple of weeks, I'll be shaving it.
Yeah.
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