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Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Best of Design Matters: Nick Offerman

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Design Matters Media

Arts, Design

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Reflecting on his remarkable life and career, Nick Offerman shares his insights on acting, marriage and the current state of the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective

0:08.0

This archival episode of Design Matters originally came out in November of 2021.

0:13.0

We're all complicit, you know, in this society, one way or another.

0:17.0

As soon as you send a check to an electric company, you're giving away your agency.

0:24.0

You're giving away your vote in what's happening in that particular part of nature.

0:29.0

From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

0:37.0

For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people about what they do,

0:45.0

how they got to be, who they are, and what they're thinking about and working on.

0:49.0

On this episode, Nick Offerman talks about his career and about the perilous state of the natural world.

0:56.0

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

1:06.0

Nick Offerman is a famous comedian and actor, so you probably know a lot about him.

1:12.0

You most certainly know that he played Amy Polar's boss Ron Swanson on the sitcom Parks and Recreation,

1:19.0

and you might know he's married to Megan Malali.

1:23.0

And he appeared on that show as a plumber.

1:26.0

But did you know that Nick Offerman is also a professional boat builder,

1:31.0

and that he's written not one, not two, but five really funny books?

1:36.0

His latest is where the...

1:38.0

float play.

1:40.0

The pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside.

1:46.0

He joins me to talk about his remarkably variegated career and to talk about his brand new book.

1:52.0

Nick Offerman, welcome to...

1:55.0

Thank you so much. I'm so pleased to be here.

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