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I'm Jesse Thorn. My guest on the show today is Nick Offerman. Nick grew up in the middle of Illinois,

and I grew up in the inner city of San Francisco, so I had to ask him to clarify a few things.

What's a hay rack? Well, you have a basically an enormous wooden plant form on wheels that's your

hay rack, and Grandpa hooks up the tractor to the hay rack, and you can throw a few bales of hay on

for furniture, and everybody climbs on, and you just tool around the farm, taking in the breeze.

You see how the crops are doing. Maybe you see what the neighbors are getting up to.

That's a hay rack ride, and we would engage in song. What songs would you sing?

Rudimentary like children road trip songs. My uncle Dan would sing Danny Boy,

but I honestly, I can't remember exactly. It was the wheels on the bus go round and round,

Bingo. Sure, B-I-N-G-O. Yes, the famous Bingo was his name-o.

It was. It's Bullseye.

Coming up, my interview with actor Nick Offerman. He plays Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation,

one of the most beloved characters on TV. Known for his love of meat, his hatred of big government

and his healthy moustache, which it turns out can be as much a burden as a blessing.

People spot this moustache from a quarter mile away, and they don't seem to care much about

me behind it. Then I talk to a few of the members of the sketch comedy group The Birthday Boys.

Unlike a lot of comics, they don't start with what bothers them about the world. In fact, quite the

opposite. Yeah, I think a lot of the time we just start with something that we actually love,

whether it's documentary or sitcom or whatever, and then we just imagine what if seven morons were

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