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Literally! With Rob Lowe

Nick Offerman: The Ted Experience

Literally! With Rob Lowe

Stitcher & Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.712.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In which Rob and actor/writer/woodworker Nick Offerman discuss their Midwestern roots, Nick’s time coming up on the Chicago stage, the specificity of character names on Parks & Recreation, and the importance of being present. Plus: we learn what it took to achieve Ron Swanson’s iconic hairdo.

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0:00.0

Nicholas. Hello there. Nick, oh look at him. Are we in pre-production? We're in

0:07.0

pre-production. I still I need a few touches I think. No you don't did you look

0:12.5

thin and young. That's my thing. Those are my two categories when it comes to

0:19.3

casting. Hello and welcome to Literally with Roblo. I'm very excited today to

0:36.2

have the amazing Nick Offerman, aka Ron Swanson, who is on the Mount Rushmore of

0:47.6

television comedy iconic characters. You can take your Steve Carels in the

0:53.3

office. Fui. Mr. Nick Offerman and Parks and Recreation is as iconic a character

1:04.1

as you will ever see. He's funny. He's a good friend. We're gonna have a great talk.

1:09.0

He hosted me on his podcast in bed with Nick and Megan with the great Megan

1:15.1

Malale. So if you haven't checked out his podcast, please do. And by the way, if

1:20.7

you've been enjoying this podcast, please post a review and subscribe. There's a

1:25.8

little subscribe button. It's right there in front of you. Oh, you got to just

1:29.6

hit it. And that way you don't need to worry about it every Thursday. When you

1:33.7

wake up, there's going to be a little gift under the tree for me. So please

1:38.8

subscribe to our podcast and stand by for Nick Offerman. A lot of people

1:45.0

don't know Nicholas that we're from the same part of the country that we're

1:49.1

good midwestern boys. I always think Columbus, but you're dating, right? I'm

1:53.8

dating. You're Illinois, right? Illinois. Yeah, Manuka. Now, did you so did you

2:01.0

have the same kind of childhood I had? What was like the minute the weather

2:05.2

turned, the shoes came off and you were just like barefoot and like that was

2:10.6

like the height of it? Kind of. I mean, it was it was very outdoors, but it was

2:15.4

very rural. And my mom's family, still to this day, are all farmers. And so it

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