Nick Offerman

The War on Cars

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Cars, Society & Culture, Culture, Bicycling, Politics, Urbanism, Walking, Transportation, Cities, Transit, News Commentary, News

4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You may know the actor Nick Offerman as the gruff city parks director Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation or from his turn as the survivalist Bill on the HBO series The Last of Us, but he also has a lot to say about how people get around, share public space, and relate to nature. In his book Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside, Nick takes a wry and philosophical approach to our stewardship of Planet Earth, the value of working with one’s hands, and the many problems with the massive agricultural systems on which we all depend. Nick Offerman joins The War on Cars to talk about his experience biking for transportation in New York City and Los Angeles, his views on masculinity and conspicuous consumption, and why the best way to explore an unfamiliar city is at the speed of a good walk.

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Visit Nick Offerman's official site and follow him on Twitter.

Read Nick Offerman’s Call of the Candy-Ass in Outside Online.

Support independent booksellers and buy Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside as well as books by other guests of The War on Cars at our official Bookshop.org page.

Read Pastoral Song by James Rebanks. (Published in the UK as English Pastoral.)

Watch the film Sacred Cow, narrated by Nick Offerman. And read the book!

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This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded by Felix Levine. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear.

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0:00.0	Go to Cleverhood.com slash War on Cars.
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0:24.3	Raglan cut sleeves make for ease of movement and the hood is even designed to fit
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0:54.0	Again, go to cleverhood.com slash war on cars.
0:59.0	Enter coupon code, Clever June, when you check out, that's a 15% discount good through the end of the month.
1:07.0	Far too often when somebody behaves like a but hole and cuts you off or just does something asserting
1:15.3	their need to get where they're going over everybody else. Invariably, three
1:20.9	minutes later you pull up next to them at a red light and you just look at
1:25.5	them and shrug and say you have two children in the backseat of your Mercedes
1:30.2	Schwartz-Inager Tank was it really worth risking their lives? This is the War on Cars. I'm Doug Gordon. So every now and then when someone notable write something or share something on social media that's related to or at least adjacent to the things we talk about on the podcast, we tweet a greeting.
2:03.1	Welcome to the War on Cars.
2:05.9	And that's exactly what happened after we read a column last year
2:09.2	in Outside titled Nick Offerman's Call of the Candy Ass.
2:14.0	Most people know Nick Offerman from his time playing Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation.
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