Hello, everyone. This is the three questions. The award winning podcast. I'm saying this just because in the future, I know it's going to win awards and when people listen to this 20 years from now.

To say, who's this guy talking to Nick Offerman? I will have won awards and I'm talking to Nick Offerman. Thanks for all the trophies.

Yeah, thanks everybody. This will make up for the empty space in my heart. Hey, let's talk about the empty space in your heart, Nick Offerman.

All right. How much time you got? Oh, I don't know. So anyway, hi, we were just talking about how excited we are to actually be doing a podcast. So we actually get to speak to someone.

It is. It's a strange, it's a strange silver lining to quarantine. You get to have people come over and visit.

And it's one of those things that, you know, I'm in touch with my friends and we reach out and we're taking care of each other. You know, hi, everybody doing okay.

But to actually schedule these, it's like scheduling a play date for your kids. Yeah, where it's like, ooh, I get to talk to Andy today. Yeah, hopefully there will be laughs and maybe some tears.

Well, I guess I could cry. I mean, I could, you know, I could treat this like any other webcam session that I do and those usually involve tears.

Well, let's see what you're doing. All right. Have you always been a very sort of, because you have the kind of a lachonic aspect to your personality. But are you a big social kind of person? Like have you always kind of been somebody that needed people?

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. I grew up in a big family and in hindsight, it occurred to me. My mom, my mom's whole side of the family run a farm in Illinois.

And so I grew up in this big sort of community where we would make big meals together. Everybody's a gardener and like very self-sufficient family. And when I went away to theater school and then became a professional person actor and carpenter in cities, mainly Chicago and L.A.

In hindsight, I put together my own wood shop in Los Angeles, but I also was always part of a small theater company. And looking back, I was like, oh, I'm always trying to replicate my family.

The community experience of like many hands make light work. Let's get a bunch of us together. And then we can do the dishes a lot faster.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I have a friend who's like had a pretty tumultuous childhood, but there were just tons of kids around. And so she's got, she's just decided, I'm going to have as many kids as I want, because I the only place she feels at peace, I guess, is in the chaos of, you know, of a million kids, you know, there's something, I don't know, soothing, I think, about when you, when you have that sort of sort of,

circus atmosphere, you, it's understood that nothing will get done neatly or succinctly, but a lot of stuff will get done. And life is kind of like that. And so, yeah, it, I don't know, I've always, it ties into being a leconic, I think, is, I've always had a very stress-free nature of like, just we're just going to do our best every day and work hard.

And hopefully we'll be able to pay the taxes in April. And you were, you were like that when you're a little too, right?

Yeah, I started, I started earning wages at age three. So, wow, the tax man has been at my doorstep for what were you doing at three?

Well, it shines at the railroads station. Split in time between my Cooper Ridge, where I was building small barrels and casks,

absolutely, ride a stillery.

And you got on the gravel.

I get to school by riding in my own barrel down the river.

Yeah, but I mean, that is kind of though, you know, are there, well, what I was going to say is, are there like high-strung people in your family?

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