Uploaded February 2023 | Updated September 2026, 47 minutes ago
Nick Offerman is most famously known for playing Ron Swanson in, @ParksandRecreation and he starred more recently in an astonishing episode of The Last of Us. But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. And this, it turns out, is also a primary source of his tethering in values. It's a source of a spiritual thoughtfulness that runs through this conversation with Krista. So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to be Whole Nick just recorded.
This is conversation was many things — fun, as you might expect. And also edifying.
ABOUT
Nick Offerman grew up on a three-acre homestead "out in a cornfield" in Minooka, Illinois. His five books include "Where the Dear and the Antelope Play" and "Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop". He founded Offerman Woodshop in Los Angeles in 2001, a collective that creates hand-crafted items from spoons to canoes to ukuleles. He's also written a book with his wife, Megan Mullally, called "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told", and they have a podcast called "In Bed with Nick and Megan".
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Nick Offerman is most famously known for playing Ron Swanson in, @ParksandRecreation and he starred more recently in an astonishing episode of The Last of Us. But he is driven by passionate callings older and deeper than his public vocation as an actor and comedian. He works with wood, and he works with other people who work with their hands making beautiful, useful things. And this, it turns out, is also a primary source of his tethering in values. It's a source of a spiritual thoughtfulness that runs through this conversation with Krista. So is his love and study of the farmer-poet Wendell Berry, whose audiobook The Need to be Whole Nick just recorded.
This is conversation was many things — fun, as you might expect. And also edifying.
ABOUT
Nick Offerman grew up on a three-acre homestead "out in a cornfield" in Minooka, Illinois. His five books include "Where the Dear and the Antelope Play" and "Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop". He founded Offerman Woodshop in Los Angeles in 2001, a collective that creates hand-crafted items from spoons to canoes to ukuleles. He's also written a book with his wife, Megan Mullally, called "The Greatest Love Story Ever Told", and they have a podcast called "In Bed with Nick and Megan".
STAY IN TOUCH
Facebook: facebook.com/onbeing
TikTok: tiktok.com/@onbeing
Instagram: instagram.com/onbeing
The Pause newsletter: onbeing.org/newsletter
OUR PODCASTS
On Being with Krista Tippett: onbeing.org/series/podcast
Poetry Unbound: onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound
#onbeing #kristatippett #podcast #nickofferman #woodworking #wendellberry #vocation
