Nick Offerman Gets the Job Done While Eating Spicy Wings | Hot Ones

Can we call my mom? Hey, what's going on? All of us from the beginning, we feast. I'm Sean Evans and you're looking at the hottest

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. It's the show with interesting questions and even spicier

wings

. Today we're joined by Nick Offerman, he's an actor you probably know best from his role as the revered Ron Swanson on Parks and Recreation. He is also a New York Times bestselling author and you can see him live on the All Rise tour. Visit Offerman Woodshop communication for more information. Nick Offerman. Welcome to the program. Thanks, what's your headspace right now?

What are you like? A

spicy

food. I'm fine in general. I can handle most foods, but I don't go for the crazy flaming foods. I'm looking forward to getting an education. Is that okay, oh, that too? Spicy, it's deliciously

spicy

. I call that spicy, so obviously we have to take a wing to talk about Ron Swanson, a character whose legend has seemingly only grown since the days of Parks and Recreation. How familiar are you with Ron Swanson's place in internet culture and do you get a I love seeing the second life the character has had and the form of the meme, well, it's pretty inexplicable.

I mean, I have a lot of fan art and memes, and now the fake videos are pretty entertaining. I'm always grateful to know how. The Internet works, no one makes a fool of me, people are generally nice to me or use me for laughs. I was just happy to have a good job as an actor, so I think the fact that he has a life beyond that is good free publicity, so I know that the topic of where Ron Swanson ends and where Nick Offerman begins is very territory. Trite at this point, but if you'll humor me, I want to hit you with some of Ron Swanson's favorite Internet-isms.

I'm just curious to know how much you resonate with Nick Offerman, dear frozen yogurt, you're the celery of desserts, whether it's ice cream or nothing, zero stars actually. I guess I'm more open-minded to all the things Ron Swanson is pretty about. strict with his rules not only do I like frozen yogurt but I also like celery okay I never half asked two things always put up with one thing now this could have been said by my dad he always said are you going to do a job , do it right and so I've always tried to live up to that edict again.

I didn't come up with that line, but I live by that standard and one more: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, don't teach a man. fishing and feeding you he's a grown man and fishing isn't that hard, I sure think it makes a lot of sense we're two spoiled people in this modern age of consumerism where you're never left alone to learn how to survive. so I think we should send our kids naked into the woods with maybe a ball of thread and a hook if you want a sweet Chicago home that hasn't impressed you so far, that alone is delicious, we'll enjoy these moments, soak it in, you know .

It's nothing, so I know you grew up in Minooka, Illinois, a town I think I used to drive through to the University of Illinois on I 55, just south of Joliet, there you would have passed through Channahon, our twin village, Manuka was the next one. a Shannon Manuka had an exit on Route 80 that was unofficial st. St. Patrick's Day is something that happens when you're at the University of Illinois or did that happen after, it must have been behind me, that doesn't ring a bell and then, did you have a favorite landmark on campus? Did you ever like going to those loam patches? where they had the experimental corn fields there was an incredible landmark that is still there called Japan House, which is a little bit east of the Moro plots in South Florida, where there is a super authentic Japanese tea house where you can learn the Japanese tea ceremony. and ikebana flower arranging, all these Japanese arts in a park-like setting, it's incredibly beautiful, which is why I still come back and visit it to this day.

Pineapple habanero, bring it. I try the pineapple. I try the habanero. I believe this is from Thunder Bay Ontario. That's where it's from Thunder Bay shout Thunder Bay, have you ever been? I don't know, but I have a feeling my wife might be calling the Thunder Bay bathroom for a couple of nights after this, so once did you tell Bone Appetit if it was dried and trimmed properly New York style pizza was can be used to make a Chicago style pizza box. A quote that establishes you as a handyman and as a partial Illinois native. The first thing I did was an incredible burn.

I'm really proud of it, man, you know, that's me. The fun deep dish pizza is amazing and the main difference is that one slice of deep dish pizza is two meals, instead of needing some sort of entire New York pizza pie to equal one slice and I'm an ER from the Midwest, so we like it. our slices, you know, the thicker the better, that being said, I'm perfectly fine with a New York slice and it's also an amazing pizza, and then I know you're an experienced cook and a big supporter of sausages. Do you have a chance? -not for the sausage recipe, I'm very simple, so I like to boil my sausages in beer yes, okay, yes I have a recipe.

I boil them in beer and then I throw them on the grill and I like them to be as caramelized as possible and then I just have it with chopped raw onion and stone ground mustard that's the way to do it now don't ruin it the last one is gone It's sneaking up I'm still with you I can still form sentences well That's a good thing because, as Nick Offerman fans know, you can speak eloquently about almost anything, but I think you're most poignant when you criticize consumerism and the kind of advancements technological solutions designed to make our lives easier. phrase Pizza delivery by drone makes you angry mom I'm a human being like the rest of us, so I understand all these luxuries.

I mean, whatever you're watching us now is cool, you know if you did? He told me when I was in high school that he would be

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and people were watching them in a weird little tech rectangle in a parking lot somewhere, probably crying. I'd be surprised, but getting pizza delivered by a flying robot, yeah, that's awesome. in many ways but then we forget to ask questions like who makes this pizza where does it come from is it good for me you know if we give in to industrial consumerism we run out of natural resources climate change happens and suddenly we're like Well, it's apocalyptic outside, but at least we can receive pizza at home via drone.

What is your opinion on driverless cars? I mean for me, I want to be responsible for my own safety. I don't want to pass that on to a corporation and when I'm on the road I want to worry about other human beings paying attention, it's not like someone updates the software to keep their car from hitting me, as a furniture maker what do you think about these great products ready to assemble? box retailers like IKEA, any piece of furniture you can make, even if it looks tacky than an IKEA piece or a big box, you know, I hate to just shit on IKEA because I think they're a good company in a lot of ways, but those things are made to be disposable and added to the landfill, it all adds to the problem, but if you can take the time to use tools, learn to use locally sourced materials, you can make things that will last much longer and maybe it will be an ugly coffee table, but When it reaches your grandchildren it has a lot of charm and character.

Oh yeah, that's that ugly coffee table my grandma or grandpa made me and then, like the die-hard Chicago Cubs, give some opinion on the recent one. The $550 million stadium renovation is either sort of inevitable at some point or it's a little sad to see a top-to-toe renovation of the friendly confines. Well, I was there a lot this year and the good thing is that it still really feels like Riblet Wrigley Field. There are accessories around the park that feel fresh and modern and feel pretty good. Actually, I mean, it was the ballpark of my youth and it's kind of horrible, so the makeover for me just feels like it.

Like they upgraded the bathroom to something like oh, there's no inherent urine smell, that's nice, but the ivy is still on the walls and the hot dogs are just as mediocre as ever. Torchbearer sauces, ghost pepper, it says on the label, that's scary, but it's gluten. -free, fortunately because I was loading up on gluten, well, I have a bit of a turning point on this one, yes, I feel like it's overshadowing my book of tastes, really, that ghost is really coming right here, my well-being is overshadowing me later. bro, take every funny segment on our show called explain that Graham, where we do a deep dive into our guests' Instagram, we pull out interesting photos that need more context, we'll just show them on the monitor here, just tell us the bigger story and this .

The first one looks like you're meeting Mr. Backstage at Conan, that's right, do you remember this very well? Yes, it was my first visit to the Conan show when he was in New York. He was with my wife, who was appearing on the show as a guest, so I was just Mr. Mullaly and Mr. Mullaly. I was there and I grew up, I mean, in the Chicago area where he's from, first he became a famous goalie and there was a TV show, there was a goalie competition, if you can find it, there's a brand that's an American Idol for goalies absolutely and They liked one of the events I remember as they had a little specialist with a harness and the goalie had to pick him up and see who could throw him the furthest so remember Mr.

I got out of that program and then He became incredibly this public figure and ended up on the A team, so I was a big lord. I'm not a fan and he also had his homemade "treat your mother well and use good manners" message, so I've always loved him. You know, he's a big, tough guy who was also sensitive and promoted that, so when I met him I was absolutely impressed. He did a really fun series with Conan for a

while

where they went out and picked apples together in the fall. The best thing about this photo when I got it back was seeing that my skull was the same size as Mr.

T's validation made me feel like a grown man, fire, scorpion, pepper sauce blender, yeah, it's not cold, so you've been held up as a paragon of manhood in this day and age where the tenets of masculinity are probably They debate more heatedly than ever. When people can survive perfectly well without knowing how to start a fire or fix a leaky faucet, what do you think is lost when people stop being here? Well, no one told me that we are going to go deeper into this journey. I appreciate a great question. First I get accused a lot of being manly or masculine and I guess some of that must be true, but I come and be h

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t, it's nothing, that's what I was born with.

I look and talk like this, but I'm actually a very talented ballet dancer, you'd be surprised to know that I feel like everyone across the spectrum of sexuality should know how to use a screwdriver or should be able to change it. I'm open to going all out, I repeat, thank you, fire, fire, you know, things break and those of us who know how to fix things when they break end up being more responsible members of our community. I'm going to have some milk. I think I've heard that helps. How's this with a tongue of fire? Do you want to stop?

Before we go for it, I just have one more follow-up for you as a language learner. Do you think it makes more sense to refer to people who are perhaps in a moment of weakness as crazy rather than because they have a lot of testicles? more vulnerable well, I'm a writer and I'm also a comedy writer. I tour as a comedian and so I often have to deal with this thing where if in the past I would have called out someone or something or something, now I stop and say, okay, I don't want to do that because I think that strengthens gender, it's a sin I'm trying to work against, but that's where it

gets

difficult, well, traditionally, that's the word that works best, that's what I learned in the locker room when I was a kid.

You know, sometimes the words won't be as chewy, they won't work as well, but I think little by little we'll have to continue to evolve, but hopefully. We are in this in this study today it will not be either of us or my sex. Can we call my mom on the phone? I shouldn't read these labels so as not to help be a little sexy because you look like the Carolina Reaper ghost whoo mm-hmm I'll give this one five fires, so I take a flight to talk about woodworking, a hobby of yours that has permeated everything from the characters you play to the books you write to your overall view of the world.

Why is the white oak the most heroic of all forests? Why is oak white? the most heroic of all forests, well most of the ships in history that were built with wood expected them to be built with American white oak when England came to America and discovered our forests, there were huge white pine trees that were perfect for the ship masts so perfect that the British turned around and markedThis they cut this arrow mark in trees all over New England that meant don't touch this tree it's for the king we'll turn it into a ship's mast they called it the king's arrow I think and the oaks said sacred cow these huge oaks are perfect, so a great example is that at the time of the Civil War there was a US Navy ship called Old Ironsides and it was a ship made out of white oak and the hull from the outside. the boat was 18 inches thick white oak and so you know it's such a strong wood that like it was the option to repel cannonballs, there you go good Nick how you're doing great.

I forgot, we even started the next one, the bomb is doubly scary. red one mm-hmm beyond crazy he says it sounds like a good idea so yeah I generally like delicious food but I understand that people like to challenge themselves with spicy sauces and flavors but overall I'll stick with the delicious part, but I'm glad I'm glad to be on this journey with you es it's us together esus together Nick, I'm glad to be sitting there you, I feel like I could take off here in a second, let me know if I start breastfeeding, I'm on it Dom, you on that mmm check the monitors mm-hmm what are you doing?

You find mediocre authority figures funny. I've heard you make that case. So, people who take their positions of authority too seriously. His comic gold. Yes, I feel drunk. Hot sauce. Well, the specifics of them and the two examples I remember from my youth. They are both high school principals, one is played by Paul Gleason, he is the principal in The Breakfast Club, and the other is Jeffrey Jones, who plays the principal in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. They have worked hard and become the principal of a school, but no one respects them, that is why they take themselves very seriously and say that people come in and sit down.

I'm going to have 17 rules about college parking, Judy, thank you and as I become a perfect person to Play that level of mediocrity as I go. I think that might be my wheelhouse. Did you learn anything about that being a goalkeeper? Because that's a job where you really have to put on a poker face. You can't see what's wrong. Where are you? Find me okay to keep talking, okay, just follow my voice, just follow my voice, you were saying, did you learn anything about that being a goalkeeper? Because that's a job where you really have to confront your authority more than most others, um, yeah, I kind of intimidate people.

It has everything to do with your presence and I learned that on stage too when I was young in drama school that if you maintain an intense presence people will read you if you are the bouncer if they say oh that guy is quiet I better not get involved with him, but if you think he doesn't have company anymore, that makes my show not mess with me, then they say yeah, maybe it seems like a joke, okay Nick, I think that's it, we did them all. I didn't think we'd make it but here we are at the end mmm it looks like we just ate a deadly chemical well the next one is called the after

eating

burn ok I guess we're tapering off now yeah heading home.

Did you get both masses? Yes, they did, it's a hand squeeze: potato water right there for your Ryder. I'd be surprised if I can't taste any of this sauce after the last Fox, so I got burned. Dirt in the mouth after that look. I'm getting some courting, so throughout your career, I know there are some dream jobs that eluded you, which ones did you pursue the hardest? Baywatch or The Lord of the Rings. You have an excellent research department. Definitely. I let yoga exist in my sinuses. I definitely followed The Lord of the Rings much more intensely because that was something I desperately wanted to do.

Baywatch was a joke. I really wanted to do it when I moved here from Chicago 20 years ago. I had a Baywatch. air freshener hanging from my rearview mirror

while

telling all my friends I'm drunk. I'm going to drive west until I reach this damn thing. It's like putting a motivational quote on mirrors. I really was and I mean, you know I was auditioning. for a reason and the casting director also cast Baywatch somehow, the story ended on the Gulf Coast and there were some like scary rednecks or something, she was like, oh actually, you know, normally I wouldn't think twice about it. in watching you for Baywatch, but we do it.

There are some scary hillbillies coming up, so I got some without success. The Lord of the rings. It was much more forceful. I sent letters to Peter Jackson and I wrote all these letters because I really wanted to play Samwise Gamgee. For me, that's the best part about those books, Peter, I didn't respond to my letters until today, he didn't respond to me and I don't think he doesn't hold a grudge, but I finally did through normal channels. I got to them. They called me, you know, the big group to put me in a tape reading for the role of Gimli, the dwarf.

Spoiler alert didn't go well below so this is the last dab, we call it the last a because it's tradition around here put a little more on the last wing, you're always going to have to if you don't want to, well if you're going to do a job, do it well, I think I heard that on a pithy YouTube show, oh yeah, I love the way you call it. the last developer I called it the money that shot you I changed the name now mmm right on the thigh this one has three here, now we're halfway there, brings out the most interesting we've been through and explored the many talents of the Renaissance, from word work to acting to book writing, and your silver has gifted us. tongue and now with the hot sauce setting your brain on fire, I think it's time to put that to the test.

We've pulled out some SAT-style vocabulary words. I'll show them to you and if you can try to define them and put them in a sentence. Okay, spicy, these chicken wings have been getting spicier and more dexterous when I came in here, my tongue was much more dexterous than it is now after being numbed by the hot sauce actor. Many people think I'm a professional idiot, but I correct them and tell them I'm a saccharine classically trained actor. I like to think my jokes are pretty funny, but I'm often found quite saccharine at family gatherings. Well, you know?

I don't think there's anything saccharine between you and Nick Offerman, and look. you're taking the wings of death ten chicken wings up ten chicken wings down and now I think it's time to toast Lagavulin yeah this is coming out in a couple of weeks this was my character's whiskey on Parks and Rec and that took us to film in Scotland at their distillery and we get on well, can you smell that I already do? It's like a bonfire and it smells like victory and now Nick Offerman there's nothing left to do but roll out the red carpet for you this camera this camera this camera lets people know what you're going through in your life well I'm on tour for a show comedy called all rise, I sing and talk about funny things, you can find tickets for that at Offerman woodshop, quiet, but perhaps the most important thing is that we are.

I'll toast with an Offerman Special Edition Lagavulin Eleven Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whiskey Regards two hot it's the perfect place so just before the insurance was just as I thought I would accept your questions to be or well we're better than that I though. It would be for a chicken wing show on YouTube, yeah, you never know. Hey, you really never know what happens. Spice Lords and cameraman Bill, here in the studio, you thought it was a hit. Think again, son. I'm bringing the heat, it's the last one. death xxx xxxx becoming Phi breathe and tear xxx worse than Godzilla stopping in Tokyo send your taste I was packing go go go - a glass of milk - relax me first we feast breathe the heat we include hardens the winter xxx call me Xander Cage Mouse throwing fireballs chaotic evil lead role in the 20s critical hit the next era T crying so much you can't see it anymore Sochi Chamber has Bill you think you know me but so hot you'll drop your pants Bobby Lee oh something just happen sausage superman let you rekt supervillain heat call in the legs shooting a laser beam straight from the tongue take another damn ko now you're

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