larry king. from the parks and recreation star on his rise to fame how do you explain this next i don't know are there's no accounting for taste on his blissful marriage should be equally hilarious megane a loudly les moonves didn't like me today you can go suck it go home to my beautiful wife on the secrets to delicious living i look at life as a as a meal and i tried to prepare a well balanced and delicious serving every day it's all ahead on larry king now.

our special guest is nick offerman the actor is known as the meat loving libertarian bureaucrat ron swanson in parts immigration are the n.b.c. he stars in the coming of age tommy the kings of summer and selected theaters now and as if this man wasn't busy enough he's got a new book to be released in the fall call paddle your own canoe one man's principles for delicious living we'll get into some of those principles later we'll also talk about the movie you're in a lot you're forty two years old you're in major demand your you know how many movies you're in this year. couple six sixty's why what's happened why do you explain this next i don't know i there's no accounting for taste. i don't know i've been working a lot for twenty years in sort of an unknown capacity overnight success. and i don't know i'm very thankful for the popularity of parks and recreation was

that what did avoid it once once that show took off people really a lot seem to like my character on that and and i guess there's. a bit of a shortage for slow spoken. what about all the years when you're like getting little parts turned down auditioned you don't get the job what kept you going well little signals i mean once i met my wife meghan molalla in two thousand my life got pretty happy she changed it yeah i mean she really saved my my morale you know auditions and being rejected no longer carried any weight because i was going home to her so i did a lot more shrugging of like. les moonves didn't like me today. you can go suck it. go home to my beautiful wife and and so i had a really nice time working as a journeymen sort of. noble character actor my gig is mr mole alley was quite

enjoyable because she was famous yeah and doing better and all economically better than you or i yeah i mean a lot of the stories and that's one of the hardest thing in family life today in america is if the woman earns more than a man do you overcome through that it was not hard to bear and no one we met i was living in somebodies unfinished basement in exchange for turning it into a habitable space and and so meghan sort of picked me up and dusted me off and i was happy as a clam to you know bring her slippers and her pipe when you get home from morning mind not at all i did you meet. we met doing a play here in town with the evidence room theater company and it was it was really . a wonderful moment in our in our own personal zite geist where we both.

were kind of adrift socially and we both decided to go back to our roots and do a play because that's when we had known happiness in the past and so we both did this play with a bunch of people we had met before and found each other right away yeah yeah we because we were the two outsiders in the production and we gravitated towards each other and i said hey you you're pretty funny to me is thirteen years together and ten years of marriage getting parks and recreation. well i found out after the fact that i had a very fortuitous audition for an episode of the office which greg daniels had created before parks and rock and his co-creator mike sure who's my boss at parks and rec he had written a subset of the office and i had done an audition for him and unbeknownst to me he was very taken with me and he went home and wrote my name on a post that. and put it on his computer monitor and three years later when they

said we want to make this new show with amy poehler in the ensemble he took the post and said i want this guy on the show and so they tried me out in a couple different roles until they settled on the. part of amy's boss ron swanson and i had been through the situation several times in the past where a creative person wanted me on their show and every time the network would say he's too intense he's scary he talks too slow and finally this one stuck and i landed it . and the networks said hey we found this guy he talks too slow he's intense and he's he's really that he's really scary very excited. did you like the character right away i did yes soon as i started reading for the show the writing is just sublime even when i was reading for another role meghan and i she helps me with all

my auditions and we said this this writing is so funny and it's so in my voice and up my alley and then one when the writing first came in for ron it was these speeches about libertarianism and about thinking that the government should be run as a commercial enterprise and speeches about capitalism and we just thought it was something i could really wrap my head around always on the page right yeah as well as where it counts there are very much if you like him. i do i i like him he's a very cantankerous and obstinate character and i like that about him i come from some great farmers in illinois and a hardscrabble life like farming will make you a very obstinate stubborn personality and so i've always learned humor through people who don't take a lot of crap from others about we're going to any. working with amy is like

working with a great sports figure or something where every every time out on the floor she just amazes you one day it's with a dunk the next day it's with her amazing ability to assist. she she's like a comedy factory you know she has so many different channels she's amazing yeah you like dancing with astaire yeah absolutely you can give her one joke and she'll hand you eighteen versions of it without thinking about it such. hello. hi it's me tools out of the driveway now. though it was a special kelly kelly girl so it's a pleasant surprise dad listen kelly joe can't talk right now because he's grounded and he will call you back sometime before his hot new bedtime of seven thirty you have a good night my house my rules this ends today. yes

it does. that's the kings of summer tell me about it well it's a great little film from big beach and low spark films to great independent producers and it came my way this is this great first time filmmaker named jordan vote roberts who are we sure in ages and i read the script by a guy named chris and it was just really intelligently written and it gives me a lot of nostalgia for the coming of age films of my youth stand by me or goonies or explorers and and on top of that it was just incredibly wickedly funny it was one of the funniest things i've read in a long time so not only did i jump on board but meghan my wife read it and she we were able to add her to the cast and she plays she plays i play the main kid's dad and she plays his best friend's mom with another two of you involved we we have

some scenes together we're rather we haven't and many between us in the film we kind of butt heads but she is so funny and she steals ever seen the like or the other i do yeah i mean before i we met working together in a play but in t.v. and film she was sort of a hero to me i mean she's kind of a modern comedy legend and so eventually as i began to get more work and i got to work with her sort of as a team it was it was incredible to me i felt like luke skywalker getting to go into battle with obi wan kenobi the hardest thing about working with her is just keeping a straight face you know she's funny she's so wickedly funny and she's with me especially she knows how to push my buttons so she can be tickling me under the table and nobody knows like legion films i do yeah especially a smaller budget independent film but it reminds me the most of

a little theater company where you can see all of the artists collaborating together and. and you know you finish your scenes and you end up helping the wardrobe lady carry the costumes back to a car and everybody you like about my does that mean you would like not want to do superman that i would certainly give it some consideration because the if nothing else that then affords you the ability to do serious kings of summers did tell me i understand you had a surprise wedding what did you do well it was only a surprise that the only people that knew about it were meghan and myself we had been to debra messing was wedding who played grace on will and grace and there were some paparazzi had found out about it and sort of there was an ugly fifteen minutes where a helicopter showed up then that's it was like what a drag so we were going to have our wedding and just in case anybody was going to try and take

a picture we said let's try and pull this off so my first pitch was she was not nominated that fall for her fourth and me for will and grace and i said let's skip the emmys and have our wedding no one will see it coming everybody will be at the emmys and that was our plan for a minute and then she said you know i should go to the emmys i'm nominated so we did it the night before we had all of our family in town for the emmys that was a ruse was everybody this year come on and come to me party come to the emmys you know and so the night before we had a dinner party and we are at our house in the hills just and it was just twenty people it was a small affair and we said now if you will all step into the yard this is our wedding and we'd like you to take part in it and our mothers cried and said i knew the europe to something you rascal but it was really beautiful she hated my kabuki

theater teacher my sensei a man named shows so was the. main officiants and he married us with a japanese tea ceremony. quite beautiful so what is a. it sounds funny. doesn't sound like a gag but it is not exactly jewish no we did not break any glass. it's a there's a zen ceremony involving that it's a word so it's an art form where you have these beautiful artifacts and you make this a green tea and it's used for meditation or it's used as a performance and in this case it's used as a as a loving ceremony where a bowl of tea is passed around like a wedding party so this did not appear in people magazine it didn't you know we sort of slid under the radar coming up make gives me tips on how the little delicious lee and you would not want to miss this stay with us.

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libertarian bureaucrat ron swanson parks and wrecked and he's also got a book coming and he's what is with the woods thing i used to build theater scenery to supplement my living as an actor which can often be meager and then in los angeles i couldn't find the same kind of scenery work as i had done in chicago so i started building furniture and i became quite obsessed with that for a living yeah i opened my own shop. and built custom furniture pieces and then ended up buildings a couple canoes out of wood and now i'm starting to get into musical instruments i'm starting some ukulele sale they will eventually be for sale you're. doing a line of ukuleles and that's sort of my primer course to then start acoustic guitars what makes a good carpenter oh you need to have pretty good math skills you need to have a lot of patience at a like geometry you have to appreciate geometry for sure if it frustrates you it's

tough to to get very far as a good hands good hands a good sense. a lot of common sense you know the main trick to being a carpenter is keeping all ten fingers and so having the ability to take your time and make sure you've got everything in place before you fire up the wood and does a good carpenter i've often talked to my dentist of all woodworking you know some a lot of the tools and techniques that they use are just minutes or versions of wood carving just as i just thought of it and now you've got a book out paddle your own canoe one man's principles for delicious living what do you mean delicious living well is like a food it would sort of as a food i mean i look at life as a meal and i try to take the time to prepare a well balanced and delicious serving every day. through it it's inexplicable to me that i've come to this place where i'm speaking to kids

at colleges and i'm writing this book but people often ask me especially in urban areas they say you seem very happy and you seem very grounded what's your secret and i say i don't know i it comes from my parents and i try to live very simply and so delicious living to me is filling my life with things like woodworking and spending romantic time with my wife as globe as other things tend to pursue prosperity and your book that's right one engage in romantic love you know that's a lot of do that you need to find the part that's true it comes in very handy yes. number to say please and thank you you don't think people do that enough i don't i think that we can all be reminded to use good manners constantly especially in l.a. traffic. number three use a handkerchief what you mean well the handkerchief is sort of an anachronistic

accessory but i always carry a handkerchief my dad taught me to do it comes in incredibly it's useful for so many thing wagoner eyeglasses if someone severs an artery it can be a turning you know you can save somebody's life and of course the boa knows exactly eat red meat there's certainly something to be said for a healthy diet but things like red meat i think get a bad name these days and things that you know that and drinking alcohol in moderation are that's delicious living in a literal sense is this really not a hard patients who have been for on top of this nothing like new york state little red wine there's nothing good todd to be number five get a hobby and while hobbies important hobbies are important i mean for me when i was trying to get work as a young actor in l.a. i was easily depressed if i just depended on this terrible business that's full of rejection if i depend on that for my happiness then i'm screwed so that's when i

turn to woodworking which by the way i brought you a couple things from my wood shop. this is a pencil holder that we shop it's made of talian popular oh well it feels great the king and then when we also make a wouldn't do that people really enjoy and we we personalize them you blue in the long and in your left hand and you hum at the same time. that. all i love this thank you as for i am honored for the new circuits opening. so we make stuff like this we have a website called offerman woodshop dot com. and offerman would jobs dot com you know the list that's become a hobby that is turned into a small business for me and it fills my life with something productive so instead of. twittering away my time on a video game or or on facebook or something i did it is i making sound like with my

hands and your wife likes it she loves it now the number six go outside remain yeah i think that i think again that people spend too much time these days when they have time to kill they go inside a screen of some sort and i find that if i go outside and leave my screens inside just a tree the wind a creek or a stream will make my being much more healthy woody allen says showing up. get up get out the porch there you go number seven avoid the mirror. yeah you know especially here in los angeles a lot of people give themselves a lot of stress over their appearance especially a lot of the ladies that i work with you know whether they're having a bad day because of their hair or their outfit and i say don't don't worry about that look there's nothing you could you could be wearing a potato sack and you'd still be

a great winner eight i don't get this one it's funny but i don't get it maintaining a relationship with jesus christ if it's getting you sects that's right that's the rather specific one referring to a relationship i had in my youth where i dated a born again christian lady in order to have sex with a rampant teenage sexual release he would do that if he was born again well that was part of the christian guilt was part of the delicious goulash that lot receive is also part of it is the. number one use intoxicants responsibly yeah you again that's something that gets a bad rap where you know i think the thing. her enjoyable if you if you're smart about it you know it's a way to make your life more delicious just don't overdo it love the title paddle your own canoe that's that's self-explanatory isn't it i hope so and we have some social media questions for you one of them is on video watch hey nick i actually

have a few questions for you which episode of parks and rec is your personal favorite how long does it typically take you to grow your mustache and which feel better woodworking or bacon. how much time do we have to go we're on down quickly. my my favorite episode of parks and rec is the first one that my wife meghan appears and called ron and tammy. something something evil was wrought in that episode that can never be topped i don't think. woodworking or bacon cheese i doubt i'd pick woodworking because you can do that while consuming bacon but you can't flip it around at rabbi jay d.g. on twitter would you want to hang out with ron swanson. it would depend if we were i would want to hang out with him if we were working like splitting firewood or working in the shop but spend social time with them i don't think you'd be much fun who sat on a hottie on instagram wants to know have you named your iconic moustache yet no i

don't name my facial hair at mcgregor radio on twitter s what's your favorite cut of meat brought worst. brought worst spicy either way cook do not as it were once you know do you even vegetables in real life yes i do i just conor on twitter as if you had to choose between acting and woodworking one of the other what would you do. prompts acting that's my entertaining people is something i can't help but it looks like you would desperately miss woodworking i would for sure i wrote he would probably sneak out and do it i suppose and i think that when i when i no longer can can dance on a stage then i'll have my shop. to retire to started woodworking for money i did now you don't need it obviously but you still do it to do so it's not for the money mostly right now it's for love the joy of of this it is you know it's i love this

it feels so much better than you know and you also know you're in millions of homes or hundreds of homes of thousands as yourself a man and be. see so that is. ok we call this segment if you only knew just quick questions moment you knew you'd made it and everyone told me a little ways into parks and rec all of my people the agents and everybody said hey something's happening with your character you're going to need a publicist. do you have a comic inspiration is there a comic actor this ritual or a comic actor the thing that jumps to mind the guy jumps to mind is christopher lloyd as the reverend jim dignitary taxi it was one of the great roles of walter was a role right now that's something i can wrap my head around what was i just changed about yourself. i wish i was less gassy. hidden talent besides pop and locking what is popping and locking popping unlocking

is a certain part of break dancing you know break dancing involves all kinds of crazy spinning on the floor but popping and locking refers to. the other someone has provided us with a little music when you have one it looks like an electric pulses travelling through your body. exactly so if there if there was a point of light. it's like that and then if you and i were breaking stopping yeah you can you can stop. and if i had a pulse going through i would then pass it to you and so it was disjointed all of it and there is there are two and then this i did not i was around at the time when it was invented but i was on a farm in illinois is there a famous pop unlocker. well gosh you know hip hop artists nowadays they do it. all those cute young people whose most embarrassing

moment. well i once. perform some popping and locking on a who talk show. quite recently. i could understand it said you might be a worst audition and worst i dish and my worst audition story was. i was going to be moving to new york for a while with my wife who was going to be in mel brooks' young frankenstein and i heard that a theater. was doing a production of harold pinter's the homecoming which is a favorite play of mine great play there's a couple great parts that i could play in it and i i said this is meant to be i had a hell of a time arranging an audition but i finally wrangled one flew myself to new york and went to do this audition i was so excited and the producer you know a good look one line into my mike my cockney scene and the producer laid his head

down on his arms and apparently went to sleep. and i've finished all my scene staring at the guy and. thanks very much. and went straight to a bar and that to destroy a career you know when you get rejection. what keeps you going stupidity that may annoy you definitely have to have an amount of stubbornness but you also you come to learn that especially if you if there's something unique about you. forty nine out of fifty people aren't going to be looking for that but it's the fiftieth person when they finally see you so i knew you were out there let's let's make something called you have as you're in the subjective business exactas ill person judging you exactly you can't stop hitting a baseball four hundred feet nixon honor thank you have you with us thanks for having me i'm glad that your most embarrassing moment ever occurred. thanks to my yes nick offerman jim in kings of summer out in select theaters now you can find me

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