During a visit to the studio where Nick Offerman recorded the audiobook to Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers, he shared with BuzzFeed his tips on creating a better America.
Nick Offerman at The Village Studios, West Los Angeles.
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Nick Offerman is perfect for telling tales. BuzzFeed sat down with him at The Village Studios in West Los Angeles, where he was recording the audiobook to his second book Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America's Gutsiest Troublemakers, and he spoke in his trademark deep, methodical voice. His latest humor book consists of 21 chapters, each devoted to a different American that Nick thinks have made an impact on our country. These aren't your typical, cherry tree-chopping white dudes from your history books — in addition to George Washington, he also includes people such as Frederick Douglass, Eleanor Roosevelt, Yoko Ono, Conan O'Brien, and Willie Nelson.
According to Offerman, he's completely unlike Ron Swanson, the man America might have imagined him to be: "I love steak, I love scotch, I love woodworking, I love women that look like Tammy 2 (a character on Parks and Rec portrayed by Megan Mullally), and I am taciturn at times – but I'm just a normal sloppy human like everyone else. In my normal life, I'm very little like Ron Swanson, for better or for worse." And that's a good thing, because it's Offerman, not Ron Swanson, who has written your new guide to creating a better America.
Get your ass off social media 24/7.
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"The thing I despise about Twitter is its pull, I tried it for a couple of months, it was fun, I tweeted some funny tweets, got some followers," Offerman told BuzzFeed. "But pretty quickly, reading all of the Twitter feed, the people that correspond with me, it immediately occurred to me that whenever my attention dropped, whenever there was a lull in my day, a switch went off, let me see what's going on in Twitter land. After a couple of weeks of that, I realized I'd burned all this time reading what amounts to nothing. Then I got mad. Budget your use of social media so it's not controlling your spare time."
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