The Bronze Medal

I’d been cast. I’d be on the phone with the writers and I’d say, “Hang on. I’m at my shop. I gotta shut off the band saw.” As that sank in the second or third time, they said, “We’re coming over there.” The entire writing staff got in a van and came to my shop. They immediately were like, “Your character has a woodshop.

— Nick Offerman, interviewed in The Believer. He also mentions that, if elected President, Ron Swanson’s inaugural poet would be Wendell Berry. Perfect. I’d like to think that if Berry actually watched television, he’d love Parks and Recreation.

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