Nick Offerman Picks His Favorite Gumption Interviews
Nick Offerman’s got a new book out where he talks with some of his heroes. In “Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers” he talks with, and about some of the ballsiest people who Offerman admires. He divides the people into three categories, Freemasons like George Washington, Idealists like artist Yoko Ono, and author Michael Pollen who changed the way many people think about the food they eat, and Makers like advocate and musician Willie Nelson, and pioneer Carol Burnett.
Last night on Jon Stewart, Stewart asked Offerman which person from the book was the biggest thrill for Nick, personally from his book– musician and performance artist Lori Anderson, and Kentucky agrarian and writer Wendell Berry. Nick said he admired both of them so much, that he was almost afraid to bother them. Nick says that it’s a Wendell Berry quote that best sums up th people who he wrote about– “People who see the work that needs doing, and they do it.”
