Hey, kids, welcome to the Phile. How are you? What's up? Sounds like under outside but with the way 2020 is going it could be Godzilla. I get that COVID-19 is scaring the absolute crap out of everyone, and that people are taking extra precautions because life demands that they still need to work despite the non-ideal conditions. However, there are always ways to go about situations like these, and Fedex is going to need to take some appropriate action with making sure their employees are well-equipped.
In Freeport, Texas, a Ring doorbell camera caught a depressing interaction between a Fedex driver and an 89-year-old man who had fallen on his porch. According to Maria Kouches, the man’s daughter, her father has dementia and issues with his legs, and she thinks that his legs gave out from underneath him while trying to go back inside the house. When the elderly man had fallen, the Fedex delivery driver saw Kouches’ father just 15 minutes after the fall while dropping off a package at the family’s house.
The video shows the delivery driver walking up to the front porch and dropping off the package right in front of where the older man had fallen, which was right in front of the front door. Instead of even asking about the elderly man’s well-being, the delivery driver walks off, to which the old man finally asks, “Hello, help, please. I need to get up.”
The Texas Fedex driver responds with, ” I can’t do that, boss,” and proceeds to continue about his way, closing up his truck and finishing his route. According to Storyful, Kouches even understood the driver’s perspective by explaining on a Facebook post how he could have rang, “the doorbell or [called] 911!” Luckily, her father is doing okay and she’s thankful that many were concerned.
Fedex gave the following response to the incident, stating, “We extend our thoughts and concerns for the well-being of the person depicted in this video. The safety of our team members and customers in the communities that we serve is our highest priority.”
They also explained that they will be “reviewing the circumstances behind this incident and will take the appropriate action.” Well, I certainly hope so. This driver could have easily done anything else to help the old man if he was scared about the transmission of the coronavirus. Kouches was right that he could’ve rang the house doorbell, or even called 911 if he didn’t feel safe approaching the old man. How does it make any sense to leave an old man helpless on the floor, especially outside in the Texas heat?
Make sure your employees know how to handle situations Fedex. This is unacceptable and sloppy. I’m just thankful Kouches’ father is okay.
In today’s highly gross story of the day, a mom was not McLovin it after her six-year-old daughter choked on a piece of a face mask that she claims was baked inside her McDonald’s chicken nuggets. According to the mom, who shared her story in a now-deleted Facebook post detailing the incident, she stated, “I thought, ‘What on earth is this? We have just come out of a pandemic and there is a face mask in my child’s chicken nugget!” According to "Hampshire Live," 32-year-old Laura Arber took three of her children to McDonald’s for dinner as a special treat. However, the Happy Meal turned out to be anything but yummy after her daughter Maddie began choking while sitting on the couch. The mom then reportedly put her fingers down her throat to loop it out as the toddler was blue from not being able to breathe. The distraught mom claims that she has found fragments of a disposable blue face mask in two other chicken nuggets. The personal protective equipment, also known as PPE, was apparently cooked into the chicken nugget like it was part of the mixture.
The mom said that she quickly went back to the Ronald McDonald house to talk to the managers complaining about the McDonald’s chicken nuggets, claiming that they had refused to apologize and kept serving them. The fast-food joint has since released a statement claiming that staffers did indeed apologize, and offered a full refund to the mom and asked her to return the affected product so they can further investigate the matter. Through a statement, a McDonald’s spokesperson added, “We are very sorry to hear about this customer’s experience. Food safety is of the utmost importance to us and we place great emphasis on quality control, following rigorous standards to avoid any imperfections.”
I guess this is a lesson for us all to always double-check before we eat something from a fast-food branch. Also, please throw your damn mask where it supposed to go, inside the trash can. You can’t imagine how many face masks I have seen just roaming around the floor lately. This ain’t your mama’s house, clean up after yourself people. Also, maybe makes sure there aren’t any masks anywhere near food items. Unless you want a big hefty lawsuit.
A teenaged Georgia girl is in the hospital with serious and likely permanent injuries after being viciously mauled by a pair of loose pit bulls while taking a walk through her neighborhood in broad daylight.
Joslyn Stinchcomb, a 15-year-old soon to be sophomore in high school, was walking in her Winder, Georgia neighborhood when the dogs started to chase her and she took off running. A Barrow County sheriff’s deputy found her a short time later laying face down on the ground. The dogs were on top her Stinchcomb, with one of the animals biting at her neck while the other one chewed on her head. The deputy shot and wounded one of the dogs when it approached him, causing both animals ran off. The pit bulls were later tracked down to their owner’s house and euthanized.
Stinchcomb’s ear and scalp were ripped off by the dogs during the attack and she was initially put on a ventilator because of how badly her trachea was damaged by the dogs. Doctors were able to reattach Stinchcomb’s ear though her family is unsure if she will ever be able to grow hair again on the parts of her head the dogs mauled. They also say her smile and other facial expressions may never be the same again either. The teenager remains in intensive care.
The dogs’ owner, 29-year-old Alexandria Torregrossa, was arrested and charged with reckless conduct for her pit bulls’ brutal attack.
Stinchcomb, who plays the flute in her high school marching band, has another surgery still schedule to repair nerve damage on the left side of her face.
The family has asked that anyone who can spare some extra cash to help with Joslyn’s extensive medical expenses please donate to their Paypal page.
From the family’s Paypal page: "Joslyn was walking in her neighborhood, like she does every day, on Friday July 31st when she was attacked by multiple pit bulls. The family is overwhelmed by the prayers and support we have gotten. Many have asked for a place to donate to help with expenses for Joslyn, and this is it! We are forever grateful."
Animal rescue workers were called to a horrific scene in Baldwin, New York when a goose was spotted with a large firework duct-taped to its body.
The Canadian Goose was spotted in Silver Lake Park in the New York burg on Long Island with a large firecracker strapped to its breast. Volunteers from PETA and the Long Islanders Orchestrating for Nature showed up to rescue the bird, which was injured by the duct tape but thankfully not the firecracker, which had apparently been lit but was extinguished after the bird presumably jumped into the water immediately after being released by the psychopath who taped the explosives to the bird.
The Long Islanders Orchestrating for Nature Facebook Page recounted the ordeal in a Facebook post with pictures of the goose. "A serial-killer in the making duct-taped fireworks to the chest of a Canada Goose at Silver Lake Park in Baldwin, NY. The explosive appeared to have been lit but was soaked in water, presumably when the cowardly perpetrator let go and the bird wisely escaped into the water.
The link between animal abuse and violence toward others has been well-documented by the FBI. Until the person or persons who strapped this firework to this goose are brought to justice, other animals and humans are in danger.
LION and PETA are offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction on cruelty charges of the person or persons who committed this horrific act.
Please donate toward this reward below. If it remains unclaimed, all funds will be redirected to LION’s mission of helping animals on Long Island and beyond." PETA and LION are currently offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who tried to murder this goose in the most messed up way possible. JESUS CHRIST. I know geese are assholes, but c’mon man.
Sheesh. I need a beer.
Good work, PETA. Thanks to you and LION for saving that goose.
The distrust many Americans feel toward the news media, caught up like much of the nation’s problems in the partisan divide, only seems to be getting worse.
That was the conclusion of a “sobering” study of attitudes toward the press conducted by Knight Foundation and Gallup and released yesterday. Nearly half of all Americans describe the news media as “very biased,” the survey found.
“That’s a bad thing for democracy,” said John Sands, director of learning and impact at the Knight Foundation. “Our concern is that when half of Americans have some sort of doubt about the veracity of the news they consume, it’s going to be impossible for our democracy to function.”
The study was conducted before the coronavirus lockdown and nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.
Eight percent of respondents... the preponderance of them politically conservative... think that news media that they distrust are trying to ruin the country.
The study found that 71% of Republicans have a “very” or “somewhat” unfavorable opinion of the news media, while 22% of Democrats feel the same way. Switch it around, and 54% of Democrats have a very favorable view of the media, and only 13% of Republicans feel the same way.
That divide has been documented before but only seems to be deepening, particularly among conservatives, Sands said.
“We’re starting to see more retrenchment among those who have already expressed deep concerns,” he said. “Moving the dial on these attitudes becomes more and more difficult for media organizations.”
The study doesn’t attempt to assign blame for these attitudes. President Donald Trump has constantly labeled journalism he doesn’t like “fake news.” Cable news networks Fox News Channel, MSNBC and CNN feature evening opinion shows that are an increasingly popular past time for viewers.
Who is to blame for the nation’s political divide? Well, 48% of those questioned says the media bears a great deal of the responsibility.
The study found 73% of Americans feel that too much bias in news reports is a major problem, up from 65% two years ago.
Those surveyed also didn’t believe much in honest mistakes. When there were inaccuracies in articles, 54% of Americans said they believed reporters misrepresented facts, while 28% said reporters were making things up in their entirety.
The picture isn’t much prettier when you take a step back. Knight and Gallup said 41% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the ability of the media to report the news fairly, down from 55% in a similar survey in 1999.
Eight in 10 Americans are calling for more diversity in news. Democrats and black people are more likely to be referring to racial and ethnic diversity; while Republicans and white people prioritize diversity in political views.
In a clear message to Facebook and Twitter, nearly three-quarters of those surveyed said social media companies have to work harder to remove hateful language and inaccuracies from their platforms.
Knight and Gallup conducted a random sample of 20,046 American adults between Nov. 8th, 2019 and Feb. 16th, 2020, and claimed a margin of error of plus or minus 1%.
You know what makes me laugh? Kids pranking their parents with food puns.
Hahahaha. Do you like the show "Antiques Roadshow"? I think they have been doing the show way too long, and are losing their minds.
That was really taken at Elvis' funeral. Have you seen the new Oreo's flavor that just came out? If not, take a look...
Hahahaha. So, did you know Trump is a Sith? Here's proof...
Yup. Definitely a Sith. So, people, of you're gonna be a "Karen," be this Karen...
It might come as a surprise to some people, but it's possible to be a jerk while telling somebody that you love them and want to spend your life with them.
A guy emailed the Phile and asked, "Am I wrong for proposing to my girlfriend in a way she didn't like?"
"I have been seeing my girlfriend for 4 years.
We've talked about marriage and kids in passing, it's always been something we're both open to, but we're both quite career-minded and that's been our focus.
She and her brother both often joke/complain about the pressure they feel from their parents to get married (he's been in a relationship longer than we have and still not engaged), and I've seen as well how it's something their parents drop unsubtle hints about all the time. I don't think they mean it to feel like pressure... they just want their kids to be happy, and they want to be grandparents.
Anyway, I've been thinking about it a lot lately. I've reached that point in my life where marriage is increasingly appealing. I'm ready to make that commitment, and I know she's the one for me.
One problem: she didn't know that yet.
Her parents hosted a dinner party to celebrate us all being able to finally visit each other's houses again... it was me, my girlfriend, her brother, his girlfriend and our 3 sets of parents.
It seemed perfect to me, so after dessert I got down on one knee and proposed. She looked pretty stunned and said, "errrm... I guess" and everyone laughed.
All the parents started celebrating, her mother was crying, her father was opening champagne, we were all hugging." Errm... Congrats? "We went home later and I told her how happy I was to spend the rest of my life with her, and she started crying and saying she felt like she had no choice.
This upset me, it was hardly the enthusiasm I'd hoped for, and I asked if she loved me.
She said she did, and maybe she did want to get married, but the way I proposed made it feel like her answer was a foregone conclusion and she didn't have time to think about it, and even now she knows that if she were to change her mind, she'd be letting everyone down and disappointing her parents.
The ambush proposal left her feeling undermined and unvalued, which isn't exactly romantic.
She said she wished I'd proposed privately, so we could talk together about what it really means and what our future looks like, and she could be really 100% sure of her decision before announcing it to her family. She feels like I've removed her opportunity to prepare for her parents' reaction and make sure she was saying yes because she wanted to, instead of because of expectation.
She says she's less sure than ever about our relationship because the proposal shows how little I know her or what she wants.
I thought I was being romantic, and even if it wasn't her ideal proposal, I don't see why that should affect her answer. Our relationship's about more than just that one evening.
Am I wrong?" Something as substantial as a marriage proposal should not be pinned on having had passing conversations. You really should have been paying more attention to these discussions on how much pressure their parents have put on them to get married, and how uncomfortable that is. Asking in front of the people who pressure her to get married was probably the absolute worst way to propose to this woman. I compare the dinner party surprise to the "Jumbotron maneuver," as they both involve proposing in front of a crowd that will make denial almost impossible. I'm of the mindset that you shouldn't propose unless you are sure of the answer," This is doubled if the proposal is in front of friends, family, or the general public. If this couple makes it to the aisle, I hope they have direct, deep discussions about everything in advance, from the flowers to their future children.
If you spot the Mindphuck let me know. Now from the home office in Port Jefferson, New York, here is...
5. Trump brings comfort to dying Americans by saying hey, don't worry, people in other countries are dying too.
4. Trump's literal response to a thousand people dying a day from coronavirus on the Axios interview was "it is what it is." I imagine the Benghazi crowd won't make a big stink about this line.
3. When Trump's supporters see that Axios interview... wow... its over for him. They're going to realize his grasp of facts is TENUOUS AT BEST. Let that sink...
2. I literally feel traumatized right now. I can't stop heart the words "it is what it is" with over 156,000 families destroyed and it is what it is. Millions more afraid, unsure where the next meal or paycheck os coming from but it is what it is. Bastard.
And the number one thing said about Trump saying "it is what it is" is...
1. My president has the same relationship to this pandemic that I have with squirrels who eat my avocados. It is what it is.
If you or someone you know is experiencing substance abuse, call the National Drug Helpline at 1-844-289-0879. Okay, kids, wanna play a game?
Okay, what is it? Hurricane or hippy? Hahaha. Okay, you know I love in Florida, right? Well, here's a sick story from this state...
A Pinellas County, Florida man is facing charges of simple battery and disorderly conduct for drunkenly harassing a child for wearing a mask and then spitting on the kid and telling him that, “You now have coronavirus.”
Forty-seven-year-old Jason Copenhaver walked up to a little boy at Ricky T’s in Treasure Island and told him to take off the mask he was wearing. Copenhaver, who was intoxicated, then asked the boy if he could shake his hand. When the boy (very smartly) refused this request Copenhaver grabbed the boy’s arm and got close enough to the child that spit landed on his face. It was then that Copenhaver told the frightened boy, “You now have coronavirus.” After his confrontation with the boy Copenhaver went to the bar area of the restaurant where a worker instructed him to sit. Copenhaver, who was also not wearing shoes, approached the employee and twice tried to assault him.
The Ricky T’s employee then took physical control of Copenhaver and dragged him outside where he then restrained Copenhaver on the ground until police arrived.
Copenhaver told police that he doesn’t actually know if he has the virus or not. Buy this little boy all the ice cream and fire trucks he wants. He should be throwing out a first pitch at a minor league baseball game next season. Sheesh. And props to the kid for knowing not to touch a drunk, creepy stranger when they ask. Poor kid was probably all excited to eat some chicken tenders and had his day completely ruined. Quick question, though… where were the parents? This boy sort of sounds like he was all alone. It feels like someone probably should’ve cracked a plate or a bottle of Landshark over this guy’s head as soon as he grabbed the little boy. Kind of an odd detail left out of this story.
Every day, someone on Earth unknowingly does the biggest poo in the world for that day.
The 133rd book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...
Debbie Harry will be on the Phile a week from today... next Wednesday. Okay, let's take a live look at Port Jeff, shall we?
Looks like a nice evening there.
Phact 1. "The Simpsons" episode "Trash of the Titans" was used to deter Toronto’s City Council from turning an abandoned mine into the city’s trash dump.
Phact 2. At least seven peaks in Utah are called Mollies Nipple and at least some of those names are attributed to John Kitchen, a pioneer who named them to commemorate a nipple of his wife.
Phact 3. Apple suggests 32° Fahrenheit as the lowest operating ambient temperature for the iPhone because a cold smartphone battery can drain faster than normal or it might say it has ample power remaining and then suddenly go dead.
Phact 4. Luxembourg’s gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organizers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians “hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem.”
Phact 5. Along with being accused of cannibalism, early Christians in the Roman Empire were considered atheists because they denied all the other gods.
Wilford Brimley
September 27th, 1934 — August 1st, 2020
Believe it or not, in 1985 he was 20 years younger than all the other actors in Cocoon.
Today's guest is an American actor, writer, comedian, producer, and woodworker. He is best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom "Parks and Recreation." His latest comedy special "Full Bush" is available on his website. Please welcome to the Phile, the great... Nick Offerman.
Me: Hello, Nick, sir, I'm so excited that you are here. How are you?
Nick: I'm doing as well as can be and I can imagine in these days. How are you doing?
Me: I'm doing about the same. Disgruntled I have to be back at work but there you go. You have a new stand-up special. I didn't know you did stand-up. How long have you been doing that?
Nick: Well, it's a complicated topic but I actually came straight up through theater. I never was officially a comedy specialist, I just did whatever was on the theater season. It was only once "Parks and Rec" started colleges started to invite me as though I was a stand-up and the invitations were so... juicy that I said, "You know, I'm going to write a show and try and tickle the funny bones of a couple thousand college kids."
Me: Did you do stand-up at a comedy club? I used to do stand-up myself.
Nick: To this day I've never been inside a comedy club I sort of exist outside the world of conventional comedian. It makes my shows kind of interesting. I only perform in theaters generally. So it's somewhere between stand-up and humorist and a one man show. It definitely is aimed to make people laugh.
Me: Was that a challenge for you, sir?
Nick: Um, yeah. My favorite thing I generally do as an actor is interpret someone else's really brilliant writing. All I have to do is deliver it to the audience successfully. But when I'm doing these comedy shows I never feel like a lot of my friends are the funniest men and women in the world and they have that inherent talent. Like I love Zach Galifianakis, I can be on the phone with him and the stuff that pops into his head I understand that I will never have the genius taken that he has. He'll take the most odd detail and craft it into seven or eight times out of ten a hilarious joke. Then the two misses are also really enjoyable. But for me I write my show out, I work it out, I riff with the audience and eventually it becomes a scripted show. As long as I'm prepared, that's my thing. If I get up on stage and I have no preparation that's when I start to sweat. As long as I've done my homework then I'm okay.
Me: Zach Galifianakis was on the Phile before and he is very funny. So, in your special you mention the "full bush lifestyle." What is that?
Nick: It refers to a few different iterations of that phrase. First and foremost it's promoting the idea of letting ones body hair grow in the manner that mother nature intended. A Libertarian approach to personal hygiene. But then also the sensibility of living out in the bush and always be ready of the planet is stricken by, I don't know, a pandemic. To have the skills ready to take care of yourself and loved ones by living in a full bush sensibility. Then also there's a joke about a former U.S. President acting in an ignorant fashion, not considering all the intelligence that is available to ones self so instead going full Bush.
Me: You love to make things, right? Have you always been handy like that?
Nick: Well, I grew up in a very self-sufficient family. It always felt like "Little House on the Prairie" supplanted in the 1970s in Central Illinois. And so I'm very lucky that I was brought up by my mom and dad, aunts and uncles and grandparents, who taught me to use tools and mend my clothing and grow a garden and so forth. Then I got out into he wide world, especially living in cities, following my theater career where a lot of people were completely immersed in consumerism which encourages us to learn as little of that as possible.
Me: I think because of the pandemic a lot of people are making or building stuff on their own more than ever now, do you agree?
Nick: We are sort of waking up, the fog is lifting of materialism, where we say we could mend something. Now during the pandemic we can't call somebody to screw in every light bulb in the hose, so maybe we can learn do that ourselves. Maybe I can use this extra beef towel I have laying around and make some lamps of my own. Holy cow, that's fun and it smells delicious.
Me: I have no idea what beef towel is.
Nick: Than you don't want to know.
Me: In the special you play a ukulele that you made yourself and sing a really cool song. Do you think you get greater meaning using the thing you made opposed to just making them?
Nick: I do. The fact that I'm able to tour successfully as a humorist or as a comedian I never would have imagined that using my tools and skills to make furniture, canoes and then eventually musical instruments. The charm and charisma of that, saying here's a ukulele I made and here's a song. It's not a great song by a long stretch, it's not even on any charts but I think they are going to like this. I'm just thrilled and I always encourage people to figure out what they'd like to build with their hands because I think it's one of the healthiest things we can do.
Me: Do you think a lot of things that you are saying is reminding people of your character on "Parks and Recreation"?
Nick: Yes, the importance of building things, the importance of woodworking, the importance of taking responsibility of things that we own. In the special I have a song called "I Am Not Ron Swanson."
Me: When I first heard about you I thought your name was Ron Swanson... not Nick Offerman. Why do you think Ron Swanson is still a popular character?
Nick: I feel like in this day and age one of the things I think we suffer from in civilization is a terrible over abundance of information and choice. I think the appeal of Ron Swanson is he's a parental voice saying ignore all that, that's nonsense, here's the six rules to live by. The more simplicity you can bring to your life, the more limits you can set for yourself, the happier you will be in the long run. I think a good example of that is in this pandemic most of us have been forced to slow down, stay home and everybody I know have the same reaction where they say, "Holy cow, my house is wonderful. My yard or the view out my window. Just the bite traffic in my neighborhood, I never had time to notice before." And so setting limits for ones self instead of running on the hamster wheel as much as possible slows us down and things that would seem beneath our notice suddenly becomes the treasures of our life, the plant you've grown, or the family member that you usually just pass in the hall on the way to work in the morning, but now you slow down and say, "You have a greta personality. What's your name again?"
Me: Ron Swanson talked a lot about masculinity, sir. Have you given any thought about masculinity reflected from Ron Swanson?
Nick: Very much, yeah. That's perhaps to me the most lasting affect of my relationship with the public is through the lens of masculinity. Through Ron and my own perceived persona I'm often accused of masculinity. Sometimes I'm accused of machismo. People wrote articles about me being like a manly man. That's something I would never say about myself and I certainly don't feel. In this day and age my first thought is I try to soften the genderation of everything.
Me: Why is that?
Nick: Because these ideas of what makes a man often involves aspects of character and integrity and sanding up for ones values and having a certain amount of capability. There's no reason that has to apply only to gender males. I think across the spectrum there are people that qualify with these manly attributes and actors the spectrum of gender there are people that are stereotypically credibly feminine attributes. That's what I try to promote, everybody should try to stand up for their values. If you see someone that needs a hand opening a door with their groceries it doesn't matter if it's men or women or chivalry or romance. So I try to break down that sense of sensibility.
Me: I still think you're the same pretty much as Ron Swanson, sir. So, what came first, the chick or the egg here?
Nick: Well, brilliant comedy writers one of their talents is taking aspects of the actors they're presented with. And fermenting those aspects in great comedy.
Me: So, what's the main difference between you and Ron?
Nick: The main difference I think in Ron and I is I am not a brilliant crafted fictional character, I am much more of a messy, clumsy, complicated human being.
Me: Did they talk to you to get parts of you when you auditioned for the role?
Nick: No, that's the great thing about doing a TV show over a matter of years. Megan had a similar situation with "Will and Grace," I did an audition, and yes, I went through some interviews reading scenes and whatnot. But they had an idea, the idea for Ron Swanson when the show started was this guy who was staunchly anti-government and wanted to bring the government down from within in this very passive aggressive way. That was the bit. They thought he would make a good foil to Leslie Knope. That was kind of what they started with then when they ended up casting me then that's where the alchemy begins. The same is true with all the characters. When they cast Aubrey Plaza and Chris Pratt and Rashida Jones, they said now we have this magical embodiment person what do they have that fits into these stories they were trying to knit together. And so pretty quickly they came to my wood shop and they took things about me that they thought would make good fodder and turned those into things about Ron. Ron is a much better woodworker than I am. Ron can drink a lot more scotch than I can. There things are detailed in the song. My colon lives in reality and his only bends to the writers in the writers room.
Me: You guys did a reunion for charity in April during the pandemic. How did it feel to be back with everybody?
Nick: Even together in one of these virtual gatherings on the laptop it was just golden. We still are very much in touch and I'm very grateful for the familial sense of we all went through the greatest seven years of our lives together. So getting together for one sort of virtual go-around to raise money for food charities it made me very emotional the way the show always did.
Me: So, how have you been with this whole pandemic, Nick?
Nick: The thing that occurred to me first and foremost is time has become incredibly strange and elastic. I'm not sure if there's a beginning and an end or if there are sides to it, so weeks and months could feel like they're slipping by. The first thing I'm trying to is make sure I try and stay in touch with my loved ones, my family in Illinois who I know I'm not going to get to see for a while and just friends around the world. If I think about who might have an elderly parent or just any kind of tribulation it really makes my day if I reach out to my friend in Scotland and we just connect for a minute. That's really helping my spirits, and then around the house I highly encourage people to get out and have an affect on their immediate surroundings that's tangible with their hands. Many people are finding pleasure in gardening and that's absolute wizardry. If they could plant plants that will grow and they can tend to them and they become food, that's just astonishing. To me human beings do have a super power and that's our ability to use our brains and our coordination and our thumbs to take materials and make them into something of use. It might be just something pleasing, it could be a work of art or it could be a table or it could be smoking a pork shoulder which can be out on their table and they can loo at their art while they eat their pork.
Me: Thanks for being on the Phile, Nick. This was great. Please come back again soon.
Nick: Thank you, Jason.
That about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Nick Offerman for a great interview. The Phile will be back on Monday with Mandy Patinkin. Spread the word, not the turd... or virus. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.
I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon
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