Episode 483

with Nick Offerman, Phoebe Robinson, and Adia Victoria

Host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello chat about household rules we struggle to enforce; actor and humorist Nick Offerman discusses his newest book Where the Deer and the Antelope Play and how he squares his life in Los Angeles with his agrarian sensibilities; comedian and "Dope Queen" Phoebe Robinson explains why no one is allowed to sit on her bed in their outdoor clothes; and singer-songwriter Adia Victoria describes how working at an Amazon fulfillment center gave her the space to write her newest album A Southern Gothic, before performing one of its haunting tracks "My Oh My."

Nick Offerman
Actor/ Writer

Nick Offerman is not your traditional celebrity...unless your traditional celebrity happens to have a talent for woodworking and a deep affection for the great outdoors. Best known for his role as Ron Swanson in the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, Offerman has also appeared in The Founder, FX’s comedy crime drama, Fargo, and lends his voice to the character of Beef Tobin on the animated series, The Great North. Since 2018, Offerman has co-hosted the NBC reality competition series, Making It, with Amy Poehler. He is the author of multiple books, including Paddle Your Own Canoe, Gumption, Good Clean Fun, The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, and his newest, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play. He is also the proprietor of the Offerman Woodshop and “proud husband and dishwasher to the world’s most powerful woman – Megan Mullally.” Insta • Website

Phoebe Robinson
Writer/ Comedian

Actress, writer, and stand-up comedian Phoebe Robinson is a woman of many talents, and lucky for us, she’s happy to share them. Co-creator and co-star of the hit WNYC Studios podcast 2 Dope Queens (now eight one-hour, critically-acclaimed HBO specials), she’s also a New York Times best-selling author of the books Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay and You Can’t Touch My Hair and Other Things I Still Have to Explain. She recently added Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes to the list, an essay collection compiled during and, very much reflective of, pandemic times. Additionally, Phoebe was a staff writer on the final season of Portlandia, hosted the critically-acclaimed podcast Sooo Many White Guys, and starred in the movies Ibiza and What Men Want. Most recently, she founded Tiny Reparations, a production company under ABC Studios, and TinyRep’s first project, a talk show entitled Doing the Most w/Phoebe Robinson, premiered in 2021 on Comedy Central. Website • Twitter

Adia Victoria
Singer/ Songwriter

Nashville-based singer/ songwriter Adia Victoria takes an interpretive approach to the traditional sounds of the South, with deeply compelling results. Victoria’s earnest, smokey vocals interweave with instrumentals inspired by rural blues and vintage country—upbeat and dulcet at times and rugged and rueful at others. She released her debut single, "Stuck in the South," in 2014, followed by her debut album, Beyond the Bloodhounds, in May 2016. A Southern Gothic is the most recent addition to Victoria’s discography. A meditation on growing up in the South, the album, according to Victoria, aims “to make this young Black girl’s narrative just as emblematic of a Southern experience as Faulkner could write.” Victoria is also the host of Call and Response, a podcast featuring conversations between her and her musical guests about their current work as well as the lineage of musicians that preceded them. Listen • Website