{"id":84175,"date":"2025-10-17T11:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84175\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T11:15:11","slug":"i-do-work-with-redwood-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84175\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I do work with redwood trees&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Nick Offerman appeared on The View and fielded a &#8220;stretch of a question&#8221; from Swiftie Alyssa Farah Griffin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The conservative asked if he&#8217;d heard Taylor Swift&#8217;s new song &#8220;Wood,&#8221; reportedly about Travis Kelce&#8217;s manhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I do not want to sound cocky when I&#8217;m talking about my woodworking,&#8221; Offerman said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even Parks and Recreation star <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/nick-offerman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nick Offerman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nick Offerman<\/a>&#8216;s mind is knocking on the door of curiosity when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/taylor-swift\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Taylor Swift;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Taylor Swift<\/a>&#8216;s cheeky <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/taylor-swift-says-song-wood-started-off-in-a-very-innocent-place-11825702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:&quot;Wood&quot; lyrics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">&#8220;Wood&#8221; lyrics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the 35-year-old pop superstar dropped the Life of a Showgirl album track \u2014 which compares fianc\u00e9 <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/travis-kelce\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Travis Kelce;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Travis Kelce<\/a>&#8216;s manhood to a redwood tree that &#8220;opened my thighs&#8221; \u2014 Offerman admitted Thursday on <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-view\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The View;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The View<\/a> that he, an experienced woodworker, has indeed heard the tune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve got a stretch of a question,&#8221; conservative panelist and the talk show&#8217;s resident Swiftie, <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/alyssa-farah-griffin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Alyssa Farah Griffin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Alyssa Farah Griffin<\/a>, said at the top of Offerman&#8217;s interview, pegged to his new book Little Woodchucks. &#8220;Taylor Swift just released her new album, Life of a Showgirl. You obviously just released your new Little Woodchucks book. Both feature the concept of wood. She&#8217;s got a new song called &#8216;Wood.&#8217; Have you heard it, and what do you think of it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Wendell Teodoro\/WireImage Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/df62dbf07c696b9a5504b79492b37248.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wendell Teodoro\/WireImage<\/p>\n<p> Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Cohost <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/sara-haines\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sara Haines;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sara Haines<\/a> exclaimed, &#8220;Oh, no,&#8221; when she sensed that the floodgates had opened on Griffin&#8217;s Swift obsession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Offerman confirmed that he&#8217;s &#8220;heard it,&#8221; and joked that he and Swift &#8220;talked about when we&#8217;re going to drop our book and her record&#8221; because &#8220;we didn&#8217;t want to soak the market with wood-related things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Piggybacking off of the innuendos heard throughout the song, Offerman added that he brought in his wife, fellow actress <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/megan-mullally\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Megan Mullally;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Megan Mullally<\/a>, along for the woodsy ride.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I do not want to sound cocky when I&#8217;m talking about my woodworking, but I did do sort of an interpretive reading of the lyrics for my wife, and we&#8217;re in negotiations,&#8221; Offerman said. &#8220;I sent it to her, she said she&#8217;s got some ideas, because I wasn&#8217;t sure what the whole song was about. I do work with redwood trees on occasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kelce, too, weighed in on the meaning of the song after its release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great song,&#8221; he said in early October to brother Jason Kelce on their\u00a0New Heights\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Ezra Shaw\/Getty Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LVIII\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/c08dc31f8bab5596a359ade504f7c4bb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ezra Shaw\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LVIII<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cJesus Christ, Travis, come on! Redwood tree, ain&#8217;t hard to see,\u201d Jason said later in the episode, attempting to get his brother to crack over the lyrics. &#8220;I thought redwood was a little bit\u2026 that&#8217;s a generous word, I think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In addition to making headlines for its lyrics, The Life of a Showgirl also recently broke the record for the largest-ever first-week sales number for an album in United States history, moving over 4 million units across its first seven-day period of release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The View\u00a0airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET\/10 a.m. PT on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/entity\/abc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ABC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/nick-offerman-performed-taylor-swift-wood-lyrics-wife-megan-mullally-11830975\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Points Nick Offerman appeared on The View and fielded a &#8220;stretch of a question&#8221; from Swiftie Alyssa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[12985,156,64305,157,111,139,63395,69,64304,64306,6456,11214],"class_list":{"0":"post-84175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-alyssa-farah-griffin","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-megan-mullally","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nick-offerman","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-redwood-tree","17":"tag-redwood-trees","18":"tag-taylor-swift","19":"tag-travis-kelce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}