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Nick Offerman appeared on The View and fielded a “stretch of a question” from Swiftie Alyssa Farah Griffin.
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The conservative asked if he’d heard Taylor Swift’s new song “Wood,” reportedly about Travis Kelce’s manhood.
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“I do not want to sound cocky when I’m talking about my woodworking,” Offerman said.
Even Parks and Recreation star Nick Offerman‘s mind is knocking on the door of curiosity when it comes to Taylor Swift‘s cheeky “Wood” lyrics.
After the 35-year-old pop superstar dropped the Life of a Showgirl album track — which compares fiancé Travis Kelce‘s manhood to a redwood tree that “opened my thighs” — Offerman admitted Thursday on The View that he, an experienced woodworker, has indeed heard the tune.
“I’ve got a stretch of a question,” conservative panelist and the talk show’s resident Swiftie, Alyssa Farah Griffin, said at the top of Offerman’s interview, pegged to his new book Little Woodchucks. “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’s got a new song called ‘Wood.’ Have you heard it, and what do you think of it?”
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Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
Cohost Sara Haines exclaimed, “Oh, no,” when she sensed that the floodgates had opened on Griffin’s Swift obsession.
Offerman confirmed that he’s “heard it,” and joked that he and Swift “talked about when we’re going to drop our book and her record” because “we didn’t want to soak the market with wood-related things.”
Piggybacking off of the innuendos heard throughout the song, Offerman added that he brought in his wife, fellow actress Megan Mullally, along for the woodsy ride.
“I do not want to sound cocky when I’m talking about my woodworking, but I did do sort of an interpretive reading of the lyrics for my wife, and we’re in negotiations,” Offerman said. “I sent it to her, she said she’s got some ideas, because I wasn’t sure what the whole song was about. I do work with redwood trees on occasion.”
Kelce, too, weighed in on the meaning of the song after its release.
“It’s a great song,” he said in early October to brother Jason Kelce on their New Heights podcast.
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Travis Kelce kisses Taylor Swift at Super Bowl LVIII
“Jesus Christ, Travis, come on! Redwood tree, ain’t hard to see,” Jason said later in the episode, attempting to get his brother to crack over the lyrics. “I thought redwood was a little bit… that’s a generous word, I think.”
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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.
The View airs weekdays at 11 a.m. ET/10 a.m. PT on ABC.
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