Dave Eggers

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2,398 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 8 Jul

Dave Eggers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Dave Eggers (writer and publisher) · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Who are you this year?

And I always say that should be the first thing of every school year, the first two days is write your story on day one.

And then the other kids get to read each other's stories day two.

Teacher knows all the students far better.

And the kids are like, all right, now everyone knows who I am, my truth.

And it's really different on the page than if you have to verbalize it to a bunch of kids you don't know in front of the class.

You wouldn't ask them to do that.

Yeah.

But just you pass them around and they get to know each other so intimately.

And there's just like a confessional connection.

safety on the page that isn't there in any other place.

I was trained as a journalist and we've had oral history series, Voice of Witness for years, and it's quite clear that there's seven and a half billion more interesting people than me out there.

So it just feels like nonsensical to talk about my stupid, boring life.

You know, it doesn't make any sense.

There is no stupid, boring life.

I mean, I like that premise.

I'm just like...

Would never bore people with it because I did pass two people on the way here, like on Franklin, I think.

It was like a guy shooting a film with his iPhone and there was a woman in a grocery cart and they were careening down the street.

He's filming and she's bouncing up and down.

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