Dave Eggers
speaker
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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Whether it's making rugs or landscaping or temping or design or whatever it is, there's a very easy way to just be a little cheaper and a little faster than anybody else.
Uh-huh.
I was working at Esquire, a big corporate magazine for the first time.
Mike got us all jobs in real industries for the first time.
So we were offered different jobs.
Like a buddy of mine, one of the other Mike editors, we were offered a gig writing for Letterman, like the two of us.
No kidding.
As a team, I guess.
And it was Rodney Rothman, who was the head writer at the time, and he was younger than us.
We were like 27.
I think he was 24.
Wow.
and the producer was Kate Adler, and we all met, and it was like the most exciting thing that you could ever imagine.
I think so.
We worshipped Letterman as growing up, and Chris Elliott, and we had everything taped, and we'd watch everything over and over.
But the hours and the uncertainty, you'd get like a 12-week contract, I think, at the time, and then you had to renew.
I was not in a place where I had that kind of uncertainty.
I had a dependent, and then the hours.
You can't be a parent and write as a young person, trying to prove yourself.
But then I took this magazine job, and I really learned quickly that I was not meant to
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