Dave Eggers

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

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

I had never had a 9 to 5 anything.

I never had to wear clothes of any kind to any job.

In the Bay Area, it was all shorts every day.

Nobody cared.

So to have to wear pants and a button-down shirt and then try to get things published and they say no, I was like, these are all brand new ideas to me.

You were just doing whatever you wanted prior to that.

In the Bay Area, again, no one says no.

So suddenly it was 90% no.

It's not their fault.

There's only so many pages in a magazine.

So we started McSweeney's.

It was all stuff that was rejected from other corporate magazines.

And it was like the land of misfit writings.

And so we did that, published it out in my apartment in Brooklyn.

And just a couple of us.

Manhattan was not my thing, but once I moved to Brooklyn, it was much calmer.

It was really Oakland-y and great.

Near Prospect Park, which is a beautiful park.

I just have to be close to some kind of open space.

So suddenly, you know, we had a ball.

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