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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Daniel J. McSweeney.
So he's...
Delivered half of Boston at some point.
Probably 10,000 babies, you know?
That's wild.
Well, that's where the McSweeney came from.
Like, there was a guy that was adopted in this home for unwed mothers, and he was adopted by a different McSweeney family.
But he saw my grandfather's name on the birth certificate, and later in life he went, he thought that was his real father.
So he would seek us out and write crazy letters to us all my childhood.
saying he was coming any minute on this train.
He's going to come and reunite with his long lost sister, my mom.
So that was Timothy McSweeney.
And that's why we named this whole thing after him.
Sort of this lunatic screaming from the woods, which we thought we were at the time, like as a magazine.
But I just found a bunch of more of his stuff.
Like it got a little scary here.
Right, I'm coming home, prodigal son.
You've been looking for me.
Yeah, some of these relationships are just too intense, or they make them intense.
Commodities, because of the exchanges there?
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