Dave Eggers Is 99 Percent Animal

Outside Podcast

Wilderness, Sports

4.3 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

There’s a reason the acclaimed author wrote his latest book in the voice of a dog: it enabled him to run free all over an imagined seaside park. Eggers has always been a writer compelled to break boundaries, and in The Eyes and the Impossible he’s at it again, crafting an all-ages story about a brave mutt named Johannes and his crew of committed friends: a seagull, a pelican, a racoon, and a one-eyed squirrel. Together they hatch a plan to free the park’s bison from their pens so that they, too, can roam where they will. For Eggers, who writes on a sailboat in San Francisco Bay and has a passion for unique flying experiences (old planes, ultralights, jet packs), the book was a chance to delight in a simple and pure kind of adventure storytelling. The Outside Podcast is made possible by Outside+ subscribers. Learn about the many benefits of a subscription and sign up now at outsideonline.com/podplus.

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by REI Co-op, which believes that life outside is essential.
0:09.0	Research demonstrates numerous physical and mental benefits to heading out your door.
0:13.9	Unfortunately, one in three Americans simply don't have outside spaces close to where
0:19.4	they live.
0:20.7	Challenges range from a lack of public transportation to a highway that cuts off a neighborhood
0:25.3	from a park to systemic issues.
0:27.9	It's a problem that affects the entire country, which is why REI is on a mission to get every
0:33.6	American outside in five minutes or less.
0:37.2	The movement is called outside in five, and it includes a combination of support for
0:42.2	local community-led organizations and a national campaign to pass the outdoors for all act.
0:49.2	Whether it's re-greening city blocks, creating safe bike lanes, or simply making our outdoor
0:54.0	spaces more equitable, together we can make getting to the park, a walk in the park.
1:00.2	Learn more and take action at REI.com-forward-slash-outside-in-five.
1:12.5	From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.
1:25.0	I'm not the first or the millionth person to say that we're incomplete when we don't
1:30.5	have access to the outdoors, and if we don't take that bath in the natural world regularly,
1:37.4	there's something wrong.
1:39.2	I think it's very rare to find people feeling stressed or illidies or like overwhelmed
1:46.4	when they do regularly get out there and do something unchained in the woods.
1:54.5	If you can just like unleash and tap into that kind of primal side of yourself that's
2:00.9	supposed to interact in an almost reckless way with the natural world, then you come
2:06.9	back and you can be a human again.
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