Dingmantics: Recent Episodes
Sam Dingman
Dingmantics is homemade radio by Sam Dingman and a rotating cast of roustabouts and ne'er-do-wells. Broadcasting from WALT-FM in Brooklyn, New York (http://walt.fm).
Nick Markovich (The People's Improv Theater) travels to a Burger King in Lee's Summit, Missouri on a quest to discover the meaning of life. Sam sleeps through his alarm. PLUS: an important incident involving a koi pond.
Eli Reiter (Long Story Long) takes a life-changing trip to New Jersey. Sam invites you to join him for rose wine on a weeknight. PLUS: Suburban strings.
Jeff Simmermon (This American Life, The Paris Review) discovers new frontiers in American popular music. Sam exercises poor impulse control. PLUS: Rock n' poultry.
Dave Arroyo (San Juan Star, Forces of Geek) fondly recalls the MySpace era and its profound effect on his dating life. Sam helps a theater company make a radio play. PLUS: the riddle of the ancient redwoods eludes an intrepid explorer.
Jeff Rose (New York Story Exchange) tells us about the lessons he learned from the dog he owned in Austin, Texas. Sam attends a downtown dinner party and discovers he's wearing the wrong kind of hat. PLUS: raw, unedited audio of the sound of being sipped!
Mark Pagan (The Moth, Story League) tells us how his grandmother taught him to be a man. Sam falls asleep in a luggage closet. And the wind blows cold across Mohonk Mountain.
A Brooklynite travels to a cabin in Maine with nothing but his typewriter and tries to find himself, and an unterutilized avian verb gets its day in the limelight. Plus: your host stages a hostile invasion of his own office.
Adam Wade (The Moth, Snap Judgement) tells the story of his childhood friend Debbie, who helped him keep an embarrassing secret.
International corporate scandal. OK Cupid love poems. An elegy for Philip Seymour Hoffman. A marvelous story from Moth-winning storyteller Kate Greathead. And the whinging-oh, the whinging-of the trees.
Jim O'Grady (This American Life, Studio 360) finds an unexpected connection with his past during a high school track meet.
Micaela Blei (The Moth, Story Collider) tells the story of her summer in Italy with a shirtless sculptor.
Matt Mercier (The Moth, RISK!) had a lot of odd experiences during his stint as the manager of the Route 66 Youth Hostel, but none quite so strange as the night a Japanese film crew checked in to Room 8. Matt told this story at Dingmantics Live at the Tank Theater in New York.
An excerpt from The Taxi Tapes, Sam's solo show about being a cab driver in New York. In this clip, he almost kills a famous television personality with his taxi.
A live telling of Sam's infamous adventures in Philadelphia, on a fateful evening when ambitions gave way to reality in particularly painful fashion.
Dingmantics favorite Bradford Jordan returns with a story about the Thatcher School's attempt to tame his inner wild animal. This story was performed at Dingmantics Live at the Tank Theater in NYC.
Sam drives a deceptively normal-seeming couple into the dark heart of Brooklyn. A live recording of Sam's performance at his office talent show.
Leslie Goshko (HuffPo, Sirius XM, WNYC) realizes she's not in Tulsa anymore on a fateful trip to Bryant Park.
Moth-winning storyteller Nathaniel Bates tells this harrowing story about the unexpected outcome of a particularly deviant winter.
Journalist and editor Hillary Brenhouse (The New York Times, TIME, Oxford American) tells a story of redemption from her recent trip to Kashmir. This piece was performed at Dingmantics Live at the Tank Theater in New York.
A live performance of Sam's "Unlucky Cheng's" story, as told at Robin Gelfenbien's Yum's The Word show in NYC.
Moth-winning storyteller Bradford Jordan tells the story of a fateful evening in his family's backyard several years ago. Bradford is the founder and director of Yes And Performance, and also teaches improv at the People's Improv Theater in New York.
Susan Kent (RISK!, The Moth Radio Hour, Tell It: Brooklyn) shares a haunting story from her childhood in South Georgia. Plus: exciting Dingmantics news!
Dingmantics' welcomes its first guest storyteller, Nisse Greenberg, who shares a story about emotionally unreliable friends and the healing power of college radio.
A story about the day I knew it was time to quit my taxi-driving job. As recorded live at the Derangement of the Senses show (www.derangementofthesenses.com).
Another excerpt from "The Taxi Tapes," in which Sam learns that looks can be deceiving--but usually aren't.
In which Sam makes an unflattering impression on a Soprano and ruins the song "Mary's Place" in one fell swoop.
Sam processes the terrifying implications of becoming godfather to his best friend’s newborn son.
Sam joins a mysterious and secretive cabal at his college, which gets him in serious lady-trouble. Happy Valentine’s Day!
A brand-new tale of broken hearts, bad expectations, and burglary in the City of Brotherly Love.
Sam relates the tale of how he joined Twitter, lost his identity, found it, and then lost it again.
The rubes at the Coca Cola Corporation weren’t counting on Sam and his friends’ utter brokeness when they decided to give out free Vanilla Cokes one fateful afternoon in Ft. Lauderdale…
In which Sam exercises his potent powers of self-delusion as he prepares to become a New York City cab driver. Audio excerpted from the recent performance of “The Taxi Tapes” at the First Person Arts Festival in Philly.
As Sam begins to come to terms with his need for a new identity, he meets a man who offers him one.
18-year old Sam manages to land his first date, with a girl whose name is also Sam. Porn and ice cream are involved, and things gets messy (not like that).
A story about endings– of the long, drawn-out, painful variety in particular. Also, boat metaphors.
Sam relates the unfortunate realities of his purchasing predilections, as well as the life experiences that led him to marvel at the power of the company credit card. The audio is excerpted from “Sam Dingman’s Reasonable Doubt,” as performed at the People’s Improv Theater in NYC.
Sam relates the story of the absolute worst thing that ever happened in his taxi, and indeed the moment he knew it was time to hang it up. This recording is an excerpt from the live stage version of “The Taxi Tapes,” as performed at the People’s Improv Theater.
In the long-awaited return of Dingmantics, Sam outlines the dangers of being friends with Jason Bateman, unearths rare audio from a Phantom City television broadcast, and gives away one billion dollars.
Sam recently performed a piece from the Taxi Tapes series at his office talent show, and it sounded like THIS.
In our continuing quest to publish shows that align with the weekly theme of the Moth podcast, today we present a piece inspired by the idea of “human resources.” This clip is an excerpt from my solo show “Sam Dingman’s Reasonable Doubt,” and introduces you to a few of the more choice characters I encountered …Read More
In the twelfth installment of The Taxi Tapes (http://thetaxitapes.com), Sam encounters a fellow cab driver who is fearful of the past.
This week’s Moth theme is “silver lining,” so here is a piece about the one bright spot in the worst summer of my life.
Good morning! Mercenaries are lurking all around you, threatening to swarm your shores! Get up! Get up! Go, go, GO!
The Sam Dingman Show Etiquette Report looks at a troubling linguistic trend. Next, our Archaeological Division has unearthed another National Treasure. We also present a previously un-released Storycorps recording–just like one o’ them there professional-type radio shows. Boswell is of course here with thoughts on potatoes, pie, and other ponderances.
Starting today, I’m going to try to use the Moth’s weekly theme as a guide for my writing, and this week, that theme is “vacation.” As such, here’s a story about a fateful road trip that sparked the the inevitable decline of both my personal finances and my relationship with my girlfriend.
Finally, a podcast willing to ask the difficult questions: why is Paul Simon so awesome? Is he a better singer than Bob Dylan? Is Bob Dylan not ALSO awesome? The answers to all this and more are revealed herein.
Alan and I attempt to get excited about the mysterious signing of Dontrelle Willis, Brian Roberts receiving medical clearance to get within 100 yards of a baseball diamond, and the mysterious plasma injections upon which rest the fate of Zach Britton.
Lots of business to attend to on today’s show. First, we give out the inaugural Sam Dingman Show Bold Move Awards. After that, it’s an exciting edition of Phrases That Have Never Been Uttered, followed by important revelations about Ponzi schemes and the titular Haircut Paradox. Boswell, of course, rounds everything out with his customary …Read More
Some thoughts on the Mike Daisey situation from a fellow monologist with approximately one fortieth the fame, notoriety, and influence of Mike Daisey.
Is it serenity or torture? Superior or inferior to having Mexican food delivered to your door? One thing is certain: it definitely warrants the attention of our Panel of Distinguished Experts.
It is true; today dawns with precisely this amount in my TD Band of North America checking account. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS? More broadly, today marks my first attempt at creating a show in the more traditional talk-show format, with somewhat mixed results. MY KINGDOM FOR A CO-HOST.
A tale of holiday cheer in which I administer a thoroughly-justified dressing-down to an unscrupulous Internet racketeer. The language is strong, as is the case for my anger.
Some love them, some hate them–and that’s how you know they’re worth debating. Fortunately, we at the Sam Dingman Show keep a Panel of Distinguished Experts on hand for just this type of issue.
Alan and I learn that while you can still buy a Charlotte Hornets cap in New York haberdasheries, O’s hats are nowhere to be found. Also in this episode: the Queen’s Academy of Naval Research, Luke Scott and his pig spears (and why we should not fear them), and a VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT.
In honor of Ben Masten’s imminent move to Austin, today we present a sketch that he and I wrote for the Out of Bounds Comedy Festival in precisely that town, which also happens to be my favorite thing we’ve ever done.
A farewell note that is either temporary or permanent, but sincere and fairly embarrassing either way.
The Panel of Distinguished Experts convenes once more to consider yet another controversial issue. Featuring scandalous revelations about Sam’s conduct in the public library.
In the first episode of Baltimorons, Sam and Alan explain the sad plight of the Orioles fan, before delving into the top ten reasons to be excited about the 2012 season as determined by Stacey Long (of the popular O’s blog Camden Chat). Notably, none of these reasons are at all related to winning baseball …Read More
In our GOP Primary Special Edition (kind of), we learn of a disturbing incident of sandwichcraft in The Other Detroit, bear witness to The Most Awkward Job Interview Of All Time, and feel the power of Boswell’s political sway.
One evening during the overnight shift at the Hilton, Sam inadvertently ruins a co-worker’s life. This piece is an excerpt from Sam Dingman’s Reasonable Doubt, as performed at the People’s Improv Theater in June 2011.
For our Oscar special, the Panel of Distinguished Experts tries to figure out why movies have begun to fade from relevance. Featuring, among other things: terrible Jeremy Renner puns, why Uncharted 3 is preferable to the continued desecration of the Indiana Jones franchise, and the negative effects of spiking your coffee with whiskey while podcasting.
Once upon a time I fell asleep at my desk and began rambling incoherently. Fortunately, Gerrit was there with a pen and paper to transcribe it all, and today those ramblings take the form of Eugene’s Business, a sketch that can almost literally be described as that which dreams are made of. Plus, a visit …Read More
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, where a deceptively normal-seeming couple proves to be anything but.
Your Panel of Distinguished Experts takes a long, hard look at this legendarily nefarious pastry in an attempt to accurately evaluate its overall cultural import. Needless to say, the debate is robust, and few important conclusions are reached.
All Lieutenant Bainbridge wants is a quiet night at home. Sadly, his friends have other plans. Will Bainbridge ever get to enjoy a dish of figs in peace and quiet? Or will he be condemned to a lifetime of torment by Zartoolie, Officer Jenkins, and Ms. Evelyn P. Tranchbox? Featuring the voice talents of Ben …Read More
Painstakingly preserved in a cryogenic chamber, today we present the first podcast I ever recorded, rife with puns and strong opinions about video games. Listening back to it made me realize I used to spend a lot of time trying to write actual jokes, and I would like to challenge myself to get back into …Read More
Once upon a time, Sam and Gerrit were flipping through a booklet of incoming college freshmen when they happened upon an unlikely superhero named Captain Eyebrows. The only problem is that the Captain’s mild-mannered alter-ego doesn’t know his secret identity–or his own might.
For our Valentine’s Day Special, singer/songwriter/comedian extraordinaire Marshall York (The PIT, 31 Songs/31 Days) joins us to improvise love songs based on listener-submitted tales of romantic woe.
Sketchy Thursday takes you on a harrowing journey to The Valley of Kerlag, where wild veelfs lurk around every corner, and citizens live in fear of the dreaded fimble-whistle. Written and performed by Sam Dingman and Ben Masten, and featuring Conor Oberst on the fimble-whistle.
Some of us are all-too familiar with the empty promise of the formerly-homeriffic Vladimir Guerrero. Today, the Sam Dingman Show presents a harrowing cautionary tale.
One drunken afternoon at an Irish Pub in lower Manhattan, a fellow bellhop co-worker of mine informed me that he could see the future. This is an excerpt from Sam Dingman’s Reasonable Doubt, as performed at the People’s Improv Theater in April 2011.
Sam Dingman Show regular Gerrit Hall has reached a crucial milestone, and sits down to hash out the implications of the mysterious realm between age 29, when you’re still allowed to be an idiot, and 40, when you get a free motorcycle (at least, as best we understand it).
Sketchy Thursday offers you two hilarity-soaked servings of comedy for the price of none! First, Mork and Jork Grundvig teach you how to build an Ikea coffee table, and then a tragic ode to the plight of the fallen sons of American Enterprise is sung in questionable harmonies.
Wild Card Wednesday is here, complete with a snappy sound effect indicating its arrival. Tune in for a song about skeletons fighting aliens, twenty-five spinglies on the jazz-bo tip, and a message to the Ladies of America.