49: City Folk

Family Ghosts

Sam Dingman

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Sam gets a ghostly answer to a decade-old question.

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0:00.0	You're listening to WALT.
0:01.7	H-oh, grown, grown, home made radio.
0:09.3	Hello, ghost family.
0:10.8	Welcome to Family Ghosts.
0:14.2	Way back when I first got into podcasting, I wasn't really sure where to start.
0:28.6	I knew I wanted to make something, but I wasn't sure what.
0:34.2	So one of the first things I tried was just turning on the microphone and reading these little
0:40.4	essays I wrote about my brief but harrowing career as a cab driver.
0:46.7	At the time, I actually wasn't that far removed from my days behind the Wheel of the Yellow
0:51.2	Cab.
0:52.7	I was just trying to capture as many of the bizarre and beautiful moments as I could.
0:58.7	Maybe I thought a podcast would be an interesting way of sharing them.
1:08.4	This was about 10 years ago.
1:10.4	And when I listen back to those essays now, the question that lingers in my mind is why?
1:18.5	Why did I record these?
1:21.6	But as in why seems to be the central question I'm exploring in my writing about my taxi
1:28.1	experiences?
1:29.8	Why did I become a cab driver?
1:32.2	Why would I do that to myself?
1:34.7	As one of my fellow drivers used to say, hey, the pay sucks, but at least the job's incredibly
1:40.6	dangerous.
1:43.4	Why wasn't a question that I was consciously asking myself back then?
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