Dr. Waffle & Friends

Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.2: Dear McSweeney's (My Uncle Did Not Write "Stagger Lee")

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:00:00 -0500

Our guest writer this week is the fabulous Mary Miller, who reads a short essay that appeared in McSweeney's—all about how her uncle was maybe not as famous as she had always thought. She and Dr. Waffle discuss music, fame, writing, ambition, big families, the South, storytelling, and storytelling in the South.

TAGS: Cliff Thomas Trio; Lloyd Price; Elvis Presley; Graceland; Sun Studio; American Bandstand; Memphis, Tennessee; Jackson, Mississippi; Jerry Lee Lewis; George Eliot; possums; Southern storytelling

Spoilers: Who wrote “Stagger Lee”; what happened to Jerry Lee Lewis

Links:

Lloyd Price’s version of “Stagger Lee”

The Cliff Thomas Trio page at Sun Records

Mary Miller’s website

Mary’s story “Outage” in the Oxford American

Cool review of Mary’s work in the LA Review of Books

The entry on Mary Miller in the Mississippi Encyclopedia!

Fat Possum Records

Tom Lake, Ann Patchett’s most recent novel

Melissa Ginsburg’s Doll Apollo

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.1: New Zealand Is Trying to Kill Me

Fri, 02 May 2025 05:00:00 -0500

It's a brand new season of Dr. Waffle & Friends! (In case you haven't noticed, a "new season" usually means that a few months of extreme busyness has kept Dr. Waffle from making any new episodes for a while....)

We're kicking off Season 4 with a corker -- a timely episode about New Zealand (for all those thinking about repatriating for any reason) and a Special Mystery Guest Friend! You won't want to miss this one!

TAGS: New Zealand; extreme sports; caving; accents; kiwifruit; kiwis; Kiwis; bats; possums; Māori language; rugby; haka; residential schools; guns; Edmund Burke; Rotorua; ADD; misogyny; cigarettes; Jacinda Ardern

Spoilers: introduction of mammals to New Zealand; current prime minister of New Zealand

The Coast to Coast race

Dee’s essay about her mother-in-law’s letters

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.4: Religion

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Guest writer Cannon Schmitt reads an essay about becoming a surfer later in life, and Dee and Cannon discuss the spiritual aspects of sports, what it means to give up on mastery, parallels between surfing and writing, and so much more!

TAGS: surfing; William Finnegan's Barbarian Days; spirituality; Baptist Church; Georgia; writing; academia; Buddhism; Nicholson Baker; the Levenger catalogue

Spoilers: Dee’s second academic book project

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.3: A Good Guy Is Hard to Find

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Dr. Waffle welcomes another guest interviewer, close friend (and baker and pianist extraordinaire) Maura Glennon. Dee and Mo discuss the pains and pleasures (and pains) of home ownership, dealing with repair people, the fear of being an asshole, some light politics, and the difficulties of building community.

TAGS: Vancouver; Oxford, Mississippi; Carnegie Hall; Florence Pie Bar

Spoilers: The saga of 1616 Grant Street; the fate of Colin the Boiler Repairman

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.2: I Saw You Coming, Justice Safe Haven

Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:00:00 -0500

Dr. Waffle welcomes her first guest writer, Melissa Cole! In this episode, Melissa reads an essay about writing an essay that appeared in Newsweek and the blowback that ensued. She and Dr. Waffle discuss women’s bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, the public personas of authors, the writing process, and so much more!

TAGS: Newsweek; Sandra Tsing Loh; Roe v Wade; Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization; SCOTUS; public education; SRAs; Dickens; horror films

The Haunted States of America, with Melissa’s story about North Carolina

Melissa’s most recent short story, “The Liminality of a Decent Couch,” in the Fall 2024 issue of Slippery Elm Literary Journal

Read about Daniel the Emotional Support Duck

Deanna’s essay in which she chats with her postal carrier

The Dickens Universe

Dan Blank’s Substack, The Creative Shift

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.1: Who In the World Do You Think You Are?

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 07:00:00 -0500

Welcome to Season Three of Doctor Waffle & Friends! It’s a whole new recipe, containing 50% more Friends! Beginning with this episode, our new format will alternate episodes in which Dr. Waffle reads an essay and is interviewed by a Friend, and episodes in which a guest writer reads an essay and is interviewed by Dr. Waffle.

In the first episode of the new season, Dee shares an essay about Jesus Christ Superstar, and is interviewed by her (spunky) bestie Trish Tilburg. Dee and Trish discuss parental record collections, Broadway musicals, their childhood relationship to religion, Broadway musicals, political activism, and Broadway musicals. Dee confesses an embarrassing secret regarding Broadway musicals.

TAGS: Jesus Christ Superstar; Christianity; Rodgers and Hammerstein; 2024 Presidential election

Spoilers for Hamilton, Les Misérables, and the New Testament

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.10: Ready to Be Strong

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Tania’s story cues us up to FINALLY talk about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and we share favorite moments, relationships, and themes. We also discuss watching TV with friends, TV you have to pay attention to, and people who talk during TV shows. And we say farewell to a friend of Dr. Waffle and make room for new friends.

TAGS: Thirtysomething, The Bear, Dark, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffering the Vampire Slayer

Major spoilers for every aspect of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Watch Tania and friends perform I Love a Podcast and Faith

Listen to the Santa Barbara episode of Buffering the Vampire Slayer

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.9: Sweet Truth

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Dee shares her lifelong obsession with candy bars, and she and Tania discuss the Great American Candy Bar Hierarchy, milk vs. dark chocolate, the dynamics of sharing dessert, judgmental waiters, recovered memory, and so much more.

TAGS: Cadbury; Snickers; Zagnut; New Zealand; attachment theory

Spoilers for Thelma and Louise and The Mill on the Floss

Take the candy bar interiors quiz here

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.8: Facing the Fracture

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 06:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Tania reads an excerpt from her forthcoming book and she and Dee discuss stress about politics, political parties, political polarization, Canadian politics, Mississippi politics, and dislike of talking about politics.

TAGS: Facing the Fracture: How to Navigate the Challenges of Living in a Divided Nation

Spoilers for the 2016 U.S. Presidential election

Find out more about Facing the Fracture, including a link to pre-order, here.

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.7: Ted Bundies I Have Known

Fri, 10 May 2024 07:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Dee reflects on the nature of good and evil and she and Tania discuss serial killers, Prince, and elementary-school musicals.

TAGS: serial killers; Serial; Undisclosed; S-Town; Civil War; Prince; Trader Joe’s; fava beans; Casebook of a Crime Psychiatrist; James Brussel; Malcolm Gladwell; Michael Hobbes; If Books Could Kill; Manichaeism; Buddhist causes and conditions; Sigmund Freud; “Mourning and Melancholia”; Purple Rain; “I Hate Emily Chase”; David Sedaris

Spoilers for Titanic and Under the Cherry Moon

Read the snarky Malcolm Gladwell essay about Tania’s grandpa here

Read the original essay about Emily Chase here

Read the David Sedaris essay about throwing his family under the bus here

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.6: Fairytale, Nonfiction

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 07:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Tania reads a love story, and we chat about limerence, COVID, FOMO, and keeping the spark alive.

Tags: Love and Limerence by Dorothy Tennov; Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel; The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker

Spoilers for “Modern Family”

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.5: I Always Think There's a Band

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 07:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Deanna talks—a lot—about the The Music Man, and then she and Tania discuss musicals, con artistry, repressed sexuality, billiards vs. pool, Gilbert & Sullivan, Ikea furniture, and so much more.

Tags: Meredith Willson, The Music Man, Pirates of Penzance, Lithuania, South Park

Spoilers for The Music Man, Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Deanna says she still can’t remember what drum solo her father recorded on his prize record, but there is some archival evidence that he performed “The Downfall of Paris” to great acclaim as a 14-year old.

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.4: Fragile

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 07:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Tania shares a story that might be a poem, and we chat about bisexual haiku (#biku), The Big Lebowski, men’s vulnerability, the challenges marginalized people have recognizing their own privilege, and patriarchy.

Tags: Eve Sedgwick; Santa Barbara Farmer’s Market; Battle of the Sexes

Spoilers for Forgetting Sarah Marshall

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.3: Trivia Pursuit

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Dee recalls* when she was the subject of a memory experiment, and we chat about trivia, game shows, Leonard Bernstein, feline song lyrics, and Tania’s crush on Alex Trebek. [*See what we did there?]

TAGS: Jeopardy!; What’s My Line

Spoilers for Episode #8004 of Jeopardy!

Link to Tania’s uncle’s appearance on What’s My Line?

Link to Rob’s appearance on Jeopardy!

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.2: Always the Bride

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 06:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Tania answers the age-old question, “Have you ever been married?” We talk about Jewish weddings, Vegas weddings, green card weddings, secret weddings, same-gender weddings, and David Sedaris.

TAGS: The Essential Guide to Lesbian and Gay Weddings; J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words

Spoilers for “The Office”

All about Mormon polygamous sects in British Columbia

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.1: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 07:00:00 -0600

Welcome to Season Two of Doctor Waffle & Friends! (We completely, totally, 100% planned this season break for exactly right now.)

In the first episode of the new season, Dee shares an essay about smoking, the South, and passive-aggression. Tania and Dee discuss Tania’s new book, extending grace to people we disagree with, getting back at people through writing, long Covid, Buddhism, the vagus nerve, gendered communication, and so much more! Dee confesses that she is not a very nice person.

TAGS: wine bars; cigarettes; Zen Buddhism

Spoilers for Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.10: For Agnes

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 06:00:00 -0500

It’s a podcast about a play about a soap opera! In this episode, we perform a memoir play Tania wrote about All My Children, and we discuss network TV, ancient technology, small communities, and so much more.

TAGS: All My Children; Lee Press-On Nails; soap operas; DVDs; Michael E. Knight; Sarah Michelle Gellar; "Soap Dish"; the actors and writers strike

Spoilers for All My Children, Jane the Virgin

Check out the All My Children family tree map here!

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.9: You Can't Always Get What You Want

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 07:00:00 -0500

In this episode, Dee tells a story about a homicidal camel that somehow ends up being about everything else—including Frankenstein, Chekhov, and hoagies—and we welcome our first guest!

Spoilers for Frankenstein.

Listen to Matt tell the camel story.

TAGS: Karl Jung; shadow self; camels; murder; Mexico; Coca-Cola; Amoroso Bread Company; Philadelphia; Jacques Derrida; Anton Chekhov; Colonel Sanders; Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; Google; monkeys

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.8: Irrational Fear of Spoilers

Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we explore Tania’s spoiler phobia and discuss the challenges of being related to a memoirist, PowerPoint pedagogy, etiquette, and—as usual—Taylor Swift.

Spoilers for the fact that a TV show exists, but only in the vaguest terms.

TAGS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer; the Marvel Comic Universe; Taylor Swift; Hamilton.

The David Sedaris essay Dee mentions, entitled “Repeat After Me.”

Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.7: Party Poop

Fri, 05 May 2023 07:00:00 -0500

Is everyone as neurotic as Deanna about throwing parties? Is anyone? In this episode Tania and Dee explore the philosophy of entertaining, generational etiquette differences, cartes de visite, karaoke, Buddhist ragers, and so much more.

Spoilers for Mrs Dalloway, War and Peace, and Anna Karenina.

TAGS: Parties; Gen X; Buddhism; karaoke; neuroticism

One of Dee’s favorite recipes for frozen (make-ahead) canapés

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.6: Birth of a Swiftie

Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:00:00 -0500

How does a middle-aged woman who has never heard a Taylor Swift song become a die-hard fan? In this episode, Tania recounts her transformation from Taylor novice to Swiftie. Also, Dee and Tania discuss their inability to write fiction, getting caught off guard by emotions, fan girling, their relationships with music, limerence, connections to podcasters, and of course, Taylor Swift.

Info on adolescent brain development

ETA: Matt, who makes a cameo in this episode, has confirmed Dee's suspicions about brain development and music, and recommends this book on the topic: This Is Your Brain on Music

Spoilers for Taylor Swift’s discography, Holy Swift podcast, Mama Mia! Here We Go Again, and middle age.

Apologies for the poor sound quality — Tania is still getting to know her microphone.

Tags: Taylor Swift; Holy Swift; The Office; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; LA Writers Lab

Listen to the podcast episode where Tania and Lama Yeshe analyze Taylor Swift’s song “Karma.”

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.5: I Hate Emily Chase

Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:00:00 -0600

Deanna avenges herself on her elementary school nemesis, we discuss the difference between “stories” and “essays,” and we conclude that theater geeks are better than jocks.

Listen to Dee sing the little-known intro to “Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” and thus demonstrate why she never aspired to be a musical theater star.

PLEASE NOTE: The name on the podcast title doesn't match the name used in the episode itself; Dee subsequently decided to change the perpetrator's name on all public posts to protect privacy.

Spoilers for The Wizard of Oz

TAGS: Glinda the Good Witch; Glee; Fame; A Chorus Line; B. F. Skinner; intermittent reinforcement; coal

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.4: Lost

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:05:00 -0600

In this episode, Tania reads a story, we talk about fear of nature, and once again invoke Michelle Obama’s memoir. [Spoilers for Gone With the Wind]

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.3: Take a Hike

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:04:00 -0600

In this episode Deanna disparages a variety of activities and recommends others, particularly walking, with certain caveats. [Major spoilers for Tess of the d'Urbervilles]

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.2: I Come From

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:03:00 -0600

In this episode, Tania reads a short memoir piece and introduces her suggestible muse; we talk about #Charlottesville, race relations, and Southerners; and we invoke memoirists Michelle Obama, Bruce Springsteen, and Trevor Noah. [Spoilers for Mad Men and Greek mythology]

Tania expresses her appreciation to Greg Prieto and Raquel Bernaldo for introducing her to the activity that inspired this piece.

Tina Fey's "Let Them Eat Cake" bit on Saturday Night Live is available here

CORRECTION: Tania’s book, Beyond Your Bubble, was published in 2020 (not 2000)

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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.1: Small Talk

Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:00:00 -0600

In this episode, Deanna reads an essay about making spontaneous conversation with total strangers and some rules for doing it successfully, with shout-outs to David Sedaris, Lindy West, and a skunk in a cup of sour cream. [Spoilers for Say Anything and Adam Bede]

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