Dr. Waffle & Friends

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A personal essay followed by a chat. New guest writers and friends each episode!

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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.

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June 06, 2025 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.2: Dear McSweeney's (My Uncle Did Not Write "Stagger Lee")
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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
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May 02, 2025 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.4.1: New Zealand Is Trying to Kill Me
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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January 03, 2025 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.4: Religion
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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Cannon can be reached at [email protected]
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58min
December 06, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.3: A Good Guy Is Hard to Find
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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56min
November 01, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.2: I Saw You Coming, Justice Safe Haven
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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Check out Melissa’s website and Instagram
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53min
September 13, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.3.1: Who In the World Do You Think You Are?
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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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doctorwaffle.substack.com
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August 16, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.10: Ready to Be Strong
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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES attaniaisrael.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doctorwaffle.substack.com
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54min
July 12, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.9: Sweet Truth
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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doctorwaffle.substack.com
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51min
June 14, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.8: Facing the Fracture
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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doctorwaffle.substack.com
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May 10, 2024 Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.7: Ted Bundies I Have Known
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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PODCAST WEBSITE
Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES attaniaisrael.com

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit doctorwaffle.substack.com
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FAQs about Dr. Waffle & Friends:

How many episodes does Dr. Waffle & Friends have?

The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.