Dr. Waffle & Friends

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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com

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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

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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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Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com

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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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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 Eleanor Hunt here

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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