Dr. Waffle & Friends

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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Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com

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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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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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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.”

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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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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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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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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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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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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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