19 episodes
Dr. Waffle & Friends Sourdough Media
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5.0 • 10 Ratings
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An essayist and a memoirist walk into a podcast. Poignant hilarity, and some chat about the writing process, ensues.
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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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PODCAST WEBSITE
Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com
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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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PODCAST WEBSITE
Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com
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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 Eleanor Hunt 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
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.6: Fairytale, Nonfiction
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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Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com
Check out TANIA’S MANY ACTIVITIES at taniaisrael.com
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.5: I Always Think There's a Band
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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PODCAST WEBSITE
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 -
Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.4: Fragile
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
Thanks for listening! If you liked what you heard, please rate, review, subscribe, and share so more folks can find us.
FOLLOW us @drwafflepod on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook
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PODCAST WEBSITE
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
Customer Reviews
Conversations with friends
This podcast is brilliant and funny and moving in each episode. The hosts, Deanna and Tania, share their writing and then a conversational deep dive into the writing process, the roots of the writing, and its ripples out into the world. Not only do you get useful and interesting insights into writing, you get to feel like you’re participating in a conversation with friends that makes you wittier and more thoughtful yourself!
Lovely, Witty Musings About Musings
What could be better than a hilarious personal essay? A hilarious personal essay read aloud by the person who wrote it, of course. But, wait! It gets even better. How about listening to that person discuss the even more personal writing of the personal essay. This is a conversation you want to listen in on. Quick and witty and irresistible.
Love it!
It's like eavesdropping on a friendship between two smart, witty, candid women.
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