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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.

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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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A fresh episode of the Dr. Waffle & Friends podcast is now available!

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!

Dr. Waffle & Friends is now hosted on Buzzsprout, and you can access this episode directly at this link. Enjoy!

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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A fresh episode of the Dr. Waffle & Friends podcast is now available!

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!

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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 cannon.schmitt@gmail.com

A new episode of the Dr. Waffle & Friends podcast is now available!

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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Welcome to a new episode of Dr. Waffle & Friends! Doctor Waffle welcomes her first guest writer, Melissa Cole, who reads an essay about a long-ago essay she wrote for Newsweek and the fallout that ensued. Our conversation ranges over topics like female bodily autonomy, the right to privacy, the public personas of writers, and those SRA boxes in the back of your middle-school classroom — shout-out to all the Gen Xers who know exactly what I’m talking about.

This episode also marks our shift over to the Buzzsprout podcast hosting platform. Those of you who subscribe through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or other third-party platforms should not notice any difference (please let me know if you do). Those who listen directly on Substack will have to go to a different site — but don’t worry! I will send an announcement like this for each new episode with an embedded link for you to follow.

Here is the link to Episode 3.2.

Happy listening! And please remember to rate, review, subscribe, and share if you like what you’ve heard. (If you don't like it, we appreciate your discreet silence. 😜)

Excelsior,
Doctor Waffle

Welcome to Season Three of Dr. Waffle & Friends! With this episode we dry a tear over Tania’s departure, and launch our new recipe—now with 50% More Friends! To get things started, Dee has enlisted her dear friend Trish to listen to an essay about Jesus Christ Superstar, after which they spend a bunch of time talking about … Hamilton and Les Misérables! Oh well—at least they’re all pretty damn good musicals. In fact—are they actually all the same musical? You’ll have to listen to the episode to find out!

As many of you are doutbless aware, this is the last episode of the Dr. Waffle & Friends podcast that Tania and Dee will be doing together. Tania is off on an exciting round of new projects! (You’ll have to listen to the episode for more info.)

The Dr. Waffle podcast will live on, however, with a brand-new format — now with 50% more Friends! Stay tuned for piping-hot, fresh and crispy episodes starting next month.

Love,
Dee (& Tania)

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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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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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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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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