Dr. Waffle & Friends

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” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCIJOfo6Mg] The Cliff Thomas Trio page [https://sunrecords.com/artists/cliff-thomas/] at Sun Records Mary Miller’s website [http://www.maryumiller.net/] Mary’s story “Outage” [https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-114-fall-2021/outage] in the Oxford American Cool review of Mary’s work [https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/post-south-world-mary-miller/] in the LA Review of Books The entry on Mary Miller [https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/miller-mary] in the Mississippi Encyclopedia! Fat Possum Records [https://fatpossum.com/] Tom Lake [https://bookshop.org/p/books/tom-lake-ann-patchett/19520433], Ann Patchett’s most recent novel Melissa Ginsburg’s Doll Apollo [https://mail.lsupress.org/books/detail/doll-apollo/] 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, X, and Facebook EMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.com [DrWafflePod@gmail.com] PODCAST WEBSITE [https://doctorwaffle.buzzsprout.com/2418502/] Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com [http://doctorwaffle.substack.com/]

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 [https://www.coasttocoast.co.nz/] Dee’s essay about her mother-in-law’s letters [https://doctorwaffle.substack.com/p/we-briefly-interrupt-our-obsessing] 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, X, and Facebook EMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.com [DrWafflePod@gmail.com] PODCAST WEBSITE [https://doctorwaffle.buzzsprout.com/2418502/] Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com [http://doctorwaffle.substack.com/]

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 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 EMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.com [DrWafflePod@gmail.com] PODCAST WEBSITE [https://doctorwaffle.buzzsprout.com/2418502/] Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com [http://doctorwaffle.substack.com/] Cannon can be reached at cannon.schmitt@gmail.com [cannon.schmitt@gmail.com]

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 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 EMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.com [DrWafflePod@gmail.com] PODCAST WEBSITE [https://doctorwaffle.buzzsprout.com/2418502/] Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com [http://doctorwaffle.substack.com/]

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 [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-haunted-states-of-america-more/20252322], 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 [https://slipperyelm.findlay.edu/buy-a-copy/] Read about Daniel the Emotional Support Duck [https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/10/23/emotional-support-duck-goes-viral-after-plane-ride/92627924/] Deanna’s essay [https://doctorwaffle.substack.com/p/there-is-no-small-talk-only-small] in which she chats with her postal carrier The Dickens Universe [https://dickens.ucsc.edu/universe/index.html] Dan Blank’s Substack, The Creative Shift [https://danblank.substack.com/] 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 EMAIL us at DrWafflePod@gmail.com [DrWafflePod@gmail.com] PODCAST WEBSITE [https://doctorwaffle.buzzsprout.com/2418502/] Read DEANNA’S ESSAYS at doctorwaffle.substack.com [http://doctorwaffle.substack.com/] Check out Melissa’s website [https://melissa-cole-author.squarespace.com/] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/melissacoleiswriting/]