Are you in a quandary? Do you have a problem you just can’t figure out? Need advice from a group of completely unqualified advice givers? Join Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns (aka Captain Crinkle), along with Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and Toni Anita Hull, for Dear Crinkle—America’s #1 comedy advice minisode, and climbing the charts. This week: A beloved husband who could wake the dead, Three generations of men who cheated on their wives, and House sellers with no home training. Ema...
Jul 10, 2025•30 min•Ep. 47
Crypto expert Molly White is back to explore the pitfalls and peril of the crypto economy, with a special focus on the machinations of our Grifter-in-Chief. And if that’s enough to make you want to get away, have you considered… “bikepacking?” You may -or may not - after you hear “Bonnie and Toni’s Oral Report!” GUEST Molly White mollywhite.net HOUSE BAND Nathan Sharplin SPONSORS Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/[PAULA]! #honeylovepod Go to Dupe.com today and find similar product...
Jul 08, 2025•1 hr 47 min•Ep. 365
Join Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week we tackle some of life’s most pressing problems. Should a shy teenager speak up? Shaking-awakey a 30-year-old neurodivergent daughter? and tell that bossy neighbor to #%*!-off. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. We’re here to help. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #AdviceShow #Bonnie Burns #Adam Felber #Nobodylistenstopa...
Jul 03, 2025•32 min•Ep. 46
California Hamster Association President John Jacobson returns - but to discuss the golden age of Hollywood! For some reason. And then, brace yourself for tragedy- it’s “Paula Poundstone’s Childhood Trauma!” GUEST “John Jacobson” HOUSE BAND Justin Berkobien SPONSORS Go to Dupe.com today and find similar products for less. It’s 100% free to use. Stop wasting money on brand names and start saving with Dupe.com today. Get started at factormeals.com/paula50off and use code paula50off to get 50 perce...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 45 min•Ep. 364
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week we give some good advice to a perplexed neighbor, a scam victim, and a would-be hermit. Stuck in a rut? We’ve got the hut. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #AdviceShow#Bonnie Burns #Adam Felber #Nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 26, 2025•40 min•Ep. 45
Now that we’re all struggling to stay above water, let’s visit the city that has done it in style for a thousand years! Professor James McGregor helps us navigate. And then we help YOU navigate your existence - it’s “Life Hacks with Captain Crinkle!” GUEST James McGregor Venice from the Ground Up jameshmcgregor.com HOUSE BAND Logan Moss SPONSORS Right now save twenty percent on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at prettylitter.com/paula! Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [PAULA] at https...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 363
Join Captain Crinkle (Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns), Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week’s potpourri of problems includes a divorced mother whose sons haven’t talked to her in three years, a senior executive who can’t crack the boys club, and in-laws who don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom. You’ve got problems, we’ve got answers. We’d love to help improve your life. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrink...
Jun 19, 2025•28 min•Ep. 44
Break out the brooms! It’s time to learn all about the ever-growing sport of curling, that winter Olympic standout that seems to combine bowling, bocce, and giant heavy rocks! Dean Gemmell, CEO of USA Curling, is here to cast the first stone. And then - you’ve reviewed us, and how exactly are we supposed to feel about that? It’s our “Review of Reviews!” GUEST Dean Gemmell usacurling.org HOUSE BAND Kimberly Ludwikowski SPONSORS Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [PAULA] at https://www.oneskin.co/ ...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 41 min•Ep. 362
Join Captain Crinkle (Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns), Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week: Should I beat my four-year-old at Tic Tac Do, Slobs at a buffet, and Crinkle makes a mistake about homework. You be the Judge. Are we right or are we wrong. Send us your problems. We’d love to help improve your life. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. Read you then. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #AdviceShow Learn more about your ad choi...
Jun 12, 2025•32 min•Ep. 43
No guests, no Toni, no Julie… just unsupervised and unfiltered Paula, Bonnie, and Adam. Yikes! We’ve got Mailbag: Trio Edition. And one of the least-plant-friendly-ever editions of “Garden Time with Captain Crinkle!” HOUSE BAND Kristen LeJeune SPONSORS Get 15% off OneSkin with the code [PAULA] at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Save 20% off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 20% off sitewide! Get started at factormeals.com/paula50off and u...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 361
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week, another special edition, featuring a guy who built his own boat, a student afraid to drive, and a mistaken delivery of Viagra. Don’t be stuck without help, email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com for Capt. Crinkle’s sage advice + Adam and Paula’s. “Here here,” don’t be “There there.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Jun 05, 2025•22 min
How do you know if you’re in a cult? Give us your money and come work for us and we’ll tell you! Or just listen to our chat with author Jane Borden. And then, the return of what you seem to think is your favorite game: Password! GUEST Jane Borden janeborden.com Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America HOUSE BAND Scott Blankenbaker SPONSORS Save 20% off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 20% off sitewide! Get started at factormeals.c...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 360
They’ve got problems, we’ve got answers! Join Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns (Captain Crinkle), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber and former Pod producer Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week, we tackle more of life’s engaging problems on America’s #1 advice show and climbing the charts. Send us your problems. We’d love to help improve your life. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. Read you then. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #AdviceShow Learn more a...
May 29, 2025•29 min•Ep. 41
Want to feel less powerless in determining the fate of our republic? So does Paula, and Ezra Levin, the co-founder of Indivisble.org is here to help. And if we can’t save our nation, should we move to… Portugal? Find out on “Bonnie and Toni’s Oral Report.” GUEST Ezra Levin Co-Executive Director at INDIVISIBLE linktr.ee/indivisibleteam @indivisibleteam HOUSE BAND Alison Lewis SPONSORS Head to helixsleep.com/paula now to shop the Helix Memorial Day Sale: you’ll get a huge 27% off sitewide, plus ...
May 27, 2025•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 359
Join Paula’s Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns, aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber and Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week, in a special edition, “We’ve Got Problems.” Well, not us, but you. Email us @dearcrinkle@gmail.com. You’ve got problems, we’ve got answers. We’d love to help improve your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
May 22, 2025•31 min•Ep. 40
Okay, let’s say Paula wants to keep entertaining people, but at a distance. Could she make it as a cartoonist? “New Yorker” cartoonist and author Tom Toro is here to sketch out that scenario. And then we confuse you (and ourselves) with the return of the Poundstone Riddle Invitational! GUEST Tom Toro tomtoro.com Crocodiles Need Friends Too HOUSE BAND Julene Yanez SPONSORS Head to helixsleep.com/paula now to shop the Helix Memorial Day Sale: you’ll get a huge 27% off sitewide, plus a FREE Bedding...
May 20, 2025•1 hr 40 min•Ep. 358
Join Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns (Captain Crinkle), Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week: Should I tell my staff that I’m in a relationship with the boss? A downer at parties, and Seriously? Do I stay on this merry-go-round? You be the Judge. Are we right or are we wrong. Send us your problems if you are looking for advice. We’d love to help improve your life. Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. Read you then. #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle ...
May 15, 2025•33 min
Our latest guest-free episode features a new game. Well, a new version of a very old game - “What’s My Line?” And once we know who we are, we need to decide what we stand for - it’s “Paula Poundstone’s Ethicspalooza!” HOUSE BAND Mark Rimple markrimple.com SPONSORS Head to helixsleep.com/paula now to shop the Helix Memorial Day Sale: you’ll get a huge 27% off sitewide, plus a FREE Bedding Bundle—that’s a Sheet Set and Mattress Protector—when you order any Luxe or Elite mattress. This episode is s...
May 13, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 357
Join Paula Poundstone’s manager, Bonnie Burns (Captain Crinkle), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and former pod producer Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week: A substitute teacher at their wits end, One foot in and one foot out the door at work, and What’s an old whiteguy to do with himself? Send us your questions, we’ll give you the answers. dearcrinkle@gmail.com. We love to give advice. Ask and you shall receive. Be there or be square. One of your eyes are both the same,...
May 08, 2025•25 min•Ep. 38
It’s time to reevaluate Paula’s career. If she can’t achieve her LA plans, can she plan LA? Actual City Planner Deborah Kahen is here to pave the way. And then - you’re talking about us, and we hear you. It’s Mailbag! Podcast Edition. GUEST Deborah Kahen planning.lacity.gov HOUSE BAND Chris Erickson SPONSORS Start the new year off right with Honeylove. Get 20% OFF by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Get 15% off OneSkin with the code PAULA at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Go to q...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 356
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns, aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week’s dilemmas: “My husband of 20 years won’t even bring me a fork,” “I’m in love with my best friend,” and “Ah, well, good friends with terrible body odor.” If you’re looking for our discernment regarding social situations, dilemmas and conundrums email us @dearcrinkle@gmail.com. Become part of the show. We want to help improve your life. Learn more about your ad ch...
May 01, 2025•32 min•Ep. 37
Our favorite guest returns, this time to fill us in on which big cats will kill you outright, which will drag you up a tree, and which you can possibly walk on a leash down Hollywood Boulevard (note: don’t do that!). And then we set sail for more parts unknown- it’s the return of “Land Ho! with Toni Anita Hull.” GUEST Dr. Eleanor Spicer-Rice spicerrice.com/books HOUSE BAND Eric Wolff SPONSORS Go to quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five-day returns. Go...
Apr 29, 2025•1 hr 32 min•Ep. 355
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns, aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week, in a special edition, Crinkle and the gang tackle some of life’s most perplexing problems. Become part of the show. Email your questions, tips, and updates to Dear Crinkle@gmail.com. Take our advice, please. We want to help improve your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 24, 2025•32 min•Ep. 36
Paula has booked a guest for this week, but she won’t tell us who it is! Come for the mystery… and then stay for Your Most Embarrassing Moments. It’s a loaded show! Or so she tells us… GUEST ??? HOUSE BAND Jean Mann jeanmann.net SPONSORS Go to HelixSleep.com/paula for 20% Off Sitewide! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 22, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Ep. 354
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns, aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and former pod producer Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week, in a special edition, Crinkle and the gang tackle some of life’s most vexing problems. Need advice? Email us at dearcrinkle@gmail.com. Become part of the show. We want to help improve your life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 17, 2025•25 min•Ep. 35
Shannah Game returns, and she’s here to help us improve our relationship with money. Turns out there are a few simple rules, and oddly, Rule #1 ISN’T “Get a million dollars.” And speaking of a million bucks, that’s what your garden will look like after you take Bonnie’s sage advice; it’s a new “Garden Time with Captain Crinkle.” GUEST Shannah Game CFP®, MBA Host of Everyone’s Talkin’ Money podcast Named a NY Times Top 4 Money podcast 24+ million downloads www.everyonestalkinmoney.com Unraveling ...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 353
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and former pod producer Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. This week we tackle being embarrassed at work with your superiors, How to get your house-mates to honor their screen-time commitments, and how to get your partner of twelve years to put the toilet seat down. Plus, Crinkle gets popped and Liquid Death (and, no, this isn’t a plug). Become part of the show. You’ve got questions? We’ve got ...
Apr 10, 2025•32 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Yes, raw milk SEEMS like a regressive, terrible idea, but IS it? Um… yes. And we’ve got expert Madeleine Aggeler here to tell us why. And then, it’s not just the milk that’s spoiled; we are too. By YOU, our honest listeners… as we dig into Mailbag: Truth Edition! GUEST Madeleine Aggeler theguardian.com @mmaggeler HOUSE BAND Lisa Hirayama SPONSORS This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/PAULA and get on your way to being your best self. Learn more abou...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 352
Join Paula’s manager, Bonnie Burns aka Captain Crinkle, Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and former pod producer Toni Anita Hull for Captain Crinkle’s sage advice. On this special edition of Dear Crinkle, we tackle work-related problems: “If he pouts, should I shout?” “My manager won’t help me,” and “To bike or not to bike?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Apr 03, 2025•28 min•Season 1Ep. 33
While the guests are away, the fam will play… two of our favorites! A brisk round of Password followed by some pleasant moral wrangling - it’s the long-awaited return of Paula Poundstone’s Ethicspalooza. HOUSE BAND Tim Crump https://m.soundcloud.com/tim-c-832653476 SPONSORS Start the new year off right with Honeylove. Get 20% OFF by going to honeylove.com/PAULA ! #honeylovepod Visit myalloy.com/PAULA today for $20 off your first order! #AgeGracefully Eat smart with Factor. Get started at FACTOR ...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 351
