Dear Crinkle Episode 61: A neat freak, An MBA student made to feel stupid, and A kitty who might be a pity. Ep subtitle: A neat freak, An MBA student made to feel stupid, and A kitty who might be a pity.

Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and Toni Anita Hull as they offer advice on some of life’s most perplexing problems. This week: A neat freak, An MBA student made to feel stupid, and a kitty who might be a pity.   Need advice? We’d love to help improve your life. Email us @[email protected].  New episode every Thursday.   #dearcrinkle #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #ComedyAdvice #nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone #NLTPP #BonnieBurns #AdamFelber #Glassbox #adviceminisode #bonnieburnsproducer #bonnieburnsmanager #bestadviceinamerica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Another long-awaited guest-free episode! We play a new round of “Who Am I” and then delve into the scandal surrounding Bonnie and Toni’s recent Oral Report - it’s “Mailbag! #Scandoval Edition.” HOUSE BAND Tim Sway Happy 20th anniversary, Gwen! NewPerspectivesMusic.com SPONSORS Apply now at LiveKindred.com and use code PAULA to join for free & earn 5 nights of travel credit just for signing up. Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 20% Off Sitewide Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Save 20% on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at PrettyLitter.com/paula Eat smart at FactorMeals.com/paula50off and use code paula50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year Use code PAULA at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad Get 25% Off @CowboyColostrum with code PAULA at cowboycolostrum.com. #CowboyColostrumPod Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns! Get 35% off your entire order at ⁠⁠Lolablankets.com⁠⁠ by using code NOBODY at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone, and Adam Felber for America’s #1 comedy advice mini-sode and climbing the charts. This week’s problems: “Money makes me sick,” “My husband’s on his flat thing,” and an Update from ‘Overexposed.’ Got a problem? We’ve got an answer. Email us @[email protected]. We love to give advice. New episode every Thursday. #dearcrinkle #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #ComedyAdvice #nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone #NLTPP #BonnieBurns #AdamFelber #Glassbox #adviceminisode #bonnieburnsproducer #bonnieburnsmanager #bestadviceinamerica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now that we have a completely connected young generation… how come they’re so disconnected? Nicholas Carr, author of “Superbloom” is here to connect us to the truth. And then… we don’t have a strong name for this segment, but we definitely have strong opinions about the world’s most annoying ads! GUEST Nicholas Carr nicholascarr.com Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart HOUSE BAND Cory Springhorn SPONSORS Apply now at LiveKindred.com and use code PAULA to join for free & earn 5 nights of travel credit just for signing up. Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 20% Off Sitewide Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Save 20% on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at PrettyLitter.com/paula Eat smart at FactorMeals.com/paula50off and use code paula50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year Use code PAULA at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad Get 25% Off @CowboyColostrum with code PAULA at cowboycolostrum.com. #CowboyColostrumPod Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns! Get 35% off your entire order at ⁠⁠Lolablankets.com⁠⁠ by using code NOBODY at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber and Toni Anita Hull for America’s #1 comedy advice mini-sode and climbing the charts. This week we grapple with a ‘tight-fisted’ friend and an unsure employee. Got a problem? Email us @[email protected]. We’d love to help improve your life. New episode every Thursday.  #dearcrinkle #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #ComedyAdvice #nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone #NLTPP #BonnieBurns #AdamFelber #Glassbox #adviceminisode #bonnieburnsproducer #bonnieburnsmanager #bestadviceinamerica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yes, let’s give our kids talking AI toys to be their new best friends. What could possibly go wrong? Rachel Franz from FairPlay has an idea or two. And while we’re talking about dubiously conceived ideas, let’s do another “Life Hacks with Captain Crinkle!” GUEST Rachel Franz, MEd Early Childhood Advocacy Program Director Fairplay fairplayforkids.org HOUSE BAND Doctor I SPONSORS Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Save 20% on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at PrettyLitter.com/paula Eat smart at FactorMeals.com/paula50off and use code paula50off to get 50% off your first box, plus Free Breakfast for 1 Year Use code PAULA at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad Get 25% Off @CowboyColostrum with code PAULA at cowboycolostrum.com. #CowboyColostrumPod Apply now at LiveKindred.com and use code PAULA to join for free. Plus, you’ll earn 5 nights of travel credit just for signing up. Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns! Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 27% Off Sitewide Exclusive for listeners of Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone! Get 35% off your entire order at ⁠⁠Lolablankets.com⁠⁠ by using code NOBODY at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber and Toni Anita Hull for their unqualified advice on America’s #1 comedy advice mini-sode and climbing the charts. This week’s problems: “…he leaned over and a hideous odor emanated from his backside”; spending a birthday alone; and ideas for a $1,000 marriage proposal. In a quandary?  Email us @[email protected]. We’d love to help improve your life. New episodes drop every Thursday.  #dearcrinkle #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #ComedyAdvice #nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone #NLTPP #BonnieBurns #AdamFelber #Glassbox #adviceminisode #bonnieburnsproducer #bonnieburnsmanager #bestadviceinamerica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oh say can you see? If you can”t, Susan Armstrong from Guide Dogs for the Blind can help! Does Paula’s dog have what it takes? (No.) And then, a very Toni “Bonnie and Toni’s Oral Report” on “Scandoval!” GUEST Susan Armstrong Vice President of Client Programs Guide Dogs for the Blind guidedogs.com HOUSE BAND Kristen LeJeune kristenviolin.com SPONSORS Use code PAULA at jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Cool Gloss with your first purchase! #JonesRoadBeauty #ad Get 25% Off @CowboyColostrum with code PAULA at cowboycolostrum.com. #CowboyColostrumPod Apply now at LiveKindred.com and use code PAULA to join for free. Plus, you’ll earn 5 nights of travel credit just for signing up. Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns! Right now save twenty percent on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at PrettyLitter.com/paula Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 27% Off Sitewide Exclusive for listeners of Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone! Use code paula50off at FactorMeals.com for 50% off your first box, plus Free BREAKFAST for 1 Year! Get 35% off your entire order at ⁠⁠Lolablankets.com⁠⁠ by using code NOBODY at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone and Adam Felber for advice from a totally unqualified group of advice-givers.  This week: Crinkle opens her Mailbag on America’s #1 comedy advice minisode and climbing the charts.  In a quandary?  Perplexed, Puzzled or Perpendicular? Email us @[email protected].  We’d love to help improve your life. New episode every Thursday.   #dearcrinkle #PaulaPoundstone #CaptainCrinkle #ComedyPodcast #ComedyAdvice #nobodylistenstopaulapoundstone #NLTPP #BonnieBurns #AdamFelber #Glassbox #adviceminisode #bonnieburnsproducer #bonnieburnsmanager #bestadviceinamerica. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s no secret that we work for peanuts. But this week we’re talking to a guy who actually works for Peanuts - Benjamin Clark, curator at the Charles M. Schulz Museum! And then, you tell us who we really are - more Show Descriptions! GUEST Benjamin L. Clark  Curator of the Charles M Schulz Museum and Research Center  schulzmuseum.org. This year marks 75 years since Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip debuted on October 2, 1950. The Schulz Museum is celebrating this milestone with a deep dive into what makes Peanuts so timeless—Charles Schulz’s humor. The exhibition, HA! HA! HA! HA! 75 Years of Humor in Peanuts opens on September 20 and is on view through March 18, 2026.  More on Benjamin and his book at: benjaminlclark.com HOUSE BAND Steve Solomon PianoBySteven.com SPONSORS Get 25% Off @CowboyColostrum with code PAULA at cowboycolostrum.com. #CowboyColostrumPod Apply now at LiveKindred.com and use code PAULA to join for free. Plus, you’ll earn 5 nights of travel credit just for signing up. Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to honeylove.com/PAULA! #honeylovepod Go to Quince.com/nobody for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns! Right now save twenty percent on your FIRST order and get a free cat toy at PrettyLitter.com/paula Go to helixsleep.com/paula for 27% Off Sitewide Exclusive for listeners of Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone! Use code paula50off at FactorMeals.com for 50% off your first box, plus Free BREAKFAST for 1 Year! Get 35% off your entire order at ⁠⁠Lolablankets.com⁠⁠ by using code NOBODY at checkout. Experience the world’s #1 blanket with Lola Blankets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices