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Dear Crinkle Episode 39: Fooling around with the Boss, Desperate Widow, Husband with a personality problem. May 15, 2025

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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.

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Ep 357: Games People (Barely Know How To) Play May 13, 2025

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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!”

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Dear Crinkle 38: Slinging the slang, An Old White guy, and Biding time at Work. May 08, 2025

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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, aren’t you glad you’re sorry.

Listen now wherever you get your pods!

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Ep 356 - Career Corner with City Planner Deborah Kahen May 06, 2025

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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

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Crinkle Ep 37: Stuck in a rut, Not a medium Medium and Smells bad. May 01, 2025

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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.

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Ep 355 - Dr. Eleanor Spicer Rice and the Deadliest Big Cats Apr 29, 2025

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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.”

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Dr. Eleanor Spicer-Rice

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Crinkle Ep 36:SPECIAL EDITION: Should I Stay or Should I Go ft. Unbuckling pants, Bad kissers, and Eye rolling. Apr 24, 2025

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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.

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Ep 354 - The Mystery Guest Apr 22, 2025

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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…

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???

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Crinkle Ep 35: SPECIAL EDITION: Bad Stuff that Happens, ft. Menopause, Dealing with grief and Parents or a dog. Apr 17, 2025

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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.

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Ep 353 - Mo’ Money, Less Problems with Shannah Game Apr 15, 2025

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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

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Unraveling Your Relationship with Money: Ditch Your Money Trauma So You Can Live an Abundant Life

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