Dear Crinkle Episode 63: My mother-in-law doesn’t like me, Special education teacher quit or suffer, Updates for the ‘open drawer caper.’

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Lipstick Nancy, Inc. & Glassbox Media

Comedy

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Join Captain Crinkle (Bonnie Burns - Paula Poundstone’s manager), Paula Poundstone, Adam Felber, and Toni Anita Hull on America’s #1 comedy advice mini-sode and climbing the charts. This week’s problems: Holiday gift for a judgmental mother-in-law, Should a special education teacher quit or suffer, and Updates for "the open drawer caper". Need advice? 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

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0:00.0	Here we are again on our little show.
0:09.3	What the hell do we know?
0:14.0	On dear crinkle, would you be so kind to answer our questions?
0:20.6	What do you have in mind?
0:23.3	Tonight on Dear Crinkle.
0:30.0	Another special edition, Problems, featuring my mother-in-law doesn't like me.
0:36.6	Do I quit or suffer an updates for the open drawer and cabinet caper.
0:45.6	All right. I'm Adam Feldberg. You're getting an episode of Dear Crinkle, America's new favorite advice minisode.
0:51.1	We've got Paula Poundstone. And we've got the woman of the hour. Tony
0:55.0	Nita Hall is on assignment. Bonnie Burns, Paula's manager, our friend Captain Crinkle is here,
1:00.0	poised, hawk-like to answer your questions. Yo, everybody, you know, we got a really, really,
1:06.4	really big show tonight, so I'm going to throw it right over to Paula for our first problem.
1:12.4	Hi, Dr. Kringle and friends. My husband and I have been married for over 11 years. My mother-in-law
1:18.7	still does not like me. At this point, we have pretty much given up any hope of her accepting me
1:25.1	with my tattoos and nose ring and woke liberal ideas,
1:29.2	but she gets so offended if we forget birthdays or holidays.
1:33.6	Anyway, what should we get her for Christmas?
1:36.8	Amount of ideas.
1:38.2	She believes gift cards are too insensitive, but I don't know what else to get her.
1:43.3	Hoping for help from a humbug, Amy.
1:46.6	Huh.
1:47.5	Amy, you know, maybe you could like make her a tin of cookies.
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