Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

EP. 409: Scrabblology with Stefan Fatsis!

Nobody Listens to Paula Poundstone

Show Notes

You don’t think “scrabblology” is a word? Feel free to challenge us. Meanwhile, the stars have aligned in a high-scoring syzygy to allow “Word Freak” Stefan Fatsis to join us and talk about competitive Scrabble! Also, we’ve got a particularly awesome new batch of your Show Descriptions!

GUEST

Stefan Fatsis

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Joshua Raoul Brody

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