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New podcast for Rachel Parris and Marcus Brigstocke - Reviewing their everyday lives

Adrienne Raphel’s obsession with words and wordplay started early. “I’ve always been a word game person ever since I was little,” she said in a phone interview. And she was competitive, too. Frustrated that she couldn’t beat her family at Boogle, she took what her family called a “quantum leap” forward with the help of an online version of the game. “I went from having to be handicapped to having to give the rest of my family a handicap in like two because I blitzed my way throu...