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Talking Smack and Playing Cards: World Series of Spades Debuts in Philly

Comedian Clint Coley launches the second season of his World Series of Spades with a watch party at Brooklyn Bowl Philly in Fishtown.
Emma Lee
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WHYY
Comedian Clint Coley launches the second season of his World Series of Spades with a watch party at Brooklyn Bowl Philly in Fishtown.

The World Series of Spades debuted in Philadelphia last week. A championship tournament of the card game is streaming online as a seven-episode elimination competition. WHYY's Peter Crimmins reports Philadelphia hosted the opening watch party.

(Original air-date: 12/10/21)

WHYY’s arts and culture reporter Peter Crimmins first became interested in radio in the fourth grade, when he smuggled a contraband crystal-diode radio into the Boy Scout summer camp. Subsequent radio projects were more successful.