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Astronomy Cast Episode 237 from Monday, October 31, 2011.

Spooky Space Sounds

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos, where you help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaye, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Everett's Film.

Hi Pamela, happy Halloween.

Happy Halloween, how are you doing today?

You're doing really good.

We're going to go and do a whole pile of trick-or-treating tonight, but I'm imagining in the future, although we're actually not recording this on Halloween, but getting to get into the setting.

But yeah, our kids are at that age now, where Halloween is a competitive sport.

That is awesome.

I love it.

It's all about speed and endurance and starting time, and yeah.

That is very cool.

I live in a small town, and we actually do a town Halloween parade, where it's a bunch of basically take someone's old hay trailer and build a float on top of it and pull it down the street with a tractor, pick up truck.

And it's really endearing, and they throw candy at the kids.

Not to the kids, at the kids.

Well, Halloween is a big deal then.

Oh yeah, totally.

We actually have a neighborhood email list to get competitive on who gave away more treats.

That's awesome.

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