Micro Wave: "Once In A Blue Moon" Is Happening Again This Halloween

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

This year, there will be a "blue moon" for Halloween. So for today's show, we're asking: What IS a blue moon? Is the moon ever blue? And are they as rare as the phrase "once in a blue moon" implies?

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:07.0	Maddie Sifai here with one of our producers, Rebecca Rumirez.
0:14.0	What's up Rumirez?
0:15.0	You know, just contemplating the meme.
0:18.0	Is this because you read that Twilight book as an adult?
0:21.0	Listen, no pleasure should be a guilty pleasure.
0:25.0	There should be no shaming of pleasures.
0:29.0	That's true. That's true. So why are we talking moons?
0:31.0	Well, I mean, there's a blue moon happening this weekend.
0:34.0	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:35.0	Just in time for Halloween.
0:37.0	Exactly. And so, I thought what better way to get into the Halloween spirit than to ask questions about the celestial body responsible for werewolves?
0:47.0	And creepy shadows?
0:49.0	Maybe vampires? I don't know about that one.
0:53.0	Do they have a tie to the moon? Who can say?
0:55.0	But they're Halloweeny.
0:57.0	So today in the show, we're asking, what is a blue moon?
1:02.0	Is the moon ever blue?
1:04.0	And are they even as rare as the phrase once in a blue moon implies?
1:08.0	I'm Rebecca Rumirez.
1:09.0	And I'm Maddie Sifai.
1:11.0	This is shortwave from NPR.
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