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This Is Halloween
36 minutes Posted Oct 29, 2015 at 11:28 am.
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A guide on avoiding problematic costumes, a map of most popular candy by state, and a Goosebumps / Fear Street quiz!

https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/www.kqed.org/.stream/mp3splice/radio/thecooler/2015/10/TheCoolerEpisode8.mp3

This week, we’re celebrating Halloween with only the spookiest topics, starting with a convo about how those inappropriate costumes you see all over the Internet are nothing more than a marketing ploy:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-22/the-people-behind-sexy-pizza-rat-know-you-won-t-buy-their-costume

We’re also figuring out where in the USA we should live based on our favorite candy:

http://www.businessinsider.com/favorite-halloween-candy-by-state-2015-10

We’re talking about the first movie that scarred us as children:

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We test our teen horror knowledge with a Goosebumps / Fear Street quiz:

http://ww2.kqed.org/pop/2015/10/29/quiz-match-the-goosebumps-fear-street-title-with-its-teaser/

And we celebrate director Henry Selick’s admission that The Nightmare Before Christmas is, in fact, a Halloween film, not a Christmas one, by riding out to “This Is Halloween:”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpvdAJYvofI

Until next week!

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