AMT390: Giant Pumpkins, Playing Dead, and Sweet Fanny Adams

Pop in your prosthetic fangs, spritz yourself with fake blood and turn off all the lights except for that annoying one that flickers - it's the Answer Me This Halloween Special! Featuring SCARY plays, GIANT gourds, MONSTER Mash, and SEXY Martin the Sound Man costumes if such things are possible, you have this month to prove it.

Find out more about this episode at answermethispodcast.com/episode390. CW: suicide, child murder, death.

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Hear our other work: Helen Zaltzman's podcasts The Allusionist at theallusionist.org and Veronica Mars Investigations at VMIpod.com; Olly Mann's five podcasts including The Modern Mann, The Week Unwrapped, and Four Thought at ollymann.com; and Martin Austwick's music at palebirdmusic.com, his Tom Waits podcast Song By Song at songbysongpodcast.com, and his new music'n'science podcast Maddie's Sound Explorers, hosted by Maddie Moate, at smarturl.it/soundexplorers.

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