Let's up everyone, welcome to the 284th episode of the Pokemon Podcast, it's super effective.

I'm your host, S.B.J. and Will is here.

It's now October and I have numerous spooky topics that I would like to cover as part of this week's program. Thank you.

Did you update your Twitter name to being something spooky or people still doing that?

I haven't figured that out yet, but you're going to do something like vampire again, aren't you?

It's really easy for me to just do Steve Blackula.

Yeah, but you've done that so many years in a row. Let's be a little more creative this year, please.

All the way from somewhere in Europe, we have Al.

Somewhere in Europe.

Yes, and I have a new microphone, so you should hear my dulcet tones in a much better late.

I'm soaking them in. Do they celebrate Halloween in your country?

Well, we've kind of taken it away from America.

I'm not a massive fan of it, but it does exist.

Okay. People dress up and then the trick of treating happens and all that.

So in Scotland, we used to do a guising rather than trick of treating, which is a similar sort of thing,

but there's no negative connotations of if you don't give me sweets, then you're going to get a treat,

the trick. It's just, you know, nobody in this country does that anyways, so that's all a force.

A force. A force.

But what? No, because people like typical Americans, they decided, oh, we're going to do hell night instead.

And so the night before Halloween, they go out and they wreck everything and then the whole trick

part of trick or treat is gone. What? What? This doesn't happen where I live.

You've never heard of hell night? I've heard. I've heard of it very like maybe in passing, but

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