by maybe 2025 that's when the next gen happens They'll be ready to go Yeah, that's that's basically what they did with let's go because it came out a year before Sort of shield did so I could see that So basically i'm not crazy One of my favorite pokemon releases in the last 20 years Might be getting a sequel this year No next year. Well, I will say um, I've been I've been covered I've been covering this on my own channel, but in scarlet and violet There is a ton of stuff that has to do with jodo For seemingly no reason whatsoever And jodo is the region now that we've had the senor remakes That we have not seen in the longest amount of time So I actually whether it is let's go or I would prefer legend a legends game Oh my god, I think we're I think A jodo revisa of some kind Could could happen like there could be it could be like a stopgap title that we can see or something like that I swear if legends never gets a sequel I am I'm gonna I might rage quit pokemon even though I really enjoy relic violet like seriously Legends would be so cool because I mean one thing we have what is that that's suicune Paradox pokemon right like there's that Like I could see them like like legends hoho feels like Or I mean you could say luigi, but I don't know something about hoho kind of fits You know, you know what it is is that where hoho is is a what the What's the tower called the tin tower? Is it the brat? I think it's the There's two different towers either the bell or the brass tower one of those Yeah, but it's a tower that burns down in that town They have like a very like old. I mean all of jodo has a very Old kind of feel to it like in a good way and especially that town You know what you have like them The dancer girls in the house not too far off and and there's a different like eeve evolutions And then there's this history of the burning tower and then those so was was it a theory? Or is it a part of the lore? I'm not sure that those eevees became like the The dogs So the the the part that it was eevees is a theory But the the lore is that there was pokemon in the tower that got that basically died in the fire And they got And what would be cool is that like what if they have like a legends like Like an older version of what those pokemon would be like maybe they aren't eevees But there's something similar that would be like a predecessor to the ryko ante and suikun Like that would be so cool. I'd be all about yeah That would be that's like my one of my dream games now for sure. I think I honestly have no idea like If they will continue it or not because they're just so hard to predict with that kind of stuff But they would be so dumb not to at least one more because that game is literally what like restored the faith in a lot of people's minds in pokemon and like Kind of gave them a rebirth because they were kind of struggling after what happened with sword and shield and like people were not happy and then this game came around and honestly like saved them in a lot of ways, so I think they need to take a hard look at that Yeah, our guest shows that game free can make Quality games that could be in the game of the year conversation or at least nominated for an award Are any of you fighting game fans or did you like poke and tournament? I do love poke and tournament You know that could be a good fit in for something pokemon related this year a poke and tournament too I'd be down with that bro the paradigm like iron valiant. Oh my god Yeah, that'd be so cool. Well, honestly, it's of the two mega man pokemon Yeah, what are the names? Um arm rouge and sail edge. Yes I think uh Something like that though that sort of like ties in some of the new pokemon I could also see where it's like it's a game of its own But it's also like a marketing thing for the main game, you know Yeah I'm all about it. I'm all about a poke and tournament too. That would be amazing I talked to mr. Harada at e3 2019 I asked him that question because I was in benni namco's Section and we got to talk about it and you know, he said he would like to make a sequel But you know, that's not his decision and he's gone, you know publicly elsewhere to say that aside from my interview, but You know, he's up for it. It's just They already have an engine It was benni namco other than him wanted his poke and turn Bandai namco likes baking pokemon games. We even got new pokemon snap not too long ago Yeah, that was good. Like that looks nice and nobody really complained about that visuals So benni namco is hiring. I know it technically it's supposed to be with nintendo, but nintendo owns the pokemon ip so What if this whole 3d action game that they're working on is a pokemon game That they started after they finished up new pokemon snap And I don't know what I don't know what kind of pokemon game it would be because it's clearly gonna be a spin-off But I'm just imagining like what they were able to do just from a visual perspective with snap And I know it's a it's a picture-taking game So it's a lot different than a game you're running around actions happening But I kept thinking like What if they took Such a hypothetical. There'd be no idea what they're making but like Well, one thing that because we were talking about the tetra Pikachu movie earlier And one thing I wanted to talk about with that and get to Is that it's it really felt completely different from everything pokemon's ever done Because it was very much not just a live-action concept, but it was kind of like super edgy and kind of Intended for a smidge of an older audience rather than just the little kids out there Like they seem to always aim pokemon anime to show and everything else that uh, so What if they Benni namco saw that said hey, we want to make a game That's sort of like a really good-looking world Of pokemon like that on a smaller scale I don't think they're gonna let them just hey, you're making a mainline pokemon game now 3d action style have fun Uh, but like a proof-of-concept type of game That's like a pokemon spin-off just to see what happens just to see what people think about able Like really visual pleasing 3d action pokemon I don't even know how it would play like I just came up with this concept on the fly during the podcast There was a uh several years ago um Junichi Masuda who was like basically the head producer of pokemon says he said I don't know if someone asked him a question or something But he basically said that he would be down For a pokemon warriors game And this was at the time when you had hyrule warriors and fire emblem warriors and he actually was like, yeah, that would be cool So that's like That will probably never happen, but like The potential of like because like he I can totally imagine uh Having like some sort of like pokemon warlord type situation where you're riding around on a pokemon Like beating up soldiers and stuff because because they kind of did they sort of did that type of vibe with a pokemon conquest Which was like a fire emblem pokemon sort of like crossover. So I think they could pull it off even if it probably will happen. What's crazy is it? pokemon can be so much You know like we talk about pokemon snap.  There is pokemon conquester's mystery dungeon The other mainline series which has several different variants with the legends and the and the let's goes and Like there's you're forgetting the best game Magikarp jump come on now Magikarp jump. How about what is it? Well, is it toga p run or something? Like there is yeah, there we go yeah, like Forget the best stuff. I mean I would personally want to see You remember the mini games in pokemon stadium one and two I would love a dedicated like mini game Uh pokemon game like a mario party version of pokemon. I broke control sticks on that eckons I disagree with uh, andre. I don't want that game ever I really want what I really really want Pokemon girl. I really want is a pokemon cart. Okay. I want to see a lot of pokemon drives start driving a little Big heads and just shooting shooting like like because you has the power of just shooting lightning at the other car I mean There's I'm I'm feeling like Uh mario car is Pretty close to just becoming smash car at this point. Right. So it's right there I don't want other characters, but pokemon right grabbing the little cars Because you in a cart tarzard in the cart sforz on the cart.  So Nickelodeon Pokemon would make so much sense Let's go like nintendo is sort of like turning mario kart into like a nintendo cart But it's kind of weird because the mario kart brand is so big they can never really change the name Like it's always going to be mario kart because like it's so huge You don't sell 40 billion copies and be like, yeah, now we're going to call it nintendo kart like no No, you keep it mario kart because that's what everyone knows you call it nintendo kart people Why not pay as much attention? You know, it's interesting with both tour and the dlc for eight deluxe They haven't really they they're kind of sticking to like the mario kart world right like they haven't really They're not they're not bringing in more Zelda or animal crossing or any other characters I mean old courses and tour courses for the most part. So yeah, it's like a Easier to do dlc maybe that nearly as elaborate as the original.  Did he go on racing? Sort of sort of like that full-on platforming regular adventure mar super mario odyssey 2 and mario kart 9 combined And like that's it and you could play racing and you could play your platforming But you navigate the world seamlessly and you like look at the super mario movie trailer Yeah, that's a mario. That's a mario platforming game and a mario kart game combined into one now It works differently in a movie than it would in an actual game And why would you even do that necessarily here? You could sell a 3d platformer and a kart game why make them in one, but No, that would be a kind of a cool interesting way to Combine the two I could see the mario movie having a game and then one of the one of the levels being mario kart Because it's in the movie. So if they if they base the move make a game based on the movie I could see like those of the movie mario kart to a mario that would be That would be way too much like inception because then that would be A game tie-in of a movie based on a game That'd be great Do you think we get a mario game around the time of A movie in april? Do you think they You know, you know, the the thing we haven't been talking about this whole time Is that is it's kind of like Why hasn't this happened is Odyssey 2 right and like It's been it's we're going on six years since odyssey came out. There was a survey So like there was an idea at one point it existed in the mind At one point, I mean in one way shape or form they've got to have something cooking And so I don't know maybe that could be the holiday game this year or Whatever One reason why I still think 2023 for new hardware is possible I it's whole hard for me to believe that nintendo would skip a holiday Following up the movie. Yeah, well, I might not have like some sort of major mario game. That's really mario So there's there's there's two things that can happen If there's hardware if there is no new hardware Then I see mario odyssey 2 happening If there is new hardware, then I see a brand new mario a brand new mario happening Oh, so either way 3d mario just the branding of it. Yeah. Yeah I think the only time besides all the retro consoles that I saw mario twice in the one console was with the with the we mario Galaxy and galaxy 2 And and and that's there were both on the we and then and then from that point moving forward no more I haven't seen two 3d mario's in one console I mean if we go back to before the 3d era nintendo did have multiple mainline marios per system That's just back then they were 2d. Yeah. Yeah, so 3d mario's yeah We're time. Yeah, like like I nintendo never really had In my opinion multiple 3d mario's besides the we because I don't I don't feel like the systems lasted long enough to get that second one But we did last long enough to get the second one granted. I actually got it pretty soon after but Yeah, so it was a long generation that ended up. Hey, we have two 3d mario's galaxy one and galaxy two And I think a lot of people think the odyssey tube boat may have sailed just because Hey, if we were going to get that why wouldn't we get in like 2019 or something like that? Like, you know a couple years later, but it wasn't like they did nothing But it's very very like that's the thing and it's actually really really fun really good It's very good. Um, you know thinking on it I feel like one of the reasons maybe why you don't see 3d mario have like a second one like a You know a sequel per generation is because look at what happened when they did do that The we the we you happened they didn't have a big mario ready At launch or it wasn't really that close to launch and part of that's because well They focused on getting another 3d mario ready during the we era Like I think part of the reason why you only see one mainline mario per Generation to your point like the generations haven't lasted long enough But also they want to have that next mario ready for the next system. Like even if it's not a launch title It's launch. It's like within that first year. So It I mean, I personally I mean, you know, if new horror is not coming out with zelda. It's coming out with mario So, yeah, all right. All right. So let's just say this year Let's just go around. Are we getting Any mario game and if so are we getting a 3d or a side scroller? Let's start with mike If we are getting a mario this year Uh, I just depends if we get any hardware or not, but if we get any hardware Uh, was that through the hard one. Okay. So no hardware this year. No hardware. Okay. So I would say 2d mario All right, paul gale. Ah dang put me on the spot like that on the spot Right in center You've got the theme park. You've got the movie. I think you've further to capitalize one step further and have a Game that's not just mario kart 8 dlc. So I'll put one on the check mark for A 2d mario game this year. Yeah t-shirt it goes along with it All right, honoris what teacher teacher teacher. Yeah I mean it ultimately comes down to what I think happens this year if there's no I know you said strew system So no matter what I'm saying there is a mario game. It comes out this year But the kind of mario really comes down to what nintendo's plan is right? Like 2d mario is is definitely like I think 2d mario is happening unless we're getting a new system this year if not, it's 3d mario I think the other comes out the year after I think of a new system is coming out in 2024 later It's launching of mario kart. That's that's that's my prediction But for this year, I would be a or whatever it's called. It would be a system seller mario kart ultimate Well, here you go. Um Let me see hoops. What are you thinking? Okay, this is what i'm thinking Just as everyone else has said We've got the movie. We've got the theme park. We've got everything going on so The logic says that there will be a game of some kind this year to further capitalize on that Well, we also know that the switch is has a huge install base and has had a lot of success So because of that, it's also inclined to maybe stick around a little bit longer than its predecessors So that's why i'm gonna say that They're going to effectively End the switch's lifespan The same way they started it by having a zelda and a mario in the same year So there will be a mario this year or i'm gonna say odyssey 2 i'm gonna go big say odyssey 2 And that will be their holiday that'll be their holiday game for this year And then they'll have the switch 2 in 2024 Okay I mean odyssey 2 out of my waiting a little longer for for switch 2 for switch 2 so Because i honestly feel like like it is sort of my own personal bias of what i think but i also do feel like Uh, i i i don't think they'll Rush to the switch to just because of that success they have of that install base and of how Careful they need to be in doing that because they're literally one step away from another we use situation Regardless of how well the switch is doing or how much we think they've learned their lesson Like it's nintendo they could do it again So i think but i do think they've learned enough to where they're going to be careful about how they transition What if it uh, what if it's a mario mobile game? Because i recently found another patent for A mobile game that looks just like mario On it And this they could just give give you like mario run to or or rebranded or do something different You never know You never know Mario app that releases with the movie that you can interact that you can interact with a qr code on the screen Hey Your phone's on wall in the cinema Yeah, they're not gonna care about that. They're they're they're doing this whole Mario experience, man They're gonna they're gonna they're gonna drop a qr code that will contain a link to buy a special mario amiibo in the movie That's awesome But also the never mind forgot what else i'm gonna say it's a medicine Yeah, well i'm i'm going look look i'm gonna go there isn't going to be a new mainline mario game this year Regardless of hardware I know i know i know 2d 3d and i'm saying neither neither But mario will mario be present But they're gonna capitalize and they knew it's the whole time They're gonna capitalize on the fact that people like luigi quite a bit And no i'm not going luigi's mansion. Yes. I would love a new luigi's mansion. Absolutely, but that it's not mario. Okay, it's luigi But they have this little known game series That the developer basically no longer exists for but is much beloved That is due for a new entry If nintendo found the right people to do it And of course we're talking about mario and luigi. Yeah Well, it's still pretty hype Really good games and it's just kind of an unfortunate situation that they've never really gotten a chance to really be in the limelight and In this time It wouldn't be considered a major release too. So like if that rumor is true then okay, but also it's still mario luigi You know, it's really good and there's the mario movie people like luigi. They know What are you saying? It's about mario, dude. This is about mario. You're you're in red right now. It's it's about mario I'm wearing red because mario I was cold and I have very few long sleeve shirts. This is this is the 25th The 35th anniversary of mario part two this year to be all about mario I feel that the mario movie is gonna have a big storyline about the brothers themselves And I think I think it seems fairly evident I mean there could be a fake out with what they're doing, but it feels like mario's goal is to find his brother Yeah, the beginning of the movie is going to be about them too and their brotherly bond Maybe they even have a spat right before where they're in that room with the pipes the basement that leads them to get split And you know luigi time, baby Yeah, I think that's going to be that brotherly bond and I think mario and luigi getting to follow up the movie is actually a pretty good idea Perfect. Listen Just give that trailer how they're they're there's putting a part of the trying to grab on to each other And then they kind of let go And luigi ends up somewhere else they they're not together throughout the entire movie And then bowser is the one who actually gets to hold the luigi, you know first and then he also he chops up He thought he luigi dies Boyler Yeah, yeah, what he didn't see is right after he rips off, you know after bowser rips off part of the mustache He just throws him the lot like And that's where they they um They can and I is having our show lives. I like the fact that they're making They're making it like a uh, like like, you know, like a brother relationship movie because that's that's that's the kind of movie we kind of need So, um, I think we're kind of winding down here what I kind of want to end the show a little bit by just kind of going around one more time and being sort of a like Do we think this upcoming direct? Is going to be Like have a boatload of games or is it just going to be One of those lighter ones Because oh zelda's coming out all we need to do is just lean on that or you know mario movies coming out we can lean on that Or do you think it's gonna be like, you know the the the kind of directs we dream about The ones that we only seem to get once every few years that just blow our mind With all of that mic start because I already I mean mic was shaking his head. No, but then Mike's a dream I'm gonna be all right, you know, I'll give you a first I don't think this direct will be a big one. I think this I think I think this direct will have one or two or three announcements that will make us happy And then when we get those announcements, we'll be happy with the whole direct We'll get third party games. We'll get some farming games on the side I don't know a little less hopefully a little less farming games on the side, but 75 That's the mario game We're working with square enix on a harvestella crossover for a sequel right now So so, you know as long as you get our metro prime remake announcement, we'll get our it'll end with Stay tuned for it. Uh zelda Tears of the kingdom direct coming later in the future. We'll get that in march and then um What else? Mario, you know that's mario game the Metro prime. I think it's gonna be one of the games the people happy. I think Um, we'll have we'll have DLC for pokemon, which is gonna be very good. Um, can't wait for that and then we'll have, um Of course, uh, we can't forget about wave four coming up as well. They're they'll announce wave four In the direct and they really I think I'll say that yeah, yeah So I think I think it'll be a good direct because they it won't be the direct of our dreams I think that'll come with the new We're getting a mid direct. Yeah. Yeah, it'll be it'll be an okay direct. Okay, not even great but even wonderful not even But for people really into metro it in zelda, you'll be happy basically. Yeah. Yeah, I mean It'll it'll have something for everybody. So in other words, it's gonna be an on dress direct You just described the perfect direct for rogers. Yeah. Yeah, so farming sims, especially that was that was the part that really Well, it'll be the part that'll make me throw my chair out the window, but it's fine But he's just letting the air in to get a fresh breath Before tears of the kingdom drops in there now if they have farming stuff inside tears of the kingdom I probably would somehow be excited about it. I actually would be okay There's like a little side farming thing. I I've always thought of ideas to expand on the whole link as a house Okay, so now what yeah, what can we do? Anyways, uh, that's for a few that's for a future podcast.  Hoops. What are we thinking? uh So i'm thinking Some similar to what mic is thinking. I feel like the fact that Zelda is coming out in the middle of the year kind of kiboshes a lot of the potential for the year because I don't think because of zelda. They'll have Anything too huge they could have some good games, but nothing too huge leading up to it And then after they will because they'll obviously have like a holiday game But I mean I just don't see with the timing of zelda and the fact that Anything that they tried to announce would just be overshadowed I I feel like there's not going to be anything too huge going on in the direct. I think you'll have You'll obviously have zelda. You'll have um I can see maybe one or two other significant announcements along the lines of like a Metroid teaser or Possibly we have not mentioned Pikmin 4 this whole time right? We could maybe get like a Pikmin 4 update or something like that But I think it'll be I think it'll be mid-level I think the quality will take over the quantity and so like what we will get will be really good because you'll have like Zelda and then like one or two other like home run hitter type things Uh, but there won't be like a lot of big stuff Yeah I mentioned two third party games. I forgot to mention two third party games That that um one is Genshin impact has been going to us for 10 years, right? And and and then the other one isn't an expected one roblox Well, I just imagine You're ready to set their tablets down and just play their switches of roblox Right, but that'll solve the tablet problem in my house. I guess. Um, all right, paul gale By simply having the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom there That's already got to be a 10 for me. Yeah, because you give me a three minute trailer that has finally some story elements and Some voice acting kind of like the 2017 trailer had and real gameplay of what could link do And a little glimpse of is there any time travel? Is there any? This mystery there's so much mystery around it just by zelda being there like I'm going to be happy for 45 minutes if they have it at the beginning or the end because I will watch that thing probably You know a couple dozen times Equaling more than the length of the actual nintendo direct itself. So So it's going to be there. That's already perfect for me You know, there's been so much around metroid that We always say it's the time now now is the right time for metroid But now is probably the most now time there is unless if it's not there and it's at e3, but I I I could see metroid being there and if it's there that just also makes it hype for me I'm cool if it's at e3. I'll play it before everyone else. I'm good If x0 is Actually coming and that's there golden i007 unless if it launches in january and that's there and more details about the online and stuff like that You don't need too many surprises to drop for me, you know, we've got final fantasy pixel remaster come now dragon quest 3 Down the road, which that's going to be a big one as well Pikmin 4 as was, you know mentioned previously. So You know, I think it's going to be a great nintendo direct. The only thing is Okay, there is going to be an e3 and you've got to assume that nintendo is going to be at e3 Could a couple of these titles that like okay We want to hear the september november games But they could be held for that e3 nintendo direct So at most nintendo might say stay tuned for our february nintendo direct as we talk about games leading up through The beginning of summer or how they word it, but whenever they say that like to the first half of the year That's going to be till june 30th But they'll probably say and by the way, here's one more thing. That's a little farther off So I think we'll get one of those. Yeah, and then nintendo usually has A game that comes out right before that fiscal year is done You know, whether it's like curbing the forgotten land or animal crossing So there might be something that we don't know about yet that is You know big enough, but not monumental that comes out late march Yeah, so there could be a Here this is coming out in six more weeks Or there's a what hap what game comes out during that arms time slot or that Mario golf time slot something usually comes out in june and at that point, you know e3 is in june. So or yeah june So I'm gonna go with great I'm gonna go happy here and just enjoy the moment and if I'm wrong zell has got to be there, right? So Yeah, I mean here's the thing. Here's the thing I don't think we're getting a general direct In february at all I'm throwing this out there right now. I think they're just going all in it's going to be a zelda only direct followed by a nintendo tree house They're just going to go all out zelda zelda zelda zelda zelda and try to make us forget the fact that they haven't announced anything past zelda but pickman 4 And then there'll be some sort of Twitter drop at some point in the future that drops some sort of game That's going to come in june or maybe they decide to announce pickman 4 is coming in june That's always possible and really we don't find out anything until and everyone's all scared And we're all worried and we're like oh the second half of this year is going to suck and yada yada yada And then the e3 is going to happen and it's going to blow out the entire second half of whatever surprises they have because we actually felt this way going into the Early part of 2019 we didn't realize the second half of 2019 was going to be so banger And nintendo really kept their cards close to the vest and then they just said yep here we go Hardly giving you any time to prepare and I'll buy all these games and the second half of 2019 ended up being awesome You guys remember like luigi's mansion 3? Hey, that was a that was a mid-year announcement. So like I'm just saying I kind of think They're just gonna say you know what we know we're going all out for zelda And then we'll drop everything later and it sounds crazy I understand they could you know like I'm announcing a mario game would still be a big deal It's not like zelda out shines mario. They could there are two different types of games, but I just kind of get this feeling that the way they timed Tears of the kingdom in may was kind of like a yeah, you know why you guys haven't Seen us really talking about this game yet because that's all we're going to be talking about for a little bit here No, okay Okay By the way, that would still be a 10 out of 10 direct for me because I mean it's it's all the yeah So, I mean yeah, let's get let's get that off my chest first like Because it's gonna have tears of the kingdom. There's no way. It's not an outstanding antenna direct. Yeah There's no way. There's no way That said I think if you're not a zelda fan The direct will be mid at best Like that that I that I agree with and I think I mean I in my opinion pretty much there's a few exceptions But pretty much most directs are like seven or eight out of 10s for me because and what they typically do is To as you guys brought up like they're more likely going to simply tell us what we need to know until they're next direct And that's what they're gonna do. They're not gonna they're not gonna tell us about the amazing donkey kongi And that's coming out in since September, right? They're not gonna tell us about the tears of the kingdom deal see The super story quest that's coming out in November because they're gonna they need to talk about just the game itself now, right? Like they're gonna save the the second half of the year stuff for June when they need to like I mean typically when nintendo does with their directs is that they wait until they actually have to have the direct Right and usually the best way to kind of guess when direct is happening. Just look at what we know about and the gaps so Yeah, I think february is probably the right time Maybe they do announce something that happens sometime in march or april I i'm honestly not sure what that is. I'd love to say it's metroid, but I think more likely Metroid is announced in a february direct and I say metroid mean primary master and they say More details on prime four later this year So they don't actually even give us anything yet, but they will come later this year And in prime four is probably announced for like late summer early fall kind of thing and then yeah Here's the kingdom of a big emphasis obviously mark our deal see um Beyond that I think if 2d morrow is happening. I actually feels like a pretty good summer game Uh shortly not too it's not too far more from remove from the movies. They can take advantage of those sales um And it's 2d morrow would also be multiplayer be like an ideal kind of summer game kids get out of school They can play it together. I think that might actually be the best idea I wanted to say of zero, but I feel like I do believe that zero is coming out this year. I'm just not sure when they announced that I feel like that Maybe that's announced in the summer. Um, there are people hinting at of zero So it makes me think maybe sooner than later, but I'm just gonna say um I'm not expecting of zero yet, but I'm expecting a prime remaster announcement A mario game announced the more likely 2d for the summer and then tears of the kingdom is gonna be a star on the show probably in february, but If we do get a direct like say it's announced next week or something to me that says Oh, yeah, there's new hardware coming up this year and they're getting announced It's done sooner so they can gear themselves up, but more likely i'm expecting a direct in february All right, well Damn that was a good show guys. Thank you. I want to thank all of our guests for being here You guys want to give a quick plug to your channels and what you have coming we can uh I mean maybe start with start with mike. I know he's getting a little a little tired over there He actually stuck it out for the whole podcast Yeah I don't know how to be feeling great He wasn't feeling great. However, your voice got better as the podcast went up. It's almost like There you go talking nintendo is what you needed that was Yeah Anyway, um, um, you can find me at uh, mike. Odyssey youtube uh at mike. Odyssey youtube mike. Odyssey yt on instagram and uh twitter and um nintendoacademy.com for news I just launched the brand new website mike. Odyssey.com, which is more personally Yes, the the content creator mike. Odyssey. It's a brand new website just launched on february um, january 1st It went live Um, there you can see you can find all of the videos Brand new merch specifically for this year moving forward and uh A lot more stuff that I will be adding to that website. So that's going to be that the nintendo academy will still be alive That's going to be the our news Um website We have mike. Odyssey.com, which is the the content creator youtube website And then of course we have our youtube channel For your website I'm moving forward you you should inject an rss feed of nintendo academy's news under the website Under under the mike. Odyssey website. Yeah, and the mike. Odyssey website So then it's like a hub for everything and then they click on the article and it'll open up nintendo academy's article Okay, I'll do that. I'll do that and then and then there was one more thing That uh, is pretty look is looking pretty sure every now and then but but getting even better as I go along And it it looks like it could very well be A fully sanction approved With this certain giant company present This this isn't what I think it is. Is it ncon? 2024 like the company's present. Yeah I reached out to to them. I reached out to to to the big n I'm not I'm I'm speaking the Yeah, yeah, things aren't really locked down yet I'm speaking in codes speaking in code is 99.9 percent 0.9.9 percent, but I'm speaking in code until my mic signature is not down you know, um, but um Those of you know, I've been working on on nintendo calling for a while now Year a year right a year has been a year because we started working Well last year, um, it's it's basically uh all nintendo Uh convention Relate just just focus on nintendo and all nintendo ip's I've made a lot of connections with all the interviews. I've done with different voice actors or agents and and then the companies that they work for Um, they've all set present. They're literally all set present. I have the the super mario cast complete Um, they they're coming up. Um, we're working on another cast who will be present as well Um, but one thing that didn't really um, I got I got the licensing and the permission from the nintendo But I just happened to reach out to them one second time to to just to talk over that everything over and and and and um person I spoke to was very excited and over excited about about the project because There's never been a convention that's just basically dedicated to this nintendo You know, nintendo florida next year version studios by the way, um, you know Super nintendo world is opening the the following year it just makes kind of perfect sense marketing wise that You know having a president nintendo having a presence there for the nintendo world I like a like like an area to promote and then having a presence there as well for trailers and announcements so If you get nintendo demos there i'm gonna freak out. So that's what was spoken about in this meeting Um, we're I I can talk about it now, but we we'll continue to give you guys updates Um on but it's everything is looking very good very positive right now. We're looking at at the summer of 2024 um for the event And then um, yeah, we'll see we'll see what what what uh what concurred they will also be financially supporting the event prime for demo baby So, um, it's it's a good thing We're having like our own little uh, like this has expanded so much beyond what I ever thought it was going to be Yeah, it's uh, it's a big thing. I'm telling you like I started small I wanted to make like convention because I love nintendo. I wanted to make like a fan convention You know, um, I looked up nintendo con as a name and it was available. I purchased it. I want I'll see it I registered the name and everything was all available. I took it, you know with the hopes of I'm doing it You know with the hopes of of of actually putting together an event called nintendo con right and then this is before I started doing interviews For with voice actors the the more I did an interview with voice actors I I spoke to them up behind the scenes Waiting about this. Well, blah, how is it? I just started making connections with behind the scenes with with with whole bunch of people and then just kept growing and growing and growing and growing You know and until This is where we are now. So it's It's looking like we can have mario characters there the full costumes the one there gonna be in super nintendo world The same exact costumes promoting super nintendo world for the opening of 2025 in Orlando, Florida And it's going to be across the street because it's the conventions in the convention center for Orlando, Florida by seaworld and universal Booking sites tomorrow Yeah, so Let's go. Yeah, man. I'm ordering the air bnb right now Yeah, it's uh, I've always had to be able to put together an event like that. I've worked with events before but not something that i'm passionate about as much as this so I trust me. I'm building a team That's the first thing they asked me. Do you have a team? Do you have a team? No, I don't but I already have people in mind paul and uh air and And then I got people in mind Either andre and now I know I know hoops also and then you know eric Hey, if you need someone to sweep the floors, I'm pretty good with a broom Haha Be a cleanup crew, but also I'm really good at getting high scores on games. So if you need like Dude, I'm talking about I'm first level dk player there I'm inspired by by The presentation that nintendo did in one of these conventions where they just built the entire set of animal crossing Um to promote the game That was just amazing and I'm hoping to do the same exact thing but with different areas have the Hyrule there and have hyrule look amazing afar, you know, and then have have the mushroom kingdom afar also a space forget for matroid Yeah, have met of the method air have a metro area look incredible as well You know and have a section for each IP You know being well represented and also having the voice actors in that area also with with uh You know the voice the the castle mario being on under Mushroom kingdom area just just having something so much fun and unique like for people to experience nintendo You know would be cool, too. Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna have panels. We're gonna have panels for sure panels um meeting greets It's gonna it's gonna be crazy and I want something I want something different I want something I want I want it to be a dream to go to you know, like uh Not just this these fan conventions that you know, but I want something to be like We're gonna have a we're gonna have a day for special needs because I'm a very special needs I'm a special needs dad my dad my daughter has autism I was a teacher for my dad my wife is a teacher for 25 years For for um an autism and I've been working with children with thousands for 10 years So I combined experience working with children with with asperger's and autism We're gonna have an entire day just for them, you know, because I know the it's you know, the the the Sensory and everything they're gonna have their own area And we're we're thinking we're thinking about everything man And it's gonna be it's gonna be big. Let me be sounds amazing. I'm only hopefully it's a Hopefully turned out into a yearly thing. This is the first year But hopefully turned out to a year thing that on the vent that we can look forward to Every single year nintendo kano what it didn't turn the cause of summer. Let's let's all get together and and just you know But yeah, man huge This is yeah It just keeps getting bigger every time we talk about it. It's awesome. Yeah. All right. Well, um Paul you want to follow that one up? What's uh, Where can people find you? What are you guys going on? All right, so I actually bought nintendo. Okay Oh Yeah, Paul Yale network on twitter Over there. Usually I post, you know, Japanese Fumitsu sales data. Sometimes I drop something Exclusive that I have recently learned whether it's the sales information or something like final fantasy pixel remaster You know that came as Nate knows like a january last year It was like a good 12 months of the making that was an exclusive Also on Nate's website nintendo prime dot net, you know every thursday morning or at some time during thursday I post up that japanese Fumitsu top 10 go over the sales of the software the hardware supply. What is my anticipation for the market going further? You know, uh, I do that also on paulgale network.com. So that's my website On youtube on paulgale network also as Nate said, I'm not as regular on youtube in what I put up, but I've been going to e3 since 2000 and you know once in a while I Share an old story from a past e3 or drop, you know random photos or give a shout out to people that have Be friended along the way folks that are nice I always like to You know give back people put the time and opportunity to Spend time with me at an e3 or at a convention built up a personal friendship and you know once in a while just Spread some joy out there. So that's usually what I am doing on twitter or on youtube and like Nate also said You know kit and crista formerly from you know, nintendo and nintendo minute fame I teamed up with them a few months ago To do a you know kit and crista karate and calisthenics with paulgale network program. So that's about Gamer fitness and so over on my channel You know with them and their discord community and stuff like that.  I teach shodokan karate taekwondo tai chi chuan. I'm a personal trainer. So Bringing And I get together I'm an instructor for taekwondo Yeah, yeah, that's that's what I do. I mean I like getting hit a lot so I can come Yeah, you know bringing fitness to gamers talking video games I'll do unboxing videos on youtube. I told Nate this a while ago not gaming related But I like dragon ball z a lot You know, my original idea was to do this last year, but it's gonna be this summer instead Uh 11 years ago. I did a dragon ball z live action goku super saiyan Yeah, that was awesome. That was like seven weeks of designated Workout and hardcore dieting just made fun instead of like a before and after photo like let me show you in a video form Well this july i'll be 40 So i'm gonna do like a 10 years of past goku's in the hyperbolic time chamber How does he look now find out on dragon ball z? So i'm going to do a new video and like tie my old one in with what I look like This summer and hopefully get in better shape and you know, just like I said Bridging what I like of video games and fitness and martial arts and anime and just You know, that's the audience that I kind of Took to reach with that. Let me tell you 40 40. He's not that bad. Don't worry boy. He's not that bad You know, I've been there for two years now and it's not as bad as I thought I'm as young as I was mentally as you know any age like The games that I buy my kids for christmas.  Who did you buy this sonic game for you or for your son and dying like For all of us, you know, you you you stay young when you think young and if you You Anyways, that's that's where all that that's kind of what I do a little bit of this and that All right, next up whoops Me well for those who don't already know i'm hoopson hip hop and i'm primarily on youtube where I cover Pokemon stuff of all kinds always talking about what's going on doing cool things I'm also on twitter and instagram uh I'm even on if you're on spotify apple music that stuff. I've got remixes because Once upon a time I did remixes and I still try and do them and stuff like that. So You can find me there and I mean I've got a lot of cool stuff coming up this year So it's going to be a good year to uh Refollowing probably take you take commissions on those remixes Uh, I don't typically take commissions, but I have in the past It's mostly just a time thing because I'm just like busy, but Yeah, it's that's kind of how I started off and then I kind of expanded into other stuff. Yeah That's pretty cool. Nice and go subscribe to his channel guys. He's like this close to 300k. He's like, yeah, I Last I checked it this morning and it was like I was like 300 away If everyone here isn't subscribed went that would get them halfway to just get in there. That's awesome. Yeah All right, uh, andres restart Hey, what's up? Who are you? I don't I'm not your stranger. I'm crazy Um All right, sorry. All right, sorry What happened? No, sorry. I um, I'm looking for um For hoops uh channel and then I I forgot to mute the youtube thingy. Oh, it's also in the description So you can get to a point. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So this time I managed to spell my name, right? So andres restart. I got blamed for the last thing. Thanks. They're the way Hey, it's wrong. I'm like, I don't control how it's spelled guys Yeah, no, that was that was all me. Yeah, so um, but yeah, I make nintendo content in case you didn't know You can find me on youtube and twitter I I don't have like any amazing projects like what I've been described I just have some video ideas i'm working on right now the right now my goal You don't you don't have a nintendo con with a tai kawando class going on at the same time No Right now I'm just working on trying to set up a more consistent release schedule and plan So i'm trying transition to being a full-time content creator. That's kind of hard But trying we'll see but anyways, um in terms of projects I am planning A live versus discussion of winwick ray hd versus twilight princess. I mentioned this last week Is why i'm playing through win waker and i'll also play through twilight princess So that's going to be set up. It's probably going to be officially announced Sometime next week it kind of just depends on news like a switch to is announced next week It's going to get pushed up But you know if there's no crazy news next week, that's probably that's probably where we're going to get that discussion Um, yeah, I just make nintendo stuff. So check it out. It's all news speculation and fun discussions Awesome Well, I want to thank all you guys for being here if you guys uh Don't know our we have an audio version of this podcast available everywhere podcasts are heard including even on I heart radio, which does mean I shockingly heard last week's episode once randomly on FM radio And i'm not really sure how that happened. Wow. I'm not sure how that happened But apparently On our radio sometimes it appears on one of their stations. So yeah, it does when we when you have an i heart radio They randomly choose different episodes like that Episode played in my area. I don't know how many people heard it, but It's a really long. They must need a really long segment taken up. I have no idea Maybe why we got chosen but Um, anyways, I want to thank you guys all for all the support and everything of course All the live viewers any any new viewers that maybe came in from other people's channels I always appreciate meeting new fans and everything. Uh, we're on our road to 100 000 subscribers I don't know if we'll get there this year, but that's kind of a goal this year. We just hit 83 000 today So that's that's fun. It's neat.  I read all the super chats. Okay, including Blue moon who wanted me to specifically mention That he agrees with mike and twilight princess is coming and i'm wrong about everything Thank you. Thank you. By the way, thank you. Uh, blue moon is sending me uh, she's sending me a 3ds so I can play uh um The the twilight that's why I like that game called Zelda something about the future passing president between worlds. Yeah that one. Yeah, there we go I look the future in the past I'll link to the past There's some there's multiple games like that What happens when you go you buy the cheap brand on iquil like the store brand? Oh, yeah, the brand that kind of messes you up. Yeah All right. Well, thank you guys for everyone being here and uh, hey, well, I'll be back next week Mike will be back. We'll see you, uh What else down the six pack next week next week, okay, maybe i'm working on my six Starting to jog a little i don't i don't know what do you know i read in the chat nobody noticed that eric wasn't even around I noticed poor eric Poor eric. He'll be back next week. I think I don't know. I don't know I don't have to dust guys remember me for for for um for wanting to open nintendo con And journey on All right. All right guys, we'll catch you. Well, I'll catch you next week. Well, these guys will catch you whenever Bye


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Welcome back to the next episode of The Therapy Show, behind closed doors with myself, Jackie Jones and Bob Cook. And because we're coming up to the festive season, we thought we'd do something a little bit relevant to that time of year and maybe how it impacts on us, meeting up with family members that maybe we've not seen for a while and the pressure of it all. The pressure of Christmas. Yeah, it's meant to be an annual time but it isn't for for lots of people because past experiences can impact on us and you know particularly I suppose what I was thinking with us being in the midst of the pandemic still. Last Christmas we weren't allowed to get together in groups so you know there's going to be some feelings maybe. Well for those people watching podcasts who probably can't see me but I've got a very big beard. People that can see me will see that I've got a big big beard and yeah a bit like Father Christmas and often I think what happens to Father Father Christmas in the therapy room and also in the in society but let's talk about a therapy room at the moment which is what I would call the Father's Father Christmas myth and the Father Christmas myth really fosters disappointment. Disappointment script in trans nationalist terms that through through the sort of idealization that the Christmas or festive time will sort of take away all our issues or resolve all our problems and then people of course get disappointed because they find out that the problems or issues are far more deep ridden and it's the same actually culturally people you know idolize Christmas and often find out that well most times find out that the idealization doesn't match up to reality. Yeah often I think that's the case it's the build up to it and then the let down I sometimes associated to which is a bit random kind of being pregnant and the build up to the birth of a baby and then the come down after it that a lot of people that's how it feels sometimes it's you know a month of preparation for one day and it doesn't always live up to expectations. No that's what I'm talking therapy was with clients these important occasions which all hopes and expectations are foisted on often because they're built up psychologically don't happen so the person gets disappointed so that script continues. Yeah So what can we do what what what can we do about that in the therapy room? Yeah let's stick with the therapy room I mean culturally I think you know many of the things we're going to talk about here they match each other what's happened in the therapy rooms matches what's happens culturally but in the therapy room at Christmas of course lots of things happen number one the therapist usually takes a time off to have Christmas. Yeah so there's a there's a gap from therapy and we all know that when there's a gap from therapy clients usually may well act out because they have lost their secure object or feel abandoned. Yeah and also remember most therapists go into the most clients go into therapy with the father Christmas myth already and that's the the therapist will solve everything and that is of course not what is about therapies about therapies about helping the person take ownership of their own issues and helping them and supporting and making chase themselves not that some sort of father Christmas is going to come around and wave a magic wand and everything will be okay. So would you say that these sort of issues need addressing whatever time of year that we're at you know I suppose again it touches on contacts and you know planning for a holiday period with the clients and letting them know that you know if you're going to take time off how long and how that's going to be and absolutely well I mean that's taken as word I think for the therapist and the therapist that sort of ignores that they do so their own folly. Yeah and then the more disturbed clients will act out. Yeah so would you say December as a whole you know is is different to any other month of all these things because it does kind of link in and maybe shine a light on that father Christmas you know the therapist is going to fix me type thing. Yeah so yeah I think I don't want to be a sort of bearer of bad tides when we talk about Christmas but the truth is the real truth is the majority of the clients in my clinical load I don't see many people now without work clinically but when I did for all these years they have lots of different issues from self-esteem issues right up to personality disorders and a lot of them of course dealing with trauma and for a majority of clients Christmas has not been a very pleasant event for lots and lots of reasons they either come from reconstructed families or the the build-up of Christmas triggers off many of the bad times they've had or the traumas they've had parents or significant others not being there homelessness neglect we could go on and on and so Christmas stimulates triggers yeah traumatic events in a person's past and usually for majority of clients that I've worked with Christmas has not reminded of them of a happy time. Yeah is it you know touching on the cultural thing is that sort of around Christmas or would you say it's around any significant event in the calendar? I think Christmas is more built up yeah you know we're talking of pandemic eras now it was 2020 Christmas of 2020 where we came to November and it was clear very clear about the escalation of deaths and the escalation of infections were getting so high that we needed a lockdown but of course what actually happened was that the lockdown didn't happen over Christmas because it was such a special event those restrictions which should have actually been completely in my opinion had a complete lockdown would have resolved many many issues but because Christmas was built up to be such a significant time for many people um uh that didn't happen yeah and I think Christmas is built up culturally to be very very significant now religiously of course it is but if we're talking about this as a sort of festive event this one day is very very important culturally and significantly and psychologically in a person's memory banks more than any other day yeah so would you bring that into the therapy room if the client doesn't would you talk about plans for Christmas and expectations and anything like that? Well it's not would I I always did okay so 100 percent how in fact it's an impossible to ignore isn't it? Well I mean you could complete not Christmas but that would be denying well be denying a reality and also we deny the therapist a chance to look at the trauma and the difficulties and the actual experiences which usually weren't so good for the clients in front of me yeah because I know I'm I'm quite mindful of things like putting up decorations in the therapy room and you know I don't want to say keeping it a sterile environment but not assuming that everybody celebrates Christmas or that everybody's memories and expectations are going to be the same so I tend to not put things up in the therapy room but I know some therapists do they put a Christmas tree up and well well I that's very I'm smiling because really I take your viewpoint and I think I think a therapy room should be pretty barren if you like yeah that way and I think the therapist that starts putting Christmas trees up or puts up Christmas decorations can it be the very least well I think could be guilty of insensitivity unless they do it clinically in a way of thinking about triggers to to enable a person to have that stimulation but I think that's a pretty over the top process to do that way around see you mentioned triggers there and I think that's that's a really interesting topic that maybe we can look at more in depth on another episode but a trigger can be anything for an individual well triggers you know if you think of post-traumatic stress PTSD and look at the research around what we're talking about here yes you're right of course at one level the research show is actually interesting enough the loud noises the smells are usually the most evocative triggers you are right that almost anything but I think Christmas particularly is a very massive trigger because people almost conditioned and have an idolized fantasy around Christmas where suddenly in those 10 hours everything will happen to resolve their misery and it's very untrue for most people yeah so what can we do in the therapy room how can we help prepare clients well it's about preparing so what I do and I with the Christmas I used to talk a lot about what did Christmas mean for people and for a lot of people it meant neglect homelessness trauma disappointments um and we used to talk about you know the healing processes that we could actually have now in the therapy room so for example but people coming to therapy may be being neglected or people in therapy who didn't have a good experience of Christmas or people to come to therapy who have significant other people who actually treated them very badly in these events or people who had mentally ill parents for example or people who had traumas at Christmas time the list is endless yeah so it gives the person the opportunity to talk about the reality of their own difficulties and traumas because you see when they leave the therapy room and they go outside into the let's put say real world that real world doesn't give the individual the time the chance or time or the opportunity to talk about uh their traumas difficulties neglect around Christmas because everything is supposed to be a jolly time yeah yeah on the television and you see many many many many programs about jolliness how wonderful things are idealization go on and on and people aren't supposed to talk about how difficult or dark or regretful Christmas might have been if they do talk about that they're often classless humbugs yes yeah and you know again there's all the you know the office parties and all those sort of things where we are kind of actively encouraged to be festive and to to socialize and to do all those things and I suppose for you know I'm thinking about the clients that I've got at the moment you know ones that suffer from social anxiety that that you know and then if they don't go there's that sense of loss or you know that fear of missing out and those sort of things that goes along with it it's probably one of the only times of the year where we we do feel I don't want to say forced into situations but we there's a lot of things that we feel like we should be doing around Christmas time I think we are I don't mind the word forced I think the that's a very good word because we have um back-to-back communication television newspapers rages which are telling us we should be happy yeah so from that angle forced is a pretty good word yeah and it you know I knew we were saying earlier on about you know the 10 hours of it that's the thing is you know Christmas starts a lot earlier and ends a lot later now you know I know people that wait for the first of November and put their Christmas decorations up and it's like whoa it's going to nearly two months of festivities now as opposed to a week when I was young or even a couple of days maybe well let's put it another way if you go to the A&E department on Christmas Eve or the A&E department of New Year's Eve you'll find more suicide attempts more overdoses more more traumas in any time of the year which says a lot about yeah says a lot about Christmas yeah yeah so it's the best thing that we can do to to kind of support our appliances to talk about the past experiences and how that can impact on them today or give them permission to you know celebrate Christmas however it feels right for them what sort of things would you be doing in the therapy room? Well first of all I'd want therapy to be very real and given the opportunity to talk about times which might have been particularly hard for them around the month of December and how Christmas might make them feel because often what Christmas makes them feel is that they haven't discounted discounted for in other words they have to be happy but nobody accounts for perhaps their unhappiness. Yeah is it a cultural thing is it a media thing what what is it because I totally agree with what you're saying that you know everybody is under pressure to be happy and enjoy it and I would ask that I guess that you know 75% and upwards of people I haven't got any statistics don't feel you know very festive around the festive season is it cultural do you think or is it increased media pressure? No it's both those things but I think of course there's more and more pressure put on us by media and the the papers and all the communication to be happy. Now we all know that loneliness, homelessness, neglect, the elderly all have a particularly difficult time of Christmas. Is it talked about? Not much but you know I often think many Christmases that are quite liking it and I should do it really I haven't done it. I did about 10 years ago but actually go down and help the homelessness in Manchester. I think Christmas is an act of kindness. Yes News are very very very very long and get bigger by the day and Christmas new year when we should be happy and everything else that goes with it people often feel lonely and happy and neglected and often their past histories have been represented of what we're talking about here. Yeah how do you feel about Christmas? How do I feel about Christmas? Yeah well should we focus some of the time outside of the therapy room on ourselves and the impact it has on other therapists? What do you mean by say a bit more about Jackie I'm not sure what you mean? Well literally what you were saying about the lists at A&E being longer you know that we are likely to be seeing clients that are feeling an increased pressure whether that's PTSD or anxiety or past trauma or things like that but maybe our workload it seems to be less of a workload in the summer and more of a workload in the winter whether that's connected with Christmas and dark nights and those sort of things so should we as therapists be focusing on our own mental health and self-care? I know it's important to any time of year but particularly around this time as well and how are thoughts and feelings around Christmas? Well that's a good quote that's a good sort of conversation I would like to think and maybe I'm wrong here that and perhaps I'm very wrong but a lot of therapists put a lot of their money and time into their own self-care I hope therapists are often middle-class they've probably they've usually got some access to money so they might go to therapist twice a week or they might spend more time on their self-care maybe going on holiday or whatever it is or even times to actually just meditate or have some sense of mindfulness about what this day is all about I don't know any research into it but I think is a very good point I think that therapists need to you know have support if need be and go to therapy particularly at these times when actually there's more pressure on being in inverted commons happy and there's a denial of what I think is reality. Yeah yeah because I suppose you know there is pressure on us as therapists to be authentic and what does that look like in the therapy room if if we don't enjoy Christmas is that authentic in the therapy room and do we let people know that? No I didn't say you're making an assumption I didn't say I didn't a therapist don't enjoy Christmas I didn't even say I didn't enjoy Christmas I think there's a difference between enjoyment and enjoying the day if in an authentic way if you know for example with my family and Stephanie I can add some of my favorite things on television sports and different things I can allow myself to enjoy Christmas but what I was really talking is the reality of the many many many and especially my clients who are stimulating triggered by Christmas and actually feel more hurt not recognized or not accounted by society and they haven't got a family to go home to or they may just go to a bedside to go home to or they may have to be part of a reconstructed family and reminds them of the family they never had in their own history so I can enjoy Christmas and that's the same I'll actually when I'd say enjoy Christmas I do to certain times but I do go to therapy as you said brings up in the past but what I'm talking about is my professional duty which is to help people talk about things which have been stimulated by often Christmas or new year in a way that they've not had the chances to before and hopefully that will mean they don't then go and hurt themselves in that in that to have their own traumas because nobody's but nobody's accounted for their own trauma that doesn't mean I don't necessarily have the time to enjoy Christmas yeah I'm not sure whether you misunderstand what what I was meaning originally but that's did but I want to just make the difference between therapists can allow themselves to have enjoyment as well as dealing with very difficult processes yeah yeah now I'm not sure that was the query question or conversation but that's where I've ended up yeah yeah and that's absolutely fine that I think that's something that I say to clients a lot of the time that you know we can be anxious and okay at the same time we can have a feeling and be okay at the same time it's not an either or situation so yeah we can enjoy Christmas and you know be triggered or things it's it's not an either or situation yeah yeah but you see I and you said something not long ago and it's very true the therapists work harder at Christmas their workload is more difficult to this Christmas and you know New Year and the dark nights and everything goes on with that now then the question is how come that's not the case so much in the summer for example because I think Christmas New Year stimulates a lot of difficult times of people and they haven't got the space to talk about it because they're supposed to be inverted commas happy yeah we've we haven't we see we haven't even talked about the economic pressure of Christmas that's another big thing for an awful lot of people yeah and again you know is it linked into the adverts on the television and the media and how it's all supposed to look and yeah do you know the average Christmas rate uh or present of presents for an average family of four people I don't think I want to go on surprise me no I'm not going to surprise you but it's a lot yeah yeah I can believe it you know I how many Christmas presents does my if I think about did my daughter get a once she was four five six seven eight nine ten far too many it's a huge economic pressure for Christmas yeah being able to make the family happy and buy the presents and we could go on and on and on and I think a lot of people feel extremely guilty if they don't do that yeah but a lot of that I believe comes from the pressure of of expectations and media put on all of this and our clients feel it just the same yes yeah yeah and I suppose that you know for some people it does encourage a connection between the amount of gifts and our self-worth or you know those sort of things that that we need to prove love to somebody by buying the more expensive thing in the shop and those sort of things around you know again it's our thoughts and but yeah we do tend to think strange things around Christmas time and that's because strange things happen at Christmas time yeah often and not necessarily happy things and that's what I'm tended to deal with in the third viewing the past which is brought into the present or the present which is actually so a sumptuous hardship or difficulty and there's so much going on the people then get the opportunity to talk about their own hurts and tribulations yeah so Christmas isn't a particularly particularly a time where um put another way there's a lot going on in the therapy room at Christmas time yeah but we we do cope with it every year how many Christmases have you had in the therapy room Bob 30 but I 34 35 yeah yeah yeah I always like to put a positive slant on things and you know ultimately I suppose one of the things that I do believe is that it's okay for us to celebrate Christmas however we want to as an individual yeah and of course I'm the same and I'm sure maybe people listen to podcasts are thinking gosh Christmas very dark and dreary time for Bob Cook I'm talking more about what Christmas is trigger off for clients uh you know in terms of their past histories yeah unity for them to have some healing and new experiences in a different way yeah now that doesn't mean back to what you said 20 minutes ago that doesn't mean putting a Christmas tree in the middle of the therapy room and having baubles and fairies dancing around and you know balloons and goodness knows wash in fact for some people that we could be so traumatic it will be so overwhelming yeah you can't force people to enjoy Christmas because you just think people should enjoy Christmas by putting Christmas trees on so I was sort of surprised when you said that but you know I'm often surprised what here third person yeah it again it's you know I suppose we've spoke at length and you know on each one of the sessions it's about being mindful of people's triggers it's about being mindful of people's past experience and trauma and how you know the most insignificant of things can can trigger that absolutely and by definition the people that come in my consulted room have had troubled histories and often Christmas has not been good time for them yeah now I don't deal with people who really are quite healthy functioning you know I I deal with people who want have issues to resolve and perhaps have a fragile sense of self so you know I have a different can't tell I don't have um you know a whole group of people who are pretty healthy functioning or who have the capacities perhaps to even be happy so I deal I deal often I deal often with the troubled world but Christmas is very stimulating or can be yeah and I suppose that you know it just touching on it before we finish as well if people you know with substance misuse it for some reason you know alcohol and things like that it's it's very difficult to you know be around that if you are you know a next addict of alcohol or drugs or those sort of things as well because it's seen as part of the festive season you're totally true I mean I think you've done a really good point which we didn't perhaps talk enough about but I the more I talk on this podcast the more I'm thinking about it is how is how how therapists take care of themselves at a time which often is most troubling time for clients and therefore there's so much difficult stuff projected on to the therapist and I think they the therapists need to go to therapy they need to have supervision if they need to and allow themselves to enjoy Christmas or festive period if they want to and not get bogged down by the troubles of their clients otherwise separate our professional and personal yeah yeah 100% and sometimes that's easier to do than others oh absolutely and I just said if you go into the year on years day where there's more suicides more drug overdose is any time in the year and Christmas follows it by the way um you're perfect correct yeah some some trauma some stories are quite hard to leave in the therapy room yeah yeah it is and and I suppose it all depends you know because we are only human and I think it's something that's overlooked a lot of the time that as therapists we go through life events just like everybody else and it's really important that you know we notice our own state of mind and where we are in the therapy room and as always there's a very fine line in feeling maybe or letting clients down in order to prioritise our own mental health and the feelings that can come around that yeah absolutely right I know we're ending this podcast but if I had to give a piece of wisdom or tips to people listen to this and therapists listen to this I think the biggest thing to say to them is to be real at Christmas whatever that is be authentic in the moment yeah because there's too much pretence out there at Christmas and New Year's time yeah what a lovely note to finish for let's all have a real Christmas as in we can be real and we can be authentic so we have a unique Christmas that's the other thing it's like it's so stereotypical now literally everything you know it's it's kind of like the picture picture postcard on a Christmas is what we try to recreate let's let's be unique and individual and do it our own way yeah no I think it's been important to be real yeah okay okay thank you so much Bob so what we're doing on the next one are we kind of following on a little bit from this you wanted one I think about is by couples was it yeah yeah yeah what was the title you put down I think I read it as couples yes yeah um basically it was how can therapy help with relationships so I presume couples is one relationship so it's a wider a wider conversation okay I look forward to talking about that yeah okay dog see you on the next one Bob yeah bye bye you've been listening to the therapy show behind closed doors podcast we hope you enjoyed the show don't forget to subscribe and leave us a review we'll be back next week with another 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