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You know, Hello, friends, vendors and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's podcast about all things Avatarverse. I'm Janet Varney.

And I'm Dante Bosco. And I want to just start in by checking in with you, Varney. How are you? Is your heart feeling strong? Are you nice and hydrated?

Thank you, my friend. I want to thank you for checking in with me to answer your questions. I am feeling very hydrated because I drank a ton of water in anticipation of watching this episode knowing I might be depleted afterwards. And my heart, let me just say my heart is feeling very strong and ready for our conversation about Appa's Lost Days because not only do I have you by my side,

but we also have one of our all-time favorite guests with us for this iconic Avatar episode.

Yes, we do indeed.

Varney, we needed someone very special since we're also coming off the very emotional Tales of Bossin Se.

And who better than one of Abbas's biggest fans the one and only

Ivana Lynch. Evie, welcome back. Yo, what's up? Welcome back to podcast. What a tree. What pleasure.

I'm so honored to be described as one of your favorite guests. Thank you. And thank you for having me

on this episode, which I know is so heartbreaking. But I feel like it's such an important episode because it's one of those episodes that has real world resonance. So as much as it's painful to watch, I just love it as well. I'm like, wow, they did something really profound here. So honored. It's extra sad. Yeah, for sure. And you're one of the very first

people that we said, like, what episode would you want to do for Book 2? And you were just like,

done, Appa's Last Day, and we're like, great, it's it. We're putting in an ink. It's in there.

It's happening. And you already said kind of why you knew to pick it. I do think of you as being a real champion for Appa. I did wear my baby Appa shirt for you.

Oh, that's so cute. And you aren't well known in the world at large for being an advocate for animals and tiny life everywhere. Do you want to like just remind us a little bit

about that before we get into it? Sure. Yeah. I mean, I work with a few organizations about

wild animals in entertainment. And it's quite a difficult cause to get across to people because

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