“Bitter Work”: Iroh’s Wisdom and Aang’s Earthbending Journey

Avatar: Braving the Elements

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4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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“Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source.” It’s an episode full of Uncle Iroh wisdom! Janet and Dante delve into ATLA’s Ep. 9 “Bitter Work” this week, following the progress (or lack thereof) of a certain Avatar and his certain Earthbending Master, as well as training of a different sort between Iroh and Zuko. Along the way, we discover a connection between water and lightning, fire and rage, and Sokka and a very cute sabertooth moose lion cub. Gain a new appreciation for one of ATLA’s most philosophical episodes. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends,
0:03.0	Hello, friends, benders and non-benders alike.
0:22.9	Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's podcast about all things Avatarverse.
0:27.7	I'm Janet Varney.
0:28.6	And I'm Dante Bosco, and it's time to get to some bitter work, Varney.
0:32.5	Okay, I hope you're talking about the name of this week's TV episode and not just having to podcast with me.
0:37.1	Please tell me that bitter work is not how you think of doing the podcast.
0:41.2	Luckily for you, I do mean this episode of Avatar. There's some serious training going on that
0:45.7	happened to this episode. And the question is, is that the bitter work the episode title is
0:51.4	referring to? I mean, that's a really good question. I feel like it is, right? I mean, it's, we know that bitter work has to do specifically with training. And I was actually reading about this a little bit. And I think even Sifu Kisu, who's like on the inside, yet the outside, because he's working to choreograph all of the fight moves and stuff with Brian referred to martial arts training as bitter work like it's not all fun in games so I think
1:18.4	it is yeah I mean it's intense that's interesting that is a strange because even the word bitter
1:24.2	it's not like incredibly like you can't do it just like you don't want. It doesn't always taste. It's not like the impossible work or the death-defying work. It's the bitter work. It's doable. Not really enjoyable at times.
1:39.4	Which is so true of like a lot of physical training, right? Is it like you know to get good at something,
1:44.4	it's probably going to hurt literally. Oh, it's horrible. You know? I go train, you know,
1:48.9	just keep in shape as we're getting older. And every time I got to go to the gym, I just
1:53.0	dragging my hills. Yeah. I want you to just at some point take, it could be a stranger,
1:59.0	it could be your trainer, it could be just the person that checks
2:01.3	you in i want you to heave a heavy sigh put your hand on their shoulder and say we both know
2:06.8	this is bitter work this is bitter work i just see what they say i'm gonna tag myself next time i take a
2:13.3	picture after working out hashtag bitter work yes please do please do. Please do. Okay. And so where does this fall
2:21.0	in our chronology of the show? This episode follows the chase and when we saw our being
2:27.3	pursued by Azula and the girl gang. And at the end of the episode, of course, we see Azula hit
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