Hello friends, benders 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 it's time to get

to some bitter work, Varney. Okay, I hope you're talking about the name of this week's TV episode

and not just having to podcast with me. Please tell me that bitter work is not how you think

of doing the podcast. Luckily for you, I do mean this episode of Avatar. There's some series training

going on that happens this episode and the question is, is that the bitter work the episode title

is 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 Seifu 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 and games. So I think it is. Yeah, I mean, it's intense.

That's what you're saying. I bet it's strange because even the word bitter is because it's not

like incredibly like you can't do it. It's just like you don't want it doesn't always. Oh, good

point. It's not like the impossible work or the death of buying work. It's the bitter work. It's

doable, not really enjoyable at times. Which is so true of like a lot of physical training, right?

Is it like you know to get good at something, it's probably going to hurt literally, you know,

I go train, you know, just to keep in shape as we get older and every time I got to go to the gym,

I just drag in my heels. Yeah, I want you to just at some point take, it could be a stranger.

It could be your trainer. It could be just the person that checks you in. I want you to

give a heavy sigh, put your hand on the shoulder and say, we both know this is bitter work.

I'm going to tag myself next. I'm going to take a picture after working on

hashtag bitter work. Yes, please do, please do. Okay. And so where does this fall in our chronology

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