Disability in the Avatarverse with Jimmy Clare and Ru Jones

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

Animation & Manga, Tv & Film, Leisure, After Shows

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Janet and Dante welcome two amazing advocates in the disability community who also happen to be big fans of the Avatarverse: Jimmy Clare and Ru Jones! Jimmy Clare is a Motivational Speaker, Autism Advocate, Author, and Founder of CrazyFitnessGuy, and Ru Jones is a Disability advocate + content creator! Both bring their love of Avatar: The Last Airbender to BTE, and sharing their perspectives on the represenation of disability in the Avatarverse. They also make some amazing choices after questions about which characters they’d like to cook a meal with, play a game night with, and more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Hello, friends, benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's
0:24.6	podcast about all things avatars. I'm Janet Varney.
0:28.5	I'm Dante Bosco, and we're really excited about the topic for this week's episode because
0:32.8	it touches on something that comes up quite a bit in discussions we have about the avatars
0:37.5	versus with fans and friends, including some really amazing conversations we've had with
0:42.0	people all over the world in Comic-Con's.
0:45.2	Yes, indeed, yes, and I would say it's probably not so surprising to anyone that a lot of the
0:50.4	time, the conversation that we're sort of angling towards here. It often springs off of
0:56.1	people's love of tough, who is, of course, in her own words, the greatest earthbender in the
1:01.4	world, and who is also, of course, blind.
1:05.7	So, to go a little deeper into something we've already talked about a bit on Braving the Elements
1:11.0	in past episodes, we want to bring us some very special guests to further explore the representation
1:15.7	of disability in the avatars versus?
1:18.4	Yes, today we are thrilled to be joined by Jimmy Claire, a motivational speaker, autism advocate,
1:24.1	author and founder of Crazy Fitness Guy, and Rue Jones, a disability advocate and content
1:30.6	creator, who we both had the pleasure of meeting in London.
1:34.2	Yes, so please join us and welcome today's fantastic guest, Jimmy and Rue. What's up, you guys?
1:38.8	Welcome to the show.
1:39.8	Thanks for having me.
1:40.8	Very excited to be here, and Rue, what time is it where you are right now?
1:45.7	So, it is quarter past 10, so it's not too late, but it's definitely past my usual bad
1:51.6	time because I'm a bit of an old lady.
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