Honoring Mako: Uncle Iroh’s Legacy w/ Micheal DiMartino, Bryan Konietzko, & Andrea Romano

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

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

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Join us in remembering Mako, the legendary actor whose iconic voice brought Uncle Iroh to life. Janet and Dante are joined by Mike, Bryan, and ATLA Voice Director Andrea Romano for a wonderful conversation honoring the great Mako Iwamatsu. In addition to sharing memories of Mako’s work as Iroh in "Avatar: The Last Airbender," the group looks back on Mako’s extraordinary life and career, including his stage, screen, and television work. And the episode wouldn’t be complete without sharing some cast, crew, and fans’ favorite Iroh moments. 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,
0:02.0	Hello, friends, benders, and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's
0:24.6	podcast about all things Avatarverse. I'm Janet Varney. And I'm Dante Bosco. And this week's
0:30.1	episode is a very special one for us, definitely covering something, well, someone that's very
0:35.9	near and dear to, in my heart, and I think all of our hearts.
0:39.3	Yes, buddy. Yes, indeed. This is an episode that we absolutely knew we would do, really from
0:44.2	like the inception of braving the elements. We knew we wanted to do it. We wanted, of course,
0:48.8	to time it out appropriately. And we're finally at the point of our second season, where it sort of
0:53.8	makes the most sense to take this whole episode to pay tribute to that beloved actor who voiced Uncle Iro.
1:01.2	Of course we are talking about Mako.
1:03.8	I make a solemn vow, as I always do when we talk about Mako or Iro to try not to cry.
1:09.1	Wish me luck.
1:09.9	Wish me luck.
1:10.2	I'm sure there's going to be some tear bending in this episode.
1:12.5	And we also wanted to have some of our friends to share the memories and the love.
1:17.1	So we are super delighted to welcome back.
1:19.8	Our two dads, Mike Di Martino and Brian Kinesko, and one of our favorite human beings in the whole wide world, voice director legend, Andrea Romano. So welcome everybody, all of our favorite human beings in the whole wide world voice director legend andrea romano so welcome
1:30.7	everybody all of our parents are in the room with us barney our two dads and our mom wow how about that
1:36.8	i love that hello everybody so good to be with you mike we haven't seen you in a minute
1:43.5	it's great to have you back on the podcast hey i'm happy to be with you. It's so great to have you. Mike, we haven't seen you in a minute. It's great to have you back on the podcast.
1:45.0	Hey, I'm happy to be back.
1:48.0	I'm glad you had me back.
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