Life Lessons: Karama Horne and Ijeoma Njaka on the Avatarverse

Avatar: Braving the Elements

Nickelodeon

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

4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Get ready for a very cool “big picture” conversation about the Avatarverse this week as Janet and Dante sit down with Karama Horne and Ijeoma Njaka! Hear from two extraordinarily awesome women who bring nuance, intellect, and humor to this very special round-table-style episode of BTE. Featuring discussions about big recurring themes in ATLA, find out about lessons we can all take into our own lives from Avatar. Karama is a culture journalist and content creator also known as @theblerdgurl, and Ijeoma is an arts educator, professor, writer and artist based in Washington, DC. 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, Bender's and non-benders alike.
0:25.1	Welcome to Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's podcast about all things avatarverse.
0:30.5	I'm Janet Varney.
0:32.3	And I'm Dante Bosco.
0:33.9	And Varney.
0:34.7	So much fun having Jack DeScenta back for our recap and discussion about Book
0:38.2	1's 12th episode, The Storm. I know. He is the best. You know what, ever since we had him on
0:43.2	that first time, listeners have been bringing up the whole like, that's rough buddy run that we did
0:47.9	with you where we were tossing the lines at you. You mean when I was caught between two improvisers
0:52.3	and... That's got to be rough, buddy.
0:54.7	But before we get into this week's episode with our wonderful guests,
0:57.7	I just want to return for a moment to the storm.
1:00.0	If you recall, when we were having the conversation late in the episode
1:03.6	where Ang does, everybody's sort of plummeting into the water,
1:07.4	and we sort of made a joke,
1:09.0	essentially because we didn't really understand exactly how
1:11.7	the mechanics or the physics of all of that works. And we also made a joke about Aang being in a
1:17.2	sort of suspended animation, which I don't think any of us actually thought was true when he was
1:21.5	suspended in the iceberg for so many, many years. But a couple quick answers and very helpful
1:27.3	bright bites from our beloved
1:29.1	Brian Kenetsko and Mike DiMartino. So as far as Ang inside the bubble in this episode, the storm,
1:35.9	it's something like fish extracting the oxygen out of water, right? And uses his air bending. And while
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