MLB’s Pablo López on Sports x Avatar Crossovers

Avatar: Braving the Elements

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4.9 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Minnesota Twins MLB pitcher Pablo López joins Braving the Elements to share his deep love for the Avatarverse - and yes, he really wears a Water Tribe belt on the mound. Hosts Dante Basco and Janet Varney dive into Pablo’s personal connections to Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, from childhood memories to life lessons drawn from Aang and Korra’s journeys. They build fantasy baseball teams with benders, debate pro-bending strategy, and explore how the show's themes mirror real-life challenges in professional sports. Plus, Magic: The Gathering designer Dillon Deveney gives us a first look at the epic ATLA x MTG crossover, revealing how the team brought bending battles and beloved characters to life in card form. And if you’d like to join Janet, Dante and their guest(s) as they react to some amazing action, check out the video version of this episode on the official Avatar Legends YouTube Channel! 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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0:58.5	Yeah. The The Comedian original podcast. Hello, friends, benders and non-benders alike.
1:02.8	Welcome to Braving the Elements, Nickelodeon's podcast about all things Avatarverse.
1:03.7	I'm Janet Varney.
1:04.9	And I'm Dante Bosco.
1:12.2	And Varney, it seems like every season, there's at least one episode we have, like, a guess we can't wrap our minds around how we got them. And this is definitely one of those episodes. It absolutely is. Could
1:16.6	not agree with you more. But before we get too deeply into that, I'm just going to lay a little
1:20.4	more groundwork and say, we're very excited because we're going to talk a little bit about some
1:24.7	sports in the Avatarverse, which very much deserves this conversation,
1:29.7	and we're going to be doing it with a real-life legend.
1:32.8	Yes, plus we'll be discussing the new Magic,
1:36.1	the Gathering Avatar to Last AirBetter crossover game later in the show.
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