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 this week's episode is a very special one for us. Definitely

covering something. Well, someone that's very near and dear to in my heart and I think

all of our hearts. Yes, buddy. Yes, indeed. This is an episode that we absolutely knew we

would do really from like the inception of Braving the Elements. We knew we wanted to do

it. We wanted to course to time it out appropriately. And we're finally at the point of our

second season where it sort of makes the most sense to take this whole episode to pay

tribute to that beloved actor who voiced Uncle Iroh. Of course, we are talking about Mako.

I make a solemn vow as I always do when we talk about Mako or Iroh to try not to cry.

I'm sure there's going to be some tear banding in this episode. And we also wanted to have some

of our friends to share the memories and the love. So we are super delighted to welcome back our

two dads, Mike DeMartino and Brian Canasco. And one of our favorite human beings in the whole

wide world voice director legend Andrea Romano. So welcome everybody. All of our parents are in

the room. That's funny. Aren't you dads and our mom? Wow. How about that? I love that.

So good to be with you. It's great to have you. Mike, we haven't seen you in a minute.

It's great to have you back on the podcast. Hey, I'm happy to be back. I'm glad you had me back.

I didn't watch it the last time. That's good. We really wanted you to sweat it out. Brian,

of course, thanks. So he was back straight away. But I really wanted you to sit on it for a little

while and appreciate that. No, we're so happy to have you here. This is an episode that like we said,

you know, we've really been looking forward to. And we took a little bit of a break from our crying.

You guys really put us through a lot in season two as we near the end of the season. And already

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