Hello friends, vendors 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 Varney. I hope

you're feeling very bookish today because we're taking a field trip to the library. I'm a little

embarrassed to say unfortunately for my cool factor. I'm always feeling bookish. It's part of my

nerdy charm. I know I'm feeling audiobookish. I'll tell you what between podcasts and audiobooks,

it is rare for me to pick up a book on paper now. So this is our chance to wander through a beautiful

library full of ancient secrets. Now as far as our Avatar book to chronology, of course,

we're coming off the episode, bitter work, which involved a lot of bending training with Zuko and

Iroh, Ang and Toph. And I want to rip this bandaid off right away, even though who am I ripping it

off for? Everyone already knows. We don't see a lot of Zuko in this. I know. And not a lot. We don't

see that far as we know Zuko's still screaming at the wind trying to get himself electrocuted

on the top of a mountain somewhere. I think I was when I was on Avatar Wiki, as I always am.

I like to check in on what everyone has to say about this episode. I think I saw a thing that said

that you are credited in this episode as if you appear in it, which isn't always true with other

episodes. So I'm not sure about that, but I might have a natural voice or something somewhere. Yeah,

maybe. Maybe I made a sound for one of the sandbenders. Yeah, for sure, I remember that sound

from the episode. All right, but it's a great episode. I'm a scholar. I haven't been in the library

in years, but it was nice. It was this library. Okay. And are we doing this by ourselves?

No, we are not. Not even a little bit because Varnie's day, we're joined by an old friend who

we've been wanting to have on the podcast for a while now. And he's going to help us tour the

library today. I'm talking about writer, podcaster Phil, you found an editor of Angry Asian Man

and the co-author of the new book Rise, a pop history of Asian America from the 90s to now.

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