Everybody Loves Iroh

Water, earth, fire, air. This is what we This is Yuppie. Hooray! It's our podcast. And welcome back, friends. I'm your host, Jordan, and I am joined by the wonderful, the beautiful, the perfect, my wife. Her name's Katie.

Great. Uh, and then we're also joined by a super fantastic guest.

unknown Oh.

Who happens to be my little brother?

Oh, you're Sokka.

His name's Troy.

Mm-hmm. Hi. Hi, Troy. So tell me, uh, what are your credentials for being on a podcast or to talk about a television show?

I literally have no credentials.

That's alright. You know, who does?

That's great. That's true. Who does?

So today, Troy is uh an Avatar the Last Airbender newbie. He knew how much did you know about the show coming into this? Not a perfect. Nothing. I love that. So the show premiered in 2005. How old were you in 2005, Troy? Math.

Yeah, well, I'm 27 now.

Are you in junior high?

I'm sixth grade? I must have been in sixth grade when it first came out.

I can confidently tell you that I was a freshman in high school when Avatar The Last Airbender came out.

Well, yeah. Then I was totally in sixth grade then. Alright.

Wait, wait. What was your little Avatar name that you came up with for our podcast? I Oh, you said Avatar Done Right. Done right.

No, that's right. Avatar Done Right.

So the episodes we just watched. Jessica's gone. I don't know where she's at. Maybe she's practicing her earth bending. So, what we watched today was the uh episode four, oh, chapter four, excuse me. Warriors of Kyoshi, where we are introduced to the island of Kyoshi, where the avatar, Kyoshi, comes from, whose two avatars prior to Aang.

Avatar before Aang was Roku, a firebender. One before him was Kiyoshi, a Lady Earthbender. She's apparently really.

Wait, wait, wait, time out. Did you follow all that, Troy?

Not until just now. Good. I missed all those little details in the episode.

No, I did too. I mean, this is my third time at it.

You watched it twice today.

Well, that's also true because we thought Troy had seen this episode. And so we watched we watched it before he got here, and then he shows up and says, Oh hey, I still need to watch episode four.

So we watched it after he got here too. Oh man. So you you didn't pick up that Kyoshi was the avatar?

Uh, I think I just thought she was connected somehow.

It's like a cool, cool gal.

I definitely did not really understand that she was a past life.

So she was an avatar. Right. It's very important.

Right, right, right. I'm a slow learner.

There ha they have a whole uh Kyoshi thing that they just came out with. I think they have like a graphic novel prequel series, I think, kind of exploring Kyoshi. Because she apparently lived the longest out of all the avatars. She apparently lived for like hundreds of years.

Well, want to check that out.

Well, I thought it was interesting because uh there is a ton of jokes being thrown around this show, and it feels like it's been like joke, joke, serious mm uh mythology and methodology, and then joke, joke right afterwards. So for a new guy, it's extremely easy for me to just miss that right out of the gate.

That's fair. And we did have subtitles on, so there was a lot going for you. And that that's I think that says a lot about what the show Avatar is, where they just have a really dense world that they're throwing at you. You're like, I don't know what like what's gonna stick.

Oh, well, and it's just it's so intense, it's so intense, but then it's a Nickelodeon show, and so that's it's quite the combo.

So we have Warriors of Kiyoshi. Great episode. We meet Suki, presumably the leader of the Kyoshi Warriors on the island. We'll come back to her. Next episode we watch, chapter five, King of Omashu, some could argue kind of fillery, but important things we pick up is. We meet Boomy. We meet Boomy. Uh so far, the only person from Aang's past I'm not gonna say life, because that would mean Right, from a hundred years ago.

Who is still alive because his mentor Gyatso monk Gyatso was a pile of bones. So that was exciting.

But I feel like Have you ever seen that tribe? What?

In the when they're exploring the air temple and Aang goes in at the end of the episode and he sees like all the people and he freaks out and like Because the Fire Nation had like attacked and like killed everybody.

Oh, that must have been in episode two. Episode three. Episode three Yeah.

Must have been.

So Troy's homework is to rewatch the entire series so far. That sounds like a fact. So Aang meets his old friend Boomy, they reconnect. Honestly, I was a little disappointed there wasn't more of like an emotional punch there, but that's a testament to the writing, I think, in these early episodes.

I feel like they share a nice moment once like Aang figures it out and it's like boom, and he's like, Oh, it's really good to see you, Aang. You haven't changed.

Maybe they weren't really friends.

No. I was picking up on some romance? Yeah, but I feel like Boomy's kind of off, obviously. Well, that's okay.

I like that. I think they have to pull the punches just a little bit on the emotional spectrum of this show, just due to the fact that it it is watched by families and kids included, and I think it's since since it was on Nickelodeon, I could see why they wouldn't want to give it much more of an emotional punch.

Just you wait, Troy.

You have no idea what's coming for you. Yeah.

This this is the new guy trying to breathe life into it, and I'm doing a great job.

You're doing a great job. Also, the the episode, The King of Omashu, uh, was originally called the uh The King and Aang, which was maybe a reference to the King and which kind of a weird episode title. Whatever. Definitely the most like Nickelodeon feeling episode, like watching it, like the animation wasn't that great, uh the art style wasn't super good because I think they had several different uh South Korean studios working on it.

And so some episodes have a little bit lower quality than others. No offense, guys, if you're listening to this. It was fine. Yeah, it definitely was more much more jokey um by having an absence of Zuko and Iroh. Like you don't get that heaviness from the other side to kind of counteract their their goofy story.

Yes. And then we ended our little mini binge um with the great episode, in my opinion, chapter six, Imprisoned, where we meet our first um our first like bunch of Earthbenders as opposed to just like like the soldiers and the king in the previous episode.

So well, and I feel like it's the first time you really see the impacts of like the Fire Nation and kind of oppressing people. Yeah. And so I don't know, how was that for you, Troy?

It really hit me because um it was the it was a very sensitive episode to dive sort of uh to sort of touch into slavery. I mean they literally shinghaied a a guy mid-episode, and that made the girl want to go save him, and then she What's the girl's name?

Oh, new guy. Katara Katara.

There you go. She has to rescue Haru. Haru. Haru. There you go. And yeah, and you had to figure out, to find out they are holding all these earth benders on the ship, and these people are having to work day and night, and they they don't have any rock or earth elements that they can bend at their will to save themselves.

And it's like, oh wow, this is an episode about slavery. Wow, they they really went for it.

Yeah, and so interesting of some fun facts about this episode. The warden guy who shows up, bad guy of the episode imprisoned, um, George Takei, who was um Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek series for some facts being thrown out. Um, when he was a kid, he and his family were in an internment camp in Arkansas, and then they were moved to California.

So he and his family are Japanese, so during World War II, he was in an internment camp. And so it's interesting they got him to be the voice actor in this episode that's kind of about these like internment concentration-y type camps. Um, we delve very pretty steeply just into straight-up racism in a couple couple points of the episode where he's like talking about how the Earthbenders are like brutes and they're savages.

He says like the the term you people a few times, and you're like, dang, like you get instances of just like pure evil for evil's sake in this episode, but you definitely see like some pretty negative effects of colonialism going on. Yes.

Yeah.

Pretty heavy.

Right, and just like breaking people and their spirit, and yeah, but I'm happy. It's a happy ending.

Well, Guitara does lose her necklace in a cliffhanger moment.

Okay, that's true. So I guess it wasn't that happy, but overall I was happy.

No, and they like this little regtag team have gone and they've kind of restored hope to these people, these people who think that all hope is gone and the avatar's been broken, and there's this There's nothing that they can do, and right, just kind of like you know, the Fire Nation is under control, and that's how it's gonna be.

And Katara really shines in that episode, like not even just being like the mother figure, like the the older sister of the love interest, like Katara all of a sudden she gets her voice, gives a really rousing speech, which she's thrown out some pretty heavy vocab words during that moment. Um, what did that little moment do for you guys when Katara's like trying to rouse the Earthbenders?

Well, I always love it because I feel like it's just very inspiring and gets me all emotional. I was trying to keep it together.

As we've addressed, Katie is uh quick quick to cry.

Quick to be moved. Anyway. Troy.

This uh show I I like how uh Sokka, the brother, keeps making all these sexist jokes throughout the first of the series. But then when it really comes time to to stand up and use your voice, not your fight moves, that that's the way that he's been raised, uh Katara comes through every single time. And yeah, to see her once again, like use her voice to move a bunch of people that have been convinced that they're slaves.

I think that would hit most people uh in their hearts and m, you know.

I do love um how quickly Sokka's developed. Like you see him early on in the series, he's sexist, he's a skeptic, he's kind of just aloof, he's being used as uh comedic effect. Uh, and after the worries of Kyoshi, when he just gets his butt handed to him by the Kyoshi Warriors and Suki, he's starting to change his tune a little bit.

Like he's not throwing out a bunch of sexist terms or remarks to people, he's kind of mellowing out. You're seeing Sokka kind of develop into to a leader, like he's the oldest of the three, and so he's kind of taking that role on a little more. Um, and I think Sokka's been a pretty consistently great character so far up into this point in the series.

Like he's funny, but he's also uh he's pretty smart and he's um moved to help uh Aang, who quick sidebar on Aang, kinda sucks at moments in these episodes. Like Aang's just kind of off doing his own thing. Like when they're trying to get Katara to be captured, he's just screwing off behind the rock.

No, Aang kind of sucks, like in the early episodes. He's not my favorite.

He's also 12.

He gets a little bitter, as most do.

Yeah, 12-year-olds. I mean, when I was 12, I mean I was probably goofing off my rock.

Aang fits the perfect stereotype of somebody who's extremely powerful, but their emotional intelligence just isn't there. So yeah, he definitely rubs me the wrong way. He rubs Kitty the wrong way. He rubs you the wrong way? He rubs me the wrong way.

Okay, well, I think he's really terrible. It's like uh the avatar. He has great power, uh, but yeah, he just uh the maturity quite isn't quite there yet. And I don't think he's quite accepted as full responsibility of what being the avatar means.

No, he hasn't. And then again, that's that's emotional uh intelligence where he's just like, I'll save you with like with like my finger. You know, I can bend every everything with my finger, and then stuff hits the fan, and I'm not sure if we're allowed to swear on this podcast. Nah.

But this is family friendly.

Okay. Just like the TV show. No, but he's he's just that perfect stereotype, the hero that's just slightly arrogant, and I don't know, in in a way, he's kinda like the child version of Tony Stark. Oh dang.

Wow.

I'm just I'm excited for uh you you're excited for episode seven when Aang develops a suit of armor. It gets crazy. Technology advances very rapidly, very quickly.

Wait, going back to Suki and Sokka, I appreciate when Sokka can admit that he was wrong.

Yes.

And that was a really strong moment.

Showing that Sokka's more than like he's they're starting to show depth to his character.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, and I just think it's not always easy to take those steps, and it's a very real, raw moment, I think. Yeah, it was it's a beautiful moment.

So with these episodes, um, Troy, you have seen all of them up to this point? You've seen all six episodes, right?

Yes.

Is there a character that you are relating to the most or enjoying the most?

Believe it or not, uh Prince Zuko's uncle.

Oh Uncle Iro. Jessica, previous episode, uh, refers to him as Uncle Fire.

So Uncle Fire, yes. I I I relate to Uncle Fire the most. Why? Because I taught Taekwondo for four or five years, and then once I decided to throw in the towel and retire from martial arts teaching, I I definitely just enjoy going and watching tournaments and just sitting on the sidelines like you go get 'em, boys, you know.

Uh, that sounded weird, but And girls, and just being a support. Just being a support, yeah. And uh, well, for how long the martial arts tournaments would take, uh, they would take all day, and you couldn't go anywhere. And since my wife and I do fitness competitions, those also take all day. And I tried doing a fitness competition, and I didn't really care much for being a competitor.

But when my wife does the competing, I'm totally like uncle fire, like I'm here when you need me. You know, I got the food, I got the drinks, we're gonna be, we're gonna have some fun. No matter how serious everybody else is.

So, as a a previous Taekwondo instructor, uh, real quick, the all of the elements that people are bending are based off of a style of of martial arts.

So uh water Wait, wait, can you guess any of them?

Kung Fu. Aikido?

I mean, kung fu is definitely a couple of them. So earth earth bending, they do the Hungar style of kung fu.

Okay.

And then fire is the Northern Shaolin style of Kung Fu. Yes. Any guesses for water? You took some classes on it.

I did, and I can't remember. Tai Chi. Tai Chi? Okay. I thought I recognized the moves in there. And uh what episode what was it? Episode It had to be episode four, yeah, when he was being trained by the warriors of Kyoshi. I just thought it was, you know, Kung Fu was its own thing, and I thought karate was its own thing, and I thought Wing Chun was its own thing.

No, Kung Fu is like the foundation, and then you add on to it with Wing Chun, with Aikido, with no god, Tai Chi. And I just it was just it's really fun watching this show because Kung Fu is really in everything.

So were you were picking up on the different styles that they were doing?

Yes, yes, I was, and I thought it was brilliant how they showed how you can be defensive with a hand fan.

Yeah, that was that was great. So uh air.

It was like using it against you, it's like taking your opponent's what did they say?

Force and using using it against them, that's that's Wing Chun, that's Kung Pu, and that is Aikido in a nutshell. Hmm. Yes. When he goes to hit her and then he she blocks his punch and then starts throwing around the room uh while holding his arm. That is straight up an Aikido. That's awesome.

Wow.

So Taekwondo, if you were to bend an element with Taekwondo moves, which element do you think you'd summon?

I would I would definitely be summoning fire. Okay, okay. I feel uh it'd be fire or water. One of those two.

Maybe a combination, huh?

See, I've never taken any martial arts classes, have you?

No. Uh just watched Troy and gone to a couple really long all-day competitions.

She's got the pleasure of seeing me get kicked in the face once or twice.

Wow. Always a pleasure. So what was your highest rank in Taekwondo?

I became a black belt. Uh first degree black belt. So there's before we become a black belt, there's nine what they call cups, spelt K-U-P. And then once you became once you become a black belt, uh, then you become a first degree, and there's first all the way through ninth degrees. You get 10th degree, if you were to continue training, you'd get 10th degree black belt when you pass away.

Oh dang. Whoa! Yes. I was hoping like when you bent fire, you become a tenth degree.

When you break concrete, you become the tenth degree, man. Oh man.

Wow. Yikes.

But no, it's just it's it helps to have that martial arts background to watch this show. And I can tell you, Aang would be a pain in the butt student. He would be the worst student. He'd actually be on the sideline when he goes to martial arts classes. Katara would actually be great with defense and using her voice.

Would you want to teach Zuko? Trying to remember which Oh, Prince Zuko. Yeah. Good. I think he'd be very arrogant. He'd be he'd be the equivalent of a Bruce Lee in in class. Nice. He he'd want to prove that he was the best. Whereas with Aang, he he he's like, he's like, I am the best.

He's like, I'm naturally really talented.

And I'm like, then sit down. You know, when you want to train, I'll train you.

Because you know, as the avatar, he's obviously a prodigy. He's like, oh, I could I could learn all this.

Yes, and those are the worst kinds of students you can have.

In terms of what style of martial arts air is, it's Baguas, which I didn't I don't know what that is.

I've never heard of it.

All right. Will we watch something? So the the guy who coordinated the martial arts portions of of the show and they worked with the creative team. His name's Sifu Kisu. I'm assuming he's like maybe some Southern California martial arts teacher.

Probably.

Um, so he had they had a whole feature out where he went through like the different styles that he does. And so I thought it was really interesting that they stayed true to real life martial arts. And for someone like you who can appreciate that and has a knowledge of them, like you can pick that up in a kid's show.

Yes.

So wait, did you know that that was going to be a part of Avatar? Was some sort of like martial arts or like the elements?

I did not. I just thought these are people just throwing fireballs and rocks and waterballs at one another. I didn't realize that they were actually incorporating different formations that would turn out to be recognizable martial arts forms.

Waterballs?

Yeah, you know, have you ever had a water ball? Like it's getting your hands, you're like, what am I gonna do with this? I'm gonna throw it. Airball. Throwing airballs. Throwing airballs. That's what Aang does. The blazers sometimes.

Oh, yikes.

Okay, so grouping these three episodes together, if you were to rate them on a scale of one to ten. Four through six? Yeah. We're just gonna group all three. All three of them. Okay.

Wait, wait, wait.

We did them individually last time.

I know.

Do you want to do that again? I mean, these are unrelated episodes.

Right.

Okay, I'm gonna do some take back sees, even though King Boomy famously says in the episode King Vomashu, there are no take back sees in my kingdom. We're gonna do some takebacks. Okay. Okay. Warriors of Kiyoshi episode. Give me some yip yips out of ten. One yip out of ten yips.

Okay, okay. So ten yips being the best episode ever.

One yip being an unwatchable pile of yip.

Hmm. Can't try it.

Episode four gets eight yips. Eight yips?

What?

Alright. You can't question him. Okay. Katie gives give us some yips. Can I get a yip for?

Seven yips.

I too match you with the seven yips. Well, actually, no. I'm gonna dock it one yip. We're going down to six yips because Warriors of Kyoshi has my least favorite frame in the entire series of Avatar Last Airbender, and it's when Aang realizes the like Unagi monsters hanging out in the bay, and he freaks out and hightails it out, and he's got like this distorted, like fugly face, he's like screaming out of there.

Hate it. Despise it.

Yeah, no. I mean, can I take mine back to I kinda want to do six or six point five? You can do six point five yips. It's just there are parts that I don't enjoy. But overall. Okay, moving on.

King of Omashu, how many yips?

Six.

Yep. Six yips.

Five yips.

Three yips. It truly was a filler episode.

Maybe we should have all Troy Night scoring too high.

It was a filler episode, but I think it's important that you meet Boomi. Um and that's that's about it.

Skills. And I like that Boomy pushed Aang with like the little challenges where he's like, like, I don't want to do this. Give me back my friends. Gonna be really whiny.

I love when I whine to get my friends back. Don't kill my friends. Don't do that.

Right, but it's like he pushes him. And I think that that's what, yeah, where he's like, hey, Aang, the world's changed, and you're gonna need to step up and get it together.

Come on, let us leave. Let us leave.

Okay, there's some solid jokes in that episode.

That's why they said that that episode probably had some good jokes in it.

There's some solid, there's some solid ones going on.

Good chamber or the bad chamber, the refurbished chamber.

Which reminded me of Tillamakai School and the new gym. What? Oh like we're gonna do this in the new gym, but the new gym was like built in like the 80s or something. It was like pretty awful, and they had to like redone the old gym, the main gym.

It was always referred to as the new gym.

Totally, yeah. Okay, so the gym on the east wing. Is that the new gym?

The little, the little gym.

That's the new gym. That's the uh new gym.

Yeah, quote unquote. But yeah, that was very relatable. My biggest lol moment of King of Omashu was when they're going down the chute, which was just a ridiculous moment. Like that was so Nickelodeon.

Made you want to ride the slide, right?

Which slide? Well made you want to ride the slide. The mail chute slide. Okay, but then they're riding it and they turn around and they see the frickin' like cart of spears becoming up behind them.

Which I thought, like Aang would have, I don't know, powered them further front or pushed it further away.

Instead, they just completely get off the track. Get me out of here! And then they destroy like some dude's vase. The guy with the cabbages. Okay, the guy with the cabbages, they don't let him into omashu, but then somehow he's back in omashu later with fresh cabbages. That's what you call a plot hole, right?

I don't know if it's a plot hole. I think it's maybe he has his like little cabbage fingers everywhere. He's like, oh, where's my shipment of cabbages?

Maybe it's like a franchise.

Oh, the cabbage man franchise.

In omashu.

No one's eating cabbage, though. I've never seen a single person eat cabbage in this whole series so far.

Well, we're only four in.

That's true. Okay. Five in. Six in. Whatever. That's so awkward.

I was like, this episode that we're talking about five.

That's right. Okay. Can you pronounce Aang Katar and Saka's pseudonym, their false name, when they went into Omashu?

Oh, no way.

You gotta try.

Press because Eclipse.

Okay, your drinky.

Pipolopolis.

It was like Popsalokalok Balopolis. Yeah, it was crazy.

It was crazy.

Also, those guards in Omashu are terrible. They just let anybody in. Like, obviously, Aang isn't I mean, probably not pulling off old man that well.

But it was great. It was like, yeah, watch your grandpa. And it was like, oh, you're a young, strong guy. Could you relate to that, Troy? Here. Carry your grandpa's bag.

Yes.

Anyway.

Okay, episodes chapter six, Imprisoned. How many yips we given it? Eight. Yips. I will also do eight yips. I'm gonna do seven yips just because I know what the scale is of this television series. Yeah, it was great. Uh Haru's father in that episode, Tyro, Tiro, Tyro, right? Okay. Uh his voice actor is Kevin Michael Richardson, who is a famous, prolific voice actor.

He's done a bunch of stuff.

Haru's father's the name of that actor was who?

Kevin Michael Richardson.

Oh, I could just tell that was a famous voice.

I You'd know him if you knew his body of work, but he was at Emerald City Comic Con when I went a few years ago. And he just has like the most rich, delicious, syrupy voice. And I walked up, had him sign my Is he African American?

He is. Wow, that is ballsy on uh Avatar's part to have this guy, the voice actor, be an African American, have him be the leader of the of these imprisoned slaves. That's fair. And that the warden, the guy that voiced the warden was the guy who actually lived in an internment camp. So like I mean, that's not two sides of the coin, but these are two guys.

I don't know. That was just a really It's a progressive show, man. Yes, it is.

It is super progressive and it's great.

Especially for its time. So I met Kevin Michael Richardson, made him laugh when I met him, and then in my journal that I brought, because I didn't have anything else for him to sign, he signed it and then said, Thanks for making me laugh. Aww. So we're pretty much best friends. Oh, Troy's going for a high five, and you might pick it up on the on the the microphones.

Wow. Did you hear that slap, friends? That was a good crisp. High five.

That's quite the um one more, one more. One, two. Oh. Oh, that was terrible. Gotta redeem. Yes.

Sounded good.

The whole studio felt that.

The whole studio. We're rocking in here. It's crazy. Alright, quick highlights from these three episodes. Troy, you got any highlights you'd like to speak of for these batch?

Well, for obviously in episode four, like I said, when they meet the warriors of Kyoshi, I was actually a little bit blown away that it was all women.

But it comes across like Suki and a bunch of clones because they took very little time in like giving the other Kyoshi Warriors like different looks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but how much it took for Sokka to change the tune of his voice instead of saying, like, can't believe a girl beat me to can I please train with you?

Oh, very quickly. Yeah, it's great.

Because these shows are being watched by kids. And if kids start picking up on those jokes like, Can't believe I'm beaten beat beaten by a girl, it's like, well, that's how sexism starts at that early of an age. That when the show shows the man of the village being trained by these women, I really literally the man of the village, that's right.

Yeah.

When he's being trained by these women, uh, that they don't have strong voices, but they know their martial arts and he's humbled by them. I really hope that teaches kids like it's okay to be taught by girls. Like, you know, sexism only exists where there's lots of toxic masculinity. That was the biggest highlight for sure.

I think that was the same episode where the Unagi monster was in. Again, Aang, worst martial arts student ever. When he's just like messing around and he finally picks up, like, oh, I can use this sea monster to help cool off the village.

I was like, Can we talk about how big the Unagi is and how little that bay looks? Like, that bay must just like go to a straight drop-off.

It's got to. Hundreds of feet deep. Yes.

Wow.

But those are my two biggest highlights. Uh, it doesn't do a whole lot for the other characters. Oh, and there's the chance that Katara actually has much stronger feelings for Aang than she realizes.

So, do you think that's going somewhere? Are you shipping Aang and Katara?

Yeah. We wanna hear like predictions, what you think's gonna happen since you've never seen it.

I think they're gonna accidentally ship themselves. Ship themselves. Wow.

Where's that slide whistle to play right now?

I think they're gonna accidentally do something. They're gonna accidentally do something.

My gosh. Okay, yes.

Aang's life's gonna be on the line, or Katara's life's gonna be on the line, and uh they might have some fireworks, only for it to be a false alarm, and then that's how Sokka catches them.

Oh any other predictions for the rest of the series?

Prince Zuko, he's gonna l he's gonna l lose that ponytail.

Whoa, well, alright. Why?

Because Troy doesn't like it.

No, he's yeah. I'd say he's gonna there's gonna be a lot more depth to Prince Zuko, and so the ponytail is just literally showing his immaturity, and so I think there's gonna be an episode where maybe Uncle Fire's going down, and then Prince Zuko has to make a tremendous move, and it it ends up with him losing his ponytail.

Nice. Um, Uncle Fire, I think he's just gonna keep eating and keep enjoying life.

Keep keeping drinking his tea.

Hey, are you gonna finish that? Yes, I am. No.

Saving it for later, Uncle.

Ugh. And then there's also the possibility that Appa could also find uh a lover.

Appa. Appa. Do you think it would be a buffalo that he finds or a bison?

Bison.

Perfect.

Wait, did you say what your favorite character is?

Uncle Fire.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

Who's your favorite character so far, Katie? Has it changed?

No. Still still, uh Katara? Aw. Katara.

And there goes the boy asking if the girl likes the girl character. Jessica like said, oh, obviously I like Katara and work. Why?

And she's like, because I obviously do. Uh yeah, I like Katara, but I also like Sokka. I also like Aang later. And I like Grumpy Zuko.

He's so grumpy.

Because I'm all about the anti-hero. Not that he's a hero.

Yeah, he's definitely like a villain. He's an anti-villain.

That's a right, but he got he got he got a little heart, a little bit.

He does have a little heart. He's like the frickin' Grinch right now.

That's the uh no, that's that's the best thing about the villain of Prince Zuko. Is he really the villain? Because he hasn't really done anything horrible. He did break the wall of the wall, but no, the thing with his character being the anti-hero, he definitely has the most room to grow, even more so than Aang and Sokka.

Anti-villain? Because his goal right now is to capture the protagonist, anti-villain. I'm saying it right now. I'm staking a little pole right there. Alright. Good. Antivillain, not anti-hero.

Yeah.

Highlights from Warriors of Kyoshi for me. Uh, Sokka. I don't know why why don't we see him ruining his pants? What did he do? What happened?

Right. Did he fix them? Did Katura. Did she have to like fix them or mend them later?

Well, fun fact, when he when Sokka goes in to ask when he's like, hey, uh, hey girls, I see you practicing your dance lessons. He's like doing his stretching. Uh there's a moment where like his tunic like flaps up. You see a little Sokka behind. And you see like the stitching.

You see the stitching where his uh Yeah, I like when he goes in trains and gets to put on the dress. It's like empowering.

Well, and he puts on the makeup second time in the short-lived series that Sokka's putting on makeup.

What was the other time?

When he when the Fire Nation was coming, he put on like the war makeup for the Water Tribe.

Well, that's true.

So in by the time episode four rolls along, 50% of the time is Sokka in makeup.

Well, there you go.

Did you like that Sokka put on the dress, the garb?

Yeah, and I'm happy he didn't really make a big deal out of it. Yeah, he's pretty cool. You know, and yeah, I think the more like yeah, this was like a super progressive show. Like it came out what year?

2005. 2005, 15 years ago.

I mean, there's some really some really important topics that are addressed, and that's why we like it so much.

You should not have been embarrassed at all to wear that. In Taekwondo, we call it a ghee, but that thing looked like it added a little bit of extra weight. Like it wasn't like just cotton. It was for sure. It looked like it had like armored plating on the shoulders. Of course, the the girls were stronger than he was, like they've been training in these heavy uniforms, and so I thought it was pretty cool.

And uh, that's also a callback to the samurai, because the samurai would used to wear those and they would wear the face paint. And uh the samurais have this uh motto, you know, go to battle thinking you will die, and you will actually survive. Go into battle hoping you'll survive and you will surely die.

Whoa. So, and I that's what their uh uniforms in the show remind me of.

Nice. So, with that, uh Troy, is there an element that if you could bend any one of them that you'd want to? Bend. Which element are you?

Well, what are you what do you identify with so far?

If you had to pick To be honest with you, I would love to bend uh I would love to do the earth bending. Is that or is there a wind? Air. Airbender!

He's the avatar, he's the last airbender.

Because believe it or not, airbending. This sounds so weird. Airbending would actually help me out a lot with my job. What is that job, Troy? Flipping cheese blocks all day. Just like bloop, bloop, bloop.

Are they 40 pounds?

40 41 pounds, 90 ounces. That's exactly how much I weigh. Exactly. Can you flip me, Troy? With a little bit of a keto, probably. Perfect.

Well, uh, and with that, we have finished our second batch of episodes for Avatar Last Airbender. Our next ones, um, I'm really excited for where we're going. It's pretty much just uphill from here. Getting better every episode.

Excellent. Because I don't want to do another like boomy slide.

Aw. Alright.

I need anger, bro.

Yeah, here's to hoping to better jokes and less sexist comments in the show.

Perfect. That's right, it's only getting better. All right, guys. Well, until next time. Yep. Yep.

Yippee.

Talk to me, Troy. What's going on? How are you doing? Sitting on the floor.

I'm doing great. The floor is really comfortable over here. Oh, good.

Nice and hard. Nice and hard.

Nice and hard.

Okay.

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