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Yeah, welcome everybody to a very very special episode. As you can
see by the title, we're doing Avatar the Last Airbender. It's the best
show ever and everyone in this room is like deeply impacted by Avatar the Last
Airbender, including our very very special guest, Angel Candelaria. Everybody, this
is one of my best buds in the world. He was the first roommate
I ever had, first person I ever lived with, one of the first
people you met in college, one of the first people I met in college.
We hated each other at first. Yeah, I want to talk about
that. And he was also my best man at my wedding. This is
this This guy is very important. And if you follow the socials, you
saw him ripping the Merge modeling. Yeah, he's our merch model. So
yeah, this is my dude, Angel, and show off the tat you
can kind of catch it. The Blue Spirit dude, and there it is.
I mean, that's sick. Look, if we we've honestly we've mentioned
a couple of times in the past doing an episode about Avatar, we have
you know, what's funny too. In the last few weeks, we've,
like in our Discord and in our Patreon, we've gotten several requests to do
an Avatar episode and we didn't reveal it and they didn't know that we had
already planned this for months. Yeah, it's crazy, but even like like
many many episodes ago, we've mentioned it in passing yeah, and like if
we were ever to do an Avatar episode like this is the guy you know
like this, But in in talking about all this, we also unveiled our
very own producer, Alex is also a massive, massive Avatar fan. You've
watched it how many times? Now? I'm currently I was really trying to
be done with my fourth watch through for this episode. Fourth yeah, and
first time with my fiance. Oh yeah, she's watching it. Yeah.
I've watched so like once when I was really really young, and then twice
since then since it's been on Netflix, and then this will be fourth.
I don't think I've ever watched a show four times through. Really, A
movie's one thing, A show that's that's that's a lot. Yeah, we
were just talking out there that I've seen it's always sunny at least ten times.
I mean Avatar The Office. Oh no, dude, The Office I've
watched like twice and that's the most I've watched. No way a show all
the way through. Well what about I think you should leave. Yeah,
but that's small. Yeah, that's small. Those are like fifty hours tops.
And don't think I think Avatar is small too, it's sixty plus.
I think it's pretty I mean, yeah, it's only three and three seasons
technically, right, Wait, how many episodes is it per season? I
forget it's like what ten to eighteen? I would say, yeah, maybe
some reach twenty. I think the first maybe reach twenty maybe. Okay,
So it's like relatively it's not super short, but it's definitely not like long.
It's pretty dense too, I mean, I mean, yeah, that's
true. Yeah, I feel like it got the the Game of Thrones treatment,
where the first two chapters are very like thought out and paced, like
they're running a marathon, and then the last chapter I feel like, is
rushed. Are you think so? I think so? But it also might
be part of the storyline, like you have all of the what's it called
the astrological events happening, so it's like they're in a hurry. So they're
like more of a hurry, more of a hurry. So's it may be
done artistically, but it feels to me like I get to the end of
Avatar and I'm like, I really wish there was like a little seven more
episodes. Hey, can I cut in here? Guys? Yes, I
just I have to say I went ahead and googled it. There are sixty
one episodes. Seven of those are Part one in part two, so technically
there's fifty four full episodes. You guys said it's rushed at the end.
Season one and two had twenty season three had twenty one. Ah, so
actually the third season was longer. Wow. So it's weird how it feels
that way to me. But if i'm if I'm not, it does feel
that way. Yeah, No, if I'm not mistaken. Didn't they originally
plan on four? Yeah? They did? Really? I mean yeah,
I think they were, like, looking what, I think it was supposed
to be like Air that we're gonna do all four elements were supposed to do.
So I mean I think they were, but I mean think narratively doesn't
make it that's true, right, because they couldn't really do a book of
Air being mastered are and also there's no no, yeah, they're all they're
gone. They're gone, well gone, they don't die. I forget.
Yeah, yeah, wiped out. But is the is the so fast forwarding
a little bit here is the Guru Airbender? Or is he just never mentioned
I don't think everybody does know he never mentions it. But it's also I
think it's funny because it's like the first two first couple episodes, it's like
we're making a children's show and then it gets and then they get like funding
and it gets serious and they're like, oh, we're gonna cut you deep.
Yeah okay, and gets startled very quickly. He gets what startled?
Very quick? Oh he gets thrown off? Yeah. What I want to
Okay, what I want to know is so we all watch it as kids,
right? Yeah? Yeah? Every week? Yeah, like Fridays or
something. I think Thursdays or Fridays would come on? What what? So?
What about it like grabbed you from the start? I know the things
for me, but I'm curious if it was the same or you know,
honestly, so I was a pretty sheltered kid growing up, right, I'd
have very similar backgrounds, like like you, all of us religion and being
kind of our identity was kind of part of that, right, and it
wasn't It was really hard to branch out of that, that that religion type
of thinking, right. I remember, like I remember growing up, like
trying to listen to Lincoln Park and stuff like that and my dad freaking out
immediately about it because he thinks it's you know, it's evil, it's bad,
and things like that. So with Avatar, it was nice to be
able to be introduced to a lot of other ways of thinking, a lot
of other like religious ways of thinking that I didn't even know existed at the
time, because it was just I was so narrow minded. And the fact
that it was wrapped up in a cartoon was the way that made it super
accessible. And like, you know, my parents could turn a blind eye
to it because it's a cartoon, right, you know, they don't have
to think too much and go, oh, well, he's probably watching this
that and the third Oh it's a cartoon, it's innocent. But I was
learning a lot out of that show Man. That show teaches you so much,
I feel like totally fully by the way like that was. It was
actually the same thing for me and I wasn't expecting that to be like your
answer. Honestly, I wasn't. Like when you think of Avatar, you
think like cool elements and martial arts and stuff like that. That's what me
right, Yeah, So, which is like obviously such a cool, fucking
cool part of the show. But the first thing that grabbed me is what
Angel is saying. I was like, it's like I'd never seen anything like
that, Eastern like religious like spirituality type stuff, and like I remember feeling
inside of me like this is real. I don't I don't even know how
to explain it. I was just like this, this what they're talking about
is real. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even question it. And you
know, maybe that's just being a kid or I don't know, but I
don't know. It just it gave you, like it's marked your imagination to
like crazy, Oh totally. I wanted to be aang so bad. Oh
yeah yeah. I think all of us would be the Avatar, bro.
I think that's what life is about. It's like embodying the Avatar Christ consciousness,
Krishna consciousness. Yes, we're gonna get into all of the like we're
gonna just gush for a while, but then we're gonna like hone in and
talk about, like break down the real stuff that they're saying in the show,
Like you picked up on that's crazy we as because you were probably how
old when you watched it? Gosh, man, dude, I feel like
maybe eleven? Yeah, yeah, I was. I was like around that
age, dude, and like life was very small, you know. And
even then you subconsciously picked up on the spiritual aspect of the show, even
though you didn't things were supposed to perceive as evil, like aren't that's aren't
you know what I'm saying, dude, And so the fact that that resonates
with us even as children who have no concept. We didn't we didn't even
know what Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, none of that stuff was. But
it resonated still and now as adults now we can say we can go back
and say, like, Okay, why did I feel that and what does
it actually mean? Okay, Alex, what grabbed you as a kid?
Well, so, and now that I'm thinking about it, I think I
was a little bit younger than you guys. So I think I was probably
seven or eight years old when I first started getting exposed to it on Nickelodeon.
The Fights and Zuko is what grabbed me immediately, and I just always
felt myself drawn to Zuko. But it's crazy that you mentioned this, because
I had the same feelings of there is truth in here, Like I was
smart enough as a seven eight year old to know I'm not gonna bend water
of course, right there is like I can feel that there is some truth
to the and it may have been more of a fantasization of it, but
I really think it was more like just this just a subconscious knowing that they're
onto something and they're trying to portray something without ever being exposed to any of
those major religions or religious themes. It's very interesting that we're all kind of
on the same page here, and that's really what that is what contributed to
the hardcore nostalgia that brought me back over and over and I still find myself
feeling that same way that I did as a child watching it, feeling,
you know, feeling the emotions. And I feel there's very few shows that
get me and my emotions because you've watched very few shows. That's true,
because I just have an emotional connection to the show. Right, And I
think that's that's what it like, like when you go through the whole lost
Opa, which will get anybody, but even like when he goes back to
the Air Temple and there's nobody there. Every time that that that he goes
into the Avatar state and it's all emotionally charged, I'm like, oh my
god. And like you think about its themes, right, Like you've got
like Sokka and Katar and a fatherhood theme and and like a difficult fatherhood of
that. Yeah, I mean I have a couple of things written down,
but I don't. I don't want to jump again here. I kind of
want to. I don't know how you guys want to move through this.
Oh no, no, there's no script. We can move however, let's
see, hey real quick, what was homegirl's name that that Sokka had a
little thing with? Well, which one the moon yeah or not not your
I thought it was Moon Bay. Yeah. But also but he also had
a thing for the Kyoshi Warrior heard Suki? Wait he does? He does
because they find each other later, like he breaks out of prison and yeah,
okay, they come back together like several episodes. I just watched the
episode so it's super fresh in my Okay, wait, so when she when
when she when they get their clothes taken by uh by uh the crazy girl.
H Yeah, Azula takes their clothes and then you think they're dead.
Yep, they're not dead. Nope. And then Aula comes in and like
does the whole sneaky, sneaky sneak thing. I was just gonna say,
Soccer pulls the BDS bro he does the bad dames speak of an emotional connection.
I just had to show this man. This is my first devil ever,
my first evil, my first ever possession from when I was about two
years old. This is the turtle Raphael. I thought you were going to
relate that somehow to Avatar. Oh no, he just was talking about how
he had an emotional conne I didn't want to interrupt him. I've been holding
this up for about three minutes. But I understand that emotional connection. No,
I mean, of course I do too. There there are things My
favorite turtle as well. Refel was my favorite because he's just angry and like
you know, he has a defensive defensive weapon and stuff like that. Yeah,
it's crazy. He's such a cool character. Well, who's your favorite
turtle. I don't know, I don't know. You don't know. Alex
don't rock with it was always a mighty guy. I don't with the turtles.
But you know what, you know what though, Raf is kind of
like exactly, He's like exactly, That's what I was gonna say. That's
it's the same arc type, which, by the way, is usually the
arc type that I gravitate towards and I relate with, like is my you
know what I'm saying, Like it's always like Vegeta is my guy. Like
Zuko, his whole arc is like my one of my favorite things. Sony
is kind of that guy too, Like if you think out of the box,
Well, yeah, I was just thinking as Sonjy because like I mean
that that arc type isn't very clear. I feel like in the one Piece
group, you know, but if I had to think about it, it
would be either Zoro or Sondry. I feel like, Soanji is a little
bit like, well, I know some unfortunate and I will not spoil it
at all, but I unfortunately know some spoilers that kind of confirmed like yeah,
like he he is very much. He's just a little more hard headed.
H he's hard headed, and he's kind of like crass, a little
tougher to get along with, hard edged. Yeah, yeah, it's it's
but I guess the archetype that I'm talking about is I'm just particularly I gravitate
towards like someone who was not born good and they have to find it.
Yeah, oh yeah. Darth Vader was kind of the opposite of that.
But then it turns into that afterwards. You know what I'm saying. I
feel like Iro embodies that. Okay, I was always good though, he
always good, but he was he was bad. But that's he was about
to break into bossing. Say, yeah, but that was like his job,
you know what I mean, that was his role. But I believe
the person I row was above all that eventually from eventually, but he may
have to make those mistakes first sure, to lose his son, Yeah,
I think that was the big catalyst for it, for sure. And he
goes and you know, he loses his son, and he's like, holy
crap, I've been causing everyone in this world to lose their sons, right,
this is how everybody feels in my wake. You know, I need
to be better than this Iron That's all unspoken. Iro is definitely the Yoda
of Avatar Bros. He's on that level line, dude, I'm at the
part right now where he's getting swollen. That honestly the best part. Like
yeah, and then when Zuma comes to everybody's beat up and knocked out.
Okay, I'm so scared. I was so scared. He was so terrified.
Yeah, well that's that's true. That's another example Tracking of the West,
someone who was like bad and like found inner peace and like found redemption,
like Krados in these New God of War games, like he was like
literally the destroyer of the entire uh Greek pantheon, Like he's a destroyer,
and then that whole thing. Zuko Zuko is a perfect example. Best.
I love his care so much. What season did he? Like did the
blue Spirit stuff happen towards the end of one? I think? What?
So? You you very early on you get this. There's this establishment that
like they need each other, right, and and you could look at it
like, yeah, you need Zuko needs Aang to restore his honor, But
it's deeper than that A needs Zuko. And isn't that just brilliant? How
Zuko ends up being the one who teaches a fireman has to finish like it's
it's it's really, it's just dynamic, beautiful. It's beautiful. And like
I think the thing that gets me the most in the whole show, like
if I just very quickly have a mental picture of like something that I'm like
emotionally impacted me in Avatar, it's the part and I think it's the finale
of season two. It's it's the time when Zuko doesn't he like hit Ang
with lightning and he like mortally wounds him. Basically that's Aula does that.
I think, well, yeah, but but I thought it was it was
it was Zuko was the reason it happened because he ends up betraying like guitar,
yeah, a bunch of other things. Yeah, they're like in a
cave, right yeah yeah. And then like Iro just freaking snaps at Zuko
and he's basically like what the hell is wrong? You know, he goes
nuts on him, and like you see in that moment, sure Ira has
been escorting Zuko, he's been kind of like helping him fulfill his mission.
But that's the moment where you see that he made the negative, dark choice
and almost kills Aang, and IRA's like, what the hell, dude,
Like this is wrong? You know that got me? Not almost like he
kills him. Basically he kills me if it wasn't for yeah, yeah,
And it was the reaction in that moment. How how Iro like he's supposed
to be a bad guy too, you know, but how he's like kind
of didn't want it to really happen that. I feel like that's when the
show really turns upside down for me, you know, because he loses the
Advatar state right after that. He lose right after that because of his fear
because he was a killed in the Avatars. Why do you think it is
that even though Ira, this is something I've thought about, Like, even
though Iro is fire Nation and he's done all these bad things, Like why
do you think he even wanted to be good? Like what was the catalyst
for that? Like you know that's that that ship. I'm so interested this
is something I think it was a son. It was mainly a son.
I think it was mainly a son having that lost, because I would think
that was all he had, I that was all he had left. You
know, he's seeing his you know, his all his family in front of
him probably followed that same steps as he did and died and obviously not changing
right, like everything everybody in front of him was doing the invading and you
know, taking over everything. So yeah, you know, because like what
a profound one eighty turnaround he makes, I mean, like he becomes like
an enlightened saying he also like stops the dragons from being extinctive. I'm not
mistaken in that in that era as well, they mentioned it. It was
in the the one where Zuko and Aang find the essence of fire bending,
right where they discussed that. You find out that there's two dragons left,
and the reason why is because Iro lied and said that he killed the dragon
right for to preserve it. So yeah, yeah, he's been doing it.
Yeah, near the end of his career, he obviously had a big
turnaround. Yeah. No, The honestly, probably the most like emotional moment
for me throughout Avatar is the same the same part when he's yelling at Zuko,
because it's like in that moment you realize, I mean, you always
get the hint, but it's like fully realized in that moment that like it's
a twist. Yes, Iiro truly does not care about what is going on
in the in the Fire Nation. He truly sees the picture. He wants
Zuko's redemption, but he wants Zuko to find it. He has to.
Yeah, he's been saying that from the get Like when he when he spoke
with Tough. I think it was like season two when him and tof meant
Ireland Tough. Yeah, he spoke nothing Zuko, you know, spoke lovingly
about him and then spoke how much that he wishes he would follow the right
path because it's been set in front of him the entire time. So just
to speak to your question Nick about Iro, you know, and it's not
an angel. You may know more about this than I do because it's not
laid out. But did did Iro join the White Lotus before or after his
son passed? And was that actually the catalyst because the White Lotus understands the
bigger picture, and so it's it's not that's pretty cool. Now, that's
a cool thought. That's a cool thought. Yeah, I don't. I
don't. I obviously I don't know. I'd like to think that his son
passed away and then he went on this path of finding himself and stumbled upon
the he stumbled upon. Yeah, but if he saved the dragons before his
son passed, then I would also think that he had been a part of
it for way longer. Mm. Interesting, I mean he'd likes He's like
in Pie Show forever, So it's like he's already has that sport connection to
it. So it's like just taking a step further and like where in his
Pie Show did he meet somebody with the white tiling? Go from there?
You know, it could happen, you know, anywhere in between. Yeah,
So that's a really cool thought. Cool. So there's a lot of
things in there that dance that real is real, but they're showing it to
you in an exaggerated way, right, And for this one's very light and
airy, right, the cloud seating cloud bursting episode with aunt Wu who is
the fortune teller, who is obviously a real fortune teller, I think because
she threw angs bones in the fire and like they exploded, And all Ang
wants to know is if Katara likes him. I love those like little mundane
elements from the show, Like there's this big grand cosmic skinme of like this
hundred year destiny of the world boiling up to this genocidal war, and then
you have these little like twelve and thirteen and fourteen year old kids just traveling
on a big furry flying cow crushing on each other. Yeah, and like
saving the world and like, yeah, a normal drama, and and like
the way it dials it up, it's it's really adorable. Man. Like
I think I think the line that made me laugh the hardest in the entire
damn show. I can't remember what season it is because it's been three years
since I've watched it. It's like they're they're in this town that they like
flew into briefly. It's like one of those little one episode spots, you
know. Yeah, and it's something to do with like there's this little girl
there that like has a crush on AG and she's more like Aang's age.
Yeah, we're talking about the same episode, the same episode, and at
the end, at the end, she kind of like gets the idea that
aang like Katara, and the little girl's like, oh, thanks, floozy.
I mean that that's a very rated g way of being like you freaking
slightly, my man. It's funny. It's hilarious. It's hilarious. It's
like, yeah, that that show really dials up the funny side the human
Yeah, the human side, because there's so much mess, but like they're
still able to live their lives and bounce their lives in between. Yah.
Yeah, I love that aspect of it. Yeah, you guys talked about
emotional episodes. The most emotional for me was probably the Ember Island episode.
I don't know if you guys recall that one. Wait that wasn't Whereo and
his family like him a Zula, Tylee and like my they all go to
Ember Island. It's where you know, like the beach. Yah, Zuko
and his family grew up there, Like they would spend their summers there and
you know, make memories there. Right, Well, they went there,
Uh you know, I think it was near the end of the second season.
So this is when Zuko goes back to the Fire Nation because they think
he's killed the Avatar and like he thinks he has everything that he wants now,
but he's struggling after getting everything he wants because he still feels unhappy and
he still feels unfulfilled in his life because yeah, because he knows he's living
a lie. And uh. In that episode, they're they're they're they're kind
of like diving into the diving into themselves and like finding themselves in Mber Island
because like I don't know if you remember the two old ladies that were there,
they would say, oh Ember Island reveals your inner something. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. They were like super cryptic, okay, And then it
ends up unfolding. As the episode goes along, you start seeing them kind
of unravel. You kind of like even see Azula as like a normal woman
for once, like who kind of wants to like be with a man and
stuff like that, like, Oh, you're cool, you're you can you
can be normal. You're too Yeah, it's crazy, you can be normal.
Yeah, it's weird to see, but it's really nice that it's possible.
Yeah. Uh but uh. In that same episode, I think it's
near the end where they're talking about their lives and and they're they're they're bad,
they're they're terrible sat but backstories and things like that, and they get
to Zuko and and Zuko talks about being unhappy. He's like, I have
everything I want. I have, you know, my life back in the
fire Nation. My father acknowledges me I can sit at the war room but
I'm still unhappy. And then everybody keeps asking like, who are you upset
at? Who are you upset at? And then he just goes, I'm
mad at myself. He throws the fire down, it blows out like that.
That moment big moment for me because that was that, that was his
turning point like I'm the problem. Yeah yeah type thing, and that like
the moment where you are forced to realize you're the problem, like what you're
you have to see yourself like you think you've acknowledged the problem. You think
you're fulfilling what you want, but no, you're not. And it takes
it took them, took him a long time to admit that. But that
moment goes my fire. Dude, it's it's a big moment, so huge
because that that stuff he always gets me moving. Man. Yeah, that's
why it's crazy. It's a kids show teaching children how to deal with this,
right, they're saying, they're saying, you know all these you can
have all the riches in the world, but if you don't get there the
way you're supposed to get there or the way you need to get there for
your personal growth, is not gonna feel it won't mean anything. It won't
mean anything. You didn't do anything, You didn't make any progress. Yeah
you thought you did because of all this external stuff. And I also like
profound I spent so much of my childhood watching it out of order. Oh
yeah, I still think it works, Like it's no matter what where you're
dropped in that whole entire show, there's a lesson to be learned. You
don't have to be following along at all, even the filler episodes. I
think there's one filler and it's the one that's like written by other people and
it's like Ang's journey, Momo's journey, and it like you just learn one
little thing about every character. It was like by anime standard, it's a
filler, but it was still just so good. Was so sad too,
mancause because opos still gone, still gone. This is this is what shone
in anime are, Alex like, it's it's these cartoon shows that are meant
for kids. Showon ins are usually meant for kids, and they have all
of these like super important real to life lessons that they're like teaching kids,
Like I mean any one of them, and honestly, I would consider like
I consider the Last Airbender a shown in anime like yeah, I don't know,
call me out like the comments on Fire, there's no there's no gore.
It's all implied. Yeah, and I get that. And I also
think that, like, you know, Ryan's emotional, Ryan has a emotional
nostalgic connection to Dragon ball Z. Well yeah, well yeah, every well
all three three of us do, right, I got you. And it's
like this is what I have that with in that category, and so it's
hard to like because if I have this, I wouldn't watch the show.
Yeah right, yeah, right, and I wouldn't be the same it wouldn't
be the same show. Well, I wanted to add something, if I
may, for the listener out there who who has never seen Avatar, which
I think is incredibly unlikely, but just in case, you know, if
you haven't seen it and you're curious about like any sort of esoteric themes there,
there's there's an undercurrent to Avatar, which is the real reason why it's
so good. We know it, but I want to I want to explain
it, you know. Yeah, we haven't done that's probably exactly. Yeah,
you have to do it at some point, right, probably. Yeah,
So I pulled up something very valuable. So the thing about Avatar,
for those who have no clue what it is, we're not talking about the
Blue People obviously. By now, I mean you realize that twenty eight minutes
and we're talking about Avatar the Last already. Oh my god. This is
something that I was taught. It's like you just assume they have no clue
what you're talking about. I know I usually do that. I just got
so excited, so good idea. Well, I'm just saying, okay,
why why is he, like, you know, insulting our intelligence and explaining
to us that it's Avatar the Last Airbender? Right? You know, I
just wanted to make that very clear. Okay, So this is a show
that is about Eastern mysticism. We have the four elements, but you know,
you understand and and pretty much all mythologies, there's actually five elements,
the fifth element being the spirit. Right, what does he learned at the
very end of the show exactly because he I'm gonna I'm gonna read the lesson
from Gurupathic on how he opens all seven chakras. Yeah, yeah, I
found a transcript of the actual lesson. So that's that's something about the show
that is so fucking mind blowing and so profound that they had an actual,
genuine, uh explanation of how to like with real esoteric like you could call
it Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, you know whatever, how to open your chakras.
The real esoteric description of this is verbatim in the show, and it's
like the pivotal moment towards the end where a becomes fully realized is when he
opens all seven chakras and he reaches galactic cosmic consciousness where he's like, he
has this whole scene where when he reaches his final state, the crown,
he has to connect and be one with the universe and see it from a
higher perspective. His last step in his unfolding avatar consciousness is to let go
of his attachment to Katara, his earthly attachment, his earthly possession, and
his love right. But then you realize from the enlightened perspective, what the
Guru is explaining to him is not that he has to shun her and not
be in love with her and forget about her, but what he has to
do is detach himself from her as like experiencing her in a state of love,
but not letting his fear of losing her influence his actions. Yes,
it's not the it's not the love that's evil, or it's the attachment of
it. And once he realizes this, it literally illustrates him reaching galactic like
cosmic enlightened. And then he goes and he masters the fifth element, which
is spirit bending. Right, I mean, we're giving it away here.
But and what I wanted to illuminate about the show that's so wonderful is that
it has this entire element of like a hidden spirit world that only avatars and
select few other people iron can go into. But Ali chant scene chorus,
So we're gonna pretending to say that, yes, but there's only like select
few people in this entire world that can actually delve into the spirit world.
So like that whole part is cool, you know, So check this out,
Gurupathic. This is what he explains to Ang. Chakras are pools of
spiraling energy in our bodies. There are seven chakras that go up the body.
Each pool of energy has a purpose and can be blocked by a specific
kind of emotional mark. Be warned opening the chakras is an intense experience,
and once you begin this process, you cannot stop until all seven are open.
The first chakra is the earth chakra, located at the base of the
spine. It deals with survival and is blocked by fear. What are you
most afraid of? Let your fears become clear to you. You are concerned
about your survival, but you must surrender those fears. Let your fears flow
down the creek. Next is the water chokra. Note that they're not calling
them root sacrel. They're calling them elements. And I think that's totally fine.
It is a children's show. Maybe sacrerole could be offensive. I don't
know a child watching a child show literally learning how to clear your shock.
I know, dude, Like, this isn't fru fruit, this is real.
Yeah. Next is yeah. All they do is replace the word of
the chokra Ye. Next is the water chokra, which is emotion. Water
bending is emotion that this chalker deals with pleasure and is blocked by guilt.
Look at the guilt that burdens you. So what do you blame yourself for?
Now? Accept the reality that these things happened, but do not let
them cloud and poison your energy. If you are to be a positive influence
on the world, you need to forgive yourself. Third is the fire chokra
that's solar plexus, located in the stomach the sun, this chalk that I'm
adding, this solar places part. This chakra deals with willpower and is blocked
by shame. What are you ashamed of? What are your biggest disappointments in
yourself? You will never find balance if you deny this part of your life.
The fourth chakra is located in the heart. It deals with love and
is blocked by grief. Lay all of your grief out in front of you.
Love is a form of energy and it swirls all around us. A
love of your lost ones has not left this world. It is still inside
of your heart and it is reborn in a form of new love. Let
it flow through you. The fifth chakra in the chain is the sound chakra,
located in the throat. It deals with truth and is blocked by lies,
the ones that we tell ourselves. You cannot lie about your own nature.
You must accept yourself as you are. The sixth pool of chakra,
excuse me. The sixth pool of energy is the light chakra, located in
the center of the forehead. It deals with insight and is blocked by illusion.
I'm almost done. The greatest illusion of this world is the illusion of
separation. Things that you think are separate and different are actually one and the
same. We are all one people, but we live as if divided.
We are all connected, and everything is connected. Even the separation of the
four elements is an illusion, because again they're all conjoined to the fifth Spirit.
Even the separation of the four elements is an illusion. If you open
your mind, you will see that all the elements are one, four parts
of the same whole. Even metal is just a part of Earth that has
been purified and refined. The final chakra is thought chakra and is located at
the crown of the head. It deals with pure cosmic energy and is blocked
by earthly attachment. Remember he's attached to Katara. He's in love. You
know. Once you open this chakra, you will be able to go into
the state of mind where you will have complete control and awareness of all your
actions. Meditate on what attaches you to this world. As the Guru is
explaining this, you see an Aang's mind. He's seeing the love Katara.
He can't let go of her. He's struggling, but then he lets go
and he ascends, but he still gets to be in love with her.
Yeah, you know. Yeah, meditate on what attaches you to this world.
Now, let go of all those attachments. Excuse me, Let all
those attachments go, Let them flow down the river forgotten. You must learn
to let go, otherwise you won't be able to let the pure cosmic energy
flow in from the universe. That's a that's a transcript from an episode.
Still he robatim But I want to butt in here and say that you're he's
taking these chakras and relating him to the elements that are getting bended in the
show. The reality is is that everybody listening to this is the avatar,
and you are bending the elements that control your chakras. Right, So you
have the chakras for love, emotions, willpower, sound, thought. You
are bending thought. You're bending sound with your mouth, You're bending your willpower,
You're bending your love and emotions. Those are the things that we get
to bend with this physical body like move around and manipulate the world around us.
And you're mastering of each of those chakras and getting to that ethereal body
that is like, what that is the reality? Well, dude, then
absolutely. And then you look at Buddhism the way that they look at the
four elements, like like Tibetan Buddhism. They the reason that they focus on
the four elements. It's not literally them focusing on fire, earth, air,
and water. They're not literally focusing on those things. They're using those
things as abstract representations of the energies within us. The the whole show is
an allegory exact when they're bending water, it's like, dude, it's like
mythology. It's like like Greek mythology. They're they're allegories for the lessons that
we need to download into our subconscious. Like I'm kind of realizing right now
that Avatar the Last Airbender is like a religion. Well, I mean,
it's like, you know, it's not that it's a religion, but it
has it has a complete message. What does every religion have and do?
It has the main sage character going through the journey of the soul, learning
how to unlock their chakras, learning how to like expand their consciousness and awaken
and enlighten themselves. Like it's like the story of every sage ever, Dionysus,
Osiris, Jesus, like all of them. Like it's like they made
a religion in the form of a kid's show. Correct me if I'm wrong,
And this is an abstract thought, but does the show end with aang
being thirteen by any means? Because I know it starts when he's twelve.
I have to look it up. I'll look it up, but that makes
serious. I'm just curious because I know it starts when he's one hundred and
twelve. I also want to curious. Who's thirteen? Is that symbolic number?
You know? Yeah? Well, I mean, and I talk about
bending these things like sound and emotion and stuff, and it makes me think,
like, you know, you could look at that and say, oh,
I can do that. I can bend that. But what do you
got Nick? It says in the end of the show, and was still
twelve years old or at most or at most just turned thirteen. Yeah,
it's like at least a year they flew around the world. I mean,
yeah, yeah, I was just curious. I mean it doesn't say that,
but in my mind that would make it of some significance. Well,
yeah, the number thirteen. I mean, it's a whole templar thing.
You know, Jesus pops up at thirteen with some sort of ministry. You
know, it's a it's a superstitious mythological number. There might not be a
connection there. I was just curious. Yeah, you know, but yeah,
what are you saying? Well, I'm just saying, like nobody really.
You see in the show, you see the negative aspects of fire.
You see what happens when you can't bend fire and fire being like willpower,
Right, But then I also look at this and like, like you're you're
we're correlating emotions to water and water when you're bending, it doesn't really seem
like it could go wrong, but you know, water can drown you.
You can drown in your emotions. And all of these like connections to these
emotions and the things that we have the ability to bend, it's like,
you can't. You have to become a master at these things and be able
to detach from them and not allow them to to consume you come over you,
Like, you can't let the love consume you to the point where you
won't let go of your earthly attachments, and you can't let the emotions consume
you to the point that you're only living in emotion. Yeah, I'm just
going back to that. I'm sitting here looking. No. I love that.
Also, I mean if you think, yeah, also if you think
about like when they're actually bending their elements, when they're learning how to bend
their elements, like if they try too hard or if they are like like
whatever, it doesn't work, Katar in the beginning, she will just throw
the water in frustration. That's what I'm saying. Explain to her. It's
about the flow of her emotional state. Yep, that's what I'm saying.
You you quite literally have to. When she was angry, like sheld literally
like that's how she got angry. She broke a whole icebreag when she was
mad, icebreag like in half. And in order to bend the lightning,
you have to be completely clear of emotion, not even that, just understand
your energy and how it flows through your body so you can take it in.
And then that's always my favorite, bro, when they channel the lightning.
Yeah, that was the And he remember I would learned that because of
water bending techniques and learned how to read diirect light and redirect line, because
think of it just like water, you know, like it's just of something
of energy. So water, same thing, it's flowing through you, so
you just bring it in, you bring it right out to jump on top
of that too. In my field of work, I deal with a lot
of electricity, and that is the number one comming out when someone trying to
explain how electricity works. It's always water flow, flow current, That's how
it works. You know, what are all the advanced bending types? Again?
What were they? There were blood, metal and then magma. Well
that's in Kora. You learn that, Like, yeah, I think it's
crazy. And that's what about I'm talking about in the whole universe. Yeah,
yeah, metal bending, magma bending. I haven't been watched a lightning
And then I think and even like I remember in Korra, one of the
things I wanted to know as an earthbnder is if they can steal the breath
away of somebody, like, steal your breath away, earthbender. No,
an airbender is still your breath away. And they do it in Korra,
they do really do it. In hears here does it He literally takes I
think the Earth Queen, he takes the breath from her body, who's decocates
her. It's one of the biggest antagonists in Korra, like and he's an
airbender. He's an airbender. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You gotta
watch. I've seen like the first book of It and that's the first two
a show that has like a person like the Avatar but lives in a world
is against it. You haven't seen season two of Cora. I saw.
I saw the first episode. Dude, season two is crazy, it's nuts.
Well, what I'm saying is I saw the first episode. Is the
episode where they show wand yeah, I think it's the original Avatar. Yeah,
the first I think that's end of the first season. I think No,
season two, it's the first episode. It's all about the Spirit,
the first episode of the Book of Spirit and they like, yeah, I
mean it's just like all about the spirit world the whole season, remember,
and it's about like the origins of the Avatar and which gains the spirit of
light the spirit of darkness. Yeah, it's super cool. Which, by
the way, it's like a ten thousand year cycle. Yeah, and you're
using spirit bending and that just makes it thin because they didn't do that till
Kora. It wasn't a thing till Kora. Spirit bending like that term so
right, yeah, because because she was that and like the spirit world being
so heavily involved in Kora, Like yeah, she was just able to do
it so freely and bend the energy and it was always light. Dang.
You know Season two is crazy. Yeah, that show was a nuts in
general. I'm already like we've been talking about Avatar like for the past couple
of days. I'm so charged up and ready to rewatch the original and finish
Kora finally. But I did want to say we have already mentioned so many
things that refer to the whole like duality concept like Yin and Yang that comes
up all the time in the show. That's the stuff that comes from Daoism.
Yin Yang is all Daoism. Think about the Wan that that whole origin
story with their their names are so basically you see in Kora Rava and Vatu,
right, you see how the first Avatar comes to be and it's this
man named Wan and he like sees the spirits of light and darkness fighting in
the sky and their names are Rava and Vatu, and then does he separate
them or do they get separated on their own somehow. No, they're not
supposed to be separated, right, but they think he interjects someway and then
causes them to separate. That is what it was. He did interject exactly.
He was just like, oh, they're fighting, break them up.
It's important to mention this is like ten thousand years ago. Yes, yes,
and so he he breaks them up, but he doesn't understand that,
like that's the cosmic dance of the universe. Like when those things aren't quote
unquote fighting, they're not fighting, they're more like dancing. But when when
they're not doing the fighting right right, they're fighting it's a ten thousand year
fight to death. Well yeah, but then you know, when they become
separated, chaos breaks loose and the dark spirit is able to kind of like
go and recap and then wan that human. The only way that they can,
you know, think, to counteract this darkness is for one to bind
or sorry rava, to bind himself to one exactly as literally an avatar,
which, by the way, in Hinduism or in specifically in the Bagavad Gita,
an avatar is a form that a god takes to address a specific dharmic
crisis on Earth. Yeah, like Krishna or Vishnu exactly. In Hindu tradition,
avatars descend to Earth to counteract evil and restore balance to all things.
They believe that there's gonna be a tenth and final avatar. I think it's
named shak T. It's a prophecy. Wow, but so so yeah,
and he binds Rava binds himself to Wan becomes the first avatar, and the
basically everything that happens after that moment up to currently where we're watching in the
show is infinitely Wan is reincarnating into different avatars, each time as the next
element in the chain, over and over and over and over and over to
try to store that balance, try to defeat Vatu and restore balance back to
the whole yin yang cycle of things, which is what Daoism teaches. And
then like you were just talking about the chakras, unlocking your chakras, like
that's you know, they're talking about this in a kids show. He phrased
it. However, he wants to the real way. Yeah, that's Hinduism.
That is Hinduism. Well, it's it's it's it's essentially like all of
Eastern mystics is the main face and and his and Hinduism is like where chakra
technically originated. It was, it's where it's first comes from Hinduism. It's
yeah, it's really wild. And then like obviously the Airbenders are Tibetan Buddhists,
like they are. That's like to the t Well, just quick correction
because I don't you know when I just said the tenth and final Avatar.
According to real Hinduism, the name is actually Kulky. I want to get
it right. There's a prophey, there will be a tenth fun Avatar,
but I wanted to say this is mild spoilers. I don't want to necessarily
get into the details of like the actual events that go down in the sense
that y'all haven't seen season two all the way of Corey yet, but you'll
like this. There's a concept in the show where the the realm Earth whatever,
it's on a ten thousand year cycle of the great cosmic War between light
and dark, and it's known as the Harmonic convergence, when every ten thousand
years there's a specific alignment where the spirit and the material world align, where
the spirits of Vatu and Rava are able to come through a portal and like
take domain and have their great battle on Earth. So season two finale harmonic
convergence. But again we're thinking, you know, in real life and esoteric
literature, that's believed that you know, the Hindus had the Yuga cycles.
You know, in different esoteric doctrines, you have the concept of the Age
of Aquarius. Again, it's this high level material here where they're putting it
in the minds of the youth about some sort of cosmic alignment cycle to enter
a new age. And again it's like, I'm trying not to spoil what
happens, but let's just say at the end of season I worry about spoils.
Yeah, I mean, it's so there's so much more to it than
what I'm about to say. And and you know, it's important to know
that initially the creators of The Last Airbender and Korra, they intended Cora season
two to be the actual end. So when you watch season two, you'll
see it and be like, dang, like that was epic as hell.
And then Nickelodeon came back to them and they're like, yeah, you're gonna
make us two more seasons. Yep, so they made season three and season
four. Oh for real, it's like that. So season season two is
this wild epic kaiju battle of the spirits of light and dark during the high
harmonic convergence. Yeah, and basically like when that conflict is resolved, like
the spirit and the material world's are merged and they enter into a new age.
What it's dope, dude. The Kora is one of the same.
They come in freely, they leave freely. Yeah, Kora's wild bro.
Wait so then I didn't even finished. That's like they lived simultaneously. That's
why it shows all that because it relates it to now being. And then
the cycle was gone with Cora, remember Yeah, yeah, she she ruined
the cycle, so it restarted with her. What what do you mean,
I don't know the harmonic conversions happens. Yeah, no, it happened.
It's a thing in the show like where like she ends up messing up the
cycle. Yeah, and the Avatar cycle. Yeah. Man, it's crazy.
Wait, so if if like balance was restored with the spirit world and
the physical world, then how is there going to be another season? Well,
because they were dealing with other like antagonists that had very crazy radical ideas
about how the world should be, and she had to deal with that.
There's like essentially there's I started season three, I got a few episodes in.
I never finished it, but there's there's I need to There's there's like
a there's like a terrorist airbender who yeah hears he like that's the best.
Yeah, he challenges he's called very being of being an avatar, he calls
her. He makes her feel basically useless because of how powerful he is.
And he has homies that are just as powerful too. He has a whole
squad. He's like he's like locked in like a SuperMac security prison because he's
like such a deadly air and can fly. Bro. He shows up,
Yeah, he like when he shows up and just like wipes tens in in
the squad. He wipes him through, and he's just like, wait does
this start in the third season three? Yeah? Very beginning, Yeah.
Yeah. And he's somebody who's like he's read ancient uh like airbenders like text
and stuff like that, so like he under he has a knowledge that a
lot of airbenders in that place don't have. More than likely I doubt tens
And knows any of that stuff, and that's all I know. Like I
said, I haven't finished, but I binged the Last Airbender in like a
few weeks and then and then benched course season one core season two, and
I was like, I need a break, and then I just never picked
them back up. But yeah, it's it just throws the idea of the
avatar really upside down, because like it's a world that acts like they don't
need it. Well that's particularly crazy, especially coming off the tales of the
whole ten thousand year cycle thing ending and the spirit and the physical. It's
like it seems like that the world wouldn't need an avatar anymore. At that
point, you'd think, yeah, I think things aren't like okay at all.
Like every people are still in that city, big cities and industrial.
It's all industrial. It's like like people are crooked left and right, you
know, just like nowadays with businesses and things like that. Like it's that
type of world, you know, right, Apparently the next season is supposed
to be like close to modern times. Yeah, I'm excited for that because
it's how many years between each cycle. It's when they die, yeah,
it's when they die and then it happens. I think that right, right,
Yeah, yeah, somebody is born. Yeah, I mean guitars alive
when when right? And and and this is a good a good reference to
that what you just said. This is gonna be some minor spoilers for Attack
on Titan. I want to be very careful. I'll be very I'm gonna
be very It's okay, it's okay. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna give
specific events. I'm just gonna talk about the theme. The theme of the
end of Attack on Titan is exactly like what you just said with Korra.
It's like the conflict is resolved, but then it's like, uh, that's
just like one little moment in the great scale of time and human culture.
And it's like the Titan conflict, the story of Jaeger and you know,
the the Nations, like the present conflict. It's like it's resolved, but
then like war goes on and chaos and it's this theme of like human nature
is warlike and destructive and the cycle is over, but then like the next
cycle continues. A thousand years go by or whatever, one hundred years,
technology builds, Now they have nukes, now they have fighter jets. It's
yeah, and humanity just just destroys itself. It's like all this conflict,
all this suffering, all this enlightenment and this wisdom to be gained, yet
on the grand scale, you know, human nature is cruel and warlike.
Yeah, it's chaotic, it's brutal, bro And like that's why we need
the avatar because you know, you can have this enlightenment, but people need
to learn, you know, like the masses need to be enlightened. Yo.
I think that's and that in itself is an allegory for real life as
well. Yeah, Like there's so much value even if even if you don't
consider yourself like a spiritual person or whatever, Like the tenets of what this
show is talking about are still something that would make this world a better place
exactly, brother spiritual or not. Yeah, I mean, it just so
happens that the key to the spiritual vault is just being a better person,
which just helps everybody. And if it wasn't enough for you, if it
wasn't spiritual enough all, which is like it's kind of hard. It's one
of the most spiritual like cartoons I've ever ever ever, sad let's talk.
If it wasn't enough for you like, you know, you want to talk
about Krishna consciousness, christ consciousness. Whatever. What do you think of when
you hear those words, like a pacifist or merciful, you know, true
true mercy, true love. Ang never kills one person, yeah, never
people die. He probably hurts them, but like, oh of course different.
He uses very he goes out of his way to use very elusive combat
to minimize damage. But he's such a master at his skills. He like
is just better than everybody, you know, because he's a freaking avatar.
But my point is, like the final season, he reaches this ascended consciousness,
and you see while he's with the Guru trying to unlock his seven chakras,
which he eventually does, you see that he has this anguish that he
fears conflict with Ozi because the far is, how can I defeat him if
I can't kill him? But I can't him as a person, Yes,
But he's like, but I can't kill him because that's not what I believe.
I need peace. I want to I want to bring peace, and
even his team, his squad, I mean, there's like this, it's
it's sort of like the harmonic convergence. You know where there's this great Susan's
comment that comes by and during this day that this comet is in the sky.
O'zi's power is like a thousandfold. So it's like, bro, if
you don't kill him, how are you gonna beat him? And Aang is
so distraught on his spiritual mission to bring peace and not to harm and not
to kill that he goes and masters the fifth element of spirit and learns to
bend with spirit so as to resolve the conflict with peace and doesn't even kill
him. He spares him. He just takes him, takes away what makes
them him. Yeah, it's like his power right yeah, yeah, via
via spirit bending. Yeah, he just closed off his connection to his element.
Oh talk about you know spiritual? Well, actually was the answer.
That's the funny thing this is that, you know, the whole fifth element
thing is straight out of Buddhism, you know that, right, Yeah,
But it's also out of Western the topest spirit. The four elements themselves are
a key component of Buddhist religion. Fire, earth, water, and air
considered to be the four of five great elements or mahab mahaputa. I like
that that exists physically, but also represent basic human functions. The fifth element
Akasha spirit, which is the Sanskrit term that loosely translates to ether, quintessence
or spirit. Yeah, or space, yes, space. That was another
one in there. Akasha. You know Veda kashik record. Yeah, that's
where kashik comes from. Akasha. It's a Sanskrit word. The spirit records.
Yes, yes, it sounds like that. Sounds like a shitty animal
spirit records. That's right, it's the spirit world where they believe. There's
some underground label company in fact records. I like that. You know.
Ireveda like like mudras, you know, it's like it's like the sister component
to Hinduism or Yoga. Irveda is like the science of the energy channels and
mudras and things like that. And it's like the thumb is fire, the
pointer finger is air, the middle finger is a kash or space or spirit,
the ring finger is earth, and the pinky is water. And the
mudra system the entirety of it is like, Okay, you combine fire with
space, it has a certain effect. Excuse me, air. You combine
you combine fire with space or spirit, it has an effect. Combine fire
with earth combined fire with water and so on. Maybe maybe you want to
combine water, earth and fire. And you know, I can't sit here
and explain to you all the effects that they're believed to have. But it's
like the whole system is based on the five elements. Yeah, you know,
on the five Yeah, and it just happens to be Oh, thanks,
Alex. He's just Alex. Don't you flash your element to the camera.
He was holding up his spirit finger at me. Oh dude, you
you hockey show came out this week. I gotta catch Oh yeah, A
lot of people been saying good things about it. Yeah, really, Yeah,
you watched the live action one piece? Right, I did all of
it. It was tight is so and made me feel like a kid.
It was Honestly, I was surprised, Alex. I feel like you should
watch that, the live action one piece. Thanks, thanks buddy, I
appreciate that. Weren't there also characters in Avatar that like had third eye when
they there was a dude was talking about combustion, man combustion. He combined
air and fire. I thought there was also a woman fire bender. That's
that's actually is it the first season or second? Because I feel like I
saw that, I thought, I'm pretty sure that was the fire beIN.
I think the fire Bender part is a here squad. Honestly, I just
was in chorus that's like, yeah, yeah, I had a thought.
That's like Shiva Shiva in the third eyes, you know, like Shiva in
Hinduism is uh. It takes on this like archetype that they called the destroyer,
Shiva the destroyer, and when Shiva like opens that state, the third
eye opens, right. I didn't. I didn't realize that, But that's
cool. There's so many Hinduism, Buddhism, Dowism. What were you gonna
say? I was just gonna say, as an advertisement to Alex, you
know, someone who's never seen Kora, it can be daunting for it took
me. When did it even come out? I mean it was, Oh,
we were older. We were probably collegeen sixteen or had to be earlier.
Du twelve maybe yeah, twelve or thirteen. Yeah, let's see,
it's just got to get a little older. It is older. Yeah,
it's like ten years or more. But listen, my point is like I
get it. Like I was one of those people who was like it could
never be as good as the original. Why waste my time. But you
actually watch it, man, it feels identical to the original show. It's
the same creators, it has the same it's a quicker pace. They're shorter
episodes per season. It has the same impact of the humor. It has
the same Impactlin's like, it's Oh, Aubrey Plaza, the little like she's
one of those twins that you didn't know. They're really like emo kind of
girl that's like in love with Bolin, you know, and she's like obsessed
with him. That's Aubrey Plaza. About the voice the voice actors for the
show later, because there's so many, Yeah, I'm not I'm only aware
of that. Oh my rom Pearlman voices. He voiced a young Susan What
yeah, Susan. Yeah, yeah, because that was Zeko's dad's grandfather.
Yes. Is that one of those things where he's like a fan and he
wanted maybe he could have been I think so, because I know he did
that with Halo. He was like a fan of Halo and he was like,
I want to come to voices. He's a great voice. And then
Mark, Yeah, more Hamil did what you call it Zuko's dad. He
played Zuko's dad, what camel No, Yeah, yeah, if you hear
his voice, I hear it now. I felt like I knew that in
the deep recesses of my mind. I hear it now. Yeah, dude.
There's a lot of guest voice, Like, like I think there's like
things you can watch that where they go over a lot of the guest vocals
that were in there. The heat, man, they had a lot of
heat. I'm just saying, bro, like the the you know, you
can never touch the the original essence of Avatar the Last Airbender. But I'm
just saying, bro, Cora comes damn close. Like it feels it has
the same energy, Yeah, the same, It has the same quality.
The conflict for me is just way more something you can resonate with a lot
more, really, yeah, because like she goes through things of feeling lost,
feeling worthless, feeling out of place, and that's like something like especially
I think around that time, we were like older teenagers, so it's like
those are things you can easily connect with as you're growing up like that it
kind of like grew with yeah, because like you you know, eventually you
get to a point sometimes maybe for like you lose your place in life.
And you don't know where you're at and you try to figure that out,
and that that show is about figuring out her place in the world. You
know. That fits into all the chaos that's that's happening. That's right.
When the show starts, she's like very like, very angsty, angry,
and very aggressive with everything. She's aggressed through it all. She's very aggressive,
right, yeah, exactly. She likes straight out the gate like does
fire bending right like, which she does three. The only thing she doesn't
do is air bend, right, Yeah, you can't airbend. She could,
That's why she goes to ten Zen. It's the only thing she can't
do. Yeah, because she could not figure it out, that's right,
Yeah, she I mean, you can tell those she didn't embody air bending
whatsoever. We didn't even really discuss this at length. It's not a big
deal, but it's cool because in the context of the show, the original
show of The Last Airbender, every time a masters a new element, there's
a new spiritual or emotional philosophy he has to master. Yeah, you know,
like with with uh, with water, we just cuss this already.
It's a motion. What was it with Earth? Was opposite he had to
stand stand his ground. Yeah, like as be grounded and assertive. And
what what was it with fire? Uh? Well fire with him was being
able to control it and not not to harm it and not harm in it.
Yeah, so to harm anybody else. Yeah, and that was good.
That was the episode with the dancing. They learned that. They learned
that life, it doesn't have to always mean death. It doesn't have to
always be that. It doesn't have to be the black and the blue flame
exactly and be the white flame from the episode from from the Yeah, you
want to stand by that? All right? Let me stop, So I
want to I want to take it to an episode in in atl A.
Okay, okay. So it's the Book of Earth and they're flying over the
swamp and he's getting drawn on that one, getting drawn in and he's like
he's hearing this song or this voice telling him to go down, and Opa
is slowly going down, going down, going down, and then woomb he
ends up. I think what they get stuck in the web, they get
separated, and then the swamp people take Opa or something like that. Were
awesome. Yeah, yeah, it's an interesting thought. So basically what he
learns is they they make their way through the swamp to the Tree of Life,
the one tree that all the rest of the swamp, you know,
comes from, and then he's able to use his avatar power to trace the
roots of the tree to determine that all is one. Oh, that's right,
that's right. Doing that, he locates Opa, you know, the
hillbilly from that like swamp is the one that told him all that individually.
That's where I'm getting with that explanation. Yes, this is what I'm getting.
And this I'm going to tell you the note that I have written down
here because me and Olivia we're talking about this, and the note is that
God is in the South. And what I mean, no, no,
no, okay, it's really funny. That's the most powerful thing you've ever
said. Think about this. These people are in the swamp and so disconnected
from everything else, so disconnected from civilization. They're made to be hillbillies.
You would look at them and think these people aren't smart at all. But
they're sitting here in the swamp so connected with nature, so connected with God
that they just are able to effortlessly bend the swamp, live in harmony with
the swamp, and then teachang a valuable lesson. And then it's like that
movie on by moving on, let the hillbilities. Do those dudes bend the
water in the vines? Oh? Yeah, yeah, the water. So
they they're very intelligent, man, those dudes. Those dudes are cool.
So and it takes me back to a couple of episodes ago when we were
talking. It was just thinking of a spirit science because we were talking about
you get so spirit or you get so scientifically advanced, it's hard to find
the spirit. But if you go back in history, people were so spiritually
advanced they found the science. Uh huh huh. So I think this is
a case where they're so spiritually advanced they're teaching themselves the science of how things
are connected, of how things are connected yea, and how they can work
together swamp people. And it's like, that's just a it's just a small
what allegory to like these collective consciousness to cultures and like think of think of
indigenous cultures who are so connected to the earth. But you you would look
at them from our you know, apartment in Manhattan. Oh what what poor
people? You know, their life must suck when really they're so tapped in
and so at peace with the world. They understand it far more than anybody
else. I don't want to like Skyscraper, I don't want to like,
you know, brag or anything. But what comes to my mind is my
dad. You know, he's he's just a good old country boy out there,
you know, seeing some spiritual phenomenon that like people around the world are
like desperate to see. And you know, we get thousands of people being
like I want to see him. I want to see him. What do
I do? What's the protocol, what's the secret? What's this? What's
that? You know? You got History Channel crew coming and bringing cameras.
We want to catch it. We're gonna want to catch it. We get
people in the CIA telling us that won't it won't let us catch it,
Like what do we do? You know? And it's just like, oh,
you know, just just chill out, just pray. It's that simple.
It's all there is to it, you know what I mean? Like
it stop doing Yeah, rends. I'm gonna tell a story from my childhood,
if that's let's go. So I was playing baseball and I was terrible
at hitting, and so I called my cousin, who's a fantastic baseball player.
I said, yo, man, my dad did. He's like,
hey, he needs some help with hitting. So I get on the phone
with him. He's like, look, I'm gonna be there in an hour.
I need a left shoe, a ping pong ball, a golf club,
a T shirt, and all this stuff. And I'm thinking, what
in the world what's he doing. So I'm going around my house getting this
random list of crap. Okay, I'm like freaking out, Gotta get all
this stuff, gotta get all this stuff. We get out there, he's
like, all right, you got all this stuff. I'm like, yeah,
this is exactly what you asked for. He's like, all right,
cool, grab the golf club. Then he had me turning around and we
were hitting with the small end of the golf club and I'm like, we're
going through all this stuff and I'm like, man, why did you have
me grab all this other stuff? He's like, just to get your mind
off everything? What do you mean, get your mind off hitting, get
your mind off how you're gonna do it was just to get your mind off
of what we were going to do today. And all we use was the
golf club. Damn, that's deep dude, he did like he did like
Southern boy jiu jitsu on your brain. That's wild, bro, he definitely
did. They got him. No, no, have you seen that trailer
park Ninja? Oh my god, that is a deep cut. That's a
very I got my throwing star, I got my can of tobacco throwing stars.
That was a hit in my family, the Trailer Park Ninja. Seriously,
we used to watch that over and over and laugh our asses off.
Damn dude, Well we did the damn thing. We did the avatar thing.
Yeah, we did it this wait wait wait wait wait, okay,
secret tunnel. I wanted to do it earlier, but I didn't want Okay,
yeah, and let's go ahead and acknowledged cabbage man while we're at it.
You started it that way, remember you, my cabbages, my cabbages.
We got to talk about him. I mean, that's like the that's
like the greatest story arc within within the last air cars. That man went
through so many, bro, you cannot bring your cabbages into busting. I
think he's the allegory of job, just like ship is just constantly dumped on
his ass. Bro. How about soccer with the glow up with the meteor
sword, he actually becomes a That sword was hard. He becomes a g
in the end, he does like for real. His transition was great because
there was a point where he wasn't feeling too great. It was useless and
he felt useless around everything bending and then he had his whole moment of learning,
Oh I am resourceful, Oh I'm intelligent, I'm a martial arts master,
and I have a sword. I mean it was like, yeah,
he was very down on himself and whatever, and then like he had to
learn, Like do you remember like the beginning of that episode the Koshi wore,
like when he the sword episode when he mentioned when you met the teacher,
the swords and teacher, and how like he would tell me, oh,
I haven't taught anybody in such a long time. Yeah nobody's been worthy
blaha blah blah blah blah. And then you know, Soccer goes, well,
you know, I don't think I am worthy. He's like, you
know, he humbles himself in that moment, and that's how he was able
to get the knowledge separated, separated them. Well, they all go through
that, Oh yeah, they all go through him. I wanted to mention
it too, because they all go through something man like ya, Tara,
Like I remember, we haven't even talked enough about talk. We haven't got
to talk about We got to come back to this. Yeah, let's come
back to it right now, you know, you know we should really what
we should do is we should all watch Cora and it's much shorter, way
shorter. It's like ten episodes of we all do. We all watch Cora
and we do a follow up because Cora is there's a lot to digest in
Kora. I'm so down. Yeah, let's do it and this way months
will hit it again. Since look, that'll give you the motivation to watch
Alex. Yeah, and also we can all take notes as we watch it.
Yeah, you know your idea? Okay, all right, first idea,
we need to do it on some sort of solstice. The second idea,
we should all go all in on an element. What do you mean
by that? Oh, like each of us, four of us. I'm
fire baby, fire baby air. So your water, He's always like control
my emotions. You are water, what you're you're actual virgo? What is
that? Is that? An air? It was crazy because before we started
the episode, Ryan, Angel and I were all talking like, what bender
would you be? Like, what what bender would you want to be?
If you were a bender? Ryan said fire, I would want to be
air. I feel like I want air, but I know I'm going to
be I would be fire. I know I would. Oh. Okay,
okay, see I am Air and I wanted to be air. So I'm
happy everybody wants to fly because I'm Jim and I I'm Jim. I'm like,
I'm the air sign. I don't know a lot of air signs either,
except Raven. Oh, like just in general air signs. Yeah,
I know a lot of geminis is. Crazy, man, you did Taurus.
I attract a lot of geminis, really, yeah, dude, opposites
attract. Dude, here's the proof right here. Yeah, damn, and
I always have good releaships with them too. Yeah, like it's just it
works, always works. Hell yeah, dude, I'm so stoked to do
a follow up Cora episode. Yeah, why not, let's do. It's
gonna be fun, all right, bet we're gonna watch it. We're gonna
take notes, and in a couple of months, Angels Coming Back Part two,
we're doing the Cora epidotes. Whoa hell Yeah, awesome. All right?
You know how we in the show three two one Bye Guy, weird
things happen in the backyard whose weird dry like smiring on the inside of it.
No one knows that, Wow, it's come for I ever got sold.
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