Hello friends, benders and non-benders alike. Welcome to Braving the Elements Nickelodeon's

podcast about all things avatars. I'm Janet Varney. And I'm Dante Bosco. Varney, I just want to let

you know how funny I think you are. What? Oh, really? Funny looking? No, you didn't. Ha!

You did not. No, you did not. You know what? I think you're just trying to represent some of the jokes

in the high jinks in Avatar and yet I also feel that there may be at a much funnier threshold

than whatever that was. I mean, I can I can use some help. You just went little brother on me. You

just went little brother on me. All right, we're excited to share with you a special rebroadcast

of our conversation with Brilliant Comedian Run Funches. It's happening right now. Everyone

please welcome Mr. Ron Funches. Welcome to show. And I called you Mr. just like you insist.

I over-appreciated is what I love now as I feel that I am starting to get older and gain

slight respect. Some people call me Mr. Funches, which I was like, oh, I like it. Mr. Funches.

Do people call me Mr. Bosco? I you know what? I grew up as such a kid in the industry. I was always a

youngest person on the set. When people started calling me Mr. Bosco on the set, I was like, I felt scared.

I was like, well, who are you talking to right now? Like I'm the kid, aren't I? Yeah. No, you're like

the oldest person on the set. I'm like, kill me now. I will say I feel like there's a corroboration

between the people who call me Ms. Varnie and Ms. Pronouncing My Last Name. Like people who want to

call me Ms. Varnie also want to call me Ms. Varnie. Like, there's fun. Yeah, there's like, I want to

respect you, but I also don't know how to say your name. And so a kind of chaos is itself now. Yeah,

it's special even when the name is pronounced. It's beautiful. I can't. It could be Funches. Funches.

There's a French pronunciation here. Funches. Funches. People do that. Funches. Funches.

That's gorgeous. Okay, so Ron, when you and I very first met and started being around

each other at all, you made my heart sing and soar because every time I saw you, you'd be like,

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