Wartwood Gazette: The Amphibia Podcast

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick and Impact talk about the youngest Plantar: Polly!

Recorded February 25th 2024 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat #amphibia

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Impact continue discussing prominent Amphibia characters. This week: Marcy! Recorded February 24th 2024 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat #amphibia

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Impact begin discussing prominent Amphibia characters, starting with Sasha.

Recorded February 17th 2024

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick is forced to hear Thumb's picks for overrated episodes of Amphibia. Recorded October 29th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat #Amphibia

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Nick come up with three tips to discuss Season 3 of Amphibia! Recorded October 29th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat #Amphibia

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Nick come up with three tips to discuss Season 2 of Amphibia! Recorded October 6th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat #Amphibia

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Nick come up with three tips to discuss Season 1 of Amphibia!

Recorded October 6th 2023

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick and Impact reflect on Amphibia's Series finale (The Beginning of the End, All In, The Hardest Thing)

Recorded September 16th 2023

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick and Impact discuss the second half of Season 3 up until "The Three Armies". Recorded September 9th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Pickle, Nick and Impact discuss the first half of Season 3. Recorded August 26th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick and Impact are forced to listen to Thumb's hot takes while discussing the second half of Season 2. Recorded July 27th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick, and Impact recall the first half of Season 2. Recorded June 24th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick, and Impact discuss the second half of Season 1! Recorded June 9th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb, Nick, Impact and Sticks discuss, defend, and debate their picks for underrated Amphibia episodes.

• 2:40 Flood, Sweat and Tears?
• 16:45 Fight at the Museum?
• 24:40 Breakout Star?
• 36:40 Toad Tax?
• 45:05 Truck Stop Polly?
• 1:06:05 New Wartwood?
• 1:32:25 Mother of Olms?
• 1:49:05 Wally and Anne?

Recorded May 5th 2023

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb & Nick discuss Amphibia and The Owl House airing together over the years.

Recorded April 27th 2023

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb plays the Amphibia fangame Calamity Beatdown, while Impact and Nick interview the game's creator, Krizby! 0:00 Introduction 9:52 Gameplay 1:06 Closing questions Youtube link for gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enY6qxvsH08&ab_channel=Thumbaticon

Krizby: https://twitter.com/krizby425 Game download link: https://krizby.itch.io/calamity-beatdown Intro music by Phonat (Made for the Amphibia Golden Wolf ID): https://twitter.com/phonat

The filler recording.

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb fills the bi-weekly quota for the podcast by giving Impact his thoughts on the episode discussions he missed out on.

• 5:30 The Shut-in!
• 14:10 Sleepover to End all Sleepovers/A Day at the Aquarium
• 41:15 Newts in Tights/ Fight or Flight

Recorded March 24th 2023 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact, and Thumb discuss Marcy's Journal! Part 3 of our coverage is Anne's entries to the end of the journal. 

Recorded March 11th 2023   https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wartwoodgazette

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact, and Thumb discuss Marcy's Journal! Part 2 of our coverage is Marcy's entries from "Marcy at the Gates" to "True Colors" 

Recorded February 25th 2023  

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact, and Thumb discuss Marcy's Journal! Part 1 of our coverage is Marcy's entries in Newtopia leading up to the events of the episode "Marcy at the Gates"  

Recorded February 3rd 2023  

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Nice.

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact, Sunsfury, Pickle, Sticks and Thumb gracefully discuss Amphibia's romantic pairings, (from the show and the fandom) "Shipping".

• 4:25 Season 1
• 53:33 Season 2
• 1:43:20 Season 3
• 2:40:35 Whatever ships we missed, there's too many to create timestamps 

Originally recorded January 6th 2023

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact and Thumb discuss the Amphibia Theme Song Takeovers.  

• 0:00 8-Bit Takeover 
• 12:32 Sasha Takeover 
• 35:20 Marcy Takeover 
• 58:00 General Discussion  

Originally recorded November 18th 2022  

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Nick, Impact and Thumb discuss the Amphibia shorts released over the years. (Teen Girl in a Frog World, Vlog from the Bog, Chibitales)

• 3:18 Teen Girl in a Frog World
• 13:00 Chibi shorts
• 24:15 Vlog from the Bog

Originally recorded October 8th 2022

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This week on Wartwood Gazette: Sticks shares his experience at Pixelatl 2022 and the presentations done by Amphibia crew members.  

• 0:45 Thumb and Nick gushing about the Matt Braly interview 
• 21:00 How the interview was prepped
• 40:20 Pixelatl & Braly presentation 
• 1:54:00 Sticks' questions at the Q&A  

Originally recorded 2022-09-23

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Thank you to whoever is or has been listening to the podcast. We took a long hiatus, but we will try to upload new recordings biweekly.

This week on Wartwood Gazette: Thumb and Nick talk to Amphibia Executive Producer and Creator, Matt Braly!  

• 1:47 Wooden title card 
• 4:40 Polly 
• 15:27 Hop Pop 
• 26:28 Sprig 
• 33:47 What the Plantars offer to Anne’s journey
• 42:45 The importance of Season 1 
• 48:18 Structuring the series around Anne 
• 54:15 You unfound our found family!  

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Play the forbidden note!  

Thumb, Nick, and Pickle discuss Amphibia Season 2, Episode 11, "Night Drivers" & "Return to Wartwood"   

• 0:00 News 
• 3:57 Night Drivers 
• 55:30 Return to Wartwood  

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Stay inside, hide your eyes, give us practical supplies!  

Impact, Nick, and Pickle discuss Amphibia Season 2, Episode 12, "The Shut-in!"    

• 0:00 News 
• 3:30 General Thoughts 
• 23:50 Phone-Mo 
• 51:55 Dead End 
• 1:10:46 Skin Deep  

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The longest pair of episode titles in the series.  

Impact, Nick, Sunsfury and Pickle discuss Amphibia Season 2, Episode 10, "The Sleepover to End all Sleepovers" & "A Day at the Aquarium"    

• 0:00 News 
• 1:00 The Sleepover to End all Sleepovers 
• 1:13:39 A Day at the Aquarium  

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Gonna pursue a career in the Farmer-ceutical industry.  

Nick, Impact, Bloss and Thumb discuss Amphibia Season 2, Episode 9, "Little Frogtown" & "Hopping Mall"    

• 0:00 News 
• 10:41 Little Frogtown 
• 1:15:30 Hopping Mall 
• 2:19:10 Hopping Mall's final scene  

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Tails, tails, tails, tails...  

Nick, Impact, and Thumb discuss Amphibia Season 2, Episode 8, "Lost in Newtopia" & "Sprig gets Schooled"    

• 2:40 Lost in Newtopia 
• 0:50:49 Andrias and Marcy's research 
• 1:02:30 Sprig gets Schooled  

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"Sprig, the city will still be there tomorrow. Probably..."  

After recovering from the series finale, Nick, Impact, Pickle, and Thumb return to Amphibia Season 2, Episode 7, "Scavenger Hunt" & "The Plantars Check In"  

• 3:16 Scavenger Hunt 
• 1:00:55 The Plantars Check In (Meeting Andrias) 
• 1:39:15 The Plantars Check In (Sprig Shenanigans)  

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Before returning to their Season 2 coverage, Thumb and Nick take a week to decompress by discussing fandom reactions to the finale and series.  

• 3:00 Gushing about the Anne/Andrias parallels 
• 12:16 The prophecy, the gems, and the guardian 
• 22:43 Reactions to the trio drifting apart 
• 35:00 Venting about the loss of the PlAnnetar dynamic 
• 44:44 Anne the Herpetologist 
• 49:19 Still venting about the loss of the PlAnnetar dynamic 
• 57:50 How discovering a show shapes our expectations 
• 1:07:10 Dreading the words "missed potential" and the seasons  

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Spranne against the world.  

Nick, PrincessCthulu, Sunsfury, Pickle, Pixels, Lemur, Sticks, Impact, Rurk, Chuck, and Thumb discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 18, "The Hardest Thing" (Series Finale)  

• 0:52 First impressions of The Hardest Thing  (2 hours after the premiere)  

Episode Discussion: 

• 17:54 The Core's final gambit 
• 32:30 Champions of Amphibia vs The Core 
• 1:05:30 Anne's Sacrifice 
• 1:36:33 Anne meets The Guardian 
• 2:12:42 The last goodbyes 
• 2:53:10 Epilogue: Wartwood 
• 3:24:51 Epilogue: Earth 
• 3:53:11 Final Thoughts  

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"Harvest Day! I'm-"  

Thumb, Impact, Sunsfury, Pixels, Pickle, Sticks & PrincessCthulu discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 17, "All In"  

• 1:11 First impressions of All In (1 hour after its premiere) 

Episode Discussion: 

• 22:18 Saint James flashback 
• 35:42 Arrival to Earth 
• 1:02:24 The inner sanctum of The Core 
• 1:11:37 Preparing the counterattack 
• 1:20:10 Andrias meets Marcy 
• 1:45:10 Plantars vs. Herons vs. Trauma 
• 1:59:08 Marcy's fantasy world 
• 2:06:01 Sasha vs. Darcy 
• 2:31:40 Rejecting the mindscape 
• 2:38:25 Anne vs Andrias (Just the Setup!) 
• 2:51:00 Anne vs Andrias (The Fight!) 
• 3:05:47 Sprig delivers Leif's last message  
• 3:15:13 Sasha defeats Darcy, Anne defeats Andrias 
• 3:30:15 Rerereunion, return to Amphibia, the moon  

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"To war, old friend. To war."

Thumb, Nick, Lemur, Pixels, and Sticks discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 16, "The Three Armies" & "The Beginning of the End"  

• 2:37 The Three Armies, General thoughts 
• 6:54 The Three Armies, Discussion 
• 56:02 The Beginning of the End 
• 58:17 The Sleepover scene 
• 1:13:40 Preparing for battle 
• 1:35:45 The direct assault and strike team 
• 1:55:33 Returning characters, Andrias enters the battle 
• 2:07:50 Yulivia fight, Darcy's entrance 
• 2:38:50 Final thoughts, end credits 
• 2:46:34 All In poster and promo speculation  

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Nick, Chuck, Sticks, Impact and Pickle discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 15, The Newts in Tights / Fight or Flight.  

• 4:55 Newts in Tights 
• 1:04:07 Leif's room 
• 1:15:25 Fight or Flight 
• 2:17:52 Amphibia Gallery Nucleus

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Every story... has its beginning...  

Thumb, Nick, Uzbeks and PrincessCthulu cover Amphibia Season 3, Episode 14, The Root of Evil / The Core and the King.  

• 1:10 The Root of Evil, General thoughts 
• 5:15 The Root of Evil, Discussion 
• 1:03:40 The Core and the King, General thoughts 
• 1:08:12 Darcy and the cupcakes 
• 1:20:37 The Golden Age 
• 1:42:08 Aldrich, The Core, and Leif's vision 
• 2:05:48 An audience with the king, the betrayal 
• 2:42:53 End of the golden age 
• 2:54:04 Darcy and Andrias 
• 3:24:34 Wrap up, Matt's interview with Screenrant  

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THREE STARS BURNING BRIGHT  

Thumb, Nick, Sunsfury and Pixels discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 13, "Mother of Olms" & "Grime's Pupil"  

• 0:00 News 
• 3:32 Grime's Pupil, General thoughts 
• 12:05 Grime's Pupil, Discussion 
• 54:00 Mother of Olms, General thoughts 
• 57:37 Mother of Olms, Discussion 
• 1:36:33 The Prophecy  

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Hey look everyone! It's a reference to [insert "filler" episode here]

Thumb, Nick, Impact, Lemur & Pickle discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 12, "Sasha's Angels" & "Olm Town Road"

• 0:00 Sasha's Angels, General Thoughts 
• 10:00 Sasha's Angels, Discussion 
• 43:55 Sasha's Angels, The Anne/Sasha scenes 
• 1:02:13 Olm Town Road, General Thoughts 
• 1:09:07 Olm Town Road, Discussion 
• 1:58:00 The mural & speculation  

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Fern is the best Wartwood townie.

Thumb, Nick, Rurk, Uzbeks and Pixels discuss Amphibia Season 3 Episode 11, "Commander Anne" & "Sprivy"  

• 0:00 Commander Anne 
• 1:09:19 Sprivy 
• 1:50:28 April Episode synopses / Speculation  

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The end of 3A! Not the start of 3B!  

Thumb, Nick, Impact, and PrincessCthulu discuss Amphibia Season 3, Episode 10, "Escape to Amphibia"  

• 0:00 Marcy Journal by Tokyopop 
• 3:00 Escape to Amphibia, General Thoughts 
• 13:13 Mr. X, Terri's portal, Spendco 
• 56:20 FBI arrival, Stealth op with 3A townies 
• 1:33:33 Preparing the portal and goodbye 
• 1:57:18 No Wus or Waybrights? 
• 2:07:25 "What, happened here?" 
• 2:14:50 The end of 3A 
• 2:32:00 Mother of Olms / Grime's Pupil synopsis  
• 2:49:15 3B teaser trailer 

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No promos? No problem.

In the final days of the hiatus, Thumb, Nick, Impact, Sunsfury and Pixels discuss the April episode titles.

3:33 Sasha's Angels / Olm Town Road  22:10 Mother of Olms / Grime's Pupil 37:15 The Root of Evil / The Core and the King 53:10 Newts in Tights / Fight or Flight 58:50 The Three Armies 1:16:00 Even more speculation

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Sprig was right. [Citation needed]  

Thumb, Nick, Lemur and Sunsfury discuss Amphibia season 2, episode 6, Marcy at the Gates!  

0:00:00 Marcy at the Gates Discussion 

2:09:23 Marcy's introduction 43% into the series  

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"You've been licking yourself again Frog Soos."

Thumb, Nick, Impact, and PrincessCthulu discuss Amphibia Season 2 episode 5, "Swamp and Sensibility" & "Wax Museum" 

• 0:00 #NewDeal4Animation
• 3:50 Swamp and Sensibility
• 1:16:00 Wax Museum
• 2:09:40 Gravity Falls homage, influence, and legacy on Amphibia

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Every Amphibia episode with a sunset always leads to disaster.  

Thumb, Nick, Impact, Pickle & Lemur discuss Amphibia season 2 episode 4, "Quarreler's Pass" & "Toadcatcher".  

• 0:00 Quarreler's Pass 
• 47:26 Toadcatcher  

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Thumb, Nick, Lemur, & Impact discuss Amphibia season 2 episode 3, "Truck Stop Polly" & "A Caravan Named Desire".  

• 0:00 Truck Stop Polly 
• 1:04:23 A Caravan Named Desire 
• 1:43:40 Season 3 March 2022 episode synopses   

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Amphibia Season 3 returns on March 19th! Thumb, Nick, Lemur, Sunsfury and Pickle contain their excitement to discuss Amphibia season 2 episode 2., "The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar" & "Anne Hunter".  

• 1:50 The Ballad of Hopediah Plantar 
• 46:55 Anne Hunter 
• 1:24:25 The Frobo appearances 
• 1:37:17 Season 3 returns on March 19th! 
• 1:43:02 S3 Ep 10 Title: Escape to Amphibia 
• 2:02:25 S3 Ep 11 Title: Commander Anne 
• 2:12:47 S3 Ep 11 Title: Sprivy 
• 2:24:49 Final Thoughts  

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Thumb, Nick, Sunsfury, and Impact discuss Amphibia season 2 episode 1, "Handy Anne" & "Fort in the Road"  

• 1:00 Season 2 concept art 
• 9:18 Handy Anne, general thoughts 
• 19:10 New season, new wagon 
• 47:40 Veggie-robo and blue eyes 
• 1:12:15 Fort in the Road, general thoughts 
• 1:20:56 All of Hop Pop's road rules 
• 1:34:00 Ruins of Despair  
• 2:01:10 Season 2 Poster 
• 2:08:19 Final Thoughts  

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