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Hey Alex, when are we getting new episodes? What happened with that Apollo thing? How is Season 2 of The StarWell Foundation coming? I answer these in this shorty episode. It won't take long. The fastest answers are 'in a few months maybe?' 'It ended' and 'Scripts are almost finished' IMPORTANTLY StarWell has a landing page for you to subscribe to a newsletter. Incase social media doesn't tell you...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr This is part 1 of a 3 part between season minisode series. There are 2 ways to access parts 2 and 3. The first way is with your StarWell ID badge. If you backed the kickstarter campaign for season 1 or have bought a StarWell ID badge from the OMV online store then these episodes are...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast The night of the big StarWell Fundraising Gala is now while the StarWell team makes some last minute adjustments and the fate of Mary's department rides on her shoulders. Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr SEASON FINALE EPISODE! Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast What comicbook story is complete without a game changing weapon? And a multi-pronged plan is hatched. Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Danielle Squiers Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro Sarah Gherri...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast "No more Villains will work with you." Crushed, Mary tries to find a way to get back in the criminals good graces. Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Danielle Squiers Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast This episode was partially funded by Shane Ross, an Associate Producer backer on the StarWell Kickstarter campaign. Mary Dare's grant doing some entertainment with a wizard goes terribly wrong as Malvarmo tries to help them avoid great violence. Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Bre...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast Mary takes her chances convincing a super strong villain to say something inspirational while a gang of bad guys treat her to some tale tales. Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr Thanks to the kickstarter backers for allowing me to make this and helping me pay actors musicians and artists. 2 down and 4 more to go. Sta...

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast In Ep 1 the Freeze gun toting Malvarmo helps Mary recruit Athlektra to visit some kids but the superhuman athlete has some demands of her own! Inspired by "The Villain Wrangler" community thread on tumblr Thanks to the kickstarter backers for allowing me to make this and helping me pay actors musicians and artists. 1 down and 5 more to go. Sta...

Here we go! Episode 1 will be released on Thursday August 3rd! It's ready, I'm excited and I couldn't have done it without all the kickstarter backers who supported this project. I was able to make something and importantly I was able to pay other people. We helped actors, musicians and audio technicians by paying them for their work and I think thats rad. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED THE S...

We're almost at the end of the kickstarter campaign for The StarWell Foundation audio drama Season 1 so here's a bit of an update. We made the initial funding AND the first stretch goal of an additional special episode! There is still time to share and promote and possibly get the 2nd stretch goal so backers can see a map of Brava City! I connected with some other podcasts to promote the campaign,...

The StarWell Foundation Season 1 Kickstarter! The campaign goes live on Tuesday February 7th! I'll be trying to raise $1,500 to produce a 6 episode season following the events of StarWell itself, it's brand new facilitator Mary Dare, her first Villain that agreed to visit children at a hospital Malvarmo along with new heroes, villains, places, challenges, threats and obstacles to overcome. Please...

Here is the Kickstarter link so we can make new episodes! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/alexomv/the-starwell-foundation-season-1 If you liked this audio drama please check and follow our Link tree for all our pages and socials to keep updated on the upcoming kickstarter to make more episodes of The StarWell Foundation. "The StarWell Foundation" is an audio drama set in a city of Super Heroe...

Well, here we are. I toyed with the idea of doing the minimalist "ok, that's it!" and leaving it at that but I feel like that would have been doing the episode a disservice seeing as this one snowballed into a little more than we expected. A few weeks back we released part 1 of the OMV All-Stars and the first half of this episode is going to feature part 2. Turns out we relied on a lot of All-Star...

The emotions are starting to hit. Even just creating the title card for this episode hit me with waves of happy, sad, nostalgia, and relief. There aren't many things I can say I've done consistently for 10 years straight. It turns out a decade is a long-ass time to do anything, especially something like a podcast. But here we are. Our super official, by-the-books anniversary was technically someti...

The closer we get to the end, the harder it gets to write these things. Not because I'm tired or just fed up with it, but because we're talking with so many amazing people and it's difficult to come up with ways of saying how much they mean to us without it becoming repetitive. Like, how many ways can you say "here's another one of our best friends, listen to us thank them for the next two hours."...

The march to episode 450 continues this week with a multitude of guests who have been featured countless times in the past. And while "countless" might be an exaggeration because you can literally count the number of times they've been on, it doesn't begin describe their impact and contributions to the show over the years. Doing these last few episodes has really shown Alex and me just how many pe...

If you pull up any random episode of OMV, there's about a 1 in 10 chance you'll hear Brett Kelley's voice. Given that we're almost 450 episodes deep into this thing, that's a pretty insane statistic and goes to show how much of an asset he has been to Alex and me over the last 10 years. Whether it helping us come up with ideas for new stuff, covering a show as an official OMV correspondent, or jus...

I'm going to preface all of this by saying one thing: maybe bust out the headphones for this one if you haven't already cuz there's some language. You have been warned. With that said, we have an absolutely phenomenal episode for you this week featuring an all-star cast of guests. Over the last 8ish years we've had the pleasure of getting to know some folks from the Baltimore area who are either c...

Posting this episode feels like a triumph. Like we conquered some sort of mythical beast....completed an epic quest. Not through any fault of our guest or anything....but because it felt like the world didn't want this episode to happen. Between technical difficulties and internet issues it genuinely felt like this episode was cursed for a minute. But here we are. And I'm mere minutes away from cl...

This is another one of those "goodbye" episodes. We had our first one with Joe a few weeks ago and now we're back with a double-whammy. You probably already read the title of the episode but this week Jason Ginsburg of @FakeThemePark is back so we can bend his ear for a bit about his experience talking about monsters when he was a tour guide for Universal. (We also had some help from our special g...

This episode was a ton of fun to record for a couple reasons. The main one being we got to chat with a local artist who specializes in illustrating watercolor fantasy, dabbles in archery, and is a champion of expressing yourself and living your best life. She's also a friend and former co-worker of one of our best pals in the whole, wide world (unbeknownst to us, we had no idea until after we had...

So this one was pretty neat. We've been big fans of Rob Guillory for some time now beginning with his work on the critically acclaimed Image book CHEW and continuing to his latest project Farmhand (also from Image). You probably don't need us to tell you how good Rob is seeing as there's a couple of Eisners, a Harvey Award, and the 2013 "Jayare's End of the Year Award" for best artist to do the ta...

It would be virtually impossible to properly convey just how important Joe is both to the show and to Alex and me as a friend. He is one of the main people we leaned on the most when we first started out in 2012 and always made time to come on and chat with us whenever we hit him up. Over time, he turned into our unofficial gaming correspondent, providing brilliant write-ups and reviews in additio...

You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who has left a bigger impact on this show in a mere 4 episodes than Rich Woodall. I've said it before but it still holds true today: he's arguably the kindest and most humble creator we've had the pleasure of talking with. He's got talent for days and it seems like he couldn't stop making things even if he tried. In the past, we've talked at length with Rich a...

I'm not sure what else to write here as the title of this episode contains everything you need to know. I guess I can elaborate a bit, though. This week it's just Alex and me and to top off this year's spooky-sodes we're talking about fear. The things that scare us. The things that make us uncomfortable, that make us squirm, that we've been avoiding for years whether we were aware of it or not. Th...