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 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 already with the bonus file found on the back of the badge. Along with 2 episodes of How Crime? The second way to access 7.2 and 7.3 is thru the audio drama streaming app Apollo+. With their subscription you can listen to these exclusive episodes and hundreds of other audio drama podcasts.   70% of the fees collected go back to the creators of these shows and there are so many to listen to and choose from. Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Kyle Pasciutti KT Baldassaro Mathew O’Reilly Kristen Chesler Allie Faire   music by Kevin Mason Fiverr artists @Sk3red @Trextunes WillOWisp Prod. @stavrosxakis

 The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast   Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr   Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux  Brett Kelley Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Jon York Jennifer Rawlings Remani Lizana Colin Vignault KT Baldassaro  Sarah Gherri  Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam Harris Fried Kamilla Cheskiewicz Edward Gogolski Ian Patriarca Fahad Rahmat Milta Vargas Michelle Arslan Will Munro Steph MacGillivary Jamie Noguchi Mathew O’Rielly Stevie Norman music by Kevin Mason Jett Andrade  Mike Forgette Julius H. from Pixabay ComaStudio from Pixabay  Oleg Kyrylkovv from Pixabay Songs The Great Galactic War & Phantoms  - used for Super Trynamo’s Gala performance Written and Composed by Mike Forgette, performed by 1974   Fiverr artists Eyegore @yevgeny666  Harshit K  @hkhoja1   Ppp Studio  @bimbim22   Michael H  @manadrip  Marcelo F  @resetcubestudio   Piarenko Oleg  @olegnick   Antonio R  @antoniobustabad WillOWisp Prod. @stavrosxakis and sound effects from Freesound.org

 The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast   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 Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam Harris Fried Jeremy Ruiter Fahad Rahmat Ian Patriarca Jeremy Ruiter Steph MacGillivary Michelle Arslan   music by Kevin Mason Jett Andrade  Mike Forgette Fiverr artists Eyegore @yevgeny666 Harshit K  @hkhoja1  Ppp Studio  @bimbim22  Antonio R  @antoniobustabad Marcelo F  @resetcubestudio  Piarenko Oleg  @olegnick  WillOWisp Prod. @stavrosxakis   "Take a Chance" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/        and sound effects from Freesound.org BBC Sound Effects Pixabay.com Season 1 of The StarWell Foundation could not have happened without all the kickstarter backers who funde

 The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast   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 Nichele Herrick Sarah Gherri  Joe Van Allen Kristen Chesler Sam Harris Fried Kamilla Cheskiewicz Edward Gogolski Jesper Barber Jeremy Ruiter Ian Patriarca Fahad Rahmat Love Milta vargas   music by Kevin Mason Christina Pepper  Jett Andrade  Mike Forgette Geoff Harvey from Pixabay Hector Perez from Pixabay Fiverr artists Eyegore @yevgeny666 Harshit K  @hkhoja1  Ppp Studio  @bimbim22    and sound effects from Freesound.org BBC Sound Effects Pixabay.com   Season 1 of The StarWell Foundation could not have happened without all the kickstarter backers who funded this project. Thank you all for donating, following OMV Podcast and believing in me. If you liked this episode please let us know in the comments and share + subscri

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. Inspired by “The Villain Wrangler” community thread on tumblr Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Michelle Arslan Mike Davis Kaine Winneg Stevie Norman Will Munro Jon York Steph MacGillivary Jennifer Rawlings Danielle Squiers Carley Winn Remani Lizana Colin Vignault    music by Kevin Mason Fiverr artists Eyegore @yevgeny666 Harshit K  @hkhoja1  Michael H  @manadrip  Marcelo F  @resetcubestudio  Antonio R @antoniobustabad   Incompetech.com & Kevin MacLeod "Glitter Blast" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   "Beauty Flow" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/     and sound effects from Freesound.org BBC Sound Effect

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast 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. StarWell ID badges, @BKArtworks Flapjack pins and OMV merch bundles have all been shipped! Now that backers have their rewards the remaining merch will be for sale in the  by late September.  Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux Brett Kelley Bob Savage Sarah Gherri KT Baldassaro Michelle Arslan Mike Davis Stevie Norman Nichele Herrick Steph MacGillivary Kristen Chesler Jennifer Rawlings Jeremy Ruiter Danielle Squiers music by Kevin Mason Jett Andrade Mike Forgette Eyegore @yevgeny666 Christina Pepper Antonio R @antoniobustabad Incompetech.com & Kevin MacLeod and sound effects from Freesound.org BBC Sound Effects Pixabay.com Mac Owens from Cleanwavs.com Take a Chance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Lic

The StarWell Foundation is a production of OMV Podcast   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. StarWell ID badges, @BKArtworks Flapjack pins and OMV merch bundles will be shipping out this month.    Remaining items will be in the after August, once I'm sure all backers have received their items first.   Featuring voice actors Kae Giroux  Brett Kelley Remani Lizani Bob Savage Sarah Gherri Mike Davis Joe Van Allen Steph MacGillivary Colin Vigneault Kristen Chesler Will Munro Ed Gogolski Kamilla CheskiewiczJennifer Rawlings Jesper barber Jeremy Ruiter Ian PatriarcaJamie Noguchi   music by Kevin Mason Pixabay Jett Andrade Marcelo F. @resetcubestudio Incompetech.com & Kevin MacLeod   and sound effects and some themes from Freesound.org BBC Sound Effects Pixabay.com Take a Chance Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By

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 STARWELL FOUNDATION, SEASON 1.  Marty Day Brendan Wilson Danielle Squiers Brett Kelley: @BKArtWorks Jr. Shane Ross Colin Allgood JVA G. Seymour Rissa KT Baldassaro and Scott Tundermann THEA Kyle Pasciutti Nichele and David Herrick krista  Christina Pepper Milta vargas Will Munro Bob  Ronald Squiers Parsons Tricia Cyhowski Sydney Umana Babette Daniels Ken Houston The MothMan Jon York Aya   Physical rewards like the badges, pins and merch bundle will be shipping out in august. If you have any questions about the update episode here please let me know      

We're almost at the end of the 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, talk villains, podcasting, audio drama making and more! When episodes are released I'll also be posting links for  Two Dimension Podcast & Excelsior Journeys Podcast   And since we're so close to the end of the kickstarter campaign it's time to start casting the new characters and roles for the new season!

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 consider backing so I can make this story a reality.  If you can't help by backing you can always still help by sharing! Share the campaign page, share the pilot episodes, tell people about it, because once produced all the episodes will air right here as all our past episodes have.  Thank you everyone for the positivity and encouragement to press on with this endeavor and especially thanks to my wife Danielle who has been supporting me through so many silly and intense ideas for this season to get made. 

If you liked this audio drama please check and follow our   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 Heroes. Through the Foundation children make requests to meet famous athletes, movie stars, or even their favorite heroes... But the kids have started to request something new:  they want to meet their favorite villains and up to the newly promoted Meredith Dare to make their dreams come true. This is the combined episodes 1&2 of the pilot season. This episode features the voice acting talents of: Kae Giroux Bob Savage Brett Kelley Sarah Gherri Mike Davis Joe Van Allen Steph MacGillivary Colin Vigneault Michelle Arslan Babs Daniels Kristen Blakely Chesler Colin Allen Ed Gogolski Milta Vargas Alex Squiers Featuring music clips by Kevin Mason. Additional sound effect and other music from: Freesound.org BBC Sound Effects    Incompetech.com -- "carefree" Kevin Macleod (incompetech.com)

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-Stars and despite all the planning, we ran out of episodes. Luckily, with Colin getting us all emotional on 448, some of our 450 material was used up giving us the perfect opportunity to squeeze in conversations with Vicky, Jon, and Charlie.  The episode is still a marathon at almost 3 hours long, but it was worth it and we think you'll agree. Like I pointed out last time: the search feature on our site works surprisingly well. So if you're looking for any other appearances from Vicky, Jon, and Charlie just pop their names in the search bar and it should pull up everything you're looking for. With that said, I think it's

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 sometime last week but we still have one episode left to release before we close up shop and if the last few weeks were any indication, it's gonna be a wild ride of feelings for some of us. But let's not get too ahead of ourselves because this week Alex worked his yearly magic and has assembled one last best-of montage featuring clips and snippets from this past year's episodes. It's hard to say what year was our strongest in terms of guests but I'd say that this last year gave the top spot a run for its money. We talked to some incredible people both long-time friends and new guests alike. It's been said countless times b

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."? I guess this week's episode is a little easier because while we were ready to do exactly that, Colin came on and completely flipped the script on us. We were fully prepared to spend an absurd amount of time telling Colin how rad he his, how much he means to us, and how valuable he's been to the show over the last decade but he was like "nah". And while we did manage to squeeze a few thank yous in here and there, most of the episode was spent fighting back emotions. That's right, folks. Colin made us feel things. It was a truly wild ride and what we believe to be a perfect ending to the Colin arc of OMV. He's been a

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 people we've relied on and how they were always ready and willing to give us a hand whenever we asked. We said it about a million times throughout the course of this 2+ hour episode, but I feel like there's no way we could possibly say "thank you" enough. For those feeling either curious or nostalgic for all the previous appearances of everyone featured today, the "Search" feature on our website works surprisingly well. Just pop in the name of anyone listed in the title of this episode and it'll pull up pretty much everything you're looking for dating all the way back to the beginning. Some of the topics may be a littl

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 just calling in to hang out and let us record him for an hour; Bret was, quite literally, always there for us. From the very beginning he's been one of our most loyal supporters, always willing to signal-boost our episodes and even donate his artwork on multiple occasions. His impact as both a friend and a contributor can't be overstated. So when Brett recently launched a for his latest project, we felt having him on to talk about it was the very least we could do to try and pay him back for everything he's done for us over the years. So we did just that. It's a little bittersweet as this is also doubling as his final

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 of to some from the Baltimore area who are either currently a part of, or were former members of, a group by the name of Super Art Fight. They're no strangers to this show with each guest on this episode having made an appearance at least once since 2014.  And seeing as they've always been incredibly kind to two guys constantly bothering them for content, we thought having some of them on one last time would be the perfect way to say thanks. Rather than have 6 people all talking over each other at the same time, we broke this episode up into two sections: The first features Brandon Chalmers and Jamie Noguchi. Two former members of the Art Fight crew, Brandon and Jamie have since split off t

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 clicking "Publish" so ya'll can listen to a rad chat we had with Eisner nominated artist Joe Eisma and, barring any last second acts of God, the episode will be released. I hope.  So before I go and knock on all the wood I can find, I might as well tell you about our guest. In case you weren't aware, Joe Eisma is the co-creator and artist of Image Comics' MORNING GLORIES and has also worked for just about every other publisher you could think of. You can find his art on classics like ARCHIE and CHARLIE'S ANGELS as well on books from DC and Valiant. Some of his latest work, the 12 issue run of ENGINEWARD from Vault Comi

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 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 guest-host Will who, with his expansive knowledge of monsters, was like a kid in a candy shop talking with Jason.) Talking monsters is fun. Talking with Jason is fun. And we always relish the chance to chat with Will (especially since our usual spooky episode couldn't happen last year). But there's also some serious news to go along with the monster chat. If you've been following Jason or @FakeThemePark you may have already seen the or the announcements on the various socials. But without spoiling too much here, Jason came on to give us the 4-1-1 on the future of @FakeThemePark. Now that the suspense is likely tearing you to pieces, be sure to foll

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 reached out to her). Her name is and when she isn't educating today's youth in the ways of the arts at her day job, she's bringing incredible fantasy illustrations to life. With a degree in Children's Book Illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco, Amanda has put together a mindblowing portfolio of work including some of the tightest, most detailed watercolor pieces I've ever seen. Take a look at her and you'll see what I'm talking about. I straight up didn't believe those were watercolor the first time I saw them. Anyway, check out our chat with Amanda. We talk about her art, her job as a teacher, and