Mythwits
Season 3
Mythwits is a web series variety show that has celebrity interviews, geektastic games, and some of best humor on the Internet.
Where to Watch Mythwits • Season 3
37 Episodes
- Mythwits at the Movies
E1Mythwits at the MoviesIt's our season 3 opener and the team is going to talk about the awesome year in movies we had in 2015. This is going to be a deep dive and will be full of spoilers. If you haven't seen Age of Ultron, Fury Road, Jurassic World, Star Wars, and Hateful 8, you might want to tune in when you have. We will do the movies in that order so you can always watch until we hit one you haven't seen yet. We'll also talk about all the changes the show has gone through while we've been off. - The Grim ReaperE6
The Grim ReaperOn this episode we are joined by James "Grim" Desborough. Known to be a rakish fop, gentleman bastard, and ten times more charming than that Arnold on Green Acres. James is a game designer, author, and blogger who has worked primarily on role-playing games, as well as card games, board games and social computer games. - Enter the EDverseE13
Enter the EDverseOn this episode the MythWits welcome Ed Greenwood to the show. Ed is a Canadian writer, game designer, and library guy best known for creating The Forgotten Realms. He has published more than 300 books that have sold millions of copies worldwide in more than 3 dozen languages. He sometimes looks like Santa Claus. - AkumaMatadaE16
AkumaMatadaThis week we talk to Mike Mylar for a little bit about his Kickstarter Mists of Akuma. Finally we yammer on about DC Legends of Tomorrow, Superman v Batman, Hateful 8, and Dare Devil Season 2. We'll warn you when to turn off if you haven't seen one of these yet because we're spoiling the crap out of them. The MythWits bring you the very best in geek pop culture. A weekly live video show, on-demand video channel, and audio podcast. Specializing in informative interviews and convention coverage all with a heavy dose of comedy. - Malediction of HansE18
Malediction of HansThe MythWits welcome author Hans Cummings. He's the author of the Fantasy series: The Foundation of Drak-Anor and Scars of the Sundering as well as the Zack Jackson science fiction series. Two of his short stories appear in Fear the Boot's Sojourn speculative fiction anthologies. Hans is also a volunteer for the tabletop gaming industry ENnie Awards and serves as their Submissions Coordinator. - BeastmastersE19
BeastmastersOn this episode we welcome three of the Four Horsemen about their new Kickstarter, the Talented Bestiary. Steve Helt, aka Famine He's won two Iron GM World Championships and in 2013 was awarded the title of RPG Superstar by the fans and staff of Paizo Publishing. Since then, he's assembled a wicked cast of friends and fellow game designers who are designing and developing their way into tables everywhere. Adopting the office of Famine, Steve acts as business manager and creative director for the Four Horsemen and builds the brand as a full-time freelance designer and developer. Stephen Rowe, aka Pestilence A freelance RPG designer, editor, and developer. He has written or contributed to dozens of books for Rogue Genius Games, Kobold Press, Playground Adventures, Gaming Paper, and many more. - Super BadE20
Super BadWe're talking to Tee Morris and Pip Ballantine about past, present, and future work. Then we'll talk about bad super hero movies, and we might just play a new game. The MythWits bring you the very best in geek pop culture. A weekly live video show, on-demand video channel, and audio podcast. Specializing in informative interviews and convention coverage all with a heavy dose of comedy. - Moving to MarsE21
Moving to MarsOn this episode, we're talking to Nicole Willett about the possibility of boots on Mars. Nicole serves as the Education Director and Steering Committee Member for the Mars Society, the world's largest humans to Mars advocacy group. Willett is a full time Astronomy instructor at Benedictine Military School in Savannah, Ga. She maintains an education website, education.mars society.org with regular blog entries, has written and contributed to many Ezines, books, and websites regarding Mars research and humans to Mars advocacy. Nicole helps to coordinate and organize the annual Mars Society Conventions. - The AwakeningE24
The AwakeningHal Greenberg Hal is a five-time ENnie nominated and winning game designer who is a partner. AD, designer and writer for Samurai Sheepdog. Hal has worked with many of today's leading writers and designers, including Monte Cook, Todd Lockwood, Ed Greenwood, Richard Lee Byers, and Tony Szczudlo. His current projects are The Awakened RPG, The Awakened anthologies (book II, III), Adventure In card game, Witching Hour card game and a female re-imagined version of the Three Musketeers called The Sisterhood of the Blade (anthology) as well as a few unannounced projects. - RampageE25
RampageMatthias Bonnici of Lost Cog joins the MythWits to talk about his Kickstarter for Rampaging Jotunn. He sticks around to help us bring the funny! This was the Season 3 mid-season finale. Last chance to catch us live for a whole month. We pulled out a bunch of goodies we'b been saving up and this episode put the FU in funny! - Pony Up!E28
Pony Up!We welcome David Silver to join us to talk about his Kickstarter Ponyfinder - Dawn of the Fifth Age. David is the guy that looked at a bunch of brightly colored ponies and decided he would put them in a real fantasy world. There are no rainbows to shield them from dark happenings and terrible forces beyond their control, or even their own petty desires. Fallen empires and ancient secrets give plentiful reasons for adventurers to exist, even if they happen to have four legs. He remains committed to this world and enjoys diverse role-playing options, as well as crowdfunding and sourcing, and has made his books via Kickstarters and Patreon. - Wild ManimalsE29
Wild ManimalsThe Manimals marry party rock with poetry to produce raucous anthems and inspire sing-alongs and dancing wherever they go. A female-fronted, genre-bending five-piece, The Manimals bring to mind hints of David Bowie, Joan Jett, The New York Dolls, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Blondie. Their ecstatic, cathartic live show is a throwback to the wild thrills of early punk rock, but with lyrical intensity and melodic heights rarely found in its modern iterations. Their vibrant and aggressive debut album, Born Strange, was released in 2012. SEVEN, a geeky glam-rock concept album lovingly based on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series, was released in April 2016. Like the source material, it's searingly emotional and seriously epic. - Big Badda BangE32
Big Badda BangThe MythWits welcome theoretical astrophysicist Ethan Siegel. He loves writing long, glorious, illustrated articles that tell what we know about the Universe and how we know it. He's been writing the blog Starts With A Bang since 2008, currently at Forbes. He also writes a monthly column for NASA's The Space Place that appears in over 200 astronomy club newsletters worldwide. His very first book, "Beyond the Galaxy," is available from World Scientific. It tells the entire story of what the Universe is made of, how big it is, where it came from and what it's fate is, told in plain English with no equations. Ethan can be found appearing on TV and radio spots, teaching at Lewis & Clark college, broadcasting the Starts With A Bang podcast on SoundCloud, working with various science museums and in general sharing what we know about the Universe with anyone willing to listen. - Rocketman Mike
E33Rocketman MikeOn this very special episode the MythWits welcome astronaut Colonel Mike Mullane. Mike is an Aeronautical Engineer and was selected as a Mission Specialist in 1978 in the first group of Space Shuttle Astronauts. He completed three space missions aboard the Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis before retiring from NASA and the Air Force in 1990. He served America during the Vietnam War as a combat pilot flying 134 combat missions. He has been inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame and is the recipient of many awards, including the Air Force Distinguished Flying Cross, Legion of Merit, and the NASA Space Flight Medal. Since his retirement from NASA, Colonel Mullane has written an award-winning children's book, Liftoff! An Astronaut's Dream, and a popular space-fact book, Do Your Ears Pop In Space? His memoir, Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut, has been reviewed in the New York Times and on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. - Wild WieandE35
Wild WieandCharles is a comedian, daredevil, and internet personality. Charles is best known for his outdoor comedy, pranks, and absurd stunts, such as riding an inflatable toy crocodile into a pool of alligators and beekeeping without clothing. He has been seen in the news around the world. Charles has handled cobras, rattlesnakes, swam with sharks, jumped out of airplanes, and crawled on his belly though caves. He also performs stand-up comedy. Due to the pop culture nature of many of his pranks he often speaks at comic conventions and has funny interactions with celebrities. - Rise of the RoboCarE36
Rise of the RoboCarJack Ballard joins us to talk about driverless cars. Jack is one of the hosts of the Flex Mentallo podcast. The show where they yammer on every week about whatever random shit is on their minds. Everything from movies to politics to the latest facebook rage trend. - Bla Bla BlaE37
Bla Bla BlaNo guest tonight so we went free form. We talked about Marvel vs DC, cool new shows, smoking weed on Mars, and a driverless cars follow-up. The MythWits bring you the very best in geek pop culture. A weekly live video show, on-demand video channel, and audio podcast. Specializing in informative interviews and convention coverage all with a heavy dose of comedy. - Game TimeE38
Game TimeOn this episode, we got our first video game review from Ian Kafes. We're played Mike's new game Kickstarter or Crapstarter, Bet the Geek, and MatchWits. We also talked to Magic 8-Bit. The MythWits bring you the very best in geek pop culture. A weekly live video show, on-demand video channel, and audio podcast. Specializing in informative interviews and convention coverage all with a heavy dose of comedy. - Cooking with Phasers
E39Cooking with PhasersDenise holds a BA in Biopsychology from Vassar College and an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. She spent the first twenty years of her career as an executive in the technology industry before leaving the corporate world to devote her energies to the non-profit arena. Her fascination with culinary history has been shared at several science fiction conventions as an approach to world-building. She is a member of SFPA and her poetry has been published in journals, chapbooks, and anthologies. Her most recent book "The Culinary History of Southern Delaware" was published in August 2016. - LeVoit NoirE40
LeVoit NoirWe are excited to have Violet LeVoit back to talk about her new book "I miss the World." Set in and around Hollywood Forever Cemetery, this tense and mind-bending noir is Violet LeVoit at her finest: an unnerving, unpredictable and comic journey through deep trauma and glitzy nostalgic insanity.
