Leanne:

Hey everyone. Thanks for joining us for our Q&A session. Before we start, a little housekeeping, we had a lot of questions that overlapped, or some people sending in multiple questions. So instead of reading out names as we go, I’m gonna give a big shout out now to some of the people who wrote in.Thank you to AMC who has been ceaselessly supportive of this show, and she did not let us down when the Q&A rolled around. AMC is the creator of the Vesta Clinic, a gorgeous, heartwarming show about doctors in space. I unofficially consider the Vesta Clinic our sister show. We started at around the same time, have a similar episode format, and I just really love their show. So if you haven’t gone ahead and caught up with their first season yet, go ahead and do it. I promise you’ll love it, and their finale is on its way very soon. We also got some questions from Melvis, who you might know is danielpowell on Tumblr. They also have an absolutely fantastic Tell no Tales playlist on Spotify called The Dead Don’t Bite. So definitely look that up. I think it’s amazing. Thanks so much, Mel. Thank you as well to Phoe, who is the creator of The Aberrant Report, a wonderfully queer show about the supernatural. Perfect for people who liked tell no tales but thought, huh I wish they all had fewer morals. Phoe has been absolutely lovely. They were the one to invite me to COLA podcasts, which is where all the cool kids hang out, and it’s been absolutely amazing, everyone’s so supportive. Seriously, go check out The Aberrant Report. It’s such creepy, chaotic, queer fun, and you won’t regret it.And finally, thank you to Lou Sutcliffe, the creator of the Pantaloon Society. Which, honestly is such a fresh and exciting show. It’s got secret societies, supernaturally powerful clowns and eldritch horrors. The whole show just has this creepy, gothic circus vibe running through it and Lou’s performance throughout is phenomenal. I highly recommend.

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Okay, thanks for bearing with me everyone. Time for the Q&A.

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Leanne:

Yeah, no. Hi, I’m Leanne. I voice Leo and write and produce Tell No Tales.

Asher:

Hi, I’m Asher. Uh, I voice Frank, uh, In Tell No Tales and also Edna and someone whose name I’ve embarrassingly forgotten, but he’s really great and Scottish.

(All Laugh)

Shannon:

Uh, I’m Shannon. I voice Julia.

Leanne:

Cool. I, I will start with the, uh, the character questions because those are ones that are more easily done between everyone. Um, the first one is how much do the characters and their VAs have in common?

Shannon:

You wanna go with Leo first?

Asher:

Yeah

Leanne:

Sure. Uh, Leo is an accidental, massive self insert. Um, I’ve been informed this by, uh, my best friend of like 20 plus years, so it, I have to consider it true. Um, I do, however, I have given Leo a bunch of like, My worst qualities. Um, and then also made them a much nicer person in general. So I’m not sure how that kind of—

Shannon:

Disagree.

Asher:

Yeah, that is not true.

Leanne:

I’ve given them all my like really annoying sort of like, like they’re a bit, they’re a bit self-centered. They sort of have a tendency to like get too wrapped up in their project and like kind of forget that other people have lives and stuff. But I’ve also made them very like justice driven.

Shannon:

You are justice driven, you’re also just very sleepy and that’s okay. I’d say the, the biggest Leanne Leo crossover is, uh, their sleeping patterns.

Leanne:

the, the difference there… I’ve given Leo like very minor tweaks to like not be me. They have a terrible sleeping pattern. But they also just don’t sleep rather than what I do, which is I go to sleep at 6:00 AM and then I still sleep for like 12 hours. Whereas Leo just, if they go to sleep at 6:00 AM that’s it. They’re, they’re up for another, you know, three days straight.

Shannon:

I guess the biggest similarity between Julia and Shannon is we’re both. Incredibly beautiful, almost illegally so.

Leanne:

That checks out. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I did, when casting Julia, I was like, A) who among my friends is a comfortable in front of a mic? Because Shannon has done a D&D livestream. Um, would you like a shout out for that, by the way? I can’t tell if it’s uh,

Shannon:

I mean it ended several years ago.

Leanne:

But, is it like still accessible? Are the old videos still out there for people to-

Shannon:

Oh yeah, they’re all on YouTube. Please don’t look them up.

Leanne:

Ok. I will not say the name then. That’s OK.

(All laugh)

Leanne:

Um, yeah. Who, who is like, comfortable in front of a mic already? And who is gonna be most at home playing like, flirty and basically just a Leo sun, like from the top.

Shannon:

Leanne’s talking star signs there and not like children of the main character of the podcast.

Asher:

Yeah it took me a moment. I was like that’s a very interesting dynamic going into season twoLeanne:
yeah, yeah, yeah. No. Um, Leo conveniently is not a Leo, but uh, but Julia, a hundred percent is. It felt very important to her characterization.

Shannon:

She’s also far, far, far more intelligent than me, though. She got the brains.

Leanne:

I, I disagree. I just think she turns her intelligence to more like academically acceptable endeavours rather than, for example, Mothman.

Shannon:

To be fair. Yeah. It’s very Julia to make a presentation on Mothman

Leanne:

Exactly.

Asher:

Yeah. I I, I would like to think that there’s not really that many similarities between me and Frank, but unfortunately I’ve done the quiz that you created, which is which Tell No Tales character you are, and I did get Frank, so there have to be some in there, and I can only think it’s, it’s about the melodrama and… The queer coding, um,

Leanne:

It’s always about the queer coding.

Shannon:

You’re very suave as well.

Asher:

well. I, no, I, I’m so awkward. I am not at all as. Machiavellian and suave, uh, as Frank is. Though maybe that’s something I should be working towards. Not quite as evil maybe, but you know, that level of high camp.

Leanne:

mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Shannon:

I was about to say something very stupid. I was about to say well, you both have the same velvety voice. But obviously you do

(All laugh)

Leanne:

I’m gonna, I’m gonna also answer on behalf of, uh, Phil. For Riley. I originally wrote Riley with no idea who was gonna play them. And then when Phil was like recording, he kept jumping in with like, I don’t think Riley would say that. That’s too boring. Um, we’re gonna, we’re gonna change this line because like, I would write lines that were just. Have no purpose other than like to forward the plot slightly. And Phil would be there to be like, mm-hmm. No, no, we need some flair to this. Uh, so Riley became increasingly Phil throughout the, uh, throughout the recording process and also because Phil is also a scouser. I just like, I think I peppered in a couple of lines about how Riley is, um, like they went to school together and they’ve known each other for like 10 plus years. So that’s an overlap there between mine and Phil’s, like being friends since I think like year nine.

Shannon:

the grossest year.

Leanne:

It really is. That was also the year that I, um, I dunno if Phil would appreciate me, uh, saying this online. So, um, we’ll, we’ll see if this gets cut out, but, uh, it’s also the year that I got really, really sick with appendicitis. A month after I broke up with Phil because we dated for a little while. Um, and he didn’t come and visit me in the hospital because he was scared of my dad.
Shannon: Hey, you broke your appendix, but you broke his heart. So.

(All laugh)

Leanne:

Uh, the next one is if you could play any other character in the show who would it be.

Shannon:

I dunno. I’m really self obsessed I really like Julia. I think, I think, um, Frank would be the most fun to play.

Asher:

Frank is a hoot, not gonna lie.

Leanne:

I agree. Even just like recording lines with Asher during like, especially that finale episode, I was supposed to be recording my lines synchronously and I just, I had to go and record them separately because the whole time I was just too sort of focused on like, oh my God, this is so cool. They’re doing this so well,

Asher:

It’s just the excellent material I have to work with.

Shannon:

You do, do it so good though. Not to fangirl-ish over the Q&A but you just do such a good job

Asher:

Thank you, thank you.

Leanne:

And I love as well, I have to add that when I was kind of like brainstorming and I was like talking to Asher because I was like, look, you’re, you’re a theatre kid. I know you’ve got this. Who do you wanna play? And immediately they were like the bad guy. I was like, great

Asher:

Villains are just so much fun. You don’t, you just, they get all of the, the parts which are full of excess, full of drama. You know, they don’t usually get the bits that are just like, oh, bumbling along, filling time kind of thing. Not that there really is much of that, but yeah, no, it’s just, it’s just great to be evil. So, I dunno, if I wasn’t voicing Frank, I dunno, I’d want to give Leo a go. Leo is a, is a treat. Leo is such a great character and just gets to do so much fun things. Like, be really happy, but also have scenes where they’re just totally miserable. And that just sounds like fun.

Leanne:

I think, I think I’d like to give, uh, Riley a try. Mm. I think I’d quite enjoy playing the, um, the best friend with all the common sense and also all the like, like the quips and stuff. Mm. That is the one that jumps in and is like, Hey, actually maybe, maybe we’re being idiots and maybe we should fix that, rather than playing the idiot the whole time.

(All laugh)

Leanne:

Okay, I’m interested in this one. Um, the, uh, the next question is for anyone who doesn’t know how season two is gonna go, what’s on your season two Bingo card.

Asher:

Okay. I want Frank to get slapped. Big time. Just I’d like, like it would be great if it was, if it would be Leo, because that that would show some real growth, but I don’t think it’s going to be, I think it would be Riley and Julia at the same time or one after another. Just right in the right in the chops.

Leanne:

I love that.

Shannon:

Is this, is this something we want to happen or something we think will happen?

Leanne:

Either, both.

Shannon:

I mean, one is obviously. Let Julia say Cuck 2023.

Leanne:

That’s in there. Let Julia say cuck made it into the second to last episode. I, uh, I, I censored a lot of stuff that we recorded during that session, but, um, the cuck stayed in

Shannon:

But I want one per season.

Leanne:

Okay. You know what? Fair enough. Yeah. No cuck is, uh, cuck is Julia’s catchphrase now.

Shannon:

Thank you. Thank you. That’s my big, uh… I also, something I would like is a, is a really scary ghost. Scary for no reason. Just scary. I want a real. A real. woo! Shiver me timbers! episode

Asher:

Yeah, absolutely. Like a ghost to not because they were evil in life, but just now their dead is taking the opportunity to be spooky and scary as shit. Just for the laugh.

Leanne:

That checks out. Yeah. I, um, I did intend to start this show as a horror podcast. Um, I got two episodes in, made them vaguely creepy, and then was like, okay, what if instead. Hear me out? What if the ghosts just need a hug? Just an idea.

Shannon:

That maggot one was very creepy.

Leanne:

I’ve, I’ve, I’ve had lots of, uh, horrified messages about the maggot ghost, I’m quite proud of that. I think the next one we’re gonna do, we can do like a rapid fire, the next handful because they’re quite quick. Sort of what would your character’s favourite X, y, z be? So what’s your characters go to drink order? Um, and they specify like alcohol, coffee, or otherwise.

Shannon:

I think Julia loves a mimosa. I reckon she’s, she’s a high alcohol content, high not tasting alcohol drink kinda person.

Leanne:

I could see that.

Asher:

I think if Frank is around people doing the Frank act he orders something like really boring, like whiskey on the rocks. But I think if like, out and about. He’s like, oh, it’s time to take advantage of having lived to the new age and just gets like whatever drink involves the most, like most different components in, cause like this is living, tasting weird things and that kind of thing. This is, this is proof that I’m alive and I will continue to live and it ends up just being nasty and pink and probably like has some horrible energy drink or something in there.

Leanne:

I like the idea that that Frank seems very sort of uptight and like, I dunno, Frank-esque in modern day times, but I, I, I suspect that, you know, take him back a couple centuries and, uh, I think he’d have been a bit fruity in his day. Like, I just think, I think he’d have been a bit of a dandy, you know?

Asher:

I think he definitely thinks himself as the wild child, but is just what a wild child is, has grown around him.

Leanne:

Mm-hmm. Leo’s is already Canon established as black coffee. Because they’re boring and they just want caffeine into their system as quickly as possible. Um, however, I think for like alcohol order, I think they’ll just get whatever anyone buys for them. I think they’re too nervous to be like, oh, actually I’ll have a… they’ll be like, whatever you having, that’s fine. Okay, next one is, um, the person who sent this said they were joking, but I’m choosing to ignore that part. Cats, dogs or birds?

Shannon:

Birds. Julia would like birds. They’re smart. They can talk to you. She can teach them things. They can fly. They got beaks…

Leanne:

that sure is a description of a bird. I I do agree. Actually, I was, I was thinking the same thing for Riley, but I think Julia and Riley are probably the most similar in personality. So like, I was thinking that Riley would probably love birds on the basis of like playing pranks on people. Like I think they would get a parrot. And like teach it weird things just to like put it in people’s houses. And when I say people, I mean Leo, specifically.

Asher:

I think Frank is birds as well. I think the more exotic and unethical to own, the better.

Leanne:

That checks out. Yeah, I think, I think Leo says cats. Because they wanna think that they’re super like independent, but I think really what they just want is a dog to love them.

Shannon and Asher:

Aw

Leanne:

Okay. Um, this one’s a bit more abstract, but everyone’s favourite colours.

Shannon:

Shannon’s favourite colour is orange. What’s a real sciencey colour? What colour makes you guys think science?

Leanne:

Oh, you could go for like something obscure that you would have to explain every time.

Shannon:

Is vermillion the colour that everybody thinks is a colour is actually a different colour? You know, there’s this colour and it’s like bright yellow, but it, everybody thinks it’s blue.

Asher:

Yeah.

Leanne:

I didn’t know about that.

Shannon:

You, do you know what I’m talking about?

Asher:

No, I know. I’ve heard it. I like, I know what you’re talking about. I’m sure I’ve discussed it before, but I can’t remember which one it is. I’m gonna Google vermillion

Shannon:

I’m googling it now. Just googling… random…

Asher:

What do you think chartreuse is? What does chartreuse bring up colour-wise?

Shannon:

I think that’s the one I’m thinking of. The uh, the greeny yellow, that’s it, that’s Julie’s favourite colour. Cause I think she’d be fascinated by the whole, like, why do our minds assume it’s this? But really it’s, you know?

Leanne:

I, yeah, no, I support that wholeheartedly. Thank you.

Shannon:

And also it’s the colour of acid, like science.

Leanne:

Because as we know, all science is just pouring acid into beakers and going. Interesting.

Asher:

Exactly. I think Frank’s favorite colour. Is black. I think that’s like the majority of his wardrobe, and then he’s got like a whole little evil little speech prepared when someone’s like, actually that’s a shade, not colour. He goes into like, well, what is a colour really? and all of that. He’s had hundreds of years to perfect this pretentious little front that he’s got going on.

Leanne:

I think Leo’s would be, is it white? That’s technically all of the colours? Yeah, that’s, yeah. And they’d be like, oh, but you know, like it’s not showy about it. Uh, I think, I think that would be Leo. I’ve also, this is, this is just a side note head canon for me. I’ve had kind of that Leo like dresses very boring just all the time. Mostly because I wear such like absurdly bright shirts and colours and stuff. I think Leo is like too embarrassed to do that, so I think they’d be like, oh yeah, like my favourite colour is white. ‘Cause it’s, it’s, it’s all the colours, but I don’t have to wear all the colours. The last one is, um, what is Leo’s favourite animal? We’ve kind of done favourite animals, but I’m gonna, I’m gonna put it out there anyway, is like, what is everyone’s favourite animal that you might not own as a pet?

Asher:

I think Frank really likes that one species of moth that technically dies in winter and then like comes back to life in spring. I think he’s like, that’s so me. I’m exactly like that horrible little moth.

(All laugh)

Leanne:

(vine voice) I do that.

Asher:

Yeah exactly.

Leanne:

That’s, that’s so on brand. I love that.

Shannon:

I think Julia would, uh, her favourite animal would probably be something quite conventional, like a quokka or something. But she’d like it for a weird reason that, I don’t know, cause I’m not.

Asher:

here’s a fucked up biological fact about them.

Shannon:

and also they’re cute!

Leanne:

I’m a bit stuck on what Leo’s would be. I feel like it would be like something kind of fragile.

Asher:

Do you think like Like a panda kind of thing? Leanne: Like Yeah, something. Something they can rally against, you know? Or… something they can rally towards.

(All laugh)

Shannon:

Yeah, fuck pandas.

Leanne:

Fuck the pandas!

Asher:

Were there any ghost ideas that didn’t make it into the show, and can you share them with us?

Leanne:

Yes, and kind of no, um. So like there’s a bunch of ghosts I still have ideas for, but there’s still gonna be, I’m gonna still try and stick as much as possible to the, like the case file format, like one ghost per episode kind of thing for seasons two and hopefully three if that ever happens. So I’m hopefully gonna use most of them. But no, there’s a ton because I just like collect them as I go. Just there’s an entire notes app page of just things like I’ll, I’ll give the, some of them are, I can just give like the, the previews for, but there’s just, some of them have like proper notes next to them of like, this is why they do it and this is who they are. And some of them are just, you know, bus ghost, amusement park ghost, Eurovision, ghost, things like that. that I have, like zero sort of, I was just like, that’d be fun to. Um, so yeah, there’s gonna be a ton more.

Asher:

Is there anything that didn’t make it into the show that you wish had?

Leanne:

Um, I have a very specific answer for this one, actually, which is a scene that is also in my notes app somewhere of, um, that was gonna take place like around the warehouse episode that, um, ended up not turning out this way because Frank didn’t join until later in the episode, but it was gonna be Riley, Leo, Julia, and Frank all hiding out in like a cupboard to get away from the, uh, the, the amalgamation thing. Um, and it involved. Like basically a conversation of like, what’s everyone gonna do when this is over? Um, and it turned into a conversation about like coming up with punny drag names and Julia and Riley’s, um, suggestions were just getting increasingly dirty. And then Frank jumped in with one and I just, it was just like a super silly thing that I had so much fun writing. And I’m like, I still kind of wanna… still kind of wanna work that in somehow I’m not gonna lie, I just would’ve had so much fun watching everyone like perform the… Frank?! to varying degrees of like horror and respect.

Asher:

I dunno. My answer is now that I just want that. Um, but like in addition to that though, honestly, like it really feels like there’s nothing that much missing from season one, I guess. So I dunno, there’s not much that I’m like, ah, it would’ve been so good if, if this had happened or, or whatever. Cuz it. I just really like the podcast. I know I’m in it, but I really like it.

Um, if you could go back and do any part of the process differently, what would you change?

Leanne:

For sure, how we did the recording. Um. Because I got, I’ve never done voice acting before and I got super nervous recording my lines in front of other people and would go back and record my lines separately after recording with as many people as we can at the time. Um, so I would want to like actually get over that and just learn to act in front of other people like most actors have to do. Um, and I would probably, uh, just. Be a better sound editor, um, which like, I can feel myself getting faster as like, over the course of the season, which I assume means I’m getting better. Um, but like there were some, like the first few episodes I ended up redoing before we even released because there were just things that I just didn’t consider. Like the fact that if you introduce silence between, between words as just a way to increase the pause between words. The silence is noticeable as silence because room tone exists and there is always gonna be a little bit of white noise, and it just sounded really, really weird when the just, it just went to dead silence. And I had to go back and like copy and paste a ton of like room tone into the gaps that I’d made. And like there’s just like little sort of like… I’m by no means a sound editing expert. And I’ve probably learned it all wrong in the sense that like I’ve probably learned the more complicated work arounds to try and get the result that I want because I don’t know like the correct way to do things. But I have learned a lot more than I did when I started. Because it was literally just, I had made a Magnus Archives fan episode, um, which I think I made Asher listen to. Um, it was, I was like, I’m gonna record a statement for the Magnus Archives. I’m gonna, I’m gonna write a statement just to test my, like horror writing ability. And then I was like, Hey, but what if I like write like a fluffy dialogue bit afterwards? And what if when reading it out for Asher, I voice Tim and Martin and John. Um, and then what if I like add some sound effects and like pitch my voice up and down to play all the characters And then I was like, fuck it. What if I make a podcast? So like–

Shannon:

Is that how this was born?

Leanne:

Literally, yeah. I was like, I had a lot of fun doing that. I might, uh, do some more of that, maybe like at least 25 episodes. But yeah, that like Magnus Archives fan episode was my only experience sounded editing up until like starting on episode one. So I would probably, uh, maybe spend a bit more time getting to know how to sound edit before I dove into a 25 episode season.

Asher:

How was the shift to recording with multiple people since a lot of the beginning was just you?

Leanne:

For me, it was like, it was so much fun, but a lot of the problem was that we only had two mics and they were also different brands of mic, um, which did make editing like a bit more difficult. Um, but yeah, like I had so much fun being in the room while other people were doing their lines, like the, the sessions, the, just like all-evening sessions that we had with Shannon and Phil in that like blanket fort, with our pizza was like so much fun. Which you can tell from the fact that we just got increasingly giggly towards the end, um, which is how, uh, certain words ended up in the podcast that I ended up having to try and cut out in editing because I was like, no, no, I can’t be a podcast that says jizz, I can’t do it. But at the time, we were just like, we were just so giggly. We were having so much fun that like Phil was like, oh go on, I think Riley would say it. And eventually I was like, oh, okay. I’ll allow it.

Shannon:

I way preferred recording with, with you two, like when you came over to like my house and we did just at my dining room table I just felt so awkward. Like, like I was doing an interview for someone that I wasn’t. But did feel very guilty at your house, in the blanket fort. Just Phil and I manically chanting jizz jizz jizz

Leanne:

Yeah. On the plus side, that makes up like 90% of the blooper reel as it currently stands, so there is that.

Shannon:

in our defense, you can’t put anyone of any age in a blanket fort, give them pizza and expect them to act like adults. It’s not gonna happen.

(All laugh)

Leanne:

That’s true.

Asher:

uh, I enjoyed the recording. Obviously for the people that you’re recording with up at Newcastle, it was like a bit different. Yeah. I dunno, I didn’t, I had no idea what it was gonna be like. I had no idea what was expected. And then it was just, it was just fun. Like, I think we, we had to do them fairly quickly, I think, to get them in whilst you were still up. So I expect a blanket fort next time, I suppose is what I’m saying, but, yeah, no, it was just, it was just a treat. It was so much fun.

Leanne:

The next one’s really cute. I’m gonna read it word for word cos it’s really sweet. The question is just, I really hope you’ve had a moment where you’ve realized that you’ve made something fantastic. When did that hit for you all?

Asher:

That is so cute. Yeah. I dunno who asked this question, but they are a sweetheart and I hope. They have all nice things in life.

Leanne:

Mm-hmm. I am almost certain… I have to go back and double check, but I’m almost certain that that was, uh, AMC, um, who is the creator of the Vesta Clinic and like I gave a shout out that I’ll put at the start of the episode, but like, she has just been so nice. Like it’s just every Sunday it’s just us doing our audio drama Sunday threads just hyping each other up every time someone puts out a new episode. Yeah. No, I, I, I, I don’t think I had a, a moment until I read that and I was like, that’s really nice.

Asher:

I dunno. I think for me, like when I realized that I was like, Involved in something really cool was like, I think when I listened to the first episode, I don’t know whether it was like, I can’t remember if you sent it to me ahead of time or whether I, that was one of the ones I listened to, like when it came out. But it was just like, oh shit, this is just, this is a podcast that I would listen to and I’m going to be in it later on in the series. Like, that’s, that’s insane. That’s really, really cool.

Shannon:

This, this might sound stupid. I don’t think it hit for me for a while because I was just, like… Because Julia doesn’t come into it for like quite a while. I was just listening to episodes being like, damn, this podcast really good. Without ever like clicking, I was like, wait, Leanne made this podcast, you know, I just was listening to it on my walk to Sainsbury’s to get my onions. Just totally forgetting that it’s a thing that you made because it just sounds so good and professional and it’s just, so amazing. So, yeah, it didn’t click, click until I was like, oh shit, wait, that’s my voice. Why is my voice on this podcast?

Leanne:

Reading out that question was actually just a ruse to make you both say nice things about my show.

Asher:

Very smart.

Leanne:

So I’m just gonna, I’m gonna bunch the last two questions. In into one. Um, so the question is basically, what is your favorite and least favorite part of making the show? And for me, I’m, I’m gonna just dive right in there with dialogue editing. I do not, like, I’m not a very good director. Um, and I don’t have very good like, mic etiquette, um, because I’m so new to voice acting and I’ve never directed before, so most of the dialogue editing process is just listening to parts of the recording that aren’t actually takes and just sifting through those and then trying to spend ages, especially in ones with like episodes of multiple characters going through and lining them up exactly to make them sound like speech. Like I didn’t hate it, but it just, it was like 90% of the work that went into it was just. Lining up something that Phil says, and then lining up something that I say and just trying to make them sound like two people having a conversation. Uh, and it’s harder than you think. My favorite part was, uh, recording with everyone. Um, I, I know I’ve already said it, but like, it was just so much fun and it made it feel a lot less like I was just plowing through and making this thing that nobody cared about, because like other people were reading the things that I wrote and people were reading them really well, and it just made me very happy and excited to start actually releasing it.

Shannon:

Aw shucks

Asher:

I think my, my least favourite part was definitely waiting for some of the episodes to come out. Um, specifically the ones that I was in. All of that time, and there was quite a long time, I think between recording and I’m in quite a lot of the later episodes of the season, so I had plenty of time to listen to other people do really well and be like, oh God, oh God, am I going to have messed it up? Also, specifically for Jeremy, I was like, Absolutely convinced that when I listened to it, it was going to be the worst Scottish accent that ever happened and that I was going to be just slaughtered by any Scottish person who had listened to the podcast. I no longer think that, at least not, not, not too much anyway.

Leanne:

I especially like, I wrote Jeremy for you because I remember watching you perform as Alan in Camp Camp, um, at, uh, at Newcastle University Drama fest, uh, where you were just your like campy Scottish accent was just so much fun.

Asher:

Thank you. Um, if anyone does come to murder me for accent, I’ll, I’ll, I’ll direct them to you.

Leanne:

Yeah, no, I’ll take, yeah, I’ll accept that.

Shannon:

Maybe we should just get Julia to a load of accents so you could feel better about yours.

Asher:

If you could, that would be lovely. Thank you. . . Um, I think my favorite part. Was, yeah, it was recording. It was so, it was a lot of fun, like being involved in doing audio dramas and that kind of thing is something that I’ve been like interested in for a while, but not to the, but in the kind of like, that’s just something that people who aren’t me do. Like that’s, you know, that’s just like, that’s like being an actor. Nobody does that. And then actually getting to, to be involved in it and for it to be, for a podcast, like I said, that I would just listen to anyway. It was really awesome.

Leanne:

You were the one that got me into audio dramas, actually. You are the one… I listened to the Bright Sessions-

Asher:

It was my fault

Leanne:

(laughs) I was just like, like I stumbled on the Bright Sessions because I found, um, the Infinite Noise audiobook and I was like, huh, this is related to a podcast. And I listened to it and I was like, that was nice. I’ll never listen to another one of those again though. Uh, and then you were like, Hey, have you heard of the Magnus Archives? Um, so yeah, this is entirely your fault.

Asher:

Excellent. I’ll take that.

Shannon:

My least favourite part: hearing me. Not that I dislike hearing me, it’s just I got so used to not hearing me. I was like, I’m not meant to be here. Go away, Shannon. Um, And then my favourite part, obviously recording. Uh, but I think also just because, dunno if you guys noticed, um, probably no one listening to this has, but like there was this like pandemic thing for like the last few years…

Leanne:

Oh that thing?

Shannon:

Yeah, remember that? And so to just getting to like, do something collaboratively with people. It’s just so lovely. Leanne, you saved me from the pandemic

Leanne:

Finally, the last one is just, uh, asking for any ideas of when season two might be out, um, which I have like a, as of yet unofficial timeline for it, which please, nobody hold me to this because things might go wrong. But my idea is basically if all goes well, is to try and crowdfund in February, um, because I would like to put out a casting call for Season Two’s ghosts so that I can afford to pay actors in a casting call because so far everyone has been very, very lovely working for free because you’re all my friends and you’ve been really generous with your time and your skills. But I feel a lot less comfortable doing that when putting out a casting call. And so I just wanna make sure that everyone gets at least paid a little bit for the work they’re gonna put into it. And February seems like the best time to do that because we’re in a cost of living crisis and the holidays are coming up—

Shannon:

And it’ll be over by February (Laughing through the pain)

Leanne:

Less that it’ll be over by February, and more that, uh, the combination of cost of living crisis and Christmas is probably not a good combination for people to go. Yeah, I’ve got a spare 20 quid, e’are, you can have that. Like, so I’m gonna, I’m gonna wait a little while, uh, for people to recover from December and hopefully be able to do that. And then the plan is if we can do a casting call like immediately afterwards and just dive straight in and have like it essentially ready to go by like a couple months later releasing around the same time that season one was this. That’s the, that’s the dream. Yeah. No, that’s, uh, that’s it. The last question.

Asher:

That is, that is, that is not it. I can see three more questions sitting on our little question document. Does Leo wear wigs?

Leanne:

No.

Asher:

Will Leo, wear wigs?

Leanne:

Maybe.

Asher:

When will Leo wear wigs?

(All laugh)

Leanne:

Does anyone have anything… burning that they would like to say before we all leave to go prepare for Bake-off?

Shannon:

Let Julia Say Cuck 2023

Asher:

(overlapping) I hope for season season two… YES

(All laugh)

Shannon:

No no, you say your genuine thing!

Asher:

No no no, mine wasn’t genuine, I was just going to say that I hope in season two Frank gets to prove that ghost do in fact bite.

Leanne:

I’m already, I’m already pre-planning the, the slight change to the, to the end credits.

Thank you. Thank you so much everyone for joining for my silly little q and a. We have definitely A’d some Q’s.

Shannon:

Now let’s all go watch Syabira win Bake-off.

Leanne:

Yeah.

Asher:

Woo.