 Hi, Luke. Hi, Jack. That's the intro. That's the best intro. It is. Right, so Mr Luke Lane, it's got to be said, you're a busy boy because just before we, well, when I locked you in for your interview, I did a little bit of snooping and I've listed everything you've been involved with. Usually it's a voice acting credit. So, oh my god. Well, every person, not every individual episode, we'd be here all day. Oh, okay. Yes, we would. Let's see if I've missed out any, right? Okay. So I'm going to mute my phone because I just went off, but yes, keep going. So I need to check mine, actually. Yeah, mine's good. Right. So I've got Overton Audio's, MB in Homeland, Venus Flint, CBHL Productions, FIPS Movie Productions, Fractured Timeline, The Queer Doctor, and Imagine Productions. Have I missed any? Redemption Studios. That's my friend Jericho Kane. That's very early work though. So I don't blame you for skipping over that. Well, I did well. I'll take it. That was very early YouTube Luke. That's the best kind. Very early. Yes. He was always the best version. Yes. So, well, first of all, aside from that, one of the things I, for some reason, didn't put down, Vocalab. That's what I didn't say out loud. And that's kind of the reason why I reached out to you in particular. I mean, you've been on my list for a while, but with the lost soldier coming out, I must ask, how did that, how did you get involved with Vocalab? It's actually a very interesting story because how I got involved in it was even before I was casted in it. So I got a message from Daniel J. Patton asking, hey, Luke, do you know anyone who can do an American accent? And obviously I am of the US of A. But at the same time I was saying, I don't want to immediately say me because that's a little bit narcissistic of myself. So I threw around some people and that was the end of that. Then I checked my inbox the next day and it was like, email from Vocalab Productions. Hi, Luke. Daniel J. Patton has recommended you as a Dalek voice actor. We've got an audio coming up about a narration from the Dalek from Dalek. And I was like, damn, you didn't have to do that. And that was it. And that just sealed the deal. And in their email it said, we've got Pete Walsh as the ninth doctor, Tom Walker as the war doctor. And as soon as I saw Pete Walsh, I'm like, that's it. I'm in. I'm in. Really? That's it. No questions asked. I'm in. And I was sent the script and this is actually one of the hardest Dalek roles I've ever had to do because they didn't. We were trying to figure, okay, do we want it to sound like a regular Dalek just, you know, exterminate? Or do we want it to sound a bit more like just a regular Dalek mutant talking? I'm doing it without the ring modulator. It sounds odd without the ring modulator. Yeah, it does. I mean, when you've got the ring modulator and you know, it just sounds like this. So obviously it's going to sound a bit more like a Dalek. See, I'm glad you did it on your own because I don't want to like whip you as like a performing monkey. Just do the thing. Do the thing. Do the thing. Yeah, no, I mean, I had it. I was talking to Joe. She was on the phone just a second ago, and she was just like, you know, you have to pull up the ring modulator. It's already up. You don't even have to remind me. Hell yeah. I was gonna say, yeah, we've had now both, both used yourself and Joe. So we've got the double threat. Yes. I've completed the set. Yes. The dynamic duo, the chaotic duo. Dynamic duo. I don't know. Well, this actually reads. Oh, Luke Newman is coming after me because I said the word dynamic. Oh, Luke Newman's after me. I said the word dynamic. As long as you don't say works in my window. Okay, let's say. Well, anyway, is he outside? But this leads nicely on with the ring modulator. Where do you get it for those who might want one of their own? Well, it's a funny story actually. It's just a program on my computer called Reaper, which is the first. I've held this secret to myself. But now I am giving it to the world because I thought, you know what? The people deserve to know. So you have to buy it. Well, there's a free trial and you can still use the ring modulator on there. But I bought it just because I wanted to be a little sneaky. It's a little expensive, but there have been times where I've had to dart back to the demo version, which is fine. It keeps all my presets. But yeah, Reaper. But I will not be telling you guys my settings because those are my settings. How much is it roughly, do you know? It's about $24 a month. Okay, that's not terrible. It's more expensive. Yeah. I keep a little reserve for it. But yeah. But yeah, that's got my ring modulator. I need to get a dollic bank. With one of those 18-inch dollics and just get it hollowed out. That would be awesome. I have posters that I was going to put up when I first moved into my new apartment, but I never bought poster frames because I've always had thumbtacks and all the corners are just ripped to shreds. So blank wall. I've got a poster from the Spark, which was from Fractured Timeline when I did Staticus. And I was going to have it just back there, but I never got a poster frame for it. Done. One of these days. Hashtag get Luke photo for it. Yes, the GoFundMe will be in the description. There's no GoFundMe. Well, it's all for a good cause. So aside from the dollics, you are also known, for example, in FIPS movie productions, Siberian ones doing Cyberman voices as well, which is excellent. But the real question, the burning hot question that everybody wants to know, Mr. Luke Lane, which one is more fun to record as? Ooh, I'm going to have to say dollots because, see, would you believe me if I said recording dollots is therapeutic because it is. You'll have to explain. So let's say, okay, Jack, you've had, you work in a nursery, you work around children who are just naturally annoying. Yeah. Yeah. You've come home after a long day. Maybe one of them got sick and you had to clean that up. Maybe one of them, you know, had a little bathroom accident and, you know, as children often do. And, you know, you just want to come home and you come home and your cats just peed all over your carpet. I don't know if you have a cat or not, but let's just say your cat peed on the carpet and it's just like, oh my God. So you come in, you get to your remod. And you just scream the ass off. That's why dollots are therapeutic. Yeah. Like your modern side man is kind of boring as well. Like, I mean, you're not, your Mondasians are fun, but the normal one is just kind of here. Yep. Yeah. I mean, I've got, see there, and also there's so many Cybermen voice. Well, there are technically so many dollic voices too, but there's so many Cybermen voices that like, like the earth shock one, I don't have those just like automatically pull. Well, I mean, I can just automatically pull those up. Actually, no, it'll take too long. We're going to do it real quick. Really quick, Carl. This is fast paced. There we go. Excellent. Am I even on the right one? Hang on. Let's see. I think I'm on this one. Is it this one? Is this the right one? I don't know. You're talking normally, just sounds weird. Huh? Okay. Well, it's definitely something there. I just don't know what it is. It's this one. This is the one. Oh, there we go. Yeah. The other one was Devlin, which is my character in Overton audios. Um, but yeah, no, this one is, which is what I did for the Halloween merch. This one, you have to talk a bit more bombastically and it's not very excellent. Yes, he said the thing. It's so stupid that one word. It's just like, yeah. I mean, it's just like, it's just like exterminate. You know, it's just I mean, it's like, I mean, Russell T, God bless him. He tried to make it delete, but no, nothing's going to top excellent. No, or destroy the, I gotta say. Destroy them. Destroy them at once. Is that Reaper as well? It's all Reaper. The only ones that I didn't, that I don't use Reaper for are Tomb of the Cybermen, the cybercontroller for Phipps movie, because he wanted a completely new sounding cybercontroller, which that one I used a bow coder, which is the same for the Tomb of the Cybermen. And I did a vocal recreation of the scene in spare parts where it's like, you know, I liked that. It's like, the city must survive the course of Mondays must be altered, sacrifice must be made. It was all of that. So and I use my bow coder for the Cyber committee, which was interesting to say the, because I did two versions of it because I realized the first one was a bit inaccurate. And then I like, I just, there will be days where I'll just be sitting at home just like tweaking all of my little settings just to see, does this sound exact? Am I getting to you, Briggs? Am I copying you yet? And then I just decided, you know, I'm going to redo it because I didn't like how I voiced the 10th planet Cybermen. I updated the voice for that, which actually that is my most inaccurate voice because for some reason my computer can't, can't like use the same effect that is actually used because that's the only Cybermen voice not on either a bow coder or a ring modulator. It's used on something like a LCO, I believe. I could, that's probably wrong. After those, I'll text you what the real thing is in just just graphic, graphic over. But John and Harper like gave me a complete crash course on how to voice a 10th planet Cybermen. And like, we couldn't even get past to me downloading the effect because it doesn't work on my type of computer. I was just like, well, that sucks. But I get the same point across with my regular effect. It works. I mean, you can, you can still tell that it's a 10th planet. Oh, definitely. Yeah. It'd be awkward if you just forgot to put it on. So it's you going, yeah, it's just like there's no effect on top. Wait, actually, I thought maybe if I had like a cup around, I could just do it because it's that's kind of the same effect. Just, you know, Paulie's patrol ship has been designated it. I don't know the line. And if you guys at home want to be a Mendocan Cyberman, just get yourself a cup. We're blue Peter now. Yeah. Here's what I made earlier. Here's what I made earlier. 78 hours later. It's a it's a long trip to the shop. Here's what you need. First, a giant ass table saw. Be careful because it's sharp. I don't know. We don't have blue Peter down here in the USA. I was going to say that is a very sort of that is a very British reference you've got over on in the US of a the US of a. So just did a little David, turn it off. You mentioned your your your prodigy, not prodigy, what's the word? Your idol, Nicholas Briggs, a moment to go. So do you have a plan in place to take care of Nick Briggs? Hmm. We see that would be telling. Ah, some secrets you've got to keep. Yes. So I will say this actually, I all jokes aside, Vocal Lab Productions has had a lot of issues with the BBC because everyone thinks like like they released an audio. It was a 12th doctor and a shilda, a shilda. Is it a shilda or a shilled deer? I think it's made me. We'll call her me. Maisie Williams. There you go. Maisie Williams. Love Maisie Williams. It was Maisie Williams character and they did a 12th doctor audio and they had to take that thing down and reupload it so many times because the BBC kept getting in contact with them being like, Hey, you can't use the official BBC logo. Hey, you can't use official BBC images on the cover. Yeah. So and one of the writers for it for Vocal Lab because they've got a few audios in production now. God bless Craig from Vocal Lab. He's had so many problems with this one 10th doctor audio and 11th doctor audio, but I don't know if I'm allowed to say that. So I'll keep you updated on that. Actually, no, no, they put it on Twitter. No, they did. Yes. It's the one with the Lorna bucket. Oh, good old Lorna bucket. Yeah. The 11th doctor lied to a face. Did. He sucks. And it made for a good spoof. Yes. And a whole entire episode. Yeah. Yeah. End of story. Nick Briggs, runaway, Hyde, he is coming for you. Watch out. Watch out, exactly. Yes. But what's, but yeah, I didn't, yeah, but so big finish and the BBC both know about Vocal Lab and now that I'm a part of them, I have to be careful because I'm pretty sure Nick Briggs knows I exist. Nick Briggs. It's pretty cool, which is pretty cool, I guess. But cool until you get that phone call where it's just like, it's a modulated hymn. But it's like, maybe it's a Dalek. It's just like, it's just the Dalek Emperor just like, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. Wait, don't do anything yet. Get the right modulation. You will take that down. I am the God of Daleks. Oh, God. Hello. Oh, God. Right. Next question. Oh, no, my mini tenons. Not my mini tenon. Oh, no. I have just like half of a character. Character building's Dalek. What happened? Oh, wait, here's his head. Here's his head. Here's his head. Oh, good. There we go. Fixed. He sits right here. I have to remind myself that I am not in fact one of them. Well, maybe you are and you're just not fully formed yet. You need a life-sized Dalek at some point. I do. I know, like I've got, like I got onto Project Dalek, which is like this entire forum of how to build a life-sized Dalek. And I've downloaded, I've downloaded like the 60s, 70s and the Imperial Daleks and even a 2005 Dalek. I'm like, poor Joe is going to come home one day after a long week and just come home and there's going to be a life-sized Dalek just sitting in the bedroom just, just being like, Oh, Joe, love it. Joe, do it. I've been waiting for you darling. Joe, love that. She'll be the split it up and fly them. Just snap it. So just shoot an arrow into its eye stock. Yeah. It won't miss from across the room. Yes. That is terrifying. We love that. Yes. We love her, but I have to make sure she wasn't here. Scared. Scared. Someone was breaking in again. Oh, okay. No, we have to talk about that. I have to talk about that. I was at work. Okay. And you and Joe were on the read through for episode one of the Venus series because an angel goes to war was the pilot. Yes. A lot of people are like, episode two, and I'm like, it's episode one guys. That's what I was doing. Yeah, you're in it, Jeff. And so y'all were in the read through for that. I was at work and all of a sudden I just get a text from Joe and say, hey, some dude just tried to like just walked into your apartment. And I'm like, so I'm in them. I work at a pizza place, which I'm actually wearing the hat to my job. So pie society. Hi. You're in the community show and your pizza place. I'm branding my two like commitments. Yeah. I don't have a shirt underneath. But if I did, I'd probably be a Venus Flint t-shirt that I don't actually have. But yeah. So I'm at work and I'm like in the middle of like, like rolling dough. And I just get that text and like, I turn to my boss, I'm like, hey, I got to like take a take five because I think someone just broke into my apartment and my girlfriend so he's like, go ahead. If you need to leave go and I'm like walking to my car. I and I called Joe and he's like, Hey, I'm like, the fuck's going on. It was a phone call. I'm like, you just texted me. You didn't say anything for like five minutes. I thought, Oh my God, she's been kidnapped. I have to go on like a manhunt. And like, and then I'm just on the phone with Jack. It was really weird. I'm like, you're taking this very calmly, Joe. Here's that story from the other perspective. I'll tell you exactly. I'll tell you the bloody play by play. So we would chat in a way at this point. It was just me and go because the rest had to go. Yeah. And suddenly she has one earphone off luckily. And she and suddenly just mid conversation she stops and just goes just turns away. And I'm like, you're right, Joe. She just goes, hello. And then there's silence. Then she walks off screen that way. And then I hear a sort of muffled voice talking to someone and then she comes back in the room how eyes wide like that. And I'm like, you're right, Joe, you look like you see the ghost weapons. She said, so there's just a guy there. They turn around and left. And I'm like, what? That's so weird. It's very peculiar. And like, I messaged her. I'm like, was it the maintenance guys? Like, I don't know. And I'm like, but what's weird is that I could have sworn I had locked my door before I had gone to work. I was 98%. I mean, when I came home, she was like, chill. But like, that was still scary. Like, I'm in with a sort. I know. Imagine like if like y'all weren't on the call and she was just like sitting on the couch. Like that would have been just like tear because my couch is right by the door. It would have been like, oh, then again, yeah, this is Joe we're talking about. She probably would have or a knife. She'd be yeah, or a cat because my cat would have just been like, I don't know. But yeah, it was very, very, couple questions left. So yes. So it's doing great. Thank you. As a you, you're doing lovely. Oh, model guest. Moving on to community show specific question. And your names were brought up many times. Again, I interviewed Joe in the past, as well as many projects that you're in. You're like the alias. Yes, we love Alia. Now, and I came up, I haven't come up with just a little nickname. Just on top of my head, a little nickname for you. So what do you, what did you think about hunk.exe? Okay, okay. It was the first, it was the, was it the first episode of the pilot or was it that little, or was it that little like preview that you did where you were just like, okay, so I'm in spectral horizons and Venus flint and then like my picture just cropped up. I don't remember which one it was, but I was with Joe and we saw that together the first time and I just dying on the floor and she was like, are you can like, did you see what he captured the photo? And she was like, yes. And like, what is he talking about? I thought it was hilarious. Well, I'm glad because here's the thing. My discord thing. Yes. Yes. I mean, we got to keep it alive. It was my discord, like, I don't know what they call it, like mood or caption whatever, but it's like, you got like, we played hunk.exe, like Jack Reese. Oh, shit. Jack Reese was tired. I body slammed my mind. Need that thing without that. There is no Dalek. Yeah. There's no Dalek without the microphone. Yes. Yes. So yeah, I mean, oh, the last one already. We're on the last one. So we first got in contact a few months ago. Well, well, no, it was probably last year. Now I'm thinking about it. It was last year. Oh my God. We've known each other for probably over a year now. That's fun. Yeah, you knew me pre-community show. You've seen me. Or maybe, no, I think it was actually in, because we didn't start casting Venus until Jane. We're getting to a year. We're getting to about a year, I'd say. Yeah, but yeah, so we first got in contact over Venus because you messaged me saying you needed 11. I guess no one else was available. So where did you... Well, you know the story about Joe and casting 11. We had many people that audition and then one of them, some of them were just like, do you know what Matt Smith sounds like? Yeah. Are you trying to sound like him? Yes. But you sound like Steve Harvey. What are you doing? How do you go from Matt Smith to Steve Harvey? I don't know, but he sounded like this with the British accent. And we're like... I mean, you should have cast him. It sounds great. A little bit of Colin. I think Joe is still in contact with him. I could be wrong. I don't know. Because I want to cast him. But that was one of the best auditions that we had. Well, one of the best, as in like that was like that made us all smile. This is more of a me question, because obviously I know I do business, of course. It's episode 11, go ahead and say one. But here's the question. How did you come across me to begin with? This is more a question for my benefit than anyone else. Okay, so Joe and I have been struggling with casting. Because I was explaining it to people who I wanted to cast like Abby and Lore. And I had already known them and they were doing Jenny and Baster stuff on TikTok. And I asked them, hey, do you want to be a part of this? But I was explaining it wrong. I was explaining it as if Jenny and Baster had a kid. Something happened. Yeah. We didn't put up a balloon, which that's another story we'll have to talk about because that was funny. Lore and Abby and I and Joe had a Zoom call and we talked about just that one line and how we can rip it to shreds and Venus. But I'll get to that later. So I was explaining it wrong and it made it sound like it was very, very different from what Venus actually is. So we were having trouble casting. Joe was in a bad mood. It was my fault because I was explaining it wrong. And I'm just like, okay, I'm just going to start asking every male British person I know, can you do an 11 voice? And yeah, yes, but I didn't know you at the time. So I'm asking, like, I'm asking, you know, George Gaidra, I'm asking, I don't remember any other people. Oh, I did. I think I did ask Dominic Greenwood Martin if he knew anyone, because I mean, we all know Dom's voice. I did ask him if he could do one, but I knew he was with DW 2012. And I think this was around the time he started, like he was just announced working with Big Finish. So I was like, I know you're busy. Is there anyone you could recommend? And in Joe's interview, she said I asked Josh Griggs. It wasn't Josh Griggs. It was Rory Stock. Oh, I know. Because I had asked him if he could do it. Yes. And hi, Rory. And I'd asked him if he could do it. And he's like, no, but I know exactly who to do. And it was the, I don't remember what doctor, it was a doctor who rode or was it just one of your spoofs? It was the one where you were playing young Amelia Pond just appears out of a crack in the wall. Yeah, that's the spin. That's the one it was. That's the one he wrote. And as soon as I heard Matt with them, like, that's him. That's that's him. And then I was like, wait, this is Joe's series. We should probably recommend, we should probably, I should probably show it to Joe before I'm like, yes, this is him. Because it's Joe's series. And she was like, that's him. That's the one. I was like, yes, that's what I said. And then we emailed you and then you were like, I don't need to go on a read through. I'm too good for that. It's not boy. No, I know, I'm, I'm giving you, I'm giving you shit, my boy. How dare you, sir. And then my show, you shit taught me how dare you. Hey, we still got you with Dorian though. Oh my God. No, I'm still pissed because you didn't tell me. And then I entered like all high and mighty like, oh, I'm going to be my Matt Smith. I'm going to rock this. And then suddenly, oh, just the real Dorian. Okay. No question. No, but like, because see that, that was the play we weren't going to tell anyone, but like, we had like a mock read through because we were going to try to do a read through. And then like, didn't really go to go to plant. Like, I think like just like half the people showed up, like you said you were sick or something. I don't remember. But like, everyone was just kind of like, it just didn't really happen. And then like we were just like, so we got Simon Fisher Becker. And I was like, yo, that's cool. So like half the people knew. And like, I think maybe like the majority of the people who were in the actual read through didn't know. So we still got that surprise from everyone. But I remember because I, yes, I remember I had asked someone to play him and I'm friends with Simon Fisher Becker on Facebook. So like, I have his contact, but I didn't want to be like, hi, here's our little audio series, would you like to be it? And then someone's just like, you know, you can like just ask the Simon Fisher Becker. I'm like, yeah, but like, do I really want to like, I find I just swallowed my pride. I'm like, just I just typed out a message like send. And it's like, yeah, sure. Just emailed me the script. I was like, wait, hang on, huh? I had to like, I had to like freeze myself for like 20 seconds. I was on the I was on a zoom call with James York, our composer, and the queer doctor. And I was like, I need to be called Joe real quick. It's like, why, we just got Simon Fisher Becker in for Venus. And he was like, no. And what I did was I actually pulled Joe into the zoom call because I wanted to see your facial reaction. I was like, so Joe, I have a little surprise for you. And I sent her the screenshot of the of the text he sent me accepting and she started crying, which but tears of joy tears of joy. And I I thought I was very excited because it started to go uphill. Things were starting to to get good. So yeah. Yes. And I remember we were all like just super like, okay, we need to be very professional. We have the Simon Fisher Becker Harry Potter, Doctor Who and other actor in our presence. And he's like, hello, I'm Simon Fisher Becker. I played the blue potato. And then we were just like, okay, all serious. Oh, we can. Yeah, we're going to have fun. And then he called me out on a formatting error. And I was like, Simon, Simon, I basically called him fat. So yes. No, I want to go to a Comic Con where Matt Smith is there. I want to go to a panel and be like, so I did a production with Simon Fisher Becker. And he said, oh, yeah, that your favorite line was I'm old. I'm fat. I'm blue. Can you expand on that a little bit? That's just going to be the last, like, next question. Before he just, at this point, he's probably just forgotten. Like he's all about last time. He's got no time for that. He's in, he's in Morbius, which is funny because there's Doctor Who Morbius and then Morbius. Yeah. You'll see the brain of Morbius. Yeah. How many lives have you lived, Doctor? Yeah. We'll see. Well, thank you for coming on, Mr. Luke. You're welcome. You are absolute talent and you've been an absolutely lovely friend to me since we were in contact. Yes. I've known you since before the community show. And I just want you to know how proud I am of you. You sexy lad. That's me. Yeah. Hung.exe and sexy lad coming at you. Yes. Yes. I need to record it like an outro for this. Like, don't forget to click below to subscribe. I've been so tempted to do that for the credits, just right at the end. Just get Peter Capaldi's costume on. Just be like, don't forget to click below to subscribe to the official community show, man. It's a must. Which is just Jack Reeves. It's just you channeled Jack Reeves. Just me. Yeah. Jack Reeves, you two stumbles. That sounded more like Chris Eccleston. Yeah, I don't know where I was going with that one. Yeah. Oh my goodness. Yes. It's about time I got you on quite frankly. Yes, it is. You've been on the list since the beginning, I think. So got you on the end. Woo. Yes. And then at one point we'll have to do it live whenever I get up there. Me and Joe, of course. Not just me. I'm not just going to go to the UK again without Joe or like that. That would kill you. Yeah. Yeah. She'll fly her ass down there and just bonk.