Paralyzed - Paralyzed Season 1 Recap

Episode Date: July 14, 2017

Robert (creator of Paralyzed) sits down with JJ (voice of Ethan) to discuss the first season of their horror podcast.  Find out what happened behind the scenes, what goes into making an episode, and what is to come in the next season!Don't forget to rate and review! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Seven Lamb presents Paralyzed. Hey guys, welcome to the Paralyzed Recap episode. We're just going to kind of recap season one and talk about Paralyzed. This way, people can kind of get a heads up for what's to come. I'm here with JJ. Yeah, JJ. And JJ is the voice of Ethan in season one. Hi.

And I'm Robert, who is the writer. now editor and star and owner and of what are you i don't know right now is just those things i actually you know what let's no let's not get into it yet let's just recap what we heard in paralyzed paralyzed started i think we started releasing in like 2015 and we just wrapped up season one so it took us a while but we finally got through it all i think there's if you count the rutherford files which are the short episodes in between the chapters I think it's like 20-something episode. So it took us a while to get them out.

We started on a schedule, but then quickly broke that. And now we're trying to get back on a schedule. We should discuss that. I mean, this is a season one recap, right? And that's what I want to do. When we started, Jonathan was editor and star. Me and him, Jonathan used to do like pretty much all the fictional stuff. He would edit all the fictional stuff for us at SharkDropper.

what happened was we got together and he said he wanted to do a horror podcast so i told him this idea i had that i wrote a script a long time ago i told him it was a movie script but i could probably break it into segments and kind of drag it out and make like an actual series so he said yeah but let's do something that's more psychological not like a zombie type story so i said that's fine so i did that and Jonathan liked it. It just it like got to the point where it was just a lot of time editing

and it just I mean it's hard to like when you write and you record and then you also edit these episodes. They're only 20 minutes but all that time that takes to do all that stuff takes like

30 hours. I mean if you it's about an hour to edit a minute of podcast so with that on jonathan's plate along with doppel avenue hurt which was the other fictional podcasts that we were kind of going with in season format at shark dropper and then along with some other ones that we do um it was just a lot so eventually jonathan you know he was pursuing his own career uh he ended up joining a band so he ended up having to drop out and he didn't have the time he was doing really he was doing a lot of work right the amount of work he was doing as far as editing dopple and paralyzing characters voicing character everything we're having people over to record he was

you guys are basically splitting to work but he was doing he was doing a lot and he had some of his own career yeah and when he did that's when we were like oh crap like what are we going to do and he still voiced a lot of the characters or he still voiced david but he couldn't edit the show anymore so we were kind of at a standstill for a while and that's why episodes weren't getting out as quickly as we wanted them to um So it's really like, and I hate doing it. I hate making people wait three months for like the next episode, but we were just like trying to figure things out. How often were you releasing the first year?

The plan was to release like a whole chapter week by week because a chapter would be either three or four episodes. So it would be like release a chapter for like a whole month, release it every week, take like a month off, come back, release the next chapter, take a month off, release the next chapter. And I'd like that format, that way people weren't waiting as long, and it gave us time to edit and do all that kind of stuff. But, you know, just with life getting in the way, it just ended up being still too much. Yeah.

And Paralyze actually is one of the most downloaded podcast. It's our most popular podcast. Yeah. Did you expect that at all? No, that was another thing is Jonathan and Kyle, who voices Seth in Paralyze. part of Dopple Avenue Hurt also which is the other fictional film noir spoof that we do like I remember that was the first fictional one that we did

and we were just like oh this is pretty cool people seem to like it let's do the horror one because that was something that Jonathan really wanted to mess around with like the sound effects and everything he thought it would be really cool so when we did that I thought it would be like popular but not that popular because I was writing it wise

I was kind of going slower than most podcasts fictional podcasts I listened to, which are more like in-your-face action, quick dialogue. And I was kind of going more psychological with it. And I thought that that might turn people off. But it seemed like a lot of people actually liked it. Yeah.

And at the time, I remember we were focusing really hard on Dopple Avenue hurt. Like Doppler was the baby for Shark Tropper and we were caring for that baby very much. And then when this started to take off, I was like, well, wait a second. Right. We have something here.

Like, this is getting more downloads. People are liking it. I remember at one point getting messages on Facebook from people that I didn't even know were listening to it. Like, hey, when's the next episode coming out? Like, I really want to listen to. I'm like, what the heck? Like, I probably posted it like one time on my Facebook like a year ago.

And here he is like, I really want to hear this. Like, come on. And we got a lot of emails too about people saying, hey, when's the next episode? And like one of the reviews that we got on iTunes was a two-star review where the guy was like fantastic podcast doesn't release enough and I'm like god damn like if we just released more he would have given us five stars and and but I can't blame people for that too like people don't want to wait three months for the next episode or five months for the next episode so by that time they forget right you forget the story and that was another complaint

that some people had where they were forgetting what the story was by the time the next episode came out so anyways because of all that and because Jonathan had to drop out I took over editing, which he showed me, and I'm, I guess no one really noticed too much. I'm sure you can kind of tell the editing, because Jonathan went to school for it. He just ran down some things for me, and I kind of just put it together the best I could for chapter. Because I edited chapters four and five, which were the last two chapters, so about six episodes I edited. And, yeah, it took a long time because I didn't know what I was doing. But the more I did it, the faster and I think the better I got at it.

But no one really seemed to really complain about it. So I'm hoping that it's okay and that it just kind of flows good. Like, you know, in a way, I mean, I don't know. Like, I just, I hope that when people are listening to chapters like one, two, and three, it doesn't just abruptly kind of feel different for chapters four and five. It didn't feel different for me. Yeah. Well.

and then also chapter five i ended up that was the last chapter four was the last chapter that jonathan couldn't like he he just was like after that i can't really record anymore because he was too busy so i was like okay and i didn't want to make people wait any longer so i needed to recast i tried asking some other friends but like i was trying to find somebody who had a similar voice to jonathan so it didn't seem so abrupt but i ended up just recording it myself and i was like well at least this way i can record and get the episodes out faster because there'll be me recording writing and editing it so you get any comments about that no no one said anything about david changing voices five minutes later we finally passed the closed office building no one would enter the place for about another four or five

months we drove through the parking lot and onto another dirt road the room spun faster and faster. I opened the plastic lid and pulled out a piece of turkey. I stared at it. Hearing Jen vomit and staring at a wet, slimy piece of meat made my stomach churn. Oh, shit. And actually, no, two people did say, like, eh, didn't really phase me. Nice.

Yeah, two friends of mine, at least. Like, they said that they listened to it and they, yeah didn't really phase him so i'm like okay that's good because i i can notice it but i don't i guess you're obviously recording right editing it so and i try to do like a little bit of a deeper voice to try to match jonathan's but after a while i'm like this is i'm just gonna keep i'm just gonna do my own david's voice changes like four times yeah yeah yeah it just becomes light lighthearted and nice now i uh i mean i'm hoping that because of that and because we finally you know I finally got the last episode out I want to say two months ago that was the finale

and that was a 50 minute episode that took me forever to edit but it finally came out and I was just happy that it's finally like they're season one it took over two years but you know now it's there now we're on a schedule now we have you know I'm the main character so we won't have to wait for voices and hopefully you know yeah and then you killed off everybody who wasn't putting out voices anyway. Right, yeah, exactly. Which was intended. I mean, that's part of the story,

not that I got mad at people and decided to cut them out. Oh, yeah. Although I will say, maybe I shouldn't even say all this, but whatever, when Jonathan created the trailer for Paralyzed in the beginning,

my initial thought was to have three characters live. I wanted to have David, Jen, and Ethan live. But then when Jonathan made the trailer for the show after I already wrote the first like two chapters

he had where like his character David everyone's dead everyone's dead he said that so I'm like well I guess I could have everyone die it was the reason why I did it was because of season two there was things I wanted to happen in season two but I'm like I could still have those things happen if everyone died so yeah I just

ended up kind of changing a few things and spoiler everyone dies besides David hopefully you're listening to the show before you listen to this we said after the spoiler yeah yeah yeah well whatever

no I I mean overall I still think it like turned out really well and like you said like it's people seem to really like it and the biggest complaint we ever got was just not releasing enough so that's my goal now

that's why I wanted to do this recap episode is to kind of let people know why it took so long and like what we plan on doing in the future to kind of get the episodes out faster what's your goal for episode release so the next well I'm hope all right so the the plan is right now I'm currently writing and recording season two I'm hoping to get season two starting to release in

October for Halloween that'll be when season two starts I'm either going to stick to the release a chapter a month take like three three or four weeks off then release another chapter and do it that way I think that's what I'm going to do ideally I I would like to have just an episode releasing every two weeks, but I don't know if I could keep up with that due to the other fictional podcasts I'm currently working on, too. Plus, I don't want it to like, I just think like the format of doing it a month, taking a month off would give me that time to kind of really work on the story aspect of it and not rush things. So that's my goal.

So hopefully, I'm not even going to say hopefully, it will be releasing the first, chapter of season two will be releasing in October first week of October so that gives me plenty of time to get it going I've already written that much into it so how long is the season going to last it's going to be a year?

I don't know if it'll be a year I think it's going to be it'll take place within a year probably like eight months or something like that that'll be if I'm doing that kind of format it's going to be another like five or six chapters kind of how season one was there's also going to be the little

it won't be Rutherford Files stories in between that fill in kind of the gaps of the story and tie it together at the end

it's going to be a different kind of little sneak peek in between each chapter to kind of tie in a bigger story so you'll have

like those little episodes in between the chapters too that kind of fill in some more story okay yeah so that'll be

interesting but yeah October is definitely when you'll start hearing paralyzed again um I also want to say, and this I'll stress, Paralyze isn't under SharkDropper anymore. It's actually under a new production company called Seven Lamb, and I actually went back and

redid the intros. So if you haven't listened to Paralyzed again or listened to any of the past episodes you've already listened to, it should have a new intro, new intro music, say Seven Lamb presents, new credits, everything like that to kind of keep it uniform because we're not under Shark Dropper Studios anymore we're under Seven Lamb Productions which is the one kind of branching off from Shark Chopper

and Seven Lamb is going to specialize in specifically fictional podcasts like Paralyzed. Non-fictional sitting around talking, rating movies and stuff like that. There's other podcasts under Shark Chopper that weren't fictional podcast

that we did but I wanted kind of separate the two. I like doing the fictional stuff. It just takes a lot of work, but I wanted to kind of explore more genres. We have comedies coming out, all kinds of different shows coming out soon. So I wanted to kind of separate the two. So it'll be specifically fictional. Maybe eventually we'll have a non-fictional podcast, but right now it's going to be just fictional stuff. So Paralyze is going to be released, or season two, on Seven Lamb. On Seven Lamb. Yeah. So if you go to, as of now we're working on the website it'll be seven lamb.com it might not be up right now but it should

be up within the month and then you can also go to blog talk radio dot com slash seven lamb and that's s e v en lamb and you can see the the podcast we have up right now that are the fictional stuff that we're releasing under the new company name okay so make sure you follow them on uh yeah we're on instagram and we're going to be on facebook and if you go to blog talk that's where you can see like all the new stuff but I'm trying to get it to where on iTunes you'll be able to type in 7 lamb and it'll just pull up

all of our podcast the problem is right now I think blog talk's just they don't have it coded where you can search for the author of podcast you can only search for like the title so I need to get it all under that one roof of 7 lamb productions so

if I'm following paralyzed in my podcast app will it still show up Season two. Yeah. Yeah, it'll still be on, it's going to be on the same feed and everything. It's just that if you like paralyzed and you're like,

oh, I want to see what else Seven Lamb puts out there, you'll have to search specifically for the podcast's name, not Seven Lamb. So I'm trying to get it to where if you search for Seven Lamb on iTunes, it'll pop up with all of our stuff. Yeah, I've noticed that. That's actually a little frustrating.

It is, and I'm trying to get that fixed. I'm working with the people over at Blog Talk to try to figure out how we can get it all under one, one roof because like if you go to blog talk.com slash seven lamb you can see all of our stuff under there and i just want that to be the same for it with iTunes or sound cloud or anywhere else where people are downloading from that way they don't have to look specifically for the name of the podcast i think that just makes it harder of course so yeah it'll be under the same feed so you know like i said

two more months and we'll start releasing season two of paralyzed sweet yeah um i'm sure a lot of people are excited for i think so i think it's good i without getting too much into it i do want to just say that like season two is going to pick up with david and like what he's going through and it's going to be kind of another kind of scenario that he gets himself into i don't want to say too much but that's what it's going to be and i also will say that roland who is the lead detective in the rutherford files short stories is going to play a bigger part in season two. Detective Emily Rowland, August 21st, 733 p.m. Detective Philip Kent and I are just reaching the scene of the incident.

Really? The tape recorder again? And I think that's kind of cool because I kind of set up that character throughout, and I'm bringing them kind of together in season two. And then there's going to be a bunch of new characters, one which you may even voice. If you do a different voice than Ethan. Yay. I ran through, like, a ton of different voices I can give Robert. He's just like, no, no.

Nothing goofy. It can't be, like, this is in our comedy podcast where you can do, like, a crazy voice or something. I wanted to be grounded in realism, which I will say that, like, when Kyle started doing the Seth voice, he, like, he did, like, that kind of nerdy, kind of annoying voice. But it ended up working. And at first I wasn't, like, sure about it. It ended up working. Open up, asshole. Hey, Seth.

Jesus, man. Are you still sick? Yeah, kind of. Looks like you need sleep. So, you know, everybody tries, like, their own thing. Yeah. I was just trying to do my normal voice the entire season. Yeah, that was your normal voice.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. Nothing special. It's just me and bad acting. Gosh. No, it's not that bad. It's funny that everybody says that and then I listen to myself and I'm like, gosh, I'd get fired if I was in Hollywood. Yeah, but I feel the same way about me.

Like, when I'm doing the voice acting, I'm like, I should have done this line better. I should have did this one better. But, I mean, I think like you're just more critical of yourself. But who knows? I don't know. There are times that it was like, all right, here's a scene. You're fighting. You're telling a story of the monel.

and you're you know you're reminiscing and it's very emotional I know you're telling you're like I pour my heart out into it and then I fucking listen to it and it's just shit and I'm like wow I thought I'm like putting myself in tears like trying to think back of bad memories and I listen to it and it's just like yeah and I was really scared and uh there's several of them I don't know exactly how many but those things I've seen them did you survive? Where, where were you? The front office. I was stuck there. After that one attack that's on the bikes, I was able to offend it off, but it chased me. It's a cover in the front office. It kept coming back, though. Then one night, I attempted to make it back to

the cabin, and the creature attacked. I killed it, and that's when Moore showed up. And that's and more showed up. Yeah, you're definitely talking about the finale episode where you come back and explain like where you've been the whole time. It was also, it was a little drama too, because it was one time. Oh, yeah, I know you're talking about. I went to Jonathan's house to record. Yeah.

And I recorded everything left. Like a week later, he calls me and he's like, hey, I want you to come listen to this again. I'm like, okay. So it's, you know, he put all the scenes together. And him, he's, like, pouring his soul out. And he's doing, like, really good. Like, his voice is amazing. And then every time I talk, it's just awful.

So, I forget what episode was. I think it was episode three. I think it was in chapter three. It was, like, after everybody, like, got separated in the woods, and then you guys came back to the cabin. Yeah. So he's like, can I get more out of you? And I'm like, absolutely. Like, yeah.

So I told him, like, leave me alone in a room. room so I went in the room and I was like method acting I thought about the scene over and over I got myself to get into like tears like literal tears and I'm like all right so he comes back in I do this amazing recording absolutely fantastic I at the end of it I was like wow and he and he was like that was great I'm like sweet awesome so then the episode comes out came out like a while later right and I'm like I'm so excited put it on play it and then I hear it and I'm like no freaking way. I swear Jonathan used the old recording. Like he didn't use a new one. Are you sure, though? I texted him. I'm like, hey, um, did you use the new recording?

He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the new one. I'm like, I don't, it kind of sounds like the same monotone, you know, the old one. He's like, no, that's it. He was holding the axe firmly in his hand. David, thank God. Ethan ran upstairs to join me.

he took a quick scan of the loft is it just you i nodded what the hell is going on i don't know have you heard from anyone else the screen stopped an hour ago jesus well there has to be others who the hell was that and i my pet theory is i outshined him in acting i do did so well that he chose to be like no way can't have jj outperforming me jonathan if you're listening to this that's my theory i outacted you and then you put and you put the old one or i really did just suck i mean it's one of the either i was amazing or i sucked or i just like i sucked even more like so there is more recordings of me sucking more i mean yeah i don't know that much like Jonathan was still editing

at that point all the way through chapter three but you know I've listened to all the episodes I don't think you're ever like that bad I mean I think everybody everybody's an amateur none of us are like actors we're just doing our best yeah right I think you people can tell

but yeah we just do our best I will say and this is probably like the I want to say like a few people have said that they did not like Jen's voice the our friend Julia recorded for Jen the detective no no no that's what

Jen is the the main main girl yeah yeah they didn't like her because she talked too slow and and I've heard a lot of people say it just didn't match up with like the other characters which like I can kind of see but that's also like Julia was just doing like a different voice she did work for us in a doppel loving her

too she's an amazing voice actor yeah she has all kinds of voices so she can do a ton of different things and she's like really good at it and she also lives in la so she has to send us the audio recordings we're not sitting there kind of directing her she just has to kind of read the script and go from there and record herself and send up to us so like i can see how they're kind of maybe like a little bit off and that might be part of the reason but also like maybe just people didn't like the voice like at all i don't know i mean like i i can kind of see it both ways yeah we didn't get to talk much in there but i'm happy you're going why wouldn't i go i just thought that maybe you wouldn't want to go because of me plus eithen said you've been under the weather i'm just glad you're going

you know jenn i'm not going to lie to you but it helps knowing that derrick won't be there i figured it would that's why i told him not to come it didn't at first I wasn't like too keen on it but then eventually like it kind of just I think it worked out well and then like later on like when it starts getting actiony and stuff I think she is fine nails it yeah she does pretty good because it definitely like it's like really actiony like more towards the end and stuff there's like a lot more like a lot more tension so there's a lot more screaming and yelling and panting and you know fighting so I think it all worked out but you know overall the story like is just kids in a cabin and I kind of wanted to like do something that was like that because I thought it would be you know there's only really eight characters so besides like a few side characters here and there but there's only really eight characters so I figured getting eight of us to record that way it's just a lot easier when you do something that's a little bit bigger you just need a lot more like production like there's just a lot more production that goes into it so I figure like sticking to a cabin sound effects won't be anything like

too crazy although it did start getting harder when I was doing like the baby creature attacking Seth and like ripping through the door or like the whole finale where they're like running in the car chase and trying to hot wire the car and all that kind of stuff it did get a little bit

much there but overall I think is yeah I think it worked out yeah sounds great yeah so I mean you know season two is going to be a little bit I don't know season two is going to still have that same feel and i'm getting somebody else to actually work on the music for me so i actually just bought a ton of music to use for season two and they're making like some of it's like he's already

pre-rendered like already made the music but then he's also making me some tracks um to put into it so that'll be cool um hopefully people like season two it's going to be you know similar to season one but like expand the story and uh yeah we'll see how it goes hopefully released a lot faster and that's the biggest thing this is this is almost like an apology podcast because like i just feel so sorry so bad please don't stop listening yeah don't stop listening uh we're gonna get episodes out faster i know it's still like two months away for season two but at least we're warning you this time and after that i'm really hoping that it won't be you'll never have to wait more than a month for like an episode and then you know

we'll keep a steady release and we're not making money on this this is for your entertainment yeah exactly like I have to spend the money to buy the music and the sound effects and like put in the time and effort I have another job I mean it's just we're talking like 80 hours a week

yeah just to entertain people because he likes it yeah I mean hopefully you make money one day I mean that's the goal but like yeah as of right now it's more of like hobby slash passion and you know like people can donate and and stuff like that we had a donation uh button on our website as right now we're still working on the seven lamb website so hopefully i can get something up so

people can donate if they want to and i'm going to be setting up a patreon page uh you can look up seven lamb productions and you can donate on there to uh anything from a dollar or more and all of that goes to really like i want to say equipment because we had problems with these mics before we started this podcast but yeah equipment software sound effects music actors i mean like you know i pay people to come in and like help me like record like different things and stuff so yeah i haven't seen a dime well you'll see some stuff later on most of it's like the people who help me like edit some stuff too but i'm being underpaid here yeah you'll see if you'll get more i'm taking my business to l.a you'll never see me again now

professional voice actor from listen to apparently I'm in like six episodes of a horror podcast now but and then also like

I had better recordings but they were deleted yeah they were deleted I swear I outshine that guy I swear it no but yeah I just wanted to do this

kind of recap episode just to kind of let people know like what's going on with seven lamb formerly known as shark chopper I mean, Shark driver's still around, but Seven Lamb's going to be the fictional stuff. So Paralyze will be under that name. That we're going to have a better release schedule.

You won't have to be, you won't have to wait too much longer for episodes to be released. And then, yeah, just what's to come with season two? Definitely more David, more detective Rowland and a lot of new characters and different story. Maybe the woman comes back. Maybe not. Did you get any comments at all about a character dying? people are like upset no I think everybody's fun

everyone's fine with it after Game of Thrones somebody gives a shit yeah when characters die like I said it was supposed to be David Jen and Ethan and then I wanted to have some like dramatic tension about like how they're living afterwards but I actually

I still got that with David like kind of him coping with like all his friends are dead and essentially like people thinking maybe he did it and stuff and yeah Done, done.

So anyways, yeah, season two will be out. It's going to be about the same length. There's going to be some special episodes within, and then, yeah, October, Halloween. That's awesome. Oh, that's a perfect time. Yeah, that's what I figured it would be cool to be releasing all the, at least the first chapter during Halloween.

Nice. Yeah. All right, well, I guess that does it for this recap episode. I can't really direct people anywhere because I'm still working on everything, but eventually you can go to 7lamp.com. Yeah. Just go to blog, here's where you can go, go to blog talk radio.com slash seven lamb. That's seven spelled out, S-E-V-E-N-L-A-M-B.

If you go there, you can see all the other fictional podcasts that we're doing. We will be releasing a new series called Chair of Swords. It comes out in August, and that's going to be a spoof of Game of Thrones. No, no, really? Yeah, yeah. So that's going to be just a spoof comedy about a bunch of different characters. and all of them trying to claim the chair of swords. We have End of All Hope, which is our sci-fi apocalyptic podcast,

which has about eight episodes out now. And I'm sure when I do a recap episode for that, I will be apologizing as well because it's been taking a while to get those episodes out. But I'm almost on a schedule. The rest of this year is going to be set to getting on a schedule for all of the podcast. And then I think that's pretty much it right now. We're going to be releasing more fictional stuff throughout the year and then definitely by January of next year we'll be we'll be set with everything right so

we'll have we'll have the website of we'll have release dates for all the podcasts so if you like paralyzed don't forget to check out the other podcast that we're doing and then also don't forget to rate and review on iTunes that definitely helps us out I like seeing like all the reviews and even if they're two stars and hey you guys aren't releasing enough it helps us out and leave comments we read them all I read them all I read the ones where people say Jen sucks as an actor, and I read the ones where they say, you know, you're not releasing enough, and I read the ones where you say, it's a great podcast, but then just give me three stars. What the hell is that? But yeah, no, definitely rate and review. And yeah, once I get the

Patreon page up and running, hopefully people will start donating to that because it'll go right into making these fictional shows. Nice. Yeah. All right, well, that does it for the recap episode. Thanks for being an avid listener of Paralyzed, and stay tuned in October for Season 2 of Paralyzed. That's it. All right, JJ. Thanks for joining me. Thank you. See you guys.

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