About this Podcast
While its name may sound aggressive, Get Triggered is all about exploring a soft popular genre in the Youtube algorithm: ASMR. Join Dr. Alexei and his hesitant assistant Clabe as they try to “trigger” your autonomous sensory meridian response through various sounds! Headphones highly recommended.
Podcaster Bios
Alec Chechik is a senior at Los Altos High School. In his free time, he can be found either binge-reading comics, studying art, or listening to rock. He found out about ASMR a few years ago and has been listening to it ever since, admiring the creativity found in the genre. He is currently building a Furby army; donations are welcome!
Carson Holleb is a senior at Los Altos High School and a film student at Freestyle Academy. He finds podcasts great to use as background noise or entertainment for hours on end.
Introduction
The podcast is an ever-expanding medium that is widely accessible and capable of sharing stories or ideas in a dynamic way. We had never worked on an audio script for Freestyle English, so writing with the purpose of the text being listened to instead of read greatly differed from our usual assignments. For Get Triggered, we wanted to ensure the reader had a fun time listening and kept wondering what would happen next. Since we sought to create a dynamic and unpredictable experience, we only scripted the introduction—we had a general list but all the triggers were improvised. My partner and I went onto Youtube and started sending each other ASMR videos back and forth to see whatever weird content was out there but also have a sense of what we could do. In the end, the tone was partly inspired by this GibiASMR video: https://youtu.be/7AyJEQmpOOo.
Process
Get triggered
Reflection
I usually like to have everything planned out to my liking, so allowing myself to be more nonchalant about where the podcast would go was a challenging but interesting experience. I think it ended up making it more fun that usual; a lot of footage was cut because we would get sidetracked and laugh about what we were doing. Recording tip corner! Learn from my mistakes: Get a pop filter, especially if you’re doing ASMR. I didn’t, and my Tascam ended up registering blowing and popping. This increased post production time since I had to re-record some bits, so save yourself the extra effort!