As per Nathan Black, the Sound Effects Guru is the kid with a Smartphone and scrolls through the different sound effects available on that app. It is often hilarious to be in the middle of a sentence and be interrupted by a sound that perfectly describes what just happened in the previous sentence.
Often I ask for applause – all the time in fact, bc these kids don’t get a lot of applause in their lives –Â but then when the applause dies down, the app applause is sometimes still going. We just listen to it. It’s just fun.
My favorite is when I reject an answer, there is an app sound that says derisively, “Come on!”, like that was the stupidest answer ever. Of course, I alway make sure that they know that it is the answer and not the kid we are laughing at.
The kids really get that and by now it is a kind of badge of honor to have a suggestion rejected, and a great triumph to have one accepted. I always look with approval at the kid who suggested the accepted cute answer for the rest of the story.
There are so many apps, and the Sound Effects Guru is a special job indeed.