This episode dives into the significant political question posed by Ronald Reagan during the closing moments of his 1980 presidential debate with Jimmy Carter: 'Are you better off than you were four years ago?' Ken Woodward explores the context of the 1980 political climate, marked by economic difficulties, high inflation, unemployment, and international issues such as the Iran hostage crisis and concerns about U.S. global standing and nuclear threats. Reagan's question, which became iconic in U.S. political discourse, was noted for its simplicity, personal relevance, emotional resonance, and strategic timing. The question invited voters to reflect on their circumstances rather than abstract policies, ultimately contributing to Reagan's landslide victory. The episode details six crucial lessons for crafting influential questions, emphasizing audience perspective, engagement, simplicity, timing, self-reflection, and a call to action. Listeners are encouraged to consider how such questions have shaped their decisions and to apply these insights in personal and professional contexts. This Curated Questions episode can be found on all major platforms and at CuratedQuestions.com . Keep questioning! Episode Notes [01:58] Setting the Stage: The 1980 Presidential Debate [04:24] Reagan's Memorable Question [06:01] Impact and Aftermath of the Debate [06:45] Analyzing the Rhetorical Question [13:06] Lessons from Reagan's Question [16:05] Modern Applications and Reflections [18:04] Conclusion and Call to Action Resources Mentioned Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago? Where do you feel it in your body? What emotions come to the surface? What pictures race through your mind? Would it kill you to stop chewing your food with your mouth open? What is your number seven? What comes to mind? Did you feel the knee-jerk need to answer right away when your politician asked? Did you actually do the homework to determine what factors were most important to you, then look at data vice depending on emotion? Is it any easier to see why someone in a different circumstance may answer differently than you? How did the question affect your answer when the opposing politician asked it? Did you use the same metric for the candidates or give your preferred candidate extra leeway? What famous questions continue to pop up in your world?…
all sounds created from warped/effected sounds coming from one 10 second sample of Resident Evil (the first movie, and the scene where Alice wakes up in a lab).
Straight off of That 1 Guy's Channel. I am @SpaceyBLurr This is a field recording from May 25th, the day after my car window got smashed in in Oakland and a bunch of stuff got stolen, including my macbook pro. This field recording was on high gain and there was wind blowing into the android recording device. It was a horrible recording. I attempted to fix some things with iZotope RX 6 plugins inside of Ableton Live,, on Windows Vista (since this laptop can't run the standalone application of RX). The declip plugin did not work, so I had a bit of trouble... but it sounds somewhat okay. @geneBerlin slept in the tent like a baby while I hopped a fence and blew the circuit bent megaphone from US Government property, up on a hill. There were a lot of spiders. Gene's stuff was also stolen out of my car, the night before this recording took place. I may attempt installing pro tools or running the plugins as audio units, to see if I can get things sounding better... and I may try uploading the raw & unprocessed recording, if I decide that RX took away too much from it.…
First time jamming with the mic and part of my audio set up in 6 years. Random practice session. No software plugins of any kind -- just a live recording without a limiter. Was going to try to steam live on Facebook today, but that will come later... I've got a lot of practice to do, to get ready to do live improvisation at a solo show.…
I remastered this within the last 4 hours. @SpaceyBlurr – original track is here: https://soundcloud.com/spaceyblurr/droning-the-glitch-stretcher-cybermountaincorerobotics Spacey made layers of Evolver. I added tracks of DM-1 Dementia synth by Audible Disease.
After the 4:40 mark -- is the best example of Jim Tom saying trippy stuff in reverse. Credit to Jim Tom for the vocals on his 'Rye Whiskey' song. Jim Tom is on the TV show called Moonshiners. An old warped sample from @ShockerTV was also used. Effects, Ableton Live warping, additional audio tracks (drum layers, synths, and feedback recordings from hardware), mixing and mastering by David Pixley @theMuzzl3 This track may end up being a project for Pixelgasm, or I might end up working on it some more. It was done in about 8 hours.…
2 Tito's mid-sized Vodka bottles frozen & then emptied. Put cap back on frozen bottle & let thaw (resulting in about 1/4 of a shot of vodka in each bottle after thawed). While thawing, the resulting audio is natural oscillations coming from the cap of the bottle as the liquid and air heat up, as it thaws... pushing air out of the cap. Squeezed sides of cap on different spots around the rim with 2-5 fingers & applied pressure to the top for other variations in the oscillating sounds. Put a ton of compression/limiter... used izotope rx to get rid of low level room noise and bottle clanking thumps... the zoom h4n had to be at 100% recording volume, so it picked up a lot of breathing & movements of the bottles. Next step: 3 vodka bottles at a time & get recorder closer to the rims of the bottles. Gonna do the next recording on the floor since the recorder picked up tapping sounds from the table when the bottles were slightly moved or the caps were tapped or squeezed harder.…
collaboration with @spaceyblurr latest mix - 10:30 PM - 7/16/2016 @SpaceyBlurr provided this audio: recordings of evolver, thingamagoop2, postcard weevil, synth, hi hat, kick drum, and bass synth. @theMuzzl3 ran Spacey's hats & other audio through hardware stereo effects pedal board /w KP2, KP3, Jomox T-Res & M-Res & recorded layers of effected audio. Ran kick drum mids & lo's through software effects for layers of various sounds. Mixed/Mastered by theMuzzl3. Copywrite isn't copyright blah blah blah you suck at naming dates and times ~keymark/-/-/-\ @ http://www.keymarkhha.tumblr.com…
The original track is 11:11 + 0.01 in length, 1 second longer than a perfect circle. Track was created in 2013. It consists of recordings of circuit bent sounds through effects, vocals through effects, "moogerfooger pedal board with 7 moogerfoogers including the CP251" through effects, and break drum beats with software glitches/time stretches and swing added. I believe the BPM is 120. Effects processing of live electronic/vocal recordings consisted of a Korg Kaos Pad 2, Kaos Pad 3, Jomox T-Resonator Filter+Delay, and M-Resonator Filter. DAW was ableton live. Glitch plugins were added to the beats, but they were mostly just time stretched. Remastered in 2016, in 20 minutes!…
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