Although recorded material is incredibly popular and taken for granted, the accumulated effects of listening to past conversations are difficult to measure. In The Ticket that Exploded, William S. Burroughs suggests that "after analyzing recorded conversations, you will learn to steer a conversation where you want it to go" (208). Indeed, analyzing the cues and transitions in human conversations from an objective perspective helps us learn how to emulate, avoid, or strengthen certain comminication tools.

Perhaps, the average person with access to recorded media does not utilize this learning tool well enough. In our every day media outlets, such as movies, television, and youtube, we rarely watch or analyze our own previous conversations to become conscious of our communication tactics. In a media world where our analysis of recorded actions and conversations develop our schema about how the world works, it would be helpful to include ourselves within that representation. Our metaphors of ourselves cannot exist intraveniously through other people alone.