Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
Speaker 1: I've never told to your protection of I Hire Radio's
Speaker 1: House to part. I want to start this episode off
Speaker 1: with a very important question. I'm gonna what's your favorite color?
Speaker 1: So I vary. I'm one of those I could never
Speaker 1: really decide exactly what I liked. But I went from
Speaker 1: yellow to red to purple within the space of how
Speaker 1: much time I want to say, So that's always interchanges.
Speaker 1: It's acorn to the day you switch out, I do.
Speaker 1: And those are the three that I usually go back to.
Speaker 1: But every now and then that the Royal Blue will
Speaker 1: come in. But typically those three about you, what is
Speaker 1: your favorite color? Mine is green, but it's very closely
Speaker 1: followed by blue, very closely followed by blue. I remember
Speaker 1: that question where it I used to do this thing.
Speaker 1: I've probably done it to you because I do it
Speaker 1: every time I'm tipsy, where I asked like a series
Speaker 1: of questions and then I tell you what the questions
Speaker 1: really mean. You've done that with me. Oh, I'll do it,
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you all about yourself. You have so
Speaker 1: many comes on your tipsy Maybe it's just it's a
Speaker 1: specific mood okay, But one of the questions is, imagine
Speaker 1: you're in a room and it's different shades of your
Speaker 1: favorite color. How do you feel. Oh, it's according to
Speaker 1: that color, so it would change based on the color.
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting. Well, then my test is out the window.
Speaker 1: But it's also a silly test. But by what would
Speaker 1: have been meant? Um So for me, when I think
Speaker 1: of a room in various shades of my favorite color,
Speaker 1: I feel anxious and uncomfortable. And it's supposed to represent
Speaker 1: your state of mind. Oh, I got you, because if
Speaker 1: you're in a good state of mine, your favorite color
Speaker 1: will calm me down or you'll feel nice happy. This
Speaker 1: is all nonsense. It spieways actual. So one of my offices,
Speaker 1: I got to paint it and I painted it yellow,
Speaker 1: and I meant to do it like in a pale,
Speaker 1: like calming, not over the top, but it was so
Speaker 1: bright that I had to keep the light off. I
Speaker 1: didn't realize that bright. I was also next to like
Speaker 1: two windows, so it wasn't awful, but it was just
Speaker 1: so brightly. Yeah, I'm not happy enough for this right now.
Speaker 1: I can't handle this right now, and that we just
Speaker 1: turn it off and just it in darkness and the
Speaker 1: yellow glow of the fields about right now, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: this color psychology is passing. My little brother's dream when
Speaker 1: he was growing up was um bright yellow and then red.
Speaker 1: At one point I thought that was kind of weird.
Speaker 1: In mine was like a melancholy blue I call it.
Speaker 1: My older brothers was white. All right. I was gonna
Speaker 1: say my I think my parents kept my room when
Speaker 1: I was growing up a mov or a cream color
Speaker 1: very seventies, very seventies, like, because you know, avocado green
Speaker 1: was at my bathroom color, so it was very fair seventies.
Speaker 1: So for a girl, that had to be mauv and cream. Well,
Speaker 1: today we are talking about a very specific color, and
Speaker 1: that is red. Red my other favorite color. That's right, um.
Speaker 1: And a long time ago, when I was the video
Speaker 1: producer for this very show, we did a video about
Speaker 1: the power of red and why is red kind of
Speaker 1: this sexy, dangerous power color, but we didn't do a
Speaker 1: podcast on it. So here it is boom and it's
Speaker 1: inspired partly by the woman in Red from the Matrix,
Speaker 1: which I just rewatched within the past two days for
Speaker 1: the first time in many many years. Held up sad
Speaker 1: what happened to it, but held, look I've had I've
Speaker 1: watched it, like I think I watched it every two years,
Speaker 1: just on instinct. I just keep watching it because it
Speaker 1: was one of it was it came out I think
Speaker 1: my senior year of high school. That inventates me so
Speaker 1: shut up, um, But it was our group. It was
Speaker 1: our favorite movie. We would watch it all the time
Speaker 1: and quote it all the time, which is so ridiculous because,
Speaker 1: of course none of us are as cool as Kiana
Speaker 1: Monotone Kiano Reeves. Of course I love Kiano Reeves. If
Speaker 1: you're listening to this, come say hay to me. Well,
Speaker 1: I similar to my Ryan Gosling thing. He I was
Speaker 1: on that train before you became super trendy. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: and I had a debate and you won every bit
Speaker 1: of it. I took a picture, one of those polaroid
Speaker 1: like print out pictures of me with KIANU Reeves in
Speaker 1: the background. Right, that's how terrible my crush was on him.
Speaker 1: And from the matrix. And then I I won't say
Speaker 1: what the email address was, but I have a very
Speaker 1: embarrassing my first email address. Can you at least give
Speaker 1: us the beginning. It's a little bit it has angel
Speaker 1: in it. Oh no, you probably guess it from there.
Speaker 1: But um, anyway, it was my favorite. And this is
Speaker 1: an accident or being accidentally timely, because they just announced
Speaker 1: that the fourth MOVI be there's going to be a
Speaker 1: fourth movie. The original actors of the Matriix. Yes, seriously,
Speaker 1: the third one was so bad, well that I described
Speaker 1: it from my memories. That's how bad. Super producer Andrew
Speaker 1: and I were just talking about that. Um, he hasn't
Speaker 1: even seen it at all, the first one, the third one. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so they just announced that and then also
Speaker 1: it's the twentieth anniversary of the Matrix. But anyway, part
Speaker 1: of the Matrix is this woman in red, the simulated
Speaker 1: character that mouse, who is the youngest character in their
Speaker 1: little little crew. Um, he designed it her. It's complicated
Speaker 1: to talk about this movie if you haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: but we'll try. He designed her and is obsessed with her,
Speaker 1: and her presence is used as a distraction during the
Speaker 1: agent training program. So the agents are bad, right. The
Speaker 1: training program is a simulation where they take in neo
Speaker 1: Kana reviews. Look at the agent can take over anybody,
Speaker 1: even this sexy lady in a retro us and she's
Speaker 1: not real. No, she's not real. Your reality is not real.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the basis of the movie reality is
Speaker 1: not real. Um. And this, this woman in red is
Speaker 1: very flirty. She's got like big bouncy blonde hair, very sexual,
Speaker 1: and she stands in start contrast to the rest of
Speaker 1: the crowd here are kind of in neutral black. Right. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: you know, stops to take her in, looks away, and
Speaker 1: Morpheus says, look I get and you know, turns back
Speaker 1: to have an agent pointing a gun in his face.
Speaker 1: So it's a very kind of iconic. He just calls
Speaker 1: her like, were you even were you paying attention? Or
Speaker 1: you're looking at the woman in the red dress? And then, um,
Speaker 1: if we look at Battlestar Galactica six, um, she's a
Speaker 1: pretty big example of someone wearing red that's iconic and
Speaker 1: very in contrast to everyone else that she's also very sexual.
Speaker 1: I believe it's been a long time since I've seen
Speaker 1: that show, but I believe she often used sexual reality
Speaker 1: as her power. I've never seen that show. Well, I
Speaker 1: believe that is true. The lady in the sixth sense
Speaker 1: that killed her stepdaughter spoiler alerts also why I wear
Speaker 1: red to a funeral. That's very suspicious. Um. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then that rabbit, lady, are you talking about Jessica Rabbit, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, is not a rabbit. I just just
Speaker 1: to clarify, She's not a rabbit in this cartoon movie Hybrid,
Speaker 1: which I love. We I've talked a lot about Roger
Speaker 1: Rabbit in the last two weeks. I feel like, well,
Speaker 1: between like talking about the dance to talking about people
Speaker 1: were dressing up as that when we were at disney
Speaker 1: World and I was like, oh, look, that's Jessica Rabbit.
Speaker 1: You're like Samantha will challenge you to the Roger Rabbit dance,
Speaker 1: which I didn't know it was a thing. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: tried to get a couple of people do it. A
Speaker 1: couple of people did do it. I did. I feel
Speaker 1: like I won that one. I think you did too,
Speaker 1: um I. And also on a personal level, I have
Speaker 1: a red dress that when I wear it, nearly everyone
Speaker 1: brings it up and not like a creep be way.
Speaker 1: I always are just kinda like, look at that red dress. Um.
Speaker 1: And some mentioned there's somebody in the office is always
Speaker 1: like the woman in red from the Matrix. UM. Since
Speaker 1: we were talking about clowns. Recently, I thought about the
Speaker 1: red balloon and it right, And that's really significant because
Speaker 1: it's floating around randomly as a taunting Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: not of the examples we've given. Most of these have
Speaker 1: been sexy. But that's an example of a frightening uh
Speaker 1: the power of red and the danger of red, which
Speaker 1: we're also gonna be talking about. I wanted to note
Speaker 1: this is not inspired by the movie the same name
Speaker 1: that I did not know existed until we did this research.
Speaker 1: Chaz Um Guildner Radner and that dude, good job that
Speaker 1: she's very She was married too, BLI j Wanka Gene Wilder,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah. And it was seemed to be universally panned.
Speaker 1: I don't want to call out the movie. I had
Speaker 1: never seen it, but that was the consensus I got.
Speaker 1: And one time I was wearing that red dress, somebody
Speaker 1: told me I looked like Jenniferiston. I about died. I
Speaker 1: think that's the best celebrity comparison I've ever gotten a
Speaker 1: red dress. I don't remember. I think she wore one
Speaker 1: at some Oscar thing or some awards ceremony. Interesting, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I know that Jessica Chastain just recently wore
Speaker 1: red to an awards thing and people are dying over it. Really,
Speaker 1: of course, she's just beautiful and you know, whatever, yeah,
Speaker 1: and whatever, whatever not better all right, So, as far
Speaker 1: as color psychology goes, red has a lot going on
Speaker 1: for it, perhaps more than any other color. If you
Speaker 1: think about seeings like red herring, red flag, red handed,
Speaker 1: red ink, red pill paint, the town, red seeing, red,
Speaker 1: red carpet, red shirt, scarlet woman, the Horror Babylon by
Speaker 1: the way, scarlet letter, the red apple, red stop lights,
Speaker 1: red stop signs, red, the red light district. Um, I've
Speaker 1: got red in my ledger in there now, I have to.
Speaker 1: It's in my contract as it uh. And I want
Speaker 1: to include this from the Bible about the Horror Babylon.
Speaker 1: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color,
Speaker 1: and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having
Speaker 1: a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and
Speaker 1: filthiness of her fornication. And I saw the woman drunken
Speaker 1: with the blood of the saints and with the blood
Speaker 1: of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her,
Speaker 1: I wondered with great admiration. Mhmm. Indeed a revelation. And uh,
Speaker 1: I did want to include here because we're not really
Speaker 1: talking about this today, but Pass host Chris and Caroline
Speaker 1: did do an episode on redheads and the stereotypes around them.
Speaker 1: If you want to search something, one of the things
Speaker 1: that says red his stepchild. So I'm assuming there's a
Speaker 1: lot of their connotations to both being redhead and just
Speaker 1: red in general. Yeah, and I also I feel like
Speaker 1: redheads are frequently sexualized. Um. Yes, yes we are, as
Speaker 1: I've seen them all the supernatural whatever. Um. According to Google,
Speaker 1: red is the first color humans perceived after white and black,
Speaker 1: and it's the first colored baby seat, and for many
Speaker 1: is still used as a symbol of love. So I
Speaker 1: think that's really significant. Oh. Absolutely. The power over red
Speaker 1: has a long history. Women in ancient Africa used red
Speaker 1: hawker to represent fertility, Hunters from the Stone Age used
Speaker 1: red clay as a bodied paint, and in the Paleolithic
Speaker 1: period the dead were buried with red powder, the belief
Speaker 1: being it warded off evil spirits or maybe for the smell,
Speaker 1: or maybe for both. Ard to say, um, red is
Speaker 1: seen as good luck in China and historically ancient emperors
Speaker 1: believed it was a royal color, the fire element. Chinese
Speaker 1: brides wear red two weddings. In ancient Roman times, brides
Speaker 1: wore red shawls to symbolize fidelity and love. When Christianity
Speaker 1: came along, Christians associated red with the blood of Christ.
Speaker 1: Royalty wore the color to emphasize that their rule was
Speaker 1: ordained by God. Reportedly, several of these royals forbade the
Speaker 1: common folk from wearing red do to the high cost
Speaker 1: of the die, so it became associated with the rich
Speaker 1: Charlotamagne and Louis the fourteenth and their red shoes for instance. Guy.
Speaker 1: In situations where people challenge the SATs quolled like revolutions,
Speaker 1: revolutionaries frequently adopt red to French revolution great example in
Speaker 1: Burkina Faso. It's a sign of bad luck though, and
Speaker 1: so it's not always right. And I thought it was
Speaker 1: fascinating about the Chinese idea behind red and that it
Speaker 1: was the fire element. But also I love the fact
Speaker 1: that the leadership used it in their robes. I think
Speaker 1: I think it's like that Leving that of the thirteen
Speaker 1: rulers or whatever actually used that as part of their
Speaker 1: signed up leadership and aggression, and of course both could
Speaker 1: be good or bad. It could be in nature, red
Speaker 1: has all kinds of meanings. It can signal danger when
Speaker 1: it comes to blood. It could signal warmth of a fire,
Speaker 1: the setting of the sun, the ripeness or toxicity of
Speaker 1: certain berries. Humans flushed when angry, embarrassed, or turned on.
Speaker 1: It's a color associated with fertility, like think the Handmaids
Speaker 1: to A study looking into male esis macam monkeys found
Speaker 1: that they avoid red or act submissively in its presence,
Speaker 1: and among mangel monkeys, the one with the red ist
Speaker 1: face is the most dominant. You do not mess with
Speaker 1: that one. In bullfighting, the bull is taunted by a
Speaker 1: red cape. And there has been a surprising amount of
Speaker 1: research on the power of red. And it's found that
Speaker 1: red is big in three main areas, sex, achievement, and dominance.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about sex. Yeah, you know a lot
Speaker 1: of that. So red is from a lure. Red is
Speaker 1: not a color you way when you're feeling shy, you
Speaker 1: swipe on red lipstick or put on a red dress
Speaker 1: when you want to be noticed. It's sexy. But it
Speaker 1: started not the mirror. After all. It's also the color
Speaker 1: of stop signs or of anger or extreme heat. Apple
Speaker 1: was a I'm weighing my red lipstick right now in
Speaker 1: honor of this episode. I'm wearing my red. Yeah, we are.
Speaker 1: We're rocking it on today just because it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love and I'll talk a little more about it.
Speaker 1: But the idea of coming to wear red, it took
Speaker 1: me a long time to actually step up to being like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I can pull this off. But yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like I feel good, I feel sassy. Let's do this.
Speaker 1: It's an attention grabber for sure. Um, And before we
Speaker 1: get into red and sex and love and all of
Speaker 1: that stuff too and death, we're gonna pause for a
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Speaker 1: Thank you sponsor. So, if you think about pink, pink
Speaker 1: is frequently used to symbolize love, and red is too,
Speaker 1: But I feel like red has a more sexual, lustful overtone.
Speaker 1: Red lipstick, red nails, red heels, red dress, red roses.
Speaker 1: Studies have found that men rate women in red as
Speaker 1: more attractive, desirable, and sexually available, and it goes both ways,
Speaker 1: and women reported finding men in red more attractive. According
Speaker 1: to a study, waitresses in red received fifteen to higher
Speaker 1: tips because they were perceived as better looking. A sixteen
Speaker 1: study did not bear out the link between the color
Speaker 1: red and sex, so more research is needed. I will
Speaker 1: say I do rock this red lips like we were
Speaker 1: just talking about, as well as usually a red shirt
Speaker 1: when I'm bartending to get more tips, and even if
Speaker 1: it just boost my confidence a bit more, it makes
Speaker 1: me feel a little more lively. Could you feel like
Speaker 1: I get a little better tips? Huh? While there we
Speaker 1: go anecdotal example. Another study found female hitchhikers wearing red
Speaker 1: had a better chance of getting a ride. Another interesting
Speaker 1: study found that when judges looked at mug shots, even
Speaker 1: though they couldn't see the color in the photos because
Speaker 1: they're they're black and white, they rated people wearing red
Speaker 1: more highly. Researchers speculate that is because the people wearing
Speaker 1: red held themselves more confidently or in a more sexual position.
Speaker 1: It's fascinating. A study froeen found that women viewed other
Speaker 1: women in red dresses um as more threatening, promiscuous, and
Speaker 1: fair game for insults. Women were more prepared to financially
Speaker 1: punish the woman in red as compared to men. However,
Speaker 1: a lot of that had to do with the shape, fit,
Speaker 1: and sexiness of the dress. If it was sort of
Speaker 1: more conservative red dress, the judgment wasn't as harsh. Once
Speaker 1: survey found that more reported choosing to wear red for
Speaker 1: a date. More women reported choosing to wear a red
Speaker 1: for a date as opposed to non date situations. Researchers
Speaker 1: found that women wearing red lipstick are more likely to
Speaker 1: be approached at a bar compared to other colors of
Speaker 1: lipstick are no lipstick at all. The heightened contrast helps
Speaker 1: draw more attention to I know we've talked about makeup
Speaker 1: three on the show before makeup there. That's fun. But
Speaker 1: that's fun. Yeah, that's fun. It DAWs attention to you know,
Speaker 1: your sexualized features. Yeah, well not all of them are sexualized.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of my relatives once told me
Speaker 1: only prostitutes or red lipstick. You know, I've had weird
Speaker 1: comments like that to me too. I think, um, I
Speaker 1: do rock a lot of the red lipstick and it
Speaker 1: becomes It became a thing for me about six or
Speaker 1: seven years ago, after telling so many people I couldn't
Speaker 1: pull it off. And what I'm actually meant was that
Speaker 1: I didn't feel comfortable enough and wearing it because um,
Speaker 1: it felt like I was trying to get attention because
Speaker 1: obviously that's bad, right, so bad. But then it kind
Speaker 1: of became a thing for me as a hey, I'm
Speaker 1: feeling sassy, messed with me at your own risk, and
Speaker 1: kind of became part of my personality. Even at my
Speaker 1: actual job as a social worker, people know me about
Speaker 1: my red lipstick, and if I'm not wearing it, they'll
Speaker 1: be like, what's wrong. That's the first thing they asked me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to what And they a might be like, oh,
Speaker 1: she's sassy, she's ready to go today, and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: that's how you perceive me because I'm wearing it weird color,
Speaker 1: a different shade of lipstick cool um. And having said that,
Speaker 1: there's also seemingly weird reaction people from people who have
Speaker 1: decided that red is sexual and for someone who wears it, um,
Speaker 1: it's wearing their sexuality on their lips, which I mean,
Speaker 1: I get it. There's a lot of connotations with lips
Speaker 1: and sexuality in general, and I do like my lips.
Speaker 1: I have thicker, fuller lips than some. Um. But even
Speaker 1: to the point that the advice articles argue over whether
Speaker 1: they're wearing red lipstick is a negative or positive for
Speaker 1: job interviews, and I found that fascinating. A few hundred
Speaker 1: years ago, red lipstick was spanned by Parliament as witchcraft
Speaker 1: time to practice in which right, let's red lipstick, I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: And I think it's really interesting when I was reading
Speaker 1: through several of these articles about how many women had
Speaker 1: to make a bold decision to wear a red lipstick
Speaker 1: and how life changing it was, and how many felt
Speaker 1: they just couldn't pull it off. And once again, that
Speaker 1: was one of the things I've said, one of the
Speaker 1: things many people have said to me, just because it's
Speaker 1: such a different look to actually see your all in
Speaker 1: a highlighted manner. I guess, yeah, contrasting. Yeah, yeah. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of articles out there about when to
Speaker 1: wear red in work situations, and we'll get into a
Speaker 1: little bit of that. Another study from twelve found that
Speaker 1: women who were read in their profile pictures on dating
Speaker 1: apps are sites were more likely to report interest in
Speaker 1: casual sex. Similarly, another study found that sites with a
Speaker 1: bigger focus on hookups and casual sex featured more women
Speaker 1: wearing red. And I just think it's interesting that red
Speaker 1: is both the color of love and the color of hate.
Speaker 1: Um Cupid and the Devil. The results of one test
Speaker 1: seemed to suggest that the presence of red may intensify
Speaker 1: the experience of pain. It's also pretty interesting, uh, if
Speaker 1: we look at achievement, research shows that even a flash
Speaker 1: of the color red before performance or test can induce
Speaker 1: avoidance and worse performance, probably because of its associations with
Speaker 1: mistakes and failures. Yeah, I know many teachers that have
Speaker 1: gone from red pins to blue pins because of the
Speaker 1: many conversations about whether red pins were too demeaning and
Speaker 1: psychologically damaging. There seems to be a lot of back
Speaker 1: and forth at the validity of the idea, and research
Speaker 1: seems to be, of course inconclusive. But the whole idea
Speaker 1: of teachers being interpreted as being mean or too art
Speaker 1: as well as well as the fact that if they
Speaker 1: great and red, they're more not likely to give a
Speaker 1: negative mark on their own perceptions. So it seems kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting aspect. But I know, like I said,
Speaker 1: my sister who is a teacher, oftentimes won't use red anymore.
Speaker 1: It's all blue ink that is interesting. My dad was
Speaker 1: a college professor and he had a red rubber stamp
Speaker 1: that said rubbish. See right there, so demeaning. He was
Speaker 1: like a super nice teacher. But I think that was
Speaker 1: when if you just clearly put in no effort, it's
Speaker 1: like it's just a blank page. It's pretty much just
Speaker 1: a Wikipedia page on their Compared to white or blue chips,
Speaker 1: when you're gambling, people tend to bet more with red chips. Yet,
Speaker 1: other studies have found that wearing red can boost your
Speaker 1: confidence and productivity, and red is found to be the
Speaker 1: color of dominance as well. Researchers reached that conclusion after
Speaker 1: analyzing athletes in the two thousand four Olympics, and the
Speaker 1: finding was especially true in close contact sports. A study
Speaker 1: found that people associated wearing red with being aggressive and angry.
Speaker 1: And there is another study into sports that came before
Speaker 1: this one. I think specifically wrestling, I found similar stuff.
Speaker 1: I will say, as an actor, I have been advised
Speaker 1: not to wear red in auditions because it is too aggressive.
Speaker 1: But in other business settings, red is a power color.
Speaker 1: I think of the red power tie. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this comes up an embarrassing amount of politics. The red
Speaker 1: tie versus the blue trown sleep versus the black city
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. I'm sure a lot of you have
Speaker 1: heard about the power of red and advertising. You can
Speaker 1: just look at how many products and corporations use red
Speaker 1: and countries that use red in their flags. It's a lot.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure a lot of you have also heard
Speaker 1: that driving red sports cars drives up your insurance. But
Speaker 1: from what I understand, this is more of an urban legend,
Speaker 1: but still telling of how we perceive red. And I
Speaker 1: think I've heard that a lot of times you're more
Speaker 1: likely to be pulled over having a red car. And
Speaker 1: now we want to talk about some media. But first
Speaker 1: we're gonna pause for one more quick break for reform
Speaker 1: a sponsor, and we're back, Thank you, sponsor. When we're
Speaker 1: talking about red in our media, things do you get
Speaker 1: a little more interesting? There are plenty of sexy, lustful examples,
Speaker 1: but also things get more complicated. And consider how red
Speaker 1: is often the villains color, although the villain can also
Speaker 1: and often is if it's a woman's sexual right. Um,
Speaker 1: the red lightsaber as the color for the sith. And yes,
Speaker 1: everyone's freaking out right now because the new chailer came
Speaker 1: out and ray has double red lightsaber. What does it mean?
Speaker 1: Accidentally timely again. Okay, the evil right, you know, I've
Speaker 1: never watched the Evil Jedi has a red lightsaber. Um.
Speaker 1: Some historians think that this, this association with red and
Speaker 1: evil might be left over animosity towards the red uniforms
Speaker 1: of the British during the American Revolutionary War, or from
Speaker 1: the Red Scare and the Cold War both probably also
Speaker 1: just with that anger and blood, those kind of associations. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you look at Jafar, Guialdeville, the Queen of Hearts,
Speaker 1: Mother Goffel, Professor Radigan, Gaston, Captain Hook, the Thief and
Speaker 1: the Cobbler, the villains and those anger and inside out,
Speaker 1: not really a villain, but he's red. Agree. Yes. In
Speaker 1: a film, a lot of red is often meant to
Speaker 1: be unsettling, a signal that's something bad it's about to happen,
Speaker 1: like in two thousand one A Space Odyssey or x
Speaker 1: Makina or The Descent. But Um, often inverted to her
Speaker 1: is given an example of red being less of a
Speaker 1: menacing color and more of a positive color. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kept thinking while we were doing this, I've never
Speaker 1: heard this song lady in Red lady, And yeah, well
Speaker 1: but I have seen the Sadels. Get where Kristin Wig is.
Speaker 1: Oh she's she's not hold of She's calculately give red.
Speaker 1: I don't know. She's a talk show host and she
Speaker 1: sings lady no Red to make fun of her. Coh,
Speaker 1: I missed that one. Yeah, Mulan rouge um six again
Speaker 1: from Balstar Galactica. Even if you haven't seen this show,
Speaker 1: you've probably seen images of her, tall, thin, white woman
Speaker 1: with blonde hair, striking high contrast red dress. And yes,
Speaker 1: I leave spoiler alert. Their cylons who use seduction to
Speaker 1: get what they want, and that probably makes no sense
Speaker 1: to anyone who hasn't seen that show. Basically their robots. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of understoo what sions? I don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to be inclusive to it. Thank you, But
Speaker 1: outside of that, I would not know. You are right.
Speaker 1: I try on that red dress, by the way, sold
Speaker 1: for twenty three thousand dollars. Really yeah um red riding
Speaker 1: hood at the spell Lining Adventures of Sabrina. I feel
Speaker 1: like they use a lot of red in that show,
Speaker 1: especially in like high contrast, because most of it's very
Speaker 1: dark and then you have this pretty bright blood color
Speaker 1: red um color theory and Harry Potter Red is bravery,
Speaker 1: courage and recklessness, um, Schindler's List, The Shining Yeah, actually,
Speaker 1: and Kill Bill, which has an entire scene in black
Speaker 1: and white where she's fighting the entire Japanese mob essentially,
Speaker 1: and it flicks back on real quick and you see
Speaker 1: the massive bloody spectacle American beauty. They used that with
Speaker 1: the idea of the young Temptress, since City actually uses
Speaker 1: it much like Schindler's List, Pleasantville does. It is very
Speaker 1: on the nose about sin and liveliness and colorful life
Speaker 1: um as well. Yeah, and then and superheroes of course,
Speaker 1: of course you've got Captain America, Iron Man, Thor Spiderman,
Speaker 1: Black Widow with her hair but also her belt to
Speaker 1: get blonde sometimes though yeah, well that was her disguise.
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. Clearly, if you die, very eye catching
Speaker 1: hair a blonde color much better than you got. That's
Speaker 1: also in Captain America group heard get with It A.
Speaker 1: Koyer from Black Panther, Aunt Man, the Wasp, star Lord
Speaker 1: Dr Strange. Also heroes clearly just want a redhead because
Speaker 1: it's Mary. Jan Pepper pots April from Teenage Mutant Ninja
Speaker 1: Turtles Jean Gray, Black Widow. Yeah, the Redhead Finn Fatal.
Speaker 1: That's kind of the theme for many, many, many, many
Speaker 1: many movies. So that's like bad versus evil, good versus evil,
Speaker 1: bad versus worse through that movie. But yeah, it feels
Speaker 1: like that's a huge like that's the the one, the mermaid,
Speaker 1: the one, the Mermaidia and with the media that looking
Speaker 1: through art because we already talked about some of the
Speaker 1: dyes that they used in some types of minerals. But
Speaker 1: there's a lot of theory and ideas about the power
Speaker 1: and a pill of red and art as in fact,
Speaker 1: it seems artwork that is in red get higher beds
Speaker 1: than any other color types. The origins in history is
Speaker 1: fascinating for sure, from the use of it in the
Speaker 1: cave paintings to the lead paint use by Vay and Go,
Speaker 1: and the costs in the history is really expensive. They
Speaker 1: even used as specific rand mineral because you talked about
Speaker 1: earlier to smear on victorious gladiators to parade throughout the village,
Speaker 1: which I thought was weird and much like media, red
Speaker 1: is a heavy symbol within many works of art. The
Speaker 1: idea of many deep dark red is the thought to
Speaker 1: once again represent anger and rage, while the lighter versions
Speaker 1: are thought of as love and feminality. Not right, I suppose.
Speaker 1: I guess Valentine's Day tells me so so many things.
Speaker 1: Just red and deep think for all everything, everything, but
Speaker 1: the deep dark red is passion and the lighter as
Speaker 1: we're all true love. Yes, maybe anger and passion. I
Speaker 1: guess there's right there. Yeah, that's true. Um. And I
Speaker 1: did want to include some other stuff before we have
Speaker 1: our closing closing arguments on red um. We have talked
Speaker 1: before about the Red Dress Project and are Missing and
Speaker 1: Murdered Indigenous Women episode. The Red Dress Project uses red
Speaker 1: dresses to memorialize the missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada.
Speaker 1: And then there's Red AIDS awareness in Africa. And there's
Speaker 1: also Go Red for Women, the American Heart Association's theme
Speaker 1: to raise awareness for women and heart disease. So red
Speaker 1: is a powerful color, and I feel, especially for women,
Speaker 1: when you choose to wear red, there are all of
Speaker 1: the assumptions um put on you for that. And it
Speaker 1: does branch out into both social life when it comes
Speaker 1: to dating or not even dating, but people think maybe
Speaker 1: oh it's actually available or um. And then in our
Speaker 1: media from what we the messages we receive about what
Speaker 1: this color means, and then that kind of trickles out
Speaker 1: into our work lives because, as we said, there are
Speaker 1: so many articles out there about when wearing red is
Speaker 1: good and when it is not in a professional setting.
Speaker 1: And it seems but most everything I read said about read, um,
Speaker 1: it's a statement. It's a bold like it's a choice.
Speaker 1: You're looking, people are going to notice it, and so
Speaker 1: you shouldn't wear it. I don't know that if this
Speaker 1: is true. But it said unless you want to make
Speaker 1: a real mark, if you have like a big presentation
Speaker 1: about a project that you're working on. Yes, but otherwise right,
Speaker 1: But that's so fascinating that we have all of this rules,
Speaker 1: these rules tied up with red, and especially with the
Speaker 1: women wearing red. It's a powerful thing. Apparently red is dynamic,
Speaker 1: eye catching, the third most noticeable colors. So I guess
Speaker 1: it does say some things. It does say some things.
Speaker 1: I like red. I know it says, uh, this is
Speaker 1: a power color, and you will hear me. Damn it,
Speaker 1: I'm sassy, bring it. That's what it says about me.
Speaker 1: There we go, Well, that's what we have to say
Speaker 1: about the power of red. But we would love to
Speaker 1: hear any stories you have. Oh no, I apologize, it's
Speaker 1: everybody's head you did this. I feel like every episode
Speaker 1: we do something terrible. Song well, I don't know it's terrible,
Speaker 1: but it'll be suck in your head and that will
Speaker 1: be terrible. It's too late and I can't edit, so no,
Speaker 1: we don't know how to edit things. Andrew's not here
Speaker 1: for any good reason, just to give us weird looks. Fair, yes,
Speaker 1: totally fair. Um, but yes, we would love to hear
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