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Julio Torres

👤 Speaker
821 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Yeah, it's tricky.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Well, Sola does something that a lot of navy blue companies love doing, which is presenting itself as beige.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Meaning kind, soft, welcoming, inoffensive, sweet.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Okay, now we're getting into, like, AP-level color theory.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Pastels are beige.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

The use of pastels is beige.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

I mean, this is when you really have to go galaxy brain and be like... There's a beige intention to selecting pastels.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Right.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Baby showers are beige.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Yes.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

And that essence is used as a mask for companies because kindness emerged as a profitable concept.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Like, it used to be, like, when I was growing up, you'd hear the phrase, like, sex sells, sex sells.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

And then I think now, because the world has gotten so harsh, corporations realize, oh, kindness, wink, wink, sells.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

So everything got, like, soft and pastel and smooshy and... Or green.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Green was a green... The corporation was a lot of percenting itself as green for a while.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

I mean, like, the BP logo.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

Green, like, natural, healthy, off the earth.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

following your instincts you say i think yeah i think green is a piece green is following your instincts being at peace it's the combination between yellow which is joy and blue which is logic and order so people that exude green are in control but they're happy who's like a green celebrity

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

See, that's tough because I think if you're truly green, you wouldn't be a celebrity.

The New Yorker Radio Hour
Julio Torres Makes Everything Funny—Including Color Theory

If you're truly green, you don't have a publicist.