{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"From Red (Listener Message)","description":"Please visit breakerwhiskey.com for more information or to send a message to Whiskey's radio. Breaker Whiskey is an Atypical Artists production created by Lauren Shippen. If you'd like to support the show, please visit atypicalartists.co\/support. If you'd like to send Whiskey a message, click here. ------ [TRANSCRIPT] Hello Whiskey. Ohh, that feels weird. Like\u2026 sending a message to your best friend but\u2026 also to a celebrity that has no idea you exist. I must sound a little crazy. And maybe I am. You\u2019d probably go a little crazy down here, too.  Anyway, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve actually gone crazy, pretty sure I read somewhere that if you\u2019re still able to think about whether or not you are, then you aren\u2019t. I think therefore I am not crazy? I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t think any of my transmissions are getting through, anyway. Or maybe they are and you\u2019re just\u2026 ignoring them. That\u2026 that hurts more, I think. Knowing that someone else is out there and they don\u2019t want to talk to you. Or maybe they\u2019re getting trapped somewhere between here and the surface. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s because they sound crazy or anything \u2013 I listened back to them to be sure. That was weird, hearing my own voice. The sound was\u2026 foreign. A stranger.  I know your voice better than my own, now. I could pick it out of thousands of radio signals. Couldn\u2019t even recognize my own played back to me. But then it\u2019s not like I\u2019ve had much to say these past\u2026 seven years? I think it\u2019s been seven. I stopped counting the days a while ago. Just got\u2026 depressing. All those\u2026 plain white concrete walls covered in tally marks. (Cheering) But now my walls look beautiful. I\u2019ve been transcribing everything you\u2019ve said \u2013 I have tapes of every broadcast, and I\u2019ve written down every word. Pasted them up on my walls. And I haven\u2019t used my paints in years \u2013 even\u2026 even before all of this, but\u2026 they needed a little colour.  I started by making my own notes in red, and then your locations in green, for the landscape, and Birdie\u2019s messages in blue. Like a bluebird. And all the people you talked about - Don\u2019s rust, Richie\u2019s yellow, Pete\u2019s green \u2013 not like the landscape, but like\u2026 money. Like the colour that I remember money being, at least. And Harry was\u2026 well. I had decided her colour back when I thought she had hurt you \u2013 and she had, of course, but I mean\u2026 back when I thought she did it for the sake of it.  So I gave her this\u2026 yellow-orange colour. And knowing what I know now, I feel\u2026 a little bad about that. I wish I\u2019d given her a prettier one. But maybe she would like it. It\u2019s not terrible. Sort of a\u2026 sunny orange. Like the colour that I remember the sun being, at least. Anyway, every\u2026 every rainbow needs some sun, right? And their names\u2026 they make a rainbow. (Tearing up) You brought that rainbow back into my life, Whiskey. Seven years of white walls, and now there\u2019s colour. Seven years of silence, and you bring back sound. Seven years of isolation and desolation and hopelessness\u2026 and you bring back\u2026 me. You mentioned liking Rothko, back on\u2026 (checks) transmission 179. I mean, I\u2019m no Rothko, obviously, but\u2026 I suppose he won\u2019t mind if I take a little inspiration from him So Whiskey\u2026 you can call me \u2018Red\u2019.   ","author_name":"Breaker Whiskey","author_url":"https:\/\/www.atypicalartists.co\/breaker-about","html":"