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Color of the Year and More Color Discussion · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 88 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:32
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: So like we mentioned last episode, we are, I guess, going to talk about the color of the year 2026.
• 0:43
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 0:44
  I Hate Talking: So since that time, have you listened to our previous episode on the Pantone Color of the Year 2025?
• 0:50
  I Hate Talking: No, no, I haven't.
• 0:56
  I Hate Talking: No, I haven't either.
• 0:57
  I Hate Talking: I haven't even looked up where it is.
• 0:59
  I Hate Talking: So hopefully our listeners, if they have not listened to that episode previously, they have found that in the archives, and then they can tell us what the color of the year 2025 was or anything pertinent that they enjoyed about that particular episode.
• 1:16
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, please tell us because we don't know where to find it or what to do.
• 1:21
  I Hate Talking: And I am curious what word we did for that episode.
• 1:26
  I Hate Talking: Maybe it was the color because.
• 1:29
  I Hate Talking: This particular color for 2026, it's not really like a distinct color per se.
• 1:35
  I Hate Talking: And I, I would say it's not even really a color at all, unless you like knew that it was a color.
• 1:42
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it doesn't sound like an appropriate color or true color.
• 1:46
  I Hate Talking: Right.
• 1:48
  I Hate Talking: And that is what a lot of people say about this.
• 1:50
  I Hate Talking: Particular color that was chosen for 2026.
• 1:54
  I Hate Talking: Is that why they chose it?
• 1:56
  I Hate Talking: Because it's controversial?
• 1:57
  I Hate Talking: They maintain that they did not choose it for any controversial reasons.
• 2:02
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 2:04
  I Hate Talking: Do you believe that?
• 2:06
  I Hate Talking: I do believe that.
• 2:07
  I Hate Talking: That they did not choose it for any controversial reasons per se.
• 2:12
  I Hate Talking: Maybe there was somebody way down at the lower levels that was like, it would be funny if this was the color of the year, and they submitted it and then it became the color of the year, almost as like a joke and like just the corporate approval process, it somehow made it through the entire way from this underlings.
• 2:31
  I Hate Talking: Sort of joke submission.
• 2:33
  I Hate Talking: But I don't think there was anything nefarious about it in general.
• 2:37
  I Hate Talking: It just reminds me of like, the other topic of who names streets.
• 2:43
  I Hate Talking: Like, I wonder who names a color, but also who names city streets, because sometimes they're so random or they're so similar.
• 2:52
  I Hate Talking: It's like First Avenue and First Street.
• 2:55
  I Hate Talking: And it's complicated and frustrating.
• 2:58
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 3:00
  I Hate Talking: Probably the city planner, or if there was no city planner, then it just was named by people that had that section of city planning, quote unquote.
• 3:09
  I Hate Talking: And that's maybe why you see a lot of particular conflicts or similarities that are confusing.
• 3:16
  I Hate Talking: But I guess for our word or phrase of the episode, because I don't think this is what we did last time, is we will have the word Pantone as our word or phrase of the episode.
• 3:30
  I Hate Talking: And that is because Pantone Company.
• 3:35
  I Hate Talking: is the one that chooses the color of the year.
• 3:39
  I Hate Talking: OK, I was gonna say that's not the color of the year.
• 3:41
  I Hate Talking: That's the company that does choose it, right?
• 3:43
  I Hate Talking: But it also is somewhat of a word, I guess this is either because Pantone makes colors or because Pantone is all about colors that they adopted that name.
• 3:58
  I Hate Talking: I guess we'll have to see perhaps.
• 3:59
  I Hate Talking: Which one came first, but the just general noun in relation to Pantone and not the company itself is a standardized color matching system.
• 4:14
  I Hate Talking: So it basically is a universal language for color, assigning unique codes to specific hues for precise communications in industries like printing, fashion, and product design.
• 4:27
  I Hate Talking: So would this entail both like the numbers where it's like a, the red is, I don't know, I'm gonna make it up.
• 4:35
  I Hate Talking: XC 72, sure that's not it.
• 4:40
  I Hate Talking: I know people know it, but you're talking about like hexadecimal color codes and things like that or RGB color codes.
• 4:48
  I Hate Talking: That's what you're going with that.
• 4:50
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 4:51
  I Hate Talking: You know what I'm talking about, right?
• 4:52
  I Hate Talking: Y'all know.
• 4:53
  I Hate Talking: So is that a Pantone?
• 4:56
  I Hate Talking: So those are hues and shades of colors.
• 5:01
  I Hate Talking: The thing that sets Pantone separate from that is because they actually go a step further, and when this particular color is used in print or in other production materials, there's actually a matching system to ensure that the ink and the formulas used to produce that color.
• 5:24
  I Hate Talking: are a match.
• 5:26
  I Hate Talking: So whereas you would get a color at the same time on a computer screen for a particular color.
• 5:33
  I Hate Talking: Using a hexadecimal code or a RGB color code, when you print that on the formulas of the ink that it could be based on er and chemical composition of the ink and things like that.
• 5:53
  I Hate Talking: That the Pantone matching system will actually have a matching color for the actual physical color that is produced for production materials and things of that nature.
• 6:04
  I Hate Talking: So Pantone is more accurate and consistent.
• 6:09
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it's basically a system to ensure accuracy and consistency because it is having that single reference point for a color.
• 6:17
  I Hate Talking: Would your color season be Pantone?
• 6:23
  I Hate Talking: Your color, what your color season.
• 6:27
  I Hate Talking: I'm like getting into it.
• 6:29
  I Hate Talking: I wanna season, yeah, like fall, winter, spring, summer.
• 6:33
  I Hate Talking: You've never heard of a color season?
• 6:35
  I Hate Talking: No.
• 6:36
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, we've already talked about how much you hate that I wear yellow, and I don't wear it that much anymore, but what colors do you think I wear the most?
• 6:46
  I Hate Talking: Blues and greens Do you know why?
• 6:51
  I Hate Talking: And I also wear pinks, I think too, but yes, blues, greens, pinks.
• 6:55
  I Hate Talking: Because you like those colors and probably it's easier to match things within your wardrobe to those particular colors.
• 7:01
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and because I'm a soft summer.
• 7:07
  I Hate Talking: That's my color season.
• 7:09
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 7:10
  I Hate Talking: And so like when I wear that mustard yellow shirt you hate, that is not in my color season, and that's probably why you hate it.
• 7:18
  I Hate Talking: That could be.
• 7:19
  I Hate Talking: So this is a particular system, quote unquote to match colors of wardrobe to your own wet body type -- like that your skin tones the -- word I was looking for, yes.
• 7:35
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, if you're a warm skin tone or light, you know, cool, and that sort of thing.
• 7:41
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 7:41
  I Hate Talking: -- So cool -- summer.
• 7:45
  I Hate Talking: No soft, soft summer, soft summer.
• 7:48
  I Hate Talking: So soft pinks and greens and blues.
• 7:51
  I Hate Talking: Is there like a hard summer?
• 7:53
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 7:55
  I Hate Talking: There's winter, spring, summer and fall, and then there's subcategories within each one of those.
• 8:01
  I Hate Talking: Like spring is gonna be like the bright colors like yellows and pinks.
• 8:06
  I Hate Talking: And then the winter is like black.
• 8:08
  I Hate Talking: The darker and then like fall is like browns and jewel tones.
• 8:15
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 8:17
  I Hate Talking: So Johnny Cash would be a winter.
• 8:19
  I Hate Talking: I don't know if he is.
• 8:21
  I Hate Talking: That's how he dresses, but the whole concept is so interesting, you know, look it up one day.
• 8:26
  I Hate Talking: The whole concept, like people look so much better, so much worse based on their color seasons.
• 8:33
  I Hate Talking: I see.
• 8:34
  I Hate Talking: And this has nothing to do with their like birth month or anything like that.
• 8:38
  I Hate Talking: I don't think so.
• 8:38
  I Hate Talking: No, -- it's just -- the system doesn't try to jump to that particular.
• 8:42
  I Hate Talking: No, there are professionals that do this.
• 8:45
  I Hate Talking: That like tell you your color season.
• 8:48
  I Hate Talking: And I've looked it up, it's a lot of money and not in my budget right now.
• 8:52
  I Hate Talking: One day I want to.
• 8:54
  I Hate Talking: I've only done AI version, and it seems OK, but you can see some people like, they'll have like dark circles in their eyes or look tired or sickly, and then all they do is change the shirt color.
• 9:06
  I Hate Talking: And they look so vibrant and healthy.
• 9:09
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
• 9:11
  I Hate Talking: It almost sounds like a made-up job.
• 9:13
  I Hate Talking: It's not though.
• 9:14
  I Hate Talking: I'll, I'll show you later.
• 9:15
  I Hate Talking: It's really cool.
• 9:16
  I Hate Talking: All right.
• 9:18
  I Hate Talking: And then to answer, no, that is not Pantone.
• 9:24
  I Hate Talking: This is again, more specifically for use in color matching to ensure consistency and accuracy for colors within print and other production materials, right?
• 9:36
  I Hate Talking: But the reason I'm thinking about it, like the other day we had an event and I needed to get something for it.
• 9:40
  I Hate Talking: So I saw these shirts I liked and then I pulled up my soft summer color swatch.
• 9:49
  I Hate Talking: And I compared those colors to the colors on Amazon that were available to see which one was in my color palette.
• 9:56
  I Hate Talking: So that's Pantone, right?
• 9:59
  I Hate Talking: No, you're talking more general colors with just palettes and related colors.
• 10:04
  I Hate Talking: Everything within a family or category of -- greens or teals or blues can't be the -- whole thing because there's so such a variety.
• 10:13
  I Hate Talking: It's only a couple of colors within that category.
• 10:16
  I Hate Talking: Interesting.
• 10:18
  I Hate Talking: Well, maybe it is then.
• 10:20
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 10:20
  I Hate Talking: But the Pantone colors are often called spots that are premixed with inks.
• 10:28
  I Hate Talking: So it is for these specific colors.
• 10:29
  I Hate Talking: So they actually have these inks that are premixed rather than inks being combined at the time of production.
• 10:46
  I Hate Talking: OK, so they're like unique in and of themselves.
• 10:50
  I Hate Talking: You cannot make them.
• 10:51
  I Hate Talking: Well, they, they make them, yes, but only they can, we can't.
• 10:56
  I Hate Talking: Copy it.
• 10:57
  I Hate Talking: I mean, I guess you could try, but then it's not Pantone approved.
• 11:01
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 11:02
  I Hate Talking: And then to answer the question on which came first, Pantone, the word as it relates to a standardized color matching system versus the company Pantone.
• 11:14
  I Hate Talking: Pantone Company came first.
• 11:16
  I Hate Talking: They, I guess, developed.
• 11:17
  I Hate Talking: This particular process in the 1960s by the Pantone company and that became known as the Pantone matching system.
• 11:26
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 11:27
  I Hate Talking: So I guess we need to get to the color of the year because our listeners have been waiting all this time and we've teased it from last week until all the way through this episode.
• 11:41
  I Hate Talking: So we need to get to the color of the year 2026.
• 11:45
  I Hate Talking: OK, let's let's tell us what it is.
• 11:48
  I Hate Talking: So again, I wouldn't know that this was a color if I just heard this phrase.
• 11:53
  I Hate Talking: I would not think of color at all.
• 11:56
  I Hate Talking: I would think of something else.
• 11:58
  I Hate Talking: So you, our listeners can tell us what you think when you hear this phrase, cloud dancer.
• 12:05
  I Hate Talking: OK, sounds so ridiculous.
• 12:09
  I Hate Talking: Pantone 114201.
• 12:13
  I Hate Talking: Oh wow.
• 12:14
  I Hate Talking: So it's not even like the XC whatever.
• 12:16
  I Hate Talking: No, these are Pantone matching systems.
• 12:18
  I Hate Talking: They have, they have their own color.
• 12:20
  I Hate Talking: Yes, -- I paid -- attention.
• 12:21
  I Hate Talking: I know.
• 12:22
  I Hate Talking: I was just surprised.
• 12:23
  I Hate Talking: See, I would, if I heard the word Pantone 114201, I would probably know that that's a color.
• 12:28
  I Hate Talking: If I heard the phrase cloud dancer, I would not think of a color.
• 12:33
  I Hate Talking: I would think of like a Song by.
• 12:36
  I Hate Talking: What's the band that does the.
• 12:40
  I Hate Talking: U2.
• 12:42
  I Hate Talking: I think it was like a U2 song or something.
• 12:44
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 12:45
  I Hate Talking: I mean, -- this is like -- U2's newest hit, Cloud Dancer.
• 12:49
  I Hate Talking: Well, that's not where my brain went, but I did think of music, and maybe it's because of the word dancing, like dancer.
• 12:56
  I Hate Talking: It does sound like a song.
• 12:58
  I Hate Talking: That people would know.
• 13:01
  I Hate Talking: No, cloud dancer.
• 13:02
  I Hate Talking: I would not associate with a color, but when I think about it, I would think, OK, I just, I'd looked it up, so I know what color it is.
• 13:14
  I Hate Talking: So let me try to clear my brain.
• 13:16
  I Hate Talking: What did I remember what I used to think it would look like?
• 13:19
  I Hate Talking: Cloud dancer.
• 13:21
  I Hate Talking: I feel like it would be sparkly and like very airy, light, like see-through almost.
• 13:29
  I Hate Talking: It's what I would picture.
• 13:30
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I mean, that's how Pantone describes it.
• 13:34
  I Hate Talking: So I mean, from their very own website, they say, quote, Cloud dancer, a lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection, a billowy white imbued with serenity.
• 13:52
  I Hate Talking: Cloud dancer encourages true relaxation and focus, allowing the mind to wander and creativity to breathe, making room for innovation.
• 14:02
  I Hate Talking: Holy moly, that's a lot of words for a color, and I don't agree with them.
• 14:07
  I Hate Talking: Because the color is so stark white, that it's like, or not stark white, what, what do you call that?
• 14:15
  I Hate Talking: I'd almost call it like a dingy white, -- like a dirty -- white, dirty, yeah, it's not, it's definitely not a stark white, it's almost sort of grayish, sort of looks like.
• 14:25
  I Hate Talking: It has a layer of dirt on it and it needs to be cleaned.
• 14:29
  I Hate Talking: Right?
• 14:29
  I Hate Talking: Maybe that's what I'm feeling because I feel a little stressed when I see that color.
• 14:33
  I Hate Talking: I don't feel relaxed at all.
• 14:36
  I Hate Talking: I just feel like my shoulders tensing up towards my ears when I see that color.
• 14:42
  I Hate Talking: It doesn't remind me of a cloud, like a cumulus cloud.
• 14:46
  I Hate Talking: It sort of almost looks more like a thunder cloud if you're gonna do cloud dancer.
• 14:52
  I Hate Talking: -- It just looks dingy to me is what I -- would say like someone spilled something on a white counter and then you tried to wipe it off, but you didn't do a good job, right?
• 15:00
  I Hate Talking: Or it's like a white wall that's been left to time and it has like 2 years' worth of dust on it.
• 15:08
  I Hate Talking: So we agree that we do not like cloud dancer.
• 15:11
  I Hate Talking: We will not paint our bedroom that color.
• 15:13
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 15:14
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I don't like it, and it's not giving me serenity.
• 15:19
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it's not even like a gray.
• 15:22
  I Hate Talking: It's, it is a white.
• 15:23
  I Hate Talking: But like a gray is a gray, and I'm OK with gray, I like the gray.
• 15:29
  I Hate Talking: I'm wearing a gray sweatshirt right now.
• 15:31
  I Hate Talking: And it's a gray though.
• 15:33
  I Hate Talking: It's not like an off-white dingy white quote unquote gray as is cloud dancer.
• 15:40
  I Hate Talking: Right, cause it's got more tinges of like yellow-ish, brownish than gray, you know, -- like -- it's, no, I, maybe, I don't see any color.
• 15:51
  I Hate Talking: You don't see any color?
• 15:54
  I Hate Talking: Like in terms of the RGB colors, no, I just see.
• 15:59
  I Hate Talking: Whites and grays, I don't see anything particularly that.
• 16:03
  I Hate Talking: I brownish Now there's also some interesting quotes from Pantone leadership that says, At this time of transformation when we are reimagining our future and our place in the world, Cloud Dancer is a discreet white hue offering a promise of clarity.
• 16:25
  I Hate Talking: The cacophony that surrounds us has become overwhelming, making it harder to hear the voices of our inner selves.
• 16:32
  I Hate Talking: A conscious statement of simplification, cloud dancer enhances our focus, providing release from the distraction of external influences.
• 16:41
  I Hate Talking: So is this a color they already had and they were like, we're going to choose this one, or is it brand new created?
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: I mean, they already had it.
• 16:49
  I Hate Talking: It's in their catalog, so.
• 16:51
  I Hate Talking: Again, I don't know what their selection process is, but at some point they thought this was the right one.
• 16:57
  I Hate Talking: They have another quote that says, similar to a blank canvas, cloud dancer signifies our desire for a fresh start.
• 17:04
  I Hate Talking: Peeling away layers of outmoded thinking, we open the door to new approaches.
• 17:09
  I Hate Talking: An airy white hue, Cloud Dancer opens up space for creativity, allowing our imagination to drift so that new insights and bold ideas can emerge and take shape.
• 17:20
  I Hate Talking: I mean, these are all very nice things to say, but I do not get that feeling when I look at Cloud dancer.
• 17:29
  I Hate Talking: Nor do you apparently, right?
• 17:31
  I Hate Talking: No, I strongly disagree with it.
• 17:34
  I Hate Talking: And then that doesn't even cover like the blowback that they've received from.
• 17:38
  I Hate Talking: Social media and things like that on this.
• 17:41
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, apparently there's some people that think this is like whitewashing.
• 17:47
  I Hate Talking: Society and that this is like white privilege and lots of things that The color white?
• 17:57
  I Hate Talking: Yes, the color white.
• 17:59
  I Hate Talking: Because they said it causes serenity because white.
• 18:02
  I Hate Talking: Is saying white is serenity is racist.
• 18:06
  I Hate Talking: Because it's weight, yeah.
• 18:08
  I Hate Talking: Not serenity itself, but the color is white, so, yeah.
• 18:13
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, there's lots of comments on Reddit that says the color of supremacy.
• 18:19
  I Hate Talking: That this is bleak.
• 18:23
  I Hate Talking: Here's one quote that says, it's the exact color of water on my kitchen floor when my dishwasher was leaking.
• 18:29
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 18:31
  I Hate Talking: So, yes, there's a lot of people that think that this is sort of just, again, like you said, sort of a trolling color that.
• 18:38
  I Hate Talking: They weren't really actually serious about this color, but.
• 18:43
  I Hate Talking: Who knows?
• 18:45
  I Hate Talking: What was their colors in years past?
• 18:48
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 18:50
  I Hate Talking: We haven't listened to that episode.
• 18:51
  I Hate Talking: OK, what part of this can't you just Google like 2023 Pantown?
• 18:59
  I Hate Talking: Well, it would have been 2025.
• 19:01
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I think we can, yeah, but why can't we go back even farther?
• 19:04
  I Hate Talking: Well, I suppose we could with the power of the internet.
• 19:07
  I Hate Talking: You don't need to look up 2025.
• 19:09
  I Hate Talking: We theoretically already know that answer.
• 19:11
  I Hate Talking: Theoretically, but we actually don't.
• 19:14
  I Hate Talking: But that's how I live most of my life.
• 19:17
  I Hate Talking: Did we do a different color of the Year?
• 19:20
  I Hate Talking: I don't remember this.
• 19:22
  I Hate Talking: Pantone Color of the Year 2025, Mocha mousse.
• 19:25
  I Hate Talking: It's brown.
• 19:27
  I Hate Talking: I don't remember that.
• 19:27
  I Hate Talking: Maybe we did a different color of the year.
• 19:29
  I Hate Talking: Maybe there's just too many people doing too many color of the years, too many people doing too many words of the year.
• 19:35
  I Hate Talking: We just need to, -- are you sure -- we even did a color of the year?
• 19:38
  I Hate Talking: Because I have zero recollection of this, and now I'm getting more confident in my.
• 19:46
  I Hate Talking: Well, maybe I just watched a reel about it and thought it was real life.
• 19:49
  I Hate Talking: Y'all, OK, well, I was looking this up, I told, we went to a comedy show last night.
• 19:57
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, we laughed.
• 19:59
  I Hate Talking: It was so funny.
• 20:00
  I Hate Talking: It was so good, and we had a great time.
• 20:04
  I Hate Talking: And then came home, you know, the kids had a babysitter, the babysitter was awesome.
• 20:09
  I Hate Talking: She even cleaned our house.
• 20:11
  I Hate Talking: We've never had a sitter, like, clean our house like.
• 20:15
  I Hate Talking: Oh man, it looked amazing.
• 20:17
  I Hate Talking: We haven't had it that clean in years.
• 20:20
  I Hate Talking: She did a good job.
• 20:21
  I Hate Talking: So the kids had been asleep and she wanted to use her time wisely.
• 20:26
  I Hate Talking: So, that was amazing.
• 20:28
  I Hate Talking: We're so thankful for her.
• 20:29
  I Hate Talking: Then tonight, I was talking with Adam and I was like, hey, I saw this real.
• 20:34
  I Hate Talking: And I gave the synopsis for the what I thought was a real, and I did preface I saw it last night, I was like I saw this last night.
• 20:44
  I Hate Talking: And you looked at me and you were really bothered and I was confused at why, like, I just didn't think you thought it was funny.
• 20:50
  I Hate Talking: And then you're like, that was in the comedy show last night.
• 20:55
  I Hate Talking: And I have zero remembrance of that, like, in my head, it was a real, which is concerning.
• 21:03
  I Hate Talking: That I'm living through reels now, not real life, but.
• 21:09
  I Hate Talking: Anyways, Well, I'm trying to find our color of the year.
• 21:13
  I Hate Talking: I thought we did this.
• 21:15
  I Hate Talking: Maybe we didn't.
• 21:15
  I Hate Talking: Maybe it was our synesthesia episode, and that's where we talked about, we did that episode and we talked a lot about colors.
• 21:21
  I Hate Talking: I'm certain that we did some sort of color of the year episode.
• 21:25
  I Hate Talking: I'll keep looking.
• 21:27
  I Hate Talking: I have zero memory, but also I have zero memory of a lot of stuff.
• 21:31
  I Hate Talking: Even things I listened to yesterday, whether it was real life or.
• 21:37
  I Hate Talking: On Instagram.
• 21:40
  I Hate Talking: Well, maybe we did not do it, cause I can't find it.
• 21:43
  I Hate Talking: I'm sure we talked about colors and maybe it was the synesthesia episode that I'm thinking of, but.
• 21:49
  I Hate Talking: OK, so anyways, 2 years ago it was MCA.
• 21:54
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I'm at a loss because.
• 21:59
  I Hate Talking: I thought we had like a color of the year and it was like a blue or a teal.
• 22:03
  I Hate Talking: But I guess that is just a false memory.
• 22:07
  I Hate Talking: That's what you thought going in 2025.
• 22:11
  I Hate Talking: That was your blue teal year.
• 22:13
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I thought that was a thing, but apparently I'm 100% mistaken.
• 22:18
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, what is going into 2026?
• 22:21
  I Hate Talking: What is that color for you?
• 22:23
  I Hate Talking: Let's forget what Pantone says.
• 22:25
  I Hate Talking: What is, but I thought that, well, I don't know because I'll just have to apparently wait until next year and forget that we ever talked about Cloud dancer and come up with my own color because I thought there was a blue or teal.
• 22:37
  I Hate Talking: Is there a blue or teal that was some other company's color of the year?
• 22:42
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 22:44
  I Hate Talking: I can't believe we didn't do this.
• 22:46
  I Hate Talking: OK, well, why are you looking that up?
• 22:48
  I Hate Talking: I asked AI what your color analysis is.
• 22:53
  I Hate Talking: What do you guess is your season?
• 22:56
  I Hate Talking: I would say winter or spring.
• 23:01
  I Hate Talking: Yes, -- winter or -- spring.
• 23:04
  I Hate Talking: According to this, I think it's cause he's using my phone cause that's shady, but according to them, you're also a soft summer.
• 23:13
  I Hate Talking: So, well, now the question becomes, is anyone not a soft summer?
• 23:18
  I Hate Talking: Does it just give soft summer to everybody?
• 23:20
  I Hate Talking: I on my phone at least, but look, OK, here is soft summer versus like spring.
• 23:26
  I Hate Talking: What color does look side by side better?
• 23:30
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, I would say 3/5 of soft summer and 2/5 of.
• 23:36
  I Hate Talking: Right, because look.
• 23:38
  I Hate Talking: These bright reds and yellows, see how your face, it looks more blotchy, not in a bad, like, I mean, yes, in a bad way, but I'm just saying like, but then when you use these soft summer, look how good your complexion looks.
• 23:57
  I Hate Talking: Isn't that crazy?
• 23:59
  I Hate Talking: I guess, -- but maybe everybody looks better with -- soft summer.
• 24:02
  I Hate Talking: No, I don't think so, cause you can look up other people.
• 24:06
  I Hate Talking: Some people look really good in spring or in autumn.
• 24:09
  I Hate Talking: It's just weird, or maybe not weird, I don't know.
• 24:12
  I Hate Talking: Do couples have the same color palette?
• 24:16
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 24:18
  I Hate Talking: We're getting off into all kinds of theories here on non-existent reels, non-existent colors of the year.
• 24:25
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, -- it -- is a little bit over the place.
• 24:27
  I Hate Talking: It is, yes.
• 24:28
  I Hate Talking: It's because we're taking too much time like looking something up.
• 24:31
  I Hate Talking: My brain jumps to the next thing.
• 24:34
  I Hate Talking: And guys, this is what it's like to live in my brain, a million thoughts at one time.
• 24:38
  I Hate Talking: But maybe couples have a similar color palette, just like how when you live with your dog for a long time, you guys start looking alike.
• 24:47
  I Hate Talking: Maybe it's the color palette.
• 24:50
  I Hate Talking: It's the same theory.
• 24:52
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps so.
• 24:53
  I Hate Talking: So, I think.
• 24:56
  I Hate Talking: We'll have to do some more research or you, our listeners can let us know if you search for the Color of the Year episode and found it to be non-existent or maybe you did find it and you can put all my fears to ease that I am going crazy.
• 25:10
  I Hate Talking: And you can also let us know what you think of the particular color of the year this year, 2026, according to Pantone, named Cloud Dancer, and what your thoughts are on this particular color.
• 25:25
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, let us know if anyone actually likes this color.
• 25:28
  I Hate Talking: I mean, I have not encountered anybody that has actually liked it in any of the research that I've done on social media and things of that nature.
• 25:36
  I Hate Talking: Everybody seems to hate it.
• 25:37
  I Hate Talking: Can I tell people?
• 25:38
  I Hate Talking: When they come over.
• 25:40
  I Hate Talking: And if I haven't cleaned thoroughly, like if the kids spilled something and it's kind of getting gunky.
• 25:47
  I Hate Talking: I can just be like, oh, over there, that's our new color palette, color of 2026, cloud dancer, cloud dancer.
• 25:55
  I Hate Talking: So I'll just start telling people that when I don't fully clean our cab like cabinets, so they're a little dingy that week, I'll just say.
• 26:03
  I Hate Talking: That's our new.
• 26:06
  I Hate Talking: The modern popular 2026 color cloud dancer indeed.
• 26:11
  I Hate Talking: If you say it with confidence, maybe people will believe that it's intentional.
• 26:16
  I Hate Talking: I mean, the people at Pantone said it was pretty much confidence, and I don't think the internet believed them.
• 26:22
  I Hate Talking: Guess not.
• 26:24
  I Hate Talking: All right, very good.
• 26:26
  I Hate Talking: So if you did like this episode, do like, share, subscribe, and let us know what you think about Cloud Dancer or any of our other previous episodes or just the fact that we can't even remember our own previous episodes.
• 26:37
  I Hate Talking: So from your friends at I Hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.