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Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody.

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Speaker 2: It is Sunday, December fourteenth, and we can tell you

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Speaker 2: what you're going to be wearing next year. We can

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Speaker 2: tell you what you're going to be decorating with next year. Yes,

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Speaker 2: this is one of my favorite announcements of the year.

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Speaker 2: It's Panton's Color of the Year. You know, I have

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Speaker 2: been obsessed with colors. The names of colors infacted something

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Speaker 2: we've laughed about over the years.

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Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. A color of the year. Who gets

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Speaker 3: to decide? No, this is something it's supposed to be fun,

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Speaker 3: but it's new. I am one hundred percent learning that

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Speaker 3: this was even a thing as of the past couple

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Speaker 3: of weeks.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why I have always been obsessed with this,

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Speaker 2: but Pantone Color Institute has been choosing an annual color

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Speaker 2: of the Year since nineteen ninety nine. And maybe it's

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Speaker 2: just because I was used to this being a part

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Speaker 2: of local news or the Newskicker. And maybe I'm because

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Speaker 2: I'm a girl and I like design and I like

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Speaker 2: to think about what the colored trends are. Maybe it's

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Speaker 2: all of that, but I always get excited, not just

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Speaker 2: because they tell us what color is going to be

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Speaker 2: the a color, but how they go about doing it,

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Speaker 2: how they describe it as.

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Speaker 1: Always a hoot. They take this very seriously.

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Speaker 3: Who are they?

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Speaker 4: By the way, what was Pantona? What do they do?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 2: What is there there a color institute?

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Speaker 3: Does that even mean like Crayola?

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Speaker 2: Like they No, not like Crayola. I just know that

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Speaker 2: they study colors. They have they name colors, people have

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Speaker 2: paint colors, design colors.

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Speaker 3: Is it a paint company.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's a paint color. I just

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Speaker 2: know that it's a color institute.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So I didn't know there was this. I'm learning

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Speaker 3: so much right now about this institute.

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Speaker 2: But please continue. So do you have any guesses what this?

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Speaker 2: Have you seen any headlines? Do you have any guesses

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Speaker 2: about what the color of the year?

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Speaker 3: I will never be able to guess because you all,

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Speaker 3: I say you all, some of you don't seem to

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Speaker 3: think that there are just eight colors, right, We're all

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Speaker 3: taught this as children. We get the first box of Cryon,

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Speaker 3: there's eight colors, and so everything I see it's not

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Speaker 3: just green. It has to be kelly green or forest

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Speaker 3: green or this kind of green, or it's always it's

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Speaker 3: too much. Sometimes it's just green. And so I get

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Speaker 3: it's annoying that every time I point to a color,

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Speaker 3: you make up some Oh yeah, that's ruby, midnight moon.

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Speaker 1: What No, I might say something like that's per simon.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no.

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Speaker 2: Maybe maybe I would say, like that that's color cinnamon,

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Speaker 2: or that color is kelly green. Like I do distinguish

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Speaker 2: among like the blues, like what blue is that?

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Speaker 3: I don't ever say what blue is that. I go, Wow,

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Speaker 3: that's blue, and you go, oh no, that's more of

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Speaker 3: a summertime butterfly daytime.

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Speaker 2: I've said cornflower blue and you've made fun of me

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Speaker 2: about it.

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Speaker 3: That makes sense, Just okay, it's just me. I find.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's into their colors the thing I find. But it's

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Speaker 3: just frustrating when I hear the names because every time

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Speaker 3: it sounds like you just made up something.

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Speaker 2: All right, So maybe I get it from Pantone. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: this year's pick actually has proven to be controversial, which

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Speaker 2: I can't recall a color being controversial before this year.

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Speaker 4: It's where we are, it's everything.

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Speaker 2: So now we've got a controversial color of the ear.

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Speaker 2: Here is the color of the year, Cloud Dancer. Shut

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Speaker 2: up your reaction, My love.

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Speaker 3: What color is? Cloud is sound dancer, cloud dancer, Cloud Dancer,

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Speaker 3: cloud Dancer. So is Cloud Dancer some kind of an

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Speaker 3: electric blue?

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Speaker 2: No, you'd like me to describe Pantone's description of what

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Speaker 2: cloud Dancer is.

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Speaker 4: Can't wait for this?

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Speaker 1: You were gonna love this?

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Speaker 2: A lofty white that serves as a symbol of calming

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Speaker 2: influence in a society rediscovering the value of quiet reflection.

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Speaker 2: A billowy white imbued with serenity, Cloud Dancer in urages

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Speaker 2: true relaxation and focus, allowing the mind to wander and

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Speaker 2: creativity to breathe, making room for innovation. There's more. With

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Speaker 2: its expansive presence, Cloud Dancer invites us space where function

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Speaker 2: and feeling intertwine to build atmospheres of serenity and spaciousness,

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Speaker 2: providing a refuge of visual cleanliness that inspires well being

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Speaker 2: and lightness.

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Speaker 4: White.

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Speaker 3: So you just told me the color of the year

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Speaker 3: is white, correct, and thus the controversy. And it's a

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Speaker 3: special white. It's a white that's better than all the

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Speaker 3: other colors out there. Look how wonderful that white sounds.

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Speaker 3: This is the white we should all aspire to. This white?

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Speaker 3: Is that what you just read.

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Speaker 2: To me, I'm reading from Pantone, okay.

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Speaker 3: And I hope everybody please don't folk it continues.

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Speaker 4: It shouldn't.

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Speaker 2: It does though, Okay, can I continue?

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Speaker 3: Please let me hear more about The white.

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Speaker 1: Interject is often as you like, I'm so okay with that.

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Speaker 4: Does it say how it battles black?

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Speaker 3: Is it really really good at taking on the opposite

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Speaker 3: the black colors? Is what?

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Speaker 1: It doesn't say that, But here's what it does say.

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Speaker 2: Cloud Dancer reflects a universally shared experience. Whenever we are

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Speaker 2: the world, we all look up to the clouds for

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Speaker 2: inspiration and wonder.

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Speaker 4: Wherever we are in the world.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, In the simple act of looking up, we're

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Speaker 2: connected by the drifting lightness of clouds. That universality is

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Speaker 2: a huge part of why Cloud Dancer was selected as

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Speaker 2: the Pantone Color of the Year twenty twenty six. So

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Speaker 2: white unites. Cloud Dancer is a key structural color whose

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Speaker 2: versatility provides scaffolding for the color spectrum, allowing all colors

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Speaker 2: to shine. In a world where color has been synonymous

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Speaker 2: with personal expression, this is a shade that can adapt, harmonize,

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Speaker 2: and create contract, bringing a feeling of airy lightness to

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Speaker 2: all product applications and environments, whether making a standalone statement

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Speaker 2: or combined with other hues.

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Speaker 3: Is there more?

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Speaker 2: No, but I actually can talk. That was the gist

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Speaker 2: of how they described the color and why.

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Speaker 1: They chose it.

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Speaker 4: Do you see the color there in front of uh?

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is it. It's white.

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Speaker 3: It's white.

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Speaker 2: It's white.

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Speaker 3: Okay. A couple of questions here when they do this

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Speaker 3: every year, are they creating a new color or this

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Speaker 3: is something that's just been out there that they're highlighting.

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Speaker 2: It's a color that they have in their spectrum that

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Speaker 2: they highlight. So they have named all of these colors.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, anyone who look, if you have

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Speaker 2: ever looked to paint a white wall, I just because

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Speaker 2: I love color and I love painting, and you know

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Speaker 2: all of that. So if you go look up white,

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Speaker 2: there are I don't even know, hundreds of shades of white.

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Speaker 1: So this is a particular shade they chose it.

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Speaker 2: Only you can only probably tell what color it is

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Speaker 2: when you put it next to another color.

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Speaker 4: It's a light work white.

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Speaker 3: This is this is the best way, so you're gonna

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Speaker 3: get this is the one.

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Speaker 4: This is a good way.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 2: I don't even have to get into why the controversy,

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Speaker 2: because it's fairly obvious, is it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, can you do something for me? Give me the

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Speaker 3: first that when you did the description, the very first

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Speaker 3: line that the first part you open.

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Speaker 2: With cloud Dancer a lofty white that serves as a

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Speaker 2: symbol of calming influence in a society rediscovering the value

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Speaker 2: of quiet reflection. Next line, the next line is a

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Speaker 2: billowy white imbued with serenity. Cloud Dancer encourages true relaxation

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Speaker 2: and focus, allowing the mind to wander and creativity to breathe,

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Speaker 2: making room for innovation.

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Speaker 4: Okay, what was the line about us all looking up

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Speaker 4: no matter where.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's when they talk about the clouds. Yes, cloud

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Speaker 2: Dancer reflects a universally shared experience. Wherever we are in

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Speaker 4: Okay, so what's the controversy.

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Speaker 2: Well, there's there's two people online have blasted the shade

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Speaker 2: for being bleak and boring and possibly not a color

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Speaker 3: Okay, so there we go. That's just what you expect.

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Speaker 3: No matter what col you pick, someone gonna say, oh,

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Speaker 3: why did you pick that one? Oh, that's a silly one.

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Speaker 3: I don't like that one. You shouldn't gone, right, that's

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Speaker 3: that basic one.

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Speaker 1: That's absolutely every year there's someone who like.

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Speaker 3: Come on, that's not controversial, right, not that much.

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Speaker 2: That's okay, Well, I'll give you all that. There are

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Speaker 2: lots of funny reacts online. Others have denounced Cloud Dancer

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Speaker 2: as tone deaf and whitewashing, expressing other controversial takes, especially

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Speaker 2: with DEI policies this year, with the way we've seen

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Speaker 2: everything be anti woke, They're like, all the years to

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Speaker 2: choose the color white, this year was probably not the

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Speaker 2: best one to do.

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Speaker 3: So okay, I don't know what did they use particular,

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Speaker 3: what their standard is when they pick thee Do they

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Speaker 3: just pick them out of a hat?

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Speaker 4: Is it random?

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Speaker 2: Is it there's a word and they vote And they

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Speaker 2: actually have responded specifically to the controversy.

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Speaker 4: There's a board, Yes, how many on the board?

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Speaker 2: There's a global team. I don't know how many people

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Speaker 2: are on the global team. Oh yeah, every year that

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Speaker 2: make this decision. It's a big deal. They start working

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Speaker 2: on the next year's color January second, they said, so

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Speaker 2: this is a big deal.

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Speaker 1: You'll appreciate this.

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Speaker 2: After hearing the description of the color read during today's

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Speaker 2: The Today Show, Al Roker said, otherwise known as white.

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Speaker 2: So it's very much been like Al Rokers. That's the

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Speaker 2: actually only person we have, like on television who is

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Speaker 2: announcing this making a little snide comment, but the other

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Speaker 2: So here's some other examples of reaction online. Your choice

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Speaker 2: is about as inspired as mayonnaise. Someone else said, pantone deaf.

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Speaker 2: Someone says it's giving unseasoned chicken. And then here is

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Speaker 2: another one. It seems as if this selection and the

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Speaker 2: content created around it was conceived in a vacuum completely

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Speaker 2: removed from our collectives, social, and political present. I'd hope

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Speaker 2: a brand as that has this much cultural impact wouldn't

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Speaker 2: operate with such a glaring blind spot.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, maybe I don't know it. I have a

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Speaker 3: should they just go about their work and not think about,

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Speaker 3: or worry about, or try to react to anything going

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Speaker 3: on out there. You can make an argument that that's

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Speaker 3: the way we should be going about this. We shouldn't

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Speaker 3: just react to everything going on. We're going to do

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Speaker 3: our work the same and it's not going to change.

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Speaker 3: That's one argument. I'm not on board with that one.

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Speaker 3: I don't like that. If you just say, well, we're

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Speaker 3: just doing our thing. Huh, I wish I appreciate and

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Speaker 3: what you're explaining to me how big of a deal

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Speaker 3: this is every year? Then you this is a missed opportunity.

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Speaker 3: This was a tone deaf thing, and I don't think

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Speaker 3: it's going too far right. If they would have picked

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Speaker 3: something else, there would have been no controversy about why

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Speaker 2: What the actual health Yeah, And by the way, people

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Speaker 3: This is where we are. I mean, even a color

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, but when a company like this doesn't seem to

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Speaker 3: I don't want to take anything away from them, but

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Speaker 2: God, yeah, they did not think this through, you know,

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Speaker 3: So please diversity with authority. You can't just put one

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Speaker 2: All right. I'm curious to get your response to their response.

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Speaker 3: End quote, how do they select these colors?

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Speaker 4: Is it a coincidence?

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Speaker 3: I'm saying it's possible that they use some process in

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Speaker 2: That is what they do. They study trus they study

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Speaker 3: So with that argument, then this might be just a

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Speaker 3: So people are discussing this thing out and I know

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Speaker 2: Maybe, Well, they're always looking, you know, and this is

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Speaker 2: People look forward to it, you know. I think maybe

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Speaker 1: But some of these so last year I remember you

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Speaker 2: twenty five Color of the Year came out and it

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Speaker 2: was Mocha Moose, So that was this year?

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Speaker 1: Did you see that Mocha Moose? A lot?

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Speaker 2: Like when you think about design trends and what people

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty four is Color of the Year. Peach fuzz?

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Speaker 4: Is it peach color? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty two very peary.

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Speaker 2: That's an intense periwinkle. Stop, do you know what periwinkle is?

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Speaker 2: It's between blue and purple and it's light.

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Speaker 3: know what color periwinkle is by your description, Yeah, what

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Speaker 1: In between a blue and I'm not going to say light.

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Speaker 2: That's blue?

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Speaker 3: Okay? Thank you?

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty one, illuminating? What color was that?

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Speaker 3: It's just clear, just opaque.

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Speaker 1: It's bright yellow, illuminating.

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Speaker 2: And then torn t was ultimate gray, the very first

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Speaker 2: It was the ultimate gray, babe. So what do you

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Speaker 3: It was well written. It was probably prepared ahead of time,

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Speaker 3: a little like it's just everything. This is so fun.

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Speaker 3: It should be just to talk about colors and there's controversy.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing I was looking to write this. I thought, oh,

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Speaker 1: This will be fun.

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Speaker 2: And then I was really shocked to say, oh wow, okay,

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Speaker 2: look at this.

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Speaker 1: We've got a controversy.

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Speaker 2: So twenty twenty six, everyone Pantone says, you'll be wearing

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Speaker 2: cloud Dancer.

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Speaker 1: But maybe in opposition, you'll go with Ebony.

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Speaker 4: In opposition, what do they call black over Pantone?

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Speaker 2: Anyway, that's why I went with Ebany. I tried to

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Speaker 2: find some other way to call Midnight.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I wan'll be curious to look up

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Speaker 3: and see what Pantone calls the color black look. Yes,

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Speaker 3: I will be wearing a lot of white.

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Speaker 1: Cloud Dancer on right now. I'm looking at you.

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Speaker 3: That's what you want to call it, all right, folks,

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Speaker 3: Just it's just the color. At the end of the day,

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Speaker 3: it's just the color. Wear it, don't wear it, like it,

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Speaker 3: don't like it, but we we got other things to

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Speaker 3: argue about. And with that, folks, we always appreciate you

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Speaker 3: spending some time with us. For my dear Cloud Dancer

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Speaker 3: fiance and Rot, I am TJ.

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Speaker 4: Holmes. We will talk for y'all. Sit the ten