Bezos Faceplants, Festivals & Crosswalks | Omni Talk Lightning Round Gets Wild 🎤
This week’s lightning round, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand, is packed with laughs and unexpected questions. Chris and Anne start by debating what the official Omni Talk uniform would be, inspired by Starbucks’ new black-on-green dress code (0:01).
Then they reminisce about epic faceplants, including Anne’s “Great Fall of Lisbon” (1:17), and react to Jewel suing Kroger over her removal from the Wellness Festival (2:09). Chris unveils his Chris-apalooza music lineup—Elvis, the Beatles, and the Jackson 5 (2:37)—while Anne keeps things grounded with crosswalk tech that talks like Lil Jon (3:25). It’s retail banter with a side of absurd.
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Transcript
So let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker A:Question number one.
Speaker A:Starbucks has announced that they're updating their dress code, requiring that all baristas don black tops in order to highlight their green Starbucks apron.
Speaker A:If you were to create an Amitak uniform for us, Chris, what would it consist of?
Speaker B:You crack me up with your questions because, you know, I've done research on this, and you know I have, and unfortunately, it's tight too.
Speaker B:It's too expensive to run a batch for.
Speaker B:For just you and I.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B:But, you know, for me, it's a trucker hat with a logo, trucker hat and a half zip.
Speaker B:That's.
Speaker B:That's what I want.
Speaker A:Trucker hat.
Speaker B:Yeah, trucker hat logo.
Speaker B:Trucker hat with a half zip.
Speaker B:That's what I want.
Speaker B:But, you know, maybe if our Omni Talk fans will go in on it with us, maybe we'll.
Speaker B:Maybe I'll plug down the money and.
Speaker B:And procure some for all of us.
Speaker A:I think we need the Walmart planning tool to source us some new inspiration for that before we go all in on the half zip and the.
Speaker A:And the trucker hat, but.
Speaker A:Okay, okay.
Speaker B:Jeff Bezos and Face Planted while rushing to open the door of the capsule that housed the all female Blue Origin space crew this week.
Speaker B:And as someone who has done many a face plan on our travels together, and by that, I mean you, not me, just walking down the sidewalk.
Speaker B:For those listening, I'm curious, what is your most memorable face plan?
Speaker B:I don't actually know the answer to this.
Speaker B:I was curious.
Speaker A: y the great Fall of Lisbon in: Speaker A:I think that was probably the worst one those.
Speaker B:So I was there.
Speaker A:You were there?
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:When we were walking to go meet my friend Dan and I, the.
Speaker A:The little cobblestones get slick with water.
Speaker A:I dented my water bottle.
Speaker A:Got a pretty solid bruise on my hand.
Speaker A:That one stuck with me.
Speaker A:I was not ready to take on the hike that we had that day at.
Speaker A:So I would say that that stands out as probably the most memorable, most damage to personal belongings and spirit.
Speaker B:I'm very proud that I was there to see that.
Speaker B:So down goes Maanga.
Speaker B:That's all that kept going through my head.
Speaker B:Down goes Maanga.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:All right, question number three.
Speaker A:Singer Jewel is suing Kroger for cutting her out of the partnership that they developed together to create the Kroger Annual Wellness Festival.
Speaker A:Chris, it's been a little while since I asked you this question, so I'm curious if anything's changed, knowing how much you Love Christina Aguilera and some others that we've discussed on this podcast in the last few weeks.
Speaker A:But which three acts Dead Live, would headline your own Chrysapalooa Festival?
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I mean, you.
Speaker B:You.
Speaker B:God, this was like the first question you asked me the very first day I met you.
Speaker B:Actually, for those listening, I think my answer's changed somewhat.
Speaker B:And I think I'm going to go.
Speaker B:I'm not going to put these in any order either, but I think I'd go Elvis.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And this one is really unique to me.
Speaker B:The Jackson 5.
Speaker B:Not Michael Jackson.
Speaker B:Oh, Jackson 5.
Speaker A:Could Michael sing his own.
Speaker A:Could Michael, like, take it on and, like, sing as a few of his own songs?
Speaker A:Like man in the Mirror, Like.
Speaker B:No, I want to see Back in the day like this.
Speaker B:No, I want to see that.
Speaker B:Yeah, I want to.
Speaker B:I want to know.
Speaker B:I'm gonna say no.
Speaker B:I'm.
Speaker A:So the catalog would stick to Jackson 5 exclusively.
Speaker A:Interesting.
Speaker B:I think so.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker B:I just love that.
Speaker B:I just love listening to that.
Speaker B:That's just.
Speaker B:He's.
Speaker B:He was so talented.
Speaker B:So, so young.
Speaker B:All right, anyway, Silicon Valley crosswalks were recently hacked to display the voices of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Speaker B:If you could hack the Spotlight, the.
Speaker B:The spotlight, the stoplight near us on 50th in France, what voice would you choose and have it say, if you.
Speaker A:Have not listened to these, do yourself a favor, take a work break and go online and listen to some of these.
Speaker A:They are hilarious.
Speaker A:For our little shopping district up the road, there's.
Speaker A:There's some hoity toity people up there.
Speaker A:I would love to hear little John just start singing like, you know, like, you hit the button and it's like, walk.
Speaker A:The walk sign is on.
Speaker A:And then just have him be like, oh, skeet skeet, skeet, skeet.
Speaker A:And then like, okay, it's time to cross the sidewalk.
Speaker A:Like, just having him come in and throw some things in here would crack me up.
Speaker A:I would love it so much.
Speaker B:That was pretty good, my friend.
Speaker B:That was pretty good.
Speaker B:Nicely done.
Speaker B:Nicely done.
