Lightning Round: Neon Coat, Southwest Airlines & A Salute To Theo Huxtable | Fast Five Shorts
This week on the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Clear Demand, Chris and Anne tackle rapid-fire retail topics in their signature Lightning Round.
From influencer marketing apps to airline policy changes and restaurant relocations, get quick takes on the week's most interesting retail and consumer stories that are shaping industry trends.
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All right, Chris, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker A: s an app for influencers with: Speaker A:Chris, if you were asked to be on this app or approved to be on Neon Coach, or perhaps you already are, what would you want free access to?
Speaker B:Does this include LinkedIn followers?
Speaker B:And because I'm curious, like, I mean, I don't know how this works.
Speaker A:I am not certain, but I think we could qualify.
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker B:Let's apply.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:I mean, my number one is I love movies.
Speaker B:And, you know, I love movies.
Speaker B:Amc.
Speaker B:I want the free AMC movie pass.
Speaker B:Like, I want to be able to see whatever movie I want.
Speaker B:You know, my.
Speaker B:My dream job is.
Speaker B:Actually, I haven't told you this.
Speaker B:My dream job is to stop what we're doing and become a movie reviewer.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:To do that would be amazing, but.
Speaker A:What is stopping you?
Speaker A:Just get it going on the side.
Speaker B:Chris, I'm time.
Speaker B:Yeah, time.
Speaker B:But I saw Superman.
Speaker B:I loved it.
Speaker B:And I went to the movie theater.
Speaker B:I saw it.
Speaker B:It was great.
Speaker B:And I miss going to the movies.
Speaker B:I just miss it.
Speaker B:And, you know, partly because it's so expensive, too.
Speaker B:It's not affordable.
Speaker A:You're one of the myth.
Speaker A:You're one of the myth blockbusters that Ethan Chernofsky was talking about last week to the movie.
Speaker B:100%.
Speaker B:I am.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:You can't beat it.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:My kids hated it, but I loved it.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Southwest Airlines passengers will fly into science seats for the first time on January 27, the carrier told CNBC this week.
Speaker B:And I'm curious.
Speaker B:I don't know which way you're going to go on this one, too.
Speaker B:Does the.
Speaker B:The announcement of a signed seating at Southwest Airlines make you more or less likely want to fly swa?
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:You know what?
Speaker A:If I'm not flying Delta, I don't.
Speaker A:I have zero expectations for that flight.
Speaker A:I'm just happy I get to the place that I'm going to go.
Speaker A:So it doesn't matter to me one bit.
Speaker A:I mean, I was never a big fan of the Southwest onboarding thing anyway.
Speaker A:Thought it actually caused more confusion.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:That's fine with me.
Speaker A:I don't mind.
Speaker A:Doesn't make one bit of difference.
Speaker A:Do you care?
Speaker B:Crazy to me, though.
Speaker B:What?
Speaker B:Well, it's.
Speaker B:I don't know if.
Speaker B:I don't know if I care as a passenger, but I care as a business.
Speaker B:Like, there are Whole operational cases at the like.
Speaker B:I can remember many, many operational business school cases about Southwest Airlines and why they operate the way they do.
Speaker B:And now they just seem like they're becoming another also ran airline in all of their policies.
Speaker B:And so I just can't figure out for the life of me why they're going in that direction.
Speaker A:All right, well, let's go to number three, Chris.
Speaker A:In and Out President Lindsey Snyder told reporters that she is moving her family out of California because living and working there has become too difficult.
Speaker A:As someone who now considers himself a Minnesotan, what would you do to try to sell Lindsay as the number one reason to move her family and In N Out headquarters to.
Speaker A:To Minnesota or somewhere in the Midwest?
Speaker B:Wow, that's a tough sell.
Speaker B:Number one, I think, well, it wouldn't be the Juicy Lucy's.
Speaker B:And I don't think I could sell the Juicy Lucy's, which for those unfamiliar with the Juicy Lucy's is a hamburger with cheddar cheese packed inside it.
Speaker B:So when you bite into it, it melts and burns the hell out of your mouth.
Speaker B:Because honestly, In N Out can beat a Juicy Lucy any day of the week.
Speaker B:So I wouldn't say that, but I, you know, can I.
Speaker B:Let me ask you a question.
Speaker B:And can I say the warm, inviting, and passive aggressive nature of Minnesotans.
Speaker B:Do you see what I did there?
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker A:I did.
Speaker A:You could say that.
Speaker A:I don't think that gets us closer to an in and out in Minneapolis, but I think that would be.
Speaker A:That might be one way of trying to get.
Speaker A:To get her and her family to pick Minneapolis over Nashville, I think, is where they're going.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Nashville.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Good choice.
Speaker B:Good choice, by the way, Lindsay.
Speaker B:I like it.
Speaker B:All right, last one is kind of sad news.
Speaker B:And Malcolm Jamal Warner sadly passed away this past week.
Speaker B:What is your fondest memory of Theo Huxtable?
Speaker A:Oh, that was so awful.
Speaker A:He drowned in Costa Rica.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker B:That was terrible.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Another guy.
Speaker B:Another guy's in critical condition.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:Oh, my God.
Speaker A:I would say I had to go back to the archives because I couldn't remember his character.
Speaker A:I remember watching him and having a fondness for him.
Speaker A:I couldn't remember a specific memory.
Speaker A:So one of the videos that I watched was when his sister Robin brings.
Speaker A:Or, sorry, his sister Denise brings Robin Givens.
Speaker A:I forget her character on the show, but he brings her and he, like, is trying to, like, put the moves on and his shirt progressively just keeps unbuttoning more and more.
Speaker A:And then her boyfriend comes like, oh, it was so good.
Speaker A:Just, like, classic Theo trying to impress Robin Givens, who's just, like, Badass B, you know?
Speaker A:It was great.
Speaker B:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker B:No, there's so many great memories with him, for sure.
Speaker B:Even the pilot episode, you know, where he.
Speaker B:His dad's, like, showing him the budget with Monopoly money, and his dad's like, so you can have a girlfriend, and he just, like, rips the money out of his hand.
Speaker B:I just love.
Speaker B:I just love that.
