Lightning Round | Burritos, "Best Of" White Lotus Awards, and Tariff Product Hoarding
In the latest edition of Omni Talk’s Retail Fast Five sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Simbe, Infios, ClearDemand, and Ocampo Capital Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga discuss: A Lightning Round of Burritos, "Best Of" White Lotus Awards, and Tariff Product Hoarding
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Transcript
All right, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker A:Chris, question number one.
Speaker A:Customers have been stockpiling even more items as of late that may be impacted by the latest.
Speaker A:Latest tariffs that President Trump announced last week.
Speaker A:Chris, is there an item that you're keen to stock up on?
Speaker B:Oh, well, it's not toilet paper ad.
Speaker B:Because as you know, as you.
Speaker B:As you let the listeners in on the little secret.
Speaker B:I travel with my own, so I'm very.
Speaker B:I'm feeling very well stocked up on that.
Speaker B:But, you know, I guess I would say I don't really have anything that comes to mind.
Speaker B:For me, I think it would be my.
Speaker B:My dream car purchase, which would be a Mercedes G wagon.
Speaker B:I would love to stock up on those.
Speaker A:You better get that now.
Speaker A:Yeah, you better get that now.
Speaker A:No, no.
Speaker A:Like French wine or like maple syrup from Canada.
Speaker A:You don't need to.
Speaker A:Nothing like that.
Speaker A:I mean.
Speaker B:Yes, I guess.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Anyone wants to send me those?
Speaker B:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker B:I'd stock up on all those.
Speaker B:But, you know, I'm not a very consumptive person given the fact that we do a retail podcast in general.
Speaker B:But.
Speaker B: as been extinct for more than: Speaker B:If you could bring back 12,000 years.
Speaker B:Oh, my God, that's a long time.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Wow.
Speaker B:Thank you for that correction, too.
Speaker B:That's an important point.
Speaker B:If you could bring back one other species from extinction, what would it be?
Speaker A:Well, clearly the dire wolf is an important one to me because I know exactly how long it's been extinct for.
Speaker A:But I have to say, dinosaurs.
Speaker A:You got to bring back a dinosaur.
Speaker A:Like, maybe not a giant.
Speaker B:I want to go to full on Jurassic Park.
Speaker B:That's what you want?
Speaker A:Hell, yeah, I do.
Speaker A:I do.
Speaker A:I mean, wouldn't you want to see.
Speaker B:I got to get off this world, man.
Speaker A:But would you want to see a dinosaur in real life?
Speaker A:Like, I just want one.
Speaker A:And I don't want it to be like a meat eater.
Speaker A:I just want it to be like a big brontosaurus or something.
Speaker A:Like, just so we can understand the pure magnitude of how.
Speaker A:What life must have been like when there's just a brontosaurus in your backyard.
Speaker B:I'm good.
Speaker B:I'm good.
Speaker B:I don't need the Flintstones.
Speaker B:I don't need the Flintstones in my backyard.
Speaker B:And I'm good.
Speaker B:I'm good.
Speaker B:My mind can't take the cognitive load that is.
Speaker B:That's being Heaped upon it right now.
Speaker B:I'm good.
Speaker B:I'm good without dinosaurs in my life.
Speaker B:I think I am.
Speaker A:All right, fair.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Well, Chris, we're going to move on to a vacation focused one then.
Speaker B:Okay, good.
Speaker B:Take me away, Cal.
Speaker B:God, take me away way.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:White Lotus aired its final episode of the season last Sunday.
Speaker A:If you got to hand out.
Speaker B:Not seen yet.
Speaker B:So don't spoil anything with.
Speaker A:I won't.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna spoil it.
Speaker A:I'm not gonna spoil it.
Speaker A:But you need to watch it soon.
Speaker A:If you got to hand out Emmys for the following categories for the cast of White Lotus, who would win them?
Speaker A:I want to know, who did you think was the best actor?
Speaker A:Who is the most hated character, the most loved character?
Speaker A:And which character would you most like to be on a trip at the White Lotus with?
Speaker A:Those are your categories.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker B:Got it.
Speaker B:Now, I haven't seen the show, so fans, just give me some grace here because I haven't seen the final show, so.
Speaker B:Especially for the hate question, you know, I think that one's.
Speaker A:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker A:For sure.
Speaker B:If I haven't seen the whole show.
Speaker B:All right, so best actor.
Speaker B:This one might surprise you.
Speaker B:And I'm going with Patrick Schwarzenegger.
Speaker B:I think.
Speaker B:I think he crushed it on that show this year.
Speaker B:I think he was really, really good and very.
Speaker B:A very talented actor.
Speaker B:He showed me a range and depth of emotion that I was surprised to see from him.
Speaker A:Man, old Saxon, he had a lot.
Speaker A:He had a lot of stuff happening in this season.
Speaker A:Absolutely.
Speaker A:I think he did a good job.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:Yeah, he was good.
Speaker B:I liked him.
Speaker B:Most loved was Parker Posey.
Speaker B:Like, oh, God, Piper.
Speaker B:No, Like, I just love her.
Speaker B:She's.
Speaker B:So we just have to do.
Speaker B:It's a culture.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:Most hated.
Speaker B:I think I'd go with Michelle Monahan's character.
Speaker B:I don't remember her name, but the TV actress, I just don't like her.
Speaker B:I think she's Jacqueline.
Speaker B:Yeah, no, Jacqueline.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I think she's just annoying.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker B:And if I had to take somebody on a trip with me, I don't know her.
Speaker B:I think it's.
Speaker B:I think her name's Mook.
Speaker B:On the show.
Speaker B:I'm going with the Korean K pop star because, yeah, she's.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:She's pretty darn good looking.
Speaker B:I wouldn't mind going on a trip with her.
Speaker B:She.
Speaker B:She would.
Speaker B:She'd be a good travel companion for me.
Speaker A:She seems fun, too.
Speaker A:Like, she kind of.
Speaker A:She's got a little danger to her.
Speaker A:She wants yeah, guy talk to, like, you know, step it up a little bit.
Speaker A:I think she'd be a fun challenging vacation opponent.
Speaker A:So I.
Speaker A:I agree with your categories.
Speaker A:Parker Posey, man, this is going to relaunch her career, though.
Speaker A:I.
Speaker A:I love that for sure.
Speaker B:I don't.
Speaker B:I don't know what a vacation opponent is, but I'm glad I.
Speaker B:I'm glad I get to think about that for the first time, taking an opponent on vacation with me.
Speaker B:All right, last one.
Speaker A:Challenging.
Speaker B:She's gonna challenge me because I need to be challenged.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:National Burrito day was on April 3rd last week, and we were on spring break.
Speaker B:I didn't celebrate it.
Speaker B:I'm curious one, if you did.
Speaker B:But two, what is currently.
Speaker B:We've talked about this before on the podcast, but it's been a number of years since we brought it up again.
Speaker B:What is currently the number one thing that you think screws up a good burrito?
Speaker A:Okay, well, I did not.
Speaker A:I did not celebrate because I was in the least likely burrito place of Vancouver, Canada.
Speaker A:We ate sushi on that day instead of.
Speaker A:But I guess you could have a sushi burrito, but we did not.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:The biggest thing to mess up a burrito, I think by standby sogginess.
Speaker A:Like, if you have too much liquid in a burrito, that's a problem.
Speaker A:So I think that the solution to.
Speaker A:And the best burritos that I've had, they.
Speaker A:They like, melt the cheese right away on the tortilla and then use that as like a double defense layer to keep all the ingred included.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So that's what I think.
Speaker A:If you're going to make a good burrito, you put the cheese on the bottom and like, let it melt so that it can, like, double protect any of the.
Speaker A:The sogginess from happening from the tomatoes or lettuce or other ingredients.
Speaker B:But yeah, that's my.
Speaker A:Good, good.
Speaker A:Have you changed your stance?
Speaker B:No, my number one is still the loose fold.
Speaker B:I don't like the loose fold, but I think if you bring the loose fold in tandem with the wetness of the burrito, then you've got disaster.
Speaker B:That's like.
Speaker B:That's like almost.
Speaker A:It's like soggy doggy.
Speaker A:That's not working.
Speaker B:Just soggy doggy burrito.
Speaker B:That's just not good for anyone.
