Lightning Round: Halloween in July, Wing Day, & Katy Perry’s Canadian Rebound | Fast Five Shorts
The fun finale! In this Lightning Round from the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Infios, Clear Demand, and Ocampo Capital, Chris and Anne rapid-fire through the week's quirkiest stories.
From Aldi's "Summerween" products and chicken wing preferences to party attendance data and celebrity gossip, discover the lighter side of retail trends and consumer behavior. Plus, find out which host prefers drumsticks vs. flats and who they think "leveled up" in the Katy Perry-Justin Trudeau dinner drama!
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Transcript
Chris, let's go to the lightning round here.
Speaker A:Question number one.
Speaker A:Aldi and other retailers are rolling out a range of summer wean summerween products, bridging the gap between midsummer and Halloween.
Speaker A:What Halloween products release would you like to see moved up to mid summer?
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:That's a tough question.
Speaker B:God.
Speaker B:The only thing I can think of, Ann, is I love when they bring out the chocolate twizzlers at Halloween, but I feel like those have now been available year round near me, so.
Speaker B:So I don't know if I can think of one.
Speaker B:I feel like all candy that I like to partake in is available year round.
Speaker B:Is there something on your mind that spurred that question?
Speaker A:I mean, I wouldn't mind candy corn being.
Speaker A:I do love candy corn.
Speaker B:Yeah, but.
Speaker A:But yeah, I don't.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker A:I can't get into Halloween until it's at least like very cold out.
Speaker A:And pumpkin spice lattes too early when it's 99 degrees out.
Speaker A:You.
Speaker A:I'm not.
Speaker B:I definitely don't need a pumpkin spice latte in July, that's for sure.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker B:All right.
Speaker B:Yesterday was National Chicken wing.
Speaker B:One.
Speaker B:Did you celebrate?
Speaker B:And two, what is your favorite cut of the buffalo wing?
Speaker B:Is it the wing or the drumstick?
Speaker A:I did not celebrate.
Speaker A:I did on Friday.
Speaker A:I guess last Friday had.
Speaker A:We had wings, so I had some wings.
Speaker A:Close enough.
Speaker A:Yeah, close enough.
Speaker A:But I would say definitely a drummy.
Speaker A:You've got to go for the drummy.
Speaker B:Oh, wow.
Speaker B:I like the wing.
Speaker B:I'm a wing guy.
Speaker A:The flats.
Speaker A:You're a flat.
Speaker B:The flats, yeah.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker A:Chris.
Speaker A:New data suggests that in an effort to support our happiness, health and careers, Americans need to attend more parties than they are currently.
Speaker A:As party attendance in our country has gone down 50%.
Speaker A:What was the very best party that you've ever attended?
Speaker B:Oh, wow, that's easy.
Speaker B:And so when I.
Speaker B: In: Speaker B:And my buddy, a woman I knew from college, invited me to the party.
Speaker B:Her name was Evren Dogan.
Speaker B:And.
Speaker B:And I went.
Speaker B:And it was in the City hall of San Francisco.
Speaker B:You want to talk about opulence and wealth on display in the height of money just rolling into a city.
Speaker B:Oh, my God.
Speaker B:It was unbeatable and unbeatable.
Speaker A:What was there?
Speaker A:What was it?
Speaker B:Oh, they had like orchestras there and like just all these different rooms serving drinks and food and.
Speaker B:And dance floor and it was.
Speaker B:It was crazy.
Speaker B:Like, if you've ever seen the movie Milk, it was like filmed right there, and we're, like, all standing in there just, like, having this wild party.
Speaker B:It was.
Speaker B:We're all dressed up.
Speaker B:Ties, evening gowns.
Speaker B:It was great.
Speaker B:Such a good time.
Speaker B:And, yeah, it was.
Speaker B:It was a blast.
Speaker B:All right, this one's a fun one.
Speaker B:Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau stepped out for dinner in Montreal one month, just one month after she announced her split from Orlando Bloom.
Speaker B:Of the two, who do you think leveled up the most?
Speaker A:So, just so I understand this question, you're saying, like, is, did Katy Perry level up or did Justin Trudeau level up?
Speaker B:Yes.
Speaker A:Okay, so I'm going to say Justin Trudeau for sure, because Katy Perry is stunning.
Speaker A:He's fine, but he's.
Speaker A:No.
Speaker B:Orlando Perry's on an echelon higher than Justin Trudeau, even though Justin Trudeau leads a country.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:I'm just making sure.
Speaker A:Led a country.
Speaker A:Now he's.
Speaker A:Now he's a dealer celebrity.
Speaker A:So, yes, I do think that Katy Perry is definitely much in a.
Speaker A:Much higher.
Speaker A:Like, he.
Speaker B:He got his fear.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker A:He got lucky.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker B:Yeah.
Speaker B:I would not disagree with you.
Speaker A:I cannot believe she.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I don't know what Orlando Bloom's deal is, but I would.
Speaker A:I would say Orlando Bloom all day, every day over Justin Trudeau.
Speaker A:Sorry, sorry.
Speaker A:Canada.
