Lightning Round: Ulta Discounts, Andy Garcia & Italian Pasta Crisis | Fast Five Shorts
The lightning round gets personal as Kelly reveals she'd trade her data to Ulta for holiday discounts (with three sisters and multiple gift exchanges, who can blame her?), Waqas picks "Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead" as his favorite Andy Garcia film, and the panel mourns the potential disappearance of Italian pasta from US shelves.
Plus: middle-aged men are revealed as the biggest holiday spenders, Waqas's dishwasher crisis becomes his entire holiday budget (German vs. Korean appliance debate included), and passionate discussions about the superiority of rigatoni and pappardelle over simple spaghetti.
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Transcript
Right, let's go into the lightning round.
Speaker A:Question number one goes to you, Kelly.
Speaker A:According to an Incogni survey, 78% of U.S. shoppers are ready to swap their personal information for perks this holiday season.
Speaker A:Which retailer would you give all of your information to in exchange for a healthy discount this holiday, Kelly?
Speaker B:I would have to go Ulta beauty on this one.
Speaker B:I have three sisters, a mom, a mother in law, a sister in law, and I'm in gift exchanges with like three groups of girls.
Speaker B:So I have a lot of females to gift for and would love it.
Speaker B:An all ticket discount.
Speaker A:Oh, my gosh, that's a great one.
Speaker A:And just forever, like for and for reasons.
Speaker A:And for gifting.
Speaker A:I love it.
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker C:How did your father survive high school?
Speaker C:Oh, my God.
Speaker C:That would have been crazy.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker A:He coached rugby coach.
Speaker C:Rugby.
Speaker C:That's awesome.
Speaker C:That's awesome.
Speaker C:He had an outlet.
Speaker C:Wow, that's great.
Speaker C:Fair play to him.
Speaker C:All right, well, guys, I. I never know when I pick these questions, but it sounds like you might be a little bit of a movie guy, so I'm excited about this one.
Speaker C:So Andy Garcia says he is reprising his role for Ocean's 14.
Speaker C:What is your favorite Andy Garcia film?
Speaker D:I think it's an old one of his movies.
Speaker D:I know he was in Godfather as well, but I don't like the Godfather role that, like, I'm an old, old time Godfather guy.
Speaker D:There's a movie called Things to do in Denver when you're dead.
Speaker C:Yes, I just saw that.
Speaker D:Yes, I really liked it.
Speaker D:It's a little odd choice, but, you know, he's kind of like this gangster guy who's trying to mend his ways and.
Speaker D:But it's a great movie in my opinion.
Speaker C:All right, great drop.
Speaker A:Because you get question number three as well.
Speaker A:According to an Ingenico study, middle aged men over 40 will be the biggest spenders this holiday.
Speaker A:Where do you anticipate you will be spending most of your holiday budget this year?
Speaker D:My dishwasher broke yesterday, so.
Speaker C:Neo.
Speaker C:You're buying Neo.
Speaker A:Yes.
Speaker A:$20,000 down the drain.
Speaker D:So there you go.
Speaker D:So that is where I'm spending and my wife and I are arguing about, you know, she wants to buy another German one and I'm like, hey, the Korean seem like, nice.
Speaker D:So you'll see.
Speaker C:All right, last one.
Speaker C:The Wall Street Journal, Kelly reported on Monday that Italian made pasta could soon disappear from US Grocery store shelves.
Speaker C:Yes, that is an actually reported headline, folks.
Speaker C:Which type of pasta would you miss the most?
Speaker B:Kelly, this one brings me a lot of sadness as a avid pasta eater.
Speaker B:Okay.
Speaker B:Brand wise, I would say the checko, which is those.
Speaker B:The blue box.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker B:From Italy.
Speaker B:Noodle.
Speaker B:Noodle wise, probably rigatoni.
Speaker B:I know there's American versions of rigatoni.
Speaker B:Like, you could get it from someone here, but it's so much better from the Italian brands.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Rigatoni.
Speaker C:That's a tough one.
Speaker C:And what would you.
Speaker C:What would you.
Speaker C:What would you most not want to go away if you had to?
Speaker C:Of all the pastas on the shelves.
Speaker A:Oh, pappardelle.
Speaker A:That's my favorite.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:I feel like there are a few really great Italian manufacturers of specialty because it's not.
Speaker A:It's probably break.
Speaker A:The breakage and throwaway cost is probably through the roof because of that noodle, but.
Speaker A:Yeah.
Speaker A:So good.
Speaker A:Right?
Speaker C:Right.
Speaker B:Nice orchid, too.
Speaker B:Can't find it.
Speaker C:Wow.
Speaker B:I have not found it at a single grocery store near me, but I know the Cho has one.
Speaker C:Oh, maybe.
Speaker C:Maybe that's why.
Speaker C:What cost.
Speaker C:What's your favorite pasta before we.
Speaker C:Before we close it up?
Speaker D:I. I'm relatively simple on that one.
Speaker D:I just like spaghetti.
Speaker C:Spaghetti.
Speaker A:Okay.
Speaker D:And spaghetti.
Speaker D:Spaghetti and meatballs I can have any day of the week.
Speaker D:So just with the green sauce, not the red one.
Speaker C:So.
Speaker D:So that's.
Speaker D:That's the only twist.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker C:All right.
Speaker C:Spaghetti, Andy Garcia and Korean dishwashers.
Speaker C:That's what we learned about you today.
Speaker C:Yeah.
Speaker A:All right.
Speaker C:That's a trifecta.
