Fast Five Shorts | A Suitcase Full Of Sunshine Lightning Round

McDonald's is bringing back uncle oh, Grimacey, the slightly larger, greener and Irish version of Grimace.

They're bringing it back from the archives to help promote their Shamrock shake and mint McFlurry.

Which family member of your own, Ben, would you choose to help you and the team promote Shop Talk?

Oh, my God.

I had no idea where you go with that.

Okay, so I grew up in a small rural town in the north of England in Yorkshire.

My dad is a proud Yorkshireman and there's some great cliches.

So Yorkshiremen are famously straight talking, they're famously cynical, and they're famously really tight with their money.

So I can imagine.

So never mind.

Startup picture Shop Talk.

I was kind of imagining like, it's almost like challenge, Alan.

If you could get my dad, if you could get my dad to spend money, then you've got an absolute winner because that's a really high bar.

So challenge.

I mean, that's where we go.

That's amazing.

It's so funny.

I literally said to Ann last week, we don't hear the name Alan anymore either, didn't I?

And I literally said that to you?

Yes.

All right, then.

The teaser trailer for the new Fantastic Four film debuted this week.

If you could have any of the Fantastic Four's superpowers, which one would you choose?

Oh, that's an easy one.

Fly.

Absolutely.

Johnny Storm.

Johnny.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm not.

I'm not there on the bursting into flames, but.

But flying, yeah, that would be so cool.

Wouldn't that, wouldn't that be brilliant?

I'd love to hear that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Plastic Man.

I wouldn't mind be Plastic man too.

That's pretty cool.

Again, I have no idea what you're talking about.

Listeners will not be surprised at all that I have could not name a single Fantastic Four.

Is that what they're called?

Fantastic Four people?

Yes.

All right, let's go to question number three.

Ben.

Tariffs are on the minds of retailers and consumers these days.

And some retailers are reporting that they're seeing out of stocks because customers are starting to stockpile goods.

If you could bring an extra suitcase with you to Vegas during shop talk to stockpile some US products to take home to the uk, what would it be?

Oh, man.

And it's not.

Not a suitcase full of shops or branded swag.

I've been lucky enough.

I spend a lot of time in the US as you guys know.

I've been worked us a long time.

So I have, I've got.

There's lots of things that I really enjoy when I'm over.

But if I could bring one thing, I'd love to bring back.

A huge suitcase full of west coast sunshine just to brighten the dower London screen.

That's amazing.

Better that than Parliament lights.

All right, last one.

Te Voodoo Tay Voodoo.

A term Taylor Swift fans coined to describe the outsized effect Taylor appears to have on the universe.

This is real.

Could be on full display at this weekend's Super Bowl.

Ben.

So who's it going to be?

The Chiefs or the Eagles?

Oh, wow.

We almost got for a whole podcast without mentioning Taylor Swift.

That was.

Right.

It was close.

That.

That was close.

I think it's gonna be really.

It's gonna be really, really close.

What can I be sure of?

I think New Orleans is going to be put on a really good show.

I think the halftime show will be good, but not as good as the Choctaw beach party, that's for sure.

I.

Look, history tells us doing three times is really, really, really hard.

But we know that if you've got the best quarterback, you probably win.

So I'm going for the Chiefs and the three peat.

The Chiefs and the three peat.

Oh, man.

I know our Philly fans, like Evan Gold, will be very disappointed to hear you say that.