Lightning Round Chaos: Dum-Dums, Snack Wars & Sydney Sweeney Celebrity Soap ⚡🧼👔
This week’s Lightning Round delivers a sugar rush of retail absurdity — from Mondelez pulling products over pricing beef with Aldi, to mistakenly buying 70,000 lollipops, and Sydney Sweeney selling out her soap line. Retail’s never been this entertaining — and we couldn’t bring it to you without the support of our amazing sponsors: A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and ClearDemand — the brands powering the future of retail.
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00:00 - Untitled
00:03 - The Legal Battle Over Packaging
01:10 - Unexpected Purchases: A Tale of Lollipops and Free Books
03:02 - Sydney Sweeney's Unique Soap Venture
03:29 - The Controversy of Bath Water Sales
04:09 - The Soap Dilemma: Sydney Sweeney's Marketing Gimmick
Now let's go to the lightning round, Chris.
Speaker AOreo maker Mondelez is suing Aldi, alleging that grocery chain copies its packaging to confuse customers.
Speaker AWhat own brand product do you think is better than or as good as the original?
Speaker BOh, man, you know, I don't, I don't, for some reason I don't, I don't buy that many own brand products.
Speaker BI think because our grocery stores don't have a big own brand assortment because Minnesota groceries is kind of unique in that way.
Speaker BBut you know, for me, I guess I'd go with like the standard, like OTC drugs and you know, Mucinex, Benadryl, like Prilosec, like I'm buying all the generics of those.
Speaker BThose things are always at least as good or at least my body tells me that they are.
Speaker AGreat.
Speaker AI'm glad that they work for you.
Speaker AYes, right.
Speaker BYeah, yeah.
Speaker ANo, Trader Joe's, you don't do any of like the Trader Joe's dupes or anything.
Speaker AI guess it's more of a beauty thing too.
Speaker BTrader Joe's is just like a.
Speaker BYeah, it's just kind of like it's, it's, it's, it's label, you know, I don't think of it like the same way for some reason.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BBut okay, I mean, I guess, yeah, you do like peanut butter and stuff, you know, but, but no, yeah, yeah, no, I think, you know, I like, I like the way the private label Mucinex, you know, clears my lungs.
Speaker BAnd a Kentucky mom found herself in a sticky situation when her 8 year old son ordered 70,000 Dum Dum lollipops Dum dums on her phone?
Speaker BWhat have you accidentally purchased that is almost as ridiculous as 70,000 dum dums?
Speaker AThe first thing that I thought of was one summer when I was home from school.
Speaker AMy mom was working and we were bored and there was a.
Speaker BHow old, how old were you?
Speaker AProbably eight or nine.
Speaker AI mean it was, it was like in elementary school and my brother and I were bored.
Speaker ASo there was an ad during the daytime soap operas for, for the Book of Mormon and they said they would send you a free book.
Speaker AAnd I was like, yes, I, I'll take a free book.
Speaker ALike, let's check it out.
Speaker AWe're bored.
Speaker AAnd sure enough, they sent us the Book of Mormon and we had visitors from the LDS Church at our house for maybe the next five years, calling, stopping by the house, trying to talk to my mom and, and get her on board.
Speaker AAnd she was not thrilled.
Speaker AShe would not let Me live that one down.
Speaker ASo.
Speaker ADidn't cost her as much as 70,000 dum dums.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker ANo, just her time and patience.
Speaker BYeah, that must have been one hell of a bill, the 70,000 dum dums.
Speaker BMy God.
Speaker AAll right, Chris, question number three.
Speaker AThe creator of Succession reportedly skewers tech billionaires in his latest film, Mountainhead.
Speaker AWill Mountain Head be must see TV for you?
Speaker BOh, my God, yes.
Speaker B100.
Speaker BI'm actually dying to watch this.
Speaker BI've been.
Speaker BI might even fire it up tomorrow if I can get it here in Spain.
Speaker BBut, yeah, I can think of no one better who needs skewering or deserves it more than tech billionaires.
Speaker BAnd that's.
Speaker BThat's my take on that.
Speaker AWhat is it?
Speaker AOn what's.
Speaker AWhat's.
Speaker ALike, I don't know.
Speaker AFind it.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BI gotta look that up.
Speaker BFans, let us know if.
Speaker BIf you know where it is or have watched it and give it.
Speaker BLet us know your review, too, so.
Speaker BAll right, last one.
Speaker BSydney Sweeney.
Speaker BThis one's great.
Speaker BSydney Sweeney is selling soap that contains her own bathwater.
Speaker BWhose bathwater would you most want infused into your soap?
Speaker BSign me up for this.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BAnd you, bath water would you most want.
Speaker ANo one's.
Speaker ANo one.
Speaker ANo one's.
Speaker BCome on.
Speaker AYou honestly want somebody's bath?
Speaker ALike, I have my own bath water.
Speaker AWhy do I need Sydney Sweeney's bath water?
Speaker AThis is like onlyfans gone to another level that I am not comfortable with.
Speaker BLike, only fans got to another level.
Speaker ALike, that is.
Speaker AThat is like the.
Speaker AI mean, I think that's the origination of this concept.
Speaker ALike, it wasn't until a platform like OnlyFans where you start selling bath water to, like.
Speaker ANo, no, no.
Speaker AI cannot say no enough.
Speaker BWell, you must use bath water.
Speaker BYou must use water in the production of soap.
Speaker BSo, like, what's the big deal if it's somebody's bath water?
Speaker BLike, it's got to be.
Speaker BWell, it's got to be cleaned, you know?
Speaker BYou know?
Speaker AAre you sure?
Speaker AI don't know about that.
Speaker BI think I.
Speaker BIt's gotta be like, I don't know.
Speaker BIt's gotta pass fda.
Speaker BI don't know, but.
Speaker BWell, I guess.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BIt's.
Speaker BThat.
Speaker BI don't know.
Speaker BYeah, maybe not.
Speaker BWho knows?
Speaker AAre you gonna buy Sydney Sweeney's soap?
Speaker BNo, I'm not gonna buy it.
Speaker BAre you kidding me?
Speaker BGod, no.
Speaker AGood.
Speaker BSuch a discerning shopper.
Speaker BI'm not gonna fall for this marketing gimmick.
Speaker BAlthough, you know.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AYou know, I mean, love Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker ABut I don't want her.
Speaker AShe's still the human.
Speaker AAnd I don't want her dirty bath water.
Speaker BEverything she does turns to gold in my mind.
Speaker BBut I'm not buying her soap.
Speaker BNo way.