Dec. 20, 2025

Lightning Round: Ryan Reynolds at NRF, Puppy Yoga & Rob Reiner's Greatest Hits | Fast Five Shorts

This segment of the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, features Chris and Anne tackle the fun side of retail as we head into NRF 2026.

Ryan Reynolds keynotes NRF this January... Chris shares the one question he'd ask about Blake Lively's best film role. Anne reveals her son's elaborate Google Slides pitch for an F1B goldendoodle and her puppy yoga compromise. The hosts preview Calvin Klein's new SoHo flagship as a must-see NRF store tour stop, and pay tribute to the late Rob Reiner with their Mount Rushmore picks: Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, A Few Good Men, and Spinal Tap.

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00:00 - Untitled

00:00 - The Lightning Round Begins

00:14 - The Legacy of 90s Film Stars

01:06 - Dog Ownership and Alternatives

03:10 - Honoring Rob Reiner's Legacy

03:45 - Discussing Iconic Films

Speaker A

Let's go to the Lightning round.

Speaker A

Chris.

Speaker A

Actor, entrepreneur, mobile pioneer, 90s film star.

Speaker A

Rhino.

Speaker A

Ryan Reynolds.

Speaker A

I guess he's still a film star.

Speaker B

90S film star.

Speaker A

He was really, he really came online for me in the 90s.

Speaker A

He will take the stage as one of the keynotes at NRF this year.

Speaker A

If you could ask him one question, what would it be?

Speaker B

Oh, man, this.

Speaker B

I. Oh God.

Speaker B

I, I think this would, I think I'd put him on the spot a little bit.

Speaker B

I'd be like, you know, what's your wife's favorite?

Speaker B

What's your favorite film role of your wife?

Speaker B

It's got to be the town, right?

Speaker B

And I would literally ask him the town part at the end because I love her in that movie.

Speaker B

That movie is so awesome.

Speaker B

That movie is so great.

Speaker B

Oh man.

Speaker B

The 90s, what do you go back to?

Speaker B

Is like Canadian television.

Speaker B

I remember him from Van Wilder, which.

Speaker A

Is like Van Wilder.

Speaker A

Oh, maybe it was 2000s.

Speaker A

Yeah, I guess that's probably it.

Speaker A

But it felt like late 90s, early 2000s.

Speaker A

Van Wilder.

Speaker A

Oh man, that's.

Speaker B

Yeah.

Speaker B

Not necessarily appropriate for today's generation and all the social mores, but.

Speaker B

But definitely a movie that doesn't get talked about enough.

Speaker B

All right, next one.

Speaker B

Last week, the last week, the largest ever gathering of golden retrievers occurred in Buenos Aires.

Speaker B

And if you could have any four legged creature, creature, nine us leg canine creature, join your family, what four legged creature would you want it to be?

Speaker A

Uh, it would be a dog, I think.

Speaker A

I just.

Speaker A

I we.

Speaker A

My son's allergic, but he just made a presentation for me on his little Google Power Slide.

Speaker A

PowerPoint slides about a new breed called like an F1B or F1B1 or something which is a golden doodle crossed with a poodle.

Speaker A

That is supposed to be the most hypoallergenic dog that exists right now.

Speaker A

They're very adorable.

Speaker A

But it's still not happening.

Speaker B

You still said no, I crushed his.

Speaker A

Little heart at Christmas time.

Speaker A

I did.

Speaker A

But yeah, I just.

Speaker A

We're not, we're not the people that can care properly for a dog.

Speaker A

I would love to like rent a dog and just have it on occasion.

Speaker A

And then, you know, I'd have to it to.

Speaker B

You can do that.

Speaker B

They have services where you could do that for the weekend if you wanted.

Speaker A

Well, I am going to take him.

Speaker A

They're doing puppy yoga in Minneapolis and they are doing an F1B puppy yoga class.

Speaker A

So I figured that's going to be.

Speaker A

That will be his Christmas present.

Speaker A

That will kind of, kind of do that.

Speaker A

And then it's just going to be awful after because he'll be so sad that he can't take.

Speaker B

Wow.

Speaker A

All right.

Speaker A

One spot likely to land on many NRF store tours as we head into New York in January will be the new Calvin Klein flagship that opened recently in New York's SoHo neighborhood.

Speaker A

The story the store carries the full Calvin Klein assortment, from denim to T shirts and, of course, underwear.

Speaker A

Chris, what Calvin Klein item would you most want to leave the Calvin Klein store tour carrying?

Speaker B

Oh, my God.

Speaker B

The only thing I could ever think about when a Calvin Klein is like, it's like Elaine told Marty, it's written all over your underwear.

Speaker B

And it's written all over my underwear.

Speaker B

That's all I can think about.

Speaker B

That's all I'd want to take out of that store.

Speaker B

All right, last one.

Speaker B

This one's sad, folks.

Speaker B

To honor the late Rob Reiner, for whom we always pay homage on this podcast when we try to dial things up to 11, what is your Mount Rushmore of Rob Reiner movies?

Speaker A

Princess Bride.

Speaker A

I still love that movie so much.

Speaker B

Particular order or are these just like.

Speaker A

Oh, no, they're just like, top four.

Speaker A

So cool.

Speaker A

Princess Bride.

Speaker A

When.

Speaker A

When Harry Met Sally, Stand By Me, and A Few Good Men.

Speaker A

Those would be my four.

Speaker A

What would your four be?

Speaker B

It's hard to argue those.

Speaker B

It's definitely hard to argue those.

Speaker A

Let me think.

Speaker B

I. Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men, for sure.

Speaker B

And then I probably put Spinal Tap in there just because it's quoted so often, although I haven't watched it in a long time.

Speaker B

Stand By Me is tough to argue with, too.

Speaker B

So I don't know, you know, maybe.

Speaker B

Maybe 4A, 4B.

Speaker B

For me, it's.

Speaker A

It's like a.

Speaker A

There's just a whole Mount Rushmore peanut gallery.

Speaker A

There's just, like, layers to p. Of people up there or of movies up there for him.

Speaker A

Yeah.

Speaker B

At Orange Theory this week, the guy during the cooldown played.

Speaker B

Played Stand By Me, the song, you know, and.

Speaker B

And I was, like, saying, oh, wow, this is so apropos.

Speaker B

And most people didn't even know what I was talking about or they were too tired to care, you know, I don't know.