Lightning Round: Apple Upgrades, Classic Cars, AI Concerns & Stargazing | Fast Five Shorts
In this week's Lightning Round, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, hosts Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga are joined by Alvarez & Marsal's Lisa Collier and Manola Soler to tackle Apple's iPhone 17 surge (Lisa's learned to wait out the upgrades!), debate Mr. Bean's comedy versus his impeccable taste in classic Jaguars, worry about OpenAI's Sora creating AI models instead of cat videos, and reveal Manola's meteor shower stargazing plans. Plus birthday shoutouts to the fly himself, Jeff Goldblum! Quick hits, hot takes, and laughs to close out the show!
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Let's move on to the lightning round and close this up.
Speaker ALisa, you get the first question here.
Speaker AApple stock soared to an all time high this week, which is being attributed to the success of the iPhone 17.
Speaker AI have to know, do you need an immediate upgrade every time the October Apple announcement comes out, or are you still happily carrying around an aged out version?
Speaker BI'm used to need to be the first one in, did you say?
Speaker BOver the last couple of years, I've sat back and waited to see what's new in the tech, how's it working, work out the kinks and the upgrades that need to happen in the beginning.
Speaker BYou know, I think they're talking about one of the reasons it actually is being super successful is people aren't upgrading as much as before.
Speaker BAnd, you know, quite frankly, I'm very happy to say that I did upgrade last year and they, like, the 16 and 17 are not that different, but I used to be.
Speaker BEverything new that came out, I had to have it in the beginning, but I have definitely changed my ways.
Speaker CAll right, Lisa, back to you.
Speaker CRowan Atkinson's 1963 Jaguar E type is for sale.
Speaker CAre you thumbs up or thumbs down on Mr. Bean's brand of comedy?
Speaker BI have to say I'm thumbs down.
Speaker CNo, no, say isn't true.
Speaker COh, no, no, no.
Speaker BI do love his taste in cars.
Speaker BI love his taste in cars.
Speaker CYes.
Speaker COkay.
Speaker CAll right.
Speaker CThank God.
Speaker CThank God.
Speaker AAll right, Manoha, the next one is for you.
Speaker ASora OpenAI's video social app launched and reached over 1 million users in just 5 days.
Speaker AUnbelievable.
Speaker AWhat would the subject of the first video you'd want to see created?
Speaker AWhat would that subject be?
Speaker DYou know, I. I hope they use this to make a lot of fun cat videos on that line of content.
Speaker DRight, yeah, we can hope.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker CIt's a really good idea.
Speaker DI don't want to see it go to, like, you know, the AI models.
Speaker DWe already have a generation traumatized by excess Photoshop.
Speaker DI don't want to see what, you know, AI human content does.
Speaker AI know.
Speaker DSo hopefully it goes the cat route.
Speaker DThat's fine.
Speaker AYes, yes.
Speaker AMore bunnies jumping on trampolines.
Speaker AAs far as.
Speaker DYeah, just.
Speaker DThat's what I'm here for.
Speaker DThat's what I get on the Internet for.
Speaker CAll right, last one.
Speaker CThe Orionid.
Speaker CI think I'm saying that right.
Speaker CThe Orionid meteor shower is set to peak between October 21 and October 23.
Speaker CSo tomorrow, will you be staying up late to catch a glimpse of this astronomical event?
Speaker DYou know, I I'm gonna try.
Speaker DI. I don't have high hopes.
Speaker DI don't have high hopes because light pollution and it's supposed to be cloudy.
Speaker DBut I've made a plan.
Speaker DI'll go out to the roof and we'll see if there's anything, you know, up there, flickering.
Speaker DI. Yeah, I. I like those kind of things.
Speaker DIt's.
Speaker DIt's fun.
Speaker CAh, good for you.
Speaker CThat's why I asked the question as a shot in the dark, to see, like, what kind of things are you into?
Speaker CWhat are our guests.
Speaker CThat's awesome.
Speaker AA literal.
Speaker AA literal shot in the dark.
Speaker DYeah.
Speaker CLiteral shot in the dark.
Speaker CYes, that's right.
Speaker CThat's right.
Speaker CWell.