Lightning Round: Big Arch Backlash, Scrubs Reboot, DST Debate & Fonda Sandwich | Fast Five Shorts

This Lightning Round segment of the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, Quorso, and Veloq, closes out the show with rapid fire takes on McDonald’s Big Arch taste test backlash, the surprising Scrubs reboot generation gap, the never-ending daylight saving time debate, and Jane Fonda’s viral breakfast burrito “sandwich” comment.
Chris Walton and guests Cassie Ryding and Joanna Rangarajan prove once again that retail, culture, and the internet always collide.
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All right, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker AQuestion number one to Joanna.
Speaker AOh my God, I hope you guys saw this.
Speaker AI hope you guys listening to all saw this as well.
Speaker AMcDonald's CEO faces ridicule this week.
Speaker AHas faced ridicule this week over cringe over a cringe worthy Big Arch taste test video.
Speaker ASo Joanna, my first question is, will you be giving the Big Arch a try or does the video compel you to satisfy your burger cravings somewhere else?
Speaker BThat video is.
Speaker BIs cringy, but it's so bad.
Speaker BAnytime, anytime someone can repeatedly call a food item a product is.
Speaker BIs just out of the gates.
Speaker BUnsettling.
Speaker BI, I personally probably won't be trying it.
Speaker BI do like a McDonald's cheeseburger, however.
Speaker BBut I just feel like this is ripe with the hype right now.
Speaker BJust get arch banning, get a quick ad that, that does a proper bite out of the big burger and can move on from this.
Speaker BBut I have enjoyed a little bit of the ribbing that's been coming through from, from competitors as well, showcasing how to take a proper bite and smile.
Speaker ASo yeah, McDonald's has got to come back with something like something just that just totally emphasizes how much of a torque that CEO appeared to be.
Speaker AOh my God.
Speaker AAll right, question number two, Cassie.
Speaker AZach Braff says that it was quote, really shocking to learn some Scrubs reboot co stars weren't alive when the show first came out.
Speaker AWill you yourself be scrubbing in for the reboot?
Speaker CI can, I can sympathize with that.
Speaker CI think I somehow have that feeling when we have some of our associates with, with knowing what pop culture events they have experienced.
Speaker CI can say I watched Scrubs actually.
Speaker CI think during that time it Scrubs, I feel like was a different.
Speaker CGoing a different direction.
Speaker CSo I was more of a friends, more of the traditional at that time.
Speaker CUm, but I am interested.
Speaker CI think I will tune in just to see the difference.
Speaker CExcept especially now that they're really changing how they make some of these shows.
Speaker CI know Matt Damon recently was talking about they have to write their scripts differently if it's a streaming because people aren't paying attention.
Speaker CSo I am kind of interested.
Speaker CI kind of want to go back and watch some Scrubs from before beforehand and then see because I mean, I like the cast.
Speaker CI think it'll be good.
Speaker CSo I'll tune in.
Speaker AYeah, no, I'm the same way.
Speaker ALike I.
Speaker AActually it's.
Speaker AIt must, it must have had a hook because like, if it's coming back, it must have been Pretty good show, but I've never seen an episode either for as much as I love television and movies.
Speaker AJoanna, do you have a relationship with Scrubs?
Speaker BI do not.
Speaker BSo no, I don't.
Speaker BI don't either.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BSimilar to Cassie, I was, I was watching other things at the time that it was.
Speaker BThat it was out, but it must have, you know, any, any of the, the reboots, they definitely are pulling at the strings of, of prior fans.
Speaker BSo I hope it succeeds.
Speaker AYeah, I'm not going to bring producer Ellen on this one because I pretty much am positive she has no relationship with the television show Scru Given, given her birth date.
Speaker AAll right, next one.
Speaker AJoanna.
Speaker ADaylight savings time is this coming Sunday, March 8th.
Speaker AWill I lose an hour of sleep?
Speaker ASo, Joanna, are you firmly in the I love the extra evening light camp, or are you more on the team Abolish daylight savings time forever.
Speaker BI don't really have a preference, to be honest, Albeit, albeit as a, as a person with a pretty hefty sourcing background.
Speaker BIt is always nice when we go back to being 12 hours difference with our, with our partners in, in the east.
Speaker BHowever, my favorite of all of this is just twice a year we get to hear a very impassioned debate about whether or not it should go away.
Speaker BWe all start hearing and checking in on each other's circadian rhythms, which we never do otherwise.
Speaker BAnd, and we get, you know, somehow are massively affected by an hour's worth of jet lag comparatively to, you know, other moments in our lives.
Speaker BSo I, I enjoy it.
Speaker BThe local news coverage of it is always it.
Speaker BIt's more because I just enjoy the chatter around it, but I have no preference.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker ASee, I think for me, once I had kids, like, I was done with daylight savings time because daylight savings time is the witching hour.
Speaker AThat Sunday night is like the witching hour.
Speaker AIf you got kids, they're just, they're freaking maniacs.
Speaker AAt least in my house they are.
Speaker AAll right, last one, Cassie.
Speaker AWhen asked to name her favorite sandwich on the Colbert Show, Jane Fonda responded, breakfast burrito.
Speaker AHold the potatoes, soft yolks, bacon and avocado all tucked inside a flour tortilla.
Speaker AThat answer is really specific.
Speaker AWhat is your favorite breakfast sandwich?
Speaker AAnd more importantly, do you agree with Ms. Fonda's categorization of the burrito as a sandwich?
Speaker AThere is a right or wrong answer to this question, Cassie.
Speaker COkay, I think I'm probably in the minority, but I do think that a burrito could be classified as a sandwich.
Speaker CI think it's similar to, like, you know, different cuisines have different types.
Speaker CSo you could say a ravioli and a dumpling are, you know, in the same kind of classification.
Speaker CI think this is controversial, so I'm accepting that.
Speaker CBut, you know, I think you want to.
Speaker CYou keep.
Speaker CEach type of cuisine has their own kind of take on it.
Speaker CBut in terms of my favorite, I think this is.
Speaker CI'm just being controversial, I guess today, even though I. Yeah, you are.
Speaker CEven though I live in New York, I'm also not going to say anything from New York is my favorite.
Speaker CMy favorite breakfast sandwich.
Speaker CVery specifically born in bread.
Speaker COn Nantucket, they have an amazing.
Speaker CObviously, hence the name bread, really great fresh ingredients, a good spicy aioli on it, you know, egg, fresh tomato, bacon.
Speaker CAnd then you can go eat it outside.
Speaker CAnd so I think, you know, maybe.
Speaker CMaybe the setting is what makes it a little bit more of my favorite.
Speaker CBut that is a staple for me, I would say, especially in the summer months, so has a.
Speaker CHas a fond place in my heart.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AI can't even compute what you just said.
Speaker ACalling a burrito a sandwich.
Speaker AIt just.
Speaker AThat it just does not align with my thinking at all.
Speaker AProducer Ella, come on in here.
Speaker AWhat do you think burrito is a burrito A sandwich, Cassie.
Speaker CI'm sorry.
Speaker BBurrito is not a sandwich.
Speaker CI mean, I think this goes to
Speaker Bthe hot dog, too.
Speaker BWas a hot dog a sandwich?
Speaker CI think if the bun is ripped, yes.
Speaker BIf the bun is still together,
Speaker Cnot.
Speaker ASo that's how you define it.
Speaker ASee, I don't know.
Speaker ALike, I think like a. I think I got cheesesteak where the bun is still kind of connected at the end is still a sandwich.
Speaker ABut, Joanna, what do you think?
Speaker AYou.
Speaker AYou be the deciding vote here or the tying vote?
Speaker AWhichever way you want to go.
Speaker BI'm going to go with a burrito is not a sandwich.
Speaker BBut it is a handheld.
Speaker BBut it's a handheld, so kind of Cassie's point on dumpling ravioli.
Speaker BLike it.
Speaker BIt falls in the handheld category.
Speaker CI like it.
Speaker BIt's just not a sandwich.
Speaker CThat's better classification, Joanna.
Speaker AYeah, that's why.
Speaker AThat's why you're the operation consultant, Joanna.
Speaker AYou just got it down.





