March 9, 2026

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

The player is loading ...
Lightning Round: Big Arch Backlash, Scrubs Reboot, DST Debate & Fonda Sandwich | Fast Five Shorts
Apple Podcasts podcast player iconSpotify podcast player iconRSS Feed podcast player iconAmazon Music podcast player iconSoundcloud podcast player iconCastbox podcast player icon
Apple Podcasts podcast player iconSpotify podcast player iconRSS Feed podcast player iconAmazon Music podcast player iconSoundcloud podcast player iconCastbox podcast player icon

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.

⏩ Tune in for the full episode here.

#LightningRound #RetailFastFive #OmniTalk #PopCulture

00:00 - Untitled

00:00 - The Lightning Round Begins

01:16 - Transitioning to Pop Culture Reboots

02:53 - The Impact of Daylight Savings Time

04:12 - The Great Breakfast Debate

05:37 - The Great Sandwich Debate

06:12 - The Great Food Debate: Sandwiches or Handhelds?

Speaker A

All right, let's go to the lightning round.

Speaker A

Question number one to Joanna.

Speaker A

Oh my God, I hope you guys saw this.

Speaker A

I hope you guys listening to all saw this as well.

Speaker A

McDonald's CEO faces ridicule this week.

Speaker A

Has faced ridicule this week over cringe over a cringe worthy Big Arch taste test video.

Speaker A

So 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 B

That video is.

Speaker B

Is cringy, but it's so bad.

Speaker B

Anytime, anytime someone can repeatedly call a food item a product is.

Speaker B

Is just out of the gates.

Speaker B

Unsettling.

Speaker B

I, I personally probably won't be trying it.

Speaker B

I do like a McDonald's cheeseburger, however.

Speaker B

But I just feel like this is ripe with the hype right now.

Speaker B

Just 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 B

But 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 A

So 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 A

Oh my God.

Speaker A

All right, question number two, Cassie.

Speaker A

Zach 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 A

Will you yourself be scrubbing in for the reboot?

Speaker C

I can, I can sympathize with that.

Speaker C

I think I somehow have that feeling when we have some of our associates with, with knowing what pop culture events they have experienced.

Speaker C

I can say I watched Scrubs actually.

Speaker C

I think during that time it Scrubs, I feel like was a different.

Speaker C

Going a different direction.

Speaker C

So I was more of a friends, more of the traditional at that time.

Speaker C

Um, but I am interested.

Speaker C

I think I will tune in just to see the difference.

Speaker C

Except especially now that they're really changing how they make some of these shows.

Speaker C

I 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 C

So I am kind of interested.

Speaker C

I kind of want to go back and watch some Scrubs from before beforehand and then see because I mean, I like the cast.

Speaker C

I think it'll be good.

Speaker C

So I'll tune in.

Speaker A

Yeah, no, I'm the same way.

Speaker A

Like I.

Speaker A

Actually it's.

Speaker A

It 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 A

Joanna, do you have a relationship with Scrubs?

Speaker B

I do not.

Speaker B

So no, I don't.

Speaker B

I don't either.

Speaker B

I.

Speaker B

Similar to Cassie, I was, I was watching other things at the time that it was.

Speaker B

That 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 B

So I hope it succeeds.

Speaker A

Yeah, 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 A

All right, next one.

Speaker A

Joanna.

Speaker A

Daylight savings time is this coming Sunday, March 8th.

Speaker A

Will I lose an hour of sleep?

Speaker A

So, 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 B

I don't really have a preference, to be honest, Albeit, albeit as a, as a person with a pretty hefty sourcing background.

Speaker B

It is always nice when we go back to being 12 hours difference with our, with our partners in, in the east.

Speaker B

However, 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 B

We all start hearing and checking in on each other's circadian rhythms, which we never do otherwise.

Speaker B

And, 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 B

So I, I enjoy it.

Speaker B

The local news coverage of it is always it.

Speaker B

It's more because I just enjoy the chatter around it, but I have no preference.

Speaker A

Oh, my God.

Speaker A

See, 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 A

That Sunday night is like the witching hour.

Speaker A

If you got kids, they're just, they're freaking maniacs.

Speaker A

At least in my house they are.

Speaker A

All right, last one, Cassie.

Speaker A

When asked to name her favorite sandwich on the Colbert Show, Jane Fonda responded, breakfast burrito.

Speaker A

Hold the potatoes, soft yolks, bacon and avocado all tucked inside a flour tortilla.

Speaker A

That answer is really specific.

Speaker A

What is your favorite breakfast sandwich?

Speaker A

And more importantly, do you agree with Ms. Fonda's categorization of the burrito as a sandwich?

Speaker A

There is a right or wrong answer to this question, Cassie.

Speaker C

Okay, I think I'm probably in the minority, but I do think that a burrito could be classified as a sandwich.

Speaker C

I think it's similar to, like, you know, different cuisines have different types.

Speaker C

So you could say a ravioli and a dumpling are, you know, in the same kind of classification.

Speaker C

I think this is controversial, so I'm accepting that.

Speaker C

But, you know, I think you want to.

Speaker C

You keep.

Speaker C

Each type of cuisine has their own kind of take on it.

Speaker C

But in terms of my favorite, I think this is.

Speaker C

I'm just being controversial, I guess today, even though I. Yeah, you are.

Speaker C

Even though I live in New York, I'm also not going to say anything from New York is my favorite.

Speaker C

My favorite breakfast sandwich.

Speaker C

Very specifically born in bread.

Speaker C

On Nantucket, they have an amazing.

Speaker C

Obviously, hence the name bread, really great fresh ingredients, a good spicy aioli on it, you know, egg, fresh tomato, bacon.

Speaker C

And then you can go eat it outside.

Speaker C

And so I think, you know, maybe.

Speaker C

Maybe the setting is what makes it a little bit more of my favorite.

Speaker C

But that is a staple for me, I would say, especially in the summer months, so has a.

Speaker C

Has a fond place in my heart.

Speaker A

Oh, my God.

Speaker A

I can't even compute what you just said.

Speaker A

Calling a burrito a sandwich.

Speaker A

It just.

Speaker A

That it just does not align with my thinking at all.

Speaker A

Producer Ella, come on in here.

Speaker A

What do you think burrito is a burrito A sandwich, Cassie.

Speaker C

I'm sorry.

Speaker B

Burrito is not a sandwich.

Speaker C

I mean, I think this goes to

Speaker B

the hot dog, too.

Speaker B

Was a hot dog a sandwich?

Speaker C

I think if the bun is ripped, yes.

Speaker B

If the bun is still together,

Speaker C

not.

Speaker A

So that's how you define it.

Speaker A

See, I don't know.

Speaker A

Like, 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 A

But, Joanna, what do you think?

Speaker A

You.

Speaker A

You be the deciding vote here or the tying vote?

Speaker A

Whichever way you want to go.

Speaker B

I'm going to go with a burrito is not a sandwich.

Speaker B

But it is a handheld.

Speaker B

But it's a handheld, so kind of Cassie's point on dumpling ravioli.

Speaker B

Like it.

Speaker B

It falls in the handheld category.

Speaker C

I like it.

Speaker B

It's just not a sandwich.

Speaker C

That's better classification, Joanna.

Speaker A

Yeah, that's why.

Speaker A

That's why you're the operation consultant, Joanna.

Speaker A

You just got it down.