Lightning Round: Currywurst, AI Packing Lists & Arizona Basketball | Fast Five Shorts
This Omni Talk Retail Fast Five Lightning Round segment closes out the show with rapid-fire questions, unexpected takes, and a few laughs.
Chris Walton and Shelley Huff debate the greatest Arizona Wildcat of all time, react to Berlin’s famous Currywurst, discuss trusting AI with packing lists and payments, and swap Kentucky Derby advice along the way.
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Speaker AFirst question.
Speaker ASince I'm currently in Berlin, explain what you think a CurryWurst is in five words or less.
Speaker AAnd you cannot Google this live time or chatgpt or whatever.
Speaker BOkay, a currywurst.
Speaker BI'm literally going to break it down.
Speaker BYep, probably a sausage with a curry adjacency.
Speaker AA curry adjacency.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker ASpoken like a true merchant.
Speaker AAnd by curry adjacency, you mean like a curry sauce?
Speaker AMaybe, Maybe, Maybe.
Speaker BAll right, there's curry involved.
Speaker BWhat is it really?
Speaker BNow you can tell me.
Speaker AYeah, no, you nailed it.
Speaker AYou nailed it.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AIt's sausage covered and smothered in curry.
Speaker ATypically, it seems like it's a ketchup based curry because I had it and I asked some friends who tried it too this week and sometimes has curry powder dusted on it.
Speaker ASounds like you get served with chips too, or french fries too.
Speaker AShelly.
Speaker AThat's the other thing.
Speaker BKetchup based curry.
Speaker BThat's a new one for me.
Speaker AIt's a very tomatoey based curry.
Speaker AVery tomatoey based curry.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ANot.
Speaker AMaybe ketchup base is not the right word.
Speaker APeople probably take offense to that.
Speaker ABut.
Speaker ABut it's a very tomato based curry.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BI'm not enticed to try it, but I hope you do, though.
Speaker AI got.
Speaker AI got recommended from some Brits last week and I told some people and they're like, you took.
Speaker AYou took eating advice from British people?
Speaker AWhat are you doing?
Speaker ABut hey, hey, got to love my Brits.
Speaker BYeah, there you go.
Speaker BOkay, so your question is, Chris, being another Arizona, a fellow Arizonan, what is the first place you go to eat and when you land in Arizona?
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AOh, wow.
Speaker AThat's.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AGod.
Speaker ASo back in college, I used to go to native New Yorker and this place called Pranksters for the wings down in Tempe for the Buffalo wings.
Speaker AThey great Buffalo wings, but those I think are gone now.
Speaker ASo now I'd probably either say TC Eggington's, which is like a brunch place, or Venezia's, the pizza place.
Speaker AJeff Venetia's in Tucson.
Speaker ANo, no.
Speaker AVinicius for those listening is the pizza place in Breaking Bad when he throws the pizza on the roof.
Speaker AThey have it in Albuquerque and in.
Speaker AIn the Phoenix area too.
Speaker ASo, yeah, that's what I'd say.
Speaker AThat pizza is really good, Shelly.
Speaker BI'll have to try it.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAll right.
Speaker ABack in the day, as a Wildcat alum, who is the greatest Wildcat in the history of Arizona basketball And Shelley, there is a right answer to this question.
Speaker ASo I'm.
Speaker BWell, there's absolutely one answer is how I think about this.
Speaker BAnd it's Steve Ker now and always.
Speaker BSteve.
Speaker BI grew up watching Steve play Arizona basketball as a kid.
Speaker BI obviously live in the Bay Area for a long time and love watching him coach Golden State.
Speaker BTremendous guy, tremendous character.
Speaker BBut I will add Sean Elliott a distance second, so I will.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BAnd Sean's a Tucson guy, too, so.
Speaker BSo I've got some love for Sean Elliott, but Steve Kerr by a large margin.
Speaker AI'm surprised you didn't represent Tucson as the hometown with Sean Elliott.
Speaker AYou went with Steve Kerr by a wide margin.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AAll right.
Speaker AI guess.
Speaker BSo, Chris, over to you.
Speaker BAre you trusting AI more to manage your shopping list or your calendar?
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AYou know, I've never been able to get in those calendly tools and stuff.
Speaker ALike, they just.
Speaker AI can't get those to work for me.
Speaker AI'm definitely not using it to manage my shopping list either.
Speaker ABut I think if I had to put a gun on my head and decide which one, I think I'd say my calendar because, like, you know, I get a little weirded out by agentic payments and it seems like a lot of folks here at the World Retail Congress are too.
Speaker ALike, people are saying, like, literally I had somebody on stage say I would not be investing in payment integrations and tie ins.
Speaker ABut what about you?
Speaker AI don't know, Shelley.
Speaker AWhat would you do?
Speaker BSo I heard a new use case last night that I'm going to try.
Speaker BSo this week I had to pack for Miami for four days, Chicago for four days, and Kentucky for four days.
Speaker BAnd I did it myself.
Speaker BAnd I heard of another executive that I'm close to, used an agent to put her packing list together and gave it the dimensions of her luggage and it did the whole thing.
Speaker BShe offered like a couple pictures of her outfits, the style she wanted to go with where she was traveling, and it recommended her entire packing list that would fit in her luggage.
Speaker BSo I will be back to talk about how that works out for me, but I wish I would have done it for this trip.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AWow.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ACause you're on your way to the Kentucky Derby, right?
Speaker BI am on my way to the Kentucky Derby, like hours away.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BTomorrow I leave for.
Speaker BWow.
Speaker ASo, so excited.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAnd I, I, yeah.
Speaker AGod, so much fun.
Speaker AThat.
Speaker AThat is such a blast.
Speaker AThat's a.
Speaker AThat's a bucket list trip.
Speaker BI'm going to take your recommendation and just have fun, which is what you said.
Speaker AYeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker AAnd gamble, too, I think, was my other recommendation.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker APut some money on the horses.
Speaker BDefinitely pick the horse and.
Speaker BOkay, so have fun and pick the winning horse.
Speaker BGot it.
Speaker AThat's right.
Speaker APick the winning horse.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ADon't we wish we all could do that?