Lightning Round: Dew Goes Dirty, Vegas Transport Showdown & QR-Code TP | Fast Five Shorts
This lightning round segment from the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Quorso, covers the fun and quirky stories of the week!
Topics include:
• Mountain Dew's new "Dirty" cream soda targeting Gen Z and the dirty soda trend
• Vegas transportation debate: Taxi or Uber? (Chris and Anne weigh in from Grocery Shop)
• Chinese public toilets requiring QR code scans and ad viewing for toilet paper access
• Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban's divorce after 19 years... who hits the dating pool first?
Plus birthday shoutouts to Brie Larson, Beck Bennett, and the legendary Julie Andrews turning 90!
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Let's move on to the lightning round.
Speaker AChris.
Speaker BLet's do it.
Speaker AQuestion number one.
Speaker AMountain Dew is coming out with Mountain Dew Dirty, a dirty cream soda meant to appeal to Gen Z consumers.
Speaker AAnd the dirty soda trend.
Speaker AWhich do.
Speaker AWould you do dirty or classic?
Speaker BOh, and a dirty cream soda.
Speaker BThat sounds fantastic.
Speaker BI.
Speaker BYou know, I like many things dirty.
Speaker BWhat?
Speaker BI don't even know what the dirty soda trend is, though.
Speaker BWhat is that?
Speaker AOh, my gosh.
Speaker AHave you noticed?
Speaker BSounds good, but I don't know what it is.
Speaker AOh, you have to be on Tik Tok.
Speaker AAnd the real.
Speaker AThe Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is the best.
Speaker AThat's the best.
Speaker ALike education for dirty soda, I think.
Speaker ABut basically, dirty soda is like adding coffee creamer or like a flavored syrup, like a coffee syrup to a soda and mixing all these concoctions.
Speaker ASo, like, there's a whole, like an.
Speaker BItalian soda back in the day.
Speaker BThat's what we're talking about here.
Speaker AYeah, I mean, that's close enough, but it's dirty because they're adding other ingredients to.
Speaker ATo it.
Speaker BBut is one of my favorite words to say.
Speaker AThey're all.
Speaker AThey're expanding all across.
Speaker AWe just got a couple of these dirty soda fountains here in Minnesota, so you'll have to check them out.
Speaker ABut dirty do never.
Speaker ANever something I thought I'd be talking about in.
Speaker AIn my entire life.
Speaker BDirty cream soda sounds good.
Speaker BI like a good cream soda, too.
Speaker BBut speaking of dirty, you're in Las Vegas.
Speaker BAre you taking a taxi or an Uber when you're here?
Speaker AI think we found if you're at the airport, you take a taxi.
Speaker AIf you are anywhere else, I would say Uber, I think.
Speaker BReally?
Speaker AI think it's the most affordable and convenient way to get around Vegas.
Speaker ABut no, you.
Speaker AYou're just all taxi all the time.
Speaker BYeah, I don't know.
Speaker BI don't really care.
Speaker BI'm definitely air.
Speaker BI'm definitely taxi from the airport, for sure.
Speaker BLike, the Uber line from the airport is a disaster.
Speaker BIt's absolutely a disaster.
Speaker AOh, all right, Chris, this one made me think of you instantly.
Speaker BOh, great.
Speaker APublic toilets in China are now requiring patrons to scan a QR code and watch an ad in order to gain access to the toilet paper.
Speaker AAs someone who carries their own toilet paper, would you spare a square if you were in China and somebody didn't have their phone with them in the bathroom, which I don't think is a bad thing?
Speaker AWhat would you do there?
Speaker BYeah, I mean, I probably.
Speaker BI think.
Speaker BI think I would spare a square.
Speaker BI mean, I've offered my.
Speaker BMy spare roll of toilet paper to you and we've traveled.
Speaker BYou've never taken me up on it.
Speaker BSo I'm not.
Speaker BI'm not sure actually anyone would want a square of my spare.
Speaker ABut it depends.
Speaker AIt depends on the situation.
Speaker AIf you don't have.
Speaker AYou can't watch.
Speaker AI mean, if it's nothing or some a stranger spare square.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BThat's true.
Speaker BThat's a good point.
Speaker BLike the, the timing of the offering is important here.
Speaker BSo if I offer it free, it's probably going to get turned down, but if it needs to be offered post, it's probably going to be accepted.
Speaker BThat's what you're telling me here?
Speaker AYes, yes, yes.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BThat.
Speaker BThat actually makes a ton of logical sense.
Speaker AAnd all right, sometimes I do that, sometimes I make sense.
Speaker AIt's not often, but that's funny.
Speaker ABut when it comes to toilet paper stalls in China.
Speaker AYes, I can sense the sensibility there.
Speaker BAll right, all right, last one.
Speaker BNicole Kidman and Keith Urban are calling it quits after 19 years of marriage.
Speaker BMy question for you is this.
Speaker BWhich of the two do you think is more likely to jump into the dating pool first?
Speaker AOh, for sure.
Speaker AKeith Urban.
Speaker BI. I'm already there.
Speaker AI'm willing to bet that he's already been jumping in the dating pool and that's why this 19 year of marriage is coming to an end.
Speaker ABut look, I think Nicole Kidman is just gonna go off and live her best life if she isn't already with Reese Witherspoon and Sandra Bullock and all of her like girlfriends of the same Hollywood era who are now single.
Speaker AJust like doing them.
Speaker AI think it's amazing.
Speaker ASo go Nicole.
Speaker AI'm very excited to see what happens to you next.
Speaker AAnd she's Anita, man, she's great.
Speaker BShe had that movie where she like had that affair with like the 20 something too.
Speaker AYeah, baby Girl.
Speaker AI still haven't seen it, but I heard it.
Speaker BThat was called Baby Girl.
Speaker ANice.