Lightning Round: Fashion Week Trends, 2016 Throwbacks, Robert Duvall & Curling | 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 Fashion Week trends, 2016 nostalgia, Robert Duvall’s Mount Rushmore, and unexpected Olympic curling drama.
From the cultural ripple effects of Fashion Week to the one thing our hosts would bring back from 2016, plus strong opinions on Robert Duvall and the intensity of Olympic curling, Chris Walton and Anne Mezzenga, joined by Jenn Hahn, keep things moving with quick hits and sharp debate.
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Let's go to the lightning round, you two.
Speaker AJen, you get the first question.
Speaker AI cannot wait to hear what your response is.
Speaker ADark romanticism, structured tailoring, and grunge core are a few of some of my favorites, I guess, of the noteworthy trends coming out of New York Fashion Week.
Speaker AIf you had to outfit your 2026 wardrobe in one of those trends, which style would you choose?
Speaker BOkay, I like this.
Speaker BI'm gonna go with structured tailoring.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker BSo grunge core, I think, like, a lot of black.
Speaker BI'm a fan of black, but I'm probably not going grunge.
Speaker BDark romanticism, I don't know what that is, but I have a feeling if I don't know, I'm probably not in on it.
Speaker AIt's like goth dark, really dark hues.
Speaker ALace.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ALike, we're look, we're going back to, like, this think, like, Twilight, like, Twilight inspired color palette.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BSo I'm gonna stick with structured tailoring.
Speaker CYeah, right, right, Yep.
Speaker BSo I, I, I mean, I love a good pleat in my pants.
Speaker BI can wear a structured button down.
Speaker BI think that's what we're, we're leaning in on there.
Speaker BAnd I will have to hire someone to do all that ironing, but I'm in on structured tailoring.
Speaker AAmazing.
Speaker AAmazing.
Speaker ABig, big dry cleaning bills coming up in 2026.
Speaker BI, I hope the dry cleaners are listening.
Speaker BYou guys should get on that and start advertising structured tailoring as the next trend.
Speaker BBut, um, all right.
Speaker BAnd I get to ask a lightning round question here.
Speaker BSo the Internet says 2016 is the new 2026.
Speaker BI'm sure you've seen this trend.
Speaker BWhat is one thing that was actually better in 2016 that you might bring back?
Speaker AI would say that I would bring back the Rihanna and Drake relationship because they made some incredible music together in 2016.
Speaker AAnd we're talking one dance.
Speaker AWe're talking work.
Speaker ALike, one of my favorite Rihanna songs, Work came out in 2016, and I was like, this, this is it.
Speaker AThis is it.
Speaker AWe need you two back together just for a collaboration.
Speaker AI doubt it's happening.
Speaker AShe has now three or four children, I think, with, with her current partner.
Speaker ASo not, not gonna, not gonna go forward.
Speaker ABut it's okay.
Speaker AWe'll.
Speaker AWe'll just reminisce and listen to.
Speaker AListen to work on replay this week.
Speaker BLike, work, work, work, work, work.
Speaker BThat's the one, right?
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker BYeah, I hear you.
Speaker BI didn't know where you were going to go with that question, but I like it.
Speaker AWant them back together.
Speaker AJust for a collaboration.
Speaker BIf you're listening, just do it for Anne.
Speaker CAnother reason I like doing this show because, like, would ask what would make my life better.
Speaker CIf we could go back to 2016, the last thing on my mind would be Rihanna and Drake.
Speaker CBut, hey, whatever works for you.
Speaker CAnd that's great.
Speaker AAll right.
Speaker CRobert Duvall passed away on Monday.
Speaker CJanet, age of 95.
Speaker CWhat is your Mount Rushmore of Robert films?
Speaker BGood question.
Speaker BI don't know if this is going to be a shocker, but I was not a big Robert Duvall fan to the point where I would know most of his movies.
Speaker BBut in his passing, it did come up with my husband.
Speaker BAnd so I have been informed, he was one of the coolest actors to ever live.
Speaker BSo if I had to name my four, I will go Lonesome Dove.
Speaker BIt's a cowboy movie.
Speaker BYeah, you can count that.
Speaker CIt's a TV movie, but TV miniseries.
Speaker CBut we'll count it.
Speaker CWe'll count it.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BWell, it's about the cowboys, right?
Speaker BI know his.
Speaker BI know his face and his sideburns, I think, from that phenomenon.
Speaker AOkay.
Speaker COh, all right.
Speaker BFour Christmases.
Speaker BBecause any Vince Vaughn movie is good in my book.
Speaker BAnd Days of Thunder Days.
Speaker COkay, okay.
Speaker CWe've got a Vince Vodafile in our.
Speaker CIn our midst.
Speaker CAll right, all right.
Speaker COh, man.
Speaker CAnd produce.
Speaker CI'm sure producer Ella.
Speaker CProducer Ella smiling in the background here before we bring her on, because I've always asked her all these movie questions, and she has no idea any of the references I make, but those are some solid picks.
Speaker CJen.
Speaker CThose are kind of far afield of where I expected you to go.
Speaker BDid I miss one?
Speaker BThat's, like, your top.
Speaker CWell, the one he's most hallowed for is the Godfather, of course.
Speaker CYeah.
Speaker CAnd then the one that I actually hold a sweet spot in my heart for is To Kill a Mockingbird, because he plays Boo Radley in that.
Speaker CIt's one of his first.
Speaker CFirst ever movie roles.
Speaker BAll right, Chris, I get to ask you one now.
Speaker BSo with the Winter Olympics in full swing, curling is having a moment.
Speaker BAt least at my house, it is.
Speaker BWhat'?
Speaker BThe most Minnesota winter sport you've ever, ever taken part in?
Speaker CYeah, I mean, believe it or not, for me, it's actually curling.
Speaker CI did that once, and it was actually.
Speaker CIt was pretty fun.
Speaker CI mean, you're in Michigan.
Speaker CHave you ever curled.
Speaker CJen, I'm curious.
Speaker CAnd also, did you see the fracas between the Canadians and the Swedish team?
Speaker CThat was.
Speaker CIf you haven't seen that on social media, everybody take A look at that.
Speaker CLike, there were F bombs exchanged between them.
Speaker CIt's pretty.
Speaker CIt's pretty intense.
Speaker BI have not curled.
Speaker BI've seen, like, curling things when it's winter here, and I just walk by them and smile.
Speaker BBut my.
Speaker BMy youngest was watching it with us, and she was like, mom, they're cleaning.
Speaker BLook at them.
Speaker BThey're cleaning again.
Speaker BSo it was fun in our house to learn a little bit about the scoring and such.
Speaker CThey're sweeping.
Speaker BSweeping.
Speaker CProducer Ella.
Speaker CHave you ever curled?
Speaker CYou're from Minnesota.
Speaker CYou've probably curled, right?
Speaker CYou haven't curled either, have you?
Speaker CCurled.
Speaker AOh, yeah.
Speaker AYou have to.
Speaker AThere used to be a curling club in St. Paul, so, yeah, like, a few years ago, I think it came.
Speaker AIt came like something in vogue to be doing, but it was not good.
Speaker AI. I just skipped right to hockey.
Speaker ANo, curling.
Speaker AThat was.
Speaker AThat was actually the girls equivalent that they suggested when I was in high school was, well, we're not gonna have a hockey team for women, so try curling.
Speaker ASee how that goes.
Speaker AIt was not the same at all.
Speaker BBut the hockey gender gap that I see.
Speaker AYes, there's a hockey gender gap.
Speaker A100%.
Speaker ANot anymore, but back then, yeah, it
Speaker Cbecame, like, the default, like, company activity for a period of time.
Speaker CRight.
Speaker CAnd, like, a lot of companies were having their, like, annual parties at the St. Paul, like, curling rink or whatever it's called.
Speaker BBut.
Speaker CAll right, well, good to know that two of us have curled and two of us have not.





