Lightning Round: Neon Coat, Southwest Airlines & A Salute To Theo Huxtable | Fast Five Shorts
This week on the Omni Talk Retail Fast Five podcast, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Simbe, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Infios, and Clear Demand, Chris and Anne tackle rapid-fire retail topics in their signature Lightning Round.
From influencer marketing apps to airline policy changes and restaurant relocations, get quick takes on the week's most interesting retail and consumer stories that are shaping industry trends.
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All right, Chris, let's go to the lightning round.
Speaker AQuestion number one, you probably already know about this app, but Neon Coach is an app for influencers with 5000 or more followers that provides free perks to 1500 restaurants, services, and experiences.
Speaker AChris, if you were asked to be on this app or approved to be on Neon Coach, or perhaps you already are, what would you want free access to?
Speaker BDoes this include LinkedIn followers?
Speaker BAnd because I'm curious, like, I mean, I don't know how this works.
Speaker AI am not certain, but I think we could qualify.
Speaker BYes.
Speaker BLet's apply.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BI mean, my number one is I love movies.
Speaker BAnd, you know, I love movies.
Speaker BAmc.
Speaker BI want the free AMC movie pass.
Speaker BLike, I want to be able to see whatever movie I want.
Speaker BYou know, my.
Speaker BMy dream job is.
Speaker BActually, I haven't told you this.
Speaker BMy dream job is to stop what we're doing and become a movie reviewer.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker BTo do that would be amazing, but.
Speaker AWhat is stopping you?
Speaker AJust get it going on the side.
Speaker BChris, I'm time.
Speaker BYeah, time.
Speaker BBut I saw Superman.
Speaker BI loved it.
Speaker BAnd I went to the movie theater.
Speaker BI saw it.
Speaker BIt was great.
Speaker BAnd I miss going to the movies.
Speaker BI just miss it.
Speaker BAnd, you know, partly because it's so expensive, too.
Speaker BIt's not affordable.
Speaker AYou're one of the myth.
Speaker AYou're one of the myth blockbusters that Ethan Chernofsky was talking about last week to the movie.
Speaker B100%.
Speaker BI am.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BYou can't beat it.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BMy kids hated it, but I loved it.
Speaker BAll right.
Speaker BSouthwest Airlines passengers will fly into science seats for the first time on January 27, the carrier told CNBC this week.
Speaker BAnd I'm curious.
Speaker BI don't know which way you're going to go on this one, too.
Speaker BDoes the.
Speaker BThe announcement of a signed seating at Southwest Airlines make you more or less likely want to fly swa?
Speaker AI.
Speaker AYou know what?
Speaker AIf I'm not flying Delta, I don't.
Speaker AI have zero expectations for that flight.
Speaker AI'm just happy I get to the place that I'm going to go.
Speaker ASo it doesn't matter to me one bit.
Speaker AI mean, I was never a big fan of the Southwest onboarding thing anyway.
Speaker AThought it actually caused more confusion.
Speaker ASo I.
Speaker AThat's fine with me.
Speaker AI don't mind.
Speaker ADoesn't make one bit of difference.
Speaker ADo you care?
Speaker BCrazy to me, though.
Speaker BWhat?
Speaker BWell, it's.
Speaker BI don't know if.
Speaker BI don't know if I care as a passenger, but I care as a business.
Speaker BLike, there are Whole operational cases at the like.
Speaker BI can remember many, many operational business school cases about Southwest Airlines and why they operate the way they do.
Speaker BAnd now they just seem like they're becoming another also ran airline in all of their policies.
Speaker BAnd so I just can't figure out for the life of me why they're going in that direction.
Speaker AAll right, well, let's go to number three, Chris.
Speaker AIn and Out President Lindsey Snyder told reporters that she is moving her family out of California because living and working there has become too difficult.
Speaker AAs someone who now considers himself a Minnesotan, what would you do to try to sell Lindsay as the number one reason to move her family and In N Out headquarters to.
Speaker ATo Minnesota or somewhere in the Midwest?
Speaker BWow, that's a tough sell.
Speaker BNumber one, I think, well, it wouldn't be the Juicy Lucy's.
Speaker BAnd I don't think I could sell the Juicy Lucy's, which for those unfamiliar with the Juicy Lucy's is a hamburger with cheddar cheese packed inside it.
Speaker BSo when you bite into it, it melts and burns the hell out of your mouth.
Speaker BBecause honestly, In N Out can beat a Juicy Lucy any day of the week.
Speaker BSo I wouldn't say that, but I, you know, can I.
Speaker BLet me ask you a question.
Speaker BAnd can I say the warm, inviting, and passive aggressive nature of Minnesotans.
Speaker BDo you see what I did there?
Speaker AI did.
Speaker AI did.
Speaker AYou could say that.
Speaker AI don't think that gets us closer to an in and out in Minneapolis, but I think that would be.
Speaker AThat might be one way of trying to get.
Speaker ATo get her and her family to pick Minneapolis over Nashville, I think, is where they're going.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BNashville.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BGood choice.
Speaker BGood choice, by the way, Lindsay.
Speaker BI like it.
Speaker BAll right, last one is kind of sad news.
Speaker BAnd Malcolm Jamal Warner sadly passed away this past week.
Speaker BWhat is your fondest memory of Theo Huxtable?
Speaker AOh, that was so awful.
Speaker AHe drowned in Costa Rica.
Speaker ARight?
Speaker BThat was terrible.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAnother guy.
Speaker BAnother guy's in critical condition.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AOh, my God.
Speaker AI would say I had to go back to the archives because I couldn't remember his character.
Speaker AI remember watching him and having a fondness for him.
Speaker AI couldn't remember a specific memory.
Speaker ASo one of the videos that I watched was when his sister Robin brings.
Speaker AOr, sorry, his sister Denise brings Robin Givens.
Speaker AI forget her character on the show, but he brings her and he, like, is trying to, like, put the moves on and his shirt progressively just keeps unbuttoning more and more.
Speaker AAnd then her boyfriend comes like, oh, it was so good.
Speaker AJust, like, classic Theo trying to impress Robin Givens, who's just, like, Badass B, you know?
Speaker AIt was great.
Speaker BYeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker BNo, there's so many great memories with him, for sure.
Speaker BEven the pilot episode, you know, where he.
Speaker BHis dad's, like, showing him the budget with Monopoly money, and his dad's like, so you can have a girlfriend, and he just, like, rips the money out of his hand.
Speaker BI just love.
Speaker BI just love that.