Lightning Round: Irish Sports, Retail Nightmares & Halloween Costumes | Fast Five Shorts

Speaker A: If you could pick only one. I'm going full on Irish here. If you could pick only one. So there's probably like 5% of our audience that's going to be interested in your answer this question. But I'm doing it anyway. I'm doing anyway. This one's for me, Martin. If you can only pick one, Gaelic football or hurling, which one are you riding and dying with?

Speaker B: Uh, I'll go, uh, so, by the way, ga, it's called the ga. Uh, so the GA is an amazing institution here in Ireland. The largest, um, unpro, uh, sport in the world that has a finals day of an attendance of 92, 000 on finals day for both the foot ga football and the GA hurling. Ah. So it's called the football and the, the hurling. Um, I would push towards football, uh, because my kids, uh, I would, my kids play. Um, but yeah, an unbelievable institution here in Ireland and it is a global night. There's teams, there's GAD teams in, uh, New York and, and Boston, etc. So it's, it's getting around the world and I see why. It's unbelievable. It truly is unbelievable for a, for a non professional sport. Unbelievable.

Speaker A: Yeah. One of my greatest days of my life, it was in the early 2000s when I watched, I got up at like 6 in the morning and watched Galway play Carrie in the daily football final. And it was just one of the most memorable days I've ever had. So,

Speaker B: uh, okay, well, bear in mind, it's Halloween, uh, this weekend. Um, uh, I think it's probably important for a Halloween question. So which retailer would you be dressed up as in Halloween and why?

Speaker A: Oh, my God. Uh, well, the scariest costume I can think of off the top of my head would be to go as a Target executive, particularly in my neighborhood. I think it would freak out, freak out all the existing Target executives. It definitely would freak out their PR team if I went and posed as a Target executive for the night. That would be amazing. I love, I would love to do that too, Bart. Oh my God, man. Maybe I may have to change my costume plan ideas. All right, next one. What is the scariest Halloween movie of all time in your mind, Martin? Or even the best Halloween scary movie horror movie of all time?

Speaker B: I think you can't get away from Freddy, if I'm honest with you.

Speaker A: Really?

Speaker B: Yeah.

Speaker A: Really?

Speaker B: Yeah. I don't know if it's this, this side of the pond, but it was a huge splash and again, maybe my age, uh, at the same time, but it was a Huge. I understand as much scarier movies since then. E. But you've asked me the one that resonates, so it needs to resonate from my generation. So I would say the Freddy's. Uh, one very unique, very mass market at the time and very scary. So I'm going to go with the Freddy's. Um, but that could

Speaker A: be a reflection

Speaker B: of my generation.

Speaker A: Yeah, no, definitely, definitely. Nightmare on Elm Street. That's a grab. That's a grab. I think that's your generation and where you reside, my friend.

Speaker B: So, again, stick to Halloween. Uh, okay. You've worked in retail. Uh, tell me the scariest time in retail. And it doesn't need to be specific to Halloween, but it is a Halloween themed. Tell me, uh, the scariest thing you've done or had done in retail.

Speaker A: Oh, my God. I think I've shared this, but it's been a while. Um, the scariest thing that I've ever done inside of a retail store was work. Black Friday crowd control in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I, I was the district manager. I show up, we were going around all our stores just to make sure everything was okay. And I show up and let's just say things weren't going well. So me and a couple other folks on the leadership team, we decided to pitch in and I had to get the crowd like wrangled, you know, for the line that was starting to form. And let's just say I was not doing a good job of it. And uh, and fortunately this cop comes in and saves me. That. He's like, man, good thing I was here. I was like, yes, it was, sir. Yes. It was like he got everybody in line step, you know, because they're going to listen to him versus me. It just red, red shirt, khaki pants, no matter what I was doing. And he saved my life to this day. That was, I was like, actually legitimately, like, scared of how this was going to go at that point.

Speaker B: The reason why I asked this question, and I'm

Speaker A: going

Speaker B: to give you, I'm going to give

Speaker A: you.

Speaker B: Which will make it, make it more funny is, um, I still remember it was Halloween weekend. It wasn't Halloween. It was the night before Halloween. And in Lidl. And this is olden days. So caveat and legal disclaimer. This is olden days. But, uh, Lidl area managers used to do a late check. So they would sit outside the. Yes, they would sit outside the store and wait until, uh, the store staff come out and then they would come in and then do a check off the merchandising. Did they close the store correctly? Yeah. Ah, yeah. So again, this is all. It's all okay. It doesn't happen anymore. Just for

Speaker A: the

Speaker B: audience. Doesn't happen anymore. And I was a training area manager, but running a store. So I was the one that was closing the store, and the area manager was obviously outside. I didn't know. He was obviously outside waiting. But because, uh, we were. Knew, uh, each other very well. He was a trainee area manager six months before me and my area manager, and I was a trainee area manager. So he had me under his wing. We all come out. There's four of us that come out, including, uh, me as a trainee, uh, and he jumps out with the mask on. And the three others bolted up the car park, because, again, it was probably about. It was probably about 10:30 at night. Close the store at 8.

Speaker A: Oh, my God,

Speaker B: 10:30 at night, pitch black. And he put the mask on for a bit of fun. And thankfully, he shouted that my name as they bolted. So I stayed. But, yeah, that was the reminder of the good old Lecheck, which doesn't exist anymore, just to be clear. And the fact that it was. Was a bit of a Halloween scare. But certainly I remember training.

Speaker A: Oh, my God. As we're training stories here, you know, at the end of the show, like, the other thing. The other thing I thought about as you asked me that question was it wasn't the scariest moment for me, but the scariest moment for my team was when I was learning how to drive a forklift. And I literally ran the forklift into the. Into the. You know, the racks in the back room, almost collapsing the entire back room. So, like me and heavy machinery. Martin, from that day forward, if, you know you're not touching it, you're not touching it. So

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