Lightning Round: Luxury Hotels, Valentine’s Spending & McNugget Caviar | Fast Five Shorts

All right, well, let's go to the lightning round. Joe, you get this first question. According to the Financial Times, despite a slowdown in luxury goods, the world's luxury hotel market is booming and they've been able to increase prices as a result. Joe, what's the nicest hotel that you've ever stayed in? Well, I'm very tempted to lie and say it was the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi where we had Shop Talk Lux two weeks ago, but Shop Talk did not put us up there. They put us up at another five-star hotel across the street that was much cheaper, but not quite as nice as the Emirates Palace on Gabi. So nicest hotel, actually, when I was very young in the early 2000s, the company I worked for put on a conference at the Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam, which was my first trip to continental Europe in my life. The first time I'd ever stayed at like a hotel that fancy. It is literally a palace from the 1860s on the Amstel River in Amsterdam. am you imagine me like this 20 something kid off an overnight flight like groggy and i get there and like they're like oh sir we do not have a room for you but have a cappuccino in our solarium and it was the first time in my life i'd ever been treated quite that nice and it's been the benchmark ever since that sounds like the way to go i mean i don't think anyone's ever said the word solarium to me directly uh joe so i think i think you're winning i didn't know where it was i was I was like oh we what Yeah I be like wait what a solarium An aquarium What Yeah All right This next one I very proud of this next question Joe U downhiller Lindsey Vonn suffered a complex tibia fracture at the Olympics on Sunday Oh, it's a terrible crash. The tibia excluded, however. What is your favorite bone in the human body? My favorite bone is the hyoid bone. It's spelled H-Y-O-I-D. Not many people know about it. It's a little like crescent shaped bone in your throat that like your tongue and your larynx kind of all depend on it being there and intact so that you can talk and swallow and speak and whatnot. And fun fact, it is the only bone that is not connected to any other bone. It just is in there floating by itself, making our throats do what they do. So, and I appreciate that because I talk a lot. Oh my God. Did you just know this off the top of your head? Like what? I did a little research when you previewed the questions to me. Oh my God. Oh my God. That's crazy. wow good to know joe what's it called hyoid h-y-o-i-d the hyoid spelled it even spelled it out for us okay thanks joe the more you know i thought joe'd go with the humorous but no he went with the hyoid so you know you'd ask what the funniest boat in the body is i suppose i would have but yeah oh my gosh i'm gonna save us from these jokes uh all right question number three Brits are expected to spend 2 8 billion pounds this year on Valentine day up 7 from last year according to a study by Parcel Hero Joe what is the best Valentine gift you ever given or received Received, not an especially romantic gift, but a first edition of Frank Herbert's Dune, which is one of my favorite books of all time. And it was just really thoughtful that somebody sought out, you know, kind of one of the first copies that came off the printing presses back in the 1960s and gifted it to me about like 15 or 20 years ago, but I still remember it. Oh my gosh. That's so special. Very thoughtful gift. And Joe, do you have a digital copy of that book too? No, I have several physical copies of it, including that one, which just sits on the shelf because I'm not going to like touch that one, but I have a readable copy. Yeah. The classics have a different place. All right. Last one. McDonald's is offering a few customers, a special Valentine's day meal this year, chicken McNuggets and caviar. Joe, where do you come down on caviar first? And second, would you eat McNugget caviar? Caviar, in my opinion, is overrated. If it wasn't really associated with rich people and super expensive, nobody would bother with it. My first thought when McNugget caviar came up, I mean, okay, sorry. I didn't realize that would be like controversial. Please disagree with me if you're a caviar aficionado. No I love caviar though but that crazy Wow Okay Nice You you not a big fan All right Just like little little black salty briny things like i feel like there other ways to get that flavor that don cost thousands and thousands of dollars and involve killing sturgeon um and then mcnugget caviar when like i first saw that phrase i was like is that just chicken eggs like is it but it's not right it's it's a little chicken nuggets and a side of caviar yeah there's a caviar is calling it McNugget caviar. Yeah. It's like the potato chip. You know, you have, you have the potato chip, the creme fraiche and the caviar on top, except instead of that chip, it's going to be a chicken McNugget. I guess why not? Um, if somebody put it in front of me and it would be rude not to, I would certainly eat it, but I would not like hit reload a thousand times on the McNugget caviar website in the hopes of getting one of the very small number of them they produced. And would you eat McNugget caviar? Would you eat caviar that you procured at McDonald's? I 100% right? Yeah, I would I would say let's do it. I mean, you and I are both caviar. Maybe the caviar will become a thing. Yeah, they'll just sort of add it to the regular menu. Not the dollar menu. That's not unfortunately, that's not probably going to happen. Or would you eat caviar a chicken nugget caviar dollar version? That is another question. No, no, no. That sounds very dangerous. No, according to Joe, too many sturgeons would be harmed in the production of that item. Maybe you'd find some other fish. Salmon roe, I guess, I don't know.