❄️A design blunder for Bath & Bodyworks. Lays brings back five fan-favorite flavors. The Ricks have fun with AI headshots and AI Snapchat filters. Why short-form social video is the most effective tool for B2B high-tech marketers. Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend. Loaded questions and more. From November 3. 

IN THIS EPISODE:
😎 Rick W’s big week with AI LinkedIn headshots (at 01:23)
🤖 Rick M cracks himself up with AI Snapchat filters (02:41)
😱 Rick W one-ups that with blue hair and tattoos (03:12)
🙏 F*cks Given: Nun? Is there a future for Netflix’s smash hit Warrior Nun? (03:50)
🥶 Snowflakes-cum-design fail: The “Clandles” at Bath & Bodyworks (06:00)
🎬 Bite-size brilliance: the power of short-form social videos in B2B high-tech marketing (07:48)
😋 Mountain Dew-flavored Lays & Oreo Coke Zero: a specialty flavor flare-up—or out? (10:30)
🤪 Heinz à Deux? Ketchup brand’s “Ha-Ha-Ha” leaves the Ricks asking, “W-T-F?” (15:23)
🧢 Hi-Chew has a bizarre new mascot…and the Ricks have questions (16:43)
📈 Doing the numbers on Election 2024’s staggering digital ad spend (18:14)

Approx. 19 minutes, 55 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services. Episode intro, commercials, and artwork created with generative AI tools.

🃏 Joker: Folie à Dud. Wendy’s McTrolls Mickey D’s over its McBroken McFlurry machines. Generative AI-created podcasts that’ll blow your mind. Plus: Loaded Questions and a whole lot more. From October 21. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🎃 Halloween trick-or-treating? Or neighborhood booze crawl?
🃏 Joker: Folie à Dud: A bat flop with an intriguing climax?
💀 Rick W. scores a super-sized Home Depot skeleton—but how to get it home?
👻 ‘Inside Out,’ All Over: 2024’s top Halloween costumes, according to Google
🎅🏻 From spooks to Santa: Spirit Halloween is extending its brand to what holiday?
🎙️ The GenAI-generated, multi-host podcast that’ll blow your mind
🥶 Plunge to your Death for just $5,999: How top brands collab and chill
🍦 One brand’s misfortune is another brand’s McTrolling opportunity
🎂 Pass-around party pastry: Why 73 is the new 60 for Pop-Tarts
📢 Google may not be tossing cookies, but it may not be able to keep this
☢️ Cheetos cheetle orange-yellow cheese dust brings transparency to what?

Approx. 20 minutes, 8 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

Doritos "Crash the Super Bowl" returns after nearly a decade. How content marketing conquered the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Why digital payments are emerging as a key element of B2B brand building. Plus: What the heck did a bag of dropped Cheetos' Cheetle do to the Carlsbad Caverns? From October 12. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🎉 The Ricks' return for an all-new season (at 01:11)
🧛 Alien: Romulus, Salem's Lot, Evil & More: Horror that's hitting the Ricks' radar (05:00)
👑 Content's coronation at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival (09:12)
🔻 Doritos revives its popular "Crash the Super Bowl" user-generated ad contest (11:14)
💵 Why digital payments are becoming a key element of B2B brand building (12:51)
☢️ Why dropped Cheetos' had a world-changing impact on the Carlsbad Caverns (15:50)
🔎 In the age of generative AI, organic search traffic is in for some stuff (17:52)
🕵🏻‍♂️ A surprising look at changing consumer search behaviors (18:51)

Approx. 21 minutes, 7 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

🖖🏼 From Star Trek: The Original Series to Strange New Worlds and beyond: Guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to discuss ComicCon 2024's Hall H announcements about what's next for Star Trek—and why the good ship Enterprise wouldn't have ever left the ground without…Lucille Ball? From October 12. 

IN THIS EPISODE

👽 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to talk about Trek's Hall H takeover (01:17)
📢 Announcements on Lower Decks, Starfleet Academy, and Section 31 (01:20)
👁️‍🗨️ Star Struck: Rick M. sings his status report on Strange New Worlds (02:29)
🪐 Taking risks: What makes Strange New Worlds so great (03:00)
🎬 Pike, Uhura, Chapel, Spock, Scotty & M'benga finally get their due (04:09)
🧑🏻‍🦰 For the love of Lucy: Why Star Trek fans owe thanks to Lucille Ball (05:56)
⌛️ Cool–but who the hell is Lucille Ball? An explainer for Gens Z & Alpha (7:04)
🎥 Bold broad: Starring in a Top 10 TV show, running a major studio (08:31)
🧠 Too "cerebral"—how Lucy put her vision where her mouth was (09:00)
📺 How Desi Arnaz invented the sitcom—and syndication (10:11)
🛸 Beam us up, Scotty: We don't want to miss Season Six (10:34)

⚡️ Comic-Con Correspondents Eric V and Kurt Ho join Rick and Rick to talk San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Get the lowdown on the year's cosplay crazes (looking at you, Deadpool), buzziest announcements (looking at you, Robert Downey Jr), exclusive collectibles, brand activations, and more from geekdom's largest annual event. Plus: A Comic-Con edition of Loaded Questions!

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IN THIS EPISODE

😎 The Ricks catch up during a first-ever summer hiatus (at 01:01)

🤩 Did the Ricks make the cover of the official Comic-Con program? (02:40)

💥 Welcoming Kurt Ho & Eric V back to the show (03:21)

🎪 Nearly 20 years of Comic-Con memories and a friendship double that (0:3:580

🧲 Crowd control as attendees hit peak capacity (04:30)

✅ The new rules of scoring Funko, Hasbro exclusives (06:40)

🤖 Fembots, Optimus Prime, Mirror Uhura, and "Marvel Jesus" (07:37)

🎰 Is Comic-Con leaving for Las Vegas—or LA Convention Center? (11:55)

👩🏾‍🎨 Fandom: Catching comics creators and actors while you can (12:46)

📺 X-Men 97, Batman, Star Trek, Green Lantern, and more (13:45)

🥤 Brand activations from Mt. Dew, Google Play—and a Guinness-winning Galactus (15:00)

🚀 Hunting artwork: Transformers, GI Joe, and the Space Battleship Yamato (16:14)

📣 The Hall H Buzz Machine: From the Fantastic Four to Secret Wars & Beyond (18:20)

🎬 Doom patrol: Recycling Marvel actors—good, bad, or WTF? (19:01)

🍿 Rick M joins Kurt and Eric for "Deadpool and Wolverine" (21:20)

🧛🏿‍♂️ Blade beats Wolverine for a World Record (or two) (22:27)

🐧 The Boys, Thor Transforms, the Penguin rises, Avengers & more (24:02)

🐙 "Batman: Caped Crusader" busts up a storm—but is Robin toast? (25:40)

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ERIC V AND KURT HO

Approx. 27 minutes, 13 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

It's the epic conclusion of our Loaded Questions quiz game commemorating the Season 5 finale of Rick and Rick Rule the World. From May 27. 

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IN THIS EPISODE

🥰 Cuffing Season pickup lines from ChatGPT
📺 Revisiting the Writer's Strike and what it means for Hollywood and GenAI
🔍 Google penalizing websites with content generated with AI
🎁 The Year's Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Toys
🛍️ Why retailers should consider a fifth "P" of marketing
🫠 Rick W. admits discomfort with repping California, vampire romances & more
🎨 Nestle leverages generative AI with an eye for famous works of art
🙀 Was "The Scream" really made for the dogs? The Internet has thoughts
🤭 More side-splitting sound bites and gut-busting bloopers from our first 5 seasons

Approx. 28 minutes. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

📣 It's time for an epic round of Loaded Questions as we revisit news, views, bloopers, and bust-ups from Season 5 of the #1 podcast on marketing, media, tech, and pop-culture. From May 2. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

⁉️ The Ricks' super-sized fifth season gets a blow-out edition of Loaded Questions (at 00:30)
🌎 The Ricks chef's-kiss faithful listeners who have made the show a global sensation (at 01:30)
🍔 Boring Burger? Elmo's Ketamine Cuisine? What's next for Elon Musk? (at 02:13)
🧱 Whit Hiler of Ad Age 'Small Agency of the Year' on landing LegoLand Resorts (at 03:16)
🤖 The Creative Algorithm, Agency Affirmations from ChatGPT—and She-Hulk? (at 4:37)
💥 Riddler-sticks: Move over generative AI, "The Batman" has you beat (at 05:58)
🥤 Tasty refresh, or same-old, same-old? The biggest brand identity move from the past year (at 06:42)
🎙️ Rick M's disastrous discography expands for a fifth straight season (our apologies) (at 08:25)
🏈 Ad Bowl gouging—or bargain? How much for those 30-second Super Bowl spots again? (at 10:18)
🦑 Mr. Beast busts a move—but is his game show really ready for Prime time? (at 12:09)
🍕 Lays Fingertip Washing Machine, Hasbro Selfie Action Figures & Dominos' telekinetic orders(at 14:00)
🤣 Hilarious sound bites and bodacious bloopers from the first five seasons of Rick and Rick (at 18:48)

Approx. 24 minutes, 20 seconds. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

Will X die before year's end? If it survives, will Elon Musk still own it? In the conclusion of their big 2024 Trend Watch episode, the Ricks pose some provocative questions about the network formally known as Twitter, the rise of machine customers, shoppable streaming, and more. From Mar 17. 

IN THIS EPISODE

😎 No more prognosticating about "The Year of AR and VR"? (at 00:43)
📺 Streaming Consolidation: fait accompli? Or just wishful thinking? (01:15)
🛍️ Netflix & Shill: Shortening the path-to-purchase via "shoppable streaming" (04:34)
🇺🇸 ChatGPT for President? F*ckers finding out (05:29)
❌ Will the X where Twitter used to be survive 2024? Will Musk still own it? (06:18)
🤖 Shopping by proxy: The rise of machine customers (at 08:46)
🌎 2024 global ad spend—all the world's a game, billboard, or car (at 11:25)
📊 Today's fastest-growing brands—depending on how you define "brand" (13:04)

Approx. 16 minutes. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

🔮 Will social media fatigue take hold in an election year? What happens when brands discover one LLM isn't enough to achieve their generative AI ambitions? And is OpenAI in for a rebrand? In part two of our big 2024 Trends Watch episode, a look at the the trends taking shape and what they mean in the months ahead. From March 3. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

🤖 Generative AI: Why LLMs limp on their own—and why DLMs may be part of the answer (at 00:42)
📛 Branding: Is OpenAI in for a rebrand? Two possible identity options hit the surface (04:34)
🎈 Social media: Are we going from FOMO to JOMO (the Joy of Missing Out)? (05:30)
🌭 Weiner alert: What if Elon Musk launched the Tesla of … luncheon meat brands? (07:25)

Approx. 8 minutes, 8 seconds. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

🔮 Will TikTok take the lead in social commerce in 2024, or is unexpected competition in the everything-app department just a tap away? And what happens to SEO when search engines become Generative AI-enabled answer engines—and is your brand ready for what that does to site traffic (and MQLs)? From February 24. 

IN THIS EPISODE:

👀 What happens when SEO changes to AIEO (AI Engine Optimization)? (at 01:37)
…And how might social media "search" marketing help ease the pain? (at 02:48)
💩 Who's the boss? Phillips Laxative vs. Taco Bell (at 07:54)
👏🏻 Will social media apps become "everything apps"? And who will lead the way? (at 08:33)
💣 Our prediction on what Chris Nolan reveals when "Oppenheimer" wins Best Picture (at 11:07)

Approx. 11 minutes, 45 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.