🎅🏻 Time to deck the halls and get your tinsel in a tangle, because we've got our official list of 2024's hottest but hardest-to-get tech toys! 

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🎁 Just like Spotify’s Wrapped, if Wrapped was any good
🍑 Tongue-in-cheeks fun for the whole family
✈️ Your ticket out of a state of despair
🧪 The last science kit you’ll ever give
🛞 Revealed: The Pink Panther, er, Jaguar EV

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🎄 Are those chatbots roasting on an open fire? Coca-Cola spreads holiday joy by kicking Santa to the curb using AI. Amazon Prime’s effort to bore subscribers to death with spoiler-free, AI-generated episode recaps. Plus a “Wicked” packaging face plant. From November 23. 

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🥤 Ho-ho-ho, or oh-hell-no? The backlash over the Real Thing’s holiday ad campaign (00:30)
📺 Amazon Prime promos yawn-inducing episode recaps generated by AI (03:25)
🧸 Toys tied to Universal’s latest movie release come with a “Wicked” surprise (at 05:28)

Approximately 7-minute, 54-second runtime. Review privacy and other usage policies for technologies and/or services through which you access this podcast. Episode contains audio, visuals, and/or other content developed using generative AI and/or other digital production tools.

❄️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. 

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😎 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.