🎅🏼 In a new Rick & Quick episode, the Ricks reveal their annual list of the hottest but hardest-to-get tech gifts for Holiday 2022. For the first time ever, a previous year's winner has returned to what is widely seen as the ultimate barometer of global holiday zeitgeist. Please accept our apologies in advance. From December 14, 2022. 

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The 3️⃣ Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Gifts for Holiday 2022:

🛻 #3: The gift described as "game-changing," "shatterproof," and "coming soon" continues to prove it isn't.

🐦 #2: Two nifty ways to kill one little blue bird.

🤓 #1: A lightweight headset that could give Meta Quest Pro a run for the money—at a fraction of the cost.

Approx. 3-minutes and 38-seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

💥 One Rick just got the new Meta Quest Pro. The other Rick has pressing questions. In this Rick and Quick episode, we capture some first impressions of Meta's premium-quality AR/VR headset and the premium price tag that comes with it. With Meta's VR division operating at a loss of more than $9 billion during the first three quarters of the year, could this $1,499 mixed-reality headset help turn things around? From Nov 5, 2022. 

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🤘🏻 Meta's new Quest Pro is here (at :28 seconds)
👾 Pro comes packed with pixels, processors, sensors & cameras galore (at :44)
🌀 Not just VR anymore: The Quest for mixed, augmented and virtual reality (at 1:05)
📦 Pro logistics: Started shipping on Tuesday, arrived on Wednesday (at 1:17 seconds)
👔 It's not just for games, either—Pro is serious business, too (at 1:35)
😵‍💫 But is all this heavy-duty technology light enough for all-day use? (at 2:10)
😎 Immersion tradeoff or trip-up: A view to a thrill—or your feet? (at 3:35)
🤯 Look out, James Cameron: Next-level facial tracking means expressive avatars
🤦🏻‍♂️ An engineering headcase: How (and where) does Pro fit? (at 4:02)
😶 The $1,499 question: Does Meta Quest Pro live up to its price? (at 4:42)

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🎙 Are the "4 P's of Marketing" due for an upgrade? Compound V from "The Boys" becomes a real-life energy drink. Nestlé uses AI to expand Vermeer's classic painting, "The Milk Maid." Brie Larson aims to marvel us with a cool new AR experience, and more.

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🍿 Wesley Snipes is fangs-up over the new "Blade" movie series (at 1 min, 07 sec)
🦇 Ready for a "Batman 4" starring Christian Bale? DC fans weigh in (at 2:09)
🦸🏻‍♂️ Hugh Jackman returns as Wolverine in "Deadpool 3," and everybody's here for it (at 3:15)
🎨 Nestlé uses AI-generated art to augment Vermeer's "The Milk Maid" (at 5:39)
🏋🏼‍♂️ Super powers on-tap? Compound V from "The Boys" is a new energy drink (at 8:06)
👁"Remembering" AR: Brie Larson is here to marvel us (at 9:12)
🛒 Is it time for the "4 P's of Marketing" to get a fifth "P"? (at 11:58)
🎅🏼 Up, down, or ?: Deloitte predicts Holiday 2022 retail & ecommerce sales (at 14:18)
👟 Just Do It: Nike races into the metaverse and "phygital" commerce (at 16:11)
🤨 Morning Consult: Moviegoers love the metaverse; most consumers have never heard of it (at 18:12)

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The Ricks are bowled over by the 2021 Ford Bronco. Burger King augments your sesame seed buns. Apple's "Underdogs" ask "Is everyone wearing pants" during video calls. "The Boys" whale of a season two trailer, and more. From August 2. 

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👍🏻One Rick tries out a new biometrics hack, and it doesn't end well (at :56-seconds)

🦹‍♂️The Boys Season 2 Trailer drops at the ComicCon that wasn't (at 2:23)

🐎The Ford Bronco is Back (Minus the Ford) (at 7:36)

🍎Apple's "Underdogs" are hit and miss on working from home (at 10:58)

🎤Burger King's augments your sesame seed buns (at 13:07)

🐔KFC's 3D Printed Chicken Nuggets * (at 14:38)

👨🏽‍💻CES 2021 pulls a ComicCon@Home (at 15:29)

🍕Is Domino's Noid back on the prowl? (at 16:46)

Approx. 18-min, 15-sec. For US audiences.

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DIY audio deepfakes. Tinder's new choose-your-own-adventure streaming series. The new app that tells you if the people texting you are being flirtatious, or if you're strictly friendzone. Plus more. 

IN THIS EPISODE: 

💥 JJ Abrams enters the Spider-verse, with a little help from his son (at 48 seconds)

😍 Flirt-worthy, or strictly friendzone? A new app scans your text conversations to find out (at 2 min, 52 sec)

🙅🏻‍♂️ A new app allows you to create audio deepfakes of yourself—so what could go wrong? (at 4:51)

☕️ Is it Pumpkin Spice—or poison? And did a 23-year-old woman just find out the hard way? (at 5:58)

💏 Swipe left or right? Tinder's new choose-your-own-adventure-style streaming series (at 8:02)

🥤 Shake a Coke and a Smile: New Coke cans trigger cool new augmented reality experiences (at 9:18)

🎧 Thanks to Google algorithm updates, podcasts are the new webpage (at 13:03)

📰 What those Google algorithm changes mean to news aggregators may be bad news

🛒 Which generation has the most ethical shoppers? Spoiler alert: It's not the Boomers

🎅🏼 It's still summer, so of course these two brands are already running Christmas ads

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Approx 17 min, 34 sec.

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🎯 The Joker steals the show at the Venice Film Festival. KFC's new dating simulator game seems seriously creepy. The very different Coke Challenge could land you in jail. And is it time to say, "Oh, Thank Heaven for iPhone 11?" Plus a whole lot more.

In This Episode:

🏖 One Rick gets to enjoy "Rio" … (at :45 sec)

💣 … While the other Rick gets a "View to a Kill" (at 1 min :30 sec)

🤖 Weekly poll: "Terminator: Dark Fate" vs. "Zombieland: Double Tap" (at 2:16)

🃏 No fooling: "The Joker" takes Venice—is he gunning for an Oscar next? (at 3:45)

🍎 Eleven sent: The iPhone's goes bionic (at 5:30)

👃🏻 A very different kind of Coke Challenge is nothing to sneeze at (at 7:26)

🕹 From the WTAF Dept: The new dating simulator game from KFC (8:48)

🤡 BK's new AR game helps you "Escape the Clown" (at 9:30)

🍺 Now you can own your Bud Light Victory Fridge (at 10:45)

🍗 Popeye's goes BYOB: Bring Your Own Bun (12:00)

😶 Quick: Name the latest brand to 86 its logo (at 13:35)

🎾 Mercedes serves up voice and AR tech to score big (at 14:58)

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Approx. 17 minutes

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Just when you think Burger King can't top the crowning glory of last year's Whopper Detour campaign promoting its mobile app, it pulls off a battle royal from within its chief rival's own stores. 

Last year, BK won countless awards for geo-targeting offers for a 1-cent Whopper to customers who come within 800 feet of a McDonald's (see the success story below). But BK Germany may have upped the ante—again. 

In a cross promotion celebrating the release of "It Chapter Two," Burger King is using advertising on Facebook and Twitter to invite consumers to download its mobile app and scan a review of "It" within a movie magazine McDonald's distributes in-store.

According to The Drum, when consumers download the app, they're able to play an augmented reality-enabled mobile game that displays a "flee and run" route to the nearest BK. If they make it there within a certain amount of time, they're able to buy a Whopper for just one cent. 

It's just the latest in the kind of inventive campaigns that helped BK clean up at this year's Cannes Lions Advertising Festival—and at the cash register. And in truth, BK's unorthodox philosophy about marketing has been on display as far back as its work with CPB Group.

With this brilliantly devious cross-promotion, the QSR might just win "Creative Brand of the Year" for a second year in a row. 

What really went down at the Taco Bell Hotel. Our Summer '19 Box Office Scorecard. Why YouTube seems to think robots deserve animal rights. Spidey's future with the MCU, and more. From Sept 2.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🕷 Did Spidey Really Get Spiked From the MCU? (at 2 min, :30 sec)

👀 Why We're All Cyber-stalkers Now (5:55)

🤖 Why YouTube Thinks Robots Deserve Animal Rights (7:28)

🌮 What Really Went Down at the Taco Bell Hotel (9:17)

🌐 Enter: The Holo-sphere (11:34)

🎬 The Battle to Rank Among the Top 10 Movies of 2019 (14:33)

⚔️ What movie ranked dead last in the top 100 movies this summer? (15:30)

🍅 Which of these movies got the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes this summer (16:03)

🦈 Which summer 2019 movie tried to be this year's "Meg"? (16:48)

Approx. 18 min, 25 sec.

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The Ricks discuss Amazon Prime's superhero satire, "The Boys." Super-sized Lucky Charms marshmallows are coming to a s'more near you. The Banana Splits are back—in a gory new, R-rated movie. McDonald's McFizz cups are getting double takes for all the wrong reasons. "Friends" gets its own LEGO set, and a whole lot more. From August 27.

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IN THIS EPISODE

👨‍🏫 The Ricks talk Back to School and pre-Internet gaming in the good old days (at :25 sec)

🗓  The Ricks have a big milestone coming up (at 1 min, 40 sec)

🧜‍♀️ It's summertime, so of course Pumpkin Spice Lattes are already back (at 2:00)

🥤Remembering McDonald's Shamrock Shakes of yesteryear (at 2:32)

🍌The Banana Splits are back, in an very violent, R-rated horror flick (at 3:35)

📺  Why you need to drop everything & watch "The Boys" on Amazon Prime (at 5:08)

🥛 Did somebody say McWTF? McFizz is an unintentional eye-opener (at 9:00)

😸"Friends": Old TV comes with perks—LEGO's Central Perk Playset (at 10:13)

🥣 Lucky Charms Jet-Puffed Marshmallows: Magically Delicious? (at 11:20)

🚀 "Star Wars Barbie" rocks the geek look—for an out-of-this-world price (at 12:34)

📸 Instagram and WhatsApp get new names (at 14:13)

📱 Verizon sells Tumbler to Automattic … for how little? (at 15:05)

🦸🏻‍♂️  Look who's coming to CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" (at 15:52)

Approx. 17:05. For US audiences. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services.