🔮 Our 2022 Predictions Scorecard, Pick-Up Lines From ChatGPT, 'The Volume' & More

In our annual Predictions Scorecard episode, the Ricks revisit their big predictions for the year—what they got right, what they got ridiculously wrong, in the worlds of marketing, media, tech and pop culture. Plus: Cuffing Season pick-up lines generated by ChatGPT, Netflix's "1899" cranks up "The Volume," and a whole lot more. From December 28, 2022. 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

📖 Rick M sends Rick W a "Die Hard" children's holiday gift book (at 1-min 57-sec)
🎬 "1899" on Netflix cranks up "The Volume" (at 3:25)
🦶🏼 Rick M's predictions about a Lotrimin-branded NFT (at 5:00)
📺 Overly-optimistic about box office, but nailing streaming(at 5:48)
🏢 Mixed results on predictions for the hybrid workforce (at 7:37)
📈 Adding a "D" for "Democracy" to ESG Funds? Not yet (at 9:46)
🦠 "What Covid?" by Summer & return to lockdowns by Fall? (at 10:50)
0️⃣ Nailing the # of Tesla Cybertrucks delivered in 2022 (at 12:36)
🌐 Metaverse: Boom time or empty & sad virtual worlds? (at 13:37)
🤖 ChatGPT's best pick-up lines come with warnings (at 17:35)
🤬 Survey says: "The gift that keeps on grating" (at 19:52)
🏈 Look who's advertising in Super Bowl LVII (at 20:48)

Approx. 22 minutes and 20 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🎅🏼 2022's Fastest Growing Brands, Zonkey Hits The Dictionary, Taika Waititi's Big Christmas & More

🎄 Is Tesla hitting full-throttle—or stuck in reverse? In this all-new episode, the Rick's review the hits and misses on Interbrand's new Fastest-Growing Brands list. James Bond enjoys a Belvedere Christmas while Amazon shows us how "Joy is Made"—courtesy of Taika Waititi. "Adulting" and "zonkey" make the Scrabble dictionary. Plus: Cyberquad gets ditched. And Cheetos' cheese dust gets a name—along with a hilarious holiday gift launch. From Dec 4, 2022. 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

⛳️ Rick M. suffers a mishap on the back nine (at 1 min, 30 sec)
🎸 Rick W. parties at the 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (at 3:12)
📖 "Embiggen" & "Zonkey" make the Scrabble Dictionary (at 5:16)
🏆 Interbrand's 2022 Fastest-Growing Brands(at 6:40)
⛄️ Taika Waititi delivers Amazon's "Joy" ...
🍸... and helps James Bond bust a move for Belvedere (at 10:02)
👩🏾‍🔬 What's tripping up marketing in the metaverse?(at 13:25)
🛞 Forget the sh*tshow at Twitter—what happened with Cyberquad? (at 14:45)
🎁 A must-have holiday gift (or not) from one of today's cheesiest brands (at 15:48)

Approx. 18 minute. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🎬 Review: DC's Black Adam

🍿 The Ricks consider some burning questions about The Rock's new box office hit, Black Adam. Like, who is the Justice Society? Where is the Mighty Isis? How did Intergang score those jet bikes? And does Amanda Waller really have Superman on speed dial? In a spoiler-riddled new episode, the Ricks drill into the biggest moments, best backstories, and tatt-shaded blunders in DC's latest superhero bonanza. From Nov 1, 2022. 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🛋 The Ricks pivot to the one about Ross's sofa (at 1 min, 8 sec)
📺 How do Millennials really feel about Friends? (at 1:45)
😂 The tears behind some of the funniest people (at 3:22)
🫠 The 'Adam' Project: Playing the expectations game (at 4:47)
🍅Scoring high and low on Rotten Tomatoes (at 5:48)
🌩 From Shazam, with love & thunder (at 6:08)
👀 O mighty winds that flow on high, is that mighty Isis that we spy? (at 6:43)
🤨 Deconstructing Black Adam's facial expression (at 6:49)
🦸🏻‍♂️ The JSA and its junior Super Friends (at 7:11)
🏍 Intergang is firmly in touch with its Darkseid (at 8:35)
💥 Crisis in infinite comic books: Where'd the JSA come from? (at 8:56)
🔮Pierce Brosnan, Bond villians & the original choice for Dr. Fate (at 10:15)
👷🏼‍♂️Helmet head: Me, you, or Nabu? (at 11:16)
👐🏻Hawkman: Living lives to the Nth degree (at 12:16)
🎭Box office: Besting Billy Batson (at 12:50)
🎞Black Adam's roots in … the Suicide Squad? (at 13:44)
☎️Amanda Waller: Calling in the Cavill-ry (at 14:30)
⌛️Which came first, Peacemaker or the holding facility? (at 14:57)
🔫Why Agent Harcourt sticks to her Gunn (at 15:44)
🩰 Why Black Adam is such a pansy compared to Wonder Woman (at 15:58)
🗺What's the matter with Kandaq? (at 17:06)
☑️The Ricks issue final grades—but the fun's just starting (at 17:56)
😳Know which director turned down 'Adam'? Nope (at 19:13)
🤕Black Adam's biggest production boo-boos (at 20:10)
🥾Kneel at his feet—or he'll join the Justice League (at 21:40)

Approx. 23 minutes, 25 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🎨 Nestlé Milks AI, Disney+ Marvels With AR, Plus: Holiday '22 Ecommerce Projections

🎙 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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IN THIS EPISODE

🍿 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)

Approx. 20 minutes, 04 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


☀️ Vecna Scares Scooby, Lays Fingertip Washing Machine, Hasbro Selfie Action Figures & More

⛱ It's an End-of-Summer Spectacular as the Ricks talk Voodoo Ranger Beer's big punk out, Lays potato-chip-fingers washing machine, the social media sensation who offered $50K to help him find a job—plus Loaded Questions and a whole lot more. From August 26.

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IN THIS EPISODE

😎 Rick Wootten mourns Summer's end, but looks forward to Halloween (at 1 min, 14 sec)
✈️ The Ricks revisit Portland & Eugene, OR—and apologize for California (at 1:38)
🦸🏻‍♂️ 5 group cosplays we should have seen at Comic-Con this summer, but didn't (at 5:08)
🤹🏼‍♂️ Dr. Strange and the Full House of Foolery (at 6:02)
🦴 Zoinks: The Mystery Machine becomes a bloody mess (at 6:13)
🎸 Green queen chews on some heavy metal (at 6:28)
💈 The Flowbee'd one seeks the Fifth Element (at 6:33)
📺 Forget Captain Carter—here's a real blast from the past (at 6:45)
🍿 "Batgirl" begins a new round of aggravating scheduling changes at Warner Bros. (at 7:23)
🧨 Hasbro's Selfie Action Figures put your face on GI Joe, Marvel Heroes & More (at 10:16)
💦 Betcha can't wash just one: Lays' new washing machine cleans greasy fingertips (at 11:15)
💋 Lip-smackin': Applebee's serves up Spicy Chicken Wing-flavored Lip Gloss (really) (at 12:23)
🍺 Voodoo Ranger Beer punks California's wine country—generating boffo publicity (at 13:27)
👨🏽‍💻 Dude becomes a social media phenom by tricking people into boosting engagement (at 15:22)
🌭 Oscar Mayer has something for you to suck on during the Dog Days of Summer (at 17:54)
🦚 Broadcast bust? NBC is reportedly considering the once unthinkable (at 19:12)
🍜 Pot Noodles wants you to know that it's no longer crap (at 21:08)

Approx. 23 minutes, 15 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


💥Comic-Con 2022: She-Hulk, Black Adam And The Hottest Cosplay, Collectibles & More

🦸🏻‍♂️ Comic-Con correspondents Kurt Ho and Eric V give Rick and Rick the lowdown on Comic-Con International 2022: This year's cosplay crazes, buzziest trailers, exclusive collectibles, and all the hits and Miss Minutes from the triumphant return of geekdom's biggest event. Plus: An epic game of Loaded Questions: The Comic-Con Movie Trailers Edition! From Aug 10.

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IN THIS EPISODE

🎮 Childhood Friends Forever: Welcoming Kurt Ho & Eric V back to the show (at 1 min)
🐍 First take of Post-COVID Comic-Con—and a trip to the Cobra Recruitment Center (at 2:40)
🔌 Streamer, studio activation no-shows and memories of recent successes (at 4:32)
🎉 Crowd control & Funko craziness as fandom returns en masse (at 5:18)
🦸🏻 Dr. Strange, Captain Carter, and a need for speed: the year's biggest cosplays (at 6:23)
🚀 Eric V's quest for a 501st Legion-worthy Star Wars costume … (at 7:56)
👽 … Courtesy of Director Krennic (at 9:59)
🛸 The swag and collectibles won, lost, and longed-for (at 11:10)
⏰ Top Funko Pops include Serpentor, Peacemaker and … Miss Minutes (at 12:47)
🤖 Kurt gets anime-ted over hard-to-find Robotech T's (at 13:44)
💥 Loaded Questions: The Comic-Con Movie Trailer Edition (at 15:15)
💪 Jennifer Walters is a 30-something attorney who also happens to be …? (at 15:38)
🦑 Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's villain is all wet (but we have other options) (at 17:49)
⚡️ The soundtrack to the Shazam: Fury of the Gods trailer is all Business (at 19:30)
🥋 John Wick's latest gets back to basics (at 20:43)
🎰 Black Adam: Is success in question, or just a matter of Fate? (at 21:28)
🐉 Eddie Munson's revenge? Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (at 24:18)
📺 Rick M wants to see a new twist to the horror series Chucky (at 24:48)
🎬 Wrapping things up with a (really, really bad) Yoda joke (at 25:06)

Approx. 25 minutes, 57 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🍿 Review: Dr. Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

It's a Sorcerer Supreme Combo Meal as the Ricks review Marvel's latest blockbuster to hit on-demand. From Aug. 9. 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🎬 Sam Raimi, Danny Elfman, and Oingo Boingos of days gone by (at 1-minute, 40-sec)
🤔 Benedict Cumberbatch: Dreaming of America, bracing for Maximoff impact (at 2:53)
🧙 Life's a witch and then you debate the difference between magic and sorcery (at 4:44)
📺 Resting Witch Face: "Wanda Vision" revisited (at 6:23)
🙌🏼 Raimi helps Marvel live up to its name (at 8:09)
🔥 Curtains for Captain Carter: Eliminating the Illuminati (at 9:32)
🎥 CGI and a multitude of meh-ness (at 10:26)
😍 Rachel McAdams makes one hell of an incursion (at 11:08)
🔌 Portal Princess: Who is America Chavez? (at 11:48)
🏔 Bringing down the mountaintop: callback or foreshadowing? (at 13:02)
🔠 The Ricks reveal their final grades (at 14:19)

Approx. 15 minutes, 37 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🍿 The Ricks Review 'The Batman'

Matt Reeves' "The Batman" is streaming on HBOMax, the Ricks release their super-sized, mid-March review of the Caped Crusader's latest reboot. What works, what doesn't, a look at plentiful comics and movie Easter eggs, and more. From May 1.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

📆 Meanwhile, two years later: Rick M. returns to the cineplex (at 1-min, 15-sec)

📍 Rick W. gets his bearings in Matt Reeves' Batworld (at 1:50)

🐼🐻🦁🐨 A Batman actor menagerie reimagined as a police lineup (at 2:20)

🎬 Holy battle of the box office: Which "Batman" scored best? (at 3:13)

💥 Not your father's Caped Crusader—a masked hero for Millennials? (at 3:42)

🎉 What do Batman, Daredevil, and Spider-Man have common? (at 4:30)

🎃 A (very) "Long Halloween"—Bat meets cat & other stuff (at 5:00)

🎭 Robert Pattinson: Batman down … but what about Bruce Wayne? (at 6:10)

🥷🏻 Alfred, we barely saw ye—the Bat's most underutilized asset (at 9:26)

🐱 The Bat's Meow: Kicks & attitude make Zoe Kravitz's Cat a hit (at 11:26)

👺 Adam West Revisited: A closer look at Batman's cape and cowl (at 11:54)

🎩 Quack-Quack-Crooked: Colin Farrell's scene-stealing Penguin (at 13:27)

🚔 The Wright Stuff: Jeffrey Wright's Jim Gordon is one for the ages (at 14:46)

❓ Riddle me WTF: Paul Dano and the dastardly villain (at 15:32)

🤡 The Joker Gang and … a Boy Wonder-in-the-making? (at 16:39)

🎥 The filmmakers behind the action and the secrets of Gotham, Inc. (at 17:09)

🎵 Big score: From Fringe to Star Trek to Spider-Man, Batman & beyond (at 18:36)

🏁 Fire up the Batmobile—and a look at Tumblers past (at 19:44)

🦇 Quick, to the Bat Cave: An OG Easter egg that's a total bust (at 20:34)

😎 Character arc: From emo downer to hopeful hero (at 21:03)

☕️ Dano's last call on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams (at 22:29)

🤠 Batman, gunslinger? What's the deal with the spurs, Bruce? (at 23:33)

Juicing it: Is that's Bane's venom—or just Guano-ade? (at 24:24)

💬 Final grades—and the Ricks' votes for the Definitive Dark Knight (at 24:58)

Approx. 27 minutes, 33 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🍿 Review: 'Matrix Resurrections'

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🎬 A look at all the gunfights, force fields, metaversal meta-commentary, synthients, and more—in a spoileriffic review of one of the most anticipated movies of the past year. From Jan 2.

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IN THIS EPISODE

😷 Rick W's (thankfully vaxxed) Omicron holidays (at 1 min, 10-sec)

🕷 The 800-pound arachnid in the room (at 2:40)

💣 Why was Resurrections a box-office bomb? (at 3:20)

🎶 Did we really need a Matrix threequel—even if it features John Wick? (at 4:28)

🤦🏻‍♂️ For the love of a dude named Chad (at 6:54)

🔖 The self-referential plot quickens (at 7:10)

🕵🏼‍♂️ The private lives of evil agents (at 10:28)

🎭 Neo, Trinity, Morpheus and more—a look at the cast and their characters (at 11:19)

🐈‍⬛ Déjà vu: Callbacks, themes, Easter eggs and Kung Fu (at 15:32)

👁‍🗨 A movie most meta (at 17:51)

‼️ The binary codex and hitting the spin cycle (at 19:37)

🏅 Our final grades (at 24:32)

Approx. 26 minutes, 32 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🍗 Col. Sanders Takes on Ronald McD in Tekken and Our Look at 'Matrix Resurrection'

What we know, or think we know, about "Matrix Resurrection." Is "No Time to Die" really James Bond's swan song? The fast food wars take to Tekken. And if lab grown brain matter wasn't gross enough, now it's sprouting eyes. From Oct. 7, 2021.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

⌚️ Receiving texts by smartwatch is handy. But responding to them? Not so much (at 1 min, 13-sec)

🏖 October in California can be Spring all over again (at 2:13)

🍿 "No Time to Die" finally hits the box office—but is Bond really gone for good? (at 2:47)

🎬 The first trailer for "Matrix Resurrection" drops; but what's John Wick doing here? (at 6:18)

🕹 The fast food wars take to Tekken as Col. Sanders and Ronald McDonald throw down (at 10:13)

👀 Brain matter grown in the lab starts sprouting eyes, and we won't sleep tonight (at 11:47)

Approx. 13 minutes, 45 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.