🤯 The Ricks revisit their big predictions for the year—what they got right, and what they got hilariously wrong—in the worlds of marketing, media, tech, and pop culture. from December 28. Subscribe now to get episodes the moment they're released! 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

📲 Rick M should have banked on an acquisition for Mint Mobile
🥽 Rick W's attempt at "reverse predicting" about the "Year of VR" pans out
🍿 Domestic box office: Movie madness, sadness—or both?
⏱️ TikTok, brand advertisers, TikTok
👨🏽‍💻 Social media influencer: Elated—or deflated?
🚙 EVs: Charge ahead—or a last laugh for Toyota?
📺 The streaming wars: Has the Great Shakeout begun?
📈 B2B: Is the Hybrid Workforce really here to stay?
🤖 A generative AI reality check: Just starting, or nothing burger?

Approx. 23 minutes, 53 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

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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.

🎅🏼 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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⛄️ IN THIS EPISODE:

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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IN THIS EPISODE:

🤘🏻 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)

Approx. 5 minutes, 52 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

👁‍🗨 In the conclusion of their annual trends watch, the Ricks dive headfirst into the Metaverse—and what it does (and doesn't) mean to marketers in the year ahead. From Feb 9.

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IN THIS EPISODE

👀 Was 2021 the Year of VR & We Didn't Notice? (at 37-seconds)
🥨 Time for a (Big) Grain of Salt About the Metaverse? (at 3:51)
🏂 Final Predictions: Snow Crash Revisited (at 6:30)

Approx. 7 min, 50 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

A stream-of-consciousness involving Seinfeld, The Greatest American Hero, Hong Kong Phooey, Gorilla Glue Hairspray, and more. Plus: Kraft Macaroni adds powdered candy to the mix, and Rick M. struggles to make it through an unforgettable round of Loaded Questions. From Feb 21, 2021.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🧺Jason Alexander and the Tide commercial that got away (at :54 seconds)

🦸‍The Greatest American Hero turns 70 but doesn't look a day older than Hong Kong Phooey (at 1:52)

🍿Revisiting 'Batman vs. Superman' in the runup to 'Zack Snyders' Justice League' (at 4:45)

💓Kraft Macaroni and Cheese adds pink candy to the recipe (at 11:19)

🦍Gorilla Glue sales skyrocket after an unfortunate mishap (at 13:09)

🤙🏼Twitter wants to let you slip into DMs with voice messages (at 14:46)

💩Rick M. can't keep it together in a segment about a new campaign from Phillips Laxative (at 15:20)

Approx. 18 minutes, 32 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.

The Fast & Furious franchise aims for a surprising new moonshot. Burger King and Ronald McDonald turn heads when they kiss off distancing protocols. And why you may soon be able to play your go-to Xbox games anywhere, anytime, on whatever device you have in hand. It's all this and more in our latest podcast. From Sept. 15.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🗽Rick M is in a New York state of mind, but Rick W's just happy to get outside again (at :59-seconds)

👩🏼‍🚀"F9," the latest installment of the "Fast & Furious" movie franchise, is racing toward … outer space? (at 2:15)

🕹Xbox goes virtual so you can play on any device—including your iPhone? (at 3:46)

🤡Burger King has the hots for a certain ginger beef patty & he's not clowning around (at 6:43)

🔥This Year's Burning Man Festival lights up social VR, Second Life-style (at 8:32)

🎃Will Halloween sales scare the hell out of candy brands? (at 10:30)

👻RIP, CBS All Access—we hardly knew you…but for Paramount, it's a Plus (at 11:30)

🤳🏽The original video sharing site takes on TikTok with YouTube Shorts (at 12:22)

Approximately 13-minutes, 43-seconds. For US audiences.
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The Fast & Furious franchise aims for a surprising new moonshot. Burger King and Ronald McDonald turn heads when they kiss off distancing protocols. And why you may soon be able to play your go-to Xbox games anywhere, anytime, on whatever device you have in hand. It's all this and more in our latest podcast. From Sept. 15.

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IN THIS EPISODE:

🗽Rick M is in a New York state of mind, but Rick W's just happy to get outside again (at :59-seconds)

👩🏼‍🚀"F9," the latest installment of the "Fast & Furious" movie franchise, is racing toward … outer space? (at 2:15)

🕹Xbox goes virtual so you can play on any device—including your iPhone? (at 3:46)

🤡Burger King has the hots for a certain ginger beef patty & he's not clowning around (at 6:43)

🔥This Year's Burning Man Festival lights up social VR, Second Life-style (at 8:32)

🎃Will Halloween sales scare the hell out of candy brands? (at 10:30)

👻RIP, CBS All Access—we hardly knew you…but for Paramount, it's a Plus (at 11:30)

🤳🏽The original video sharing site takes on TikTok with YouTube Shorts (at 12:22)

Approximately 13-minutes, 43-seconds. For US audiences.
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In this episode: "The Matrix 4" and its transgender allegory is on its way—without Agent Smith or Morpheus. HBO's experiential promotion for "Lovecraft Country." Is "The Batman" a trailer thief? Netflix has a 'Three Body Problem.' Plus Loaded Questions and a whole lot more. From September 13.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🛹 Rick W. gets his new Tony Hawk game, complete with limited edition skateboard (at 1 min, 6 sec)

✈️ Rick M. wasn't the guy flying a jetpack past commercial airliners on approach to LAX … at least not this time (at 2:46)

3️⃣ Netflix's "Three Body Problem" may be a good one to have (at 3:26)

🕵️‍♂️ "The Matrix 4" is on its way–without Agent Smith or Morpheus (at 4:52)

💥 "The Animatrix," revisited–why it was better than Matrix 2 and 3 (at 6:46)

👩🏻‍🦰 Did you know "The Matrix" series is an allegory about transgenderism? Neither did we (at 7:34)

🦇=❼? "Holy Double Vision, Batman!" If the trailer to "The Batman" looks familiar to you, this may be why (at 10:43)

👓 HBO takes its experiential marketing prowess to virtual reality to promote "Lovecraft Country" (at 12:04)

🐷 Did Elon Musk's Neuralink presser pull a Cybertruck? (at 14:47)

🤕 Just how much damage has the pandemic done to media spend in 2020? (at 15:42)

🍿 It's official: Summer 2020's box office champion is … (at 16:26)

Approximately 18-minutes, 15-seconds. For US audiences.

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"The Mandalorian" tries on some 501's. The Justice League stars in a gory new R-rated animated movie. ADWEEK asks: What brands would you want to shelter with most? Starbucks switches up its strategy for the time of COVID-19, and more. From June 26. 

IN THIS EPISODE

🚀 Disney+ hit "The Mandalorian" tries on some of their favorite 501's (at 1-min, 34-sec)

💥 The SuperFriends it ain't: The gory new, R-rated "Justice League" animated movie is pure <BLEEP> (at 3:38)

🕹 Virtually House Bound: The impact of COVID-19 on the future of virtual reality (at 5:07)

🏘 ADWEEK wants to know: With what "house" of brands would you want to shack up with most? (at 9:39)

🖖🏽 Turns out James T. Kirk may be into little green men, too (at 12:53)

🧗🏻‍North Face joins brands boycotting Facebook–will more join the party? (at 14:09)

☕️ Starbucks' plans for a post-"third place" world (at 14:45)

Approximately 17-minutes, 3-seconds. For US audiences.

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