🎬 Playing it safe never won anybody an Oscar. So why set advertisers on such unsure footing during Hollywood’s biggest night? The founder and chief strategy officer of The Nuance Collective joins the show to discuss the state of consumer marketing as seen through the prism of this year’s Academy Awards broadcast.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🍔 Burger King's bold new rebrand

💄 Why beauty brands missed a big moment

💊 The surge in pharma advertising

🛟 Why brands should stop playing it safe

....plus more

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One Rick went to see “The Bone Temple,” the other cosplayed as part of an F1 pit crew. Both bring you their unique brand of news and views from the intersection of marketing, media, tech & pop culture. This time out: The unusual collab from Liquid Death and Spotify, BK’s new burger bot, Kraft Mac & Cheese’s real-time marketing stunt, and more.

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🏎️ It’s all F1 & games ‘til someone wears a jumpsuit

🦴 “A Clockwork Orange” visits “The Bone Temple”

🤓 Firefly returns–but is it for real?

🧀 Kraft Mac & Cheese’s marketing goes real time

👶🏼 Iliza Shlesenger pitches Jeep’s Grand Baby Maker

⚱️ Liquid Death + Spotify: Something to urn for

🛍️ 2026 (pre-war) e-commerce projections

🤖 BK’s new surveillance, er, training bot

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🎬 From “Avengers: Doomsday” to “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” and beyond, the Ricks look at the 10 most anticipated movies of 2026. Plus: Executives rank the top 5 marketing channels with the best ROI, Kellogg’s Tony the Tiger gets a rebrand, Burger King puts customer feedback front and center, and more.

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😱 Is 2026 the Year of Horror at the cineplex?

👹 Clayface: “The Substance” comes to Gotham City?

🕸️ Spider-Man: “Brand New Day”–or “Forget Me Not”?

🦸‍♀️ Supergirl: The Girl of Steel vs. Sheriff Lobo?

🌍 Disclosure Day: Emily’s Blunt about ETs

🧙‍♀️ “They Will Kill You,” not Zazzi Beetz

🧛🏿 Is Blade rising from the dead (again)?

🧟‍♀️ Do you want your “Mummy”?

🚀 Grogu and Pedro space out

🐯 Tony the Tiger: Frosted Fury?

💰 5 top marketing channels for ROI

🍔 BK serves up a new way to give feedback

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📺 A mere 10 days later, do you think you can remember some, or any, of this year’s Super Bowl spots? In a special edition of Rick and Rick Loaded Questions, we test your ad recall to see just how much mindshare $10 million can buy brands in the biggest media event of the year.

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🌉 A bittersweet Super Bowl for the Ricks (at 01:20)

🐕 Do the Ricks have dogs in this hunt? (01:44)

💰 Big game, big costs: $10 million per 30 seconds (02:36)

💩 Where Will Shat on Super Bowl Sunday (04:30)

⛷️ Michelob Ultra meets Bob from every movie (07:00)

🐇 Bad Bunny made how much (…or rather, how little?) (08:14)

🦅 A horse, a bird, and milestone birthdays (09:07)

🧑‍🍳 Sabrina Carpenter builds her perfect man (10:35)

🦾 A Fembot, a Brobot, and AI as a badge of honor (12:22)

💍 Peyton Manning and a hilltop wedding gone wrong (13:22)

🦖 Xfinity fields a pair of head-scratchers (14:45)

🥤 The Cola Wars get icy in a blind taste test (17:40)

🪒 Weird & weirder: backflips and … singing hairballs (19:30)

🏆 How Taika Waititi won the Super Bowl (20:35)

🎈 Are AI brands partying like it’s 1999? (20:51)

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📣 Internet Advertising Bureau’s 2026 advertising spend outlook has digital, AI on the rise. NVIDIA Googles its first CMO. Pringles, Svedka Vodka, Hellmann’s, and Instacart hope to score big at Super Bowl LX—and let’s just say that Rick M's attempt to sing Hellmann’s “Sweet Sandwich Time” doesn’t end well.

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🏰 From Europe & the UK, with Love

🥶 Cold-Weather Glow-Up: Glühwein Memories

🏆 Forget “Eve,” “Sinners’” Oscar Noms Have Bite

☢️ Apocalypse Wow: Amazon Prime’s “Fallout”

💀Ralph Feins has a Bone to Pick

📺 Enter: “Stranger Things” and the Conformity Gate

🤖 Blink of AI: Svedka Vodka’s Fembot & BroBot

🥔 Pringles Hopes the Pop Don’t Stop

🏈 That Super Bowl Spot Is Just for Starters

🎤 Low A-Peel? Instacart Goes “Bananas”

👩🏽‍💼 NVIDIA Gets Its First Chief Marketing Officer

🏪 Digital, AI on the Rise: IAB’s 2026 Ad Spend Outlook

🔮 How to Make Bank in the Predictions Markets

🎸 Ham Touching Ham: Andy Samberg as Neil Diamond

🫟 “Whispers of Tranquility” - Pantone’s Color of the Year 2026

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🎅🏻 Yippee-kay-yay, mirth lovers! The numbers have been crunched, and it’s time to reveal the Ricks’ list of the hottest-but-hardest-to-get tech toys of holiday 2025.

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🧸 This doll might not start it—but she will finish it

👽 Not the LEGO set you’re looking for

💩 The gift that’s full of, well, you know

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In the conclusion of our annual coverage of geekdom’s biggest gathering, guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. continue to interview the Ricks about their experience at Comic-Con International 2025. Think: panels, purchases, parties—and at least some weirdness (looking at you, Megan 2.0).

IN THIS EPISODE

📚 Rick W. shares the panels he attended—and some of their oddities

🦸🏽‍♂️ Rick M. on a panel with correlations with advertising industry—and missing host

🦾 Kurt Ho thanks Robotech promoters for keeping the faith

🚀 Rick M. reconsiders the “Star Trek Universe” panel in Hall H.

🔮 Kurt has an inspired idea for a panel at next year’s show

🛍️ Rick W. meets Johnny Bravo and buys a hell of a mystery box

💥 Rick M. zeroes in on vintage Justice League’s comics

🥷🏻 Eric V. targets Firefly—GI Joe’s answer to Boba Fett

🤩 How GI Joe bypassed Star Wars in Eric V’s art collection

🏪 Circle K, hold the candy bars: comics in the good ol’ days

🎬 The crew’s best—and freakiest—moments from Comic-Con

🎉 Ready Party One revisited—and the less said, the better

🛸 Kurt rounds things out about friends and fun traditions

✅ Tips to those who want to attend Nerd Mecca net year

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🕶️ In their annual post-Comic-Con episode, guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. flip the script and interview the Ricks about their experience at Comic-Con International in San Diego, California. It’s time to go inside Mardi Gras for Comic Book Geeks—and inspired brand activations from Lego, Hasbro, and more.

IN THIS EPISODE

🤓 135,000 strong: What happens in San Diego never stays there (at 01:38)

💥 Overall impressions from newbies & and novices (02:30)

🤘🏼 Party Central: “Ready Party One” rocks the cosplay (04:30)

🧱 Lego brand activation: Replicating Comic-Con in plastic bricks (05:10)

🤖 Galactus for the win: In a sea of cosplay, one towers over all (07:45)

💃🏼 Andor or else? The “Niamos!” flash mobs that never happened (08:08)

💩 Todd McFarlane unfiltered: The weirder side of Comic-Con 2025 (08:34)

🤬 Inside, outside, upside down: A cruel opening-day joke on attendees (09:40)

🚍 A trippy bus ride you can only catch on the way to Comic-Con (11:46)

🎸 Zartan’s Revenge: Cobra Command goes heavy metal with Cold Slither (12:35)

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It’s time for the Ricks’ official (and highly-spoilerific) review of one of the summer’s biggest movies: James Gunn’s Superman. From backstories to propaganda-posting monkey bots, and from half-baked controversies to crappy character haircuts (looking at you, Green Lantern), the Ricks give you the lowdown on the latest incarnation of everyone’s favorite Kryptonian.

IN THIS EPISODE

🥳 Relief at DC Studios and Warner Bros (at 01:41)

🧐 Expectations: Super-Cautious–or Mucho Caliente? (02:24)

🎨 Not just a DC comic book movie–a live-action cartoon (03:06)

🎚️ A Bald Tech-Bro Billionaire vs. Krypton’s Last Son (03:33)

🐾 The CGI Dog Stays in (and Steals) the Picture (03:50)

🦸🏻‍♂️ Enter: The Justice Gang* (Working Title) (04:45)

❤️‍🔥 Loaded Gunn: From “Bright Burn” to the Positivity Bug (05:19)

🎭 Lois, Clark, Lex & Beyond: Characters in Focus (05:55)

🤖 Gary the Robot & Cousin Kara: Kryptonian Disconnects? (07:21)

🧪 A Litmus Test for Successful Superman Stories (08:24)

🚨 Has Superman Gone Woke? Or Was He Always That Way? (09:50)

🐵 About Those Propaganda-Posting Monkey Bots (11:44)

🏮 The Lamest Green Lantern: Guy Gartner (12:09)

😎 A Cameo by Christopher Reeve’s Son (12:40)

🧑🏻‍🌾👩🏻‍🌾 Debating Gunn’s Interpretation of Ma and Pa Kent (12:46)

🥱 A Whole New Take on Kal-El? Or Same-Old, Same-Old? (15:04)

🧠 Whither Brainiac? Or Lobo, Jason Mamoa’s Next DC Role? (15:35)

🦸🏿‍♂️ Mr. Terrific: The Side Character Who Lived Up to His Name (15:50)

🤘🏼 Final Grades: Is Clark Really a Punkrocker? Or Just a Poser? (16:57)

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🎥 Will James Gunn’s Superman soar—or be box office Kryptonite? Does Jurassic World: Rebirth have bite? In a crowded summer movie season, what’s in store for Ballerina, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Fantastic Four: First Steps, Freakier Friday, and more (including … Happy Gilmore 2)? In this special episode, the Ricks count down their list of the three movies they’re most excited to see this summer—how does it compare to yours?

🏖️ Living La Vida Laguna (at 00:56)

🙌🏼 Hollywood’s “Survive to ‘25” mantra (02:00)

✅ Rick M.’s caveat to the Ricks’ Top 3 (02:38)

💥 Is the third time the charm for Fantastic Four? (02:55)

🏎️ Can Brad’s Pitt crew rev up a blockbuster? (04:35)

🔪 Will the feel-bad movie-of-the-year be fun? (06:30)

⚔️ Can old warriors deliver new thrills? (07:25)

💎 Ready for the new adventures of Lois & Clark? (10:30)

🩰 She wants to be your private killer (13:10)

🧟‍♂️ One runner-up arrives 28 Years Later (15:45)

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