Episodios

  • 🏈 Super Bowl Pop Quiz-Test Your 2026 Ad Recall

    🏈 Super Bowl Pop Quiz-Test Your 2026 Ad Recall
    Feb 16 2026
    📺 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. 👉🏼Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel ger for 🛩️-setters everywhere. Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&Rtake30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF IN THIS EPISODE 🌉 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) Approximately 22 minutes. Review your streamer’s privacy policies. Episode may feature audio, visual, and/or other forms of content developed using generative AI or other digital tools.
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    22 m
  • 🏟️ Super Bowl Advertising, Oscar Noms, IAB's 2026 Ad Spend Outlook & More

    🏟️ Super Bowl Advertising, Oscar Noms, IAB's 2026 Ad Spend Outlook & More
    Feb 6 2026
    📣 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. 👉🏼Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel ger for 🛩️-setters everywhere. Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&Rtake30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF IN THIS EPISODE: 🏰 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 Approximately 27 minutes, 30 seconds. Review your streamer’s privacy policies. Episode may feature audio, visual, and/or other forms of content developed using generative AI or other digital tools.
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    27 m
  • 🎄Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Toys for Holiday 2025

    🎄Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Toys for Holiday 2025
    Dec 26 2025
    🎅🏻 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. Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 IN THIS EPISODE 🧸 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 Approximately 4 minutes, 34 seconds. Review your streamer’s privacy policies. Episode may feature audio, visual and/or other forms of content developed using generative AI or other digital tools.
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    5 m
  • Brand Meets Fandamonium at Comic-Con 2025 (Concl)

    Brand Meets Fandamonium at Comic-Con 2025 (Concl)
    Sep 1 2025
    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 Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approx. 18 min, 30 sec. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.
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    19 m
  • Brand Activations: Lego, Hasbro & More at Comic-Con 2025 (Pt 1.)

    Brand Activations: Lego, Hasbro & More at Comic-Con 2025 (Pt 1.)
    Aug 24 2025
    🕶️ 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) Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approx. 15 min, 30 sec. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.
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    16 m
  • 💥Review: James Gunn’s Superman

    💥Review: James Gunn’s Superman
    Aug 10 2025
    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) Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approx. 19 min, 50 sec. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.
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    20 m
  • 🎬 3 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025

    🎬 3 Most Anticipated Movies of Summer 2025
    Jul 10 2025
    🎥 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) Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approx. 17 min, 05 sec. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.
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    17 m
  • 🎬 Star Wars Road Trip: Inside Rancho Obi-Wan

    🎬 Star Wars Road Trip: Inside Rancho Obi-Wan
    Jun 23 2025
    🚀 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks for a closer look at the brand called “Star Wars”—including the marketing deliverables, games, toys, and more on display at Rancho Obi-Wan, the largest private collection of Star Wars memorabilia in the world. Learn why the story that started “a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…” continues to take fans into the future. IN THIS EPISODE 👽 Welcome to Rancho Obi-Wan Museum of Star Wars Memorabilia (https://ranchoobiwan.org) (at 0:50) 😎 The backstory on Steve Sansweet’s personal shrine to all things Star Wars (at 1:20) ✈️ Planning (a long time) ahead for not-so-easy-to-score Star Tours (at 2:32) 🏢 At over 9,000 square feet, Rancho is saving Star Wars at scale (at 3:00) 👨🏼‍🚀 Why the docent may regret tapping Eric to share his Star Wars story first (at 5:05) 💥 When 400,000 posters, video games, books, action figures, and other collectibles aren’t enough (at 5:40) 🏛️ The Saga Museum: A vision to merge Rancho Obi-Wan, the “Sith”sonian, and others (at 9:00) 🤠 From set pieces to Death Star bongs: How Steve Sansweet snares one-of-a-kind Star Wars collectibles (at 10:50) 🧐 How Eric won a rare Star Wars fan commemorative by stumping the docent (at 14:12) 🪥 For the love of Bib Fortuna: Kurt wins a bet about Star Wars Toothpaste (at 15:52) 🤪 The overwhelming emotions of it all: becoming a Star Wars kid again (at 17:17) 🛏️ From Farrah, with love: The most unexpected collectibles for Kurt and Eric (at 19:53) 💪🏼 “You came in that thing? You’re braver than I thought"—Whose line is it, anyway? (at 22:12) 🫆 Name that character: Muftak, Salacious B. Crumb, Droopy McCool—or the Dongalorian? (at 22:50) ❝ “I’ve got a bad feeling about this:” Star Wars quotes you can also say in bed (at 24:00) Brought to you by Taskin, the first name in ultra-stylish, premium-quality travel gear for 🛩-setters everywhere. 👐🏻Shop now and save 30% with promo code R&RTAKE30 at TaskinSF.com: ow.ly/Vh6M30r9EpF👐🏻 Approx. 26 min, 10 sec. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.
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    26 m