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March 2019

2018 Predictions Scorecard—1 Year Later

🔮 The Ricks review what they got right, and what they got wrong, in their first annual predictions episode in early 2018. Which of their prognostications on marketing, media, tech and pop culture turned out to be solid hits? Which ones were serious misses? It's time to grade the good, the bad and the WTF predictions—one year later.

IN THIS EPISODE:

🍡 Pez Candy: Time for a 'Rick & Rick' Dispenser? (at 1:07)

🏛 Politics: Did More Brands Take Sides, or Channel Switzerland? (at 2:07)

🏈 The San Francisco 49'ers: Touchdown? Or Fumble? (at 3:51)

🔠 Google Parent Alphabet: Playing the Name Game? (at 4:12)

🗣 'The Post-Screen Internet': Are More Brands Prepping? Or Procrastinating? (at 4:36)

🍎 Apple: Spit-Shined? Or Bruised? (at 7:27)

🏰 Disney: The #1 Box Office Winner Every Month of the Year? (at 9:55)

😎 AR & VR: Are Brands Getting Their Goggles On? Or Playing 'Wait-and-See'? (at 13:58)

🎬 Video Marketing: ⏩? Or ⏸? (at 16:36)

🍕 Brand Digital Innovation: Delivering? Or in a Ditch? (at 17:36)

🧠 A.I. in 2018: Milestone? Or Reality Check? (at 18:27)

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2019 Movies We Can't Wait to See Most

You already know that Star Wars Episode IX is coming to close out the Skywalker saga in all its Chiastic glory. But if you're on the lookout for the other must-see movies of 2019, you're in luck. The Ricks are here with a complete rundown on the 10 coming attractions they can't wait to see most this year. And some might surprise you.

3 Different Movies Featuring Captain Marvel?
Did you know that one Captain Marvel movie opens March 5, followed by a different Captain Marvel movie exactly one month later, on April 5? It's true. Plus, Captain Marvel joins the battle in Avengers: Endgame just three weeks later, on April 26. There's a twist in all this that you'll just have to hear for yourself.

IN THIS EPISODE

⚡️ SHAZAM (at :51)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGaDAz7EjQM

🧟‍♂️ Zombieland 2 (at 2:48)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YlwQouA-yc

🕶 Men in Black International (at 4:23)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-WEb2oxLk

🧞‍♂️ Aladdin (at 5:59)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD-NcoXJbsU

🍦Frozen 2 (at 6:27)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSLe4HuKuK0

🃏Joker (at 6:40)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BR8_Q5c98s

🕷Spider-Man: Far From Home (at 7:57)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYYtuKyMtY8

🤖Unnamed Terminator Project (at 9:16)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHRe-LwrLPo

🐶Pet Cemetery (at 9:45)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0LNzU2TQI

Ⓧ X-Men: Dark Phoenix (at 10:23)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWbMckU3AOQ

✴️ Captain Marvel (at 11:33)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIbe-PmR5vk

🦸🏻‍♂️ Avengers: Endgame (at 11:55)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee1172yeqyE

🦖 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (at 15:28)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDtmouV9kM

Also mentioned:

👾New Mutants
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu9e410C__I

🚀 Star Wars Episode IX: Echoes of the Jedi
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5IZXxiEO4A

👑 Kingsmen 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zGYPEx8yU0

PLUS:

🍔 BK launches the follow up to #EatLikeAndy, and it tastes like chicken (at 16:52)

🤗 81% of marketers say they'll be competing on this in 2019, according to Gartner (at 18:36)

🖲 Social video results in this, according to Inc. (at 19:49)

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