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November 2019
🎅🏼 Tesla's Cybertruck blows up the Internet. The holiday yule log gets spit-roasted—ASMR style. Our Top 3 Tech Toys Gone Wrong. The 'Christmas Pizza' that's covered in turkey and gravy—and served in a singing box, plus a whole lot more.
🚀 Rise of Skywalker: How will this chiasmus conclude the chiasmi? (at :42 seconds)
📺 What the hell is The Mandalorian? And why isn't that Boba Fett and Yoda? (at 2:28)
📐 Tesla Cybertruck: Big splash, or botched launch? (at 3:45)
🔫 Our Top 3 Tech Toys for Holiday 2019—including a Lightsaber that … meows? (at 6:30)
💣 Our Top 3 Tech Toys Gone Wrong—including one inspired by Tesla (at 8:30)
🍕 The Christmas Pizza comes lathered with turkey, gravy, and a psychotic theme song (9:54)
🥩 The Beef Drool Log comes with ASMR-like sound effects and … an AI-based personal assistant? (at 11:15)
🎄 Cardi B or Anna Kendrick? Will the holiday TV spot imposter please stand up? (at 12:25)
🛍 From Santa's WTF workshop: animal dissection kits, fluffy pets with removable fur and other gifts for children (at 13:18)
☃️ Some holiday chestnuts about goosing the kids, making memories and more (at 14:00)
🥁 The Ricks reveal the title of their future Claymation holiday television special (at 14:58)
Approx. 15 min, 40 sec. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.
🛍 Singles Day, Twinkies Cereal, Turducken Pringles, VR Smell-o-Vision & More
11/17/2019
"Man in the High Castle' Season 4 is here. "Arson Frog" and "Okay Boomer" have meme warfare raging among generations. Singles Day scores $1 billion in its first :60-seconds. Plus: Twinkies cereal ignites a social media storm, what fMRI tells us about holiday shopping behaviors, why the future of VR may stink, Loaded Questions, and more.
IN THIS EPISODE
📺 'Prime' Evil: 'Man in the High Castle' Season 4 (at 1 minute, 43 sec)
🤯 Meme Warfare: 'Arson Frog' Catches Fire as 'Okay Boomer' Explodes (at 3:26)
💩 Smell-o-Vision: Why the Future of VR Might Stink (at 5:50)
💰 $1 Billion Sold in :60-Seconds: Our Singles Day Scorecard (at 7:16)
🤢 Turducken Pringles: Any way you stack 'em, someone's sure to cry fowl (at 8:53)
🥣 Twinkies for Breakfast: Social Media Cause Célèbre—or Cereal Offender? (at 10:08)
👺 Why Deep Fakes Mean Real Trouble for Business in 2020 (at 11:44)
🛍 Google Data: Top 3 Best (and Worst) Holiday Purchase Influencers (at 13:06)
🧠 What fMRI Brain Scans Tell Us About True Shopping Influencers (at 13:50)
🎅🏼 Six Fewer Days for St. Nick: Online Retail's Race Against the 2019 Calendar (at 14:58)
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Approx. 16 min, 5 sec. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.
🍿The Ricks Review 'Terminator Dark Fate'
11/11/2019
It's our spoilerific review of Terminator: Dark Fate (trailer below)—complete with Sarah Conner, the Rev-9, and a Terminator T-800 named Carl. Plus Loaded Questions: The Terminator Edition. Warning: SPOILERS, SPOILERS, and more SPOILERS.
IN THIS EPISODE:
🤖 The latest Terminator: Dead on arrival? Or underrated awesomeness? (at 1 min, 15-seconds)
🎬 The plot quickens: Sixth in the series? Or third? (at 3:12)
✏ Erasure: The John Conner Controversy (at 5:04)
😎 I'll be (call)back (at 5:54)
⁉️ No, seriously: How did Sarah know to save Dani and Grace on the bridge? (6:35)
💉 Sarah and her sodium something-something (at 8:17)
😭 Carl's conscientiousness and bad SFX (at 9:34)
✈️ The mystery military man and his EMPs (at 10:34)
🇲🇽 The politics of Dani (at 11:28)
📖 Let's get Biblical: Rev(elations) 9 and beyond (at 11:50)
🤙🏼 Call me maybe: 1-888-WTF (at 12:49)
✅ Final grades (13:29)
👽 James Cameron plays musical chairs (at 14:56)
🥤 "Too nice": You won't believe who almost got Arnold's role (at 16:06)
🤘🏻 "Shock to the System": You won't believe who almost played the T-1000 (at 16:38)
Or Listen Here: 🍿The Ricks Review 'Terminator Dark Fate'
Approx. 17 min, 47 sec. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud, and all other streaming services.