🖖🏼 Star Trek's Bold New Missions & Surprising Origins

🖖🏼 From Discovery to Lower Decks to Strange New Worlds and beyond: Guests Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to discuss ComicCon 2024's Hall H announcements about what's next for Star Trek—and why the good ship Enterprise wouldn't have ever left the ground without…Lucille Ball? From October 12. 

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IN THIS EPISODE

🚀 Star Trek: Fifty-eight years young and going stronger than ever (at 00:30)
👽 Kurt Ho and Eric V. join the Ricks to talk about Trek's Hall H takeover (01:17)
📢 Announcements on Lower Deck, Starfleet Academy, and Section 31 (01:20)
👁️‍🗨️ Star Struck: Rick M. sings his status report on Strange New Worlds (02:29)
🪐 Taking risks: What makes Strange New Worlds so great (03:00)
🎬 Pike, Uhura, Chapel, Spock, Scotty & M'benga finally get their due (04:09)
🧑🏻‍🦰 For the love of Lucy: Why Star Trek fans owe thanks to Lucille Ball (05:56)
⌛️ Cool–but who the hell is Lucille Ball? An explainer for Gens Z & Alpha (7:04)
🎥 Bold broad: Starring in a Top 10 TV show, running a major studio (08:31)
🧠 Too "cerebral"—how Lucy put her vision where her mouth was (09:00)
📺 How Desi Arnaz invented the sitcom—and syndication (10:11)
🛸 Beam us up, Scotty: We don't want to miss Season Six (10:34)


🦸🏻 Comic-Con 2024: Dr. Doom, Fantastic Four, Batman: Caped Crusader & More

⚡️ Comic-Con Correspondents Eric V and Kurt Ho join Rick and Rick to talk San Diego Comic-Con 2024. Get the lowdown on the year's cosplay crazes (looking at you, Deadpool), buzziest announcements (looking at you, Robert Downey Jr), exclusive collectibles, brand activations, and more from geekdom's largest annual event. Plus: A Comic-Con edition of Loaded Questions!

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IN THIS EPISODE

😎 The Ricks catch up during a first-ever summer hiatus (at 01:01)

🤩 Did the Ricks make the cover of the official Comic-Con program? (02:40)

💥 Welcoming Kurt Ho & Eric V back to the show (03:21)

🎪 Nearly 20 years of Comic-Con memories and a friendship double that (0:3:580

🧲 Crowd control as attendees hit peak capacity (04:30)

✅ The new rules of scoring Funko, Hasbro exclusives (06:40)

🤖 Fembots, Optimus Prime, Mirror Uhura, and "Marvel Jesus" (07:37)

🎰 Is Comic-Con leaving for Las Vegas—or LA Convention Center? (11:55)

👩🏾‍🎨 Fandom: Catching comics creators and actors while you can (12:46)

📺 X-Men 97, Batman, Star Trek, Green Lantern, and more (13:45)

🥤 Brand activations from Mt. Dew, Google Play—and a Guinness-winning Galactus (15:00)

🚀 Hunting artwork: Transformers, GI Joe, and the Space Battleship Yamato (16:14)

📣 The Hall H Buzz Machine: From the Fantastic Four to Secret Wars & Beyond (18:20)

🎬 Doom patrol: Recycling Marvel actors—good, bad, or WTF? (19:01)

🍿 Rick M joins Kurt and Eric for "Deadpool and Wolverine" (21:20)

🧛🏿‍♂️ Blade beats Wolverine for a World Record (or two) (22:27)

🐧 The Boys, Thor Transforms, the Penguin rises, Avengers & more (24:02)

🐙 "Batman: Caped Crusader" busts up a storm—but is Robin toast? (25:40)

 

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Approx. 27 minutes, 13 seconds. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


😎 Season 5 Finale (Concl.)—How Consumer Brands Leverage GenAI, The 4 "Ps" of Marketing Get An Upgrade & More

It's the epic conclusion of our Loaded Questions quiz game commemorating the Season 5 finale of Rick and Rick Rule the World. From May 27. 

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IN THIS EPISODE

🥰 Cuffing Season pickup lines from ChatGPT
📺 Revisiting the Writer's Strike and what it means for Hollywood and GenAI
🔍 Google penalizing websites with content generated with AI
🎁 The Year's Hottest But Hardest to Get Tech Toys
🛍️ Why retailers should consider a fifth "P" of marketing
🫠 Rick W. admits discomfort with repping California, vampire romances & more
🎨 Nestle leverages generative AI with an eye for famous works of art
🙀 Was "The Scream" really made for the dogs? The Internet has thoughts
🤭 More side-splitting sound bites and gut-busting bloopers from our first 5 seasons

Approx. 28 minutes. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


🙌🏼 Season 5 Finale (Pt 1)–Big Brand Moments From Tesla, ChatGPT, Pepsi, Legoland, Comic-Con & More

📣 It's time for an epic round of Loaded Questions as the Ricks revisit news, views, bloopers, and bust-ups from Season 5 of the #1 podcast on marketing, media, tech, and pop-culture. From May 2. 

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IN THIS EPISODE:

⁉️ The Ricks' super-sized fifth season gets a blow-out edition of Loaded Questions (at 00:30)
🌎 The Ricks chef's-kiss faithful listeners who have made the show a global sensation (at 01:30)
🍔 Boring Burger? Elmo's Ketamine Cuisine? What's next for Elon Musk? (at 02:13)
🧱 Whit Hiler of Ad Age 'Small Agency of the Year' on landing LegoLand Resorts (at 03:16)
🤖 The Creative Algorithm, Agency Affirmations from ChatGPT—and She-Hulk? (at 4:37)
💥 Riddler-sticks: Move over generative AI, "The Batman" has you beat (at 05:58)
🥤 Tasty refresh, or same-old, same-old? The biggest brand identity move from the past year (at 06:42)
🎙️ Rick M's disastrous discography expands for a fifth straight season (our apologies) (at 08:25)
🏈 Ad Bowl gouging—or bargain? How much for those 30-second Super Bowl spots again? (at 10:18)
🦑 Mr. Beast busts a move—but is his game show really ready for Prime time? (at 12:09)
🍕 Lays Fingertip Washing Machine, Hasbro Selfie Action Figures & Dominos' telekinetic orders(at 14:00)
🤣 Hilarious sound bites and bodacious bloopers from the first five seasons of Rick and Rick (at 18:48)

Approx. 24 minutes, 20 seconds. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.


❌ Top Trends of 2024 (Concl)—Machine Customers & an End for X?

Will X die before year's end? If it survives, will Elon Musk still own it? In the conclusion of their big 2024 Trend Watch episode, the Ricks pose some provocative questions about the network formally known as Twitter, the rise of machine customers, shoppable streaming, and more. From Mar 17. 

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IN THIS EPISODE

😎 No more prognosticating about "The Year of AR and VR"? (at 00:43)
📺 Streaming Consolidation: fait accompli? Or just wishful thinking? (01:15)
🛍️ Netflix & Shill: Shortening the path-to-purchase via "shoppable streaming" (04:34)
🇺🇸 ChatGPT for President? F*ckers finding out (05:29)
❌ Will the X where Twitter used to be survive 2024? Will Musk still own it? (06:18)
🤖 Shopping by proxy: The rise of machine customers (at 08:46)
🌎 2024 global ad spend—all the world's a game, billboard, or car (at 11:25)
📊 Today's fastest-growing brands—depending on how you define "brand" (13:04)

Approx. 16 minutes. For US audiences. Review cookie and privacy policies for iTunes, Spotify, Soundcloud and all other streaming services.