Rick & Rick Rule the World

Rick & Rick Rule the World: Marketing

Insights on marketing, media, tech, and pop culture trends—served with an extra-large helping of fun. Join award-winning creative director and bestselling author Rick Mathieson and seasoned Silicon Valley CMO Rick Wootten as they explore the latest trends, tools, and strategies in digital, social, experiential, and content marketing. Plus SEO/AISEO, multi-flavor AI (generative, agentic, neuro-symbolic, etc.), your choice of realities (virtual, augmented, mixed)—and the B2B and B2C brands out to make the most of them. Whether you’re entry-level or CxO, a marketer or a creative, the spoiler alert’s the same: This isn’t your grandfather’s marketing podcast. It’s an irreverent, fast-paced dispatch on brand innovation at the corner of awesome and WTF. Guest interviews, pop quizzes, and unfortunate bouts of singing are involved, too. Consider yourself warned.

  1. 🚀 Rick and Rick Review ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’

    4d ago

    🚀 Rick and Rick Review ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’

    It’s the first new Star Wars movie in over seven years, which means it’s time for an official, Rick and Rick review of “The Mandalorian and Grogu.” Super fans Eric V. and Kurt Ho—the Comic Book Kids—join the conversation with their takes on the latest entry in their all-time favorite franchise. Plus, the crew try to stump each other in a Mando & Grogu trivia challenge—and attempt to do a medley of the Imperial March Needless to say, it doesn’t end well. IN THIS EPISODE: 🚀 Star Wars—in 3D, wrap-around, IMAX, or ? (at 1:08) 🍿 The story ‘til now: From Disney+ to a cineplex near you (1:52) ⛩️ Eric & Kurt go full Mando at Mann’s—and revisit memories (2:49) 🎥 Is Mando a bomb? A blockbuster? Or both? (3:53) 🔫 Skywalker Saga: 40 years of family, friendship, and fandom (5:01) 👖 Is that Obi Wan Wootten? Is he wearing pants this time? (6:35) 🤬 Watto waits for no one—except maybe Ani (6:52) 🙌🏼 Did Mando & Grogu successfully leap to the silver screen? (7:08) 🌀 🌀 Where are all our All-Terrain Armored Transports (AT-ATs)? (7:34) 🍝 Mando’s go-to meal—a Spaghetti Western with garlic Grogu Sauce (8:30) 🎬 Finding the Way: Is on-camera acting really required anymore? (10:00) 🤖 Does the Mandalorian and Grogu make a case for AI in filmmaking (11:54) 🎤 The Imperial March like you’ve never heard it before (13:08) 🛸 What as the name of the Mandalorian’s original space ride? (13:42) 🙅🏽‍♂️ What are other men doing to Mando’s helmet? And do you think he knows? (14:18) 🤠 What if one of those guys is the son of a Hollywood legend? 🥏 Blue is the warmest color: The Trouble with Tribble Milk (15:22) 🐌 Deconstructing the voice of a wannabe man’s-man (or slug) (16:38) 🍔 BBQ Bounty Whoppers: BK’s Mandalorian “Out of This Galaxy” menu (17:27) 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. Review privacy and cookie policies for SoundCloud, iTunes, Spotify and all other streaming services. Some audio and visual elements created using AI-based tools.

    19 min
  2. 🏈 Super Bowl Pop Quiz-Test Your 2026 Ad Recall

    Feb 17

    🏈 Super Bowl Pop Quiz-Test Your 2026 Ad Recall

    📺 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 gear 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.

    22 min

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Insights on marketing, media, tech, and pop culture trends—served with an extra-large helping of fun. Join award-winning creative director and bestselling author Rick Mathieson and seasoned Silicon Valley CMO Rick Wootten as they explore the latest trends, tools, and strategies in digital, social, experiential, and content marketing. Plus SEO/AISEO, multi-flavor AI (generative, agentic, neuro-symbolic, etc.), your choice of realities (virtual, augmented, mixed)—and the B2B and B2C brands out to make the most of them. Whether you’re entry-level or CxO, a marketer or a creative, the spoiler alert’s the same: This isn’t your grandfather’s marketing podcast. It’s an irreverent, fast-paced dispatch on brand innovation at the corner of awesome and WTF. Guest interviews, pop quizzes, and unfortunate bouts of singing are involved, too. Consider yourself warned.

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