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S03E06 – Rest and Ricklaxation (with Matt Brady)

Jim and A.Ron talk about toxicity and being the best version of yourself in episode 6 of Rick and Morty season 3, “Rest and Ricklaxation”. We’re then joined by Matt Brady, author of The Science of Rick and Morty, to discuss life, the multi-verse theory, and everything! As always, our initial review and episode discussion…

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S03E05 – The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy (with Paul Vigna)

In this episode of Rick and Morty, Jim and A.Ron talk about The Whirly Dirly Conspiracy, and a few conspiracies of their own. They were joined on this podcast by Paul Vigna, reporter at the Wall Street Journal.

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S03E04 – Vindicators 3: The Return of Worldender (with Danielle Radford)

In this episode, Jim and A.Ron discuss Morty’s tenth free adventure that he uses to help save the world, or at least stop Worldender, with the Vindicators.  

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S03E03 – Pickle Rick (with Alan Sepinwall)

Jim and A.Ron discuss the breakout hit of Rick and Morty season 3, “Pickle Rick”.  Aside from inspiring the name of our podcast, it boasts insane action and writing as sharp as an x-acto knife.  Then Rolling Stone’s chief TV critic, Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall), joins us to discuss therapy in the Golden Age of Television,…

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S03E02 – Rickmancing the Stone (with Aaron Couch)

“Rickmancing the Stone” finds Rick and Morty (ft. Summer) working through their family drama with the help of wanton violence in a post-apocalyptic Mad Maxeqsue  wasteland. Aaron Couch joins us from THR’s Heat Vision ‘blog to talk blood domes, divorced dads, and which sci-fi/fantasy tropes are ripe for the Rick and Morty picking!

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S03E01 – The Rickshank Rickdemption (with Jonah Ray)

Our season three coverage of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty starts of with a bang as we break down “The Rickshank Rickdemption”. This episode is truly a marvel of both comedy and plotting; Rick manages to escape a high security prison, cripple his rival Ricks in the Citadel while destroying the Galactic Federation, and for dessert, oust Jerry from his own family as part of a 100 year plot to bring back Schezuan sauce to McDonalds. To do justice to it, we’ve brought in MST3K’s own Jonah Ray to share his own connection to R&M, thoughts on “The Rickshank Rickdemption”, as well as a cautionary tale about scooter rentals. You might also be interested in his new project, “You Can’t Call Me Al”, a Weird Al cover album. Check it out, it’s a jam!

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S02E10 – The Wedding Squanchers

Just like that, season two of Rick and Morty is in the Bald Move history books, with the final episode, “The Wedding Squanchers”. Rick journeys to planet Squanch with his family to discover the true meaning and value of friendship, honesty, and unconditional love. Of course, he quickly re-learns the meaning and value of being aloof, walled…

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S02E09 – Look Who’s Purging Now

Rick and Morty serves up a bit of the ol’ ultraviolence in “Look Who’s Purging Now”. We discuss what it takes to earn a TV-MA rating, bad screenwriting, the social-economic version of power armor, Jerry hitting rock bottom, and how we feel about Hearst Castle. As always, our initial review and episode discussion are spoiler-free…

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S02E08 – Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate

Is it possible to create an interesting podcast around a discussion of roughly 24 minutes of stream of altered consciousness improv and a series of dick jokes? Find out on a very special episode of Rick and Morty, “Interdimensional Cable 2: Tempting Fate”! As always, our initial review and episode discussion are spoiler-free for first time…

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S02E07 – Big Trouble in Little Sanchez

Rick becomes a teenager to help Summer and Morty fight vampires at their High School in “Big Trouble in Little Sanchez”, our latest episode of Rick and Morty for consideration. We discuss our fondness for getting our ish together and packing it up, as well as experimental forms of marriage counseling. 

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