Author: Heath Andrews

Heath Andrews has been a student of pop culture ever since he found himself to be the only student in 3rd grade who regularly watched "Get Smart" on Nick-At-Nite. Ever since then he's been engrossed in way too much media with a growing collection of music, books, comics, TV on DVD box sets, and a video game collection that could rival a brick and mortar store. Prior to writing for Nerdbot he's written for Review You, MyAnimeList, and various advertising companies. Since 2016 he's run his own YouTube channel under the moniker of The Critical Android where he livestreams video games and uploads podcasts about pop culture and Frasier.

Ever heard of shiny Pokémon? In the series of video games, there has always been a remote chance that if you encounter a Pokémon it will be a shiny variant. A shiny Eevee may be a light gray color instead of its typical brown. The odds of this happening? Depending on the game, roughly 1/4096. Now imagine this happening in real life with a lobster. The odds of that being closer to 1/30,000,000. Anyone who’s walked by a lobster tank can attest that these aquatic crawlers are generally brown and speckled, sometimes with green, red, and a little blue too.…

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Controversial casting decisions are a dime a dozen, but sometimes one comes along that really makes you stop and say, “…wait what?” While we’ve perhaps grown more used to that happening in television and film, this news serves as a reminder it happens on stages, too. Evidence of this reared its head recently when the already struggling Broadway revival of “Funny Girl” lost their lead actress Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart,” “Impeachment: American Crime Story”) months before her planned departure. That itself was cause for concern. But then the production decided to replace her with former “Spring Awakening” star Lea Michele. The…

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Pandemics, inflation, Russian aggression in Europe, “Morbius” re-releases- the world has enough on its plate already. But according to New York City, that’s not enough for its denizens to worry about. Nosir, apparently you should also be preparing for nuclear warfare and the fallout from it. The literal fallout, not the socio-political ramifications. In a wonderful modern-day throwback to the good old days of the Cold War, nuclear warfare PSAs are apparently a thing again in one of America’s most populous cities The PSA [scroll all the way down if you just want to see the video] opens with the…

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It just may come to pass that we’ll find out if there’s something fishy about the tuna in Subway restaurants. If you’ll recall, allegations have plagued the restaurant chain that the tuna used in their sandwiches isn’t actually tuna. A lawsuit was filed against Subway regarding this claim, and it was anyone’s guess as to whether or not the court system would allow it to proceed. The answer isn’t one that’s going to make the company very happy. On July 7th, a U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar allowed the lawsuit to continue against Subway. The lawsuit was originally filed by…

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Diarrhea. You’ve probably had it before, but maybe not from the same cause that several people reported getting it from over the last couple weeks. Coffeehouse chain Starbucks doesn’t just serve coffee; more varied menu items have made it into their locations over time. One of the very recent additions may be responsible for sending a few people running to their toilets…in the literal and scatological sense. The item in question was the chicken, maple butter, and egg sandwich from Starbucks. As the name would suggest, it contains chicken, egg, and some maple butter. It may have contained campylobacter, a…

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Every family has their own traditions around the holidays. When the 4th of July comes around, some do picnics, some stay at home and barbecue. Some families watch fireworks displays, others watch 13 different vehicles get jettisoned off a cliffside. What? Is the latter of those not your preferred festivity come Independence Day? Then clearly you must not be a resident of Glacier View, Alaska. Glacier View is home to the aptly named Glacier View River Retreat. This campground area currently only has one review on Google as of this writing, but at least it’s a 5-star review. Something tells…

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Oh Armie Hammer, there are few careers in Hollywood that have the ups and downs that his had. From “The Lone Ranger” to “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.,” it’s been a strange journey. Achieving praise for “Call Me by Your Name” followed by everything crashing down due to reports of emotionally manipulative behavior, abuse, and cannibal fantasies. Yes, this story has it all. But where is Hammer now? We sort of know the answer to that, and it can be summed up in one phrase- Cayman Island timeshares. Armie Hammer is no stranger to the Cayman Islands, having lived there with…

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The fourth season of “Stranger Things” has no shortage of news coverage for various reasons. Chief among them the surge in popularity of Kate Bush from the use of her song, “Running Up That Hill (Deal With God.).” Beyond that, social media was abuzz with whether or not certain characters were going to survive to see a season 5. If you were on Twitter the evening the final 2-part season ender dropped, you would’ve been awash in tweets, heavily concerned about Steve Harrington (Joe Kerry). And while we won’t go into spoilers about who lives or dies, Eleven herself (Millie…

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Robots. They’re our friends, helpers, rulers of our future, and instruments of our demise. Well, they will be once Skynet happens but until then, they’re our friends. We’ve seen robot dogs, synthetic skin, and all sorts of animatronics that involve robot parts. Have you ever seen a robotic bird though that is actually capable of flight? And no, we don’t mean flight in the sense of having propellers, but flying through creating actual lift by flapping its wings. Yes, this bionic bird does exist, and its actually been around longer than you might think. Meet Festo the bionic bird (actually…

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How much would you pay for a complete dinosaur skeleton? That’s probably not a question you’ve ever been asked, right? In life though, there’s a time for everything and when it comes to a dinosaur auction, that time is nigh. This July a very rare and very old (obviously) dinosaur fossil is going to be auctioned off by Sotheby’s in New York City. The fossilized dinosaur skeleton is that of a Gorgosaurus. These apex predators were in the Tyrannosauridae family and were native to the present day United States and Canada. As a matter of fact, this particular skeleton was…

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