Author: Heath Andrews

How much real strawberry do you expect to find in Kellogg’s Pop-Tarts? Does it even matter to you? Well it matters to someone enough, because they’ve started up a class action lawsuit on the matter for $5 million. It’s a bit more complicated than what it might seem at face value, so let’s try to scrape off the frosting, toast this pastry, and get to the heart of the matter. The earliest date we can find for this saga starting comes from TopClassActions on August 24th, 2021. They state that the plaintiff Anita Harris filed a case in Illinois Federal…

Two days before she was killed by star Alec Baldwin firing a live round, “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins made a post to her Instagram account, celebrating some downtime in the filming schedule. At the time of this writing, the full details as to what happened to Halyna are not available. Reports indicate that a pistol containing live rounds had been discharged by Baldwin, resulting in one injury and one fatality. The injured party, film director Joel Souza, who recieved treatment at the Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. The other was Hutchins, who was airlifted to the hospital, but was…

If you were to think about the worst thing that could happen to a person at a food eating contest, choking would probably be the number one concern. A rush to eat as much as possible in a short amount of time seems like it could be incredibly problematic if someone has an issue swallowing. All it takes is for food to go down the “wrong pipe” so to say for fatal results to occur. And that’s sadly what happened to a 20-year old student from Tufts University in Massachusetts on October 16th. Madelyn Nipcon was participating in a hot…

Tina Turner is a goddess of music and performance, as well as a testament to the strength of the human spirit. Few people can claim to have the career highlights that she has, along side some of the most heart-wrenchingly awful moments. Though she rose to fame alongside her husband Ike Turner in the 1960s and first half of the 1970s, she suffered at the hand’s of Ike’s abuse. Tina would eventually go solo in the mid 70s, but her first few albums didn’t prove successful. It wasn’t until 1984’s “Private Dancer” that Tina rose to the top of the…

Sometimes a crime case gets a tremendous amount of attention due to who’s involved or the circumstances. The disappearance and murder of Gabby Petito is one such example. Interest in the case ratcheted up even further when the prime suspect in the case, her boyfriend Brian Laundrie, also went missing. In fact, interest reached such a fever pitch that Dog the Bounty Hunter even made it known that he would be looking for Laundrie. Well, the police seemed to have beaten Dog to the punch, as remains found have now been identified by the FBI as Laundrie. This marks the…

Every year when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rolls out their list of nominees, there are always three waves of news that follow. The first is who made the list of nominations, and the inevitable discussion of who didn’t. The second is which of the nominees made it in and which didn’t. The third wave, and the one we’re discussing right now, is who’s going to show up to the induction ceremony. For 2021’s class, it’s looking to be a damn good one. Here are some of the highlights. Let’s start out with a personal favorite from some…

On October 17th, 2021, the Chase Center in San Francisco was playing host to one of the best known jam bands of all time, Phish, for the second of two nights. The large arena can hold around 19,000 people along its various sections, with some of the seating being in areas that are very elevated, such is the case with most large arenas. While a rarity, there are occasions where during a sporting event or concert, a person might fall from one of these areas, resulting in substantial injury or death. Unfortunately this not only happened once at the aforementioned…

How many campers do you have to slaughter to get a show on tv these days? Apparently more than two, because that’s how many episodes “Killer Camp” lasted on The CW before being pulled from the fall schedule. The competition/reality show seemed perfectly situated in the lead up to Halloween, but for undisclosed reasons, will no longer be airing. So what happened? What’s going to air in it’s place? Well, let’s talk about that too. So for starters, “Killer Camp” is a British/American co-production that originally ran for its first season on ITV2 before being acquired by the CW. It’s…

If you’ve been reading Nerdbot articles and see the byline of Heath Andrews, then you’re probably expecting some sort of weird news about some guy being seriously hurt in a gender reveal party held in an Incan ruin with the reincarnated remains of David Bowie while watching season six of “Frasier,” or something. But I have good news for you this time! Nothing tragic, nothing horrible; just something wonderful and wholesome that happened in Sacramento’s, Orchard Park on Saturday. Just when it seemed like a young teen’s birthday party was going to become something terribly lonely, the kindness of strangers…

Sometimes when you’re scanning the industry newsfeeds to see what’s going on, you come across a story that kind of buries the lede, or doesn’t quite recognize which part of its story is the actual story. This is one such case here as Sony Pictures Entertainment just netted a cool $1 billion worth of cash in a sale to the mobile-games company, Scopely. That is definitely news worthy. But even more newsworthy is how they did it, by selling off their online gaming platform, GSN Games. To set the stage for all this, let’s first take a look at what…