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Nerds Drink Whiskey: Episode 142 Mark's Often Wrong At Dogger's

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Dogger's in Yelm
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Featured Whiskey:
MacNaughton Canadian Whisky
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Atari VCS gains over $2 million In Pre-Orders.

As of Sunday night, the Atari VCS raised $2,456,371 USD from 9458 backers on its crowdfunding campaign.

Atari VCS transforms how you will engage with your TV, with a nod to Atari’s rich history of pioneering interactive entertainment and hardware innovation.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/atari-vcs-game-stream-connect-like-never-before-computers-pc#/

Chris Hemsworth says Avengers 4 is 'even more shocking' than Infinity War.

The fourth (and technically still untitled) Avengers movie is due out May 3, 2019.

“If you were shocked by [Infinity War], I think the second one is even more shocking, for other reasons entirely,” Hemsworth told Esquire in a new interview.

http://ew.com/movies/2018/06/04/chris-hemsworth-avengers-4-infinity-war/

American Gods Announces Three New Cast Members.

Dean Winters (Divorce, John Wick) has been tapped to play Mr. Town.

Devery Jacobs (Cardinal, The Order) is set as Sam Black Crow.

Kahyun Kim (Shameless, Cassandra French’s Finishing School) has been cast as New Media.

https://deadline.com/2018/06/american-gods-season-2-dean-winters-mr-town-devery-jacobs-sam-black-crow-kahyun-kim-new-media-starz-neil-gaiman-1202402680/

‘Bumblebee’: First Trailer For ‘Transformers’ Spinoff Released.

Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for Bumblebee, a spinoff of the Transformers franchise.

The spinoff is an origin story for the Bumblebee character, set a couple of decades before the events of the first Transformers movie.

It stars Hailee Steinfeld, will be directed by Travis Knight, with a screenplay written by Christina Hodson.

Nope. No Michael Bay.

For trailer and full story go to...

https://www.geeksofdoom.com/2018/06/05/bumblebee-trailer-transformers-spinoff/amp

Knob Creek to Release One of the Most Anticipated Whiskeys of the Year.

Knob Creek’s to-be-released rye took home one of the biggest awards in spirits – Best Rye Whiskey at the San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

The limited-run rye is set for a summer release.

It’s cask strength, it’s aged 9 years and it’s not that expensive ($70 SRP).

Knob Creek has not yet released an official availability date or a number of bottles available.

Full details at:

https://gearpatrol.com/2018/06/04/knob-creek-cask-strength-rye-note/

Patrick Stewart may be hinting at a role in CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery TV series, possibly as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

The fan favorite captain of the USS Enterprise-D on Star Trek: The Next Generation hasn't been a part of the franchise since the final TNG film, Star Trek Nemesis, released in 2002.

After Nemesis flamed out at the box office, and Star Trek: Enterprise was unceremoniously canceled in 2005, the Star Trek franchise went into hibernation until J.J. Abrams launched his blockbuster reboot in 2009, starring Chris Pine as a younger Captain James T. Kirk.

However, Star Trek was completely absent from television until Star Trek: Discovery premiered in 2017.

https://screenrant.com/patrick-stewart-star-trek-discovery-picard/

Shadowhunters won’t return for a fourth season.

Based on the Mortal Instruments novels by Cassandra Clare, Shadowhunters starred Katherine McNamara as Clary Fray, an aspiring artist who learns she’s a human-angel hybrid destined to help protect the New York City streets from all manner of creatures that go bump in the night.

Season to date, Shadowhunters is averaging barely 400,000 total weekly viewers, down sharply from Season 2 and ranking fifth ranking all current Freeform programs.

The supernatural drama will wrap things up in the spring of 2019 with a 12-episode run — aka Season 3B, titled Shadowhunters: The Final Hunt — that will include a two-hour series finale event.

http://tvline.com/2018/06/04/shadowhunters-cancelled-season-4-freeform-final-hunt/

Does anyone want a Jared Leto Joker standalone movie?

Jared Leto will reprise his “Suicide Squad” role as DC Comics supervillain the Joker in a standalone movie.

Variety said that Leto, 46, will both star in and serve as an executive producer of the untitled spinoff film for Warner Bros.

The trade magazine noted this will be separate from Todd Phillips’ upcoming Joker origin movie, part of a Warner Bros. division specializing in origin-story films and for which Joaquin Phoenix has been assigned to play the role.

Are you confused yet?

https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/movies/jared-leto-joker-movie-1.19009302

Jack Daniel's and the impact of trade war!

The maker of Jack Daniel's says tariffs are making it difficult to plan for the future.

The company, Brown-Forman (BFA), reported strong revenue and profit growth for the fiscal year that ended in April, and expects to report more gains ahead.

But it said competition in the developed world, coupled with "potential retaliatory tariffs on American spirits" means that it's "difficult to accurately predict future results."

US bourbon is one of the products targeted by foreign governments in retaliation for the Trump administration's tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU, Mexico and much of the rest of the world.

For the full story go to...

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/06/news/companies/jack-daniels-maker-tariff-impact/index.html

Kelly Marie Tran, who starred in Star Wars The Last Jedi recently deleted her Instagram.

She did so due to harassment that included racist remarks.

We at Nerds Drink Whiskey find this behavior inexcusable.

If you have to resort to racism, you are in the wrong, weak minded, and a pathetic excuse for a human being.

The problems with The Last Jedi are not even her fault.

We are calling all nerds to call out this toxic behavior.

Share this video if you won't tolerate hate in our scene!

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/racist-star-wars-fans-reportedly-drive-last-jedi-kelly-marie-ncna880491

Greg Berlanti Inks Mega $300+ Million New Overall Deal.

Greg Berlanti has been the producer of Titans, Doom Patrol, Supergirl, Deception, The Flash, Arrow, Riverdale, Black Lightning, and that's just this year!

Not too shocking that Warner Bros. Television Group would want to keep him at the studio through 2024.

No financial terms are being disclosed but sources peg the pact at more than $300 million over the next six years.

https://deadline.com/2018/06/greg-berlanti-mega-300-million-overall-deal-warner-bros-tv-through-2024-1202405581/

Curiosity Rover Finds Ancient 'Building Blocks for Life' on Mars.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has identified a variety of organic molecules, the carbon-based building blocks of life as we know it, in 3.5-billion-year-old Red Planet rocks, one of the papers reports.

"These results do not give us any evidence of life," stressed study lead author Jennifer Eigenbrode, a scientist at the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

"But there is a possibility that [the organics] are from an ancient life source; we just don't know," Eigenbrode told Space.com. "And even if life was never around, they [the molecules] tell us there was at least something around for organisms to eat."

https://amp.space.com/40819-mars-methane-organics-curiosity-rover.html

HBO has officially greenlit a follow-up pilot to its acclaimed international hit Game of Thrones and it sounds just as massively ambitious as the original series.

The network has ordered a prequel drama from writer Jane Goldman and author George R.R. Martin.

The network has released an official description of the show’s story line.

Taking place thousands of years before the events of Game of Thrones, the series chronicles the world’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour.

Since the eighth and final season of GoT is coming next year, the soonest we can see a successor series is 2020.

For full story go to:

https://ew.com/tv/2018/06/08/game-thrones-prequel-jane-goldman/amp/

J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Launches Video Game Division.

Company president and COO Brian Weinstein announced Thursday that the entertainment production company has entered a strategic relationship with Tencent, the Chinese media giant, to form Bad Robot Games.

The partnership will exclusively develop games by Abrams and Bad Robot, with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment joining the gaming arm as a minority investor.

Bad Robot Games will partner with established developers to create large-scale and indie titles for the mobile, PC and console markets.

In-house visual artists, designers and writers from Bad Robot will work on the projects.

For full story go to:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jj-abrams-launches-bad-robot-games-1118151

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy stepping down this Fall?

The repercussions from The Last Jedi debacle continue it seems.

Rian Johnson created the most divisive Star Wars productions since Disney took over.

Solo did horrible at the box office.

And let's face it, The Force Awakens doesn't look as great as we first thought.

It seems the pressure is just too much and she will step down in September.

Do you think she's to blame?

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