William Shatner's Brown Bag Wine Tasting

Former pro football player and high school valedictorian Marcellus Wiley talks about his introduction to football during his childhood and markedly increasing his size in college. He discusses how football gave him a sense of identity and kept him out of trouble in his neighborhood. Marcellus employs his status as a typewriting legend to rate and describe the mystery wine.

Veep's Matt Walsh talks about his movie, A Better You, which had scenes written without dialogue, allowing the actors to improvise lines within the confines of the action of each scene. After elaborating on the intention of improv, Matt and Bill set a scene in which they drink and describe imaginary wine. He draws from his experiences with hypnotherapy to rate and describe the mystery wine.

Food and Wine magazine executive wine editor Ray Isle knows his vintages. He joins William Shatner to discuss the best wines to go with Texas BBQ. Ray explains how, in the past, wine that was considered unsatisfactory was mixed with other ingredients to mask its taste, and he shares a story about an opportunity he had to taste wine from a 200 year-old shipwreck,.

Actor Grant Harling won the Brown Bag Wine Tasting charity contest, and this week he and William Shatner sit down and sip. Grant and Bill discuss the challenge of meeting people in Los Angeles, whether it be for professional networking or in order to forge new friendships. Grant draws upon his aptitude for making new friends when he rates and describes this week's spicy red mystery wine.

Brandi Glanville sits and sips with William Shatner. William and Brandi discuss the ability for a cute label to successfully sell a bottle of wine to a customer. Brandi contemplates the heightened level of drama that arises even when cameras are filming a real situation. She can barely contain her laughter when William asks her to describe the mystery wine as if it were a sexual interaction.

Actor Wil Wheaton joins his old friend William Shatner to converse about home brewing beer, the outer limits of space, and video games. Wil and William compare movies and video games by highlighting the added layer of interactivity that games offer. Wil excites William when talking about undiscovered dimensions and other-dimensional lifeforms that can't yet be perceived by humans.

'So You Think You Can Dance' creator and 'American Idol' producer Nigel Lythgoe sits and sips with William Shatner. Nigel and William discuss how younger generations perceive fame and equate it to success. He relays how children dancing today are more talented than professional adult dancers were years ago, with gravity limiting them more so than their own abilities.