In this episode, I’ll be interviewing Bill Paulley from Arken Optics. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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Moondog2A
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Moondog Go
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
This gun-maker was founded in 1949 by Alexander McCormick Sturm and William B. Ruger. Its first firearm was a .22LR semi-auto pistol heavily inspired by the Japanese Nambu and German Luger pistols.
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Arken is a Texas-based optics company that was founded by a former Navy SEAL. In the 2010s, it came out with the SH4 scope, which changed the optics landscape. For the first time, you could get a brand-new PRS-style long-range scope for under $400.
Last year they went through an ownership and management change. They’ve come out of it with a new headquarters in Houston, TX, upgrades to their long-range scopes, and a brand new hunting-scope line. Today, I interview Bill Pauley of Arken Optics.
FINAL CLUE
This gun maker produces the two most popular .22LR rifles in the world. September of 2020 it purchased Marlin firearms from Remington and now produces both the Marlin 60 and its own 10/22 rifle.
DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS
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Vueroid S1 Dashcam September 5 to September 20, customers will save up to 35% off the regular price on Amazon. https://vector2007.com/X-NanoVEOT-RSS08 Discount code (12% off): MOONDOG
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VIDEOS THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
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BRAND CONTEST CLUE
Introduced in 1963, this was the Coca-Cola Company’s first no-calorie diet softdrink.
Apple’s “Get a Mac” campaign which ran from 2006-2009, created by TBWA-Chiat/Day. This campaign was largely lauded at the time, as being memorable, funny, and unpretentious (unlike the previous “Think Different” campaign).
It’s so bad, I could not find any article identifying the Advertising agency responsible for the creative development of the TV ads. A company called Rogue Producer is credited for the creative work. After further delving, they have been described as “an internal independent advertising and content production department”, which explains why this campaign is so meh. It’s a TV commercial created by NovoNortics own marketing department who created something only they find amusing or interesting. Nobody else cares.
This is an example of “Talking to Yourself” and “Borrowed Interest”
Borrowed interest: Advertising and Marketing’s “Cheap Shot”
• Apple’s own “Think different” campaign featuring Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King Jr., Picasso, and others. They never owned a Mac.
• All Celebrity Endorsements: Matthew McConaughey + Lincoln
• Dead Celebrity Endoresement: Fred Astaire + Dirt Devil
With the permission of his wife, the late Fred Astaire was shown in one of his best-known film dance routines with a Dirt Devil in a computer-generated scene for an ad that debuted during the 1997 Super Bowl.
• Bugs Bunny in Nike’s Michael Jordan’s Air Jodan TV campaign. So successful it spawned the movie “Space Jam”
OZEMPIC CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT?
FINAL CLUE
This O.G. diet soft drink was also the first to receive a health scare. In the early 1970’s a lab rat study suggested a connection between sacharine and cancer in lab rats, forcing this drink to sport the first medical warning in it’s label. It was later found that the Canadian study was flawed giving male rats the equivelent of 800 soda cans of sacarin per day. The FDA officially removed the cancer warning in 2000 but too late for this brand, which was canceled by Coca-Cola.
DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS
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Arken Special scope ring and accessory bundles for Labor Day week. 20% OFF Sitewide with code MOONDOG 25% OFF for Verified Veterans
Did you know that TrailCams aren’t a new inventions? They’ve been around for nearly as long as photography.
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VIDEOS THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
Moondog Reviews
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BRAND CONTEST CLUE
This company invented rolled photographic film and the Funsaver disposable cameras. And ironically invented digital photography in the 1970’s but were eventually killed by the smartphones, declaring bankruptcy in the 2000’s.
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
Maxdone Trail Camera sneek peek. This is a solar powered WiFi enabled cam.
TrailCams seem like a modern invention. But after doing a deep dive, I came across this article from a Canadian hunger Nathan Davis that reminded me that TrailCams have been around for almost as long as there have been film cameras.
In 1877 Eadweard Muybridge took this historic series of photos of a galloping horse.
•Proved a bet by Leeland Standfor that a horse has all 4 legs in the air during a full running gallop.
• This led to the invention of motion pictures
In the 1880’s George Shiras III a Congressman from PA and a pioneer in nature photography, invented wildlife trap photography using a flash and trip wire.
The first commercialy available all-in-one film TrailCam was the 1980’s Cuddeback.
BUT I DIGRESS Camera companies were instrumental in creating products for hunting. Leica invented the first commercially available hand-held laser range finder in 1993.
Mileseey makes industrial laser measuring devices. I recently tested the longest range laser rangefinder, the IonJet8
• 8000 yard max range
• MIL-STD-810H compliant
• Built in ballistic calculator with up to 10 bullet profiles
FINAL CLUE
This company was founded by George Eastman in 1892 in Rochester, NY and became one of the largest photographic film and comera companies in the world.
DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS
Vueroid S1 Dashcam September 5 to September 20, customers will save up to 35% off the regular price on Amazon. https://vector2007.com/X-NanoVEOT-RSS08 Discount code (12% off): MOONDOG
Arken Special scope ring and accessory bundles for Labor Day week. 20% OFF Sitewide with code MOONDOG 25% OFF for Verified Veterans
We’re going to learn about “Vibe Coding” and how AI has become a power tool in creating software with guest, Alysium Software. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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EARLYBIRD Visual Clue:
Omit “the” in the name
VIDEOS THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
Moondog Reviews
Moondog Go
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
One of the largest software companies in the world, this company is best known forits Windows operating system, and Office and Word business software.
How is it related to Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Co-Pilot?
Have you used it in your software company?
FINAL CLUE
This giant software company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS
Vueroid S1 Dashcam September 5 to September 20, customers will save up to 35% off the regular price on Amazon. https://vector2007.com/X-NanoVEOT-RSS08 Discount code (12% off): MOONDOG
Arken 20% OFF Sitewide with code MOONDOG 25% OFF for Verified Veterans
Watch the prize drawing on my TMI LIvestream on Wednesday, October 7, 20206. Must be present to win.
Each prize is supplied by Arken, Maxdone, and SVBony is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.Entries must be received no later than 12pm noon EST on September 30, 2026.
CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS
Prove you have the skills to fill out a form and upload screenshots to get a free entry. And earn bonus entries for donating to the Breast Cancer GoFundMe
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. MUST BE PRESENT DURING THE LIVESTREAM TO WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Sponsors and Platforms
Arken, Maxdone, and SVBony (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video entertainment producer based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
2. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 September 2026 and 12:00pm EST 30 September 2026
3. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be a legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, and employees’ immediate family members are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
Entrants must be present and able to post comments during the TMI Livestream show to identify themselves in the Chat during the live drawing.
4. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per, or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winners will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. The selected entrant must respond in the Livestream chat within 1/4-minute of selection to be designated the Winner. Winners must email contest@moondogindustries.com within 24-hrs of selection to confirm their shipping address. The winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of selction with a confirmation email, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation, or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel, or terminate if unauthorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims, liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occur directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United States of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
Watch the prize drawing on my TMI LIvestream on Wednesday, September 2, 20206.
Each prize is supplied by TechHunter, Nitecore, and Votatu and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.Entries must be received no later than 12pm noon EST on August 31, 2026.
CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS
Prove you have the skills to fill out a form and upload screenshots to get a free entry. And earn bonus entries for donating to the Breast Cancer GoFundMe
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. MUST BE PRESENT DURING THE LIVESTREAM TO WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Sponsors and Platforms
Uintah (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video entertainment producer based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
2. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 1 August 2026 and 12:00pm EST 31 August 2026
3. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be a legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, and employees’ immediate family members are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
Entrants must be present and able to post comments during the TMI Livestream show to identify themselves in the Chat during the live drawing.
4. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per person or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winners will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. The selected entrant must respond in the Livestream chat within 1-minute of selection to be designated the Winner. Winners must email contest@moondogindustries.com within 24-hrs of selection to confirm their shipping address. The winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of selction with a confirmation email, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation, or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel, or terminate if unauthorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims, liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occur directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United States of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
Let’s take a look at the prizes I’ll be giving away at the end of this month in a Breast Cancer GoFundMe. This Livestream is sponsored by Aura.com. Go to my link https://aura.com/moondog to get a 14-day free trial and see if any of your data has been exposed.
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EARLYBIRD Clue:
THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
Moondog Reviews
Moondog Go
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
This brand is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in North America. It produces one of the most widely prescribed chemotherapy drugs for breast cancer.
BREAST CANCER GO FUND ME
I’m helping my sister-in-law battle breast cancer. This month, I’ll be hosting a mega contest with a dozen prizes worth over $1500 in prizes. Watch the prize drawing on my TMI LIvestream on Wednesday, August 5, 20206.
Enter for a chance to win one of over $1500 in prizes in my July charity fundraiser. I’m helping my sister-in-law battle breast cancer. Watch the prize drawing on my TMI LIvestream on Wednesday, August 5, 20206.
This prize is supplied by Uintah and SVBony and is awarded at their sole discretion and direction.Entries must be received no later than 12pm noon EST on July 31, 2026.
CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS
Prove you have the skills to fill out a form and upload screenshots to get a free entry. And earn bonus entries for donating to the Breast Cancer GoFundMe
3. Use Photoshop, GIMP, Canva, etc. to composite these four screenshots into one image and UPLOAD. Do not upload 4 separate image files (this will disqualify your entry).
NO PURCHASE OR DONATION IS NECESSARY TO ENTER. MUST BE PRESENT DURING THE LIVESTREAM TO WIN. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.
1. Sponsors and Platforms
Uintah (known as the SPONSOR) and Moondog Industries (known as the CO-SPONSOR) is a video entertainment producer and game promoter based in San Francisco, CA. YouTube, TikTok, Rumble, X and online video platforms (known as PLATFORMS) are not SPONSORS or in any way affiliated with the contest or content.
2. Entry Period
Contest email entries must be received between: 12:00pm EST 24 June 2026 and 12:00pm EST 31 July 2026
3. Eligibility
Void where prohibited by law. Must be a legal resident in the USA. Moondog Industries employees, subsidiaries, affiliates, suppliers, advertising and promotion agencies, and employees’ immediate family members are ineligible to participate in the contest/giveaway.
Entrants must be willing and able to appear on YouTube to discuss the contest and post images of the prize on their social feed should they win the contest.
Entrants must be present and able to post comments during the TMI Livestream show to identify themselves in the Chat during the live drawing.
4. Agreement to Rules
By entering the contest, participants agree to abide by the SPONSOR’s Official Rules and decisions. The SPONSOR retains the right to refuse, withdraw, or disqualify entries at their sole discretion. By submitting an entry, the participant agrees to accept the decision of the SPONSOR as final and binding.
5. How to Enter
This contest requires your skill in navigating your phone or computer controls to screen capture an image of the following YouTube channels/Social Media accounts. Subscribe or Follow and make a screen capture of those pages showing a greyed out Subscribe button or indicator that your account is Following that page. If the page is not functioning, please contact contest@moondogindustries.com . One entry per person or per Social Media account. Fraudulent methods of entry, photo retouched, or other methods of circumvention of the rules may result in the SPONSOR invalidating a participant’s entries.
6. Prizes
The winner must be able to receive the prize by e-mail or by physical mail. Prize may be substituted at the sole discretion of the SPONSOR. Acceptance of the prize grants SPONSOR permission to use the winner’s entry, name, and likeness for advertising, promotion, and trade without further compensation or remuneration unless prohibited by law.
7. Odds
The odds of winning are dependent upon the number of eligible entries received.
8. Selection and Notification of the Winner
The winners will be chosen at random by the SPONSOR from among the entrants who demonstrated the skill to navigate the electronic entry and have met the minimum requirements. The selected entrant must respond in the Livestream chat within 1-minute of selection to be designated the Winner. Winners must email contest@moondogindustries.com within 24-hrs of selection to confirm their shipping address. The winner must have a legal address within the US to ship the prize.
SPONSOR is not liable for the winner’s failure to receive notification of winning if he or she provided the wrong email address or if their email security settings caused your prize notification to go into the spam or junk folder. If a winner does not respond within 24hrs of selction with a confirmation email, the SPONSOR will select an alternate winner. Receipt of the prize is upon the condition of compliance with federal, state, and local laws.
9. Rights Granted by the Entrant
The SPONSOR, upon submission of an entry into the giveaway or contest, has the right to use the participant’s submission, voice, likeness, image, statements about the contest, etc., for publicity, news, advertising, promotional purposes, trade, and so forth, without any further notice, review, consent, compensation, or remuneration.
Participants shall defend or settle against such claims at their sole expense, and shall indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the SPONSOR from any suit due to damage of or by the prize.
10. Terms & Conditions
The SPONSOR reserves the right to modify, suspend, cancel, or terminate if unauthorized human intervention, a bug or virus, fraud, or other causes beyond your control impact or corrupt the security, fairness, proper conduct, or administration of the contest/giveaway.
11. Limitation of Liability
Entry into this contest constitutes the participant’s agreement to release and hold harmless the SPONSOR and PLATFORMS, subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, etc., against all claims, liability, illness, injury, death, loss, etc., that occurs directly or indirectly from participation in the contest or use/misuse of the awarded prize.
12. Disputes
As a condition of participating in the promotion, the participant agrees to resolve all disputes with an arbitrator designated by the SPONSOR in the state of California, without resorting to any form of class action. Entrants waive all rights to punitive, incidental, or consequential damages, and waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased.
13. Privacy Policy
Participants agree to abide by all privacy and NDA laws in the State of California and any federal laws of the United State of America.
14. Winners List
Participants may request a list of winners by submitting a request in writing to Moondog Industries for up to 30 days after the contest ends.
15. Social Media Platform Rules
Winners will agree to post a photo of the prize on their social media channels in such a way as does not violate any rules of that platform. The winners also agree to appear for an interview where they will discuss the prize and its performance. If there are functional problems with the prize, the winner agrees to make a good-faith effort to resolve all issues with the SPONSOR prior to posting reviews or opinions about the prize.
16. Affirmation of Acceptance of and Agreement to All of the Official Rules
By entering the contest, the entrant has affirmatively reviewed, accepted, and agreed to all of them.
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EARLYBIRD Clue:
THIS WEEK
Moondog2A
Moondog Reviews
Moondog Go
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
Founded in 1892, this brand transformed American retail by pioneering mail-order catalogs for rural consumers. It later evolved into the nation’s largest brick-and-mortar department store with legendary brands like Craftsman and Kenmore.
PRIME DAY
Prime Day is a shopping event with deals exclusively for Amazon Prime members. Amazon held it’s first Prime Day on July 15, 2015, to commemorate the website’s 20th anniversary. Each year it has grown though some have critizied brands for hiking up prices before Prime and Black Friday, only to bring them down to “normal” prices for Prime Day.
Arken Optics
20% off discount code MOONDOG on
Discovery Optics
Amazon Prime Day (June 23–26): We will offer a 20% discount on our Amazon store.
Father’s Day Promotion (June 21–26): Our official website will also have a 20% discount event.
Your Affiliate Discount Code: To match these major sales, your personal discount code will also be upgraded/adjusted to a 20% discount during this period!
Despite pioneering mail-order retail, this brand closed its catalog mail-order business in 1993 to concentrate on its brick-and-morter stores, completely missing the internet-driven e-commerce revolution. It merged with K-Mart in 2005. It declared bankruptcy in 2018, and today only 5 stores remain in Florida.
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SPONSOR
EARLYBIRD Clue:
SPECIAL GUEST
Joe Rhea is a popular YouTube Content Creator known as “Cyclopse Joe”. He started his channel over 10 years ago and is known for making entertaining and at times profane rifle scope and rifle reviews.
BRAND CONTEST CLUE
This brand was North America’s largest ultra-low-cost air carrier before ceasing flight operations on May 2, 2026.
This defunct brand was founded in 1964 as a trucking company that pivoted to operating charter flights in 1983. They pioneered the ultra-low-cost airline model. They were the punchline to many jokes and memes for their upcharging and nickle-and-dime pricing tactics.
