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At SHOT Show this year, the evening after Range Day, I attend a dinner organized by 2AMedia and co-sponsored by Matt Hat. Sitting next to me was young man, who turned out to be Matt Kuplak, the founder of Matt Hat Jerky.
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This meat company owns many better known meat brands such as Ballpark Franks, Jimmy Dean sausages, Sara Lee meats, and Hillshire Farms. This brand shares a name with one of the most famous heavyweight boxers of the late 20th Century, though he is not connected with this company.
I’m back from SHOT Show 2026. Let’s talk about what I saw. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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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This brand is a Large Language Model Chatbot which takes its name from a verb coined by science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein in his 1960’s novel “Stranger in a Strange Land.” It was picked up by computer geeks in the 1980’s and means “To understand deeply.”
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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
Copyright is a type of intellectual property that protects original works of authorship as soon as an author fixes the work in a tangible form of expression. In copyright law, there are a lot of different types of works, including paintings, photographs, illustrations, musical compositions, sound recordings, computer programs, books, poems, blog posts, movies, architectural works, plays, and so much more!
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David Lavine is an attorney
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This month, there are two contests you can enter and win a prize. Enter both.
Will Chat GBT Large Language Models take your job? Maybe. But there’s a new A.I. paradigm coming which could take over. Lets learn about it from Paul Dravis of Future Pefect Machine. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
This US gaming company owns Maxis Software, the creator of The Sims and Sim City. Games that popularized simulated models of cities, life, and the universe. It’s in the name.
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A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)
Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful AI systems, built on deep learning (like Transformers) and trained on massive text datasets, that understand, generate, summarize, and translate human language, essentially predicting the next most probable word in a sequence to perform complex tasks like answering questions, writing code, and powering chatbots, with examples including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok.
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Paul Dravis is a former Managing Director of Bank of America, a former VP at JPMorganChase, and the founder of Future Perfect Machine, a technology analysis and consulting company focused on emerging technologies. That’s how I become friends with Paul as he was an early adopter of VR technology. https://www.futureperfectmachine.com/
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This month, there are two contests you can enter and win a prize. Enter both.
Join me and members of my SHOT Show 2026 production crew as we discuss plans for this huge trade show at the end of the month. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
This US oil-gas company was a direct descendant of Standard Oil and was founded in the 1870’s. This US petroleum company is only oil-gas company on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (since ExxonMobil was dropped in 2020).
The Christmas music we hear playing this time of year can trace their roots to jazz standards of the 20th century. Lets talk about that with jazz musician Adam Chasnow. This this video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
This American record company was founded in 1889 and is the oldest continuously operating brand in recorded music. It derived it’s name from its early headquarters in the District of Columbia (Washington D.C.)
It put out notable records by jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck, as well as pop artists such as Frank Sinatra, Benny Goodman, Aretha Franklin, and Bruce Springsteen.
This record company’s eponymous Music Club, was a spin off direct to consumer mail-order record business that promised 12 free records, tapes, and CDs if you joined. It taught many of us, the hard way, that we need to read the fine print and that there is no free lunch.
In the last week, both Netflix and now Paramount/Skydance are in open war to buy Warner Brothers studios. In today’s Livestream we’ll talk about this takeover bid and review the most influential films created by Warner Brothers Studios. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
This film studio was founded on Sunset Blvd in Hollywood in 1920, by 4 brothers from PA and produced the first successful “talking picture”, the Jazz Singer.
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In December 5, Netflix announced its intention to buy Warner Brothers for $85B in stock. 4 days later, on December 9, Paramount Skydance announces a hostile takeover offering $30/share of Warner Brothers (worth $108B)
In 1989 this studio was bought by Time, Inc. In 2018 it was sold to AT&T and later merged with Discovery Networks. It is the home of such iconic franchises as Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, and D.C. Comics’ Batman and Superman.
Welcome my guest Scott Robinet of Allysium Software. We’re going to talk about A.I. and the future job market. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about Black Friday Sales with my guests @CyclopsJoeVideos Cyclops Joe and @HillbillyUp American Hillbilly. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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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CYCLOPS JOE, joining us from Don’t Mess with Texas, is Joe Rhea. YouTuber with over 450 videos on his channel @CyclopsJoeVideos. Famous for his profane and hilarious reviews on optics, ammo, and firearms.
AMERICAN HILLBILLY, joining us from the Show Me state of Missouri is Mike Campbell with over a thousand videos on his channel @HillbillyUp. He hosts the Saturday night Livestream “Guns, Beer, & Therapy” and is a regular guest on “Georgia Shooting Connection” and other podcasts.
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Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. Along with Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season and is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.
The term Black Friday used to be a negative description for a Stock Market crash. It first appeared in The New York Times on November 29, 1975 to describe a strong shopping weekend where retailers sales accounting shifted from being “Being in the Red, to being in the Black”. The term caught on in the rest of the country by the late 1980’s.
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This discount store chain began as S. S. Kresge in the late 1890’s and grew to become one of the largest retail chains in the US, rivaling Walmart. After a slow decline throughout the 1990’s it filed for bankruptcy in 2002, later merging with rival Sears, before both folded in late 2019. They closed most of their US locations. Today it exists as an online retailer with only 3 small phyical stores still open.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk with some professional computer geeks about the challenges of working in IT. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
The IT Crowd is a British television sitcom originally broadcast by Channel 4 in 2006, created, written, and directed by Graham Linehan and starring Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, and Matt Berry. There was a failed attempt to create a US version of the show after the success of The Office which was also originally a British TV comedy, but the pilot of the US IT Crowd just wasn’t as funny.
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Tim Mooney IT professional from southwest Michigan. Lived in Michigan all my life. I went to college to learn electronics, then worked in IT. I grew up with firearms but got into collecting when I was 21. I’ve been reloading since 1996.
Ian Conolly IT professional in NYC. Unix Systems Administrator with the US Department of the Interior.
This company rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Windows. But largely missed on emerging trends and technologies such as the Internet, digital music, and smart phones. But it did have one of its successes in becoming a dominant company in gaming with the XBox.
Too Much Information live chat show. Today, we’re going to talk about the origin of my online nickname, “Moondog” with Creative Director Adam Chasnow, the man who gave me that nickname. This video is sponsored by Aura. Stop leaving yourself vulnerable to data breaches. 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.
This 3-letter named company is one of the oldest record and music companies in America. Beginning in 1901 as the Victor Recording Machine Company, with its trademark “His Master’s Voice” icon, it was bought by the Radio Corporation of America, from which it gets its legendary 3-letter name.
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CHAS
Adam Chasnow is a marketing communications creative leader whose focus is finding cultural marketing and media opportunities that connect global brands and services with their audiences. Whether it’s earned media, social, or paid content, he looks for original ways to share a brand’s mission or product benefit through any channel available…
Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. His work influenced later composers like Philip Glass.
This 3-letter named company has gone through a number of owners and mergers. General Electric in 1985, Bertlesmann Music Group in 1987, and now Sony BMG in 2004. The record label publishes music for artists such as Milley Cyrus, Alicia Keys, and Doja Cat.
