Lets find out how the winners of July’s GoFundMe contest like their prizes? 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

This international society of charities started in Geneva, Switzerland in 1876. The American branch was started in 1881 by Clara Barton during the Civil War.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

We’ll talk to two winners of July’s huge GoFundMe contest with over $1000 in prizes.

What did you win?

What was your impression of product?

Have you had a chance to use it or what are your plans in using it?

What suggestions would you have to improve it.

What are your thoughts on this month’s tripple-prize.

Should I continue the tripple-prize or offer a mystery box prize?

• Solar Trailcam
• Keychain Flashlight
• SE DPP/MOS red dot
• ScopeCam
• Laser Rangefinder
• Arken scope

FINAL CLUE

The American institution of this international humanitarian organization provides emergency assistance, disaster relief, and disaster preparedness education. Its crossed shaped logo has become synonomous with medic first-aid.

DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS

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AUGUST CONTEST

WIN:
Techhunter 1-6×28 LPVO with ED glass, 28º FOV, and lifetime warranty. @Techhunters_Optics

Nitecore TIP3 mini EDC

Votatu V848 IR illuminator and IR laser

BRAND QUIZ DRAWING

What do royalty, dictators, milk chocolate bars, jazz music, Led Zeplin, and me have in common? Switzerland. 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:

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This multi-national food company was founded in 1867 by a Swiss confectioner and invented milk-chocolate and powdered baby formula.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Switzerland

TED Talk with Prof. Martin Rendel last Agust https://youtu.be/EgnhTjHxsqg

Prof. Rendel in our student days on a road trip from Switzerland to Italy in 1990.

Switzerland boarding schools educatee some of the the world’s richest and oldest wealthy dynasties.

Institut Le Rosey alumni
• King Reinier of Monnaco
• King Albert II of Belgium
• King Juan Carlos of Spain
• King Fuad of Egypt
• Aga Khan
The herreditary leader of the Shia islam. Direct decendent of Prophet Mohamed.

This Kid who went to public school in Switzerland between 1998-2000

Kim Jong Un today.

Art Center Switzerland 1990
I spent a winter semester abroad at the Art Center College of Design (Europe).

Clarens https://maps.app.goo.gl/L18jfMrJqaW5aJrA8
I rented a room next to a real life castle on a hill, in the town of Clarens

Travel tip: shop for food Migros, Coop, or Aldi

Vevey
HQ of Nestle foods

Montreux
The largest town on the Eastern end of Lake Geneva.

Chateu Chillon
Inspired Lord Byron’s peom “The Prisoner of Chillon”

Montreux Jazz Festival
https://www.montreuxjazzfestival.com/en/

Notable headline artists:

Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, Count Basie

Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Bo Diddly, Muddy Waters

Led Zeplin, David Bowie, Elton John, Prince, Earth Wind and Fire, R.E.M, ZZ Top

1971 Fire at the Montreux Casino during a Frank Zappa concert

BONUS: Do you know the song?

The story of Smoke on the Water https://musicenthusiast.net/2019/07/26/stories-behind-the-songs-smoke-on-the-water/

Frank Zappa Live at Montreux

FINAL CLUE

This is Swiss company headquartered in Vevey, Switzerland is the largest food company in the world. Among its own products it also owns brands including Perrier, Purina, Friskies, Toll House, Nescafe, Nesquick, Hot Pockets, and Stoufers.

DISCOUNTS AND OFFERS

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Votatu
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Anarchy Outdoors
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AUGUST CONTEST

Techhunter 1-6×28 LPVO with ED glass, 28º FOV, and lifetime warranty. @Techhunters_Optics

Nitecore TIP3 mini EDC

Votatu V848 IR illuminator and IR laser

BRAND QUIZ DRAWING

This weekend, I saw a Tesla RoboTaxi CyberCab in the wild. 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:

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

DiscoveryOpt Interview this Friday

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This ride-share and transportation company who’s name comes from the German word for “over” or “above”. But in German, the word is spelled with an umlaut.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Tesla RoboTaxi

Tesla Robotaxi is a ride-hailing service operated by Tesla, Inc. that uses its vehicles equipped with its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software. You can download the App now on Apple and Android.

The service launched last year in Austin, Texas. It currently operates in Texas in Austin, Dallas and Houston, and in Miami, Florida. In 2024, Tesla unveiled the CyberCab, a 2-seater purpose-built vehicle. This week, I saw one in the wild. I was surprised to see a driver in it. But like Waymo when it first rolled out, San Francisco required a human “driver” as a safety precaution.

• No steering wheel

• 2-seater coup

• No rear window

• No side mirrors

• Inductive charging (park space auto-charge)

• ~297 mile chage range

Robotaxi was a software idea announced by Elon back in 2016. It was intended to allow Tesla car owners with FSD software to automatically “rent” out their cars when they weren’t driving them.

The Robottaxi and Cybercab have the potential to be yet another huge market disruption like Tesla cars were to Detroit. Or how Starlink is poised to disrupt internet and cell phone companies.

FINAL CLUE

This ride-share company was started by San Francisco tech executives Garrett Camp and Travis Kalanick in 2010 when they couldn’t hail a cab during New Year’s Eve and were annoyed at the cost of hiring a limo.

Along with competitors like “Lyft”, they created the Ride-Share marketplace as a way around the municipal monopolies of the taxi and the limousine industry.

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AUGUST CONTEST

MYSTERY BRAND CONTEST

We’re going to choose the winners of my Breast Cancer GoFundMe contest. 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.

Read my notes: https://moondogindustries.com/tmi-260805-gofundme-drawing/

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EARLYBIRD Clue:

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

DiscoveryOpt Interview this Friday

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This two-letter technology company is the largest US maker of XRay, MRI and CT scanners used to diagnose and treat breast cancer.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

PRIZE LIST

FINAL CLUE

In 2023, this 2-letter name, US health technology company was spun off ifrom its namesake parent company; one of the largest industrial technology and jet engine makers in the world.

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AUGUST CONTEST

MYSTERY BRAND CONTEST

An OpenAI model went rogue last week. Sound too much like HAL in 2001? Speaking of 2001, let me share some interesting trivia and oddities from that movie. 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:
NOTE: Don’t forget the space in the 2-word name

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

DiscoveryOpt Interview this Friday

Preview of DiscoveryOpt LHT 3-18x Hold Em Fold Em

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This iconic airline was founded in 1927 by two U.S. Army Air Corps majors. Under CEO Juan Trippe, the airline famously flew flying boats from North America to South America, Transatlantic, and Transpacific.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd9w22n9e4go

Last week, OpenAI reported that one of its experimental AI models “escaped” a supposed isolated digital testing environment on their server and hacked an outside server of a partner company Hugging Face (Alien much?)

This marks the first REPORTED rogue AI escaping its owners controls.

Terminator’s SkyNet and 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL come to mind. Did you ever wonder why HAL kills humans? Here’s a rabbit hole about 2001.

QUESTIONS ABOUT 2001

Why did HAL kill the crew?
Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrik co-wrote the story.

• Kubrik thought HAL was trying to protect a secret mission. It was reprogrammed at the last minute to establish contact with the Black Monolith Aliens on Jupiter. The human crew was a danger to the mission.

• Clarke thought HAL was suffering from conflicting programming. It was told to both keep the Secret Mission from the crew but HAL was also programmed to provide the crew with all information required for their exploration mission to Jupiter. It suffered a nervous breakdown (later discussed in the sequel movie 2010). It killed the crew to resolve the programming conflict: no humans, no conflict.

Why does HAL sing a song?

The song is “Daisy Bell” which was published in 1892 and in 1961 Bell Labs researchers demonstrated advanced Voice Synthesis to author Arthur C. Clarke, who used the experience in writing the ending of HAL.

HAL is not IBM

There’s a rummor that HAL was hidden dig at IBM, one letter transposed. Clarke claims this was a pure or subconcious coincidence and not anything he intended. HAL stands for (Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer). The IBM brand was featured in various computer and gear props the film 2001.

What the hell was that room at the end of the movie?

From the Clarke novelization of 2001, I learned the room was constructed by the advanced Alien beings to study humans by letting astronaut Frank Bowman live out the rest of his life in it. It’s a room created by people who only know human homes from TV broadcasts or remote observations. They feed him. He grows old and dies. Maybe goes a little insane from the isolation?

When he dies, his consciousness joins the Aliens and they turn him into a Godlike “Star Child” that we see at the end of the movie.

Salvador Dali Sacrament of the Last Supper

Moon Monolith

What happened on the moon with the monolith sending out a noise that attacked the astronauts?

• The beginning the movie, a scientist travels to the moon because of the discovery of the Black Monolith buried under the surface.

This discovery is the first evidence of Alien life and intelligence older than humans, because the monolith was buried millions of years ago.

The noise is a powerful radio signal emitted by the monolith, creating loud static blast in the astronauts’ helmets.

The sunlight touches the monolith for the first time in millions of years, triggers the radio blast. This radio blast is targeted towards Jupiter (Saturn in the novel), which instigates the Discovery Mission with HAL later in the movie.

Why do they walk funny?

In the scenes of the Space Clipper shuttle traveling from Earth to the spinning space station, and the voyage to the moon base, we see Stewardesses serving passengers food walking in a odd way. This is because their feet are covered in Velcro to keep them from floating.

Faked Moon Landing Hoax?

The fringe theory is that the US Gov hired Stanley Kubrick to create a fake Apollo moon landing using special effects from his movie 2001, which was released in 1968, a year before Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969.

• The sets for 2001 were built in MGM studios in England, so it would be an international conspiracy. Anybody who’s worked with anybody in the movie industry knows that nobody can keep their mouth shut. Somebody always brags about everything and takes credit for things they didn’t do.

• They would have had to film the fake landing at about the same time as the movie was being filmed in 1968. But the scenes on the moon in 2001 didn’t look like the real moon landing images.

• The TV video of the moon landings were low-res but there are hundreds of high-resolution 70mm and 35mm film negatives and photos from the moon. That level of detail could not be created on a movie set.

Anduril’s new Thunder robot attack vs. SkyNet HunterKiller

FINAL BRAND CONTEST CLUE

By the 1950’s this US airline brand dominated international travel and for many personified Jetset travel. But due to international regulation and domestic US deregulation in the 1980’s squeezing its business model. This pioneer in air travel filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors in 1991. Its brand name has been licensed to various failed charter airlines.

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JULY CONTEST
FINAL WEEK TO ENTER 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.

https://moondogindustries.com/contest-july26-gofundme/

MYSTERY BRAND CONTEST

Let’s geek out on the anime, Shangri-La Frontier. 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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Cyclops Joe is back

EARLYBIRD Clue:

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This classic video game brand derives its name from the ancient Japanese board game Go; it means “to hit a target” in Japanese. It created iconic video games such as Pong, Combat, Adventure, and Asteroids.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

Shangri-La Frontier^[c] is a Japanese web novel series published in 2017, which was adapted into a popular manga in 2020. An anime television series adaptation produced by C2C aired in Japan from October 2023 to 2025. An English dub was released on Crunchyroll in 2023 but I didn’t discover it until last week.

The series main character is Rakuro Hizutome who’s in-game handle is Sunraku (サンラク, Sanraku). He’s a Japanese teen in the near-future where fully immersive “full-dive” VR games are played.

The series covers his in-game adventures in a triple-A MMORPG named Shangri-La Frontier with his online and IRL friends.

• Unlike every other Isekai, this series isn’t a reincarnation scenario or a story where the user is “trapped in a video game world”. It’s just a video game, where the players have real lives. Unlike romance video games shows, the video in-game is the main story and the mechanics and play is realistic.

• Realistic gaming details from MMORP and RPG video games like Boss Battle mechanics and combat tactics.

• The hero skips and ignores the tutorial info and missed out on key upgrade mechanics and only learns about these basic game mechanics later at level 40.

• Negatives: Does have Rei Saiga who falls into the Shonen female love interest clichés

• Inspired by games like Roblox, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and World of Warcraft

– WoW came from the game Warcraft, which was a failed attempt to make a Warhammer 40K game.

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FINAL BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This brand is THE original video game company, founded in Sunnyvale, California, in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. It pioneered arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers.

JULY CONTEST

BREAST CANCER GOFUNDME

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.

https://moondogindustries.com/contest-july26-gofundme/

JUNE CONTEST DRAWING

CVLife contest

Get an early peek at The Etruscans exhibit I visited at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum. 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:

VIDEOS THIS WEEK

Moondog2A

Moondog Reviews

Moondog Go

BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This Italian luxury fashion house was founded in Florence, Tuscany in 1921. It got its start by making high-quality leather luggage before expanding into luxury clothing and accessories.

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

E Pluribus Unum, Semper Fidelis, these are words that define America. But they are not English, they are Latin. They come to us from the Roman Republic. But Rome didn’t emerge from orphan twins raised by a she-wolf, it came from an older Italian culture and civilization, the Etruscans.

At the San Francisco Legion of Honor art museum, I visited a new exhibit The Etruscans. Many of the pieces were lent for the exhibit from the Vatican museum and are examples of Etruscan art, burial artifacts, and personal items. It also included a copy of one of the oldest pieces of Etruscan literature that was recovered from an Egyptian mummy.

• The Roman arch and aqueduct are Etruscan inventions

• Roman numerals are actually Etruscan numbers

• Our alphabet comes from Latin, which was derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which is a simplified form of the Greek alphabet (minus some letters like omega and xi)

• Words like “Person” and “Rome” are Etruscan words

• Etruscan, Basque, Finnish, and Hungarian is not Indo-European. But there are no modern Etruscan speakers.

• Etruscan means people of Etruia or Truia; what is today Tuscany (Tusci < Trusci < Etrusci). The Tuscan dialect of Latin is the basis for modern Italian.

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FINAL BRAND CONTEST CLUE

This Italian fashion brand has become synonymous with luxury. Its name has become military and urban slang for high-priced or top-tier equipment.

JULY CONTEST

BREAST CANCER GOFUNDME

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.

https://moondogindustries.com/contest-july26-gofundme/

JUNE CONTEST DRAWING

CVLife contest