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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This multi-national food company was founded in 1867 by a Swiss confectioner and invented milk-chocolate and powdered baby formula.
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).
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.
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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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.
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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.
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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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This two-letter technology company is the largest US maker of XRay, MRI and CT scanners used to diagnose and treat breast cancer.
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.
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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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.
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
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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.
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.
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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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.
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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.
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.
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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This Italian luxuryfashion 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.
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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.
This Italian fashion brand has become synonymous with luxury. Its name has become military and urban slang for high-priced or top-tier equipment.
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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.
Meet the creators of FlikTok, a new App that lets you earn Crypto by watching movie, TV, and video game previews. 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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BEVERLY HILLS, CA – MAY 04: Monica Brady and Producer, Golden Trailer Awards Evelyn Brady-Watters attend the 17th Annual Golden Trailer Awards held at Saban Theatre on May 4, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for The Golden Trailer Awards )
Sisters Evelyn and Monica Brady are the founders of the Golden Trailer Awards and now the creators of FlikTok a new App available for Android and Apple iOS that allows users to earn Crypto for watching trailers.
This is the oldest surviving film studio in the United States. Founded in New York in 1912 it has produced legendary films such as E.T., Jaws, Jurassic Park, Scarface, Frankenstein, and Psycho.
This motion picture company was one of the first to offer tours of its filming backlot. Today, their Studio Tour is one of the top tourist attractions in Los Angeles and one of the most popular amusement parks in the world.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
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Amazon Prime Day (June 23–26): We will offer a 20% discount on our Amazon store.
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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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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.
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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.
