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The Freaker B-Truck killin' it at POOL Trade Show NYC!

It use to be "say it with a milkshake." Then it was "say it with flowers." Sometimes it's "say it with cupcakes, or brownies, or donuts, or whatever heart-attack edible is in style right now." One corner of the internet insists on "saying it with sea otters" And then there is the "say it with emojis" movement. (YES, WE SAID THE WORD "MOVEMENT" IN REGARDS TO EMOJIS. BACK OFF.)  Today, we're saying it with cheeky letterpressed cards. Because #classy. WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have 5 care packages to give away featuring assorted card packs from Lady Pilot Letterpress!Lady Pilot Letterpress is an old school, super charm, one woman operation. Emily Wismer surrounds herself with greasy metal and traditional pressing tools to create little reminders that we do not live in a boring world. Sometimes crude, sometimes sweet, always riddled with sass, Lady Pilot has a card for every occasion, mood and whoopsies! And you can rest easy knowing that everything is handmade with love in North Carolina. Each care package also comes with a Freaker of your choice! HOW TO ENTER:Get on Twitter and let us know what you "say it with" with the hashtag #FreakerPilot for your chance to win! And yes, please, interpret that however you like. Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Holy guacamole! Pop Culture is freaking everything this week!  This was found in the July 14th issue of Us Weekly Magazine. Big thanks to whoever is responsible for this little piece of infiltration! If you ever decide to reveal yourself, we owe you a beer! Aye yaye aiye!    

You're not my mom, Fence. Hi chickadees!! Here is your news briefing of important events inside of the internet.  Ready? Go:

In order to stay alive, we all have to drink liquids. This is not up for debate. The only thing left to figure out is how to stay hydrated, which can be difficult if you chronically lose your bottles. Instead of withering up and dying, why don't you just get a drinking vessel that is so awesome that it's impossible to lose?! We care about your health and are here to help! Ladies & gentlemen, give a warm welcome-back to Cuppow Packs! Cuppows are the original canning-jar adaptors that turn your jars into travel mugs! Plus, they're BPA free, made in America, reusable, sustainable, the whole kit & caboodle. Each Cuppow pack comes with a canning jar, a Cuppow, a Freaker, and a little extra surprise (*wink*)!

Stop staring at Keira Knightly for 2 seconds & check out the subway cars in her new movie Begin Again!! Big props to production designer, Chad Keith! High fives to infinity and beyond.

  Summer is a time for roadtrips, lemonade, puppies and picnics. We try to stay as relevant as possible with Freaker Friday, but we can't physically wrap and mail a roadtrip. Lemonade is always best homemade. Puppies? Illegal for a reason. Picnics, however. Picnics. We're about to revolutionize your picnics, with a little help from our friends. Ready? Go: WHAT YOU'RE WINNING: This week we have 5 care packages to give away featuring the brilliance of Yield Design House! Yield Design House is the brainchild of an adorable duo, Rachel and Andrew, who relocated to San Francisco from North Carolina. Their products radiate a simple playfulness that's refreshing, utilitarian, and a whole wad of fun.Made in El Paso, Texas, their Picnic Bag unfolds from bag to blanket in one zip! Yes, really. I know, it's genius. The Kickstarter campaign for the bags also hosts one of the greatest lines in crowd-funding history: "[The Yield Picnic Bag] reclaims picnics from the days of over-planning.” And to that, we fist pump and yell SÍ SE PUEDE, PICNIC SKEPTICS!!! Each care package also comes with a Main Street Freaker! HOW TO ENTER: Get on Instagram and show us how you summer with the hashtag #YieldPicnic for your chance to win! Winners announced in our Tuesday newsletter!

Via @LoveTheClassic This week in Stolen Instagram Photos!  We're big fans of online social platforms. The boundaries of community have been shattered! The flow of ideas is seamless! The plagiarism of user-uploaded photos is shameless!  Here are some of our favorite snapshots we've found on the internet in the past week. Thanks for the visuals, everybody everywhere!

Ladies and gentlemen - Congratulations. You made it. You are smack-dab in the middle of summer. Is it everything you've ever dreamed of? Just like a fabled midsummer's night dream? Maybe that's just a Shakespeare thing. Picnics everyday!? Maybe that's just a special-occasion thing. Beer in your moonshine!? I hope that's just a Southern thing. If there's one thing that's universally definitive of summer, it's a good roadtrip. Windows? Down. Tea? Iced. Route? 66. Game on, kiddos. Give a warm welcome to the newest member of our Freaker family... Main Street!

Little known Freaker Fact: As a child, our Director of Operations Alisha wanted to be a scientist-of-sounds. Soundiologist, for short. We're a standup company, and there's only one standup-company thing to do upon finding out that your accountant is probably an undercover sound-spy working for the revolutionary group known as Koozies Of Sound. We freaked her Interkom moments before she was able to covertly share classified state sound-secrets. And just like that - BAM! - Freakers saved the world.Again. You're welcome.  The end. 

We usually announce the winners of Freaker Friday exclusively in our Tuesday newsletter. Today is special. Last week we asked you to share with us the most American thing you could find.  Is there a better way to celebrate Canada Day than praising extreme American patriotism? (Spoiler Alert: No. No there is not.) Without further ado, we present some of the most American Freaker Friday submissions of the past week: 

Momo, the very Canadian border collie celebrates Kanyedia. This Canada Day, we'd like to take a moment and wish our northern neighbors the happiest day filled with the honorable Canadian spirit. We're not Canadian, so we're not 100% on what the Honorable Canadian Spirit entails, but we have some guesses. The safest guess = if we WERE Canadian and this Canada Day WAS filled with Canadian hobbies, we would probably have a much more peaceful afternoon with brunch and Bieber and beers and bears.  Good work, Canada. You're doing great. Happy Birthday.