Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Friday the 4th of July 7/4/2025

Episode Date: July 4, 2025

It is Independence Day. Be Safe with all Fireworks and Alcohol this Holiday Weekend.

Good morning everyone, it is now 5 56 a.m. I got up early again, went to bed a little bit early. Yesterday was really muggy out. But I did yesterday, got the lawn done yesterday, front and back, and we did a whole video so you can see me doing the whole thing. It's pretty cool. I use an electric mower, of course a Ryobi, and my battery still holds charge through the whole thing which is pretty awesome

Like and I always keep saying I could not not imagine having a gas more every time I look around see a Neighbor pushing around a gas more. I'm like, oh, please Can't get an electric one someday. I'll get an electric car Someday probably not but I'd like to get an electric car should say and I bet you had that would be like Oh, I never go back to a gas car again, especially with electric car for me would be awesome because I literally just go around town That's all the place I go So it'd be perfect. So maybe someday I'll be able to afford to get one. We'll see we'll keep plugging away. Maybe we'll Get something to go a little bit better and maybe we're gonna afford Ford to get a gas car, I mean an electric car someday.

Then yesterday we did, um, did we do anything else? A video? I don't think I did. Oh yeah, we did PS3 Fats. I tore down the rest of my Model Es. Cok-002s. I figured out where the chip was that's different. The one that has the original PS2 chip on it is the C ok dash 001 and then I pulled an L first time I've ever opened up an L and inside the L L and P are the same motherboards I don't know if it's the same model I haven't quite looked at yet but it actually looks like the shape of an L it's a lot smaller the heatsink is a lot smaller less though the yeah wax it's a what's a

completely different compared to the car radiator heatsink in the other in the Cok-01 and 2's so that was fun so I learned something new the wifi board's right on the on the board so obviously the tech was a lot better as the models going further from the a all the way to the P The tech got better. It's better energy and They work better. All right, so let's see what's going on this morning. Oh today's 4th of July. So today is July 4th

2025 so happy 4th 2025. So happy 4th of July. Lots of firework accidents everywhere. I've seen a couple more firework accidents. The professional firework accidents too and places that where they make them, there's been a lot of that. So fireworks, I don't mess around with that stuff.

It's just silly. Just make it go boom. But it's cool to hear professional we usually have one or two hair in town that'll go off maybe tonight for professional ones but they make a mess too so so the rogue alley the Xbox will may reveal oh so last night, before I went to bed, my Xbox, talking about Xboxes here, Meta, Xbox Meta 3S came in. I haven't taken out of the box, but unfortunately the box itself from UPS got really wrecked. So I'm hoping the box inside isn't damaged.

Because if it is, I would have to return it because I want to use it as a collectible or just to resell it but if it's all damaged that would be a bummer so we'll look at that so that's one of my main things we're gonna look at today it's my Meta 3s and we did find out that the 3s is not as good as the Metaquest 3 we have a wimpier Lenses in the 3s, which is kind of a bummer. I paid more for the Xbox version Yeah, I get a crappier Lenses and thicker than the more high-tech lenses that are in Three I thought was the opposite I thought the 3s was better, but it's not besides that everything else. I believe it was the opposite, I thought the 3S was better but it's not. Besides that everything else I believe is the same.

It's just the lenses, I wonder why they had to give you crappier lenses. But we'll find out. I can't really use VRs that much but we're going to try to do some other things with it. And if not, worst case scenario I'll just resell it on eBay. They're a lot more expensive on eBay. I would just want to get my money back. So we'll see.

I sold a laptop yesterday. One of my laptops I was using so I got rid of one of them. A couple of things I'm working on. Some computer stuff. Some more laptops to sell. A couple older ones I'm working on. So always doing some fun stuff. Let's see what's going on in the news. Again, all kinds of... here in Westlou,

not Westlou, but in Rhode Island we had some firework problems. Some people got really hurt and some people didn't even make it. That warehouse fire wire it's terrible so let's see what we can come up with here for Etsy. Been a dud? Maybe I have an order on Etsy that'd be exciting I'm just gonna keep it going oh oh we had a couple good who had three orders of oh good no good order so alright, so this makes it worth it so it's a Sega Sega I have a couple of Sega Saturn stuff I just probably decided to listen some Sega Saturn top cover parts for my eBay and then to Sega power buttons Cool, and they're all going New York, so it's my first big order on Etsy in quite some time.

So that's why I have to keep it. Let's go to Parshmark. I have 327 listings here. See the difference, I would put a lot more listings on Etsy, but it's 20 cents per listing, so that adds up fast. So if I were to throw 327 listings on Etsy it's gonna cost me you know like a hundred bucks or something that's not fun I never know what's gonna sell it with doesn't so plus using the cross list that I did with eBay to Poshmark was one for one there was no things required but to do

it to Etsy or to do it to Makari I have to do each one one by one with a the chain to put while shipping weight so so I haven't really motivated myself to do my car yet. So we have a hunt 1012 followers here in Parchmark and This old anything but the difference here is I don't care because Parchmark has no I'm not being charged to list stuff So that's fine. I just leave it as a social media and I have a link Going back into my YouTube so pretty cool so we'll leave that on but we did have a big order but a good size order for Etsy so that's awesome they really help so. Alright so yeah the next box so let's look at RSS feed.

We had a few downloads yesterday. Pretty exciting. Today we're going to work on, we're going to go through my new meta quest. Check it out. First we're going to check to see if it survived the box. You'll see it later on. I haven't taken it out of the box.

I'm going to video, show on the box, and then we'll take it out of the box. I'm gonna video show on the box and then we'll take it out of the box. So it's all Videowed as evidence, I guess it's really damaged or something inside So we have one download. It's 71 in the last 30 days. That's pretty cool 676 all-time. Let's see Ashburn awesome Columbia Moscow Spain Barcelona time. Let's see Ashburn, awesome. Columbia, Moscow, Spain, Barcelona, Brooklyn, pretty awesome. Nice red dots along the world here. Quick video dude. Sometimes you can do turn podcasts into videos. So I already have

videos so this is just for podcasts Just my groundhog day every morning. See where I'm at. See what's going on So let's look. Oh, so we're gonna go to YouTube so we had a milestone and I also promoted my life in a double sheet, which was doing pretty well. I Put like 50 bucks on that, so that's a good size promotion.

So now I'm climbing now, 47,221 subscribers. And we've talked about it, I got my second payment of $126, so that gets me a total of $226 in change that I've made since being monetized back in October of last year So it's taking me many months to get a few hundred bucks, but unfortunately I promoted About $800 so technically I'm still negative Many hundred dollars, but it's still fun. I'd like to see it climb again

I went a whole month of June without any promotions it paid at all But I changed something up and it made a difference What I did is I took my short videos The shorts and you can actually only do fit you can do 15 seconds. I named them flash 15 seconds and Then I do the short as well and that made a significantly a lots more views And then I do the short as well. And that made a significantly lots more views per day. And I had a day where I had 167,444 views. Not day, in the month rather.

I should say the month of June. So that's my best month that I've had. And then what I do is I also take a long video which goes in the video section and then i also flash fifteen seconds that and a quick three minute and then also i do the video as its own long video so my teardown yesterday only had thirteen views

not going to promote anything else i just just that one promotion so we're really mixing it up and finally. I'm taking my one minute short and making it a video As well so that way you can see the whole thing because when you do a short it cuts off both sides Which is a real stupid thing something I like about YouTube on like about YouTube. TikTok doesn't do that. If you put if you do 30 minutes or a one minute, it's always the whole video, not cut off. So I saw I throw all different directions to try to get more views. Watch time is pretty much about the same one minute 39 seconds But my revenue is still $30.04 But now I'm starting at zero again To the next to try to get to my next

$100 because it takes Takes a hundred dollars in order to get paid again, and I've determined that it's now on the 23rd of the month to get paid again and I've determined that it's now on the 23rd of the month so if I get to the 23rd of the month and if I have a hundred dollars in my it's called Google AdSense that's what that's what we're getting paid through if I get there that's a hundred dollars and I get paid but you can't touch it otherwise or I would use that money probably to put in for promotions Hence getting more views then hopefully getting more revenue, but you can't you do that. So my life in double shave. I had 2.0 Let's see how many you've had so far now Let's see what my promotion on that one again, that's the only promotion I've done

It's really the only thing I can afford to do. Life in a Double Shave we're at two thousand eight hundred and thirty one views since I did that one. 27 seconds that was fun one did through it through the window I'm shaving through the window you can see me on the other side but I actually had a reflection so it was like almost like a two-way mirror it was pretty cool worked out alright things weren't on the other side but I actually had a reflection so it was like almost like a two-way mirror was pretty cool worked out alright things weren't on the window it would have been one big open window it would have been even better but didn't quite have that effect but it kind of kind of gave me what I wanted so it's pretty cool so yeah so that's and then let's see how much we've gone into this

so let's talk about promotions here things change significantly when you promote so I've spent $18.15 of my 50 $50 I put in for promotions for this love life in a double-shape I've gained 509 subscribers and we've had 2,088 888 views as opposed to not promoting which it would have been the last video I just did which was the teardown EL I 13 views only so that's the difference oh and I also did a let's do that let's change I also did I've been doing some promotions previews but setting them for later in the night so I did that yesterday that. That's not the same one is it? It can't be. So, we're really trying to mix it up fine. There's no magic button. I've just learned there just isn't a magic button. I've never found it. Just, you just create whatever it is you're doing and if it either really works

for you or it doesn't. I'm kind of like it does but Doesn't really get me anywhere, but still fun Alright, so let's go to eBay My lifeline here a few sales yesterday today is a holiday so that means I don't have to I Have no I don't have to get things out today. I Did however get things out all the way until The Male lady I have a female male person now

And I actually just as she was dropping off the the second round. She usually she comes picks up my mail I usually have a lot of boxes in there I don't go to the post office but I only had a few because I already gone and dropped off and then I She comes around for a second run and walk through for around my houses to drop the actual physical mail off and

I just happen to have one more box that came in for an order and just as she dropped it off and was walking away I had it in the box taped a label and ran out and handed it to her so that's the kind of seller I am I'm gonna try to get that out for you and I forgot to say it was a holiday so that was an extra order that just came in like within minutes I already had the item boxed and I caught the lady in time to get it mailed out yesterday so that's pretty awesome. I mean people do that. I even do it faster than Amazon. All right so we had a couple of feedbacks. Bueno product. Bueno meaning good.

no meaning good. It was 1215A motherboard. Wii U GamePad used a battery. Items are very good quality, condition is very good. For the value of the buck it's very good purchase. That's pretty cool. Batteries I don't know their exact how long they last. I just know they can charge. For the Wii U gamepad. Gamecube, metal basket and brackets, everything as described, so that's cool. We've been on a nice calm roll for no craziness or neutral feedback, so that's the way we like it. I went through that really rough patch, boy that was a rough patch. Alright so we got some con...

an offer of $5 see now because I added $4 to shipping people now knocking the offer down to $5 which is that's a heck no so that just brings me back down to where I'm not going to do it. The lowest I'll go is maybe $9, but not $5. That's a heck of a deal. This is $5 plus the 4, that's $9. That's not getting me anywhere. So if you do a couple bucks before, then what if we can do it? Okay. If you do a couple bucks before then we can do it. Okay, homebrewed.

I'm interested in the homebrewed specifically. I watched your recent video testing. If you're just within homebrewed, homebrew isn't a must as I'm ultimately just looking for a properly working RV01 motherboard to replace my 2.0 motherboard. I know listening requires... Okay, so,

let me, so he wants a one, let me find one, A01. Oh Once so I'm gonna so I'm letting know that yeah sure I'll feel I'll find you in a one they need once I know you need a Exact one I can Easily help I can easily help.

Okay. Yeah, so I'm fairly good about that. Sega Saturn... Where's the glossy cover? There isn't one. So there is. This is... This is empty. As detailed... as titled. That sells separate.

Oh, let's see what the question was. Where's the glossy cover? Do you have it on the black top, but not the gray one? I might, I might have a black one, but need to check. Okay. Xbox One West of Winter, do you... And would I have to format my... Yes, you need...

This is still a little... You you have to you always have to do offline update so this guy is asking about the Xbox One hard drives you always have to do an offline update using OSU1 and a thumb drive. These already have the OS system on it, but still not plug-in play. in play. The process has to be done no matter when swapping a hard drive. OS.

Lots of questions this morning. It's not plug and play. Plug and play. Has to be done when swiping hard drives. So now we'll go to my YouTube page, of course, and we're going to do offline update. So if I can use my YouTube also to help a buyer out. I can't put links on my eBay listings however I can always if there's a message most of the time I can do I can add a link showing how to do an offline update

This was a third that's fine what I'm looking for here offline update Fresh of update this is our fresh offline update Alright, so I got I found a video that I made obviously I'm gonna use one of my videos we'll view it so and then and then they can watch how to do an offline update right so that makes sense right did someone ask me a question I only we're gonna answer it I'm gonna give you a video that I did showing you what you need to do how awesome is that that's pretty awesome I think so now he'll get the concept if some people can't figure it out I used

to get lots of things returned with those those offline updates so I don't think I have any sales actually no I don't it was just all messages today I'll take a day off sold a couple things over the last few days so it's pretty cool available funds just a few bucks okay so maybe we'll get some more sales certainly not doing a $5 offer. Even though I have $4 now as my cushion, we're not doing that. That gets me back down to $9. So I just kept it at free shipping and took the $9 offer.

Same thing, right? Really doesn't change. Comes out the same. But it's always nice when someone just buys it at the listed price and I have a discount anyway so my listings are down to like nine dollars and seventy five cents and plus the four dollars so that's about what I can handle with 25% off I'm not I'm not still having no listings that are lower than thirteen dollars because I always have some sort

of a discount so therefore I gotta make a few bucks really I'd like to make five dollars per per listing for a sale I mean clarify bucks I mean that's same day shipping and all the work that goes into it even if it's a small little part I'd like to make five dollars up until I added shipping costs, $4 flat fee, I was only making like $1 or $2. Now selling less stuff, of course, I knew that was going to happen. So I just don't sell something that I would only make $1,

or do I hold off and wait till I can sell something and make $5? Right? You have to make the call. So that's the call I make. Plus I also get $5 up $4 towards any of my bigger sales. So I always know who helps the shipping cost a little bit too. Of course we don't use priority anymore.

I was priced out of priority a while ago. I just use ground advantage for everything now. And there's no worry about what the battery is or that silly stuff Because it just goes by truck and it still gets there on the same time two or three days Pretty cool. All right, so then gets it. So I want to have a good fourth of July weekend Please be careful all the fireworks if you have any especially the homemade ones are the ones from home Those are the worst Spocklers are the worst all that stuff keep away from me kids I remember when we used to be kid we used to shoot bottle rockets at each other things silly stuff please don't do that don't shoot bottle rockets together it's

pretty dangerous no professor never lost an eye or anything can't believe I lived through being a kid so keep them safe them safe. Be safe all weekend. This is an alcohol weekend. Same with alcohol on boats too. That's another dangerous thing. So be careful out there. It's pretty scary stuff. Alright, and I will talk to you tomorrow. Alright, bye.