Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Monday 3/24/2025

Episode Date: March 24, 2025

Today I will day a YouTube Insight One on One talking about the difference between Side, Hustle, Survive Hustle and Thrive Hustle.

Good morning everyone it is now 643 I was up by about six, but I got an extra little mouth of feet out there So take care of my little buddies. I now have two guinea pigs again and my little hamster my little rocket he's pretty easy peasy and My bird so it's my little furry friends for furry feather friends family I have so we like to get them done first get them all cleaned up I do them clean my first thing in the mornings all my guys and then I do it again right before I go to bed so they get a clean food

water everything they're bedding we do it twice a day because especially the guinea pigs they need to be Those I pull everything out and completely the hamster. I just clean them up a little bit And my bird just the bottom cage and the water and all that but my guinea pigs they get fresh bedding First thing in the morning and then again right before I go to bed So because I usually sleep for a good 12 hours, so I get them all cleaned up Then when I get up it's time for me to get them going again so I like that's my little thing I really help some it's great for the caring yeah and they depend on you 110% you know what I mean so without you they would not do well so I'll make sure they always do good all

right so yesterday I pulled out my JFJ easy pro disc machines we did a good hour of Cleaning Gamecube discs mostly clean the loose Gamecube discs. I have then I found a few others in a case That machine well, it's basically best for buffing out stuff You can get some of the scratches out if it's a really deep scratch You can't really resurface. I wouldn't I've never resurfaced one I guess you could try you're able to because the actual label is on I mean the actual Gaming code is on the back end of the label on the bottom So shinier and cleaner you can get it the better it will read

There's any sort of a scratch not or not scratch, but like a piece of chip ding or some of the label missing Then the game is not gonna work pretty much. So it'll it'll help save maybe 30% out of the 70 that Overall, I mean out of the hundred Maybe 30% of them I could maybe get to work again So we did that for a while. That was fun I found some most umpa-gupa as I call it some of the goopy stuff to blue So I found another one so I could keep going We did that for a while just a live feed and I also did it as a video as always

And earlier I was putting away we still had Christmas stuff up, so I had my my Santa So I made another stop-motion video and I called it sanely Santa so we did that for about an hour So that was pretty cool. I came out alright. They're just silly little things just some extra Silly stuff to do on the side As I come up with some new ideas things other than gaming and vintage computing But that's probably my main focus always because it's kind of what I do all day long so and then we had a couple orders so we got those out and the guy from a couple days ago did

cancel their return so that's cool makes life a little bit easier for me didn't have to deal with that but it was actually he got an extra stuff and not missing parts at all so I'm not sure what that was all about all right so let's check all right let's see the idea let's see what's going on for the news Lots of government stuff It's gonna get really really crazy 23andme files with bankruptcy one of those Ancestry kind of things I always want to do that, but I just never have it. I haven't done it I think when I'm like 60 I'll do it obviously not I use 23andme now No, no place like that goes bankrupt.

So let's see the news. So we'll see lots of things for Death Stranding 2. I'm so excited about that. It's only a few months away, so it's pretty cool. I'm playing, yesterday I played one of the Dark Anthologies, House of Ashes by Supermassive Games. I'm playing yesterday. I played one of the dark anthologies house of ashes by supermassive games I'm a huge fan of these of that series

The shadow of ashes is I mean the house of ashes has been the best one It's almost like being in a movie, but you kind of play it so it's really cool very very big fan Just lots of times. I'm just not into shooting killing things all the time So those kind of games are really fun to just sit back and kind of go through a slow motion once a while you have To hit your directional one way for a quick During a scene then that's pretty it. That's all you do. It's pretty cool big fan, and the graphics are fantastic I'm gonna go back and play the other two a Little hope I have it I started to play it, but I never quite got into it then but now I'm into it

And then there's there's one of the one made of something And then I was playing the one Devil in me, but then I got stuck something where I couldn't get any further on a part and it wasn't because I couldn't do it because it wasn't there wasn't there was some sort of bug a handle I was missing the handle for a power supply and I no longer had it and there was no way to get it so I just deleted it so let's see what's going on this morning let's check out Etsy's been really quiet everything's been really quiet.

Everything's been really quiet actually. Oh maybe I got an order. I'd like to get some orders. All you can do is just kind of list stuff. So this is for the N64. It's the three metal plates, your three metal plates. I've got lots of those so we can easily do that. So we'll get that out. So it's one order there. Let's check my... I always gotta look at the feedback. It's in a different place on Etsy than on eBay. Gotta get some more stuff listed for Etsy because I'm paying for a service to transfer stuff. Yet I haven't been transferring anything.

So let's... I'm gonna have to cut down down a lot of these services soon. I'll transfer a little bit more, and then... That's expensive, that's like 30 bucks a month for that. So we can't, I can't leave that going on. Things have been too slow to keep doing that, so we're gonna get that one out of there. But we'll transfer some stuff for this month.

I'll end the service and just write it out for the end of the month kind of thing. All right, so let's go to RSS feed, see if anybody's checking out my message in a bottle over the internet ocean. That's what we always call it. I think it's kind of fun. Because basically that's what it is. I just kind of tell you what's going on and then you can come hang out.

I used to do,'m gonna do some more It's just I just kind of ran out of time to do a mid afternoon one But I like my morning one because I'm doing mornings anyway. I didn't have any downloads So my downloads have gone way down. I was getting two or three at a time, but Significantly less or none But this still goes to my YouTube as well. So if you do see this and I mean hear this and you're not on YouTube make sure you check out my YouTube for all my videos and I'm always trying to do new stuff mix it up so you can learn about new things gaming vintage computing and all that good stuff

so and then plus it also goes other places too and Again this is one of those things where there is options for monetize, but yet obviously I don't have any downloads So I'm not gonna get my ties, but I like to do it as in addition to all the other things I Do on YouTube to just kind of so that each each box is covered So let's see what YouTube's got going on here yesterday so I promoted a couple of videos I'm gonna get a big bill for that even at five dollars a pop I've been doing lots of five dollars so they add up but we've got some some views here. So we're at 28,848 subscribers. Average duration is 1 minute and 13 cents.

My revenue has not changed. $30. I never can get. I would be in shock if I ever saw even $40. I think once I had $40. I Just don't know. I just there's no really nothing else I can So let's see we have one comment here it says good vid good video. Let's see what he's talking about Xbox one 1540 motherboard removal. Oh, yeah, that's a while ago. Oh

Thank you. I always try to reply when I see a message. Okay so let's see here. So I did my easy pro video. I promoted that a little bit. Let's see yeah that got some video. I got some views. My sanley santa got a few views. Nothing special. My Sanley Santa got a few views, nothing special. So that's pretty cool. And then I threw up five bucks in there. And I also had done my... Oh, I tore down my Tandy 1000HX video. Yeah, so I had a few views on that. It's pretty cool. Anybody that's never seen a disc

cleaning machine? I got both of them three or four years ago when I was gonna sell a lot. I still have lots and lots of games to sell but it's just a real real pain especially if they're scratched. Even with the cleaning them I can make them nice and shiny but still I may have issues so but we may sell some of the ones I cleaned I pulled out my Diablo collection of old Diablo games most of them I think might work mostly Diablo 1 & 2 I had a hellfire in there but it's really bad I don't think it would ever work it It's cracked and all that. And then another one says Apocalypse. I don't know what that one is. I don't know what that game is. I did buff one of the regular discs. Like I had one machine set up for regular discs and then one machine with the smaller spinner for game cubes. So we were just doing, we went through a little

production line, a bunch of game cubeses So that's what we did yesterday and Then I listed a bunch of parts for my Tandy 1000HX So let's go see what's going on here on eBay. eBay is really quiet A couple things maybe hopefully I Can use a few sales. let's see what we got one sale two messages one response let's see what my sale is first no soundbox okay I can do those I have four of those issues, I can do those. I have four of those issues. Yeah, I can do that

See what my Feedback is here Item pristine fast shipping a plus. Oh that was from yesterday and 64 So for every I don't know a few hundred things I ship. Maybe I get one feedback I on the other hand give five full stop feedback no matter what as soon as I get the item only because that's what I would want right I always want to do it all right so says who are you shipping FedEx UPS these these neither switch neither so he asked me always Neither. Vantage. Free shipping is not free for me after all these the cheapest way possible is $8. Might cost out the door. would only be used for big oversized boxes.

I have to bring, local staples to ship. I never use FedEx. Oversized. That's my answer. This is two batteries. I've got those somewhere used there and there do you sell the cable for the board to I have a two dollar offer that's kind of the week I'm having it's been really really really slow for the do you sell the cable do you sell the board the power board and the jack I don't think I have any more of those. I don't think I have any more of those other cables.

So a $2 offer sums up my weekend. What can I do with $2? I don't understand that at all. good again it's gonna cost me eight dollars to ship it so that means I have to pay this guy six dollars just to ship it so I'm almost at the point now if I see a two dollar offer I'm just gonna block this guy and then just go find somebody else because If you're if you're coming in with that kind of a low offer There's no reason to ever do business with someone like that. They said I want to

Therefore that's what my business has been slow So we're gonna block that buyer because I need to deal with that. That's the other thing, really low offers, if you put change in your offer, I'm not a big fan of getting change, especially if it's a really low one with change. So let's just get that guy out of there. Or buyer, whatever it might be. So I have one order and then we have more of a message. So then it says UPS has lost too many... I've never lost... I've never lost Never says then you need to avoid

Never lost a package That is what tracking is for. Tracking is for. Then, you need to avoid me. Ah, so, So, good luck. So that's one less order. We just had the one order today. Let's see what else we have going on. We'll list some other stuff today. There are a few things going on They eBay changed instant shipping instant Tracking I mean instant deposits to to

Not charging you two dollars and then then it started now it says two dollars, but yet when I get it, it's instantly I don't want to two dollars. I'm sure what that's all about maybe some it says something about some people can't get that instant from the bank and Looks like mine chose it from the bank and not through my credit card if it goes through the credit card They take two dollars. They originally started taking two percent so it was like another two percent. You're like, oh crap, another two percent on top of everything else that eBay takes. But there's really no else place I can sell stuff. Like in volume that I used to. Not necessarily what I sell now but. So this is why we kind of added YouTube into the picture.

I was trying to look for another form of income to generate some, but I just can't seem to get this to do it. No matter what I try, it just won't. I've got to get lots of views. I think I just saw 1,300,000 views I've had on my videos. So that's a lot. If I could get one penny, even if I had all those views, it would be great. But I just saw 1,300,000 views I've had on my videos. So that's a lot. If I could get one penny, even if I had all those views, it'd be great.

But I just don't. For some reason, the commercials for whatever you might generate from that are just, they're only, and I always say they're only in the cents between like 50 cents. I'm gonna do another one on one. We'll go through it. We'll talk.

I haven't done a one on one in a while, so. I'm due on one. We'll go through it. We'll talk. I haven't done a one on one in a while, so I'm due for one. We'll go through where I'm at so you can see, cause you always see all the other, um, professional in the, the top tier, people talking about how they're making all this money and all this stuff and how they can get people to get all these, uh, hours and all that. I'm the opposite end someone who's putting in a lot of time i think over time probably

and yet i just still can't get it to even uh... my ebay i call my ebay a survival hustle and it was at some points it can be a thrive hustle you start with a side hustle and then you can for me move on to a survival hustle which. You start out with a side hustle, right? Then you can for me move on to a survival hustle, meaning that's all you do. Side hustle will be something you do on the side of having another job. But I like to work from home. And then if you can really get it to go, then you're on a thrive hustle. Meaning you're doing really good. So my eBay mostly is a survival hustle.

Once in a while I can do better but lately it's been a survival hustle. I'm just making enough to get by. YouTube I just can't get it to get there. Even get to a survival hustle. It's not even a side hustle. It's basically just a side project more than anything. But I'm doing stuff anyway. I'm gonna keep doing it.

Maybe something will break. I got the amount of subscribers to break. I mean, again, I'm at 28,848. I've had 9,331 subscribers in the last 28 days, which is, to me, that's fantastic. Yeah, it just, nobody's really watching. So people just come in and then for a few minutes. But I can only do me. To me that's fantastic. Yeah, it just, nobody's really watching. So people just come in and then for a few minutes.

But I can only do me. I always say that. You can only just do you, whatever that is. So this is what I'm doing. And if it just doesn't break, it doesn't break. But we'll keep doing it and complain about it. I'll do a one on one maybe today. Because I only have one order and we'll talk About the honest side of being on my side here. I'm sure there's lots of subscribers

I mean lots of creators and YouTube people with their channels that Just can't seem to get Anything really going monetarily wise. I do have shopping. I was trying to get into Trying to do some of that, but I haven't quite figured that out yet And mostly you have to sit and talk about a product and then try to get a commission off it So it's not something I really want to do. It's not really what it's not doing me sitting here talking about a product I have nothing. Oh, I did get a phone the other day. I got a Samsung a 16 phone in so I talked about that for a little bit Yeah, I don't know how I would get commission off of that.

It ended up being pretty much the same as the A14. No real big difference. Camera I think was better. Had another option. So let's see what we're at. So we'll, yeah, maybe we'll get to the one on one today. I've been into, my last one on one I did I messed up my camera and ended up not seeing me at all I'll put a silly hat on we'll we'll just go through where I'm at I'll talk about the difference between a side hustle a survival hustle and of course you always want to get the thrive hustle if you can get there so we'll talk about all that stuff later on

today and I'll put my silly hat on and we'll make sure the video comes out right because the last one I had to do as a podcast but the live feed will be 101 too so there's always two live feed and the video itself. Alright you guys everyone have a good day and enjoy the first day of work week and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Alright bye.