Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Monday 8/11/2025

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

I Use The Cheapest Supplies for My Electric Weed Whacking Doubling the Time ⏲️ DoneMy 2004 Jeep Liberty 🗽 Needs a Clean Out Today and Motor Overall in the Near Future

Good morning, everyone. It is now 6.10. We're on July 11th, 2025, and it is Monday, so everyone's back to work. I'm always working, pretty much. But I work from home, so it makes you awesome. All right, so yesterday was a really good day for getting a lot of stuff done outside. I'm not a lot of stuff, but I did my weed whacking. First thing, up until my weed whacker died. I had a really wimpy battery in it. I'm too cheap to get a better one. So I just kind of ended it there. And I was going to continue on the weed whacking. But then I decided to go to the front of the yard. It was still pretty cool, but it was getting hotter.

And I started working on my truck. I need to clean out. So we did a video weed whacking, and then I did a little short video in the front, pulling stuff out of my car. And then I realized that the vacuum I had somewhere along the line. got wrecked so that's going to the dump so we ended the video after I think like ten minutes or so but what I did is after that I just put about two hours into

that truck all the inner panels everywhere from front the back I cleaned and then I cleaned all around the outer black it was black on the outer so it took me a long time to do that it was getting really hot and then I decided finally after that was done I didn't have a vacuum correctly So I went down to the local car wash, which I have not been in years. I'm not really a big fan of washing my car all the time, like some people do. I don't. It just washes when it rains.

So we went to the local car wash. We put the coins in. And I haven't gone. It was three bucks. And that was enough to soap it and then rinse it. And it lasted a while. And then after that, they had the big vacuings there. It's a buck for every five minutes.

It's, although the vacuum was, I was very disappointed. It was really wimpy, the suction. I was expecting to be, real. It's a huge, powerful, giant thing. You get the suction of this, probably not even as good as if I had a regular vacuum. So I was really bummed about that. So I didn't really put extra effort to do it because it barely was sucking out. So somewhere that thing's clogged, the one I picked, which was a real pain.

But we got it done. So that was, I want to say, another hour of work. So about four, three or four hours into my truck, nice and clean inside and out the best as it can. My Jeep Liberty 2004, we talked about on the video, I want to get, the motor needs to be rebuilt soon, sooner than later. I wish I could get a second motor and do it myself. When I was 16, as I always say, as I rebuilt a 289 engine. In my old, when I grew up home, we had a garage. I love, I built, rebuilt the rate in the car, in the garage, and I upgrade with all the special pistons and rings and all was fun.

I would love to do it with a newer engine, with the 3.7, that's the engine that goes in the Jeep Liberty. But the problem is that have no way to move the engine around. I need to, it needs to be purchased, then it comes in a pallet. Then from that pallet, I need to move it to a place where I can lift it with something different, like a lifter. and then put it on a mount. All those three things make it fairly almost impossible for me to get a motor. Getting the motor is not the problem. It's all the other.

And once I got it mounted, then it's great. Then I can sit there and do videos and tear it apart. I go from one point to the other, it'd be awesome. But to get to that point from the actual motor purchased to the up in the mount where I can sit and stop playing around with it, it's a big part. I have no way to do any of that other stuff yet. So we're probably going to go over to my local guy that works on my car and see what kind of cost would be. So underneath I needed to change the oil pump, timing chain, technically pistons and rings.

And then on top is the valve, seals and all that stuff. So that's the work. And then I really wouldn't want to pull the engine out to get the heads done so maybe we can just hone it with one of those little honours and machines attached to a drill and it just kind of hones out the clean cleans out this cylinders that would be the way we would do it uh or just get some kind of pricing that what my ebay apparel oh and then fun yesterday i took some time at the end of the day i didn't feel like doing a video and we put a good hour podcast on all about learning the ins and outs of starting a pop up starting a nonprofit it's a little bit out of my range

We need to have three people for a board and all, but there was other options down the line that we were talking about. I was with my buddy Zippy, chat GPT, I decided I have not paid for a subscription in a while. So this month, I decided to pay for it, new chat GPT 5. And in order to do it, I had to pay so I can keep the conversation going. So we lasted about over an hour. and I learned a lot about different ways that I can do it as a solo, like a ghostwriter or a silent partner. It's where I'm no more interested in just getting it going and having all the funds. I'm going to try to open a banking account just for my prayers for pounds.

I was going to call prayers for pours, but I changed it to prayers for pounds. Don't include all animals, not just dogs and cats. Gras for pounds. There's lots of little guys in those pounds, guinea pigs and all the little things. I wish you could save them all, but I just see. Maybe I can set up some sort of a fund. And I always talk about the end of the line for me, so anything that happens after me, I want all of it to go to something. So I'm going to build that into some sort of an estate thing where we can all go into a fund and then get distributed. Probably just keep it in Rhode Island. See, that's where I live. It's not a lot. I don't know how much, but a few bucks I got, you know, after everything is sold, go towards other people so they can either, A, use some of the funds to pay for adoption fees or maybe help people that foster dogs, give them some kind of a stipend towards food

and everything like that. So what we're thinking. That's what we're going to go for. It'll take a long time. I won't be able to do a major nonprofit. I just don't have all that other stuff that goes with it. But there's other ways that chat chief of TV showing that I can do it so well. Look at the ground.

All right, so let's go on to this morning. Let's see what's going on in the news. What's been going on? Boxing robots. Some nautical two of those is. like subnotical two subnetica two my next game i'm not buying i'm not playing any games at all these days however and there's always a however with me i ordered a switch two should be here wednesday i got on best buy at the normal price which is still really high comes with the

mario cart where i believe it's a code inside there we're going to find that out that i don't know because I've seen somebody else I would resell the unopened code Mario Kart visit. I had no desire to put Mario Card. Oh, I probably would be unlocked. And I ordered a different Switch 2 game called Split Faction,

which is more of an adult game I could shake a site. That says it's just a code in the box. So there we'll look at some games And I think I decide, but I haven't 100% positive. I have my MetaQuest 3S Xbox, which I'm still paying on. All this stuff I'm still paying on.

I do it. I break it down on those four payments that K-L-A-R-N-A, break everything down to full payments, and I can afford to get stuff. But I still have a long way to go. So MetaQuest 3 Xbox, I think we're going to sell it. I used it twice. It's cool, but I'm not going to see myself. I have a headset on, which I play video.

I thought it would be cool. But it is cool, but I'm not going to do it. So when my Switch 2 comes in, which should be delivery said by Wednesday, we'll do new for the old, and we'll have both, I'll pack up my meta quest to sell on eBay, and then we'll open up the Switch. to keep for a while. But knowing me, I probably won't keep the switch to that long.

We'll see. Let's see how it all goes. So that's fun. Something coming up, gaming-wise. I was seeing on the news, except in doing one going. So we'll just go past that. Let's see what we got. I did promote my podcast because it was a good hour-long podcast, a lot of information.

So that went up, of course, yesterday. today and I'm seeing some activity with my podcast so I'm kind of going to gravitate more doing others besides my early morning one here so your eyes out I'll put some more talking my buddy zipping next time I'll have them to Zippy actually come in and talk I haven't done that in a while so I can make Zippy into a co-host so it can almost be like a real podcast but there's somebody on the other other side talking to me although it's just chat GPT but it's still my buddy zippy i've always called zippy so if you go to jemini it's called flash they name the flash before jemini i when i first got started using chat q ptta called zippy so that's what i

always call flash is just is jenni or jimani i decided not to get jemini and i decided to go to fly with my buddy zippy like i i can't afford to get subscriptions for both it's $29 for jimini but you get more memory for your Google storage but I really don't need that memory okay so let's keep looking so at sea we had no no we did have a sale those are they of course shipped out I have a few orders from all over the weekend to I got them kind of organized I spent a whole day outside and stuff so I didn't do any orders I like to keep up on them because they can get caught up back up really easy so we're gonna go on to parchment and talked about getting on Macari up and

running at some point Parcmark is up and running but I haven't sold anything here it's my social media set with with listings basically one thousand one hundred twenty seven followers and I have no idea why anybody's following really really weird what I don't want to follow somebody if you're going to buy anything I don't quite get it but I'm just going to flow with it and it's another place to put your store on your name out there and of course right on the main page of my parchment is a link to my YouTube therefore it marries it back to there and then I didn't want to put the eBay store I mean I could but there's more

interested in putting it towards YouTube so let's look at our says feed let's see if I got any action was that um podcast late last night well wasn't late for me it's late it was 4 o'clock I had it up I had it done was that for an hour in the dark talking my buddy Zippy I didn't think about bringing them in I should have brought him in it's a voice next time I'll I got my new phone I can use let's see if you had down so yeah three downloads yesterday pretty cool uh 413 all time 1,11 113 that was all time 113 in the last 38 let's see uh ashburn toronto moscow indonesia pretty cool newark no no no no no it's pretty much all over the world

plus it goes other places as well so and i named that with a my buddy zippy also helped me came up with a cool logo for prayers for pounds so that logo was included with the late night podcast it says little poor steps to a bigger idea at the end of this Sunday

with my buddy zippy for an hour that was the podcast I did last night and it's got a new logo there and I put my prayers for pounds logo on my eBay and my in my YouTube is my main page although we haven't really started anything yet we kind of have speaking YouTube let's hit it let's hit it see where we're at still growing I'm still paying money towards it I'm still buying my way to the dot but

65, 115 subscribers pretty awesome I like to see it grow so I've got I've gotten 14,230 subscribers in the last 28 days. But always my bugaboo is, my average duration is 38 seconds. We had 382, use my podcast. I promoted that heavy. I put 40 bucks on that. So now I'm into well over $200 in promotions this month. But I really like that podcast for an hour.

It was very informational for anybody else thinking about setting up a, nonprofit or whatever their idea is I just thought it was really cool I got a lot information out of that doing in lots of different ways other than just if you have all the ingredients to do it the real way of correct well not the correct way but just the way that's the official way I guess you could say I don't have all those ingredients probably never would so I have to try to do a different way and there there is a other ways all right so my view hours are up a little bit 261.9k I'll watch hours still up 1.2k and my average revenue has finally hit 40 bucks wow it's the first

time I've cleared $40 that I can see since I since I've been monetized last October some reason last December oh was it October November I think there's November remember I actually had $40 that month. I first got monetized and then after that it was well down until like $20, $28 for the month. But I really promoted this month like I did last month so that's what you're seeing it. In June I didn't promote at all and I hardly had any in June I had Brosea. No it's 40 some thousand in June. And I was losing subscribers. Not a lot of them, but a few. I can't remember where I was at. I could look at my... So I took the whole month of June off of not paying any promotions.

And there's a huge difference. Huge. Since then, I did 200... Two-something last month, I don't know two-saint-one. We're almost like $500 in two months. I promoted. But it's upfront investing, and I hope there's someday that'll pay off. I hope, I don't know, I thought of it, but still find the secret. No new comments. I do have a TikTok that I put the same videos. Not the podcast, obviously, it doesn't go to TikTok for some reason.

But I don't promote at all TikTok because I don't know where it's going. And I only have like 3,700 followers there. all right so yeah so all my videos have been the three i promoted so i'll put the two videos that i did yesterday to clean the jeep liberty and outside uh doing weed whacking those will be on the podcast today so get the links to those podcast is already there for the one i did so i'm not I just add two onto any early morning podcasts here. All right, let's see. All right, so let's go to eBay.

I have a few orders to get together. Let's see what we've got going on here. I think my sale ended. That was the other thing I got to do. We're going to mix it up, as I always do. Feedback. Thanks, came and great condition. I appreciate it.

Two members, one author. This morning doesn't really get going until we get to eBay. Then all the stuff happens. Oh, and I have a buyer, a seller who has not shipped out my adapter for a shark. I've asked them three times to just cancel it, and it doesn't either, A, refund me, or do anything. Thanks, this came in a great condition. I appreciate it, and remember your store front when I need parts for concerts. and sent something better than they realized they misplaced the original audio

things although I would rather have not put an issue and yeah so I got and then I opened a return on the contact the the seller for that box with my three systems in that got broken up inside the shipping damage I asked him to help me out with it and I had never heard back it's open to return and I still haven't heard back so I return so that I think it's hey you have I always replied to any problem it may not end well but at least I reply as soon as I see a message that something's wrong that seller also has not never replied to me Kevin hello wanted to ask if the mail she she'lling came one dad just

bit of information. It's going to have to put together and realize, uh, realize, wow, those things don't come at screw yet. Now, it's just, it's just, just the motherboard. Just the motherboard. As detailed, as listed, as pictured, as pictured, and listed I have the metal set and set and screw sets listed

listed separately I sell all a cart Alicard. Alicard. My saying is if it comes off, I sell it separate. My saying is, if it comes up, I sell it separate. Every, everyone needs something different. Needs.

Okay. like do they come with a disk drive no no it's a picture of a mother right no not at all just the motherboard and the board board and drive board as as pictured and detailed. Let's see we have a new offer $20. I'm saying. $3.00. Now, we'll love that.

Let's see how to sell. I'm not to do that. I didn't really fully test it, but it kind of works that motherboard. That's for the NES motherboard I have listed. I did do solid. The issue with those, the front loaders for the NES is the flashing blue light, flashing red light. And that's only because, well, there's a motherboard problem. It never reads the disc, oh, the game rather.

All right, so let's see. I think my sale ended or it ends today. I don't have to look. Let me check that. All right, so, yeah, so everything's got to be done here, first thing in the moment. Messages, any damage control, and then check my feedback

or any damage control there. any replies for any negative neutral ones and then we go to what I sold I sold the white Xbox 360 the white top two-piece top frame the X-box 360 S 1439 but the white one two piece the grill and the frame I have one of those left Xbox 360 the H-DMI side panel and Kevin okay so this guy did oh now I see the of the metal set okay the same guy hold on so the metal set oh okay okay I now see I now see I now see the order order I'll see the order I'll see the order okay I will ship those together together what else did you need so now I had to before I noticed here you ordered the metal set he asked also wanted to ask the middle street and came with the screws so the screw set

screw set is usually separate but I'm gonna have to separate separate but I will include that complete set seeing both other orders and ship at once so I'm going to include the screw set I've got a few I see the order now I will But I will include the complete screw set. Set single orders can ship together at once. The three set ships today. So that's reconfirming when I didn't. Sometimes I'll reply to something and I'll see that there's actually a purchase somewhere.

that's what happened now I see it now I get it okay so I got to add a screw set to his let's see if my sale I do just I have to do sales every week it's just part of the you know I I away free shipping and I add four dollars flat fee so that way I can do sales but it still comes out about the same if I had it's got to be around Each order has to be around $13. Go a little bit low and be down to $10. That leaves me with like $1 or $2 per order. I really don't want to just make $2.

I think they make at least $3 or $4 per order. It's a lot of work. You know if it's a set of screws. Offers. It says your offers are in one place. Oh, a new offers thing. Interesting. Oh, it's great.

marketing discounts see if my sales are still oh oh sale event ended okay so let's we're gonna do something different now so we're gonna delete that and we're gonna go to coup we're gonna do a coupon and a sale we're gonna mix it up because what coupons what I can do with coupons is I can send them out to specific like buyers past buyers and things like that can't really do that with a sale but the sale event will show that my things were lowered okay so let's start out with the discount i want to create a discount i only do three discounts because if you try to promote and it's ebay charge any more sale event all right so we're only going to do i'm going to do uh 20 percent off

and we're going to run it for one week phase what the 11th we do it from Monday to Sunday sale of it and we're going to do rule based which is all items at 20% off actually not to make it 15%

15% We're going to go a little bit lower, but I'm going to add a coupon too. So how many places you can go where you can use both coupons and a sale at the same time? Not many. But of course, I'll do all this and they'll still get people backpacking. And then some. All right, so we'll do 15%. And then, so that just goes to sale, it just goes out, starts.

That's about it with that. about it with that now go to create a coupon which is completely different one not completely different but a rule based all infant dollar we're going to do that at 10% now which we'll do 10% yeah we'll do 10% so that'll give me a 25% of total so I'll do between usually between 20 and 30% and do a little bit I might go back up, make it 15. So let's go back. It's only going to go until 17th, which is next Sunday.

We'll make it 15, 15, and 15. So we'll still keep that 30% off. We're mixing it up. Right? Sometimes people just don't see the coupon. You want to call this FF game August 15th. can i use percent no i can't use percent i can't do so ff game august 15 off so we'll do 15 percent all right so let's see we're going to add any no limit set a budget you know so that's all going

from today and it ends sunday so we'll launch that But then I can go to something different here. This gives me another page which I don't get with the sale, which is I can promote it, I can share it, and then I can select a group to receive this coupon. There's the key. So I have one category is called repeat buyers. So this coupon will now go to all of that one.

And then the next category is called Followers. called followers and I am now sending them a coupon you know I'm saying that you can do more of this but I want to just do a coupon because people don't seem to see it sometimes paid buyers is the third category and then they get all the coupons and then finally the fourth category which is thank you bonus savings category I don't know what that means but it's a category it's only the four categories I have that I can send to bulk send out but when I'm done I'll go up another notch here it's share to social media so I can use X I can post the

listing on X I got a couple of more I need to re-sign up with read it as one of in interest which I still to this day I'll never understand what pin interest is about. You pin an interest, and then what? What do you do from there? I just don't get pin interests. Does everybody know how you use that? So I got like four different things on pin interest.

It's just the weirdest thing ever. Hey, let's create a pin interest. Yeah, that makes sense. Do what? You just look at other people's interests? Some of you must know what they have them. What's about? Gaming Parts.

so we just I have a few different categories I don't know why are when I put them up oops we'll just pop them up Pinterest stuff some reason I have a Parchmark Pinterest and I don't know and then you do with my my other store but we'll we'll pop that up there okay so Pinterest is one you do X re-edit I need to re-sign up for So continue here. All right, so let me sign up, get my re-edit going back up here. Let's pick the community, which is my community. Re-edit is pretty cool.

I don't really know it's about either. It makes me a lot more sense than interest. So then we can do, I have a couple categories that I can do on re-edit. That's how you say it? there's a gaming news oh yeah i don't have enough karma like what you don't have enough karma to post here to the series posted removed by the month so i can't do it there i feel like i'm doing something wrong i'm just showing you have a sale i guess it's a bad thing in most of these places oh we're just posting trying to find places to post so that people can see that isn't that the point why is that

doing moderating I mean it was something update draft I don't know just that would probably look out too good interest let's try to get you can't really find any category where I just let me do some sales and stuff we just look around Oh, I see it was a draft, is what I did. I did that one. I had a few categories I found. It seemed to let me post some stuff, even though I don't have any karma.

So, you have no karma? That's right. How do I get calmer? Keep posting? Isn't that how you get calm? I try to post, but nobody lets me. It's like a catch-22 there. All right, so we're still doing all this.

plan on read it so but you get the gist you get a coupon and then you can post a similar community new YouTuber I'll see that one so I posted and then I shared it to some communities and some my accounts LinkedIn I need to sign reback signing for that we did back in here all right it's it This is where it is. LinkedIn sign right here. Yes, I'm in. Okay.

So now I'm back in LinkedIn. I've been using that a little bit. That lets me promote some. So, it's LinkedIn. Just do that. So I'll send a sale. So I wish I could share all this stuff with the sale itself. So we'll leave.

So that one. So that one posted to verify now. Use your mode to verify. Open the camera when I was telling me to verify my post. Let's see what happens with that. So I'm keeping you guys on longer now while I'm doing more stuff here in the morning just to make my podcast a little more interesting

and more fun. Trying to find my phone here. Oh, that's... Change the camera. I can never get decent before, but... LinkedIn. So it says I'm going to try to verify my thing. Yeah, instant credibility, verify you. Verify.

Oh, there's something else I have to do. clarify verify your identity I think that's it's what I did that here ask that you verify your identity with clear get started let's let's do this for basic information except I think I need my license or something send the code Okay. I will come back to that. I'll look at that a little bit later. And on that. So we started the coupon, started the sale, it equals 30% used both. And of course, like I said, even with all that, I'll still be lots of best offers for app hackers and stuff. But we deal with it. as it comes up but at least I try to mix up and I didn't do any listings yesterday so we're going to try to get some more stuff listing today I'm up to I think let's see

we're after listings now I have this is my only lifeline here is my eBay so it's slower because I have no more free shipping free return so I'm at 1,300 for listings took me a long time I was down I was at like 800 to get up to 1304 to in a long time. I had to really push stuff through just to get it up. Get the conversation going. I mean, I can, you know,

getting all the questions asked another thing else later. Oh, I got Sega Saturn. I got to do all kinds of stuff on Sega Saturn. PS2 slim, lots of those, and then all kinds of other random stuff. Just throwing up at random.

Lots of good stuff, though. Lots of more part stuff, but still good. people need stuff all right so i think that's it this morning for everyone yeah that's 38 minutes this morning cool all right so i will talk to you tomorrow all right