Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Monday 8/18/2025

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

Taking on The Vines in My Backyard for a Sunday Morning ProjectI Finally Tear Down my Second Apple 🍎 Macintosh 512K M0001E to See if Engraved

Good morning, everyone. It is now 709. It's a little bit late. I slept in a little bit. Finally, we have a little bit cool off today. So I'm kind of tired of the air finishes, running the fans and all that. So hopefully today I don't need to have any of those on. That's pretty cool. We were looking at the Hurricane Aaron. So that's the kind of hurricane that would could potentially hit the East Coast. But it looks like it's going to turn right where it was just about impact. It was. pretty close to hitting us I'm not jinxing much I'm trying not to jinx myself but that's the one that the way that direction was going that was the exact one that would be East Coast direct hit but luckily it looks like it's turning and not hitting the coast at all or at least the Carolinas or somewhere but still you know mother nature it could turn on any time let's let's hope it doesn't but definitely keep an eye on it usually when I see that track that's the track you got to watch for us up here we up here in the East Coast is that

kind of track. It's pretty much close to coming towards us, just going to bend right the end there, well, according to the forecast anyway. So if nothing changes, but it looks like it's staying away. So yesterday we continued putting lots of stuff on eBay, of course, really ratcheting that up. And then I took some time to do, oh, I did an early morning video. That's right, we're outside first. I had a little area that needed to be attacked. It was through all my vines and it's a mess but we'll clean it up a little bit I got in there cut all the vines down by the roots there so that won't grow like that again we're gonna really get in there and pull all those old pallets I use that as dead weight

that's why it's there just to kind of help the sheds a little bit in case we get a hurricane or instead of a really bad storm may have a chance any extra dead weight will help sheds so they don't tip over the side that way you know either way so we blasted that area out and I just kind of left there so we'll go back out there eat tomorrow or something cleaning up and then later on in the day I decided to work on I'm glad I did now I put some more vintage computer stuff on eBay something Atari I have an Atari 1040 s tf motherboard and all the parts listed for that my two Apple 512k

Accintosh M 0001E Each one of them has that cool engraved thing behind it And I found out on chat GPT There's a couple of the systems that also had that in it In the early 80s, 82, it's mocked as With all the original people

She says Steve's jobs and the other guy is on there Not sure which signature is his So it's pretty cool It's kind of a collectible thing And then even better is I found out both motherboards I pulled out were modded motherboards. One's from Dove company called Mac Snap 5.0. It's a double. It's a stack.

It stacks on top of the original motherboard. And then the second one's even better. That's a Mac Rescue. And that's also a double stack. And it's supposed to have up to four megabytes, which is huge compared to. the original 512 kilobytes right i think that the dub is a he says up to two megabytes but it's got a lot of empty slots so i don't think as much as that and i've retested i tested the mac rescue on my other one that was working and i got it to work i'm at the question mark icon which means you need to have a disc those those were the early ones without without a hard drive so you need a disc So I believe both And I know my dove one I tested

I was already in there Also went to the question mark So that one works So I think motherboards are good And they're kind of special So we'll get at least one listed It'd be a little bit more expensive But it's kind of hard to find

Those kind of things like that I just luckily happened to find Two In two different ones Double stacked Although it's really a pain to try to pull the one out with the mac rescue because of that stack and the slots i actually had to bend one side of the rail in order to put in an angle and show you can't slide it in i don't know how i'd

get slipped that in uh but i found an easy way to do it so i could test it so we'll show you what i did later on we'll do a video but i want to finish up that you'd say it tomorrow try not to do the same thing each day so we'll mix it up and uh so i'll put you you can see the videos of me pulling apart the other one and testing i i didn't do the video testing that mac rescue till later i didn't do the video but i did test it though all all right so let's see what's going on news all right so Looking through the news here. Lots of doom and gloom as always.

So, let's see if I see anything. Original Superman bad guy died, passed away 87. Terrence Stamp, I think he says. Remember that the original Superman was cool back then. So it's one of those movies was way beyond its time. It's pretty cool. All right, let's see, what's going on? All right, so let's check Etsy.

I've been in any water than Etsy. Been quiet? quite everywhere really so uh let's see messages it's just a message let's see if we had any more this an activity just a five star and the last one i got in pretty cool always like to see five stars they work hard try to get them all right so we'll go to parshmark but today is the 18th early 18th 2025 and we're on monday so we're on you have a new work week we're all out there that's heading back to work for the morning sorry to hear that 1,169 followers here on Parshmark I did have a couple

pocketbooks I listed yesterday I was like I just list those on Parchmont I still may make a little just do like a regular listing as a good my first listing in parchment. Two pocketbooks. They were new. They weren't used. My mother got them and I never wanted them. So maybe I'll try to do that later. We'll do an actual listing, not a migration listing from eBay, but like just a closed parchment or pocketbooks listing and see if a really lot. Okay. So let's go to my RSS feed. See what we got going on here this morning. So I got all my orders a few piled up I didn't really do any yesterday I was playing around those Apple computers I was really into it so we have we got orders to do this

more not a lot of them enough to keep me busy for a few hours see what my I had one down load yesterday four hundred nineteen in the last 30 days that's only because of that one day what I was somebody's knows three hundred fifty one I still never know what that was all about you can see anybody that showed that they date downloaded 351 100131 all time I don't have been doing it for a few months pretty cool this is Ashburn Toronto Italy Little Rock Hamilton Hammond in the United States pretty awesome my message in a bottle over the internet ocean wherever it may go it's always exciting to see what might pop up

all right so let's go youtube we were growing and i did check my google i'm just i'm at 299 i spent this month on promotions yikes that hurts at the end of the month i get to 350 it's going to pull the amount out

now i don't have that kind of money so i'm like oh so i can't promote another thing so that what happens is If I don't promote, I mean, slower it down. But so far, we have 67,620 subscribers, 15,989, and lost 28 days. As soon as I stopped promoting things really slow down. But we're at $46,082. If I made up a buck or so, which is a lot for me in one day.

Usually it's less than a dollar. A lot of times, you used to go down a dollar. live highlights 2.3k Johnny Cake Center Reggie stand at 1.1 on that one I did promote that one that was the last thing I promoted flash 15 second my Apple

512K so that's pretty cool I wanted to train chance that one over I did the tear down again without promoting it's significant different I just can't just list something and I get Lots of views just on one thing

It just doesn't happen that way I switch the Yeah I switched the The video to the shorter one In 2019 views I didn't know what they were yet But I just said there were two different boards But then when I went to my buddy Zippy

and then we started I love having them because I can figure out exactly what they are now I know there are two special boards So it brings the 512 K and then before the 512 K there used to be a 128 So this was the upgrade to the 512 K and then you can put the boards and get up to with one of those like so as I get to four megabytes Just significant Let's see any of your comments comments have been quiet 812, 800 news, so let's see if you subscribe to some new people here. Yeah, 3625, well if someone has 500, someone has 500 and 8 subscribers that's pretty cool. I get mostly international.

I think my overall is in India prepared to the United States. for some reason it's cool and he's a big state big country lots of people there i'll take it so there's another one with 426 subscribers so i'm going through and just clicking on anyone i can subscribe to and i'd like to see what i don't look at them more than just to see if they're mostly international which they are i think if i look at my uh stats let's go to my stats for me uh uh uh Watch time to 95 so we're going on it's significantly right everything's going up which is cool But my location which is what audience we have in our audience

Yeah, it's audience monthly audience one thousand one hundred forty three point okay Say somebody we're here or it says we're flashed that I had that one thing like the super nintendo had 20.9k views on that it's pretty wild and he throw Nintendo in there and all it was was some matchbox cars and I and I even put links on it so I've had 20 20,000 views yet I haven't sold it but it doesn't really it would sell it but it can't hurt out of those 20,000 views maybe I thought I would sell it for me so let's shorts only my shorts only you know by far dominant you flash 15 seconds that made a huge difference something I know it said were I can tell

you those you regions but I know the regions it says that the United States is like the least so my my podcasts are at 4.8 K watched hours are 57.3 so that's pretty awesome I'm very consistent about them I podcast every more and they've been significantly longer because i've been uh taking my time a little bit more and kind of chatting through stuff checking stuff out all right so let's go to epe that's uh a good drum roll see we got we do some more good sales oh we had some action here good and bad we'll find out so five sales three five offers three messages all right let's go Ooh, good.

I got all these end of the month bills and I'm living order by order. So let's, that's why I've been really pumping new stuff on eBay. It's just selling gaming parts now. It just doesn't work anymore. Waiting shipping. All right, let's see what we got here. So we had a couple good things that have given me,

oh, I sold my Interact mobile power station. It's for the Nintendo GameCube. It's the pad. for the bottom and then the screen on top I sold the disc drive two disc drives oh I sold the starter

a wee game starter kit pretty awesome all stuff that I've just recently listed that's really helped me out I have to keep pumping stuff out all right so that's pretty exciting that'll really help me out then a PS2

7901 bottom case I had some of those And then a set of screws for Nintendo GameCube. I'd get some of those listed. And then this guy ordered two disc drives for the original Xbox 01 through 05. It's the Thompson disc drives, the TM, TGM 600. And those are usually never read.

You wanted to make sure that they open. So I've got to test two of those. And then also a Wii starter kit that I have. Everything is on a discount. So I was on a discount. I think my sale is today. And I'm just going to do a straight discount, like 25% off or something. Let's see.

All right. So let's go to messages. We have some messages. Let's do those for, uh, hello. I'm very interested. Is it any way you could sell me a set that isn't rusting? Yeah. I try to, this is for the Nintendo.

to game cube all the inside metal so lots of those I try to put together the cleanest set I can set I can I will make one and show you show you that exact set shipping before any purchase a bit later today I got lots of stuff to do that glad I have a lot of things I do today then take a lot of its orders which is awesome all right that's first message let's go to just go to just place to in order okay so all right so all right so okay just place in order no words positive chance oh no no I only I only only had one Samsung I first

to locate it. I will get back to you a bit later. So we can work out the order for shipping. thing. I only had one Samsung. I jumped the gun here a little bit. All right, so that's one. So PS or Pro? I need to push stuff out now. So everybody's going to take that the extra. I've got to piece together some capital here to get the rents of the month because everything I put on like the Nintendo Switch 2 that I bought just bought

it's on a four payment thing plus have other stuff that's on a four payment thing so we'll take the $38 do you have the case still tieris to estate you know it even if it's damage oh yes Yes, both top and bottom are listed as exact ones. Both top bottom are listed. Separate. Okay, so that's my message is TRS 80 Model 3, all books. Okay, so yeah, we'll take that.

I'll take books, that's cool. That's a good sale there. Definitely have to take that. So take that book order. So this will be more accepted stuff. It will help me. Yeah, because I still owe, I've still got four payments on my MetaQuest. So I think I'm all in my, all my payments, I think I owe like $800, something like that.

But it's broken into four payments. My MetaQuest, I got a few other things from Prime. Oh, I got a fire TV, so all that I'm still paying on, so I need a really good weekend. So it looks like we'll be right. This will help out a lot. We're going to sell the HyperTuff. Some reason it was one of my weed racks. It just died. So I'm just going to sell the batteries and the charger. So that's another little hit there. So let's all this extra 30 bucks here, 20 bucks there.

Help me. Plus I owe $300 on Google promotions too. So we're just taking it. There's one more offer I don't think I'll take. heat board just throw it all through yeah I'm just going to take that too I'm just going to take it all my offers and then I'll get me a good amount I'm just going to take stuff I've been really slow otherwise that's all I had to regroup once I got rid of free shipping and free returns it changed changed everything I wasn't really selling a lot of game pots as it was and then I really went down so that's why I started the last two weeks I went up from I think I

had 800 things listed to almost 1,400 things and lots more other stuff than gaming called vintage computing I put some dolls up I sold a couple dolls books vintage computing is a lot lots of that sells so we just took so we had to really I don't want to go back to free shipping and making a dollar off an order. I'd rather not sell gaming parts anymore, or as we see, not that often, then running around trying to find gaming parts with free shipping at $9 so that I can make a dollar. I still do that anymore. I'd rather wait and make $20 with the $4 added for shipping costs.

it's a flat four dollar fee and then I'm doing all right I did free shipping and free returns for eight years I don't know well that used to be one I used to have lots of orders per week some days I used to get 20 orders for parts that it didn't matter you know make a dollar to dollars sometimes three dollars it was all right but not anymore you got to go with the time you got to go with the flow and I finally made that call to end free shipping I'm glad I did. But we're going in a different direction.

And I'm hoping that someday YouTube will really pay off for me, really put a lot of time and effort into it, where that could be not only a side hustle, which is kind of ticking up to be a side hustle, but not quite there, but it would be a good survival hustle. If I could make $100, even $100 a month, I'd be doing pretty good. I'd like to make $100 a day,

but that would require tens of thousands of views a day, and I just can't get that. But we're still going up, but we're paying for it. That's the problem. So I'll make $100 maybe within a second month, as opposed to last time it took me four months to make $126. But as we say, I spent $300 last month. I'm at $299 this month,

and I've already spent about $1,500 on Google promotions. and I've only made 226 plus we're at like $70 now so almost $300 so I'm still negative all the other we've got to kind of get that in line at some point or it may not

I don't know I just can't keep spending $300 a month Google promotions all right so that's what we're at so lots of fun stuff cool that'll keep me busy all day so I got lots of orders and that will get me a good chunk to pay for all the things I need to get paid for. Cool, that's a good little hit.

I've been really pumped on. I'm going to keep doing it. I'm actually going to sell all the Apple stuff I did yesterday. I'm going to list. I really want to keep one of those motherboard, the really fun ones. But I'm going to sell the other one. So we'll definitely do that. So I help ratchet up what we're doing here.

Cool. That's pretty exciting. I can chill out a little bit. I was getting nervous. It's starting to stress up. My bank account was going to overdrawn if I didn't get some more capital in it, cover the next thing is coming up. And then the last payment on my, it's a call.

Like, I don't know how to say the name of the four payment. It's called K-L-A-R-N-A. Carlinough. I used that my last payment for Conno was $300 so it took a chunk out of what I owe that includes a switch to

the MetaQuest 3S is in there which I haven't sold I didn't any offers or anything on it I may keep it if I don't get it I can make money otherwise then I won't need to sell it and Prime video

I got some the Prime TV and stuff like that so I mean a good month to get all that I cleared off And I bought some games, some consoles to test and to sell parts off. But now the brakes are on for another month, so I've got to get us all caught up. Plus, I also have my debt consolidation. So if you want to put yourself through school, which I put myself through at-home gaming school here, for about eight years, in that time, I bought lots of stuff.

And I wanted to learn about all kinds of systems, even ones from me. another country all the gaming systems and computer systems so I went and found shopping around the world for a while so I racked up all my credit so we're about three years into national debt consolidation and we won't work out another year and a half to go I'll be out that was up to like 35,000 for student loans as I call it student loans but it was really just credit and I was buying and stuff weekly over local but if you want to get to where I'm at now I have to do all that so now I'm just kind of once I get out of the debt then I can get some more systems

local but not like I was before I've already gotten everything from around the world I've already tested it seen it done it and resold it I wouldn't I might get a couple new things but I won't really now we're just down to working on my YouTube and tic-tok i do ticot but not as much and just keep my store some i'll do a lot more vintage computing i like that that's a lot of fun and we'll get we'll get the uh the mass uh gaming system parts like n64s superintendon de tendoves i'm not really into buying any newer systems anymore i used to be in the ps fours but i haven't gotten any ps five at all ever the parts Neither have I gotten any Series S or Series X take a part and try to sell parts of. I just decided that doing that was probably not a good idea. Plus it's so saturated and everyone's doing it now. But I still do okay just getting like the N64s.

I'll get some Sega Dreamcasts. GameCube, I haven't got any GameCube at all. I can sell parts of GameCube. So that's my overall view where we're going. had a pretty good day so it's pretty awesome it just kind of doesn't quite get me caught up yet better than it was all right everyone so you have a good beginning of the work week and of course i'll be back here tomorrow all right have a great day thanks bye