Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day New Years Eve 12-31-2024

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Last day of 2024. 2025 is going to be a World Game Changer. Hold Onto your Hats.

Good morning everyone. It's now 5 a.m. and today is New Year's Eve. So this is that two-week stretch where we go from holiday Eve, Christmas Eve, to Christmas Day when it's a complete holiday. And then we get like a short week and then we get to redo it again. Although New Year's Eve is not as big of a holiday. Well it is if you celebrate it, go to like Times Square or something, then it's really fun. But New Year's Day is not as, uh, there's not many things as closed as like a Christmas day, but it's still a holiday. So, and then we go to like a short week, then we get into the the weekend and then finally we'll be into our long i call

it the long dark tunnel between after new year's day and spring it's long we really haven't had any snow yet here in rhode island at all we had one little flurry-ish kind of thing but uh when i was a kid i remember we used to get snow and it used to be really cold in october and november so we used to have snow from october all the way till spring now at 57 almost 57 i'm 56 still um if we get any snow it's usually january end of january maybe february and then usually february february is really our snow If we get any snow It's usually January End of January And then usually February February is really our snow month And then sometimes freakish snow

In March And sometimes even in April So Just like anything else everything changes all the time Never stay the same Except for my groundhog day here Which is pretty much usually always the same My routine my groundhog day here Which is pretty much Usually always the same

My routine So I'm a very routine person It works for me If you've been clean and sober For many many years Saw him since 2011 Routine was key And changing the routine

Of the old routine Of the drinking Was the key Can't do that kind of routine anymore you have to have a new one so my routine has been for since 2011 is i go to sleep early because most of the things were overnight at nighttime so it's a lot easier for me to sleep through the night and get in and then start fresh nice early in the morning i like to be up early it's quiet i like quiet and i can get a lot done and again my shop is right as soon as i walk out of the till as soon as i get out of my bed go and i am opened and ready to go for the morning and i can do everything right here which is pretty cool it's definitely was a game

changer for me to learn how to find a way to work from home i went through many phases to get to where i'm at but we're doing pretty cool all right so let's see what's going on so yesterday oh i got my truck back that was key uh i needed that back a couple a box it was the there's a shift a neutral shift switch inside of the transmission pan here they had take the pan down and it broke so I was shifting into park and it wasn't activating that switch anymore. Therefore, I was stuck. I knew there was nothing I could do. My car was stuck in neutral and that was it.

I was done. Luckily, it's stuck in neutral and not in park. That would have been more of a pain for them to tell it. Because therefore, they wouldn't have ever put it into neutral to tell it. So I don't know how they would have lifted it up and put it on in a different way. Because if it's not neutral, you can't just hook the hitch

and then just pull it onto the truck. So everything worked out for me. Even though it was a pain and it was an unexpected problem, i was able to resolve it pretty quickly and pretty painlessly and now i have a truck back which is cool because then i went out yesterday had so much garbage i had to do and errands and all that so so let's see where we're at this morning i'm looking through the news the lions are still plunking away. It's going to be a fun playoff season. I like to see the Lions.

I'm a big fan of the Lions. There's some really good teams now that never were good before. And a lot of the teams that used to be really good are like the Patriots. They're terrible. It's just that change. It's a name for it. I can't think of it. Teams change over the years.

So we're not like the worst team in the league. Pretty close to it. Jets are probably the worst. Although the Jaguars are pretty bad. Lots more coaches are going to get fired. Next week. And that doesn't mean you get a better team. But new coaches.

It's a team thing so you have to kind of get that like team together And sometimes most of them never get it, right So it looks like this football January 4th. No, so I think the last night was the last Monday night football Here it pretty sure is Monday Night Football. I hear it. Pretty sure it is. Alright, so let's see what we got going on here. Let's go to Etsy. Nothing yet. Bummer.

I'm kind of in a pickle with Etsy. I'm not sure what to do yet with this. I used to get a few orders. I don't mind not getting orders the problem is you get charged per month for all the listings that you do so if I put a lot of listings up to try to get more orders and they don't and nobody orders anything then I have to pay negative so that's kind of sort of pickle on that for that but we'll do it a little bit. Alright, let's go to my RSS feed. Oh, I managed to do Sega.

I decided to do all the systems after Sega Genesis yesterday. So I think I hit them all. And even the fun ones. The CDX and the JVC-XI. All systems I've had. I don't have any more, but I did. so that i could learn about them a little bit i got videos of them somewhere you can type in like cdx or jvcxi into into the search in my videos and you'll find some stuff it's out there all right so my podcast today let's see where i'm at so that's i've done 116 podcasts so far pretty fun so let's check my analysis overnight i had six again i call this

the uh message in a bottle i just throw it out there into the internet ocean and then whoever finds them picks them up it's not it's basically everything else i do it's just good enough to be fun but it's not really anything that's uh to help me financially in any way at all pretty much but i just make the most of it so it's like the same same piece let's see how many cities we have so we break it down it breaks it down to the cities and then oh yes they also did a one-on-one video trying to show a different angle. Got to see the best of me at 56. So I did that. It was kind of fun. It went well. I promoted that one too. So we'll see where that one's at in a few minutes.

And we'll see how much my subscribers increased. So some India, Germany, some United States. A lot of them are the same, but it's not really showing anybody new, so I always appreciate anybody that comes along here,

it's really fun, I enjoy to do it, so, especially the morning ones, because then it kind of wakes me up here, and I kind of go through it while I'm doing this podcast early. All right. So now we're going to go to YouTube. Let's see how much we increased since yesterday. This is my first one-on-one kind of video. I didn't get my face in there. It was hard to set the camera up.

I didn't know where I was actually at. But it ended up being my whole face. Ah. So we're at 7,120 subs. Since yesterday. So that's pretty cool. That's total. But it costs.

Uh. So. Um. $37.21. So $37.21 And I got one comment from my buddy Retrofix I'd like to set up What you did here It's my one on one

Nice little TV you found How's the retention time for this video? I'm getting some decent view numbers. I've been watching the whole thing. While I do some paperwork for Moniette. Got some more views. But there were. The eyeball retained.

Yeah. Yeah. Promotions are key. Promotions are key for me retention oh so thank you is a new uh fun way to do there's a new fun way i'll just put in a fun way

i try so promote retrofrix has his own site. I've never actually... I mean, his own channel, rather. I'm sure he's doing a lot of... I try to promote... Oh, I try to... Find new... Oh, I tried to find new, different ways to video. Promotions are key for me.

Retention. Retention. Retention. Retention. promotions are key for me retention will always be my bugaboo so I used to work at a restaurant called bugaboo Creek actually thank you is it is a new fun way I tried it I try to find different ways to video which I didn't do that's my retrofix guy. He's got 1.85. He's going up.

I don't know. Again, I've gone up significantly. Oh, actually, my view hours went over 101.3K. That's the first time I've been over 100,000 for views. That's cool. So if the views itself reflected in any subtle way for your revenue, that would really make a big difference, but it doesn't.

But, so, then I did, yeah, I did my Sega yesterday. My, I didn't do it until late. I did Sega CDs, Sega Nomad, Sega Game Gear, CDX, JVC, XIs, also a Sega product. Really fun. Alright, so there we are. That's where I'm at there.

So let's look at the content. I promoted that and I put extra money into that one but I may change that though because I'm going to get walloped again all these promotions are costing me some serious bucks I'm probably in the $200 almost $300 worth of promotions

that's why on my one on one I was advocating for free YouTube that's why on my one-on-one i was advocating for uh free youtube live to youtube tv per month as a bonus or a perk for all the hard work daily uploads and all that and i was asking for 200 dollars in credit per month for to help promote because all it does is if I use that credit to promote it builds my store up more and therefore they get more views

on YouTube so it's a win win for everybody but I'm sure it'll go nowhere but I decided I wanted to put that out there for anybody that might read it and say hey maybe we'll do that because again if you go to the 3000 hours there's anybody that might read it say hey maybe we'll do that because again if you go to the 3 000 hours there's really no perk at all you just get you in but then not really

the 4 000 hours you're finally there but then then what there's not really any perks but all right so let's go to youtube uh let's see let's see no not youtube let's go to YouTube. Let's see. Let's see. No, not YouTube. Let's go to eBay, rather. So I've had some pretty good action with eBay. I was able to save up some money from paying my truck. Because that cost me a few hundred dollars unexpectedly. So let's see where we're at message wise.

I had an issue where I had to send another Jasper Xbox 360 motherboard. Which one did we get retracted here? Oh, I've already been retracted. 360 motherboard so I gotta get that out today I had to find one so i found one so we'll we'll get out we'll get recently so so the problem with it was he says that the the dry board's not working i must have not tested it correctly i must have missed something sometimes i do i just missed something so he was pretty cool i canceled it first he had a uh it opened to return because it was overnight where i got the messages about it and um when i uh saw it in the morning, like I do every morning, uh,

I sent a message saying, I'll send you another one if you just cancel the return. And later in the day, he did, which was awesome. So, I got four orders this morning. Uh,

got a little bit of, uh, help from eBay here, and all my hard work here.. So if I put a lot that's what I've been doing I sit down I've just been sitting down just hunkering down and saying alright I gotta

do some listings and it's I've done a few of all day just banging them out and and then my eBay

starts moving a little bit I got lots of stuff again going into all my computer stuff is where I've been really helped but really have been helped me out because again it

is my lifeline because my really my only payment is through eBay at CA not quite so far although I saw a couple things but I'm still negative all right so we decided to do that the other guy retracted that offer. I've had a lot of retraction meetings. Someone makes an offer and then decides that they don't want to do that offer. So, for whatever reason.

But most of the times when I see what the offer was, I would have declined it anyway. So, it's kind of interesting. So I need to see what I sold here. I got four items, plus I had the motherboard.

And I think I had one other thing yesterday. Let's see what we're at here. My four items I have today. Big items too. Oh I sold my Atari. 1200 XL.

To somebody in New York. Comes with a controller. Basic program. Pac-Man cartridge. Adapter. The whole set. So I sold that yesterday. Which is cool and so we're gonna get that out today

and then i sold a keyboard uh another one of my keyboards for the camera 64 so i pretty much sold all that camera 64 the keyboard separately then the motherboards keyboard also that missing keys I sold that one motherboard that didn't work I think I sold that one I go into the new year with some so I sold that for a few a few months and then I also sold two Sega Dreamcast

the top cover there's a latch and a spring buyers use that spring for some sort of a mod one time I had somebody on a spring. Buyers use that spring for some sort of a mod. One time I had somebody on so this is going to be like let's see

it's going to be 65. Alright, so oh, they use the spring for something. And then once on YouTube, on Etsy I had somebody give me a bad Oh they use the spring for something And then once on On Ebay YouTube No YouTube On Etsy

I had somebody give me a bad review Because he said the The spring was crooked Like what? It's a spring that's been under tension Since 19 what Dreamcast came out in 1998 And

He left a bad Cause he wanted another one I don't give you another one. It's just a spring. The spring was intact. It just was crooked. I don't know. It was still under tension.

Require a signature. And then we're going to... We have to require a signature on this one. So this is for that big one. And also, I'm going to do insurance. Add extra protection. I'll confirm and pay. I've been adding the extra protection.

I just shipped out another pretty pricey thing. So this is really going to help me out. So basically, I live... Most people me out. So basically I live. Most people live paycheck by paycheck. I live order by order. Pretty much. But again I'm going to. Although I put a lot of time into YouTube.

I'm not as much. I always get some time in there. Just because it's kind of part of my routine, as we've talked about. And same with this podcast. It doesn't really go anywhere. I mean, it does. It still gets out there somewhere.

To the world. Actually, the whole world. Because I've gotten some... Some downloads from India, which is cool, and a few other places. It's pretty exciting. That's why I do it, just so I can get myself out there a little bit for the fun of it.

Again, nothing's financially come out of it at all. So, all right, so that's's that and i have two spring latches spring latches so those are really easy peasy uh shipping it comes with it's just the spring latch the spring and the two screws that's it and i sell it for a little bit because somebody uses those they use the spring for modding meaning they're using it for something different that's worth a little bit more for them therefore i want to get a couple extra bucks because once i learn about an item that's used for modding uh i tend to make it a little bit more because it's harder to find you're not going to find them anywhere else.

I'm sure you will. I'm sure other people sell them. But they usually sell them for a lot more. I just want a couple bucks more. So instead of making $2, I make $4. Or something small like that. So. Once in a blue moon, I'll have something that's much higher.

But not even that. Compared to how other people do it. Maybe I'll have something that's special. For like $25. For a little small part. That's sometimes. And then people best off me anyway. So it doesn't really matter.

But I got rid of all. Discounts right now. And it's really helped out i do have a coupon for anything over 75 dollars so that's helped i think that's why i sold a couple bigger things with that big discount did that for New Year's. I'm probably going to keep that one. It may not be as much. Maybe like 15%. Over $75, though.

And then everything else is either at the listed price or you best offer me. But only a few bucks, so I'll best off. Oh, there's my paper. I see it. I see my paper. Oh my god

Now I got a full stock of paper So let's Move on here So my other spring latch I've been using the same cartridge in my printer forever. And I try to get every inch of ink I can get out of it. It's, it's a,

it's not an ink jet of God. No, it's, it's a laser printer, but it's a cheap, it's a cheaper HP one. I've had forever. It's always worked.

I get the cheap inkjet, uh, cartridges for it. Not inkjet, uh, laser. And then when I do is you take them out you shake them toners that's what they call them laser toners ink toners and then I get the cheap ones on eBay and I get two for the price if I bought an original one over at Staples so again it's a little guy you gotta try to cut corners wherever

possible so i run it what those do the hb will say it's out of ink but i still can get like another like two or three hundred prints even though it's telling me it's out of ink so you never go by that you go by it's still printing and then even when it starts to half print I take the toner out and I shake it around and put it back in and it works for another 30 pages just pages so I never give up on it to the complete end until it's finally printing out where the Postal Service can't read it and I gotta change the ink of toner yeah I got rid of ink chips years ago just black and white and this little HP's been just plugging along it's a small one so it doesn't take up a lot of space it does have a scanner to it you

don't need a fax anymore so they don't have those anymore. So those little things you can do to try to keep printing off of one toner for god I probably do a thousand prints off one toner which is wonderful. Then I had the keyboard so my last keyboard so luckily I have a box that will fit them. Because Commodore 64 was oversized. It's bigger than normal things. The 128 is even bigger. Wider. So therefore my boxes have to fit the object.

And. Oh the item. I should say not the object. The item. So. oh the item I should say not the object the item so open that so it's good to know I have extra I just ordered some other boxes that are

these boxes are 16 inches wide which is enough to fit the Commodore keyboard, so I can use the box I have. It's like a 16 by 6 by 4 or something. I was using it for something else at the time, but now I've been using it for those. I just ordered 18 by 12 by 4s

for some of the other stuff that I can't fit in those. So every once in a while I invest in some sort of a newer size box. Boxes are key. Most get bigger boxes I can like this was a set I ordered boxes are expensive a lot of a lot of my like 25 for 50 bucks or something so box gets added into that shipping cost. That's if it's a bigger item. Even the little boxes are expensive. You can buy the hundreds and they're still, you know, $40 or so. So you can do that per box.

There's still some extra amount in there. So everything. So my new boxes will be coming in so that gives me two more inches I got 18 by 12 says 60 I think I should do it if you get too big of a box then postal service charges you more so lots of stuff going on there I was getting either a refund or a charge per

any over overweight or underweight but I haven't seen that in a while or maybe it's just happening and I just don't see it sometimes you don't weigh it correctly. Or if I did not enough, the size isn't long enough, then they'll charge me more extra. So I'm not really sure where that is.

All right, so that's all my things this morning. Today I'm going to do Xbox One. We'll go into some more technical stuff and see what chat GBT comes out. My buddy Zippy for a boot process. We'll do all the main three there. The 1540, the S1681 and the X1787. So I can learn a little bit more about them. And I have to do some videos this morning. I'm going to test Xbox 360, the Jasper, the one I need to get out for my buddy, for the guy that I got to send a replacement to him.

So I'm going to do that first thing. And then we're going to the holiday weekend. Holiday weekend, yeah, pretty much. All right, you guys have a good afternoon, and I'll talk to you later on. All right, bye.