Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Saturday 6/21/2025

Episode Date: June 21, 2025

Grogu, also known as "The Child" or more popularly "Baby Yoda," is a character from the Star Wars universe who made his debut in the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. Here's a quick overview:🧒 Character Profile:Name: GroguSpecies: Same as Yoda (unnamed species)Age: About 50 years old (still a child by his species' standards)Abilities: Strong with the Force — he can perform telekinesis, healing, and even mind control in limited ways.First Appearance: The Mandalorian, Season 1 (2019)Caretaker: Din Djarin (The Mandalorian, also referred to as "Mando")🛡️ Story Highlights:Grogu was hidden during the fall of the Jedi Order.He was rescued by Din Djarin and became central to the show's plot.His journey involves avoiding Imperial remnants who want to experiment on him.Eventually, he trains briefly with Luke Skywalker before choosing to return to Din.

Good morning everyone. It is now 7 0 8. It's June 21st First day of summer longest day of the year. We start losing our minutes after today It's 20 25 and it's Saturday. So we're into the weekend We have a really hot stretch coming our first heat wave really early in the season for us Usually we don't get one in here in Rhode Island until well in July. So it's a precursor of how hot it's gonna be all summer, pretty much. So yesterday we did PS3 Fats, is what I worked on yesterday, but just the Model L's. Somebody has ordered some disc drives and I also needed some backwards compatible disk drives that I had a few more so it's a big lot that I sold.

And then we know that the PS3FAT is a whole alphabet soup. As we know the A and B, models A and B are true backwards compatible with the COK-001 motherboard. The model E has an a simulation chip on it. So it's Cok-002 so a lot of the PS2 games don't play. But as we learned that all PS1 games play on any PS3 system. I have a super slim PS3 so I can play a PS1 game. So you don't need a PS1 system at all. You don't even need, you don't have to have a super slim ps3 so I can play ps1 game so you don't need a ps1 system at all You don't even need you don't have to have a backwards compatible That's just only if you want to play ps2 games, but you need to have the a or the b

Because it has the the co k-o one motherboard has the ee ps2 chip on it But it still doesn't play every single ps2 game. I don't know. We just need a ps2 That's just the easiest way to do it. And then you can play both and not worry about all that other stuff. So we were pulling disk drives and testing the rest of them. Most of them were on and off. I have one L that fully works, but it's got a little bit of a sound issue. I couldn't really hear the characters a little bit in sound.

But I left that one intact. I opened up the rest of the ones I had and then we had a guy stop by I haven't done any local repairs in forever but when GameStop used to be here about four years ago I had cards there and I'd go often get local repairs but it was a guy that had done something before so it's in a Xbox one 1540 he says the controllers are not connecting and he says they the controls connect on his other system so it's probably that front power board I would think not really

positive what the issue is we'll go we'll look at a local repair today I spent about an hour so on my PS3 yesterday going through that. So let's um, and then um, that was pretty much my day. That was a lot. I don't know if I did anything else. Oh, so I finished my first season. This is a must to watch. If you have Max, which is going to Max is turning back to HBO Max and they have commercials

for in it saying how they're turning back to HBO Max and they have commercials in it saying how they're turning back to HBO Max. So from HBO Max to Max back to HBO Max. Really funny. But highly recommend if you have HBO Max. The Head. I just finished the first season and if you've ever seen Primal Fear, I think it's Primal Fear I think it was called. No Presumed Innoc fear, I think it's primal fear. It was called no presumed innocence

I think that's what it was with Richard Gere and Anyway The first season that they had has a really good twist to it You kind of understand what's going on, but you you missed something. That's right in front of you Really good. It has three seasons. I don't really understand where it's going from Season now it seemed like it could just end and that would be it But like presumes innocence was all the way at the end you find out something that you didn't expect

So kind of it's kind of like that. It's primal fear or presumed innocence one of those two has Richard Garen Edward Norton in it You know what I'm talking about if you've ever watched that movie was really good, but this is just like that, but it's a series Takes place in Antarctica, and it's really cool One of my best series of that watch a long time So you definitely I give it a must watch all right, so let's see what's going on this morning. All right, so more chaos in the world, of course. Let's see. If I still check it out, I'm just doing my quick local buzz through the news.

Should I see anything that's all we'll do, we're down to three days I think now for um We're down to 3 days I think now for Death Stranding 2. Very exciting. Looking forward to it. I'll try to get up that night when it's ready to play. So we'll see. Alright so let's look at Etsy.

We had some sales yesterday, not too bad. And as I decided yesterday, no more free shipping for eBay. It was tiring. $4 flat fee. It's going to be a little bit hard when people want to order more than one thing. I'm quite afraid that I'll have to do

combined shipping and stuff like that. But people just need to contact me. I always reply anyway. So I'll just add some more conversations So four dollars flat fee and then no more returns, but of course I'll take returns if there's something wrong, but you'll have to contact me first instead of just automatically Returning is something my last two ones were another change my mind And it's just to try it before you buy it and I just So if you want to return it,

then you have to pay for it. Unless it's something I did, then of course I would pay for it. But I'm not gonna make it automatic now. It's gonna go against my account because I'm not doing that. I won't be a top seller plus anymore because I'm not offering free returns,

but returns will go against my account anyway. So, all right, so let's see we're at Parshmark I was on cross list I decided to stay off cross list that's an extra it's it's so you can bring listings to other sites I just did it for one month we had no sales here Parshmark so I'm at 966 followers though. I am gonna have like nine days left on the cross list before the subscription ends and it's pretty pricey description so I'm gonna finish cross listing some stuff hit a Parchmark and then just call it a day. I'll just leave it at that for now.

Go back another month or so and do I I was gonna do Macquarie but I since decided not to. Alright, so let's look at RSS feed. I didn't have any downloads yesterday. So let's see. We're right here this morning. So yeah, it should be a pretty decent weekend. Tomorrow's gonna be a little bit hotter,

and then it's the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It's gonna get really hot. So, it's here. Summer is here, right? Alright, so cool. I 3-downloaded yesterday. Awesome. 82 in the last 30 days. 645. I do this consistently every morning helps me wake up and Ashburn of course Toronto Manhattan Beach Lindale pretty awesome we had a

dot across the world there was that on Toronto let's see if we had another one no it doesn't show the other one I get to see red dots on a flat map of where in the world people are far Downloaded which is pretty awesome my message in a bottle over the internet oceans I say So let's go to YouTube we've been hanging steady We're going through a full month with no promotions We're going through a full month with no promotions, which I just can't afford. I'm just living sale by sale, as I say, on eBay. Every sale helps pay for the next bill. And as we've decided that no matter what I do with YouTube here, I just can't get it

to generate. Oh, I went way down. See, that's what stinks about this. I went down to $31. cents. That's a real bummer I don't understand why I have to go down. How do I go down? My subscribers 574

So I forty six thousand that state that's staying holding. It's a five seventy four. I look at now My peak at my last promotion when I did last month it was 655. So I'm at 574. But no promotions this month. But I changed it up. I'm doing Flash 15 seconds. And I do quick 3 minutes on all my long videos. Plus I do the long video.

So I have 16 views of my long video. I also do an overhead live stream for YouTube now. Not with my camera, but with a webcam. So I had some views with that too. But all that effort, and I went down to $31.57. This is a real bummer. View hours at 159.8K. to thirty one dollars sister view hours of one hundred fifty nine point eight k watch hours seven twenty seven

magic recent twenty six seconds uh... destry with a couple comments in but the strength that you can again need to play first on since story by record watching story videos about the first one to understand the story by record watching Story videos about the first game to understand. Yeah, yeah Is

Yeah Yes, I agree yes, I agree So that's training we'll do another countdown say after After I do my video, I'm gonna do it. I can't wait. Seems... awesome. But there's more fighting involved than the robot things that you send the packages through. Fight, I believe.

I'm not sure what that's about, but... It's been a few years since Death Stranding's come out, so you gotta assume the technology's gonna be even more advanced on a PS5, right? Pretty awesome. Alright, let's see what else we got going on there. So just a couple of comments. YouTube is doing its thing. Alright, let's get to eBay and see where we're at. Since I made this move, it's changed everything. It was going to be a huge change for me. Hopefully and positively and help me out a little bit more. Great product, fixed my Gamecube

door. Alright so let's see here. The special spring for the Nintendo Gamecube. It was good positive feedback. My guy that I'm selling some more disk drives to sent me some great thank you and big bold. I've been sending him extra stuff where I can. And this is a big lot of his. That's why I did that video, the long video yesterday for the L, for the model L's, because this is for that guy. I don't really talk about the actual...

So now when I can take orders, return items shipped. Twenty-four pin, no thank you. This is a twenty-four pin. No thank you. Okay. So I guess he said he don't need anything extra there, so we'll just send out so now when I get an eight dollar offer here I can do it So if I have an eight dollar offer I

Can take it no it's not there now Because I have four dollars as my cushion for shipping which probably something I probably should have done all along but now we have so ten dollar offer so I'll get a lot more offers which is fine and basically again it comes out that the same thing so I had it at $15 was it was original listing now with four dollars so they offered $10 with the $4 in shipping. So maybe the fact that buyers get that chance to do the best offer is helping. So I think in a way this is going to be a positive thing.

And I am going to counter to what I wasn't doing. But I'll take up to ten dollars Ten dollars and plus the four right so that gets me back to I have to be a minimum of thirteen dollars It's not really making any money extra But there are some buyers that just will just pay the full price whatever it is and that's cool So I sold a white trim bezel for the PS2 Slim but the Japan model has a white Japan PS2 Slim. So there's a long strip on the top of the logo,

the logo strip. And I've got three more to sell. I gotta take a part. So I sold the, yesterday I sold the white cop, disc drive door. I have to go buy the exact, because all of them are faded. So that's pretty awesome. So that was my sales.

Return ships, I have two items coming back, but I'm gonna wait till they get here. I'm sure they'll come in today. And I also have this weekend a sale. I went just 25% off, but now I can do it through the whole store because I added that $4 as shipping. So even though it's getting cut down, I have the cushion now, which I never had before. So it was definitely time to do it.

I'm glad I did it. And no returns, that's gonna be something, that'll be an interesting concept too. We'll see if it'll motivate people not to just get something and then just say, you know, I don't need it, I'm just gonna send it back. I can decline things, but what will end up happening is buyers will say it's defective or not as

described and then I'll have to return, I'll have to take the return anyway. So then it will go against my count so it's like a double-edged sword doing it this way but it's time. It just will bring up more interesting things going forward. But it's not that I won't take returns because that's not the concept. The concept is, oh cool, so my buddy that I'm sending all these disk drives to, he purchased the rest of them so that's pretty awesome. So those are all gonna go into one big giant box.

So I gotta put all those together. I do one as the shipping box and then all the rest get marked as shipped. And then you take the tracking number from the one you're shipping and then you gotta add it to all the other ones if it's a multiple listing. that's what we're gonna do let's see what else is going on so we'll keep we'll keep talking about this new phase of eBay but it will definitely help out and make buyers feel better that they're they're getting their offers accepted when in turn it's just basically coming back to the same price so pretty awesome it's helped me out already I can see the difference already all right so we'll

probably have a short one today 16 minutes let's look a little bit more here let's see so 16 let's see what else did I do yesterday I did something else yesterday I did Death Stranding I did my normal podcast yeah that was it really I spent the afternoon about an hour but I like I said I've increased the amount of live stream again on YouTube but I'm doing the overhead with my webcam so it's pretty cool so if you want to see you can see it in either way or the video it's kind of the same view but live stream sometimes brings in different people that are just into watching something for

while it's going on as opposed to watching a video that's out there. So again I I just always trying to mix it up trying to find different ways to attract people or just make my YouTube more interesting or as interesting as possible I guess so my flash 15 second my old my pink pink puppet my pinky puppet this big giant puppet I have I did a one minute video it came to me the other day so now it's I have a rail system above my desk here on my gaming workbench and I can hang stuff off from it I have stuff on it and the wires go through it and stuff like that rail system so it's pretty cool so now I just I hung my big pinky over here too I call it doesn't really have a name I just call them pinky because he's big and pink plus I have my wizard 2 hanging

and that's where they stay. And oh, I just found out that there's a name for these. Oh, that's right. I forgot that. There's a name. What was the name called? For all my baby Yoda's, there's a name. I was like, oh, there's a name?

It's called, what is the guy he said? Oh, Grogu. It's called What is the guy says oh grog g ro you gr g ro g you grogu So his name is grogu. So there was a comment. Yes, they said are you a grogu fan? I was like what that's a grogu of course, I go to my chat GPT buddy, Zippy,

and I typed it in and it says, baby Yoda. And what I do is I go back to the message and I put in the whole reply from my buddy Zippy. Age 50 years old, still a child by the species standard. Ability, strong with force, he can perform telekinesis, healing, even mind control in limited ways first appearance in Mandalorian season 1 caretaker a Mandalorian it's hidden during the Jedi order so that's the quick little specs I mean the stats on Gro-Gro I can't still can't say Gro-Gro- so that's who he is so there's Yoda and grow goo

I never knew that I just always thought he was I didn't think he had a name So it's pretty awesome. All right, so I think that'll be about that. All right, so I learned something there. I'll put that in my I'll put the the whole thing in my Podcast today Saying that the name and the specs that came out it's pretty funny because I got like I said I must have 15 or 20 of them now and if I see them the Grogu I'll get another one I just got a little dinky one from the

pet store a pet toy it's just fun it's a collection just started by at random and then they just kept finding more stuff. So I was like, oh, this is pretty cool. So that's where we're at. Alright, so you guys have a good weekend and I will talk to you tomorrow. Alright, bye.