Gooday Gaming Guests - Ground Hog Day Thursday 7-10-2025

Episode Date: July 10, 2025

I have Heart Burn, so I am getting an endoscopy done Fri. Very Important to know what both are for and to get them done as needed. I also have elevated Liver Levels that I got a blood test for.The opposite of a colonoscopy—if you're thinking in terms of the part of the body being examined—would be an upper endoscopy (also known as esophagogastroduodenoscopy or EGD).Here's a quick comparison:ProcedureArea ExaminedDirectionColonoscopyLarge intestine (colon), starting from rectumFrom below (anus upward)Upper Endoscopy (EGD)Esophagus, stomach, and upper small intestineFrom above (mouth downward)So while a colonoscopy examines the lower GI tract, an upper endoscopy examines the upper GI tract, making it the most natural “opposite” in a medical sense.Got it — you're getting an endoscopy done. That usually refers to an upper endoscopy (EGD), which is a procedure where a doctor uses a flexible tube with a camera to examine your esophagus, stomach, and the beginning of the small intestine (duodenum).Here's what you can expect:✅ Why it's done:Usually to investigate symptoms like:Heartburn or acid reflux (GERD)Nausea, vomiting, or difficulty swallowingUnexplained upper abdominal painBleeding in the upper GI tractPersistent hiccups, cough, or anemia1. ALT (Alanine Aminotransferase)What it is: An enzyme mostly found in the liver.Why it’s elevated: Liver cells release ALT when they're damaged or inflamed.Common causes of high ALT:Fatty liver disease (NAFLD)Hepatitis (viral, alcoholic, or autoimmune)Certain medicationsObesity or metabolic syndromeExcess alcohol or toxin exposure2. AST (Aspartate Aminotransferase)Also elevated in liver damage, but less specific to the liver (found in other organs too).Usually checked alongside ALT.3. ALP (Alkaline Phosphatase)Can also start with an A.Elevation might point to bile duct issues or gallbladder problems, not just liver.

Good morning everyone. It is now 5 16. I got up a little early this morning. A little bit of my mind more than normal. So I always have lots of crazy dreams. I use Remeron. It's my sleeping medicine. So I always get crazy dreams when I sleep. But more so than normal, this one, overnight. So yesterday I had to go to the doctor. Took me a year to get a doctor, to check up for colonoscopy. I've already had like five of them in this short time,

and since I was like 40 something. So we checked in everything seemed to be alright so we're not gonna do that this time around however I also I have also had another problem I just go to the emergency room a few months ago and I've been having some heartburn so what we're gonna do is gonna have an it's called it at ask at Oscar B it's instead of the tube going up your butt the tubes going down my throat so he had an appointment opening Friday in 1945 so it's basically the same thing as a

colonoscopy except you don't need to have to do all that yucky prep to clear out your system. You just kind of you just can't drink any water. Oh you can drink water but nothing to eat the night before. So and then you go in and then they they knock you out and they'll put a tube out put tube down my throat and all the way down to my stomach I believe. Just check for any stuff I had it done once but about 10 years ago so I'm due for that so we'll see what

caused my heartburn maybe there's something going on I also said there was some levels on my liver that had gone up significantly and it's not from drinking because I haven't drank anything in since 2011 So I'm not sure what that's about, but I'm getting older things can happen Fairly quickly never know so I live every day a moment by moment So I also had some blood work done yesterday After the doctor appointment to check on some levels see what's going on. We got some things going on I normally not go don't get sick They don't get colds or anything like that

but Again, as you get older things can change pretty quickly. So most suits gonna go on with that. So we'll talk about the op we'll talk about colonoscopies and It's definitely recommended to get them. I've had, again, I've had about five of them now, only because I had lots of problems when I used to drink. So, I had a couple done way back then and then I had a few done after I stopped drinking. So very important that you get that done.

And then the, I can't think of the word how it's called Eska Eska it's not a colon but it's the top begins with an E I'll look up a little bit what it's called in a second here and then so yesterday really didn't do yesterday I didn't do much but what I did do is I spent the day with Wii games I got lots of Wii games I sold a whole bunch of We sports, We Resort, because those sell really fast. So I sold a bunch of those. I just put them as acceptable, no returns. Instead of sitting there trying to retest each one. And if I have any issues with them, I'll deal with it later. I put everything as acceptable. Lots of them are

in the cases. So I have a stack of We games and I have one cases that don't have the games but maybe good artwork To resell so we put them in little categories like a lots of Mario stuff You know, so a bunch of Lego thing Lego games Star Wars Lego and Batman and all that bunch of Lego things Lego games Star Wars Lego and Batman all that so we're gonna do a little piles of Wii games because I'm just wanna stop mixing up I mean also I put lots of other stuff on eBay did some controller lot part slot listings or throwing a bunch of new stuff up on eBay been slow so we're gonna mix it up and do some more stuff. I've got lots of other ideas and tons of stuff to do. Okay so let's uh oh so I ordered a

Chromebook. It came in last night finally. So we'll watch that. I mean we'll check that out. Oh, Etsy. We got orders here for Etsy. That would be exciting. I've used it. Etsy, oh, two orders. Yay.

Disc door, round metal. Oh, I said the Sega. Disc door, round metal. I have to find that. And the guy that I asked about oh no this is a different guy he ordered four this door top doors for the that's pretty cool it's for the PS1 it's the 5501 7 and the 7501 top cover. He ordered a Ford top cover so that's pretty cool.

So that's a big sale at Etsy. Pretty awesome. I also noticed that in last year my sight to see up close has gotten really bad. I need reading glasses pretty much. I'm just falling apart over here pretty much. We're just enjoying life while we can. All right, so let's see. So that's cool Etsy, I got a good order. Two things today.

So that's why I keep Etsy going. Let's look at Parchmark here. Let's see. Yeah, I didn't do any videos yesterday at all. I just concentrated on getting stuff on. I had to go to the doctor's appointment anyway. So Friday I just did a, of course I do my podcast here every morning. Just a brief overview of what's going on for the day. Let's look at Parchmock.

I have 1,019 followers here. Any offers? I have one offer and that's about it. Probably never sell any of Parchmark, but it's kind of like a new social media place like I said. I gotta find what I did with that. So, Sega Genesis Model 3, the little mini. The top cover has a magnet in it and that's where I sold it. I sold the magnet. It's for the disc door magnet and then I sold four complete top, bottom, top covers, the PS1. It's every model except for the 9001 which doesn't have that port so therefore that top cover doesn't have that opening therefore so that one's different. All the rest is the same except for the 1001 that's also

different. It's got all the extra audio video ports on the back so that covers different. So the ones that are not the 9,000 or the 1,000 Is the ones I sold for them and more of those so I'm gonna host more So that's pretty cool And then my I Ordered Prime video I got a Fire TV 4k TV 43 inches the smallest I could get that was in 4k and I ordered the Luna controller and then what I do have is I

have a Nvidia shield system that has controllers and all that so I'm going to sell all that. I can never really get it to work. It works but when you try to get in line to play a game you're like forever waiting in line. The video shield is the older one. I have two controllers and two remotes and the shield works fine. So I'm going to get all that listed today because I'm going to replace all all that with Apple TV because only a few months now football will be here soon Picked should be in much better position should be pretty awesome

Josh McDaniels back and everything's gonna be cool Compared to last year which is like some kind of weird rookie year, but this year should be pretty exciting like variable and all that so My 43 inch Apple TV. I'm not Apple TV fire TV so Only a couple months from now Both season We start the whole team with that All right, so let's look around and see

Says Superman review James Gunn just killed the superman I don't think we need to do another Superman I just don't understand it how many times we do we see that we do the Superman with different characters I just gotta be another universe that people can make I mean there is there are a lot of good funny universes out there There are a lot of good fun universes out there. Alright so let's check the news here for a minute. I heard a little thing, I heard some thunder boomers last night again. Over here in Rhode Island.

But we usually don't get that really crazy weather. The rest of the country's just been getting walloped everywhere. It's pretty wild. All right, so let's go to my RSSV here this morning. Yeah, so I got some some doctor things, some health issues to tackle. We'll see what's going on with that. Hopefully it's not the major. Some days I think I live to be 100. days I make it to 60 I'll be lucky. I can't log into my RSS feed for some reason. I'm not sure what that is. Let's see here.

Nope, it's not letting me log in. It's not going on with that. So let's go YouTube then. We're glowing. Again I didn't do any videos yesterday other than the podcast but today we're gonna unbox my 49,164 subscribers. Very exciting. My goal is to get to the 50,000. I had to invest a little bit more in promotions to do it but we're getting there very exciting I did so my biggest one my life in a double shave but also I've been doing a lots of I do flash 15

seconds then quick three minutes so those give me lots of views that way. So that was a significant, smart way to do it. I did a post question. Do you prefer the Game Boy Color or the Advanced SP? And it's Game Boy Color by 60%, SP by 40%. It's my little poll I did. So I had listed listed bunch of those and actually my Gameboy color is been 2.1k views so pretty awesome I'm doing something I happen to

do that they were similar and I made a poll out of that so pretty fun so try to make some stuff up but my subscribers are going up and if I look at my analysis I got to do a one-on-one which is coming well I'll go through everything I've done since the last time I've done a one-on-one change things significantly since then including a whole month without any promotions at all Google. So now my life in a double-shape through the looking glass window got me 6,552 views. But I promoted that I think about 60 or 80 dollars. That's why it's so high. Extra Tubular, my buddy Rocket was 4,000. That one's just a short one, I didn't promote that. Flash 15 seconds. I'm getting some in the 2000s, 3000s. So those really help. So Flash 15 seconds. Something I added when

I went to no promotions last month as a compensation including doing a quick three minutes for the long video. It seemed to have helped significantly in some way. But my revenue is still $30.95. But it never really goes any higher than that. I don't know why. So, but I did have a day when I had $4. I made $4 in one day, which is huge for me.

I made $4 in one day, which is huge for me. Because normally per day, with all the videos, I may make $0.50, $0.25, something like that. So to have one video make $4, that's huge. If I could do that all the time, then I'd be really doing good. But my duration just is 59 seconds. Just can't get the attention span to stay that long. I had 10 views on my groundhog day yesterday. So that's pretty good.

It's about normal. I never really promoted any of those. I'm done promoting. I did about $100 worth of promotions this month. Pretty much the $100 I made last month is $126. I just used it now to promote because I want to get to 50,000. It was pretty exciting. 50,000 subscribers, not subs. Subs are under the water or you eat them. I have subscribers and I'm glad for everyone I have. Let's see if we can add to that. And I go over here and I check to see if I can subscribe to

anybody that's subscribed to me. Most are hidden so I can't see them which is really silly and I still say it needs we need an auto subscribe where anytime I get a new subscriber even if I can't see them I would automatically subscribe to them because that seems only fair and then it just kind of brings my place to somewhere else a name I don't like because I can't see all these people. I'm subscribing to people right now these are all people that have subscribed to me I'm gonna see so many. So let's go to eBay so we did it yeah so we wanted to if was really quiet and I really don't since I added no more free shipping change things a little bit so I think I'm gonna stop but more stuff from well over a

thousand items now thousand and almost 100 items Apple Macintosh defective donor how do you do me favor as the board and I'm trying to repair it There's a resistor. Alright, so this guy's asking about the Apple classic. I have two motherboards m1420 Motherboards listed Wrist at bottom left corner that's missing my board. I can't find it value anywhere. Can you check? See, this guy wants me to do a value. He says, how do I do that? How do I do that?

He wants me to check for resistance on a resistor. Is that the one I get in the picture? Not that exact one. This is for a PS3 Slim 2101A fan housing. Not that exact one as it is a stock photo. However, if I'm doing a listing where it has multiple items in in it then the photo would just be a stock photo says however I Can

Show you Your contact me and say is that the exact one I'm gonna say no and then I'm gonna say however I can show you a exact one, I will ship before. I'll show you an exact one I would ship for any purchase. Of course, I always answer my questions when I see them first. I had two questions and we had... It's funny because sometimes at five o' in the morning, I'll get a reply I'm up at five just because I would turn my shot up shop up soon as I wake up But for some of the reply back and say you have to wake up or be awake

Wherever the time zone is Pretty funny How does I get up really really? But we use it my mind's running. I just get up and do stuff. That's what happened this morning Not really worried about doing that the ascot the the colonoscopy but the other thing Like I get knocked out anyway, so it's a good part It's fun when they do that. You can feel that stuff going into your veins

and you're gone, you're awesome. So I look forward to doing that. A little piece, a little bit. All right, so let's see. So we have five orders. Let's see what we got. Texas Instrument Motherboard. Oh, Texas Instrument Power Board, actually Texas Instrument Power Board actually.

Cool, I haven't sold one of those yet, I got lots of those. Power boards for the Nintendo Gamecube, two different types, got lots of those. Nintendo Wii front panel, haven't sold one of those in a while, so I got some of those. Nintendo Wii front panel and sold one of those in a while. And a working unknown issues VA-0 or VA-1 motherboard. Pretty cool. And then also I have the 10 bottom screw PS2 fat. So 10 bottom screw is just that. These 10 bottom screws is the original ones that have the 004, 005 or the 006 motherboards.

And then on the top of them is a small little power supply. That's where I sold. After that, the rest of the three thousand models The bigger power slide at the bottom and then the five thousand is also on the bottom different So it's huge huge difference between those typical model on all the stuff Now I know so once you learn it all and I put myself through at home gaming school for about eight years now So I pretty much know most of it except for some of the modding things. Reasons for certain items, motherboards or stuff like that so that buyers can mod stuff but I've learned a lot about that too.

So I've got more of those power supplies. We'll get that listed today. So that's my little thing here this morning. Let's go to ask chat, gg, chat, gpt. Again, I stopped all subscriptions to AI only because there's no reason for it to pay for this anymore. There's enough chat GPTs and stuff out there. And I can use it as long as I can and then when it tells me I need to pay for more time, I stop using it for the day. I was like 20 some bucks a month. And then I was doing, and I had Genesis too. But what I did was I got rid of all my stuff on my Google Drive down to almost nothing. I put it all on a hard drive. I'm definitely not paying for all that nonsense too.

It was like 40 bucks between the two of those. I was like, freak that. All right, so we're going to say, what is the opposite of a colonoscopy. Oh, endo, that's where it's called. It's called an upper endo-oscopy. That's where I'm getting done. Upper endo-oscopy. I want to do it.

Large intestine starting from the rectum is a colonoscopy. From below, anus upward, we're going from the top. Upward endoscopy, EGD they call it. Esophagus, stomach, and upper small tendons. From the mouth downward. So a colonoscopy examines the GI tract. Yeah so they asked the opposite, so it was endo, endovascular. But that, it might as well be notes when we do it because we're gonna get done. So it's important that you get both done. Either, either, either tract can have issues. Hot burns

been my problem lately so. Then I had some, every once in a while I get tightness in the chest as well. We went to the emergency room a few months ago and had chest x-rayed and everything done. It was all off. This is there. It's heartburn. is heartburn. Yes, heartburn is common sign, upper GI, acid reflux, GERD, gastro reflux disease. You can bring up heartburn. If you're bringing up heartburn, contrast. So no, I want to do this. So we want to do this is what I'm getting at. I am getting this done.

Okay. Got it. Endoscopy done. The upper endoscopy. Oparinthastic reflux. Nausea, vomiting. I don't have that part. I explained upper abdominal pain. No, bleeding. No, not really. Persistent hiccups. Not a problem. Lie on your side, they knock you out, do your thing. But you lie the opposite side if you would, as you were doing a colonoscopy. Because it's coming, you're going in your throat, too done your throat. And then he said, take any biopsies when they're in there. I have high levels on my liver function test. Beginning with A is the aldeine, amyto, transverse. What is an amazine found in the liver?

S1, LV. Why is it a liver? Liver disease released to LAT which they damaged or inflation common causes of the high ALD ALT such fatty liver disease, which I believe I have remember I was a series of alcohol hepatitis Alcoholic, but I haven't drank since 2011 certain medications and I might create some medication, I take Prozac, Remeron, and then we take a thing for cholesterol.

Also elevated liver damage, which is specific to liver, also checked. So LAP is the other one starting with it elevated my ball duck issues or gallbladder problems Yeah, it's not a fault part here It's sort of like that. Well, we'll see So we'll do all this is something to put all this in my Podcast today do a little bit. We'll talk about a little bit of medical stuff This is something to put all this in my podcast today. Do a little bit, we'll talk about a little bit

of medical stuff, personal medical stuff where I'm at and we'll see what the blood results get when I come in and endoscopy, we'll do, get that done Friday. He had an opening, so I went to the appointment yesterday and she's like, well, he's got an opening Friday. I'm like, let's do it, let's go in, Let's go in get it done 945. I get dropped off Doesn't take going takes a few minutes and knock you out. You just have to have some drive you home So pretty cool. So we'll get that done. I

Planned on you. I thought I was gonna get a colonoscopy done. It's been a while. He said I really don't need one Well, something is off. But all right, so let's go to the RSS feed here. So we'll put some of that information on my thing today for anybody out there. Don't be afraid to do a colonoscopy. They're pretty awesome. It's awesome, but it's simple.

They just knock you out, so you don't know anything. Same with the endoscopy. I had one done. I didn't realize it. I had one done ten years ago Same deal. I think actually I think I had them both done in a day front and the back If I'm correct, well, I'm definitely not doing a colonoscopy because I would have to prep for that And of course we would talk about prepping for I I do a whole video on prepping for colonoscopy. Oh, it's my heart rate says feed. I mean they won't be able to, I can't get this going and I can't load it. Oh there we go, now we're in. Okay cool. Yeah I would definitely, because colonoscopy is very very important. As soon as you get older, it seems like colon cancer is very prevalent in really younger

people now. So I would say get one done as soon as you can. Even in your 30s. It's like you should wait. Especially if you drink a lot and all that kind of stuff. So I had one download yesterday. So I made it back to Denmark in Asperg. Pretty awesome. So a couple downloads. Well today we'll do, we'll make it more of

a health, health for 57 now. So for an older man in his 50s or women too. They have other things going on but we have a lot of stuff that going on as well this where I have I have an s a L no an a L T a St or a LP Levels are high they've been getting higher in my liver And he says it's not a drinking thing, because again, I've been cleaning so much since I was 11. However, damage can be done that may be not be.

So it could be something else. Hepatitis, fatty liver disease, possible. Obesity and that, obesity. Excessive alcohol, toxic exposure, certain medications. That's where I'm going to key in on the certain medications. See if my remeron or something is causing that. I use that to sleep. Alright, so that's it for this morning. So a little

bit longer. Today we talked about some health issues and simple procedure. See what comes down from there. And then later on I'm going to do some more Wii games. uh... simple procedure see what comes out from there and then later on i'm going to do some more Wii games and we'll uh... we're going to look at my uh... i got a seventeen inch chrome so we're going to open that up and use that for my entertainment at night time bigger screen and i'm going to use my chromebook probably more often than i would use with this. It'll be a lot easier to get around. Alright, so you guys have a wonderful day and I will

talk to you tomorrow. Alright, bye.