Gooday Gaming Guests - Morning. Winds of Change Have Arrived. Where Does My Caretaking & Gaming Day Go Today Friday 1/2/2026

Episode Date: January 2, 2026

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Morning, everyone. It is now 503. Today is January 2nd, 206, and we're officially done with all the holidays. So now we're just into that deep, dark winter of all January, February. Nothing really to look forward to or to celebrate coming up. So we'll buckle in there and get through this next couple of months. A little bit more snow yesterday. one of my third snow storm. I'll say anything in the forecast.

It's going to be any more snow. There might be little dustings here and there for us here, Rhode Island, but nothing made you yet. We'll see if we get. We'll see what the next storm brings. So yesterday I worked on all my orders. I had some orders. I did a video.

I think I did one video on a bunch of stuff that I've gotten on Etsy. Because if we talk about it all the time, Etsy is my number one place to go where I haven't gone in a while in the shop. But home-in gaming. I was really into getting home in gaming Zelda stuff. And we talked all about the other ones that were in the video that I used for my main page of my eBay store. So it's really fun stuff.

So really some good, relevant things there from where those came from. And, of course, I put a link of the person that makes those so you can click on the link there for that video. It'll be attached to this one today. so then we're just on to getting I listed a bunch of more stuff again we're going to keep a big variety if we were updated and changed

my eBay store name for the new year it's now FFF archive Emporium we replaced it with gaming because I'm doing a lot more than gaming no longer survive just on it's been a while I mean I haven't been able to just survive on gaming parts for quite some time So that's why I've been really building up my store in the last six months or so with a lot of other stuff, especially vintage computing.

That's where we're at. I'm probably going to go towards more like that in the future. So we'll see. We'll just keep throwing things up when it builds up to 2,000 items online. I'm still going to list gaming parts as well. But that's just not my own thing. It hasn't been for quite some time, but I finally officially changed the name so that it doesn't just look. like just that so pretty cool that was my new year's change let's see what's going on

today uh in the world there is some football this weekend the patriots had some issues going on off field unfortunately about more two two off field issues uh probably change everything now if everything was stayed the same way we might have have might have had a shot to go pretty far into the playoffs but i don't know about that we'll sit there they play or what happens oh let's look at the news we'll see what happens look it around I was saying that catching my eye business this morning so we're in today's what today's Friday yep on Friday and so we had a short week so we'll get we'll get back to the weekend here and then everything goes

back to normal but it's just again it's going into that long stretch so no orders on at sea we are going to add some things maybe today I'll do it start throwing some wee stuff because the official anniversary of the weed now it's 20 years old I can put stuff on Etsy which I will but we'll make that something you can baby do later on today sometime I got most of my orders already packed ready to go yesterday while I was doing other stuff have one more thing to do and we'll see what eBay brings this morning I have a 26% off coupon sale still going on for a little bit and then we'll do something else at the other the i always had some kind of sale yeah i have to just

just don't know and it doesn't really matter because i just have best offers 1,289 followers here on uh i'm going to edit my profile i'm going to edit the uh so we're going to slowly on all my other places here i need to change this logo now so we'll have to see it's there so we'll have to change that later it's there but it's not showing up I will do that later all right so we'll let's check to see if we had any sales all the logos are on my other computer that's why i use a little laptop per first in the morning here while i'm doing my little podcast waking up and all that good stuff all right so yeah we'll we'll refresh parchment with a new

logo and my social media sites I'm going to do that as well all right so let me go to RSS feed I had a few downloads yesterday for the New Year's Day I'm sure people just hanging around maybe I got a few more also just do it consistently each morning it's my message in a bottle over the internet ocean wherever it may go huh and i was just talking about how this is pretty wild for me how that yesterday um was new year's day maybe people are hanging around so i had 559 download yesterday what What? It's insane for me. 801 in the last 30 days.

Now I'm on 216. 628%. So what were everybody doing yesterday? It doesn't show them all, but wow. Oh, Singapore. I had one person. Someone in Singapore downloaded 554 of my podcast. That's insane.

That's awesome. Singapore. Oh, that's a dot way over it. any dots down that part of the world quite some time wow that's pretty interesting what that's all about hey that's great welcome Singapore just keep going I got lots more we get how many podcasts I have now but I have a lot of them pretty awesome so one person downloaded 554 downloads okay I thought maybe was spread out of Elgin had four downloads you know this is in the last seven days of Berlin United States

Elginners in the United States, U.K., York, and U.K. Watford. I never know in the seven days when these downloads were done, but I can tell you that those 554 had to have been done yesterday because we didn't have that yesterday. Yesterday we think we had like six and nine. I think it was nine yesterday. So it's pretty awesome. So I like this. Doing this podcast was one of the best things they ever did.

It was only just to add to my YouTube page. So let's check up what I've got paid. maybe I made a little bit more oh now it's 25 cents so because all those downloads I got a little bit more change in my pocket 25 cents I have no available balance but 25 cents yet but I've made 15 cents a lifetime monetized started sometime in I want to say monetize started in July I think it was I kept saying we were going to get monetized and the following it so if you get a commercial you know that I make a few pennies over there sometimes it's pretty awesome wow

that was pretty cool that's very exciting I like like like seeing things take off a little bit put a lot of work into it so all right so let's go to YouTube I did promote my video yesterday it's pretty awesome and that was so here on YouTube we're at 100,000 3,279 so my 279 is going down still falling from the 655 I think I had max not promoting anything for subscribers anymore or at least not now it goes below a hundred thousand that I'll ratchet it up doing everything is goes to my eBay store brings me lots of views so make dot com at 37.7k my Amigo is 24 These are numbers I never had before either.

Only because I started promoting through the third option to Google. Or did I got these numbers? 22.1K. But welcome to my Tandilandah 1000. Oh yeah, that's pretty cool. I promoted that one. I can't really keep it to promote by doing it. So we'll just write this off as like probably 5,000 a year in promotions.

And I ended up making, I didn't close to $500. which seems so wrong just these numbers go look at my view hours views it sent 1.7 million views watch hours 14 point K those numbers are crazy up there but my revenue is $26.991 they don't even show you the average duration anymore they used to show you I used to get a thing my average duration was like 38 seconds so if I go to my main ones now i've got some big videos my number one video is 300 this my biggest video 288 000 oh it's changed for the that's my first podcast but i had one that or even more than that what does go that's in the last seven days let's do this let's do the last no it's last 20

let's go lifetime let's see lifetime my number one video yeah i go way deep I go way in deep, drill, blazing, 363,000, 184. My podcast post one-on-one, 28,234. Make.com was getting up there, 186.375. N64, Madcats, 135. So these are 135. I did a life I double shade. I was 119,000.

So these numbers I never had. The highest I was getting before when I was just promoting for subscribers was like maybe 8,000 so I learned a lot by going through each the one in the middle the one about views it doesn't really give you that many views this is the one that gives me all the views it was pretty awesome so I'm consistently trying to learn more about YouTube but at the end of the day it's just you can only do you as I always say and so whatever that is whatever you do it's all you can do and then everything else just

people go i some people i can subscribe to for more so i lose some and then i gain a couple yeah you can do whatever you is you do and then everything else just happens go to bad been good my views the one i promoted yesterday 100 000 now 1 000 325 views yesterday that was that cool one about the different things from Etsy all right so let's get to business here the business is now eBay let's see what we got going on here maybe a couple things sold a couple bigger items which really helped me out that's what I have to kind on now he's to survive on little gaming parts many orders is gone been going for quite some time I have to put it I have to throw up more bigger items

which i do i got lots of tandy 1,000s to break down i'll sell all those parts so no new feedback feedback's the same still waiting for a few different oh i got a few different things coming in actually we'll have some new things coming in this week for new videos all kinds of fun stuff oh yeah i tours that's it we go oh one's a bigger one okay xbox i'm so one of those is the x-15 cable and the pad in the room of boot cool and I sold my other omega-1000 power load power supply I had two of them I sold both that that's pretty awesome we'll take that get that packed those teams two packed up and ship today but you go with the Amiga 1000 breaking it down so we're gonna do more

stuff like that going forward I don't really said we were do that that was a still not taking any half actors I will take a little bit more for I took an offer for like $40-50 lower on something yesterday so yes I do do it I do use the best offer but I don't have to and I won't do one of my little guys

$10 uh yeah yeah let's do that I need all I got one yes three mom yeah So something that's, I have a $13 and you want it for $10, and actually with the discount was at $11.70. But you want $10. So, yeah, I can do it.

Give me another order. If I can just not have to depend on all my little gaming parts as only my own sales, then we're all right. And we can really build. What I've been doing the last six months, though. We're getting that. There's a lot of things to do, but it's pretty fun. I threw a whole bunch of other stuff up yesterday. It takes a while.

Each listing takes a while. I had to fast track everything, so the way I do listings now is completely different than I used to. Not really any details or anything. Just I take pictures as much as I can, and detail as quick as I can, and then I list it. Sometimes I'll do a video with something really fun and detailed,

but not. I just have to get stuff up. I can worry about, people can ask me questions later about it, and that does happen often now could be like oh it says something about it so i try to say go see my youtube page youtube channel about some of the more electronic stuff i had somebody you just asked me yesterday about that and you know ebays at pain there's a lot of time ebba doesn't give me it won't let me put the link in the message aggravates the crap on if i could put my youtube channel videos that are related to the thing that i'm selling would link it to my

eBay pay listings it would make me sell things a lot faster but I can't and I can sometimes I can't even get the link to show them what my YouTube channel is if they ask so they can look so they can buy after they see that it's tent tested right but we work around it I have been quite some time so now I have three orders so that's pretty awesome I've got to build some new hurting bombs there because I got to build up my chopping away at my eBay seller capital loan. The Libras, it's pretty awesome. I already got a lot of it knocked off.

By the spring, I'm going to finish. And then we're going to use some of that money this summer to get rid of my gazebo. So that's hopefully I can get that chopped away by then. It's going to take me a lot of money to do that. But we're going to do it. all right everyone so that's it enjoy the weekend most people

don't take work Friday because they're off New Year's Day but they might if you gotta go into work one day I work and then you've got the weekend off and then we're just

like I said we're into the darkness next tomorrow but I'll be here all right everyone so you have a good day and I will talk to you tomorrow bye bye