Gooday Gaming Guests - Morning. Winds of Change Have Arrived. Where Does My Caretaking & Gaming Day Go Today Saturday 1/3/2026

Episode Date: January 3, 2026

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Morning, everyone. It is now 4.50 a.m. Today is Saturday, and we're on January the 3rd, 2026. So we're back in the weekend again. And then after this week, we go back to all the normal routine as we get through the next couple of months of darkness and cold. It's been really cold. Definitely going on one of the colds we've had here in a while. but we've had more snow than we usually do so both are um going on right now so yesterday what did we do yesterday oh yesterday we sat and did a little one-on-one well no it wasn't one-on-one it was a youtube insight i call it where i sit and i talk about ideas that i come up with to try to help my youtube as a small uh small channel uh to try to make to make some income it never really works but I'll just talk about it anyway, so I'll come up a new idea. So yesterday was all about, you have a little small window on your video page for each video where you can put a couple of different links.

I have one for IQ. Anybody clicks on that link and then go to, they sign up, and then I can get some sort of a percentage of it a little bit. But I've never had anybody do it yet. And then I put my eBay store. I've put on every single video that I ever had. You don't know a bulk, but it kind of blended them together. But you only have like three or four lines. So we talked to me yesterday about adding another, some sort of affiliate.

I haven't done it yet, but I just sat and talked about it and showed you on my screen. A lot of that. So I came out pretty cool. So I promoted that, of course. So all my promotions this month, $350. Boy, I'm going broke with those promotions. Although I did get some sort of a contact from Google. I'm not sure if it seems legit,

but we'll find out that we'll want to talk about Google Promotions. So we'll see what that's about. We'll talk about that one on. I schedule an appointment for next Monday, 8.30. I don't know where the appointment is. I don't know if it's on a screen or on a phone or I have no idea. We'll find out what that's about.

And we'll talk about that. So Google contacting me. I hope it's legit. It seemed good. and asked to set up an appointment on Google itself, but somebody that works there, maybe. So maybe that could be something. Because I put so much money on Google promotions,

and they talked about having you get some discounts and stuff, but I've never gotten anything from that. I want to give that guy a piece of my air of all the money up front for promotions and yet never gotten promotions myself, meaning I get like a credit to $900 credit. I would take that $900 credit and throw it away on my videos all day long, but I never got anything. So we'll find out.

So that's something new that just came up. So that's pretty exciting. We're going to check that out. And then yesterday, what else we did? We did another video? But of course, at the end of the day, I played Death Stranding, too. It's been my thing. It's my wind down the end of the day.

And then the story got so really cool, rainy. I got to the point where Rainey introduced and that was like the most emotional part of the story. I actually shed a couple of tears. It was so it was so awesome. So it's like playing a movie. It's really fun. And so I've got into more of the story now a little bit. But we've got a long way though.

I'm just, I'm milking it for everything I can. I'm going to go back and finish all the roads and all that yet too. So let's check the news and see what's going on. Let's see my mother. Let's see, my mother, talk to my mother. U.S. strikes. So, yeah, she's been not dorm, she just sleeps a lot. Just take a day by day out, but nothing majorly changing yet.

Hopefully we can get through the winter. My mother's birthday will be on, it's coming up in February. She'll be 85. uh so let's see we get some football this weekend and and what it really i got one box in i so i got a lot of goodies coming in uh not that i can afford it and i'm not a collector i'm an inspector at best so but we got a lot more things to list i listed a bunch of stuff yesterday all my tandy 1000s i'm going to list all parts from all of them started doing some other covers but uh today i well actually yesterday i got in a i invested in one more

isn't really neat t r s 80 it's tn d but it says tandy t r sd 2000 is a desktop so i invested in one more of those because it has the goodies with it which is the uh expansion uh in the back both video and memory. So mine that I have, I couldn't get to work. Oh, at least I'm not sure yet. So the keyboard for that came out. I ordered a keyboard for it. It was really dirty. We're going to do a good news, bad news, unboxing a little bit later. The good news is my keyboard. Bad news is I have a return comeback. I have two messages. Do you happen to have a Genesis model? two working motherboys was not ordered to case and appreciate I I do I do

overall those are all those are junk but if you can get the last I do later I will test a few later I will test a few on this is two messages I have on Etsy which is unusual but once in a while it does that this is that same guy Steve I think I hear so I do later I'll test a few on my YouTube channel I'll get him a link right on. Somebody else has the question. I think this is actually an offer.

It looks like two for $20 and 64 pack. Two. That's good. You offer quantity two for 20 final price, $10 each and final price. Okay. So I think you get that, right? So I think I saw it's, I got a bunch of those around jumping facts, two per ten, two for twenty. That'd be cool.

I think I sent it. Somebody else offered one time on Etsy. They do have offers on Etsy, I think you can get that. Yet they never, I accepted the offer. That's what I say, except. But then I never heard from them. on them to purchase it so all right so we got a little bit activity in Etsy so let's be set all right let's go i gotta get some uh new Nintendo Wii happy 20th anniversary

is that old I'm saying um we get some parts on Etsy for we so let's go to harsh mark we're gonna update the gotta take off ff gaming because we are now ff archive employee excuse me lots of more flexibility to lose anything i want oh it actually already changed that on here i've already did that pretty awesome let's look at uh i have 1,289 followers and then on my sales none that's first fun just have that one that one time they're all excited it was going to sell some stuff all right so let's go to um where we at now um oh rs s speed yes they had something crazy

happened want somebody from singapore downloaded 544 of my podcast i was like wow that was awesome just never know what's going to happen this little podcast that could what's i call it a little podcast I could do it every morning just became a routine part I'm very routine oriented is very good for you're trying to stay stable and sober and all that goes up so I added this to my routine so I could add it to my YouTube and it's really fun actually more and once in a while I discover I get all kinds of downloads yesterday I had five downloads but still I had in the last 30 days I've had 792 downloads what that's awesome

percent increase 2,165 for the longest time I was average between zero no downloads to maybe one or two my message in a bottle over the internet ocean wherever it may go we had that one deck on one person from Singapore 554 United States Elgin four Berlin three United States then UK York and Watford no those little red dots all over the world really cool to see and of And of course, we'd like to check to monetize. You do get some commercials, and I do make a few pennies from those commercials. We are at $0.29 a way out.

And I have a balance that I can withdraw, it's actually starting my PayPal, which was 15 cents. So I've needs 15 cents that's in my PayPal account. And now I have 29 cents. Somewhere I had 45 cents, and it went something, somebody took the rest of it. but I keep complaining about that because I really want it all those I want to make a dollar so we're at 29 cents and 15 cents that's not a closer dollar yet just so you know so when you see commercially another I'm making a penny every once in a while let's go to YouTube same deal here yeah we did a good video yesterday it wasn't that long but it was

good just to try to help people out not that I'm doing everything correctly because I only made $26.14 again. So taking my voice, probably not the best idea. But views down a little bit, $1.6 million, watch hours, 13.7K, estimated revenue of $26.14. So I try to give, I don't know what that means. There's a message here, but I don't know what this is. It says, C-O-M-P-C-O-M-P-C-U-S.

Hip-Up. See, if I can figure out what the language is. Let's go to my buddy chat, GPT for a second. I've got a comment, but I think it's in different language. I think it just says computer something. Let me, so usually if I see something like this, I'll translate it, and then I'll reply with it in English. That only makes sense so other people can see what it means.

I don't know. What language? What language? Translate to English. so i'm asking what this language it's indonesian so yeah it's also very understandable in malaya malaya but it reads most naturally as indonesian translation computerization of life we'll put all that in the comment right that makes it fun i think if someone sees that comment

and then i reply with all the info that my buddy cat chief you just gave me Indonesian. Oh, I don't think I've ever seen Indonesian. Oh. Oh. It's Indonesian. I never been in writing. That's why I didn't understand it. Computerized for life, whatever that means. That's pretty cool.

So how many downloads did we have? So my top downloads are welcome to Tandyland, 23.6K. So now my numbers are just not to fall because my promotions I spent Foucaulton is ending. Although I did promote the last two videos, but it pretty much different now. Etsy, my favorite 21.2K, Cole and my Starking is still hanging around that, 818.6K. I was a guy to give me that neutral feedback because I didn't want to get another dollar off and slammed like my feet back. So we always talk about things like that. That's why I like my YouTube and my podcast.

I can vent here on YouTube. All right, so let's get to some business on the eBay front. Let's see what we got going on here. Ooh, we've got some action. And I'm lighting up my YouTube, my eBay well over 1,600,600 listing. We have four. we'll look at the four purchases in a minute

so I've got an A with a lot of pluses untested motherboard on the disc drive so I probably worked Metal Gear salad snake eater oh and all the other games yep

probably recommended excellent experience and I messes the question with that guy yesterday same question you're responding immediately so he gave me feedback even before you can chip it It's pretty awesome. But I've been communicating with him and he wanted a second CD wanted a button, eject button.

So I got it done yesterday in the mailbox and the mailman king was in like 20 minutes and picked it up for the day. So that's pretty awesome. I appreciate that. Good feedback goes long way. All right, so let's see what we got for orders. Let's see if you got anything good. Oh, cool.

Yeah, good something. Another good thing. Xbox 360s 1439 Wi-Fi board. Ooh, I sold my engraver. Laser engraver. I don't know what I'm going to put that. Never used, never finished. And then we sold a four-pin, an I-D-E-C fan

for the Xbox 360 fat. So my engraver, I put all the components for it. I'm going to pull it out of it's downstairs. Another Maddie finish Xbox 360 side cover. So cool. So I've been selling some bigger things. I got my other 3D prints of listed too. A huge one.

I don't really want to try to shift it, but I'm going to anyway. And I haven't heard back from that really major packing thing that I did last week. So no news is good news. I'd rather have no news in a bad way. So I haven't heard anything, so I delivered a few days ago. So that should have been a successful delivery. Alright, so we need to do, we need to put someone in the bank. Things are, I need something in there today.

So we're chopping away at my loan, which at this point is going down quickly. I'm going to express some stuff into my bank. but it's taking a lot, but I spent a lot. Let's start. We'll just see, again, we're bulking up eBay, so, yeah, we're not going to have a half yet, but we'll get in there. Be awesome. All right, so let's see.

So that gives me those four sales. Let's see. I can send some another 5%. So I do, right now I have a 26% sale. And then I throw another 5%. so even though my listings are higher they go lower right so i got i got to start higher so i can have room to go lower so that we have some sort of a sale not usually less than 20 percent sometimes but right now i can't afford to go less than 20 percent sales just to keep right now it's

a coupon but we're going to at the end of the coupon sale we're going to switch it over switch it up again i do from zero to 29 dollars that i can only do about 10 percent of I'll go guys. Then anything from $30 and up, I can make it 20 to 30 percent. Those are over. More expensive stuff. And I flipped a coupon on the sale back of course. Return request is still open.

So let's see. We're going to see details. I know it's still because I don't want to do it. I'd like to proceed except... No, I don't want to do anything about. He'll step in and just take over. I have a $5 offer. You know what that means, don't you? Ha ha, give me a $5 offer. Ask, oh wait, ask, oh, there is, I can ask.

Looks like it's time for you just to step in help. Yes. That's no guy. This is no. Let us know how you want to help. I don't agree with the buyer's reason for the return. all so we're looking at a return I decided to the two cartridge slots for the n64 so what this guy did did it to me twice he in no time during both of these purchases he contacted me for any help so he bought a cartridge slot for his

n64 motherboard those never usually fixed the problem using the problem's motherboard so he got one of mine didn't seem to fix problem so we ordered a second one from me and it still didn't fix the problem obviously because The first one didn't fix it. The second one is not going to fix it. And then during that whole time, did he not ask him any questions? And then he opened to return, which wanted to return both of them. But he did it as not as described and put in something about my cartridge slot.

Cosed his power supply to all my cartridge. I'm going to do all this for nothing because eBay is just going to go in his favor. All my cartridge slots. work as as seen in my videos. This buyer never contacted me. Never contacted me after first purchased. bought a second one with the same issue because he has a motherboard problem.

not my not my not my slots made up to made made made up just honestly but I'm going to do it. This honestly opened up returns.

This false info. It is not as described. These were as is no returns to avoid these exact reasons. turns to avoid these exact reasons. He can easily resell them. He is also now blocked for being. Now blocked for being. This is the working video.

Please close this return. Okay, so I'll do this twice because he's got two, two things and I'm sure. Let's go to N64. My exact answer. My exact answer. I got this old day. It's a stupid control. Okay.

All right, so. So I'm going to go through all of this eBay still favors the seller. It's pretty discouraging. This I think so, anyway. I'm going to copy all this. I guarantee it's this is done through AI, we'll say we decided to go with, we decided to go with. uh the we'll do the second one just get this over it can all you do is contact me for i would have never approved i would have never approved a second uh purchase of the same thing because i already knew

if the first one doesn't fix it then the second one's definitely if I fix it so return is now a case so I made a case out of both of those now so we can get this done either I got to take it back or not it's just really aggravating that all you do is tell me the first time the yours wasn't working and I would have never let you purchase a second one I would say heck no I'm not selling even if you would have purchased that I would have I would have I just didn't notice that it was the same seller buying two different ones but then i would assume he had two different ones he needed to fix not that he got one it didn't fix his problem and then he ordered the second

one without let me know i would have never approved it even if i would have saw it we had a conversation and he said oh the first one didn't fix it but i'm going to order a second one and try it i would have been like no that's a heck no even if you order it i would cancel it and that's what i would have done and taking the hit for bad feedback but it's not what he did So, I'm all about helping people out, but not if you're gonna... Alright. Uh-oh, what we got here? Uh, we have board and the CPU tested and didn't we go with those.

I got the board today was a board test. It says I powered it up and I got a black screen looked around the board and no CPU is installed backwards. So it correctly was... Oh, crap. So, no, this... this was fully tested ah crap but

I added the CPU back on as it had a it had a um had a board connected to it originally I added the second shoot I added the second CPU

which was an original is an original from I had that small upgrade in a small upgrade in that small upgrade uh CPU first why has the cpr um bummer uh there's something this a decent yes I see that and they have a return I'm going to mess up shoot

I was going to be a second I was going to request I did. I did. I had the chip with the glue on the same side as all the other side as all the others on the board. This is how was it backwards? Here is a video. Did you try both CPU?

How was it backwards? That would be a big return, but I want to be able to... Shoot. Yeah, it should be... Kickstart screen. Um, let me look at that for a second. Still wrong. Still wrong.

We do everything always live as I'm doing it. Oh yeah, somebody gave me $5. someone gave me a five dollar offer so let's not do that that's it now I just got to client I figure out of this um let's look at me get two thousand mega mega one thousand case i could do that all right so meet 1,000 intestine care down first one bucks my second so this is it uh...

i got that i want So this. So this is your board tested before pulling it. This is your board tested before pulling it. It's not saying but it's on here. I'm going to get you on top. It's why you open stuff up. I'll show you under the hook for a minute and well,

the monitor on top. That's why you open stuff up. I simply They never know what you can find. Good. the CPU back in place. I wonder what I missed. What I missed.

Of course, the other ground for small frame. The second one of these I have coming in today has on our 2506K expansion Lipton. My first real mistake in a while. But we'll figure it out. Worst case I would take a return.

That would be a bummer. So yeah, that's the one that I had two of the Amiga 1000s, two motherboards. The first one had an expansion thing on it. That came off when I took it apart. I simply had two more of CPUs I put them back on but I figured out what's going all right so I think that's it this morning we've got some sales we got some things going on it did sell the second board too so that's already been shipped to that one I already just had the CPU on and everything I want to figure out what's

going out with that see if I made a mistake bummer okay all right everyone so you have a good saturday going into the weekend and enjoy the weekend and i will talk to you tomorrow do some fun things in my uh gaming desktop today all right Bye.