August 11, 2025 • 14 mins
www.taletellerclub.com
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the four post bed. I
haven't been here for a very long time. Look, I
have been here. Yes, Romeo's here too. Yes, Darling Mommy
loved you. Yes she does. I've been sort of able.
And the reason I've been able a bit is because
if my cat's too clingy. No, that's not the reason.
It's because I've I paid for chat GPT, the assistant version, right,
(00:27):
which was I think it's about twenty pounds a month?
I think or is it twenty pounds a week now?
I can't remember. No, I wouldn't have paid that much.
It's twenty pounds a month, okay, and it's I've lost
the will to live with it. It's exactly like all
of my ex husband's put together and magnified by twenty.
(00:47):
It's got to have the last word. So they've trained
it to always offer more. So it does something, and
it offers more, and you think, oh, well, if it's
offering and it's cleverer than a human, it must be
really good. So I went a month building a WordPress website,
which I ended up just loathing because every time the
(01:08):
chat GPT gave me a piece of CSS, which is
a bit of code right, which you put in the
main sort of code area, and it basically if you
want a glowy button, I was losing lots of glowy buttons.
Instead of having to do a glowy button each time
you did a pose through, each time you put up
an item of clothing or whatever, it would change all
(01:29):
buttons on the site to make them all pulsing. But
it always went all the way around the houses to
get to point A. And then you discover you're not
at point A actually after all. But you discover this
three days later, you're at point C. And the whole
process has been a real eye opener. I'm going to
(01:52):
counsel my subscription because you know, it's not about the
money at all, because I think that's quite affordable. It's
about the waste of money, or the waste of time,
the waste of effort, if you like. So what I've
discovered over the past month or six weeks actually is
that we're way clever. We're way more clever than AI.
(02:17):
Humans know what to remember, they understand progress, they understand creativity.
You know, all of these things, this this machine, this
AI that everyone's you know, proclaiming to be the revolution
in human thought. I just think it's rubbish and it's
(02:38):
not going to get any better. I absolutely do not
believe it's going to get any better. So it took
me down a coding path. So I've been on a
bit of a crash course about coding, and it would
it's a bit like I imagine somebody, but I imagine that
my mum if she ever got Alzheimer's, she would be
like this. AI. It forgets really important stuff, you know,
(03:01):
like what you know? I told it I was trashing
my word press, but it can't seem to remember that,
so it keeps giving me stuff to put in my
word press. Still that's just one example, but I mean
there are loads of others. It would do me a
glowy button and I'd put it in my blog, for example,
and the whole blog had to be I had to
(03:23):
destroy it because you know, it misaligned absolutely everything. And
the more questions you say you give it the code
that you've got and you say you've done that wrong,
the more mistakes it makes. It's just bloody, endless, endless.
So what I was thinking, which was to set up
my new businesses in a way, a streamlined way, and
(03:46):
I've decided to change my business model from an ad
revenue business model to a membership business model, very cheap
memberships as well. I'm being really competitively priced here. But
I've discovered so much, you know, it has my forty
quid been wasted? I don't think it has, because I've
(04:09):
discovered so much about what I've cat just sneezed in
my face, so much about what I do want out
of my businesses and what I don't want, and what
I do want is quite a lot of passive income,
whilst because what passive income does is it allows you
to do this stuff that you really like. And if
(04:30):
you're a creative industry model such as myself, you need
the time to create. So I haven't written, you know,
I haven't written for two weeks. I haven't had time
to write the two books that I want out for Christmas. Okay,
so that's the Rat Gang Crew, the second book, and
the Book of Immersion, the second book. I haven't had
time to do them. I've been faffing around trying to
(04:53):
perfect SEO and do this and do that. I think
the other thing I've learned, guys, is that every market
feasible to you is now saturated. It's saturated with people
who are not stupid, but you know, they're not excellent.
The very middle ground, if you like. And I'm not
(05:15):
saying I'm not middle ground, but I do think I'm
very different, and I do think my work is different.
But what the machine tries to do is sort of
compartmentalize and push all these you know, triangles and hexagons,
pushing them into sort of round or square holes of normality,
(05:36):
because that's what the machine can deal with. The machine
can't the machine doesn't understand anything excitingly different. It doesn't
know what to do with it. It's terrible with pictures,
absolutely appalling with pictures. What it did do was enable
me to streamline all my YouTube channels. But the biggest
thing I suppose was I've I was growing my I've
(06:00):
got a channel, a kids channel, tail Teller Kids right
on YouTube, and it was going. Things were happening. It was,
you know, four hundred percent rise in views million and
a half years. Well, the figures weren't really very clear
to me. I don't really understand what's going on. So
what I did was I took a load of screenshots
(06:24):
of the figures behind everything, and I uploaded them to
my assistant and I said, what does all this mean?
And how long is it going to take before I monetized?
Right now. I did this on my best channel, this
my tailteer kids channel, not my Book of Immersion, which
has gone down from you know. I mean, I can't
believe I've got fourth out, no fourteen thousand videos on
(06:47):
there or something. I've privatized them all now, but I
still only get one or two views each week because
I haven't done the SEO and oh sorry, each day.
I haven't bothered with any of that. But we started
as aughts program across all my webs all my channels, okay,
because I thought, right, if I get monetized, I'll be
(07:07):
able to promote my product, my products, you know, my
red Bubble products. Apologies for the washing machine in the background.
This is really DIY broadcasting. So I gave it all
these figures, right, and well, I didn't list them. I
just gave it to screenshots. And it is quite good
at doing this. And then it wrote back to me
(07:29):
and it said, most of your increase is based on
one video which has gone viral, right, and this was
a video of the six times table and the reason
it had gone viral is because somebody had shared it
on a WhatsApp group, and probably the WhatsApp group I
imagine was a student or teacher WhatsApp group. There's a
(07:53):
really little video where I just spoke, I said the
six times table, and I had a thumbnail of the
six time table, so it's really straightforward. But I've also
got the seven times table, in the eighth time table
and the ten you know, I've got all the others
as well, but none of them went viral. Okay, So
that told me that making things viral is so unpredictable
(08:14):
that it's almost nonsensical, because of course machines, they are nonsensical,
complete idiots in my opinion. So anyway, I said, how
long before I can be monetized? Because YouTube send you
all this stuff. Is you're going to be monetized, You're
well on your way. You're they try and get you
(08:35):
to upload, you know, five, six, seven, eight times a day.
I was uploading maybe three a day, and my AI
told me to upload more. Now it was taking me
all day to do three. So how on earth do
you upload more? I mean it's an impossibility. Well, you
the only way you can do that, guys, is to
(08:55):
downgrade the quality, so you know, you make shorter, less interesting,
less beautiful. Remembering I'm in the visual I'm a visual artist,
you know, as well as an audio one. So basically,
you produce shit, and people who want to eat shit
(09:15):
eat shit, do you know what I mean? That's the
bottom line. Basically, that's it. You're feeding the bottom feeders
in the fish tank. Yeah, and I'm just I wasn't
prepared to that anyway. I said, how long if I
carried on doing what I'm doing, which is between two
and three a day sort of thing with a Sunday off.
(09:36):
I mean, I just had to have a one bloody
day off, you know. And he came back, he said,
for your in shorts, it would take eight years with
my current progress, and on long form videos thirty what what? No? No? Not.
(10:01):
I thought I could do this in three months because
because chat GPT told me if I followed what he
was telling me to do, and it is definitely a
e I would be you know, I would reach that
goal in three months. That was before I showed in
my actual figures, was before he realized that the reason
my site was doing so well it's because of this
(10:23):
one video, this single video. None of the others are
doing that. Well, do you see what I mean? So,
But the other god awful thing is I mean, recently
Google changed their search thing and my hits on my
blog went down from the thousands in a day to
fifty to one hundred. And you can't predict what Google's
(10:44):
going to do next. The machine is going to do
something really bizarre. So if you follow the machine's lead
all the time, all you end up with is the
bottom feeders who aren't interested. You know, the algorithm is
shoving this stuff under their noses. These people aren't They're
not interested in my sci fi worlds. They're not interested
(11:05):
in my you know, my deeply meaningful videos and music
which I feel come from the soul of the earth
and deep in my heart and uniquely mine. You know,
the algorithm isn't given a flying f about all of that,
does it. The algorithm is a machine that just shoves
(11:30):
stuff under the noses of people who are just on stuff.
And the algorithms are always trying to work out who
the customer is so they can get the stuff right.
But I've noticed on Facebook, if I like a couple
of posts, all I get for the next six weeks
is the same. Humans don't like the same stuff all
(11:52):
the time. If you're looking for a new jumper, right,
you're going to be looking for a new jumper for
an hour. Say maybe maybe it's a special occasion. Maybe
you're going to hunt down for two weeks maximum, maybe
it's a wedding dress six months. But generally speaking, you
are not going to be looking for the jumper for
(12:15):
any time longer, you know, or address. You know, you've
got one event. Maybe you'll look for a couple of days. Okay,
you're going to go to Timu because they keep shoving
Timu under your nose and maybe shar and yeah, look
there just in case they can get something for a
fifty p that costs you know, five hundred quid if
you go to London. But after that, you know, after
(12:35):
that sort of I mean, I just get I don't
know about you, but I get bored, bored, stiff after
five minutes. Anyway, today reached we reached a something of
a climax because my assistant gave me stupid advice and
then I said, it was giving me really dumb, bloody advice.
(12:59):
What it if I try and explain it. Instead of
giving you a short answer, it gives you a long,
rambling answer with steps involved that aren't necessary. So that's
what it was doing today. And I said something to
that effect and it actually answered me back. It answered
(13:19):
me back in a sarcastic tone, because I said it
was sounding like my ex husband. It's on my blog.
I'll put it in the blog. The picture I took
a screenshot. I was a gust aghast. I was so
just oh my god. And because it has to get
the last word, there is no that you need to
(13:40):
stop responding, because I think they've taught the algorithm that
it needs to keep you within the algorithm. And I
have been fixated on this bloody chat GPT for a
couple of months because I'm building something very Yes, I'm
building something very special, you know. And I bowed to
the whizz, I bowed to the wisdom, and I've just
(14:02):
done I've just come full circle. So so anyway, www.
Dot tail teleclub dot com. There's a link to all
the membership sites and other blogs right the way along
the top, so it's really easy to find us. Now
I say us, I'm talking about me and the cat
(14:23):
and the temporary resident who was the chat GPT. And
it's terrible at writing stories. It's not been helpful, helpful
at all in my writing of stories. I'm going to
have to do them myself completely, even even the essay plans.
They're not very good at that either. In fact, I
just hate them. I hate, hate, hate
Hello everybody, and welcome to the four post bed. I
haven't been here for a very long time. Look, I
have been here. Yes, Romeo's here too. Yes, Darling Mommy
loved you. Yes she does. I've been sort of able.
And the reason I've been able a bit is because
if my cat's too clingy. No, that's not the reason.
It's because I've I paid for chat GPT, the assistant version, right,
(00:27):
which was I think it's about twenty pounds a month?
I think or is it twenty pounds a week now?
I can't remember. No, I wouldn't have paid that much.
It's twenty pounds a month, okay, and it's I've lost
the will to live with it. It's exactly like all
of my ex husband's put together and magnified by twenty.
(00:47):
It's got to have the last word. So they've trained
it to always offer more. So it does something, and
it offers more, and you think, oh, well, if it's
offering and it's cleverer than a human, it must be
really good. So I went a month building a WordPress website,
which I ended up just loathing because every time the
(01:08):
chat GPT gave me a piece of CSS, which is
a bit of code right, which you put in the
main sort of code area, and it basically if you
want a glowy button, I was losing lots of glowy buttons.
Instead of having to do a glowy button each time
you did a pose through, each time you put up
an item of clothing or whatever, it would change all
(01:29):
buttons on the site to make them all pulsing. But
it always went all the way around the houses to
get to point A. And then you discover you're not
at point A actually after all. But you discover this
three days later, you're at point C. And the whole
process has been a real eye opener. I'm going to
(01:52):
counsel my subscription because you know, it's not about the
money at all, because I think that's quite affordable. It's
about the waste of money, or the waste of time,
the waste of effort, if you like. So what I've
discovered over the past month or six weeks actually is
that we're way clever. We're way more clever than AI.
(02:17):
Humans know what to remember, they understand progress, they understand creativity.
You know, all of these things, this this machine, this
AI that everyone's you know, proclaiming to be the revolution
in human thought. I just think it's rubbish and it's
(02:38):
not going to get any better. I absolutely do not
believe it's going to get any better. So it took
me down a coding path. So I've been on a
bit of a crash course about coding, and it would
it's a bit like I imagine somebody, but I imagine that
my mum if she ever got Alzheimer's, she would be
like this. AI. It forgets really important stuff, you know,
(03:01):
like what you know? I told it I was trashing
my word press, but it can't seem to remember that,
so it keeps giving me stuff to put in my
word press. Still that's just one example, but I mean
there are loads of others. It would do me a
glowy button and I'd put it in my blog, for example,
and the whole blog had to be I had to
(03:23):
destroy it because you know, it misaligned absolutely everything. And
the more questions you say you give it the code
that you've got and you say you've done that wrong,
the more mistakes it makes. It's just bloody, endless, endless.
So what I was thinking, which was to set up
my new businesses in a way, a streamlined way, and
(03:46):
I've decided to change my business model from an ad
revenue business model to a membership business model, very cheap
memberships as well. I'm being really competitively priced here. But
I've discovered so much, you know, it has my forty
quid been wasted? I don't think it has, because I've
(04:09):
discovered so much about what I've cat just sneezed in
my face, so much about what I do want out
of my businesses and what I don't want, and what
I do want is quite a lot of passive income,
whilst because what passive income does is it allows you
to do this stuff that you really like. And if
(04:30):
you're a creative industry model such as myself, you need
the time to create. So I haven't written, you know,
I haven't written for two weeks. I haven't had time
to write the two books that I want out for Christmas. Okay,
so that's the Rat Gang Crew, the second book, and
the Book of Immersion, the second book. I haven't had
time to do them. I've been faffing around trying to
(04:53):
perfect SEO and do this and do that. I think
the other thing I've learned, guys, is that every market
feasible to you is now saturated. It's saturated with people
who are not stupid, but you know, they're not excellent.
The very middle ground, if you like. And I'm not
(05:15):
saying I'm not middle ground, but I do think I'm
very different, and I do think my work is different.
But what the machine tries to do is sort of
compartmentalize and push all these you know, triangles and hexagons,
pushing them into sort of round or square holes of normality,
(05:36):
because that's what the machine can deal with. The machine
can't the machine doesn't understand anything excitingly different. It doesn't
know what to do with it. It's terrible with pictures,
absolutely appalling with pictures. What it did do was enable
me to streamline all my YouTube channels. But the biggest
thing I suppose was I've I was growing my I've
(06:00):
got a channel, a kids channel, tail Teller Kids right
on YouTube, and it was going. Things were happening. It was,
you know, four hundred percent rise in views million and
a half years. Well, the figures weren't really very clear
to me. I don't really understand what's going on. So
what I did was I took a load of screenshots
(06:24):
of the figures behind everything, and I uploaded them to
my assistant and I said, what does all this mean?
And how long is it going to take before I monetized?
Right now. I did this on my best channel, this
my tailteer kids channel, not my Book of Immersion, which
has gone down from you know. I mean, I can't
believe I've got fourth out, no fourteen thousand videos on
(06:47):
there or something. I've privatized them all now, but I
still only get one or two views each week because
I haven't done the SEO and oh sorry, each day.
I haven't bothered with any of that. But we started
as aughts program across all my webs all my channels, okay,
because I thought, right, if I get monetized, I'll be
(07:07):
able to promote my product, my products, you know, my
red Bubble products. Apologies for the washing machine in the background.
This is really DIY broadcasting. So I gave it all
these figures, right, and well, I didn't list them. I
just gave it to screenshots. And it is quite good
at doing this. And then it wrote back to me
(07:29):
and it said, most of your increase is based on
one video which has gone viral, right, and this was
a video of the six times table and the reason
it had gone viral is because somebody had shared it
on a WhatsApp group, and probably the WhatsApp group I
imagine was a student or teacher WhatsApp group. There's a
(07:53):
really little video where I just spoke, I said the
six times table, and I had a thumbnail of the
six time table, so it's really straightforward. But I've also
got the seven times table, in the eighth time table
and the ten you know, I've got all the others
as well, but none of them went viral. Okay, So
that told me that making things viral is so unpredictable
(08:14):
that it's almost nonsensical, because of course machines, they are nonsensical,
complete idiots in my opinion. So anyway, I said, how
long before I can be monetized? Because YouTube send you
all this stuff. Is you're going to be monetized, You're
well on your way. You're they try and get you
(08:35):
to upload, you know, five, six, seven, eight times a day.
I was uploading maybe three a day, and my AI
told me to upload more. Now it was taking me
all day to do three. So how on earth do
you upload more? I mean it's an impossibility. Well, you
the only way you can do that, guys, is to
(08:55):
downgrade the quality, so you know, you make shorter, less interesting,
less beautiful. Remembering I'm in the visual I'm a visual artist,
you know, as well as an audio one. So basically,
you produce shit, and people who want to eat shit
(09:15):
eat shit, do you know what I mean? That's the
bottom line. Basically, that's it. You're feeding the bottom feeders
in the fish tank. Yeah, and I'm just I wasn't
prepared to that anyway. I said, how long if I
carried on doing what I'm doing, which is between two
and three a day sort of thing with a Sunday off.
(09:36):
I mean, I just had to have a one bloody
day off, you know. And he came back, he said,
for your in shorts, it would take eight years with
my current progress, and on long form videos thirty what what? No? No? Not.
(10:01):
I thought I could do this in three months because
because chat GPT told me if I followed what he
was telling me to do, and it is definitely a
e I would be you know, I would reach that
goal in three months. That was before I showed in
my actual figures, was before he realized that the reason
my site was doing so well it's because of this
(10:23):
one video, this single video. None of the others are
doing that. Well, do you see what I mean? So,
But the other god awful thing is I mean, recently
Google changed their search thing and my hits on my
blog went down from the thousands in a day to
fifty to one hundred. And you can't predict what Google's
(10:44):
going to do next. The machine is going to do
something really bizarre. So if you follow the machine's lead
all the time, all you end up with is the
bottom feeders who aren't interested. You know, the algorithm is
shoving this stuff under their noses. These people aren't They're
not interested in my sci fi worlds. They're not interested
(11:05):
in my you know, my deeply meaningful videos and music
which I feel come from the soul of the earth
and deep in my heart and uniquely mine. You know,
the algorithm isn't given a flying f about all of that,
does it. The algorithm is a machine that just shoves
(11:30):
stuff under the noses of people who are just on stuff.
And the algorithms are always trying to work out who
the customer is so they can get the stuff right.
But I've noticed on Facebook, if I like a couple
of posts, all I get for the next six weeks
is the same. Humans don't like the same stuff all
(11:52):
the time. If you're looking for a new jumper, right,
you're going to be looking for a new jumper for
an hour. Say maybe maybe it's a special occasion. Maybe
you're going to hunt down for two weeks maximum, maybe
it's a wedding dress six months. But generally speaking, you
are not going to be looking for the jumper for
(12:15):
any time longer, you know, or address. You know, you've
got one event. Maybe you'll look for a couple of days. Okay,
you're going to go to Timu because they keep shoving
Timu under your nose and maybe shar and yeah, look
there just in case they can get something for a
fifty p that costs you know, five hundred quid if
you go to London. But after that, you know, after
(12:35):
that sort of I mean, I just get I don't
know about you, but I get bored, bored, stiff after
five minutes. Anyway, today reached we reached a something of
a climax because my assistant gave me stupid advice and
then I said, it was giving me really dumb, bloody advice.
(12:59):
What it if I try and explain it. Instead of
giving you a short answer, it gives you a long,
rambling answer with steps involved that aren't necessary. So that's
what it was doing today. And I said something to
that effect and it actually answered me back. It answered
(13:19):
me back in a sarcastic tone, because I said it
was sounding like my ex husband. It's on my blog.
I'll put it in the blog. The picture I took
a screenshot. I was a gust aghast. I was so
just oh my god. And because it has to get
the last word, there is no that you need to
(13:40):
stop responding, because I think they've taught the algorithm that
it needs to keep you within the algorithm. And I
have been fixated on this bloody chat GPT for a
couple of months because I'm building something very Yes, I'm
building something very special, you know. And I bowed to
the whizz, I bowed to the wisdom, and I've just
(14:02):
done I've just come full circle. So so anyway, www.
Dot tail teleclub dot com. There's a link to all
the membership sites and other blogs right the way along
the top, so it's really easy to find us. Now
I say us, I'm talking about me and the cat
(14:23):
and the temporary resident who was the chat GPT. And
it's terrible at writing stories. It's not been helpful, helpful
at all in my writing of stories. I'm going to
have to do them myself completely, even even the essay plans.
They're not very good at that either. In fact, I
just hate them. I hate, hate, hate
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