Final Episode of VH1's "The Pick Up Artist" with Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog

So, I finally managed to catch the final episode of the VH1's The Pick Up Artist, and I've got to say, it was just awesome!! Seriously, I was really impressed with the concept of the final challenge, and although some parts of it seemed to be exaggerated or a little faked, it still got me all pumped up, and in the end, isn't that the point?

The thing I like the best about it is the fact that the guys [Kosmo and Brady] only had a few hours to get all kinds of things taken care of with their students [Kip and Dylan], including avatar-building, routines, proper delivery, and body language, which are the most important things in my opinion. The reason I like this so much is that it shows that the bootcamps that these guys run are not only hardcore, but they get the fucking results! If these guys, Kosmo and Brady, are able to boost up Kip's and Dylan's skills with women as much as they did, in only a few hours, imagine what the professionals like Mystery and Matador can do working with you for an entire weekend! Mind-boggling, right?

Honestly, I was kind of rooting for Kosmo, as well as Big Joe, all the way through, so it was awesome that those 2 made it as far as they did, and even more so that Kosmo won the whole thing. The only thing that bothered me a bit about the way things "worked out" is that both of the finalists were good-looking guys, and I don't want that to reflect in viewers' minds as being a major [if any] factor as to their success; granted, I myself am an incredibly good-looking guy, but that doesn't mean that women are going to throw themselves at you! ..well, not all the time..haa

I've found that the two major effects that good looks have for a guy are to allow him to make more mistakes in his pick up [basically giving his game more lee-way to not be as tight as it should be] and to be able to very much shorten, if not completely by-pass, A2 [the female-to-male attraction phase] because the physical looks the guy possesses already work as a major DHV to the girl, and it's a constant DHV [since it's literally in front of her the whole time] - girls, like guys, will assume certain things about others based on their physical appearance..so in the case of a good-looking guy, she'll assume that he's socially-calibrated and has women in his life, to mention a couple of DHVs created by the physical looks alone. However, this does not mean that without them, a guy can't get the girl; rather, he just has to work a bit more, especially to properly convey these same DHV qualities to the target and/or group.

Back to the show: one thing that struck me as a little oddly coincidental - how did Brady have such a good idea as to really charging up Dylan's appearance, especially with some of the more drastic changes Brady had him under-go [such as trimming off his beard and shaving]?? I feel like he might've had some help in figuring that part out..

Another odd coincidence was the way in which Kip seemed to have such hardcore approach anxiety at first, then Kosmo gave him a few words of encouragement, and all of a sudden, Kip's unstoppable! ..strange, huh? The dude goes from practically having a panic attack to pulling girls back to the VIP couch? Hmm..

Well, I'm tired, and I still have some shit to take care of before crashing for the night, so I'll have to leave it at that for now..maybe more on the weekend..

~h

VH1's "The Pick Up Artist" Stars Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog Interviewed by Fox News

I caught wind of this and wanted to pass it on, in case anyone had missed it/not heard about it..

VH1's "The Pick Up Artist" Stars Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog Interviewed by Fox News

A few things I found quite interesting about this:

1) The original speaker [the interviewer] plays into the stereotype when introducing the segment, but then he goes the other way and admits that they are really nice guys..more on this a little later..

2) Mystery definitely has a set answer for a number of questions [the more common/expected ones], so in essence, he treats the interview just as though he were gaming a girl..which is good and bad, since it makes sure he's prepared and comes off saying exactly what he wants to say, but at the same time, it makes him seem to be a little less "human" in the sense of relatability

3) Mystery's looking kind of aged here, at least at the beginning of it [it's his birthday, by the way: September 24]..and Matador looks like he's high and/or fucked up during his camera-time

4) As a whole, all these guys [especially Mystery, since he's the one who's relatively been interviewed all over the place] have gotten much better at interviewing, especially at avoiding hardcore community lingo that doesn't make any sense to anyone outside of the community [i.e. neg, IOI, etc] and discussing things in more layman's terms

5) The interview tried to bait Mystery into qualifying himself, especially in terms of being arrogant/possibly sleazy [going back to the stereotyping of "pick up artists"], and he completely loops around it by just talking about whatever he wants to say, in this case that he loves women

6) When they cut back to the studio, the interviewer corrects himself, from saying "they've tried to sh-.." to "they've showed them their techniques..", I think due to his being impressed and having met the guys, knowing that this shit is legit, and wanting to give them their due credit..more on this in a little bit..

7) I thought it was kind of funny when the interviewer was trying to make a joke of the thing, and these guys were taking it much more seriously than it was intended, each of them giving him advice on what to do while he keeps asking "Do you think it's going to work?"..finally, J-Dog catches on and just busts on him for it haa

8) At first, I was a little concerned as to why the guy would've staged such a bad attempt at the pick up, again, going along with reinforcing the stereotype of the community, but then - the guy actually defended it! Little bits at first, as in explaining that it was just a set-up and that these guys know what they're doing, but then ..

9) This whole time, the other guy who's there has been completely serious, no laughing, not even a crack of a smile..can someone say non-believing AFC..?? Nice..he's already been trying to interrupt the interviewer guy, from his own segment, and when he's been unable to, he shifts around uncomfortably..we know what's going to happen now..

10)The interviewer goes on to defend the PUAs by stating that they make it very clear that "pick up" is not about jus getting some girl to go home with you but rather about making a connection with a person

11)..and super AFC has had enough, interrupts, and does his AFC best to AMOG Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog!! hahah

12)..and the greatest part of all [leading all the way up from pts. 1 & 6]: the interview's getting all worked up now!! He's trying to interrupt the super AFC, in order to defend the PUAs and basically shut super AFC up! hahahah

13)..and super AFC is just not letting him, busting on the goggles and saying that the interviewer was wearing them, too..and the interviewer's upset yet trying to remain professional..hilarious!

14)..and of course, the dumb bitch, who has no idea, writes off the fact that these guys wouldn't appeal to her [or at least their clothing, if we give her the benefit of the doubt], and yet..here they are, running a segment on them and their hit VH1 show The Pick Up Artist, and she's been very interested to hear all about the interview, and she's not even there with the PUAs..

15)..and super AFC's still upset..poor guy..can't stop shifting around, still trying his best to bust on the PUAs as well as the interviewer for defending them, even though the guy brought up a great point about not blending in like everyone else and instead standing out from the crowd..super AFC has nothing to say regarding the point itself, so he tries desperately to reclaim some ground by dissing on the PUAs again ["..No dates..no dates..", and then the only smile he's had, since he got in the precious last word that AFC-types are always so concerned with getting..haa]..I almost want to game his daughter[s], in the roughest way, just to show him how much of an idiot he is for being so close-minded, especially when he is a news reporter..sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeez, guy

~h

Should Study, Buuut .. Procrastination's a Bitch!

I realized something just now: being not only in school, but being so far geographically from the U.S. as well as being in a 3rd-World country really puts me out of touch with a lot of things! Such as the start of the NFL season..we're approaching now Week 2, and I don't even know what the hell's going on!! Plus, I have to get online to find, either on YouTube or VH1, the latest episode of The Pick Up Artist .. oh, well, I guess it's part of the whole sacrifice of being in med school..

So, check this out: I run into HBGottaBeMixed earlier after class in the cafeteria, sitting with a friend of hers..and I know I'm looking like the shiiiit - I got my hair looking fly, pimp clothes, and of course, my PIIIIIMP-AS-FUUUUCK shades..!! I walk right by, scoping the scene on my way into the store right there. The chick ringing me up is kind of cute, a little short, but with humongous boobs - awesome! Warmed up real quick with her, and then rolled back out..

I spot a couple of friends of mine at a table at one end, so I go over to chit-chat..and of course, it helps social-proof me to HBGottaBeMixed at the same time: win-win situation! As I wrap up with them, I start walking over and spot another chick [I can't really figure her out, because I know she's all into me, but she has a bf and seems like the loyal kind..we'll see how things play out!], I'll call her HBBrandy [she's black and has an incredible resemblance to the singer, and that's the only reason she won out..otherwise, she was about to be named HBCarleton, being black but also from the ritzy-ditzy part of LA, she's as mentally blonde as they come], sitting right next to HBGottaBeMixed..

h - "Heyyyy..!" {smile}
HBB - "Hey!!" {huuuuuuge smile, teeth popping out of her mouth}
h - "blahblah"
HBB - "hahah blahblah"
h - "Oh, you're on the phone .. well, I'll let you get back to that .." [non-neediness, both to her and HBGottaBeMixed]
HBB - "Oh..o-okay, sure..cool! haha"
h - {passing behind HBB's chair to get to HBGBM} "Whaaat's up?"
HBGBM - "Heyy!!"
h - "blahblah"
HBGBM - "haha blahblah"

..and we fluff for a bit, she invites me to a party tonight, which I tell her I can't go to because of my major quiz on Monday, and she draws out tears down her face, telling me that I should be going, etc, and how she was planning on me going, etc, and I ask her, "You're going..?? And you didn't even invite me??????", to which she was hardcore qualifying herself, so I stretched it out but knew that in the end, she was going to receive an IOI - plans to chill with me next week for sure [and of course, she was totally down..d'uh!]. From there, we continue fluffing and exchanging a bunch of sub-communicated IOI's:

HBGBM - "IOI"
h - {move shades off of face and up onto forehead}

..as well as IOD's for..well, whenever I felt like throwing them in for good measure - microcalibration + some hard-to-get:

HBGBM - "blahblah"
h - "Mhmm.." {shades slowly come back down}
HBGBM - "Ugghh!! :-O haha"

h - "start C's vs. U's"
HBGBM - {hides teeth while still smiling, but less} ".." [doesn't bite]
h - "Hmm .. haha .. {quizzical/'interesting' look towards her mouth} .. hmm .. haha" {body-rock away, towards HBB}

..Bait-Hook-Reel-Released:

h - "Hmm..I don't know about this whole popped-collar thing you got going on.." [note: I HATE popped collars..I could go on forever on that shit, but that's not the point of this here]
HBGBM - "Ugh..I think I can pull it off..it looks good on me! blahblah.." [qualifying herself]
h - "Wellllll..I guesssss..I mean, it looks aiiiight.."
HBGBM - ":-D See? Yeah, exactly!"
h - "..well, it definitely looks better than whatever you had going on the other day! haha" {mischievous/playful look}
HBGBM - "Ughh!! hahahaha"

..and of course..TONNNNS OF KINO!!! And a bunch of other stuff happened [my memory is quickly fading on me here..one thing, I brought up the whole "birthday hug, kiss, present, interest..and then one!" from before, and she began qualifying herself pretty hard ("I want to make it very special and unique for you!!"), so I busted on her, to make sure it was genuine instead of just playing, plus this way, I can actually push it enough that it becomes more and more serious in her own mind], but basically doing my best to practice catching all the different things and realizing exactly what they are and what they represent, and in turn what all that translates to and what it then means for me in terms of what I need to do next..oh, yeah! So, this whole time, HBGottaBeMixed has been sitting with her friend, right? Guess who's been not only compelely left out of the convo, but after a couple of minutes, completely closed out of it?? Yup, her friend..HBGottaBeMixed hadn't spoken a word to her the whole time since I'd shown up [the tell-tale sign: the girl was literally fucking around on her cell phone!], and then after a couple minutes had passed, HBGottaBeMixed crossed her legs [facing me] and turned her upper body to face me..awesome! Other random examples:

HBGBM - "IOI"
h - {high-5s}
HBGBM - "IOI"
h - {high-5s, hand-holding}
HBGBM - {continues holding}

HBGBM - "IOI"
h - {hug}
HBGBM - {sits up and accepts hug}
HBGBM - "IOIs"
h - {more hugs}
HBGBM - {leans up, full hug back}
h - "Qualify?"
HBGBM - "DHV"
h - "Qualify? Grounding story -> DHV story [protector of loved ones, loyalty, alpha male qualities, etc]"
HBGBM - "DHVs + IOIsss"
h - {tighter/longer hugs + beaming face}
HBGBM - {hugs back, both arms}
h - {wrap other arm around her, leaning down into her} "Man, you're soo awesome! I totally love you!! You're soo great!"
HBGBM - "hahah blahblahblah!!" {LOVING it}
h - {release hug after a minute} - "Man, it sucks we don't see each other around more.." [seed is planted..]
HBGBM - "I know..! It's great like this!"
h - "Yeah, definitely"
HBGBM - "sighhh But I very much cherish our little time we get like this..!!" [jokingly exaggerated, of course]
h - "I know, you should! ;-) And just imagine, when we get a chance to really chill, we've got soo much in common..it's great!"
HBGBM - "I know, it'll be awesome!! Just hit me up, like I said, gimme a call when you're ready to!!"
h - "Sounds good..next week, after my quiz.."
HBGBM - "Yes! Definitely!"
h - "Have fun tonight..but not too much fun.."
HBGBM - "Yeah.."
h - "I mean, you can't anyways, since I won't be there..haa"
HBGBM - "Exactly! Of course"
h - "We can't have you having too much fun, so that I move from the front of your mind, here {touch forehead} to here {an inch away from previous spot} - I'll still be in the front of your mind, but even that little bit of move..nooooo haa"
HBGBM - "hahahahh No way!! Can't even happen!! I won't have any fun like that"
h - "Good..have fun..but just enough to make it worthwhile to have gone out in the first place!"
HBGBM - "hahah perfect! Sounds good - I'll do that!"
h - "Cool"
HBGBM - "And good luck to you..study hard!"
h - {hold hands together} "Yes, ma'am..will do!" [sarcastic tone, of course! Make her feel a little like a dork, for not only telling me to study but also to have such a 'normal' generic thing to say]

..and the best part of this whole thing was: my merging of the 2 sets! I was psyched up, because I'd never really tried that before..but as this whole thing was happening, I realized that I could very much practice here and quickly decided 'no, I have to practice here, because otherwise I'll be complacent and never push myself to improve, much less actually improve'..plus, I kept in mind that, especially in this case, nothing bad would happen because 1) I've got enough Attraction [+Comfort] with these 2 girls that it won't really hurt anything if it doesn't work out, and more importantly 2) I'm a baller and will pull it off flawlessly [which, of course, I did haa]:

HBB - {finishes phone call, waiting for me to re-initiate}
HBGBM - "blahblah"
h - "blahblah"
HBGBM - "blahblah" [lamer..the convo had started to stale out, so I used this specific opportunity to pull a take-away so that she feels it on herself for bringing our convo down]
h - "Yeah.." {turn away to re-engage HBB}
h - "blahblah"
HBB - "haha blahblahblahblahblah" [this chick talks a LOT..like..you don't understand, she talks A LOT..]
h - "blahblah" {keeping a peripheral eye on HBGBM} "blahblah"
HBB - "hahahahah blahblahblahblahblah" [I apparently crack her uppppp, too]
h - "blahblah"
HBB - "haha blahblahblahblahblah"

..on and on and on like this, until a pause in the convo with HBB because it was staling out a bit..decide that this is the moment - not only will I re-ignite the convo, but I'll merge the 2 girls[thus directly displaying social-proof/pre-selection to both simultaneously, as well as including a direct, in-your-face Jealousy Plotline..nice] and re-initiate HBGBM [who's been ignored long enough, especially because she's just sitting there, trying to get her internet to work..and her friend already left her, and yet she remained..alone..yeahhh, I guess you can count that as an IOI haa]:

..
h - "Man, both of you are so bad..{start turning back towards HBGBM}..you got nothing better to do than screw around on your computers..?"
HBB - "hahah"
HBGBM - {chuckles, but not sure whether she's 'back in' yet}
h - "I mean, you're [note: "YOU'RE", not "SHE", to let HBGBM know that I'm directing it towards her, thus inviting her back in] just staring at your screen, and you're [same note, to let HBB know I'm not 'leaving' her for HBGBM] just looking at pictures..don't you guys have anything better to do?? Sheesh..!" [note for next time: they're talking to you .. don't use this/phrase it this way because it could be taken as a DLV, even if it hasn't thus far..]
HBB - [qualifies herself]
HBGBM - [qualifies herself]
h - {mwaaahahhaha!! Hrithik rules!!}

..and from there, I just went about chit-chatting to both, turning from one to the other depending on which was IOIing vs. not, DHVing vs. not, etc:

HBB - "story about going to Vegas"
h - {interrupt} "When'd you go?? Because I {making sure HBGBM is still involved through my b.l. as well as verbal projection} blahblah"
HBB - "blahblah"
h - {interrupt again, making sure HBGBM is listening} "DHV about my trip in Vegas - loyalty with friends, pre-selection, socially-calibrated, financially comfortable, etc"
HBB - "IOIs"
h - {high-5s, sharp kino-escalation}
HBB - "kind of DHV story, including pics, about her trip in Vegas"
h - "IOI"
Random Mutual Friend - "blahblah"
h - "blahblah"
HBB - "blahblah"
etc
h - {turn to HBGBM} "blahblah"
HBGBM - "haha blahblah"
[insert earlier interaction, from 'random examples' - mainly the last major chunk]
HBB - {interrupts} "Hey, are you going up to the top..?"
h - {ignore} "blahblah"
HBGBM - "haha blahblah"
[end of earlier interaction, from 'random examples']
h - {random hug, even more random whiff of her hair} "Whoa..hmm..mm.."
HBGBM - "haha ..?"
h - "Your hair .. hmm..smells.."
HBGBM - {self-consciously pats hair} "blahblah [about the smell]"
h - {ignore her, lean back in, smell top of her head} "It smells..really..good!"
HBGBM - "hahah yeah?"
h - "Definitely! It smells really great!"
HBGBM - "haha aww, thanks! blah"
h - "Yeah..I just like, want to take it..{lean in, hold some of her hair in my hand}..I just want to take it and put it in a bottle..just save the smell, take it from your hair, put it in a bottle, and then smell it whenever I want to, whenever I think of you or miss you.." [note: I act it out as I describe it, as though I'm able to do it right there..I think this has a stronger effect than usual, mainly because 'smell' is something you can't see but is still there, almost in an 'imaginary', 'invisible' way..and so acting as though you're catching her 'hair smell' is more 'believable'/realistic because of it]
HBGBM - "Awww!!!! Mmmmm!!! {struggling with words, but VERY OBVIOUS that she's FEELING a whole lot of shit at this point!!!!!} That's soooooo sweeeeeet!!!!!!!"
h - "Eh, yeah..I'm just saying..blahblah.."
HBGBM - "hahaha {CANNOT stop smiling/laughing like a little schoolgirl, + looking at me like I'm the greatest thing in the world has ever seen}"
h - "blahblah"
h - "You know..I'm really..resisting the urge..to hug you..one more time..before I go.."
HBGBM - {REALLY wanting it} "haha"
h - "..but I'll have to leave it, because otherwise I'll grab you, hug you, and then we'll be here forever..
HBGBM - "haha Exactly! blahblah should study and never will then and blahblah"
h - "Yeah, you're right..that's why I'm not..but I really want to..!"
HBGBM - "Aww..! :-D"
h - "Alright.." {look at HBB, she rolls with me}
..
HBGBM - "Hey..later!"
h - {half-way turn} "Yeah.. :-)"
HBB - "Bye!"
HBGBM - {pause} "Bye" [made it very clear to me that HBGottaBeMixed wasn't even thinking to say bye to HBBrandy..hahah]

..and I continue gaming HBBrandy on our way back up, especially with this 1 major IOI/DHV she did, for which I just poured on the IOIs to her [I think she was trying REALLY hard to DHV herself to me, especially after the last part of the interaction with HBGottaBeMixed], and then socially-proofed myself in front of her, both with a mutual friend of hers [she made a joke/comment referring to him, then looks at me to see if it impressed me/what I think of it] and then when we split off, my roommate [when we spotted each other from a little ways, we both were throwing our arms up like "HEY!!!!!" and headed towards each other to chit-chat, and she saw this whole interaction..nice]

At this point, I'm a little worried about HBGottaBeMixed..well, really, it's only one thing that's kind of bothering me [and just hit me], and that is: did I spike up her Buying Temperature too much..?? Especially since she is going out tonight, and I'm not going to be there..???? ..um..oops..

~h

AskMen.com Interview with Mystery and Matador from The Pick Up Artist .. and a random [and quite young] Brad Pitt

So, it seems that even AskMen.com has taken notice of Mystery and the Venusian Arts doing their thing on The Pick Up Artist..and caught up with them for a minute

I find it rather interesting, possessing the knowledge that I do now, to see the kinds of tips and advice that are offered out there relating to the dating world - especially how AFC and/or female-favoring most of it is! More on this at a later time ..

..for now, enjoy one the community's most beloved examples of Super-Alpha men [especially in terms of attitude and body language] trying to get us to pop a Pringle:

~h

PS .. You Want Some More Info, Huh?

PS wanna know who I am, huh?

Quick basics include:

- former model-turned-medical student

- in the Caribbean

- early-/mid-20's

- awesome personality

- always had trouble with girls because I just didn't know what to do..

- I'd been quite frustrated and wanting to do something about this, which led to me to find David DeAngelo's Double Your Dating stuff..and eventually The Mystery Method as well as Juggler's e-Book [which I didn't pay as much attention to as I should've at the time]..

- I slowly realized that things weren't really changing; even though I had some tools, it wasn't equaling automatic success, and it was time for a complete overhaul + mad dedication on my part to do something about this

- through a random [and completely legal, I swear!] set of events, I came into some money at the beginning of this year

- I decided it was time to get my shit handled, especially because I've always felt that I want to [and should] be doing better with the ladies, and can think of so many wasted opportunities where something "could've been"..not to mention the social pressure with everyone assuming/expecting me to be successful with females because of my incredible looks and great personality [which eventually led, since my high school days, to me having a reputation of being such a craaazy baller..and I finally wanted this to be my true life instead of the one that everyone thinks I lead]

- I managed to snag the last seat to attend a The Mystery Method bootcamp in Chicago [with Sinn, Future, El Topo, DaHunter, and Vapor], which I feel totally changed my life, and especially my social life [and how I see social interactions as a whole]

- I had already discussed doing a 1-on-1 with Matador [specifically because he is Indian]; however, he had to cancel on me at the last minute because of all the legal drama between The Mystery Method and Venusian Arts..but he offered me a free seat at Mystery's Final Tour bootcamp in Las Vegas, which I managed to swing [despite the trouble I had to deal with/go through with my parents, especially my dad], and fuck am I glad I did - it was just something else to meet the man himself, Mystery and see him do his thing 1st-hand and wing him in his sets as well as to have him instruct me and wing me in my sets!! [Not to mention the fact that after hearing him, Matador, and Lovedrop, my entire outlook on social dynamics as a whole was completely shattered and altered!]

- now here I am, back at school, bogged down with work and studies, but trying to keep the game going [with much more emphasis on day game and social circles, since that's nearly a daily basis occurrence], especially in my mind, so that even if my skills get a little rusty, I can still see things and know what's going on [and then it'll just be a matter of practice to get my skillset back up to par]

The major reason to start up this blog was so that I could keep a log of my thoughts, actions, and interactions, so that when I look back [be it a few days after, or much further down the line], I'll have all this stuff right here in front of me, to help me improve/stay sharp..as well as help you not only see my progress and provide any input along the way but even more so all the gains you can make in your own game due to my posts/thoughts/analyzations and deductions/etc..

~h