My apologies to the state of California, then. I missed the beginning of the show and just assumed it took place in Southern California – Sunset Strip was full of guys who looked like Mystery (Mystery, Jesus Christ, why not just call yourself Fuck Me and be done with it?) when I was last there. Nothing about it seemed particularly Austiny to me – I lived there for 3 years and would recognize major landmarks, but my information on drunk girls is woefully out of date.
To be fair, we can’t really be sure that that’s what Mystery is doing or teaching. There’s only been one episode. But from what I can tell so far, his approach seems to be:
a) Dress in a way that gets you noticed.
b) Own the room when you walk into it.
c) Project confidence.
d) Be playful, not needy, when you talk to potential mates.
e) Have a good sense of timing.
Future episodes will bear this out or won’t, but so far there seems to be very little distraction going on.
I would also add
f) pay attention to nonverbal cues, body language
g) listen more than you speak
h) leave the conversation on a high note (iow don’t linger if there are awkward pauses)
i) you can’t win if you don’t play
Some of his psychological tricks are fairly obvious. I noticed they never buy the girls a drink, they kept saying things like “you’ll need to buy me a drink…” There some “yes ladder” selling techniques as well.
All good points, msmith537. And after seeing episode 2, I’m really starting to like the show. Mystery and his wingmen seem far less sleazy and more like really good guys. They seem to really care about their students. They don’t sling around bullshit, but they are full of encouragement. They gave Spoon more of a chance than he gave himself.
Poor Spoon. It seems the guy needs some real help.
And I’m finding that the technique is not so much about “distracting a drunk chick long enough to stick it to her” as much as moving through life with confidence. And it’s not about “tricking” women so much as engaging them. Good things, IMO.
I really liked Tara. She’s hot enough that she doesn’t need to be nice to loser guys, but she was anyway. She was really sweet to Spoon.
Two things occur to me:
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The guys, even if sent home, might get so much notariety that women will line up to meet them.
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Mystery needs. To. Stop taking speech. Lessons. From William.
Shatner.
I can understand that you may not like pickup artists, but what have you got against autobiographies?
So I missed the first half of the first episode, and I was wondering if Mystery’s wingmen (Matador and the imaginatively named J-Dog) are former pupils of his or what?
None of the three “pickup artists” are particularly good looking guys, so I can imagine that the cause of their success is, in fact, their charm and personalities. I guess the premise of the show seems sound, as there are skills that average or even mildly unattractive guys can learn and put into practice.
But those stupid medallions are lame as hell.
Agreed about the medalions. Far too Fire in the Belly for me.
Matador and J-Dog were indeed students. And Mystery himself is self-taught, as he was once a lonely guy.
And what’s up with that one guy calling himself Kosmo? Do master pickup artists need pseodonyms? If so, then please get a cool name for Fred. The guy is in sad need of cool.
I think I’ll become a pickup artist. What would be a cool name for me? T-Bone? I like T-Bone. Or maybe Blade. How about Enigma?
Watch out, ladies.
“Reacharound”.
That works!
I came up with one that will have the ladies swooning all over me: Seventh Level Cleric.
T-Money? T-Rex? T-Nado? T-Bag?
What about “Half Man, Half Amazing, Half Fighter, Half Cleric”?
Too long?
I feel like a nerd for knowing that.