Yesterday I decided since I have a great deal with T-Mobile that I don’t want to give up, that I would look on craigslist for an unlocked iPhone. I mean, I am a mac guy after all, so it would be great to have one.

When I looked at the iPhones online, the prices were all over the map. That’s when I started looking for one on craigslist.

so I go to craigslist and I email a few people about their unlocked iPhones for sale. In my emails, I said that I would like to have the warranty documentation with any phone I’d buy.

At first, no one emailed me back. It’s like buying a used car — absolutely no one tells you the truth. My old business partner used to say that buyers are liars (and so are sellers).

So when I woke up this morning, I had a few emails in my inbox about my iPhone inquiries. There were three of them. The first one said I had to send a Western Union money order with my address on it. Are people really that stupid?

The other two were the exact same email from two people named Movie and Doobie. You’d think they’d just call themselves something like Joe and Bob.

It’s amazing how many people fall for these money order scams. Sonja had a friend who fell for one about a puppy. For $500.00, she got a lovely plastic Chihuahua. I mean, really, are people that stupid?

Really, how many times are we going to win the African lottery and be told there is $22,000,000 waiting for us. Who knew you had four long-lost grandmothers in Africa who would die and leave you that kind of cash?!

I’ve always said we are America the gullible. So many people want to get rich quick and get money for doing nothing.

Look at all the people whose dating life hasn’t changed in a year, but they refuse to do anything about it. It always makes me wonder.

So back to Craig and his list. I’m still looking for iPhones. So if anyone has any leads or knows where I can get one, who knows what I might do to get one? I might do anything . . . even give away a free Bootcamp. You never know what I’ll do.

Today’s blog is all about something (other than the African lottery) that just doesn’t work in life.

As I was flippin’ around the channels the other night, I saw a re-run of Mystery’s show about PUAs, “The Pickup Artist.” For any of you who do not know, PUAs are a bunch of grown men who call themselves “pick up artists.”

I have never been a fan of the whole PUA thing for a number of reasons, but most importantly because I don’t agree with their methodology.

Their whole methodology is reaction-seeking. Everything they do is premised on seeking positive reinforcement from women. They’re not leading it.

They are always looking for something positive from women, so they can move forward. They’re looking for any of the described feedback contained in the PUA manuals. It’s all an illusion.

When they go up to a woman, they’re walking on eggshells because they’re solely focused on looking for some indication of interest (which they can an “IOI”). They are not leading the woman and having a conversation.

They are waiting for an “IOI” that the woman is going to allow them to continue talking so they can continue to move forward in the conversation. They’re looking for some type of body language signal.

The funny thing about this system is that it really is a joke. You HAVE to be able to walk up to a woman and lead. I have never walked over to a woman looking to see if she is interested. I am never looking for confirmation.

I’m going to say whatever I am going to say to her based on the situation around me, and I’m going to lead the conversation. I’m not sitting there and worrying the whole time.

The PUA guys are a bunch of worriers. They worry about what the woman is saying and doing, and all the while they are missing the whole conversation. When you miss that whole conversation, there really is no conversation.

Happy memorial day to everyone.

Today we are going to lose all routines forever, check out the video below. But first do women talk in a secret code like men?

So many men have been tortured by pick-up artist material – they see a woman and they have to go in and think about 17 different things – instead of just realizing that all you need to do is observe what a woman is doing. What is she doing? Where are you? What is she doing – is she eating? Do you want a bite of her food?

Are you in a museum and is she looking at a picture? You want to elicit an emotion – go up to her and ask, “what do you think about that guy with the sheep hair?” if the guy in the painting has one of those old wigs from the 1700s.

If you listen to some of the crap that’s all over the internet – The Phantom and all the other dating methods that are out there – you have to think about escalating. How do you escalate – how do you sexually escalate?

Let me tell you something – do you think a group of women ever sit around and say:

“Hey Jill?”
“Yes, Mary?”
“How do we escalate our conversations with men? Can we escalate?”

Do you think women actually use these terms? In the pick-up industry there is something called ‘puas’ – pick-up artists. Are there ‘wpuas’ – women pick-up artists? No – they don’t sit there and use this terminology. I can’t even imagine women sitting around and talking about escalation.

Women would never say this: “how do we get them to escalate? What do I say to him in the first minute to get him to escalate this so that they like me? How do I create an emotional response in him in the first minute?”

How do you create an emotional response in a woman? You fucking listen! Women want you to listen. That’s all they want you to do – they want you to listen to them. They don’t want anything else.

I’ve said this a thousand times – walk up to a woman and do three things. Walk up and observe: what is she doing? Where is she? Is there something you can comment on? Is there something with which you can bond with her?

After you make the comment on something you’ve observed, you listen. If you listen to her, and you go in there with energy, and you smile and you’re having a good time – you go in and say it like you own those words – she’ll get turned on. You own those words, instead of going over there and saying, “excuse me…” like a little wimp. That ‘excuse me’ terminology doesn’t work.

Escalation my ass! The only thing that escalates is an escalator. You don’t need to escalate – all you need to do is listen, smile, be excited about her, and you will turn her on.

Otherwise, they would have something called wpuas – women pick-up artists. There should be a website – wpua.com. I’d love to see women hang out on the internet with funny nicknames. Can you imagine a woman dating expert, how much fun she would be?

She would be called ‘The Manstigator’ – manstigatormethod.com. Can you imagine if women sat around and said:

“oh my god, you study the Manstigator method? That’s unbelievable! But the Manstigator method doesn’t talk about escalation the right way – I heard that the Manny method…”
“The Mannie method? M-a-n-n-i-e?”
“No, no, no – I know M-a-n-n-y, the other one.”
“Oh – there are two Mannies? Wow…”

Can you imagine if women had nicknames and dating experts, how funny that would be? “The Manny Method: the Manny Method teaches you a four-prong method to get a man to be excited about you in four ways.” Think about how funny that would be!

Can you imagine that instead of Keno, there was a woman’s version of Keno? Keno is the thing in Vegas, the card game that they play. “Keno? Keno? Keno?”

Come on guys, stop trying to nickname everything and grow up. Start becoming men, and learn that you escalate a woman the second that you walk over and say hello. It’s a Hugh Grant romantic comedy right from the get-go. From the second you walk over to her, you basically create a moment in her mind.

This is why you talk about what she’s already doing and it will be this serendipitous, incredible moment, and she’ll start thinking, oh my god, he understands me! If you’re interested in her, and you’re excited about her, guess what you’ve done? You’ve escalated.

And here we are: we did this blog in the London Portrait Gallery! We’re in the Portrait Gallery where I just proved to two guys from London who said you can’t meet somebody in a museum – and how many women have we met in here guys?

Client: Two. No, three if you count the French woman. And the woman that was into the portraits!

David: Yeah, let’s go meet some more portraits in here!

And it’s really quiet in here too; you didn’t think we’d be able to record a blog in a museum, did you? Remember what you said to me? You said, “man, you can’t talk to people in the Portrait Gallery?” Not only have we talked to people, but we also recorded a blog in the Portrait Gallery! There’s so much you can do in this Gallery.

So let’s go back to hitting on REAL portraits. That’s another great one – ‘hitting on’ women. What are you going to do, slug her in the face? “Oh man, I just hit on somebody,” “really? Let me see your knuckles – oh man, they’re all bloody! You really did hit on her!”

Todays video will show you how to become that natural confident man that women desire.

Lose the routines forever.

Have you ever met the man of your dreams . . . or maybe he’s the man of your nightmares? You know this guy. You’re on a date with him. He starts talking about himself. Then he starts bragging . . .

He starts bragging about the stuff he has. At first he might bring up the kind of car he drives. Then he may tell you about the house (or houses) he owns. He has even produced a movie. You sit there listening and nodding your head, while he hasn’t listened to anything you have to say.

Then, all of a sudden, he goes into another mode. He shifts from bragging mode into what I call “deeper bragging” mode. Deeper bragging involves talking about some of the super-great things a man has or has done. Perhaps he has a horse who won the Kentucky Derby four year ago. What a stud he is!

What a man in deeper bragging mode will brag about may vary, but as he continues to talk each thing he says escalates into deeper and deeper bragging. Mr. Deeper Bragging never listens, often because the woman that he’s talking to is young enough to be his daughter.

That woman doesn’t usually care if Mr. Deeper Bragging listens because he is just a meal ticket to her. The thing about meal tickets, though, is that they are often accompanied by wonderful repetitive cycles of deeper bragging.

With every sentence, the deeper bragging escalates in his efforts to impress this young woman. Really though, how hard is it when you’re a 50 year-old man to impress a 20 year-old girl? It’s not really too hard.

Mr. Deeper Bragging doesn’t get it though, because do you know what happens him at the end of the night? Mr. Deeper Bragging ends up all alone in his big house with his bottle of KY Jelly going from deeper jerking off to watching deeper porn on his 68-inch plasma television set.

Mr. Deeper Bragging has no clue that the key to meeting women is not just bragging. You have to lose the deeper bragging and learn deeper listening skills.

Todays podcast is all about taking action in your life.

Are you a talker or are a doer?

Which one are you and how to take control and become a doer!!!