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So a lot of guys have been asking me how the CBC -TV (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) interview went. All in all, it went pretty good. Graeme, the journalist who was filming me was a nice guy and cool to work with.

I must admit, I was pretty anxious. Not only is my face going to be on TV as a “Pick Up Artist”, but I’ve had some mixed experience with journalists. I don’t want to go into it in too much detail, but there’s a gay-pride, grass skirt, reality-show dare memory that I don’t want to relive. Nuff said.

The interview started at Graeme’s apartment, where I met his roomates. They all seemed like classic Montrealers, laid-back, friendly and slightly bohemian. Good journalists have an excellent quality of being able to make you feel comfortable and open up to them, and Graeme had a good dose of that. The item he was filming was only going to be about 4 minutes long, so I had the challenge of summing up the better part of the Mystery method in 2 minutes, and then getting 2 minutes of good footage of us picking up girls.

In retrospect, I should have known that a cold Sunday night in January was probably not the ideal situation in which to pick up girls on television. The first couple places we went to were dead, and when we finally found a bar that had some people in it, getting camera angles and making sure the sound was good was a huge challenge. Picking up on Sundays is hard enough as it is, without dealing with all that extra crap.

In the end, I had two good sets, one with a bunch of girls who were really sweet but not exactly the level of hotness that I would like to be seen on television with. And another set that went really well with a beautiful girl from Toronto. Unfortunately when the time came, we couldn’t find the cutie from Toronto to get her to sign the release. So in the end, we had a lot of good footage of me sarging some fives. Sigh….

Graeme and I called it a night, and were going to meet up the next day to do some pickup in a Starbucks or something, because I wanted him to have some better footage of me. The next day he texted me to say that he had gone out after I left, and got some good footage. I would have liked to be there to see it, but hey.

So now we wait… I’ll tell you guys when it comes out.