Hello and welcome to a pilot of sorts of a new series. It will delve into the history of some of the world's worst scandals, some you may know and some you may not. It has been inspired in part by an RTE program called Scannel. Although rather than focusing on events linked to Ireland, I plan to widen the scope of what I'll cover. Well, without further delay, let's get started. It is the late 1950s and a woman is at a regular pregnancy checkup in a doctor's office in Kilburn, Northwest London. She mentions to the doctor that she is experiencing morning sickness, nothing unusual as this is quite an often complaint for a pregnant woman. She is offered a drug that may help with her symptoms, but for whatever reason, she decides to turn it down. This would turn out to be a very good decision. The drug she was offered was called Distable and would turn out to be a worldwide scandal that would burden the lives of many innocent young children. Used in the correct situation, the drug can really change lives for the good, but its name would become synonymous with sadness and pain. It would forever be tied to what many contemporary news reports would dub the biggest man-made medical disaster in modern history. The drug was also sold under a number of different names. Contagane, Tallidex, Thalomid, or its better known name, Thalidomide. Welcome to Scandal, a new, plenty difficult series. It is the early 1950s and Swiss company Ciba is working on a new tranquilizer for animals. They were hoping to synthesise a drug less harmful than barbiturates. During the research, they synthesised Thalidomide in 1953, but chemical industry basil, Ciba quickly abandoned their creation, due to it not yielding the preferred results in animals in 1954. And this in many cases would have been the end of the drug's legacy, but a chance discovery would renew the interest in the drug and its money-making potential. In the mid-1950s, German company, Kemi Grunentau, stumbled into the drug, but I should first pause to talk about the company that would be the centre of the future scandal. Here comes one of my side notes. Kemi Grunentau was a company with some pretty shady beginnings, with high-up members of its management and research team having in some cases a few million skeletons in the closet. I'll be brief, but I think you'll find this interesting nonetheless. Bounded by Hermann Vertz Sr, a Nazi party member and an advocate of racial hygiene and eugenics, hardly a surprise now for a plainly difficult video, well, Kemi Grunentau had set up in 1946 in the wake of World War II, originally as a soap company, but were looking into various places for their revenue routes. As part of this, Vertz put out the word for the need of scientists with experience in antiviral research. Well, with the war over, concentration camps closed, and the doctor's trial being undertaken in Nuremberg, prosecuting the leaders of the human experimentation programs, there were a few unemployed, and most importantly, unemprisoned Nazi scientists kicking around. Well, Vertz saw this as an opportunity at gaining some valuable scientific experience for his fledgling company. He hired a handful of scientists, who had committed multiple crimes on many poor concentration camp inmates. His new team would be headed by 32-year-old Dr Heinrich Muckter, who was the director of the Krakow Institute for Typhus and Virus Research during the Nazi occupation. He had experimented on prisoners in Birkenwald concentration camp against their will. Muckter narrowly avoided justice from a Polish war crimes court by fleeing back to Germany and into the open arms of Vertz and a position of head of research in his new company. As a side note to the side note, Vertz also took on Otto Ambrose as an advisor after he had come out of prison. He was serving an eight-year sentence, but released after four, for crimes against humanity for his work at IG Farben developing poisonous gases, which he had also been testing on forced labour camp inmates.  Vertz put them to work and this leads us back to the 1950s. Validomide was rediscovered as a byproduct during research into glutamic acid. With this new substance, the company patented it in 1954 and they set about finding a use for it. It was found by scientists at Kemi that Validomide did work as a sensitive on humans. Brilliant, something to sell. It was found that Validomide produces deep sleep without hangover or risk of dependency. Before it could be brought to market, the drug was tested on rodents and much to the joy of the zig-hiling scientists, no lethal dose could be discovered and in 1956 it was introduced under the name Contagan and sales began in October 1957. Initially, it was marketed to epilepsy sufferers, but the market was pretty small, time to expand. It was discovered that the drug also had the benefit of being an effective anti-metic that is a substance that can reduce or stop nausea and vomiting. Something that pregnant women can experience known as morning sickness. Although pregnant women became the target for Contagan's marketing, tests on the effects of the drug on unborn life were not undertaken. Although seemingly a terrible decision today, in the 1950s it was not even considered for many medications. This was due to the conventional knowledge at the time thinking that anything taken by pregnant women couldn't pass across the placental barrier. Towards the end of the 1950s Contagan was one of the best selling sedatives in Germany. It was relatively cheap and accessible without a prescription. But the product wouldn't be confined to just Germany. Under license, Validomide was produced internationally and sold across the world. 14 pharmaceutical companies would sell the product in 46 countries under 37 different product names. In the UK, British pharmaceutical company, the Distillers company Biochemicals Limited, were producing and selling the drug to customers across the UK, New Zealand and Australia under the name Distavill, aimed at mothers with its license being granted in 1958. It was even advertised using the following in its marketing. Distavill can be given with complete safety to pregnant women and nursing mothers without adverse effect on the mother or child. Questionable to say the least. On top of this, in some markets it was touted as a curable medication. Again, the hallmark of less-than-trustable advertising. Somewhat reminiscent of the quackery of magic tonics of the last couple of centuries. With the money rolling in, to Grunental, the company must have been loving the financial boom. By the end of the 1950s, roughly 14 tonnes were being sold per year. There had been rumours amongst medical communities in the countries for mid-high to have been sold that a number of people had started to develop peripheral neuritis. And worse still, a spike in miscarriages, stillbirths and children born with birth defects were starting to be seen. The issues with patients experiencing nerve issues made Grunental start to place inserts into its medication boxes with the following warning of side effects including prickling and a sensation of numbness in hands or feet in 1960. But the link between drug and birth deformities proved a tough issue. In 1961, reluctantly, Grunental applied to make validamide prescription only. But the downfall of the profitable drug was only just beginning. Grunental had heard complaints from several sources of the drug causing issues in newborns and adults alike. Initially just batted off as rare allergy cause reactions publicly, privately the company set out to investigate. Not the health links, but to put complainants under surveillance. It's arguable if it was a type of surveillance that made it obvious whether you are being watched or not. But pressurizing and discrediting victims was the ultimate goal. Dr. Wooducund Lenz in West Germany in November 1961 had started to suspect the issues with validamide and birth defects. I should also note here that Lenz was also an ex-Nazi party member and part of the SA. His concern led him to investigate a link between the two. And he found that as early as 1956 that a child had been born with deformities likely caused by the drug. With this ongoing concern and mounting evidence, Lenz contacted Grunental and warned them of his findings on 16 November 1961. After 10 days of arguing the points, reluctantly, Grunental withdrew the drug on November 21st. But Lenz wouldn't be the only concern, and this time it would come from well outside of Germany's borders. It's late 1961 and an Australian midwife, sister Pat Sparrow was starting to notice a worrying trend with children born with limb defects. She has seen birth defects before, but not in such numbers. This worrying trend had started after a Dr William McBride had started prescribing validamide to mothers at the Crown Street Hospital in Sydney. Sparrow put her concerns to Dr McBride, but initially saw no concern from the doctor. But not long after, the concern led McBride to reevaluate his thoughts on the new wonder drug. In doing so, he wrote a letter to the Lancet, a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal. The short letter asks if anyone else in the medical community had seen a sudden increase in birth deformities. The letter helped inform the wider medical community of the drug's damaging effects to unborn children, and in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK, validamide was removed from sale in 1961. Even though taken off the shelves, scientists had to find what the actual link was. Lenz would not be the only one. Dr George Summers, chief pharmacologist at Distillers Company, the organisation responsible for UK distribution of the drug, started testing on rabbits. Repeated experiments showed the damage that the drug could inflict, but rather cruelly, it would only damage the fetus in a very short window during early pregnancy of just 42 days. It was found that the earlier the mother took the drug into pregnancy, the more drastic the birth deformities. If taken from the 20th day of pregnancy, central brain damage would be caused, day 21 would damage the eyes, day 22 the ears and face, day 24 the arms, and leg damage would occur if taken up to day 28. Although we may never know the exact numbers, estimates are around 10,000 children born with various health issues. One thing we will never know is the countless miscarriages and stillbirths caused by flamidaeide usage. Even after 1961 and its withdrawal from many countries, it was still marketed in Canada until 1962, and Spain all the way into the 1970s. But one country that usually appears in my videos is missing, and this thankfully is down to one person. Can you guess the country? Medical reviewer for the US FDA, Francis Cafflin, Oldham Kelsey, had Validamide come across her desk in 1960. Pretty late in the game, and because of this rumours about the drug from Europe had made their way to America. She refused to authorise the drug, in lieu of further studies into reported cases of peripheral neuritis. In addition, she requested proof that the drug wouldn't cause damage to any unborn fetuses. Even under pressure from Richardson Merrill, the pharmaceutical company looking at licensing the drug in the USA, and manufacturer Grunenthal, Kelsey refused the licence unless the appropriate test had been undertaken. Unsurprisingly, the drug companies were not too happy about being made to pay out for extra testing, and they didn't, which doesn't inspire confidence in the product they were trying to sell. But we'll come to the reasons why shortly. Her failing to crumble under the pressure saved thousands of children from developing health issues. As such, in 1962, Kelsey was awarded the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service by John F. Kennedy on the 7th of August. Although not officially sold, Validamide did cause some birth defects in the USA. These were mainly caused in clinical testing in roughly 20,000 people, of which around 17 would be born with defects. Scarily though, around 2.5 million tablets made their way into the US. All throughout the discovery of Validamide's horrific side effects, Grunenthal vehemently denied liability. The company was first made aware of complications from pregnancy when Validamide was involved, as early as 1956, when one of its own employees gave birth to a child suffering from birth deformities. The company actively ignored multiple warning signs. Hiding behind the fact, it had conducted the relevant tests and industry standard tests on rodents. But this is just a convenient way to shirk the responsibility if they were just following the standards of the day. How did the FDA find so many holes in the evidence given to it for the safety of Validamide? Grunenthal's lack of enthusiasm for further testing requested by the FDA tells us all we need to know. And that is, they too knew of the dangers. And a published study would have removed any plausible deniability. Hence why so much pressure was put onto Kelsey. Even Dr. Lenz mentioned in his 1992 lecture to the UNITH Congress. Kemi Grunenthal continued to deny terror-togenic effects of Validamide for years. But there was a growing suspicion that this was not due to honest ignorance, but to the purpose of weakening the accusations against the firm. Although mostly off the shelves by 1962, the story didn't end there. As the German authorities couldn't ignore so many dead and injured children. And this would lead to the 1968 Grunenthal trial at the first grand criminal chamber of the regional court of Arkham. The trial of the worst human tragedy in human history since the Holocaust began on the 27th May 1968. And it was the culmination of six years of investigations. Grunenthal was less than helpful to say the least, requiring the police to raid the company's vaults several times. The company had asserted the deformities that the thousands of children affected were merely an act of God. Grunenthal meant business, showing up to court with a team of nearly 40 lawyers. Nine senior company staff members were indicted, 451 coplanetiffs and 351 witnesses were against them. The prosecution had over 70,000 pages of evidence. Hermann Wirtz, one of the eldest accused in his 70s, was allowed to not attend court due to health issues. Don't forget that point. The main tactic on display for the formidable defence team was stall, stall, stall. Waste time, delay and even threatened multiple times to walk out. Lenses 11 hours over 4 days of testimony was attacked by the defence for 11 full days. Only for it to be thrown out of court a year and 2 months later into the trial, due to an apparent bias of Lens against Grunenthal. I think you might be able to see the bias towards the large pharmaceutical company instead. With so much delaying and slowing down of proceedings, many feared the trial would eat considerably into the 1970s. But abruptly, just 2 years and 6 months later in December 1970, the trial would end. You may be thinking surely this is due to the overwhelming weight of legal and moral strain led to a guilty plea from a sudden change of heart of the accused. Or maybe some magic golden bullet of evidence so impossible to rebut became available into the trial. Or even the link between birth defects and philidomide wasn't so strong as originally thought. Well, actually none of these. The state and prosecution just decided it wouldn't be in the public interest to continue. The nine men were set free and made immune from further prosecution. And even more repulsive, 2,554 of the most affected German families were slapped with a gagging order. All of this was linked to one thing. Grunenthal had offered to put their hands in their pocket, but only on their very favourable terms. No admission of guilt and everyone has to shut up about it. This deal was brokered in secret between Grunenthal's founder, Hermann Wirtz, you know the ex-Nazi and supposedly too old and ill to attend court, and the German Ministry of Health, without the knowledge of the victims or the wider public. But the conflict of interests in this scandal goes even deeper. Dr Joseph Neuberger, the Minister of Justice, had previously worked with Wirtz when his law firm, Neuberger, Pick and Grieven, had been contracted by the pharmaceutical company in 1966. Neuberger had tried at every corner to hinder the prosecution's case. The price Grunenthal offered to make it all go away under the guise of concern for the affected families was 100 million Deutsche Marks. Not directly paid outmined, but to a fund to find the best use for the money. A slap in the face might have been a better payment to the families. It would work out roughly 10% the figure claimed by the victims, which was around 40,000 marks per child, around $22,000 for a lifetime of suffering. It wouldn't be paid out all at once though, instead a poultry lump sum would be followed by a monthly stipend. As a result, the financial burden fell squarely at the feet of the state. The compensation story would be similar in other countries, with victims in the UK, for example reaching a settlement with Distillers Biochemical Limited in 1968. The scandal would not only scar a generation, but so much deeper distrust between pregnant women and the medical community. Even in the current day, the lidomide is mentioned when the question came up of COVID vaccination during pregnancy. Needless to say, the damage caused by the drug has traumatized society. The drug would never fall out of use though. In 1964, it was discovered in Israel to have benefits in leprosy treatment. From 1965, the drug was used as the first choice of leprosy in Brazil, but the lidomide story doesn't even end here. It would go on to actually find some use in the treatment of certain cancers such as multiple meloma, after a clinical trial in 1999. The FDA this time around would license the drug, but only under strict circumstances. An apology from the company wouldn't arrive until 2012, which to many victims felt was an insult, especially as by then, the German government had picked up most of Grudenthal's stipend payments to victims. Now I hope you enjoyed this new type of video. Let me know if you liked it in the comments below. This is a plain difficult production. All videos on the channel are Creative Commons attribution share alike licensed. Plain difficult videos are produced by me, John, in the currently wet and miserable southeastern corner of London, UK. Help the channel grow by liking, commenting and subscribing. Check out my Twitter for all sorts of photos and odds and sods as well as hints on future videos. 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Welcome traders to another TickMail earnings season preview with me, Patrick Munley, before we jump into today's report. As always, I want to adhere to that risk disclaimer. Most pertinent to today's presentation is the fact that views and opinions expressed by me are solely mine. They're not addictive or representative of those held by TickMail UK or TickMail Europe Limited. Okay, let's jump into today's report and we are checking in with Google parent Alphabet who are set to report earnings after the close of trade in New York today. We're looking for an earnings per share estimate of 1.176 on revenue of 76.179 billion. The issue for Alphabet is really around YouTube, it's likely to be a weak spot again when they report earnings this evening. YouTube's slowing ad revenue growth is one issue for Google, while the subscription side of its business remains opaque to investors. When Alphabet reported Google earnings for the September quarter, YouTube ad revenue shrank for the first time. YouTube ad revenues slipped 2% to 7.07 billion, missing estimates of 7.5 billion. Google began reporting some YouTube financial metrics separately in the fourth quarter of 2019. For this December quarter, analysts estimate that YouTube revenues of 8.2 billion. That's down nearly 5%. YouTube revenue boomed during the coronavirus pandemic, so the company faces tough year-over-year comparisons according to some Google stock analysts. But other factors also are at work. YouTube is being squeezed on one side by restrictions on consumer data in the wake of Apple's privacy changes. And on the other side by increased competition from streaming and short video platforms. Concerns on cash flow have grown following YouTube's recent announced $2.7 billion deal with the NFL for the Sunday ticket, which will start in 2023. Let's take a look at some of the statistical trading patterns we can expect to see around Alphabet earnings. Google shares have moved higher in the immediate aftermath of earnings, 8 out of 12 previous reports. On average, the stocks moved at 2.3% in the first day of announcing earnings. Based on the previous 12 earnings releases, Google is more likely to trade lower one day after announcing earnings for an average loss of 0%, so basically flat on the day. On average, so the stock has moved higher 1% one week after earnings. So where we are from the analyst community, 51 analysts surveyed in the last three months, they have issued a net strong buy on the stock. We have an upside target of 150 max with an average of 123.22. And on the low side there, $93 is the lowest expectation over the next 12 months. From a flow and sentiment perspective, options traders are pricing in a 5.7% move on earnings and the stock's average a 5.4% move in recent quarters. The market has overestimated Google stock earnings movement 50% of the time of the last 12 quarters of data has been notable buying 1091 contracts of the $100 call expiring Friday. In general, though, options order flow sentiment has been bearish investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has only 36% expecting an earnings beat. Let's go to the Google chart and see if we can identify any near term trading opportunities. So from a technical perspective versus that $84 swing low we have a 103 corrective upside bit of range resistance coming in there 104 46. Obviously we have that $100 call which is in the money now as of as of close yesterday. So if the earnings come in line with estimates or we get any upside surprise, I'd be looking to be long through that 104 70 targeting the yearly pivots which comes in 107 58 we also have the descending weekly trend channel resistance coming in there 107 40. I'm not expecting any profits by that stage. At this stage, any, any downside downside outlook or down be outlook from Google, I'd be looking for pullbacks into the gap here at the $93 level, what's your bullish reversal patterns there again to engage on the long side, looking to our target zone of that yearly pivot 107 60s. Obviously, if we can break out of this weekly descending trend channel, then we will be looking at that 122 upside objective from the analyst community as the as the target for the move to the next stage, it would really take a close back through the $90 level as a meaningful bearish development, opening a move to retest $84 on the downside. As always traders plan the trade trade the plan, and most importantly, manage your risk until next time.


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Yes. All right, that was Francis Adams, returning speaker, awesome job. Thank you very much. Next speaker is a close friend and co-coach with him at the Social Man. He's been there since its founding, his name is Nick Sparks, and he's a returning speaker to the 21 convention.  Thank you for coming. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Give another obligatory round of applause for Anthony. I mean, this seriously is an amazing event, and I appreciate being asked to come back here. I definitely appreciate it a lot. So thank you guys for having me. Also, congratulations to yourself, of course, as I'm sure you've heard more than once. Not every single person actually has the courage to stand up and make a change in their life. Everybody's got issues, everybody's got problems, but very few people actually do something about it. So awesome on one hand. Also, another reason to be, you know, congratulate yourselves is that this has been going on for what, now like five hours so far today? Multiple hours yesterday? Yeah, six hours, perhaps. I don't know if I could pay attention or focus on anything for that long. So the simple fact that you're able to do that deserves its own round of applause as well. It's interesting, though. I kind of liken it to an analogy I would use as actually listening to a woman, as Fran was talking about up here earlier. It can be difficult sometimes, just like it's difficult to actually focus on hour after hour after hour after hour of guys talking. Why? Because, well, in this case, you're tired, your brains have processed so much shit, and it can only process so much more. In those cases, when you've got a beautiful woman standing in front of you, your heart's pounding, your head's going, it can be hard to actually listen and pay attention in that case without thinking a million different thoughts at the same time. So it can draw a little analogy between what you're doing right now, the actual focusing skills it takes, and talking to a girl. It's not really part of my speech, but I just thought of that. So why am I here? What am I doing standing here? I'm not going to talk about who I am. I mean, who really cares, honestly? Well, it started about 27 years ago when my mother gave birth to me. No, nobody really cares. I want to talk about why I'm here, though, because that's the important part. That's what actually matters. What am I doing here? Why am I standing in front of you? Exactly. I don't know. I mean, the obvious thought is that I'm standing here because you guys want to learn to get better at talking to girls. It's the obvious one. However, that's not why I'm here. I mean, yes, I'm a dating coach for a living. It's what I do, but that's really at the root of it, not why I'm here. It may be a symptom of why I'm actually standing here, why you guys are all sitting in the room right here, but it's not why I'm standing up here. The reason why I'm up here and the reason why you guys are all sitting in those seats right now is that, bear with me because I'm going to explain myself, is that we are living in a society that's been dominated by fear. Sounds a little kooky. Let me explain myself.  Once again. We live in a society. We live in a world, country, culture, whatever you want that's been dominated by fear. Why do I say that? Why do I make such a broad sweeping general statement like that? Reason being is that look at dating in our culture.  How should it be? If there wasn't any fear involved, what would happen? You'd be out someplace, maybe at a coffee shop, maybe at a bar, maybe walking down the street. You see a girl that you're attracted to. You see a girl that you like. You walk up to her. Hey, I think you're cute. I'd like to get to know you more. And the girl thinks to herself for a second, either, yeah, you seem all right too. I'd like to get to know you better and you guys start talking and get to know each other better and decide if you want to make babies or not. Or she decides, I don't feel the same way. No offense, maybe, you know, I've got a lot on my mind. It's just not a good time for me. It's just not going to work out. And you say, I completely understand. No harm, no foul. And you just simply walk down to the next girl that you see that tickles your interest. Say the same thing to her and she decides, makes the decision. Easy, simple, the way it should be. Almost too easy. Why can't it be that way? Why? Because there's fear everywhere. When you're walking up, your mind is racing. Oh my God. So what should I say? What is she going to reject me? Is she not going to reject me? What is she going to think about this right now? Is anybody else going to see me get rejected? You're trying to make a conversation happen. And it's like, okay, what do I say? What do I say? How do I do this? I want to do this, but I'm not sure. I'm going to get rejected here. And you're not the only one feeling fear. That's for sure. She's got to be worrying the entire time too. Is this guy a douchebag? Is this guy an asshole? Is this guy going to break my heart the way the last guy did?  I don't know. Somebody might think that. Maybe not. Maybe it's just me.  How do I look? Do I look prettier than other girls here? Does my hair look okay today?  Fear. It's everywhere. And you all know exactly what I'm talking about because you've all felt it. You wouldn't be sitting right here if you didn't feel it, especially in relation to women. It's that feeling in your chest. Kind of creeps up. It feels really shitty. Fear, anxiety, doubt. And it sets off negative thoughts. It sets off self-defeating thoughts and actions. Happens to everybody. It happens all the time. It happens when you're trying to talk to a girl. Happens. Maybe at work. Maybe at school. All over your life. You have pressure on something. You get that shitty feeling. And what happens? We've developed in our society a ton of ways of dealing with it.  Of avoiding it. What do we do? We, I don't know. We have another drink. Maybe we smoke. Maybe we, you know, go on our computer and just watch mindless things to avoid doing something that we don't really want to do. I really like the blue screen happening. What are you doing? Either way. We maybe pull out our phone and just stare at our phone. Do we really need to check our phone? No. Why? Because it's easier. It's comfortable.  Oh, no. Get my mind off of it.  There's a million different things you could be doing.  It doesn't, it feels like you want to get as far away from it as possible and it's everywhere in our lives. We've got a million ways to avoid it. We've got no real way to stand up to it. It's just there.  That's why I'm here. That's why I'm standing in front of you guys right now because it's my job beyond all other things to teach you to break through it, to stand up to it, to overcome it when it happens in your life in relation to women and coincidentally, as you gain confidence from that, it affects every other part of your life where this has happened. It's a skill. It's a talent. What's the root of this? How do I do it at the very core? It's the magic. I say a couple of magic words and it's gone. No. The way that I do this is basically based on a very simple foundational principle and of course there's more specifics and I'm going to get into more specifics but it's based on something very simple. It's based on the fact that when you feel like crap, your body goes over, goes through a very significant, very powerful physiological change. It's eeks out of every pore of your body. Every single muscle in your body is a slave to this feeling and when you feel great, when you're feeling on top of the world, when you are feeling amazing, your entire body, your entire physiology is affected by it. It reeks out of every single pore in your body. That's why you've each had times when sometimes you're just on. You can't explain it but you can go up and talk to any girl you want to. Everything's just rolling. You get in the zone. Women are loving you. Things are going great. Maybe it was in the honeymoon phase of a relationship. Maybe it was a night when you just drank a little bit too much but you can't put your finger on exactly what was going on but you were just feeling it and you were amazing. You all have the potential inside of you. It's you at your core. It's not a figment of your imagination that was doing that. That's who you are.  That's why we have expressions out there like, he's really coming out of his shell.  He's really opening up. That's what those expressions mean, quite literally. This physiological change that occurs is very significant because everyone else around you is aware of it. Maybe they're not thinking. They're not thinking about the stuff the way I do. They're not conscious of every little shift that happens but they can feel it. Especially women are very, very intuitive as we all know. They can tell from a mile away how you're feeling and unfortunately, feelings are contagious. Nobody wants to feel shitty. That's pretty universal. Nobody likes feeling shitty. When you're feeling shitty, when you're feeling anxious, your body is giving off all the signs that you're feeling anxious.    They have to be like, is everything okay, buddy? Are you feeling all right? However, when you're feeling great and your whole body is reeked at, maybe it's when you're around your very best friends and you're having a great time and you're comfortable.  You're feeling good, feelings being contagious. Everybody wants to feel good.  So here's the linchpin of it all. Is that if it were the case that whenever you're feeling shitty, you always radiate shittiness. Oh, Erica. Whenever you're feeling great, you're always radiating these positive energy. Then my advice to you today right now would be simple. I would simply say, well, when you feel good, go out and talk to people. When you feel crappy, lock yourself in the house. Don't talk to anyone. Thank you guys. It's been my pleasure to be here today. Unfortunately, that would be awful advice. Wouldn't be very good advice at all. And luckily, there's something that we can do about this little dynamic. There's something that we can do to turn it on its head, so to speak. Your physiology will always follow your feelings, except for one situation where it doesn't. There's one time in one time only where your physiology will not follow your feelings. And that one time in one time only is when you consciously focus on your physiology. A mentor of mine gave me very wise words one time.  Probably some of the most profound words I've ever heard in my life. And it resonates through everything. You don't feel like going to the gym. You don't feel like working out. You feel tired. I don't feel like working out. So you don't work out. You feel even crappier.   I'm going to do it anyway. I swore too much last year. I didn't want to do it again this year. I'm going to do it anyway. So you go to the gym, you work out, you get your blood flowing, the endorphins start going, and all of a sudden what happens? You feel great afterwards. Man, I always feel amazing after my workout. I should do it more.  And the same thing can happen with that physiology that we talked about.   However, just like I can focus on pointing my finger, retracting my finger, raising my right leg with poor balance, lowering my right leg, I can always control my physiology. You can always take action. I mean, that's the secret to life. Free will, the greatest gift we could ever have. We could always control our actions. And so what are some of those actions? What are some of those differences that happen between when we're feeling amazing and when we're feeling closed off? Well, when we're feeling closed off, when we're feeling like crap, the very first thing that happens is our heart starts to beat faster. Makes sense. As our heart beats faster, it causes our breathing to be affected by it. We start breathing quicker and we start breathing a lot more shallow. We basically breathe only as deeply as it'll take to keep us alive. Quick, show, slow, quick, shallow breaths. Because we're breathing quicker and shallower, we start talking more quickly. And because not a lot of air is passing over our vocal cords, our voice becomes very weak. It comes from our throat. And as the air is rushing over faster, we speak a little bit higher.  Everybody knows that if you've been studying this stuff. Erica knows.   Your shoulders get pulled forward and up slightly. It puts a lot of pressure on your chest and on your neck, which is why people who are stressed out a lot often need massages and carry a lot of tension in their shoulders and in their neck. Your back arches forward ever so slightly. And it's not just the upper body that grows tight as well, but your lower body.  You become kind of like a statue of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons. I mean, the cartoonist did a good job of drawing what the most uncomfortable body posture could possibly look like. That's not even the most dramatic change that happens, though.  First, it starts with the eyes. Because your thoughts are going a million miles a minute, your eyes are darting around all over the place.  It's like you're looking at a million things, but you're really not looking at anything. It's like I'm looking at all of you, but I'm really not seeing, I couldn't tell you a single thing about any one of you right now. They're just darting. And the most dramatic thing happens is that my face just starts to lack all expression. It just becomes dead. It becomes a mask. It's like I'm not even there. And if you've ever seen like a newspaper where it said like man murders 15 people, and they show like a picture of the guy's face, it looks empty. It looks soulless. It looks lifeless. If you know anyone who's ever been addicted to hardcore drugs, heroin, crystal meth, crack cocaine, then it's what their face looks like. They're not even there. It's like their bodies here, but their soul isn't even present.  But I'm saying you look a lot closer to this than when you're feeling good. And the signals you're giving off to people, I mean, people tell me that, oh, Nick's just a good looking guy. That's why I get girls. But if I looked like this, when I was trying to talk to girls, do you think any women in the world would be attracted to me? Probably not. Or maybe a couple, but I don't really want them. So now what happens when you're feeling good exactly the opposite? Your heart starts beating more slowly. As your heart starts beating more slowly, you start taking deeper, slower breaths. Oh, thank God.  As you're taking those deeper, slower breaths that affects your voice, you start speaking more slowly. Start speaking a little bit more deeply. And because you have more air rushing out over your vocal cords, you don't even have to try to yell, but you start speaking with more strength, more power, more volume.    Oh, releasing all that tension from your chest and your neck. Oh, your lower body loosens up too. And this is important because your hips are really where your sexuality is at. If your hips are tight, I mean, eye contact is number one, of course. But if your hips are tight, a woman's not going to be feeling any sexuality. You look at the video I did last year where I demonstrated physical escalation. And my hips were very much on a swivel. I mean, I like to rub my crotch against girls quite a bit when I talk to them. And it all comes from having nice, smooth hips. I like to lead with my hips when I'm moving when I'm feeling nice and sexy.  So your weight shifts nicely and slowly from one foot to the other, not quickly, but just kind of like warm honey. Move in nice and smoothly back and forth. Oh, yeah.  So your eyes start to focus on one thing at a time, you take in everything every little detail, you pay attention. It's like Sherlock Holmes when he surveys a room, takes in every little detail of what's happening around him. And most dramatically is in the expression in your face. All of a sudden your face booms with expression. Doesn't matter what you're talking about, you're not talking about it with your words, you're talking about it with your entire body. So that somebody who couldn't even hear your words can feel what you're saying. If you're not communicating like that, you're not communicating. And so you can always control these things. You can always control your physical body at any second you want to. And I'll tell you the three most common times in relations to women, and I see this time and time again from working with guys, the three most common areas where a guy freezes up and tenses up and he's not even aware of it. I have to watch it and tell him about it. Yo, you're closed, open yourself up. Three most common times when he's going to approach a girl those first five seconds, when he's trying to make a conversation happen. What do I say? What do I say? What do I say? And when a girl is showing them that he that they like him, and he knows deep down that he has to escalate. Oh God, what do I do? What do I do? I talked about last year, you just have to do it. It's those three times when a guy freezes up unbeknownst to him. And the second that his body goes tight, the second that he gets to look in his eyes, you know, cat food in the trunk, she is going to immediately drop her attention. She is going to immediately lose all interest period. So that's the biggest part. That's 80%. That's the 20%. Excuse me, that does 80% of the work. If you're doing that, you're going to have a lot of success with women period. If you're just controlling your body, making sure when you're talking to them, looking them focused, open communication, it's going to get there. I mean, luckily, that's not our only advice either, but it's the big part of it. So with that in mind, with that as being the most important thing to always focus on, I want to talk about some of my best stuff for getting through some of those rough spots, some of the biggest things out there. Let's start with the approach. Let's start with the first area that really causes guys to freeze up and tense up and get nervous. Going up and saying hi, goes up usually got to keep a little too much of a distance. Hey, hey, keep a nice distance. So what's the most important thing about approaching? If there's one skill that I would say is most important to approaching, what would that be? Beyond a shadow of a doubt, I would say that it is observation, observation, and not just for the use of situational openers, not just to be able to say, oh, you're you have a dragon on your shirt, how cool is that? Are those silly bands? I love those.  If you don't have them, seriously, they're amazing. First of all, girls love them.  Yeah, I know. And oh, what do you have? I don't know what do you have? Oh, my god, it's the easiest way to start a conversation with girls.  Ridiculously easy. Anyway, anyway, beside the point, beside the point. Number one is observation, not just for situational openers, but because a girl will be telling you subconsciously whether she wants you to approach her or not. How does she do that? What are the signals really obvious when you think about all the stuff that I just went over? Because this being more open, being more closed physiology, it doesn't just apply to you, and to me, and to you and you and you, it doesn't just apply to the guy sitting in this room.    And so you can look at any woman out there, any woman you see tonight, you can look at her and you can look at exactly the stuff that we just went over.  How loud is she speaking? How much animation does she have in her body? How much is she like, focussily looking around versus how much is she just closing herself off and, and looking away, keeping to her friends, keeping to the bar?  If she's sending off those signals and you try to talk to her, now, unless you're feeling incredible, unless you're on top of the world and feeling amazing, open as possible, she's probably going to give you a negative reaction.  You don't want to deal with anything.  I'm good. Leave me alone. You don't want to deal with that. And just like you're going to see tonight, when there's girls who are feeling good, who are feeling open, who are signaling to everyone in the world, even though they don't even realize they're doing it, that they feel amazing, looking around, smiling, moving around, doing that like loud girl laugh that girls sometimes do, and we're like, why is she laughing so loudly and obnoxiously? She's signaling to every single guy, Hey, I feel good. I feel sexy. Come talk to me, please. And if you go and talk to that girl, as long as you're not just reeking of closeness and discomfort, and I don't know a stack of, I don't know, as long as you're not just radiating that you're very, very close, she is going to give you a positive response. She is going to, you know, light up a little story just to highlight this. I was working with some guys bar in New York City, and corner of the bar, there were three girls by far the most attractive girls at the bar, hands down, every other guy there saw him, every other guy there noticed them. One of my guys says, man, I want to go talk to those girls. So we observed them for a little bit observation.  And I said, not yet. Not yet. Because the thing about all of this is that, you know, if a girl is closed to start out, she's not going to stay that way.  But most girls, most people, what happens? They spend a little bit of time at the bar, they start having fun with their friends, they start to loosen up a little bit. Maybe she has another drink, maybe a song comes on that she really likes, maybe she starts getting talking to some good friends and they have some laughs. People will open up over time. You just give them a couple minutes, depending on the circumstances. So this guy said, I want to go approach him. I said, not yet. Not yet. And sure enough, we watched some other guy saw the exact same girl just like all the rest of the guys did.  So he walked up and I said, give him 15 seconds, girls will be rejecting him. Sure enough, about 12 seconds later, he was walking away with his head down. The girls were, you know, closing in the ranks. And every other guy saw that.  But all the other guys are watching them like, I'm not going to go talk to those girls.  But me and my guys continue to observe, we continue to keep an eye on them. And sure enough, because those guys, because that one guy went and talked to them, they started to loosen up a little bit. Maybe they said to themselves, you know what, we came out to the bar to have fun. Maybe we shouldn't be so stiff. Maybe we should have a little bit more fun. Maybe that guy kicks something loose like inside of them. And they started to smile more. They started to laugh more. They started to turn out more. They started to look around a little bit more. So I said to my guy, okay, now go. Perfect. Talk to him now. And he went up, made sure that we'd already gone over open close. I made sure he was expressive, eyeing, moving the body around nice and loosely. He went up and go and talk to them. Simple line. I think it was something just like, guys, look like you're having a great time. I had to come say hi. Nothing to it. And sure enough, the girls blue eyed open. They're all laughing. They're all touching him. They're all like, you know, he was part of the circle and every other guy in there was looking at him like, Oh my God, this guy's some kind of master. This guy is Oh my I want to I want to learn from him. He is he's knows something that I don't he what is he doing? What did he say? No secret to it. No secret to it observation, paying attention, not just having the gears spin a million miles an hour up here, focused, watching, observing, most important thing. When it comes to opening, by far, five minutes really?  Um, okay, really, really quickly, I want to give you something for conversations, something for that you're in a conversation, things are going that'll change your life and every conversation you will ever have. I don't say that lightly. Conversations, even as as Fran was talking about earlier, they always tend to happen where the guy talks way too much way too much. Girls love to talk, right? We all know that we've all heard it before. Girls love to talk. Why is it that we seem to be dominating the conversation a lot when we're talking? Well, because we're nervous. Well, because we don't want to lose the conversation, we're afraid that if we keep quiet for too long, that things are going to drop. What? Oh, that was a question. That wasn't a five.  Oh, I'll slow down that. What's that? Oh, yeah, yeah, I was like, um, questions at the end. I'll save I'll save a couple minutes. Oh, jeez. Oh, it happens. It was fun. All right. What am I what am I supposed to do with this Anthony? What am I? Okay, so we're a conversation change your life. Guys talk way too much when it comes to conversation. So they're afraid that if they stop talking, if there's any silence, the girl's going to lose interest, so they have to keep her attention. That is some of the most self destructive thinking that you can possibly be doing. You really should not be talking that much. It's the truth. Girls really do like to talk. So what's a technique that you can keep in mind to swing things back in your favor? Like, everything that I teach all the techniques I use, they're simple as possible. They're very, very, very simple. And why? Because when you're nervous, when you're, you're going haywire, I want to give you like just a simple objective that you can focus on, concentrate on and do that's going to have the most positive result. Why? Because everything that I teach is very simple. But it's at the same time, it's very difficult. Why is it very difficult? Because you're actually looking that fear, you're looking that anxiety, you're looking that doubt right in the eye, and you're, you're stepping through it, you're not trying to circumvent it, you're not trying to look around it, you're overcoming it. So the simple thing to focus on when you're in those situations, you're talking, and you just want to do one thing. I like to call it the buffer. It's beautiful. Why? How do most conversations go that a lot of guys have a lot of guys that I work with? How do their conversations go? Well, they start the conversation because that's what a guy does. He says something. And then she says something. And then he says something. And then she says something. And then he says something. And then she says something and then he says something. Maybe she doesn't always say something. So he says something again. And then she says something, and then he says something. She said something, he says something. Back forth, back forth and sometimes if there's a silence, he'll say something to try to get her back into it, right? Has this happened to anyone? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah. How would my conversations look? And especially those first 5 or 10 minutes when you're not sure, like once she opens up, once you guys are laughing and you're having a great conversation and everything's flowing, I mean, shit, do whatever you want to at that point, but it's always in a time when you don't really know each other and you want her to be more into you, and you're not sure how it's going to go yet, and you're trying probably way too hard, how do my conversations look at that time? Of course, I say something first, I'm the guy, more often than not, unless I'm wearing silly bands and she starts a conversation with me, I say something first, and then of course she's going to say something, more often than not, she's going to respond, and then I pause, silence is your most powerful verbal weapon. I know that doesn't exactly make sense on a literal level, because silence isn't verbal, but silence is your most powerful verbal weapon, because when there's silences in the conversation, if you rush to fill those, you're trying too hard, period, she will lose interest because at that moment you are trying way too hard and for what, you don't know this girl, she feels awkward in her dress, she's having a bad hair day, why are you trying so hard, she's not up on this pedestal, she doesn't feel like she's up on this pedestal that guys put her up on, that whole thing about her being up here and us down there, it's bullshit because girls sure as shit don't feel that way, so when there's that silence there, if you rush to fill that gap, trying way too hard, if all of a sudden she fills that gap, all of a sudden things are starting to work the way they're supposed to, all of a sudden you can get a smile on your face, when a girl says, so and goes to continue the conversation at that silence, I'm like ding, okay, she's interested in me, this is clear sailing from now, I can have fun, I can enjoy this conversation, I get to know this person, so she says something, I pause and this is a good time to actually think about what she's saying, most guys are thinking about what she's saying as she's saying it so they can come up with a clever line right off the bat, most guys want to have that witty response as soon as she's done talking, like pop it up, oh, ha, ha, ha, that's how it is in movies sometimes, so we think that's how we should talk, it's not the guys that she wets herself over talks, guys that she wets herself over in a good way of course, they actually pause, they reflect upon, they think about for a second and then after I'm done pausing for a second, I don't say what I'm going to say just yet, oh no, here's the part that changes everything, I buffer, so beautiful, what is a buffer? A buffer is a statement that builds a little bit more anticipation for what you're going to say next, but that also could prompt her to talk more, it's beautiful, it's amazing, so what are some examples of buffers that I use? The one I use constantly, the one that I use all the time is really, really, really, really, you ever hear me talk to a girl, I will say really no less than a thousand times, I kid you not, my girlfriend got pissed at me one time actually because you know we share a bed and this was like early in the morning, I was still sleeping, she had woken up and apparently I was flirting in my sleep, I was buffering in my sleep apparently because she looks over and she told me the story, I just had this big smile on my face and I was just like really, that is so interesting and I woke up and she was like you son of a bitch, you cheating son of a bitch, it's the best, I say really a thousand times, really, that is so interesting I might say or I might say is that right, is that right, is that so, really, you don't say, you know what's funny about that, you know what is so interesting about that, really, I can't believe you would say that, whoa, whoa, whoa, now hold on for a second, buffers they're magical and why are they so magical, one, it builds up anticipation for whatever you're going to say next, you throw out a buffer and all of a sudden she's like what's so interesting, what's so funny, really what, tell me, I want to know, please do not leave me hanging like this and the other thing is oftentimes it gives her that prompt to do what she has been dying to do the entire time which is talk more, so oftentimes I don't have to say anything she'll say something, I'll pause, I'll buff her really and she'll be like yeah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah go on for more and I'll say is that right and she'll be like yeah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah and I'll say now wait a minute and she'll be like what blah blah blah blah blah blah blah you should never ever ever run out of things to say one because you're not rushing to say everything that you have in one bolt and two I mean for every one thing a woman says you have things that click in your head that they remind you of that you could say in response but if you just throw out a little buffer really pause again you have to pause again after the buffer and then she starts talking again all of a sudden you've got a million more things that you could say based off that new slew of stuff that she just threw at you and you can say anything off of that thing that she just threw out or you can say anything off of the first thing she just threw out and maybe you buffer again and she throws out another like blah blah blah blah blah and you've got a whole new slew of material that you can talk about that you can vibe off of that you can use if you're paying attention if you're listening buffers they're the most beautiful thing in the world and if you concentrate focus you do them anyway everything that I teach it's intuitive it's all the shit that you do when you're just hanging out with your friends when you're relaxed when you're not worried about what to say when you're not trying to impress her when you're not thinking about what you should do it's what you do naturally and if you focus on taking the actions that you do when you're feeling good your feelings will follow just like when they say when you're feeling anxious just take some deep breaths I didn't make that up that's for sure but everything else that I have is kind of based off that exact same principle buffer focus on it girls just talk and talk and talk and you're like is this really this easy really you should be talking to the the minimum of the time every time if you're not you're doing something wrong now once again once she starts opening up and start you guys start laughing and you guys start having a good time together and you're not thinking about shit then I mean you do whatever you want don't worry about anything but in that that interim that pre things when things are a little rocky buffer how much time do I have left 15 I thought that was six 15 20 okay um what I want to talk about oh I'll talk about painting a picture um painting a picture another conversation technique that's really the part where a lot of guys get caught the most a lot of guys can approach sometimes get good responses I mean a lot of times when guys have girls that are laughing looking at them basically throwing themselves at them like it's nervous you have to escalate you have to do some of the stuff physically that I talked about last time you have to take action there you have to pound on the keys but I mean getting good at that escalation part when you have girls that are lighting up and you're you're having a good time with I mean that's can be tricky that can be some fear to fight through but that's a labor of love that's the the most fun you'll ever have all but consistently getting there time and time again so that you have those opportunities to ask like that can be the part where a lot of guys get caught up so on top of buffering what do you do while you're pausing and while you're buffering to give yourself a little extra time and to give yourself more ammunition whatever you want to call it what you're doing and what you do naturally when you're just having a conversation is you're doing what we like to call painting a picture what painting a picture is is when a girl says something when you're feeling nervous and you're thinking about what to say oftentimes you just focus on the words and you're thinking okay what can I say to that what can I say to that and your brain usually darts to like logical topical points that can stem from the thing that she says for example she says I'm from Chicago and your brain oh Chicago and you start thinking like okay Chicago you start trying to do like an association Chicago oh Chicago style hot dogs windy city Cubs fan the bears oh like Michigan you know the beach out there Wicker Park I lived in Chicago for a brief stint so I've got a little more Chicago ammunition but your brain starts looking for these topical things that the words like reminds you of it's what you do when you're nervous and you're struggling to think of something to say what we like to say to do is paint the picture and what that means is that you basically take whatever she said and you imagine you paint a picture of her doing it of your entire life's past experience involved with your own self doing these things for example I know it's a little abstract for example a girl says I went to Mexico four words so if you're trying to struggle to think of something to say based off those four words you don't have much to go off of your your mind is racing let's see Mexico beaches I don't know what are some other things what are some other topical things that you think of when you think of Mexico what's that Cabo tequila yeah easy it's way guys think it's the way guys relate to each other topical things oh yeah see that baseball game last night why not we're dudes nothing wrong with that you want to relate to the woman if you want to talk to her you have to speak personally you have to make it personal you have to start painting the picture so when a girl says to me I went to Mexico I'm painting a picture of her experience and I'm recalling my past life experience with something similar my train of thought is going to go something like this my train of thoughts going to be oh well was this a spur of the moment decision that you made or was it something that you've been planning out for a while did you pack at the last minute like I always do or did you plan your trip a couple months in advance do was your flight delayed like flights happen to be delayed quite a bit now how long was the flight again because I'm not even sure how long that flight to Mexico it's probably pretty rocket you watch some movies on the plane did you just sleep or we so excited that you couldn't sleep did you have a shot of tequila when you hit international waters when you landed did I lose your luggage or was your luggage actually all there in one piece your girl so you probably overpacked quite a bit didn't you it's what girls do it happens no problem with that you have to look pretty I respect that did they have a mariachi band playing in the airport when you got off and not to be stereotypical but that's the only song I could think of what was your trip like was it were you just laying on the beach the whole time we're going out getting hammered every single night where you're trekking through the jungle climbing waterfalls and ziplining and hiking and you know looking at monkeys swinging through trees what type of girl are you discovering old ancient Aztec ruins or maybe a combination of all of them how long were you there for at the end of your trip were you anxious to get back where you homesick where you tired we just wanted to come back or could you have stayed another week did you never want to come back where you're thinking about moving there trip back was it alright did you sleep back on the plane when you got back where you refreshed excited to go face the day and face your life or do you need a vacation from your vacation was your favorite part of the trip if you could go back there would you do it exactly the same again or would you change some things painting a picture and here's what the principles based off of is that you guys all have lived at least what who's the youngest guy here 18 any 18 anyone who's 18 here anyone who's 19 here okay you guys have all lived at least 19 years on this planet 21 tonight but you guys have all lived at least 19 years on this planet you have a wealth of experience to draw from living in our generation and our part of the world in in some part of the world on planet earth and it's logical that her being a human being on this planet in our culture of sorts has had pretty similar experiences growing up as you did I used to love teenage mutant Ninja Turtles and say by the bell when I was growing up chances are there's going to be a lot of girls out there who like the same thing I can take a wild guess so anything she says if I scroll through my back history of experience with it I can probably have at least one thing that she can relate to sometimes I won't sometimes she could say something that I have no experience with I'm completely clueless with and when that happens I now have an awesome opportunity for her to teach me something with genuine curiosity I don't know anything about that you have to tell me all about it you're going to be my resident expert for I don't know whatever she's talking about and if I say something if she whatever she says reminds me of something in my life experience and she's never heard of it before I'm like what how have you never heard of blank are you serious they're the greatest band in the world are you kidding what's wrong with you what planet did you grow up on you tracking through painting the picture going through your history you always have something you can connect with and because it's genuine because it came from you actually listening and pausing thinking and buffering giving yourself some more time to like buffering again maybe she might say something which can bring through another million things that you could possibly think of should never run out of things to say it everything you say will be pertinent will be valuable will make her really light up and excited because very few guys actually do listen it's scary I want to give an example of how great of how universally this can be used and the example I like to use is taking the most boring possible thing that a girl could possibly say to you and show that even with that if you paint the picture you still got a million that a million things you still got quite a good many things that you could say and I've heard this one time and time again if there's one thing I've heard that a girl could say that is more blah like she's just saying that she doesn't give two shits it's if I were to say so what are you guys up to tonight I usually to start with boring interview questions what do you guys up to tonight because girls are expecting it it's the way that people usually communicate it's the way that the man of her dreams that she's always imagined is going to talk to her but the difference is instead of every other guy that just goes down the list oh that's cool what do you do oh that's cool where you from oh that's cool I'm actually going to listen I'm gonna my response to whatever her response be is going to be different than anything she's ever heard before in that situation that's where I get their attention so one of my favorites is so what you guys up to tonight and the most common boring response that you'll probably ever get is oh we're just hanging out oh we're just chilling yeah not much really just hanging out right could there be a more boring response that a girl could possibly give you to a question probably not so I want to paint the picture with this because I believe that if we take the most boring example and show that there's still a million things you can say that anything that a woman could possibly say you could have a million things to say never running out especially with the pausing buffering pausing that's you have to do that that's unbelievable so we're just hanging out we're just chilling anybody want to shout out something right here when you can think back about you and your friends just hanging out just chilling your own life experience with this thing that she said what it calls to mind what it reminds you of what are some possible things that pop up anybody just shout it out out at the bar specifically yes I definitely do that with friends but when you're out at a bar maybe out at a drinking location with some friends what does that night look like when winding from a hard day of work would you say ordering shots great what else beer pong nice why not I invented that game I'm sure if you were aware of that but it's a long story anybody else what are you you and your friends you're hanging out what does the night look like playing some sort of games some sort of drinking games bullshit games yeah what else talking shit to each other happens what else would you do with your friends what are you guys all here for I mean aside from the reason I gave you what did you all think you were here for women you go out to pick up girls crazy what else hard day at work maybe a friends in town who you haven't seen in a while maybe I don't know maybe it's Friday night and that's what you do on Friday night maybe there's an occasion somebody's birthday get together for that right maybe Jesus I don't know maybe you are gonna be ordering some shots getting crazy maybe you're just gonna take it easy have a beer to yes five minutes so these right here are all amazing things that she can fully relate to that are going to I mean it's boring as that question is these are all things that she can fully relate to that all make excellent responses that are gonna be unlike anything else she's heard that night I can promise you most guys here oh chilling oh that's cool you say really you guys all from around here if you had a long day and you just blowing off steam guys all work together how do you do did you go to school together you on vacation is one of you just in town visiting guys going crazy tonight you just doing shots maybe playing some beer pong well there's no beer pong tables here but your house party maybe some bars definitely have them taking a quieter night just having a couple drinks just relaxing celebrating anything somebody's birthday oh she's wearing the tiara I'm not an idiot I know what that means baby they're just out you know what I know what you guys are out for you just have to pick up boys tell me the truth I can tell by that look in your eye you're out here to meet boys everything that you've ever done when you're out with friends all a hundred percent the same things they do they're not that different they're the exact same I mean aside from having you know a vagina and being a little crazy sometimes they're the they're the exact same as we are we're crazy to anything that you could possibly think of from your own experience easily relatable you have more far more in common then then different and the only differences that you really have are all put up by this thing on your shoulders that are just filling it up with doubt creating divisions telling you that everything is different telling you God filling your head with so much shit that gets in the way the only barriers that you ever have to cross the only the only tests that you ever have to pass the only things you ever have to overcome they're not coming from her she's just wondering why she's still single and why she can't find a guy they're all coming from right here and if you just start focusing on the right things and not letting this shit brain run wild and fill your head with garbage every single time you start to feel like crap up here but actually take action to overcome it those walls melt away and you see that it's so much easier than you ever thought possible it's so much more fun it's the way it's supposed to be it's enjoyable guys are supposed to have fun going out and talking to girls it's not supposed to be work it's not supposed to be this traumatic heart oh i gotta go and do this again i gotta focus i gotta push myself no you should can't wait to go out and do it because it's the most enjoyable experience you'll ever have in your life if you're thinking about the shit the way it's supposed to be thought about focusing on the right things and not letting the bullshit get in the way um i'd like to to open up if i i still have a minute i'd like to answer a question or two do i have a perfect perfect perfect what's that oh yeah yeah i mean we've got to start our our um our boot camp up for the weekend of course um but yeah i'll be definitely down for a question or two afterwards question you had a question over there i know peter come on you can shout i think we can all hear you what's that yeah did any guys go to try to approach them yeah what were the responses they got from those girls weird some people never open up sometimes girls just want to be hanging out with girls sometimes i go out with friends and i don't want to be bothered it happens there's a million girls in the world it's one of the nice things about there is that there's always more girls if you try to beat your head against us well why can't i do this you're just going to frustrate yourself more you're just going to get more down on yourself you're just going to i you're gonna it's going to kill any momentum you have and the other key point that i want to why this is so important of paying attention to those who's open and who's closed i'm glad you brought this up um is because when i start out i mean i'm usually feeling a little creaky i'm usually feeling a little stiff at the beginning of the night and so i want to make sure that the first girls i approach are going to be more open themselves are more loose themselves why because feelings are contagious and if i'm feeling a little stiff at first i'm going to go talk to some girls who i know are going to give me a positive response who are going to give me a solid um you know a response back and so i start talking to them i start getting looser i go talk to some other girls who are fairly open and as i'm showing my socialness other girls are going to start to give me positive signs because they all want to talk to the guy that's being social which you know by now and so i'm going to start talking to the girls that are giving the most open signals first the first one two three even four approaches i do in the night are going to be with the most open girls for the sheer purpose of getting myself looser because once i start rolling once i get my social momentum going that feeling of being in the zone it's something by following those steps it's something that you can it's a muscle but it's something that you can do every single time you go out and strengthen and get into whenever you want to you can control that and so once i start getting rolling and once i start feeling great then i'll go talk to any girl i want to and because i'm feeling so good because i don't give a shit because i'm feeling amazing on top of the world girls who are closed i'll be able to get them to to open up a good amount of times and girls who are and in girls who are so close that they blow me up i don't give two shits there's a meal i'm feeling so amazing just rolls right off the shoulder and i go talk to the next girl and have an amazing conversation with her i'm glad you brought that up good question very important though yes kind of wrap up all right so well thank you guys for your time once again