This week tune in to listen to my guests, filmmakers Matthew & Barnaby O’Connor, talk about their newly released documentary ‘The Pickup Game” where they expose the dark reality behind the multimillion-dollar pickup industry, in which male coaches teach men how to succeed with women with different tricks.
Amongst other themes, Matt and Barnaby are committed to spreading the message that intimacy and real happiness can only be found by being honest and authentic in your relationships, even in the initial parts of dating and the pursuit.
In this episode we talk about:-What inspired them to create this documentary and how it all divinely came together.
-Why men get reeled in so easily into the pickup world.
-The impact of men not having mentors or father figures that has them turn to books and the internet for answers.
-What Matt and Barnaby think we should all do as a collective to prevent the dangerous situations shown in the documentary.
-How pickup coaches don’t really look fulfilled yet they make big promises to lots of vulnerable men looking for answers.
-The dangers of manipulation in sales, pickup and advertising.
THE PICKUP GAME is an inside look at the emergence of the ‘pickup’ industry – a world where self-styled seduction coaches travel the globe, charging a small fortune to teach men skills they claim will guarantee success with women.
From the glossy exterior, where courses are packaged as self-improvement, to the dark underbelly of sexual assault, pyramid scheme marketing and secret collusion THE PICKUP GAME pulls back the curtain to reveal a world that is fascinating and horrific in equal measure.
From San Francisco to Tokyo – with epicentres in Toronto, London, and New York – men collectively spend hundreds of millions of dollars to attend seminars, download online courses and have one-on-one coaching sessions with instructors they feel can give them the dating life of their dreams. In the minds of students, many of these instructors become more than just teachers. They become idols.
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