What You Don’t Know About Pickup 101

Pickup 101 Lance Mason On Hot Seat

Pickup 101 and Lance Mason are well known for teaching men how to pickup women using pickup artist techniques which to me seem often manipulative and unhealthy. He has been mentioned in book “The Game”, has been featured on various David D Angelo interviews and has been quite popular with the press.

I personally have never been a big fan of Lance and his company. And this is exactly what I tell him in this interview.

Why I Agreed To Do Interview With Lance:

To be honest I never thought I would do an interview with Lance.

I get interview requests from various dating coaches and pickup artists every month. I turn down most of these requests. I see no point on sitting and talking to someone you have nothing in common with.

It’s like BMW discussing travel with a Cruise Company. Sure they both are in travelling business but have nothing in common with what they do.

Such interviews accomplish very little outside of ego trips and entertainment.

This is why I changed my mind…

I got an email from Asher who is a dating coach for pickup 101. His email was so professional and well put that I could not resist getting on the phone with him.

To be honest I was expecting another pua idiot on the phone. I was expecting a coach who would chew my brain by bragging about the number of women he is sleeping with and how men are lining up to learn from him.

Let me tell you that Asher is probably the most normal, social, professional and pleasant man that I have talked to since my last 3 years in this profession.

And let me be honest I still have not met Asher in person, he is not my friend and I am NOT doing any business with him or Pickup 101.

I have no incentive to say nice things but in my opinion we all have the obligation to say how it is.

Moving forward…

I enjoyed talking to Asher. He told me about their approach to teaching pickup and I did not believe him.

He suggested I do an interview with Lance.

By this time I had really gotten curious about Lance And Pickup 101 in general.

I really wanted to find the truth about their coaching methodology.

I was vacationing in the bay area at the time. I thought what the hell I’ll just go and meet Lance and see what comes out of it.

Interview Setup With Lance And The Frustration…

The date and time for our interview was set and I was supposed to get directions from Lance.

It is now 8 hours to the interview and I have no information from Lance.

My doubt started to turn real.

It started to become obvious that Lance is one of those fake dating coaches who go out of their way to demonstrate how important and busy they are.

I mean it is utterly disrespectful to not make a contact within reasonable hour and expect that the other person will hold their breadth and postpone all their plans.

I started to get a feeling that this interview was a mistake.

Still I ended up sending one last text to Asher giving them the benefit of the doubt.

I was not expecting an answer for few hours but to my surprise Asher texted back within seconds.

He said he could not get hold of Lance and sent me his address.

Soon I received an email from Lance with directions and two different phone numbers to reach him.

The thoughtfulness in the email and friendly response from Lance once again took me by surprise.

Though it was too late already and I by now I was convinced Lance is going to be another dueche bag I hate spending time with or associating with.

Well a commitment is a commitment and I was going to honor my end.

Interview With Lance

As I was driving to Lance I was stuck in bad traffic. I was late by 15 minutes. I was about to call him when my phone range and Lance was on the other end.

To my surprise he was the opposite of what I expected him to be.

He asked me if I needed help with directions and even warned me about few turns where people make mistakes.

This is good but we still have not met in person.
 
I reach his house. I should rephrase and say I reached his castle up in the mountain, behind the parks where Star Wars movie was shot.

I called him cause I was not sure if I were at the right place and to my surprise he ended up coming out on the street to greet me.

I know you are thinking why be surprise…This is normal courtesy

Ummm not if you are a lame as pickup artist or a dating coach.  They want to build value and demonstrate importance. They want to remind you ever second that they are more important that anyone else.

And since Lance teaches pickup himself this would be contrary to what he teaches.
We go inside and Lance give me the tour of his Palace. It was huge house and very nice house.

I was now totally taken back with Lance.

I was really surprised how social, warm, down to earth and friendly he was.

I could not hold it any longer and said what I have been thinking.

I told him his behavior is contrary to what it should be.

As I did not have enough shock from him and Asher he had to drop another one

He said he does not teach pickup anymore…

WHAAAAAATTTTT?????

He said few more things and I cut him off

I said enough I need this on camera.

Even though the purpose of our meeting was to do a joint interview. I decided it would be best if we do two separate interview where I can ask him about his approach and then he can ask me about mine.

I really wanted to who Lance really was. I wanted to put him on the spot and ask him question to find out if he actually was sincere.

So we went down his studio and recorded two separate interviews.

My Opinion Of Lance

I really do not think if it matters what I really think of Lance. You need to watch the interview and form your own opinion.

And yes I might seem like a prick to ask certain inappropriate questions but then how else would I know where Lance really stands.

I personally was in awe after meeting and interviewing him. The way he responded to my accusations with humility, accepted responsibilities for his previous setbacks and talked his current practice was enough for me to know that Lance is not one of those shallow coaches out there.

It was enough for me to know that his game and coaching has evolved into a real dating coach.
The most refreshing thing to me was the way he talked about his girlfriend in the video. Most Pickup Artists talk how they own a woman and how she worships him. The was Lance mentioned his grifriend and the way he portrated her was enough for me to know that Lance knows how to be sure with relationships.

I firmly believe people can only offer what they have. Now that I see that Lance is humble, respectful and socially well calibrated I can tell that he teaches healthy mindset to his clients.

In the end I am glad that I looked past the initial hurdles and opinios and gaot to interview Lance.

Obviosuly we do not do business together but I am glad that after meeting him I have another friend how is normal, cool and someone I can be proud to hang out with.

Watch this video and form your own opinion.

Until next time!