You Could Creepily Pick Up Women on Television

You Could Do That On Television

Mohanad Elshieky & Hannah Wright

2000s, Reality Tv, Comedy, Interviews

4.9 • 664 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Mohanad and Hannah discuss the 2007 dating game show "The Pickup Artist," where eight men with absolutely no game are mentored by a man named Mystery who teaches them the art of negging and creepily approaching women at clubs and grocery stores.Follow us on Instagram @youcoulddothatontelevisionJoin our patreon for bonus content and discord benefitsHannah's Instagram Mohanad's Instagram Art by heyshermie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. This is your host, Mohanad al-Sheikh. And this is your other host, Hannah Wright.
0:12.1	And this is, you could do that on television, the podcast where we talk about early 2000s reality TV and all the shows that you can make today.
0:20.7	And this week, the show, I do think that you can't make that today because it's...
0:26.9	Can or can't?
0:27.7	Can't?
0:28.6	Yeah.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:29.7	It's a big cringe.
0:31.5	I feel like this show, yeah, the Me Too movement made this show impossible to make today.
0:37.4	Yeah. We watched the show The this show impossible to make today.
0:37.7	Yeah.
0:42.0	We watched the show The Pickup Artist for this week.
0:47.8	And the pickup artist was on VH1 in 2007 and 2008 for two seasons.
0:56.0	And basically followed this man named Mystery, who is the pickup artist.
0:58.4	He's the host of the show, basically.
0:58.9	Yes.
1:08.8	And his goal is to teach a group of lovable losers how to successfully hit on and pick up women using his tried and true tactics.
1:16.7	The best way I can describe this man, he looks like as skydiving instructor, who's also a magician.
1:18.3	Oh, absolutely magician.
1:22.2	He is, I looked up, I was like, he's such magician vibes, and he does also do magic. Of course, yeah.
1:23.3	He's like steampunk, goth magician.
1:27.7	He gives me, like, a,, was that guy, Chris Angel?
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