Michael. Peter. I know that you must have heard of the game. Yes, this is the book that taught me how to neg.

You know, one of the books I'm reading for this podcast is The End of History,

a book about the ascendance of liberal democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union.

But first I thought it was critical to discuss the game by Neil Strauss, a book about how to get

the most pussy. About how do you get in their dick's wet in LA in 1990?

The subtitle of The Game is penetrating the secret society of pickup artists. How did I not notice

the penetrating thing? Yeah, that's that's search engine optimization, baby. You know.

So the basic just is that it's the story about how the author joins a group of so-called pickup artists,

guys who study the art and science of picking up women. Yes. The aesthetic of the book,

quite interesting. The OG print edition is leather bound. I forgot. And it's got one of those like

built in ribbon bookmarks, like a bright red one, like the Bible. There are many quotations

throughout the book from from famous authors and thinkers. Can you guess, Michael, who the first

quote comes from? It's going to be someone horrible like Tony Robbins or something. No, no.

You're going in the wrong direction, my friend. The first quote is from Betty Friedan. What?

The Betty Friedan quote is, men weren't really the enemy. They were fellow victims, suffering from

an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

That's actually, yes, that's a good quote. I'm telling you, there are some great feminist quotes

all throughout this story of banging as many chicks as possible in LA. So have you read this book?

Have you read the game? So I actually read this. I think shortly after it came out or a couple

years after it came out, when I was in kind of a pickup artist curious phase, I've always been

slightly fascinated by this because first of all, I always struggled to get laid. And second of all,

this whole thing always seemed very straight dude to me. This was always wrapped up in this weird,

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