{"id":1782,"date":"2007-08-07T17:32:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/2007\/08\/07\/the-pickup-artist-on-vh1-filmed-in-austin\/"},"modified":"2007-08-07T17:32:23","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T22:32:23","slug":"the-pickup-artist-on-vh1-filmed-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-pickup-artist-on-vh1-filmed-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pickup Artist on VH1 &#8211; Filmed in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pua_trailer_111x71.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/austin.metblogs.com\/archives\/images\/2007\/08\/pua_trailer_111x71.jpg?resize=111%2C71\" width=\"111\" height=\"71\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>VH1&#8217;s latest reality show is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/the_pick_up_artist\/series.jhtml\">The Pickup Artist<\/a>. From their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vh1.com\/shows\/dyn\/the_pick_up_artist\/series_about.jhtml\">description<\/a>, it&#8217;s about &#8220;eight lovable losers who&#8217;ll be tutored on how talk to and romance women&#8221;. They&#8217;ll be learning from a guy named &#8220;Mystery&#8221;. Try to hold your laughter. It gets better once &#8220;Mystery&#8221; actually appears. He looks like a goth Bob Schneider.<\/p>\n<p>Why am I even talking about this show?<\/p>\n<p>Well, my friends, it&#8217;s set in Austin. It looks like they&#8217;re living in a sweet pad out on Lake Travis. There are several shots of downtown and the first episode takes place at a club called The Foundation, which I guess is where Element used to be?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;d recommend watching it, but if you want to be able to watch a show and say, &#8220;I know where that is!&#8221; then be my guest.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody know if they&#8217;ve completed filming? I&#8217;m guessing that most shows finish filming before they air.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> Oh yeah, you can also view a preview for free on <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewVideo?id=261262211&amp;p=260271627&amp;s=143441\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VH1&#8217;s latest reality show is called The Pickup Artist. From their description, it&#8217;s about &#8220;eight lovable losers who&#8217;ll be tutored on how talk to and romance women&#8221;. They&#8217;ll be learning from a guy named &#8220;Mystery&#8221;. Try to hold your laughter. It gets better once &#8220;Mystery&#8221; actually appears. He looks like a goth Bob Schneider. Why <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/the-pickup-artist-on-vh1-filmed-in-austin\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-sK","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}