Annihilat © Pye tteyek on i corr Ce hifi) nS LiTsReports, LLC Girton 4 Pago t of 8 Neil Strauss, Interviewee Neil Strauss: So this is Neil Strauss and I'm talking with Susanna, who is actually one of the people who was briefly mentioned in The Game, and she is part of when I did an Internet experiment. ‘Or you're actually before tha, actually. I was trying t lear how to get committed at the personals and T went onto Nerve.com and | put up a profile, and I think 1 experimented fora litte while and then you can probably help refresh my memory, Susanna, about, hho we met and things. But [think it was about — Interviewee: ‘You actually didn't have a picture. Neil Straus: | didn't have a picture, okay. Interviewer Yeah, you did not have a picture up, Neil Strauss Right. And it was - the reason why I'm doing this because, first, { didn’t know what to do about the photo because f like, I didn't come across great in a photo. I was ~I was learning how to have a 200d personality. But I thought, well if people saw, you know, my photo they'd be turned off and | wouldn't have enough time to get my foot in the door. And I soon solved that problem, by the wey, which is T do an illustration now, like a great illustration that’s really me but also an illustration and then when they e-raailI give them a cool photo so ‘that way it comes up when people are searching for photos they get, an idea of what you look like. ‘And then when you've expressed your lovely personality. OU Sar com, Ierviewee daughter < Ty (Leugher) LEED et Sires You send them a photo or even bet i photos, by the wa is you send tema photo ofa pil looks like or isfy eit maazn ora Website ns key ANY: * someting going ery, youk SCegRe | celebrity ata club anda~ in a~ . 7 Sve HI ‘And if that does exist you can * wPRledden Shop.TsReports, Lc Gurtiand 1 Page 20 28 [Neil Stross, Interviewee So that’s sort of what I do now but that was back then. [think you ‘were one of actually the first of second people | met off the personals, Inerviewee: ‘Yeah, but the interesting thing is that you actually contacted me without knowing my photo. Nell Strauss Right. And I did that and T purposefully did that because I ‘was told, or I leamed that people who have really got something going for them in life is prohably not going to put theit photo up because they're worried their friends will see them, ‘And sometimes the most attractive people, they said, don't put theit phioiws up because they get (ov muuch iespnaises So what I did is I looked at your weight and your size ~ (Laughter) Inerviewee: Yeah. Neil Sas: ‘And so I just wanted to, you know, and I think generally its going to — make sure I'ma skinny guy, s0 it's not an anti-fat thing, it's Just that I just don't want to be with somebody that’s maybe weighs twice as much as me. So I looked at your weight and your size and then kind of your general personality from what you had written and then I mailed you, tight? Inierviewee. Uh, yes, you did. Neil Strauss And do you remember what I said at all, or — Inerviewee. ‘Yeah, [think I still have all the e-mails, belieys know, there's heen probably some = yea commemed on waa ~ that you laughs don't know, [ ean't. py Neil Strauss Right, so I probably said one tht «profile that wasn't a mass profi something challenging such as okat going for you more than that wri ‘Warr eseriptionist com Page 2318