VH1 Pickup Artist 2 Casting

I figured I'd use this as an opportunity to get the basic info out of the way before I post any videos. My name is Ryan, I am 24 years old and I currently live in Toledo, OH. Right now, I'm living in a two-bedroom apartment with three other guys and trying to make ends meet with a low-paying part-time job. But what else I'm trying to make ends meet with is the game of attraction and, with me, the ends couldn't be any further apart.

Last summer, I finally moved out of my parents' house at the age of 23, away from a small rural town where the only goal in life was to get out while you still can or be stuck there forever. Most of the people I had grown up with had moved away for college, something I should have done. So there really weren't any women my age left in town and if I did want to pick a girl up, I'd have to go to one of the two town bars and hope there's a really drunk girl that would make it easier for her to convince that I'm an awesome guy. Not my idea of fun, to be honest. So I finally got up and moved to Toledo, thinking my social life would get better. Unfortunately, if I want a girl here, I'd have to go to one of eleventy-hundred bars and hope there's a really drunk girl that would make it easier for her to convince I'm an awesome guy. Ah, the more things change...

So what's my problem with women? Oh, let me count the ways. First of all, I'm a bit of an odd duck. Chances are if you are into something, I'm not. And considering my comedic nature, chances are I just may make fun of you for it just to get a few laughs. I don't listen to radio at all, instead I listen to death metal and 80's new way. I hardly go to the theaters at all, instead I opt to watch horribly-dubbed kung-fu flicks and 70's Italian zombie movies. And don't bother asking me a thing about sports. The only sport I'm interested is professional wrestling. So I really don't have a lot in common with many people, let alone women.

On a personal level, I just find it hard to talk to women and always have since high school. I have this odd dichotomy going where if I'm hanging out with a girl that I'm not very interested in beyond being friends, I'm cool, calm, collected, comfortable, cracking jokes and being myself. But then they start liking me more even though I'm not interested. However, when I see some beautiful girl that I want to meet, get to know and go out with, I clam up. Most of the time, I can't even muster up the strength to walk up to her, let alone talk to her. And if I do get to talk to her, either I say something stupid for her to write me off or I just don't say anything at all, out of fear that I'll say something stupid.

Lately, I've found that I really don't act like myself around women, which people tell me is key. The thing with this is that I'm too worried that if I show a girl who I really am, she'll think I'm not worth her time. So I shut up and somehow I come off with having no personality at all!

Of course, the more I get to know a girl, the more that barrier breaks down but that ends up costing me dates as well. You see, the more a girl gets comfortable with me, the more she starts telling me things...like her problems with other guys. Friend Zone, "Nice Guy Syndrome", call it what you will but I'm a permanent member of the club. Seriously. I have a card and everything. Even when I was young, I've found it easier to relate more to women than my fellow man somehow. But in the end, women never see me as this attractive being that they want to get personal with. I'm just some sort of sensitive, caring, non-gential-having ogre of sorts.

As for my relationship history, it's pretty slim. I never had one date in high school. The closest I ever got was dancing with my crush at the time at Senior Prom (ignoring the fact that my actual date was my step-sister). I had my first girlfriend, a girl I worked with, not too long after graduating but that only lasted two months before she broke up with me. Why? I'm not sure. Something about being "too nice". A few years later, I find another girl, who was actually going out with my best-friend but he decided to pass her off to me. Things are going good until, like clockwork, she dumps me for another guy two months later. Why? I'm not sure. Something about being "too nice". Seriously, is that all that they can come up with? It's starting to lend credence to my theory that girls actually want a guy that will treat them like crap. Oh yeah, that last relationship was over four years ago. So really, I've only been with another girl for 4 months of the 24+ years I've been alive. The other 292 months I've spent alone. And yes, I just did the math to make sure that figure was accurate. It's not like I'm doing anything else right now.

So yeah, that's basically the long-winded gist of things. I figured I'd just get that stuff out of the way now instead of doing it in video form as I don't think they'd accept a 37-minute long video of me whining. Even I know that's not very attractive.