WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript <www.descript.com> 00:00:00.039 --> 00:00:01.990 Alex: This week on Hot Couple Chronicles. 00:00:02.780 --> 00:00:04.039 Russ: Done a lot of things 00:00:04.759 --> 00:00:05.959 Ashley: and yet nothing at all 00:00:06.115 --> 00:00:06.575 Russ: at the same time. 00:00:06.575 --> 00:00:07.879 Nothing at all at the same time. 00:00:07.879 --> 00:00:13.549 Ashley: we took our kids to South Florida and just went to an island 00:00:13.549 --> 00:00:18.530 and we got an Airbnb and we did Thanksgiving there for a week and just, 00:00:18.739 --> 00:00:22.549 Russ: yeah, that was kind of our first destination Thanksgiving. 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.955 It was, it was really good to reconnect low key with people we haven't seen in 00:00:26.955 --> 00:00:30.585 a long time and we love them so hard. 00:00:30.585 --> 00:00:32.985 Ashley: I'm sure you've seen the videos on TikTok. 00:00:33.015 --> 00:00:34.425 We did our little reality show. 00:00:34.425 --> 00:00:36.285 It was something that we've never experienced before. 00:00:36.285 --> 00:00:39.360 It was different than anything we've ever seen. 00:00:39.360 --> 00:00:41.270 I went to my first dungeon in Atlanta. 00:00:41.295 --> 00:00:46.094 Russ: We offer a before doors open, no one else is there but us. 00:00:46.185 --> 00:00:49.995 If you don't want to go on the tour, but you still wanna come to Trapeze and hang 00:00:49.995 --> 00:00:51.159 out with us, and party with us, the code 00:00:51.525 --> 00:00:56.384 Ashley: HCC or A BV will get you the biggest discount you'll ever get. 00:00:56.384 --> 00:00:59.294 Russ: Also, that's why we have a podcast so we can kind 00:00:59.294 --> 00:00:59.440 Ashley: of finally. 00:01:00.254 --> 00:01:04.454 Say how we feel about things and talk about things that 00:01:04.454 --> 00:01:05.534 most people won't talk about. 00:01:06.270 --> 00:01:10.500 And are afraid to talk about, and that's why people listen to the podcast and 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:14.549 we've gotten told that a million times is that people appreciate that we are real. 00:01:14.549 --> 00:01:15.540 We're real people. 00:01:15.960 --> 00:01:17.939 'cause we are, we are just normal. 00:01:17.970 --> 00:01:19.305 We're you, we're regular. 00:01:19.375 --> 00:01:20.240 It's not that serious. 00:01:20.240 --> 00:01:21.620 Don't make it weird. 00:01:21.620 --> 00:01:25.100 People be making it weird and people making it so serious. 00:01:25.100 --> 00:01:26.990 And this space needs to be uncomfortable. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:28.760 I think that it's time to shake things up. 00:01:28.760 --> 00:01:30.680 I think it's time to talk about things no one talks about. 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:34.310 I think it's time to be uncomfortable and I think it's time to call out bullshit. 00:01:34.310 --> 00:01:36.980 Some things need to be challenged, some things need to be taken down. 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:41.000 Some walls need to break it down and it's time. 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:42.380 And I think that's what we're here for. 00:01:42.380 --> 00:01:43.880 And I'm ready for season four. 00:01:44.180 --> 00:01:45.770 Season four is going to be crazy. 00:01:45.820 --> 00:01:46.570 Russ: I am Russ. 00:01:46.630 --> 00:01:47.440 Ashley: And I'm Ashley. 00:01:47.590 --> 00:01:51.070 And this is Hot Couple Chronicles. 00:01:51.790 --> 00:01:52.720 Happy Wednesday. 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:53.860 Happy Wednesday 00:01:54.670 --> 00:01:58.750 Russ: and happy fourth season. 00:01:59.140 --> 00:02:00.040 Ashley: Season four. 00:02:00.430 --> 00:02:01.510 Russ: It's been a minute. 00:02:02.200 --> 00:02:04.780 We know we apologize. 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:05.350 Ashley: It's been a 00:02:06.190 --> 00:02:06.370 Russ: while. 00:02:06.370 --> 00:02:07.360 We've, uh. 00:02:09.010 --> 00:02:10.270 Done a lot of things 00:02:10.990 --> 00:02:12.190 Ashley: and yet nothing at all 00:02:12.345 --> 00:02:12.805 Russ: at the same time. 00:02:12.805 --> 00:02:14.110 Nothing at all at the same time. 00:02:14.110 --> 00:02:14.230 Yeah. 00:02:14.230 --> 00:02:15.670 It's been a good mix of, 00:02:15.675 --> 00:02:15.805 Ashley: yeah. 00:02:17.230 --> 00:02:19.660 Winter swinger, season 00:02:19.660 --> 00:02:20.320 Russ: Swingers, yeah. 00:02:20.560 --> 00:02:22.600 Ashley: Is Has been off, yeah. 00:02:22.660 --> 00:02:22.810 Russ: Yeah. 00:02:22.810 --> 00:02:23.380 Ashley: Off season. 00:02:23.410 --> 00:02:23.620 Russ: Yeah. 00:02:23.620 --> 00:02:24.170 It's been the off season. 00:02:24.170 --> 00:02:24.935 Ashley: Swinger off season. 00:02:25.125 --> 00:02:25.415 Yeah. 00:02:25.810 --> 00:02:31.000 Russ: I mean, we did have some pineapple adventures, but we 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:34.450 had a good mix of family, family 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:35.050 Ashley: sabbatical. 00:02:35.380 --> 00:02:35.680 Russ: Yeah. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:36.580 Sabbatical 00:02:36.610 --> 00:02:37.120 Ashley: keeps telling her. 00:02:37.300 --> 00:02:37.540 Everybody 00:02:37.540 --> 00:02:40.540 Russ: keeps asking how we're a lot of personal things happen. 00:02:41.380 --> 00:02:42.625 Yeah, winter. 00:02:43.085 --> 00:02:43.505 Winter, 00:02:44.255 --> 00:02:44.545 Ashley: yeah. 00:02:44.620 --> 00:02:49.450 We started, we stopped the season in November, and then we went to 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:51.490 Russ: say we went 00:02:51.660 --> 00:02:53.470 Ashley: Trapeze for Christmas. 00:02:53.470 --> 00:02:57.345 Russ: So since our last episode, we went to Thanksgiving. 00:02:57.350 --> 00:02:58.210 We had Christmas 00:02:58.210 --> 00:02:58.840 Ashley: and then, oh 00:02:58.840 --> 00:02:59.890 Russ: yeah, Thanksgiving. 00:02:59.890 --> 00:02:59.900 Thanksgiving, 00:02:59.980 --> 00:03:00.250 Ashley: yeah. 00:03:00.550 --> 00:03:04.600 Russ: With I anything of vanilla, we decided to have a vanilla. 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:07.930 Pineapple family. 00:03:08.200 --> 00:03:08.410 Ashley: Yeah. 00:03:08.740 --> 00:03:09.850 Russ: Thanksgiving with, 00:03:09.880 --> 00:03:15.700 Ashley: uh, we took our kids to South Florida and just went to an island 00:03:15.700 --> 00:03:20.680 and we got an Airbnb and we did Thanksgiving there for a week and just, 00:03:20.890 --> 00:03:24.700 Russ: yeah, that was kind of our first destination Thanksgiving. 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:28.510 We got to share it with Anything But Vanilla. 00:03:28.660 --> 00:03:29.280 Rob and Linz, 00:03:29.590 --> 00:03:30.370 Ashley: our kids got to 00:03:30.680 --> 00:03:32.030 connect and hang out. 00:03:32.075 --> 00:03:32.365 Yeah. 00:03:32.370 --> 00:03:36.080 And we made a big meal and spent a week on an island. 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:36.140 It 00:03:36.140 --> 00:03:37.010 Russ: was destination. 00:03:37.010 --> 00:03:37.490 So good. 00:03:37.580 --> 00:03:41.090 It was a destination Thanksgiving, but I still did the best I could 00:03:41.090 --> 00:03:43.400 to make a Thanksgiving feast. 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:44.060 Yeah. 00:03:44.060 --> 00:03:44.720 And I feel like you did your thing. 00:03:45.110 --> 00:03:45.860 Did pretty good. 00:03:45.860 --> 00:03:45.920 Yeah. 00:03:46.190 --> 00:03:46.700 But 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.580 Ashley: yeah, and then our kids hung out and we hung out and we 00:03:49.580 --> 00:03:53.990 just all just did island life for a week and then came back and did 00:03:54.170 --> 00:03:57.680 christmas at home and was all our family. 00:03:57.680 --> 00:03:57.740 Yeah. 00:03:57.800 --> 00:03:57.890 Cool. 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:00.000 And then we went to Trapeze. 00:04:00.020 --> 00:04:00.440 We, 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:00.590 Russ: yeah. 00:04:00.770 --> 00:04:03.800 Ashley: They were throwing, Swing Nation was throwing a 00:04:03.860 --> 00:04:04.310 Russ: Toys for 00:04:04.310 --> 00:04:05.180 Ashley: TOT charity event. 00:04:05.210 --> 00:04:05.570 Yeah. 00:04:05.570 --> 00:04:06.530 Toys For Tots event. 00:04:06.530 --> 00:04:10.640 So we went, we decided last minute to go there and we reconnected with 00:04:10.640 --> 00:04:14.360 Swing Nation and we, it was a surprise. 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:15.080 Flirty pineapples. 00:04:15.080 --> 00:04:15.380 Russ: Yeah. 00:04:15.380 --> 00:04:17.215 Ashley: Ended up showing up last second. 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:17.390 Yeah. 00:04:17.450 --> 00:04:19.670 Russ: Well, it was a surprise that we were showing up. 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:20.210 Ashley: Yeah. 00:04:20.210 --> 00:04:20.720 We didn't know 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:21.295 Russ: it either. 00:04:21.875 --> 00:04:22.175 Ashley: Yeah. 00:04:22.355 --> 00:04:24.365 Russ: And we decided to go, 00:04:24.935 --> 00:04:25.025 Ashley: yeah, 00:04:25.175 --> 00:04:29.395 Russ: we made a quick post on all of our socials. 00:04:29.495 --> 00:04:29.945 And then. 00:04:30.635 --> 00:04:32.555 They commented on our post. 00:04:32.555 --> 00:04:35.375 I'm like, you were in the bathroom getting, 00:04:35.405 --> 00:04:35.885 Ashley: getting ready, 00:04:35.945 --> 00:04:40.505 Russ: getting ready, putting your makeup and stuff, and I was just, I 00:04:40.505 --> 00:04:46.905 got a notification and I looked and I'm like, I yelled baby, you're like, what? 00:04:47.775 --> 00:04:51.255 I said the Flirty Pineapples are gonna be there tonight. 00:04:51.525 --> 00:04:52.155 She's like, what? 00:04:54.405 --> 00:04:56.925 And so, yeah, that was really good to see them again. 00:04:57.255 --> 00:04:58.215 Ashley: Yeah, we were there with them. 00:04:58.265 --> 00:05:01.535 Our friends, STD Hero and Anything But Vanilla, we had a whole 00:05:01.535 --> 00:05:02.855 crew there with Swing Nation. 00:05:02.855 --> 00:05:03.020 We ended up. 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:07.940 You'll see, we will talk about it in a upcoming podcast. 00:05:07.940 --> 00:05:11.270 We're gonna talk all about all of our adventures, a little bit more in depth. 00:05:11.270 --> 00:05:15.360 This episode's gonna be kinda just a recap going over what we have done. 00:05:15.410 --> 00:05:18.740 And then we decided to do a low key New Year's Eve, we 00:05:18.740 --> 00:05:20.070 were thinking about Trapeze. 00:05:20.090 --> 00:05:22.070 That was on our radar. 00:05:22.070 --> 00:05:22.160 But 00:05:22.160 --> 00:05:25.190 Russ: yeah, we had a lot of friends going to Trapeze for New Year's Eve. 00:05:25.365 --> 00:05:25.565 Eve. 00:05:25.565 --> 00:05:25.575 Yeah. 00:05:25.760 --> 00:05:25.880 Ashley: And 00:05:25.880 --> 00:05:28.490 Russ: then we went to New Year's Eve at Trapeze last year. 00:05:28.640 --> 00:05:28.700 Ashley: Yeah. 00:05:29.510 --> 00:05:31.700 We decided we wanted more low key, more quiet. 00:05:31.700 --> 00:05:31.760 Yeah. 00:05:31.760 --> 00:05:34.700 So we had friends that asked to come to their house. 00:05:34.700 --> 00:05:39.530 So we had a group of us that went to their house and we had a good New 00:05:39.530 --> 00:05:41.770 Year's Eve at their house and we did, 00:05:42.490 --> 00:05:44.140 Russ: yeah, it was, it was spicy vanilla, I guess. 00:05:44.140 --> 00:05:46.750 Yeah, because there wasn't, it wasn't real spicy. 00:05:46.875 --> 00:05:50.830 It was, it was really good to reconnect low key with people we haven't seen in 00:05:50.830 --> 00:05:54.460 a long time and we love them so hard. 00:05:54.460 --> 00:05:54.520 Yeah. 00:05:55.060 --> 00:05:55.390 Ashley: And then, 00:05:55.390 --> 00:05:55.630 Russ: but. 00:05:56.010 --> 00:06:01.050 You know, again, they also have their own lives and stuff going on, 00:06:01.050 --> 00:06:04.620 so we just don't have a chance to connect with them as much as we could. 00:06:05.370 --> 00:06:09.450 So we got to go to their house and spend time with them. 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:14.890 And then we had friends come over so we had a little group over there for New 00:06:14.890 --> 00:06:22.470 Year's Eve, and then after New Year's Eve, we went to the Greenville, South Carolina. 00:06:22.710 --> 00:06:22.950 Ashley: Yeah. 00:06:23.260 --> 00:06:25.090 Russ: That was your birth, your birthday weekend? 00:06:25.095 --> 00:06:26.225 Ashley: Yeah, before my birthday. 00:06:26.225 --> 00:06:26.465 Yeah. 00:06:26.650 --> 00:06:27.040 Russ: Yeah. 00:06:27.460 --> 00:06:32.345 And we went through a whole, that'll 00:06:32.345 --> 00:06:33.520 Ashley: definitely be a whole episode. 00:06:33.520 --> 00:06:35.920 I'm sure you've seen the videos on TikTok. 00:06:35.950 --> 00:06:37.360 We did our little reality show. 00:06:37.360 --> 00:06:39.220 It was something that we've never experienced before. 00:06:39.220 --> 00:06:42.295 It was different than anything we've ever seen. 00:06:42.295 --> 00:06:46.525 So we will sit down and talk about that experience way more 00:06:46.525 --> 00:06:48.005 in depth later on the season. 00:06:48.005 --> 00:06:48.455 But 00:06:48.460 --> 00:06:49.330 Russ: it was different, but 00:06:49.460 --> 00:06:50.219 Ashley: it was wild. 00:06:50.219 --> 00:06:50.639 I didn't hate it. 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:51.485 It was so much fun. 00:06:51.485 --> 00:06:55.175 And we were just talking about we need to go back so bad. 00:06:55.475 --> 00:06:55.625 Russ: Yeah. 00:06:55.625 --> 00:06:57.005 We were just talking literally. 00:06:57.095 --> 00:06:59.585 Literally just talking about how, man, we need to get with them. 00:06:59.640 --> 00:07:01.080 That was such a good group of people. 00:07:01.085 --> 00:07:01.315 Ashley: Yeah. 00:07:01.680 --> 00:07:01.920 Yeah. 00:07:02.010 --> 00:07:03.510 Russ: And yeah, 00:07:03.510 --> 00:07:05.460 Ashley: we did that and then we went to 00:07:07.455 --> 00:07:08.565 Rumors Atlanta. 00:07:08.565 --> 00:07:10.475 I went to my first dungeon in Atlanta. 00:07:10.500 --> 00:07:10.780 Yeah. 00:07:10.780 --> 00:07:11.045 You went that one 00:07:11.045 --> 00:07:11.585 Russ: solo. 00:07:11.645 --> 00:07:13.175 Ashley: Yeah, I went to that by myself. 00:07:13.175 --> 00:07:13.955 Well, with the Lee. 00:07:14.135 --> 00:07:21.925 I went with our friends and did that, and then we went to Pads St. Patty Day party. 00:07:22.375 --> 00:07:24.145 We did that for your birthday weekend. 00:07:24.145 --> 00:07:24.235 Yep. 00:07:24.295 --> 00:07:29.265 And they had the Friday, the 13th, Friday party on Friday, and then they 00:07:29.265 --> 00:07:30.375 made it a whole weekend this time. 00:07:30.375 --> 00:07:34.005 So we did St. Patty's Day on Saturday and it was a whole weekend thing. 00:07:34.035 --> 00:07:39.555 And then, yeah, we've done a lot of Trapeze nights because we now hosts every 00:07:39.555 --> 00:07:46.005 third Friday, so we started a thing with Anything But Vanilla every third Friday. 00:07:46.455 --> 00:07:47.965 Come experience Trapeze. 00:07:47.965 --> 00:07:49.665 If you've never experienced Trapeze. 00:07:49.695 --> 00:07:51.885 If you have always wanted to try Trapeze. 00:07:52.695 --> 00:07:54.435 Come check it out any third Friday. 00:07:54.435 --> 00:07:56.235 That's been our main focus. 00:07:56.235 --> 00:07:56.295 Yeah. 00:07:56.295 --> 00:07:57.135 Has been that. 00:07:57.135 --> 00:07:57.195 We 00:07:57.195 --> 00:07:58.605 Russ: coined it Fresh Fridays. 00:07:58.605 --> 00:07:59.445 Ashley: Fresh Fridays. 00:07:59.685 --> 00:08:03.885 And it doesn't matter if you're new to Lifestyle, if you just wanna come tour 00:08:04.075 --> 00:08:05.295 Trapeze Atlanta with the lights on. 00:08:05.325 --> 00:08:05.625 Russ: Yeah. 00:08:05.700 --> 00:08:06.240 So it's 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:06.440 Ashley: for you. 00:08:06.915 --> 00:08:12.554 Russ: So we got with Trapeze, Trapeze has always included, if you go to the 00:08:12.554 --> 00:08:14.564 front desk like, can I get a tour? 00:08:14.744 --> 00:08:16.634 They've always been really accommodating with that. 00:08:17.729 --> 00:08:20.909 On the downside of those tours, it's almost like you're being 00:08:20.909 --> 00:08:25.489 paraded around, because everybody sees you getting a tour, right? 00:08:26.359 --> 00:08:31.159 We offer a before doors open, no one else is there but us. 00:08:31.249 --> 00:08:35.419 All the lights are on on, not all the beds are made, all the 00:08:35.889 --> 00:08:38.259 staff is still prepping for the night. 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:38.949 Ashley: Getting you checked in. 00:08:38.949 --> 00:08:39.159 Yeah. 00:08:39.819 --> 00:08:44.139 Russ: Like it's not glitz and glam, but we will give you the entire 00:08:44.139 --> 00:08:46.449 rundown of the club before they open. 00:08:46.449 --> 00:08:46.509 Yeah. 00:08:47.949 --> 00:08:52.369 And not inclusive to that. 00:08:52.939 --> 00:08:56.749 If you don't want to go on the tour, but you still wanna come to Trapeze and hang 00:08:56.749 --> 00:08:57.914 out with us, and party with us, the code 00:08:58.279 --> 00:09:03.139 Ashley: HCC or A BV will get you the biggest discount you'll ever get. 00:09:03.139 --> 00:09:03.769 Russ: Yes. 00:09:03.859 --> 00:09:04.099 At all. 00:09:04.099 --> 00:09:10.129 So if you tell the front desk you're with HCC or A BV, they 00:09:10.129 --> 00:09:14.239 will give you the discount that you're there with us and then. 00:09:15.124 --> 00:09:20.854 Just so visually we know they'll give you a special little pink bracelet so 00:09:20.854 --> 00:09:25.424 we can tell, if you don't tell us you're coming, we can see you're there with us 00:09:25.424 --> 00:09:28.304 and we can talk and introduce ourselves. 00:09:28.309 --> 00:09:28.469 Ashley: Yeah. 00:09:29.024 --> 00:09:29.324 Yeah. 00:09:29.414 --> 00:09:30.104 Russ: And 00:09:30.374 --> 00:09:31.574 Ashley: we have our own little theme. 00:09:31.574 --> 00:09:33.254 Just look out on our socials. 00:09:33.254 --> 00:09:33.764 We'll show you. 00:09:33.764 --> 00:09:33.824 Yeah. 00:09:33.974 --> 00:09:37.454 But yeah, you'll get to see the club when it's not intimidating, 00:09:37.454 --> 00:09:38.444 when the lights are on. 00:09:38.444 --> 00:09:40.994 We'll check you in before everyone else gets there. 00:09:40.994 --> 00:09:45.864 We'll make sure that you get through and you do your ID and all of that computer 00:09:45.864 --> 00:09:48.984 stuff, and then you get everything paid for and you'll get in and get a 00:09:48.984 --> 00:09:53.844 spot to go sit down and eat and hang out and do all of that beforehand. 00:09:53.844 --> 00:09:58.074 So Fresh Friday is like our main focus right now, and that's our biggest 00:09:58.134 --> 00:09:58.434 Russ: yeah 00:09:58.524 --> 00:09:58.944 Ashley: thing. 00:09:58.944 --> 00:10:00.354 We'll be there every third Friday. 00:10:00.964 --> 00:10:04.844 This next May is going to be leather and lace. 00:10:04.844 --> 00:10:04.904 Yeah. 00:10:04.934 --> 00:10:06.314 Which we are all excited about. 00:10:06.314 --> 00:10:08.834 We're trying to do it, we're really trying to make it themes 00:10:08.834 --> 00:10:10.814 that are very easy for newbies. 00:10:10.844 --> 00:10:13.664 So if you're new to this lifestyle and you're new to the club, you're 00:10:13.664 --> 00:10:17.534 new to experiencing this stuff, we're trying to make it very basic so it 00:10:17.754 --> 00:10:18.894 isn't, you don't have to work hard 00:10:18.944 --> 00:10:19.364 Russ: Yeah. 00:10:19.424 --> 00:10:19.904 Ashley: To dress up. 00:10:19.904 --> 00:10:19.964 We're 00:10:19.964 --> 00:10:22.929 Russ: trying to give every, because we're have a different theme every month. 00:10:23.059 --> 00:10:23.409 We're 00:10:23.409 --> 00:10:23.594 Ashley: trying to make 00:10:23.594 --> 00:10:23.889 Russ: it so easy. 00:10:23.889 --> 00:10:26.294 We're trying to make it simple enough where, yeah. 00:10:26.844 --> 00:10:30.384 You, chances are you have something that fits in your closet. 00:10:30.414 --> 00:10:30.564 Ashley: Yeah. 00:10:30.564 --> 00:10:34.794 You have something lace or leather, or you have something gold or pink. 00:10:34.794 --> 00:10:38.574 Like it's, we're trying to really break it down so it's very easy for you. 00:10:38.604 --> 00:10:40.524 We're trying to make it not too complicated. 00:10:40.524 --> 00:10:45.414 We do have requests coming from the peanut gallery of different themes that 00:10:45.414 --> 00:10:48.234 they want it to be, and I am excited. 00:10:48.474 --> 00:10:49.224 Russ: It's a little more, there's a little more intent. 00:10:49.224 --> 00:10:49.464 We do 00:10:49.464 --> 00:10:51.744 Ashley: have some, a little bit, but we really do try to like, we're 00:10:51.744 --> 00:10:54.354 trying to, even with those requests, we're trying to break it down to like. 00:10:54.544 --> 00:10:58.624 Make it the easiest for new people to come and find costumes, stuff that 00:10:58.624 --> 00:11:00.504 they already have in their closet. 00:11:00.504 --> 00:11:01.704 Stuff they can incorporate. 00:11:01.704 --> 00:11:04.494 Russ: Also, we're announcing on our website Yeah. 00:11:04.524 --> 00:11:06.594 The themes. 00:11:06.864 --> 00:11:07.044 Ashley: Yeah. 00:11:07.374 --> 00:11:08.604 Russ: A month ahead of them. 00:11:08.604 --> 00:11:08.814 Yeah. 00:11:08.814 --> 00:11:11.094 So you have, so decide, trying to give you some time you decide to come the next 00:11:11.094 --> 00:11:12.774 month, you have a whole month to plan. 00:11:12.774 --> 00:11:13.164 Order some 00:11:13.304 --> 00:11:13.664 Ashley: Shein. 00:11:13.884 --> 00:11:13.964 Yeah. 00:11:14.064 --> 00:11:14.844 Russ: For 00:11:14.854 --> 00:11:15.334 Ashley: Shein and 00:11:16.099 --> 00:11:16.469 Russ: Shein. 00:11:16.599 --> 00:11:17.469 Amazon mostly. 00:11:18.099 --> 00:11:18.579 Ashley: Fashion Nova. 00:11:18.654 --> 00:11:18.804 Russ: Yeah. 00:11:19.194 --> 00:11:19.374 Ashley: We've 00:11:19.374 --> 00:11:20.454 Russ: got, we're giving you some time. 00:11:20.454 --> 00:11:24.504 You have all the, you have a month to plan for the next, 00:11:24.834 --> 00:11:29.184 Ashley: but that, that in mind, if you have any themes that you're 00:11:29.184 --> 00:11:32.394 trying to see, let us know because we are trying to come up with, we 00:11:32.394 --> 00:11:32.694 Russ: are that 00:11:32.694 --> 00:11:32.754 Ashley: you 00:11:33.279 --> 00:11:34.299 Russ: guys open to suggestions. 00:11:34.649 --> 00:11:35.459 No, everybody 00:11:35.844 --> 00:11:38.004 Ashley: thinks of, we have some requests for masquerade. 00:11:38.004 --> 00:11:39.114 A lot of people want masks. 00:11:39.114 --> 00:11:41.274 They have, we have a lot of people that want Renaissance. 00:11:41.304 --> 00:11:44.004 'cause there's Renaissance fairs, so everybody's like really down with the 00:11:44.004 --> 00:11:46.724 Vikings or the Renaissance themes or 00:11:46.944 --> 00:11:47.244 Russ: pretty 00:11:47.894 --> 00:11:48.544 Ashley: Brigerton 00:11:48.684 --> 00:11:49.744 We've had a lot of people request Bridgerton. 00:11:49.894 --> 00:11:50.864 Bridgerton. 00:11:50.934 --> 00:11:52.709 Russ: I think would be so much fun. 00:11:53.094 --> 00:11:57.184 Ashley: So if you want a theme, just let us know and we can make that happen. 00:11:57.184 --> 00:11:59.044 Any third Friday at Trapeze Atlanta. 00:11:59.044 --> 00:12:03.454 We're really trying to focus, that's most, most of our mission has always 00:12:03.454 --> 00:12:06.964 been on the newbies and the people that are joining the lifestyle, and we've 00:12:06.964 --> 00:12:09.724 always really felt led towards that. 00:12:09.724 --> 00:12:09.784 Yeah. 00:12:09.784 --> 00:12:13.244 And people that are un unsure, people that are trying, people that are exploring, 00:12:13.424 --> 00:12:19.904 experimenting, exploring, and so we really feel pulled towards this Fresh Friday 00:12:20.054 --> 00:12:24.854 event that we do every third Friday, and that's where most of our main focus is. 00:12:24.854 --> 00:12:29.084 On the podcast and Fresh Fridays, that's where everything's gonna be kind of on. 00:12:29.084 --> 00:12:32.924 Plus we're gonna be doing some stuff here and there. 00:12:33.014 --> 00:12:37.634 I've got a Nashville trip, a Secret trip possibly coming up in June. 00:12:37.684 --> 00:12:42.484 And then we'll be hosting with Eros and we'll be working with them for the 00:12:42.484 --> 00:12:44.224 end of August, last weekend of August. 00:12:44.224 --> 00:12:47.464 We'll be at the Ramsey in Pigeon Forge. 00:12:47.524 --> 00:12:48.034 Russ: Yeah, 00:12:48.154 --> 00:12:51.124 Ashley: everyone loves that hotel, loves that space. 00:12:51.124 --> 00:12:51.244 That's 00:12:51.244 --> 00:12:56.089 Russ: actually the perfect time in that area because you start getting the fall 00:12:56.089 --> 00:13:01.999 colors, it's not too cold and you can still go down Gatlinburg, like the streets 00:13:01.999 --> 00:13:08.329 of Gatlinburg with your friends and do all the tastings and whatnot and the shopping. 00:13:08.334 --> 00:13:08.404 It's 00:13:08.404 --> 00:13:08.644 Ashley: be fun. 00:13:08.714 --> 00:13:09.004 Yeah, 00:13:09.319 --> 00:13:09.649 Russ: it's a, 00:13:09.649 --> 00:13:10.009 Ashley: everyone 00:13:10.009 --> 00:13:10.589 Russ: loves good time of year. 00:13:10.679 --> 00:13:10.909 Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg 00:13:11.689 --> 00:13:12.109 Ashley: area. 00:13:12.499 --> 00:13:12.679 Yeah. 00:13:12.709 --> 00:13:13.969 Russ: Great hotel. 00:13:14.424 --> 00:13:15.744 Ashley: Yeah, we all know the Ramseys. 00:13:15.744 --> 00:13:16.974 It is a good, it's a good, 00:13:17.059 --> 00:13:17.349 Russ: yeah, 00:13:17.634 --> 00:13:18.384 Ashley: it's a good space. 00:13:18.384 --> 00:13:19.104 It's a good venue. 00:13:19.494 --> 00:13:20.304 So we're doing that. 00:13:20.304 --> 00:13:23.844 And then who knows what else we might have up our sleeves. 00:13:23.844 --> 00:13:25.584 We're hoping for some Secret trips. 00:13:25.584 --> 00:13:25.669 Also have some. 00:13:26.554 --> 00:13:28.444 We have some events where we will let you know. 00:13:28.444 --> 00:13:33.244 You'll be the first one to know, but we have a lot of stuff gearing up for 2026. 00:13:33.334 --> 00:13:36.124 We are still figuring it all out. 00:13:36.154 --> 00:13:36.274 Yeah. 00:13:36.274 --> 00:13:37.534 Navigating that and 00:13:37.684 --> 00:13:40.414 Russ: I mean, be fair, we've only had two fresh Fridays. 00:13:40.474 --> 00:13:40.774 Ashley: Yeah. 00:13:41.244 --> 00:13:41.854 Only our second. 00:13:41.854 --> 00:13:43.264 It's getting bigger Next May. 00:13:43.264 --> 00:13:46.534 Russ: I mean, just last week we had our second one, which was, 00:13:46.564 --> 00:13:46.744 Ashley: yeah. 00:13:46.894 --> 00:13:49.264 We're gonna start, we're we're starting to talk. 00:13:49.264 --> 00:13:53.344 We're in talks of doing some Saturday events and making it a 00:13:53.344 --> 00:13:54.994 whole weekend, fresh Friday thing. 00:13:54.994 --> 00:13:55.234 Yeah. 00:13:55.234 --> 00:13:58.634 And we have some, we have a lot of plans in the future. 00:13:58.704 --> 00:13:58.994 Yeah. 00:13:58.994 --> 00:14:00.699 In the future of making it bigger and 00:14:00.699 --> 00:14:04.269 Russ: if we get enough people coming with us to Trapeze, we're 00:14:04.269 --> 00:14:06.519 talking about maybe hotel discounts. 00:14:06.579 --> 00:14:06.699 Ashley: Yeah. 00:14:06.699 --> 00:14:08.439 We're talking about talking to the hotel and Yeah. 00:14:08.439 --> 00:14:12.009 Seeing if we can get blocks and you know, the more people that show up, the more 00:14:12.009 --> 00:14:15.079 people that support it, the more people that are there a little more, it's going 00:14:15.079 --> 00:14:16.279 to be bigger and bigger and bigger. 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:18.589 So come out, come hang with us. 00:14:18.594 --> 00:14:18.784 Come. 00:14:19.434 --> 00:14:19.614 Come hang. 00:14:19.754 --> 00:14:25.694 We have, we just got home from, we just went to Swingchella at Trapeze. 00:14:25.824 --> 00:14:25.914 Oh yeah. 00:14:25.914 --> 00:14:27.264 We just did a fresh Friday. 00:14:27.324 --> 00:14:29.784 It's just this Friday was Fresh Friday. 00:14:30.234 --> 00:14:32.094 Russ: We weren't planning on going, actually 00:14:32.094 --> 00:14:33.564 Ashley: We're gonna do Fresh Friday and drive home. 00:14:33.564 --> 00:14:34.584 That was the plan. 00:14:34.584 --> 00:14:37.654 And Swingchella is Trapeze's number one event of the year. 00:14:37.654 --> 00:14:39.844 That's one of their biggest advertised weekends. 00:14:39.849 --> 00:14:44.524 So we went to our Fresh Friday, had a great turnout, wonderful night. 00:14:44.584 --> 00:14:48.664 And then we ended up extending it and going to Swingchella and 00:14:48.664 --> 00:14:50.764 experiencing that, and it was. 00:14:50.994 --> 00:14:52.239 It was fun. 00:14:52.239 --> 00:14:52.434 It was fun. 00:14:52.554 --> 00:14:55.944 We saw so many, so many faces, so many people were there. 00:14:56.004 --> 00:14:56.484 And 00:14:56.724 --> 00:14:58.524 Russ: yeah, it was, I saw 00:14:58.584 --> 00:14:59.544 Ashley: it started out slow 00:14:59.544 --> 00:14:59.904 Russ: faces that 00:14:59.904 --> 00:15:00.024 Ashley: next. 00:15:00.024 --> 00:15:02.844 It really started out, it started out slow and every single person, 00:15:02.844 --> 00:15:04.344 including everyone who was 00:15:04.434 --> 00:15:04.794 Russ: yeah, 00:15:04.824 --> 00:15:05.994 Ashley: owned and 00:15:05.994 --> 00:15:06.384 Russ: charge of 00:15:06.544 --> 00:15:07.464 Ashley: Trapeze, was worried. 00:15:07.554 --> 00:15:08.679 Russ: I'd say 11 o'clock. 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:09.504 11 o'clock. 00:15:09.504 --> 00:15:11.694 Ashley: It was 11 o'clock when everyone was, 00:15:11.754 --> 00:15:12.504 Russ: and. 00:15:12.569 --> 00:15:13.199 Ashley: Relieved 00:15:13.439 --> 00:15:18.389 Russ: because you, in the past like big events, you showed up early, was a line. 00:15:18.389 --> 00:15:20.099 To make sure you could make sure you got in. 00:15:20.189 --> 00:15:21.509 Ashley: It was a line to walk in the door 00:15:21.659 --> 00:15:24.119 Russ: and yeah. 00:15:24.119 --> 00:15:28.589 This past Saturday it was like we walked, right, like when we pulled up, it's like 00:15:28.889 --> 00:15:29.909 Ashley: at eight 30. 00:15:30.149 --> 00:15:30.329 Yeah. 00:15:30.359 --> 00:15:31.799 Russ: Not very many cars. 00:15:32.369 --> 00:15:32.399 Ashley: Oh. 00:15:32.579 --> 00:15:36.329 Russ: And then there, there obviously was no line 'cause there weren't many cars. 00:15:36.329 --> 00:15:41.814 We walked right in and we went in, ordered our food and then like we hung out. 00:15:42.699 --> 00:15:45.669 And we talked to a few people that we already knew. 00:15:46.359 --> 00:15:46.419 Ashley: Yeah. 00:15:46.899 --> 00:15:48.694 Russ: And no one, it was. 00:15:50.564 --> 00:15:51.554 It was dead. 00:15:51.614 --> 00:15:53.984 It wasn't dead, dead, but there were people there, but it 00:15:53.984 --> 00:15:56.624 wasn't as busy as it usually is. 00:15:57.224 --> 00:15:57.284 Yeah. 00:15:57.289 --> 00:15:59.474 And we're like, what the heck's going on? 00:15:59.474 --> 00:15:59.534 We 00:15:59.534 --> 00:16:02.474 Ashley: went in the office and everybody, like the owners and everybody. 00:16:02.534 --> 00:16:02.744 Yeah. 00:16:02.744 --> 00:16:03.404 Russ: We were like, 00:16:03.524 --> 00:16:07.904 Ashley: we're worried too and then 11 hit and everyone there was line in, there 00:16:07.904 --> 00:16:12.184 was, so many people came in, there was car after car after car, and 11:00 PM It hit, 00:16:12.229 --> 00:16:14.044 Russ: yeah, 11 o'clock I, it was packed. 00:16:14.359 --> 00:16:16.924 Stepped out front, packed and it was really packed. 00:16:17.399 --> 00:16:19.709 Line of cars out the parking lot. 00:16:20.069 --> 00:16:20.159 Yeah. 00:16:20.159 --> 00:16:21.209 Onto the street. 00:16:21.209 --> 00:16:25.139 And there was a line of people, I'm like, there everybody is. 00:16:25.274 --> 00:16:25.494 It 00:16:25.494 --> 00:16:25.954 Ashley: was 11:00 00:16:25.954 --> 00:16:26.294 Russ: PM 00:16:26.294 --> 00:16:26.654 Ashley: everybody 00:16:26.654 --> 00:16:26.974 Russ: came up. 00:16:27.034 --> 00:16:27.494 Oh, okay. 00:16:27.994 --> 00:16:31.709 And it, that, that kept going till about one o'clock in the 00:16:31.709 --> 00:16:35.669 morning, like by 12 30, 1 o'clock. 00:16:35.699 --> 00:16:38.859 It was so busy in there. 00:16:38.919 --> 00:16:39.099 Ashley: Yeah, 00:16:39.309 --> 00:16:39.549 Russ: it was good. 00:16:39.549 --> 00:16:42.999 I'm like, there's everybody that sound, this is the crowd I was expecting. 00:16:44.259 --> 00:16:44.949 Ashley: It was a good night. 00:16:44.949 --> 00:16:45.909 It was a good weekend. 00:16:45.999 --> 00:16:47.049 They had a lot of people. 00:16:47.559 --> 00:16:50.339 We are just always supporting Trapeze. 00:16:50.339 --> 00:16:52.659 Trapeze has, that's our journey. 00:16:52.659 --> 00:16:54.429 That's our be, that's how we began. 00:16:54.429 --> 00:16:56.939 So we will always support Dennis and 00:16:57.579 --> 00:16:57.919 Russ: Trapeze 00:16:58.084 --> 00:16:59.104 Ashley: and they will always 00:16:59.364 --> 00:17:03.309 Russ: be, we have, definitely have a nostalgic attachment to Trapeze for sure. 00:17:03.309 --> 00:17:03.519 It's the 00:17:03.519 --> 00:17:03.819 Ashley: best of 00:17:03.819 --> 00:17:04.119 Russ: the game. 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:05.499 It is like best in the game. 00:17:05.499 --> 00:17:10.294 Multiple clubs around the country, and that is Trapeze Atlanta. 00:17:10.844 --> 00:17:15.864 The only thing I'll put up to par to Trapeze Atlanta would 00:17:15.874 --> 00:17:17.534 be Colette in New Orleans. 00:17:17.539 --> 00:17:17.759 Yeah. 00:17:17.809 --> 00:17:17.869 Ashley: Yeah. 00:17:17.869 --> 00:17:19.789 We love Colette too, but we love all of you. 00:17:19.789 --> 00:17:20.659 We love everybody. 00:17:20.659 --> 00:17:23.569 But Trapeze Atlanta always have a special place in our heart 00:17:23.569 --> 00:17:24.709 because that's where we began. 00:17:24.709 --> 00:17:24.799 Yes. 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:25.699 That's where we go. 00:17:25.699 --> 00:17:29.239 That's where our date night place, that's where our, we host for every 00:17:29.239 --> 00:17:32.334 third, like Trapeze atlanta will always have a special place in our heart 00:17:32.334 --> 00:17:34.674 and we'll always be here for them. 00:17:34.824 --> 00:17:35.214 But yeah, 00:17:35.214 --> 00:17:35.544 Russ: and you 00:17:35.544 --> 00:17:35.604 Ashley: know, 00:17:36.144 --> 00:17:36.594 Russ: we'll show up. 00:17:36.654 --> 00:17:38.514 We might show up, get a wild hair and show up on a, 00:17:38.844 --> 00:17:39.469 Ashley: we have been doing that 00:17:39.619 --> 00:17:40.189 Russ: more often. 00:17:40.459 --> 00:17:41.814 Ashley: Yeah, we've been doing that more often. 00:17:41.814 --> 00:17:44.304 We've been doing a lot more of that in the meantime. 00:17:44.304 --> 00:17:47.484 But we have so many things coming. 00:17:47.544 --> 00:17:48.774 It's gonna be a great year. 00:17:48.779 --> 00:17:50.694 We're gonna have a great year. 00:17:50.694 --> 00:17:51.384 I know. 00:17:52.154 --> 00:17:55.894 And on the one side of my mind, I'm like, it's time to take a breath. 00:17:55.924 --> 00:17:58.204 But then the other half, there's 00:17:59.254 --> 00:18:01.024 so many plans, so many 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when we plan farther out, I might be able to move it 00:19:39.306 --> 00:19:42.156 to a Friday, Saturday type situation. 00:19:42.206 --> 00:19:43.586 We plan on 00:19:45.596 --> 00:19:51.206 mixing in like a meet and greet brunch bar crawl type deal on a Saturday possibly. 00:19:51.866 --> 00:19:56.216 We're still in the kind of very beginning stages of that, so we're not sure a 00:19:56.216 --> 00:20:01.936 hundred percent on that one, but as more people are interested in coming to 00:20:01.936 --> 00:20:08.666 hangout Friday, that opens up a whole new game of possibilities to, spend 00:20:08.666 --> 00:20:10.466 more time with some pineapple people. 00:20:11.396 --> 00:20:11.906 Ashley: That's the goal. 00:20:12.266 --> 00:20:13.406 Russ: Yeah, that's the goal. 00:20:14.296 --> 00:20:19.916 All that being said, we touched on a few things that we did on our sabbatical, 00:20:20.336 --> 00:20:24.451 we talked about plans for the future. 00:20:26.911 --> 00:20:29.251 What's really changed is our 00:20:30.421 --> 00:20:30.991 Ashley: selves. 00:20:31.081 --> 00:20:33.781 Russ: Selves, yeah, yeah. 00:20:33.886 --> 00:20:34.496 Ashley: Ourselves. 00:20:34.501 --> 00:20:34.621 Russ: Yeah. 00:20:34.621 --> 00:20:36.541 Our just overall 00:20:36.781 --> 00:20:37.351 Ashley: selves. 00:20:39.101 --> 00:20:43.506 Russ: How we are seeing things, how we, we don't. 00:20:44.456 --> 00:20:46.916 Hold our tongues as much as we used to. 00:20:46.916 --> 00:20:49.046 We don't hold back. 00:20:49.046 --> 00:20:54.356 We used to be more, you know, angsty. 00:20:54.986 --> 00:20:56.341 Yeah, we're a little more angsty. 00:20:56.816 --> 00:20:57.176 Angsty. 00:20:57.176 --> 00:20:57.956 That's a good word. 00:20:58.556 --> 00:20:59.396 We got some more angst. 00:21:01.286 --> 00:21:05.381 I mean, for a long time, since we've been in this space, we've always 00:21:05.381 --> 00:21:06.656 been a hundred percent honest. 00:21:06.896 --> 00:21:06.926 Oh. 00:21:07.616 --> 00:21:09.146 But we are very, uh. 00:21:10.481 --> 00:21:15.401 Uh, I would say particular about our adjectives. 00:21:15.401 --> 00:21:15.461 Ashley: Yeah. 00:21:16.241 --> 00:21:17.921 Careful with our words. 00:21:17.951 --> 00:21:18.401 Russ: Yeah. 00:21:18.401 --> 00:21:19.526 Ashley: Yeah, yeah. 00:21:20.321 --> 00:21:20.681 Russ: And 00:21:20.681 --> 00:21:21.971 Ashley: we don't wanna step on toes 00:21:21.971 --> 00:21:22.726 Russ: or make it all uncomfortable. 00:21:22.726 --> 00:21:22.806 Yeah. 00:21:22.806 --> 00:21:28.931 You're afraid to step on toes or make somebody mad or, and I get it, 00:21:29.711 --> 00:21:32.171 Ashley: but that's why we have a podcast also. 00:21:32.621 --> 00:21:32.831 Russ: Yeah. 00:21:32.831 --> 00:21:35.741 Also, that's why we have a podcast so we can kind 00:21:35.741 --> 00:21:35.886 Ashley: of finally. 00:21:36.701 --> 00:21:40.901 Say how we feel about things and talk about things that 00:21:40.901 --> 00:21:41.981 most people won't talk about. 00:21:42.716 --> 00:21:42.986 Russ: Yeah. 00:21:42.986 --> 00:21:46.136 Ashley: And are afraid to talk about, and that's why people listen 00:21:46.136 --> 00:21:49.496 to the podcast and we've gotten told that a million times is that 00:21:49.496 --> 00:21:51.266 people appreciate that we are real. 00:21:51.266 --> 00:21:52.256 We're real people. 00:21:52.676 --> 00:21:54.656 'cause we are, we are just normal. 00:21:54.686 --> 00:21:56.021 We're you, we're regular. 00:21:56.091 --> 00:21:56.381 Yeah. 00:21:56.381 --> 00:21:56.621 I mean, 00:21:56.621 --> 00:21:56.941 Russ: I don't know how 00:21:56.941 --> 00:21:57.101 Ashley: many times 00:21:57.751 --> 00:22:01.061 Russ: heard, oh, you're people, like actually the same people. 00:22:02.126 --> 00:22:05.216 Ashley: I hear that at least every single time I talk to anyone in this 00:22:05.216 --> 00:22:07.616 space is that, oh, you're the same. 00:22:07.661 --> 00:22:12.041 People that you are online, and that's exactly who we are, who we always will 00:22:12.041 --> 00:22:15.251 be, who we strive to be before anything. 00:22:15.401 --> 00:22:18.911 Russ: Yeah, we've always said we're always going to be us. 00:22:18.941 --> 00:22:19.451 Ashley: We're not. 00:22:19.511 --> 00:22:20.801 We don't pick sides. 00:22:20.801 --> 00:22:22.031 We don't do drama. 00:22:22.031 --> 00:22:24.881 We don't get into all of the drama the, 00:22:24.971 --> 00:22:26.471 Russ: as much as they try, 00:22:26.471 --> 00:22:27.671 Ashley: as much as they try. 00:22:27.671 --> 00:22:32.231 We have skirt ski skated around everything that has happened. 00:22:32.291 --> 00:22:32.321 I 00:22:32.321 --> 00:22:32.771 Russ: mean, there's, 00:22:32.776 --> 00:22:33.551 Ashley: for the last five years, 00:22:33.551 --> 00:22:35.351 Russ: there's the people that have tried, 00:22:35.561 --> 00:22:38.236 Ashley: people still trying to bring, still trying to, to 00:22:38.241 --> 00:22:39.851 bring us into that space and 00:22:39.881 --> 00:22:40.991 Russ: we refuse to 00:22:41.041 --> 00:22:42.271 involve ourself into 00:22:42.276 --> 00:22:42.366 Ashley: that. 00:22:42.366 --> 00:22:43.231 It's not that serious. 00:22:43.231 --> 00:22:44.611 Don't make it weird. 00:22:44.611 --> 00:22:48.091 People be making it weird and people making it so serious. 00:22:48.091 --> 00:22:52.861 And that's been the theme lately, has been not so much, it's not that serious. 00:22:52.861 --> 00:22:56.461 Don't make it weird, but more of everyone's making it so serious 00:22:56.461 --> 00:22:58.771 and so weird all the time. 00:22:58.771 --> 00:22:58.891 Yeah. 00:22:59.641 --> 00:23:03.991 And we've n navigated divorces, marriages crazy. 00:23:04.561 --> 00:23:05.971 Just wild. 00:23:06.811 --> 00:23:07.351 I mean. 00:23:07.446 --> 00:23:11.916 Well, it's a lot of what we do is pretty, you know, scary. 00:23:11.916 --> 00:23:13.056 There's a lot of stuff involved. 00:23:13.056 --> 00:23:17.736 Russ: Well, I think so when we started talking about this, we talked about how 00:23:17.826 --> 00:23:21.396 it would make or break relationships, 00:23:22.086 --> 00:23:22.686 Ashley: but we didn't really, 00:23:22.691 --> 00:23:23.421 Russ: know, know 00:23:23.471 --> 00:23:23.691 Ashley: yet. 00:23:24.126 --> 00:23:27.756 Russ: Now we're seeing the relationships 00:23:27.931 --> 00:23:28.051 Ashley: breaking, 00:23:28.326 --> 00:23:31.506 Russ: breaking that didn't do the work. 00:23:32.316 --> 00:23:34.571 Ashley: The stuff we used to talk about and the things we knew. 00:23:35.336 --> 00:23:38.066 But didn't actually experience or see as as much. 00:23:38.066 --> 00:23:40.406 And now we're experiencing and seeing everything we've said, 00:23:40.406 --> 00:23:43.376 and we're watching that journey. 00:23:43.406 --> 00:23:46.886 People's journeys, and I know we say journey a lot, but it 00:23:46.886 --> 00:23:48.416 really is, it's a journey. 00:23:48.416 --> 00:23:50.131 It's a ride of, I think 00:23:50.131 --> 00:23:53.096 Russ: part of it too is a little bit of a grief. 00:23:53.661 --> 00:23:54.756 Ashley: Yeah, more our, 00:23:54.761 --> 00:24:02.121 Russ: our part because we connected with these people and now those people 00:24:02.151 --> 00:24:05.331 are going through this whole thing. 00:24:05.721 --> 00:24:07.911 They're changing their whole identities. 00:24:07.911 --> 00:24:10.921 They're separating themselves from everyone. 00:24:10.921 --> 00:24:11.221 So. 00:24:11.451 --> 00:24:14.931 We also have to grieve a loss on top of 00:24:14.991 --> 00:24:16.281 Ashley: a lot of picking sides. 00:24:16.311 --> 00:24:16.611 Russ: Yeah. 00:24:16.611 --> 00:24:17.091 Ashley: Supposed 00:24:17.091 --> 00:24:19.371 Russ: to picking sides we're supposed to be picking sides. 00:24:19.371 --> 00:24:21.711 It's like, no, I just want you both to be happy. 00:24:21.711 --> 00:24:22.581 A lot of navigating 00:24:22.581 --> 00:24:22.821 Ashley: that. 00:24:22.971 --> 00:24:23.151 Yeah. 00:24:23.361 --> 00:24:26.871 Russ: And then people getting mad at us for not picking a side 00:24:26.871 --> 00:24:30.621 and it's people, be people and 00:24:30.741 --> 00:24:34.971 Ashley: we're, we've been doing a lot of work just recentering it around it's an us 00:24:34.971 --> 00:24:39.741 thing and this is what we do and this is a thing that we do together, we navigate 00:24:39.741 --> 00:24:41.391 together that we love to do together. 00:24:41.841 --> 00:24:44.391 And it got confusing there for a little while and it got a little 00:24:44.391 --> 00:24:49.371 messy and it got a little bit, it intense for a minute and there was a 00:24:49.371 --> 00:24:55.136 lot of weird things happening in this space and a lot of input and stuff. 00:24:55.626 --> 00:24:59.136 Bringing it back to center and bringing it back to why are we 00:24:59.136 --> 00:25:01.566 here, what are we doing, what. 00:25:02.641 --> 00:25:04.231 Why are we even doing this? 00:25:04.321 --> 00:25:07.141 And I think that's what we've really been trying to figure out for the last 00:25:07.141 --> 00:25:12.451 few months, is just if we want to, and why we want to do, continue to do this. 00:25:13.901 --> 00:25:16.361 Russ: I think why we keep doing this is 00:25:18.626 --> 00:25:24.176 the people we've met in the last, like literally we were there at 00:25:24.176 --> 00:25:25.736 Trapeze Saturday, not our event. 00:25:25.851 --> 00:25:26.141 Yeah, 00:25:26.726 --> 00:25:26.876 Ashley: yeah. 00:25:27.811 --> 00:25:29.036 Russ: Tell, so day after our event. 00:25:29.126 --> 00:25:29.516 Ashley: Yeah. 00:25:29.636 --> 00:25:30.956 Russ: It was, we literally. 00:25:31.166 --> 00:25:35.876 It had so many people saying, oh my God, 00:25:36.626 --> 00:25:37.451 Ashley: I love your podcasts. 00:25:37.646 --> 00:25:39.531 I just start, started listening to your podcast. 00:25:39.926 --> 00:25:41.426 I just started listening to you. 00:25:41.426 --> 00:25:42.716 I just found your account. 00:25:43.436 --> 00:25:45.056 I follow you on Instagram. 00:25:45.176 --> 00:25:47.366 I had someone while I was doing the wobble, while I was doing the 00:25:47.366 --> 00:25:49.221 wobble come up to me and said, I follow you on I Instagram. 00:25:49.766 --> 00:25:50.216 Oh my God. 00:25:50.786 --> 00:25:50.936 Yeah. 00:25:50.936 --> 00:25:56.096 And yeah, I had quite a few moments on Saturday and it keeps me going. 00:25:56.151 --> 00:25:57.591 Russ: I think it's those people should 00:25:57.591 --> 00:25:59.301 Ashley: go and it reminds you, 00:26:01.191 --> 00:26:03.351 Russ: it's a sense of responsibility 00:26:05.691 --> 00:26:11.691 and to, you know, I, I guess 00:26:14.241 --> 00:26:17.241 tell our truth, right? 00:26:17.871 --> 00:26:18.531 It's, 00:26:18.591 --> 00:26:22.311 Ashley: we keep getting told how much they can relate to us because we're 00:26:22.311 --> 00:26:26.301 normal and everyone says all the time, you're so normal, you're so regular. 00:26:26.841 --> 00:26:27.891 You're just like us. 00:26:28.611 --> 00:26:32.001 And I do think we do have this responsibility to maintain a voice of, 00:26:32.001 --> 00:26:34.521 for people that are regular, because 00:26:34.521 --> 00:26:37.041 Russ: we are regular, neither either one of us has really 00:26:37.041 --> 00:26:38.991 met a stranger in our life. 00:26:39.951 --> 00:26:43.511 We treat everybody like they're our best friends and. 00:26:44.306 --> 00:26:45.836 Ashley: Yeah, we get it. 00:26:45.841 --> 00:26:52.136 We don't, it would take a lot to really like, it takes a lot to make us not. 00:26:53.266 --> 00:26:53.686 Not. 00:26:53.716 --> 00:26:54.226 Just not, 00:26:54.346 --> 00:26:54.646 Russ: yeah. 00:26:54.746 --> 00:26:58.526 Ashley: A lot like we lowest lows, that's usually how we connect with our 00:26:58.526 --> 00:27:00.596 closest people is at their lowest lows. 00:27:00.601 --> 00:27:00.961 Russ: Oh yeah. 00:27:01.166 --> 00:27:04.166 Ashley: And that's usually how we, you know, we joke, it's funny. 00:27:04.166 --> 00:27:04.586 Ha ha. 00:27:04.586 --> 00:27:06.026 But like, that's true. 00:27:06.206 --> 00:27:08.306 That's usually how we connect with a lot of our closest 00:27:08.306 --> 00:27:10.286 friends, is their lowest of lows. 00:27:11.246 --> 00:27:13.916 And, you know, We don't judge, we, everything's safe here. 00:27:13.921 --> 00:27:15.296 We have a, we hold a lot of secrets. 00:27:15.296 --> 00:27:18.146 We have a lot of secrets of secret and we hold a lot of people's truth. 00:27:18.146 --> 00:27:21.266 And you just kind of navigate and you try to be the voice for people, 00:27:21.266 --> 00:27:24.086 and you just try to keep this fire burning, keep this ship going. 00:27:24.326 --> 00:27:28.016 You just keep, we're trying, you guys. 00:27:28.046 --> 00:27:30.896 We're trying to, we're trying to do the right thing. 00:27:30.896 --> 00:27:32.306 We're trying to continue talking. 00:27:32.306 --> 00:27:32.606 Long story 00:27:32.606 --> 00:27:34.241 Russ: short, short, this is gonna be a season of truth. 00:27:34.646 --> 00:27:36.656 And honest opinions. 00:27:36.656 --> 00:27:37.736 Ashley: Gonna piss a lot of people off. 00:27:37.736 --> 00:27:37.856 It's 00:27:37.856 --> 00:27:39.731 Russ: gonna maybe piss some people off, 00:27:39.801 --> 00:27:41.096 Ashley: make people uncomfortable. 00:27:41.246 --> 00:27:42.656 You're gonna be uncomfortable probably. 00:27:42.686 --> 00:27:43.616 Russ: But we've said from, 00:27:43.616 --> 00:27:46.166 Ashley: we want you to be uncomfortable because 00:27:46.166 --> 00:27:48.686 Russ: get comfortable being uncomfortable. 00:27:48.686 --> 00:27:50.576 Ashley: And this space needs to be uncomfortable. 00:27:50.576 --> 00:27:52.346 I think that it's time to shake things up. 00:27:52.346 --> 00:27:54.266 I think it's time to talk about things no one talks about. 00:27:54.266 --> 00:27:57.896 I think it's time to be uncomfortable and I think it's time to call out bullshit. 00:27:57.896 --> 00:28:00.716 I think it's time to talk about the stuff we're not supposed to talk about. 00:28:00.716 --> 00:28:05.996 Russ: So here's my hot take is I think the last time this space felt 00:28:05.996 --> 00:28:09.801 uncomfortable is in the timeframe where we came into the scene. 00:28:10.521 --> 00:28:10.611 Ashley: Yeah. 00:28:11.361 --> 00:28:15.561 Russ: Like we found the lifestyle. 00:28:15.841 --> 00:28:18.661 Shortly after that is when we got on social media and 00:28:18.661 --> 00:28:20.011 started to go in that route. 00:28:21.511 --> 00:28:24.991 And like we just, it was by accident, but we just kind of 00:28:24.991 --> 00:28:26.911 owned it and just kept on with it. 00:28:27.691 --> 00:28:33.631 And we saw the lifestyle OGs become uncomfortable, that we 00:28:33.631 --> 00:28:37.896 were public about the lifestyle. 00:28:37.896 --> 00:28:37.956 We're 00:28:37.956 --> 00:28:38.826 Ashley: supposed to be secret, 00:28:38.946 --> 00:28:39.521 Russ: supposed to not talk 00:28:39.521 --> 00:28:39.681 Ashley: about. 00:28:39.681 --> 00:28:39.881 It was, 00:28:39.881 --> 00:28:40.866 Russ: it was supposed to be a secret thing. 00:28:40.866 --> 00:28:41.706 Ashley: Everything's a secret. 00:28:41.706 --> 00:28:42.636 We're supposed to be quiet. 00:28:42.636 --> 00:28:43.176 No one's supposed 00:28:43.176 --> 00:28:43.566 Russ: to talk. 00:28:43.571 --> 00:28:47.436 I think that was the last, last time the lifestyle as a whole became uncomfortable. 00:28:47.436 --> 00:28:47.616 Shifted. 00:28:47.766 --> 00:28:50.496 Yeah, and look at the growth that we've seen in it. 00:28:50.916 --> 00:28:56.746 So when the community becomes uncomfortable, that's not 00:28:56.746 --> 00:28:58.036 necessarily a bad sign. 00:28:58.051 --> 00:28:58.341 Ashley: Yeah, 00:28:59.506 --> 00:28:59.566 Russ: yeah. 00:28:59.566 --> 00:28:59.686 Be 00:28:59.686 --> 00:29:01.066 Ashley: comfortable means be uncomfortable. 00:29:01.216 --> 00:29:06.646 Russ: Everybody has to kind of readjust and acclimate to 00:29:06.706 --> 00:29:10.126 a new, you know, environment. 00:29:10.606 --> 00:29:10.696 Ashley: Yes. 00:29:10.846 --> 00:29:16.246 Russ: And in this last round I saw a lot of acceptance. 00:29:16.536 --> 00:29:23.286 Saw a lot of men growth and guys coming out with their sexuality, 00:29:23.336 --> 00:29:26.206 I saw a lot of women be more 00:29:27.301 --> 00:29:34.141 open and talk about their mental health and the 00:29:34.141 --> 00:29:35.266 Ashley: pressure of being a woman 00:29:35.446 --> 00:29:35.971 Russ: and a mom. 00:29:35.971 --> 00:29:36.751 The pressure of wife. 00:29:36.781 --> 00:29:37.861 Yes, exactly. 00:29:37.861 --> 00:29:39.361 That's what I meant by mental health is, 00:29:39.421 --> 00:29:40.291 Ashley: we'll talk about that. 00:29:40.501 --> 00:29:43.211 We have an episode we just filmed talking about the, we 00:29:43.381 --> 00:29:43.711 Russ: talked a 00:29:43.716 --> 00:29:46.501 Ashley: lot pressure of being a mom and being a wife and being, 00:29:47.341 --> 00:29:52.921 Russ: and so, and this is short, you know, four or five years where we've done this. 00:29:53.376 --> 00:29:55.206 Yeah, publicly. 00:29:55.206 --> 00:29:57.246 I've seen so much growth. 00:29:57.246 --> 00:30:04.836 And then in that timeframe, I also saw the stubborn people disappear. 00:30:05.616 --> 00:30:06.726 Ashley: Oh, a lot of people disappeared. 00:30:06.876 --> 00:30:10.536 Russ: People we knew and cared about just, 00:30:11.196 --> 00:30:11.466 Ashley: yeah. 00:30:11.616 --> 00:30:12.486 Russ: Vanished. 00:30:12.576 --> 00:30:14.136 Yeah, because they either. 00:30:16.086 --> 00:30:16.566 You know, 00:30:16.716 --> 00:30:17.886 Ashley: people don't like us talking about it. 00:30:17.886 --> 00:30:18.426 Russ: Yeah. 00:30:18.486 --> 00:30:19.596 Ashley: It's a hush hush place. 00:30:19.596 --> 00:30:20.466 It's a quiet place. 00:30:20.466 --> 00:30:23.316 We don't talk about things and we're here to change that. 00:30:23.526 --> 00:30:24.336 And that's, 00:30:24.546 --> 00:30:26.226 Russ: well, that's all we here. 00:30:26.526 --> 00:30:32.886 It still is a hush hush in a way where we're never going to out somebody. 00:30:32.916 --> 00:30:32.976 Ashley: No. 00:30:32.976 --> 00:30:34.536 But the things that need to be. 00:30:35.076 --> 00:30:36.066 Russ: But when the 00:30:36.066 --> 00:30:36.606 Ashley: things need 00:30:36.606 --> 00:30:36.906 Russ: to be 00:30:36.906 --> 00:30:37.386 Ashley: said, 00:30:37.386 --> 00:30:39.426 Russ: a situation needs to be called out. 00:30:39.521 --> 00:30:40.026 Ashley: We're run and wrong. 00:30:40.026 --> 00:30:40.656 Russ: We're roll it out. 00:30:40.661 --> 00:30:43.331 Ashley: Some things need to be challenged, some things need to be taken down. 00:30:43.331 --> 00:30:47.351 Some walls need to break it down and it's time. 00:30:47.351 --> 00:30:48.731 And I think that's what we're here for. 00:30:48.731 --> 00:30:50.231 And I'm ready for season four. 00:30:50.531 --> 00:30:52.121 Season four is going to be 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you tuning in and wanting to hear more from 00:31:53.106 --> 00:31:55.416 us and supporting us and loving us. 00:31:55.476 --> 00:32:01.626 And thank you for navigating this wild, crazy journey with us. 00:32:02.406 --> 00:32:03.846 And being a part of our shenanigans. 00:32:03.846 --> 00:32:03.936 It's 00:32:03.936 --> 00:32:04.476 Russ: been a ride. 00:32:04.576 --> 00:32:07.306 Ashley: It's been a wild ride, but we are, it's gonna get even 00:32:07.306 --> 00:32:08.926 crazier I think, as we go on. 00:32:08.926 --> 00:32:12.136 And yeah, we are just happy to be here. 00:32:12.376 --> 00:32:14.536 And as always, 00:32:14.866 --> 00:32:16.306 Russ: it's not that serious. 00:32:16.306 --> 00:32:17.836 Ashley: Don't make it weird. 00:32:17.836 --> 00:32:18.336 Bye guys. 00:32:18.586 --> 00:32:18.646 Russ: Bye.