WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript <www.descript.com> 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.779 Russ: This week on Hot Couple Chronicles 00:00:01.996 --> 00:00:07.136 Ashley: This winter has been mentally the hardest few months of my entire life. 00:00:07.166 --> 00:00:12.296 I got to the lowest I've been ever maybe, and it came out of nowhere, 00:00:12.326 --> 00:00:16.116 and I thought I was really on top of things and doing good, and it 00:00:16.116 --> 00:00:22.076 was a lot of months of traveling and being gone and just the pressure of 00:00:22.186 --> 00:00:24.476 doing social media and all of that. 00:00:24.476 --> 00:00:28.606 But after a while, and after hearing the same things over and over, and they pick 00:00:28.606 --> 00:00:34.536 you apart and all this mean stuff that they say, it does eventually start to 00:00:34.536 --> 00:00:37.586 soak through, and you start to feel it more, and you start to believe it more. 00:00:37.586 --> 00:00:38.776 Didn't handle it the greatest. 00:00:38.876 --> 00:00:42.616 I do regret some ways that I did handle myself and things that I've 00:00:42.616 --> 00:00:44.826 done trying to get through that. 00:00:44.916 --> 00:00:50.906 But I feel like also has been some of the most eye-opening, and I've done 00:00:50.906 --> 00:00:56.256 so much inner work and personal work and self-growth, and our marriage 00:00:56.296 --> 00:00:59.466 has been thriving, and we've been working really hard on making sure we 00:00:59.466 --> 00:01:01.876 stay connected, and this is us thing. 00:01:01.876 --> 00:01:06.026 And that's why we really talked about on the teasers and stuff we're just tired 00:01:06.026 --> 00:01:10.836 of sugarcoating stuff, and it's time to be honest and just kinda talk about 00:01:10.836 --> 00:01:12.046 stuff that's a little uncomfortable. 00:01:12.046 --> 00:01:15.576 And, I have, I suffer with anxiety and depression. 00:01:15.656 --> 00:01:16.996 I've never tried to hide that. 00:01:16.996 --> 00:01:18.026 I'm a normal person. 00:01:18.026 --> 00:01:19.146 I get self-conscious. 00:01:19.466 --> 00:01:19.966 We all do. 00:01:19.966 --> 00:01:23.226 We all struggle with that, with ourself and our confidence and 00:01:23.946 --> 00:01:25.076 I don't think it's that crazy. 00:01:25.346 --> 00:01:28.136 We've been doing really good, and we've been getting out and doing 00:01:28.136 --> 00:01:29.486 stuff and having a good time. 00:01:29.486 --> 00:01:31.516 We've been a bunch of whores again. 00:01:31.516 --> 00:01:33.306 And I think we needed to do that. 00:01:33.306 --> 00:01:34.056 It's sad season, man. 00:01:34.056 --> 00:01:36.006 I, winter, I struggle with winter. 00:01:36.036 --> 00:01:38.806 I, sun, I need sun to be whole. 00:01:39.456 --> 00:01:42.796 I get really in... I had, I've always struggled with seasonal 00:01:43.256 --> 00:01:48.806 depression, and this year it got super bad n- on out of nowhere. 00:01:49.356 --> 00:01:56.656 Russ: Although it's been a while since we had a good old swinger society orgy. 00:01:56.756 --> 00:01:59.836 Ashley: Welcome to Hot Couple Chronicles, a podcast exploring 00:01:59.836 --> 00:02:00.936 the swinging lifestyle. 00:02:01.356 --> 00:02:04.626 Our discussions may contain explicit content and adult themes 00:02:04.626 --> 00:02:06.486 intended for mature audiences. 00:02:06.916 --> 00:02:10.246 While we strive to offer valuable insights and entertainment, please be 00:02:10.246 --> 00:02:14.606 aware that the views expressed are based on personal experiences and opinions. 00:02:14.986 --> 00:02:18.336 We encourage listeners to approach the content with an open mind and to 00:02:18.336 --> 00:02:22.566 prioritize communication, consent, and respect in their relationships. 00:02:22.986 --> 00:02:26.176 Remember, everyone's journey is unique, so take what resonates 00:02:26.176 --> 00:02:27.456 with you and leave what doesn't. 00:02:27.886 --> 00:02:29.796 Thank you for joining us on our adventure 00:03:02.430 --> 00:03:03.060 Russ: i'm Russ. 00:03:03.180 --> 00:03:03.880 And I'm Ashley. 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:07.260 And this is Hot Couple Chronicles. 00:03:07.970 --> 00:03:08.540 Welcome back. 00:03:08.570 --> 00:03:09.480 Happy Wednesday. 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.340 Happy Wednesday. 00:03:11.980 --> 00:03:16.130 Ashley: This episode is going to be, since this podcast is called Hot Couple 00:03:16.130 --> 00:03:20.610 Chronicles, we were gonna just skip over everything and just kinda not really 00:03:20.610 --> 00:03:23.810 talk about it, but then I remembered why we called it Hot Couple Chronicles. 00:03:23.940 --> 00:03:28.400 We want to really make this stories about us and our adventures and what we do. 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:34.550 And we've done quite a lot, while also doing winter and hibernating a lot too. 00:03:34.740 --> 00:03:34.970 Yeah. 00:03:34.970 --> 00:03:38.090 But we've done quite a few things that I think that we need to talk about, and a 00:03:38.090 --> 00:03:43.330 lot of good moments, a lot of bad moments, a lot of emotional times and stuff, and 00:03:43.330 --> 00:03:44.410 I think that we need to talk about it. 00:03:44.410 --> 00:03:47.090 I think that we've been gone for a while. 00:03:47.620 --> 00:03:48.750 I know people noticed. 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:51.050 We... We're gone a lot longer than we- Yeah 00:03:51.170 --> 00:03:51.490 ... Russ: meant to be. 00:03:51.490 --> 00:03:54.810 We knew we were gone too long when people are asking if we still did it. 00:03:54.930 --> 00:03:56.190 Ashley: If we're gonna still do the podcast. 00:03:56.190 --> 00:03:56.470 Yeah. 00:03:56.500 --> 00:03:59.920 And people were bringing it up more and more, and everyone just was assuming 00:03:59.920 --> 00:04:02.780 that we were kinda done with it, and that's when we realized it was time 00:04:02.780 --> 00:04:04.830 to we're either gonna do it or not. 00:04:04.880 --> 00:04:07.440 And I'm not gonna lie to you, we weren't ready. 00:04:08.070 --> 00:04:11.610 We probably could've taken months more off of it. 00:04:11.610 --> 00:04:11.760 Probably. 00:04:11.760 --> 00:04:14.680 I'm not even, we're not gonna even try and sugarcoat it or lie to you. 00:04:14.710 --> 00:04:19.850 This winter has been mentally the hardest few months of my entire life. 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:25.010 I got to the lowest I've been ever maybe, and it came out of nowhere, 00:04:25.040 --> 00:04:28.830 and I thought I was really on top of things and doing good, and it 00:04:28.830 --> 00:04:34.790 was a lot of months of traveling and being gone and just the pressure of 00:04:34.900 --> 00:04:37.190 doing social media and all of that. 00:04:37.190 --> 00:04:39.570 And the podcast come... Well, along with the podcast comes a lot 00:04:39.570 --> 00:04:43.100 of negative, a lot of people that don't love listening to us talk. 00:04:43.150 --> 00:04:44.160 They'd rather- What? 00:04:44.620 --> 00:04:47.100 ... just be cute on TikTok and everything and- 00:04:47.910 --> 00:04:49.820 Russ: You're supposed to have a voice too? 00:04:49.890 --> 00:04:49.950 Ashley: Yeah. 00:04:50.020 --> 00:04:50.170 I know. 00:04:50.170 --> 00:04:50.440 No way. 00:04:50.440 --> 00:04:52.340 I'm supposed to just smile at the camera and- 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:54.160 Russ: And point at letters 00:04:54.300 --> 00:04:54.420 point. 00:04:54.800 --> 00:04:57.110 Ashley: Once I started opening my mouth, it really brought in 00:04:57.110 --> 00:04:58.170 a lot of... Which we understood. 00:04:58.170 --> 00:05:01.290 We knew that was gonna- Yeah ... come with it, but I am a little baby 00:05:01.380 --> 00:05:05.020 sometimes with that, and I have a really hard time with... I do pretty 00:05:05.020 --> 00:05:09.400 well, you have to on social media, do pretty well at- Just letting it bounce 00:05:09.400 --> 00:05:12.090 off you and not really soaking it in. 00:05:12.090 --> 00:05:16.220 But after a while, and after hearing the same things over and over, and they pick 00:05:16.220 --> 00:05:22.150 you apart and all this mean stuff that they say, it does eventually start to 00:05:22.150 --> 00:05:25.200 soak through, and you start to feel it more, and you start to believe it more. 00:05:25.200 --> 00:05:29.610 And, I've gained some weight and, you know, you change, you get older. 00:05:29.610 --> 00:05:34.030 I'm not... I don't look the same as I did when I first got on TikTok five- 00:05:34.030 --> 00:05:34.880 Six years ago ... six years ago. 00:05:34.980 --> 00:05:35.210 Yeah. 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:35.730 Yeah. 00:05:35.780 --> 00:05:36.250 I'm sorry. 00:05:36.250 --> 00:05:36.840 I'm aging. 00:05:36.840 --> 00:05:37.830 I'm a woman. 00:05:37.830 --> 00:05:38.340 I don't know. 00:05:38.340 --> 00:05:40.930 I've... Going through some stuff. 00:05:41.010 --> 00:05:46.940 But I, we def- I definitely was to the point where I had this much energy, 00:05:46.940 --> 00:05:50.480 just the teeniest bit, and I had to be very careful where I was putting it. 00:05:51.290 --> 00:05:56.620 And, Have a habit of hermiting and hiding and kind of... I just didn't 00:05:56.620 --> 00:06:01.240 have energy, and I really was doing, I thought, a really good job at 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:03.280 hiding it, and s- no one really knew. 00:06:03.310 --> 00:06:06.110 I don't think, for the most part, people didn't, don't 00:06:06.110 --> 00:06:07.200 realize- Well, we kind of just- 00:06:07.200 --> 00:06:07.490 how bad it 00:06:07.490 --> 00:06:09.350 Russ: got ... stopped talking to everyone too. 00:06:09.530 --> 00:06:09.660 Ashley: Yeah. 00:06:09.700 --> 00:06:09.760 No. 00:06:10.020 --> 00:06:12.360 It's one of those, if you stop reaching out, you see who's gonna actually 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:14.620 reach out to you type of thing. 00:06:14.620 --> 00:06:18.750 And it really made us open our eyes and notice who even noticed we were gone. 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:19.050 Speaker: Yeah. 00:06:19.080 --> 00:06:24.360 Ashley: Like, we... It really makes you see who was there and who actually cares. 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:29.550 And we just had to focus on our family and each other. 00:06:30.010 --> 00:06:34.590 We've really been focusing on each other a lot lately, just us, and pretty much have 00:06:34.590 --> 00:06:37.530 s- done most things together recently. 00:06:37.530 --> 00:06:37.640 Yeah. 00:06:38.010 --> 00:06:39.580 And we've had a lot of fun. 00:06:39.870 --> 00:06:44.400 But- ... I don't regret how deep it got, and I don't regret any of it. 00:06:44.400 --> 00:06:45.700 I don't regret anything we did. 00:06:45.880 --> 00:06:47.070 Didn't handle it the greatest. 00:06:47.170 --> 00:06:50.910 I do regret some ways that I did handle myself and things that I've 00:06:50.910 --> 00:06:53.120 done trying to get through that. 00:06:53.210 --> 00:06:59.200 But I feel like also has been some of the most eye-opening, and I've done 00:06:59.200 --> 00:07:04.550 so much inner work and personal work and self-growth, and our marriage 00:07:04.590 --> 00:07:07.760 has been thriving, and we've been working really hard on making sure we 00:07:07.760 --> 00:07:10.170 stay connected, and this is us thing. 00:07:10.170 --> 00:07:13.530 And, just being reminded of why we are doing this. 00:07:13.780 --> 00:07:14.030 Yeah. 00:07:14.030 --> 00:07:14.940 And why we started this. 00:07:14.980 --> 00:07:19.130 And that's why we really talked about on the teasers and stuff we're just tired 00:07:19.130 --> 00:07:23.940 of sugarcoating stuff, and it's time to be honest and just kinda talk about 00:07:23.940 --> 00:07:25.150 stuff that's a little uncomfortable. 00:07:25.150 --> 00:07:28.680 And, I have, I suffer with anxiety and depression. 00:07:28.760 --> 00:07:30.100 I've never tried to hide that. 00:07:30.100 --> 00:07:31.130 I'm a normal person. 00:07:31.130 --> 00:07:32.250 I get self-conscious. 00:07:32.570 --> 00:07:33.070 We all do. 00:07:33.070 --> 00:07:36.330 We all struggle with that, with ourself and our confidence and 00:07:37.050 --> 00:07:38.180 I don't think it's that crazy. 00:07:38.450 --> 00:07:38.550 No. 00:07:38.550 --> 00:07:40.650 To take a couple... I said, I called it a sabbatical. 00:07:40.710 --> 00:07:41.620 It was on a sabbatical. 00:07:41.660 --> 00:07:41.720 Yeah. 00:07:41.790 --> 00:07:42.500 I just couldn't- 00:07:43.340 --> 00:07:43.600 Russ: It was- 00:07:43.600 --> 00:07:44.280 Ashley: Coulda didn't do it. 00:07:44.320 --> 00:07:47.960 Russ: Well, you just kinda, you, it, it really was a sabbatical. 00:07:47.990 --> 00:07:48.050 Yeah. 00:07:48.050 --> 00:07:51.240 You posted just to keep posting on social media- 00:07:51.320 --> 00:07:53.600 Ashley: Well, I was so worried about making- So no one really- ... new content 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:59.380 every day for the last five of the years or so, and I finally was like, how 00:07:59.380 --> 00:08:03.440 about I start using these thousands and thousands and thousands of pictures and 00:08:03.440 --> 00:08:09.730 videos I've taken over these last five years or so, and actually just reuse 00:08:09.730 --> 00:08:11.340 them and make them into new things? 00:08:11.340 --> 00:08:12.820 And it worked. 00:08:13.090 --> 00:08:17.550 I was, I'm, I have never had this many views on Instagram, and everything has 00:08:17.550 --> 00:08:21.620 been thriving doing it this way, and I was doing so... I was just so overwhelmed 00:08:21.620 --> 00:08:26.820 with making new content every single day, finding new sounds, researching 00:08:26.820 --> 00:08:28.880 all the things, making all the stuff. 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:31.810 I was doing all these Canvas, and I had these big ideas, and I was 00:08:31.810 --> 00:08:35.380 just so overwhelmed with all of the things I wanted to do that 00:08:35.380 --> 00:08:37.810 it just eventually just blew up. 00:08:37.810 --> 00:08:42.720 I was working, like, 22 hours a day like a crazy person- Yeah ... just 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:48.000 making and creating and coming up with new stuff and trying to be, do more, 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:51.950 so much, and finally got to the point where, like, I did have to step back. 00:08:51.950 --> 00:08:56.760 And this was seven days a week up till 3:00 AM, back up at 5:00 to do 00:08:56.760 --> 00:08:59.120 it again, and it was just too much. 00:08:59.120 --> 00:08:59.760 It's so much. 00:08:59.760 --> 00:09:04.100 People think social media is this cake job, and it's, you don't have 00:09:04.100 --> 00:09:07.040 to do anything, and you just take a selfie every once in a while. 00:09:07.040 --> 00:09:07.570 You'll be fine. 00:09:07.570 --> 00:09:10.080 It's so much behind-the-scenes work, and I'm not complaining. 00:09:10.080 --> 00:09:11.010 I love what I do. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:11.480 I do. 00:09:11.480 --> 00:09:12.200 I enjoy it. 00:09:12.590 --> 00:09:16.390 It's my heart, my passion, but it's a lot. 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.930 And so I really was trying... I ha- again, had such little energy, and 00:09:20.930 --> 00:09:25.900 I had to just give it where I could, and most of it was on- Us ... the us. 00:09:25.900 --> 00:09:28.880 Like me and Us and our kids and our family. 00:09:28.950 --> 00:09:31.110 And so that's kinda what's been going on. 00:09:31.110 --> 00:09:32.210 I feel myself getting better. 00:09:32.210 --> 00:09:33.530 I'm coming out of it. 00:09:34.530 --> 00:09:36.360 I've been doing, doing all right. 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:39.150 We've been doing really good, and we've been getting out and doing 00:09:39.150 --> 00:09:40.500 stuff and having a good time. 00:09:40.500 --> 00:09:42.530 We've been a bunch of whores again. 00:09:42.530 --> 00:09:44.320 And I think we needed to do that. 00:09:44.320 --> 00:09:47.070 I think that we forgot how to do that. 00:09:47.070 --> 00:09:49.720 Every- It's... I don't know. 00:09:49.760 --> 00:09:55.890 It's just crazy how I never really wanted to be a social media 00:09:55.890 --> 00:09:57.930 influencer or on social media. 00:09:57.930 --> 00:10:00.560 It still kinda creeps me out that I'm out there and still doing 00:10:00.560 --> 00:10:02.040 it after all this time still. 00:10:02.220 --> 00:10:03.900 Russ: Yeah, we just talked about this- 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:04.790 Ashley: Yeah, and- 00:10:04.790 --> 00:10:06.960 ... Russ: at the club a couple weeks ago 00:10:06.960 --> 00:10:10.950 ... Ashley: people, like, they're so sweet, and everyone we've ever met 00:10:10.950 --> 00:10:14.470 that has, you know, follows us or listens to the podcast has been the 00:10:14.470 --> 00:10:16.640 sweetest and kindest, and they're... 00:10:17.120 --> 00:10:20.300 It's so much fun getting to meet you guys, people listening 00:10:20.300 --> 00:10:21.560 and watching in real life. 00:10:21.700 --> 00:10:22.310 I love it. 00:10:23.180 --> 00:10:24.240 Freaks me out a little bit. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:28.020 It is kinda weird 'cause I don't- I will never be able to wrap my head around the 00:10:28.020 --> 00:10:31.570 fact that strangers know my face and watch my stuff- Yeah ... and listen to me and- 00:10:31.570 --> 00:10:34.720 Russ: Well, you said it's like you're in a fishbowl. 00:10:34.810 --> 00:10:36.610 Ev- all, everybody's just watching you. 00:10:36.610 --> 00:10:37.350 Ashley: Well, that's the thing. 00:10:37.350 --> 00:10:41.910 I love when people come up to us and say, you know, "We watch you. 00:10:41.990 --> 00:10:45.240 We've watched you. We know all your stuff." Uh, it's the ones that just 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:46.920 look at you and stare and whisper. 00:10:47.670 --> 00:10:50.170 That's the ones that'll get me in my head, and I'm just like... 00:10:50.650 --> 00:10:51.950 I'm always listening around me. 00:10:52.650 --> 00:10:55.190 My ADHD really kicks in in, like- ... a group of people. 00:10:55.190 --> 00:10:57.800 So I'm listening to people talk, and they'll be, I'll be like, they'll be 00:10:57.800 --> 00:11:02.060 like, "Oh my gosh, those are the guys off TikTok. They have a TikTok. They're 00:11:02.060 --> 00:11:03.550 TikTok famous, Insta-famous." A podcast. 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:07.250 "They have a podcast. Oh my gosh, is that them?" And it's that, 00:11:07.250 --> 00:11:12.020 like, constant people just looking at you, just like an attraction. 00:11:12.510 --> 00:11:14.270 And I, I get 'em. 00:11:14.400 --> 00:11:15.100 I'm not complaining. 00:11:15.130 --> 00:11:15.850 But it is weird. 00:11:15.990 --> 00:11:16.670 It is strange. 00:11:16.670 --> 00:11:21.360 For somebody that's never, nobody really looks twice at me normally in real life. 00:11:21.430 --> 00:11:24.010 So it is strange once you get into, like, a club of people 00:11:24.010 --> 00:11:26.270 or an event full of people. 00:11:27.950 --> 00:11:28.260 I don't know. 00:11:28.520 --> 00:11:29.030 It's just weird. 00:11:29.030 --> 00:11:30.970 You can't really, it's hard to explain unless you- 00:11:30.970 --> 00:11:32.260 Russ: You can't blend in anymore. 00:11:32.330 --> 00:11:32.580 Ashley: Yeah. 00:11:32.900 --> 00:11:34.090 And it's also that pressure. 00:11:34.090 --> 00:11:38.760 I think really that was a lot of my anxiety last summer, winter, 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:43.610 was it's that need to, I feel like I have to be on all the time. 00:11:44.120 --> 00:11:45.210 Everyone's on vacation. 00:11:45.250 --> 00:11:46.470 They're, like, living their best life. 00:11:46.470 --> 00:11:47.330 They're having drinks. 00:11:47.330 --> 00:11:47.610 They're- 00:11:47.610 --> 00:11:47.870 Russ: Yeah 00:11:48.080 --> 00:11:51.400 ... Ashley: living their best life, running around naked, which I do. 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:56.330 I do for the most part not censor myself or, you know, we do h- live our best life. 00:11:56.330 --> 00:11:57.570 We go out. 00:11:57.570 --> 00:12:00.490 We're all wild and crazy, and we go out there and do all the things. 00:12:00.550 --> 00:12:04.060 But there is a sense of having to be on. 00:12:04.230 --> 00:12:04.460 Russ: Yeah. 00:12:04.570 --> 00:12:04.970 Ashley: You have- You're at 00:12:04.970 --> 00:12:05.200 Russ: work 00:12:05.550 --> 00:12:06.220 Ashley: all the time. 00:12:06.250 --> 00:12:06.310 Yeah. 00:12:06.310 --> 00:12:08.380 Even when- Like, people are, again at the club approaching, 00:12:08.380 --> 00:12:09.660 "Oh my gosh, I listen to you. 00:12:09.660 --> 00:12:12.570 This is, I love this conversation." And you have a whole conversation with 00:12:12.570 --> 00:12:15.050 these people, and you have to be on, and you have to be ready for that at 00:12:15.050 --> 00:12:17.080 all times, and I don't like doing that. 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:19.290 I don't like being like, "I'm famous," or whatever. 00:12:19.570 --> 00:12:22.700 But in this little land of ours, this little world that we're in, 00:12:23.490 --> 00:12:24.980 people know who we are at this point. 00:12:25.410 --> 00:12:25.590 Yeah. 00:12:25.590 --> 00:12:29.950 We've been around enough, and it's not cocky and conceited to, you know- 00:12:30.340 --> 00:12:31.430 Recognize it ... recognize that. 00:12:31.430 --> 00:12:32.390 People know who we are. 00:12:32.390 --> 00:12:33.140 People stop us. 00:12:33.140 --> 00:12:34.820 People are watching. 00:12:34.820 --> 00:12:37.470 If not stopping, they're watching at all times, and you can just see 00:12:37.470 --> 00:12:38.790 their eyes on you at all times. 00:12:38.790 --> 00:12:44.070 So you do have this responsibility to be on, to be always making sure 00:12:44.070 --> 00:12:47.330 to follow everything you preach and I try to be myself, and I try to be 00:12:47.330 --> 00:12:51.130 real, but you know you wanna, you wanna look nice, put yourself together. 00:12:51.130 --> 00:12:53.900 You wanna present yourself 'cause you are your brand. 00:12:53.900 --> 00:12:55.050 You want to present yourself as good. 00:12:55.050 --> 00:12:55.180 Yeah. 00:12:55.180 --> 00:12:59.260 So I, I do try to be real. 00:12:59.260 --> 00:13:00.070 I'm always real. 00:13:00.070 --> 00:13:02.740 That's the first biggest compliment we always get is how 00:13:03.530 --> 00:13:05.110 much we are in real life- Yeah 00:13:05.140 --> 00:13:06.430 who we are on here. 00:13:06.670 --> 00:13:07.500 We're just as weird- I 00:13:07.500 --> 00:13:08.190 Russ: don't know if it's 00:13:08.190 --> 00:13:08.640 Ashley: a good thing- ... and awkward. 00:13:08.640 --> 00:13:09.770 ... almost a good thing or a bad thing. 00:13:09.770 --> 00:13:10.430 Russ: It wasn't. 00:13:10.430 --> 00:13:11.270 But- They're not pretending. 00:13:11.270 --> 00:13:12.720 They are just as weird in person. 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:12.960 We are weird, 00:13:13.060 --> 00:13:13.550 Ashley: turns out. 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:13.700 Yeah. 00:13:13.870 --> 00:13:14.550 I don't know. 00:13:14.550 --> 00:13:15.800 I like to take it as a compliment. 00:13:15.800 --> 00:13:19.170 But, you know, I always wanna be somebody that they can reach out to 00:13:19.170 --> 00:13:23.860 if they need safety help, if they need guidance, if someone has a question. 00:13:23.860 --> 00:13:23.960 Yeah. 00:13:23.960 --> 00:13:24.830 You just have to be on. 00:13:24.830 --> 00:13:26.450 You just have to be ready to work at any time. 00:13:26.450 --> 00:13:30.620 You can't, as much as you try... That's why a lot of the times at 00:13:30.620 --> 00:13:35.220 these smaller things, like if we go to, like, a pad party where we just 00:13:35.220 --> 00:13:38.340 have a code for a ticket to it that we're not really working, those are t- 00:13:38.430 --> 00:13:43.410 events that you'll tend to see us let our hair down and do whatever- Yeah 00:13:43.410 --> 00:13:44.550 and kinda go wild because- If we're 00:13:44.550 --> 00:13:45.750 Russ: not actually hosting- 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:47.350 Ashley: We're not working or hosting or doing anything ... or 00:13:47.350 --> 00:13:50.600 Russ: working or anything- Yeah ... we tend to let our hair down and- 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:51.600 Ashley: But you have to. 00:13:51.630 --> 00:13:51.700 Yeah. 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:54.550 Like, you have to pick events that we can also have fun because this 00:13:54.550 --> 00:13:58.420 is also a place that we love to be. 00:13:58.450 --> 00:14:02.670 It became this passion project of ours because of the fact 00:14:02.670 --> 00:14:05.010 that we love it here so much. 00:14:05.270 --> 00:14:05.740 Yeah. 00:14:05.960 --> 00:14:09.870 And everyone's like, "Oh, my gosh. How dare you turn a hobby into 00:14:10.950 --> 00:14:15.530 money or whatever, a career!" And- Still waiting for that. 00:14:15.530 --> 00:14:18.750 I'm like, yeah, first of all, we're not there yet, but we're 00:14:18.750 --> 00:14:19.770 h- we're hoping one day to. 00:14:19.770 --> 00:14:22.790 But second of all, like, why wouldn't you wanna do that? 00:14:22.970 --> 00:14:23.960 I love it here. 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:24.020 Yeah. 00:14:24.020 --> 00:14:30.600 I love everything, and I, why wouldn't I want to make it more and do more? 00:14:30.630 --> 00:14:34.150 And I've some really good passion stuff that I've been working on behind the 00:14:34.150 --> 00:14:35.750 scenes that I'm very excited about. 00:14:36.220 --> 00:14:39.520 Kinda goes along with one of the last episodes that we did last season, 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.500 and I'm been trying to work with people and emailing and everything. 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:44.360 Funding is low. 00:14:44.550 --> 00:14:47.160 Everything is just kinda hard. 00:14:47.160 --> 00:14:47.280 Yeah. 00:14:47.310 --> 00:14:49.720 People, we're not at the top of the list for the needs of 00:14:49.720 --> 00:14:50.650 these things, they don't think. 00:14:50.710 --> 00:14:54.260 But I'm trying to br- put it out there and get... I have to be very vague about 00:14:54.260 --> 00:14:55.750 it 'cause there's no official anything. 00:14:55.800 --> 00:15:00.280 But we're excited about some passion projects that we have going on, and then 00:15:00.280 --> 00:15:01.760 of course podcasts are gonna be here. 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.890 Like it or not, we're doing the thing. 00:15:04.890 --> 00:15:05.710 Russ: We're doing the thing. 00:15:05.740 --> 00:15:09.150 Ashley: We eventually, all that to say, uh, we eventually were like, 00:15:09.410 --> 00:15:11.750 "Are we doing the podcast? Are we not doing the podcast? And if we're 00:15:11.750 --> 00:15:12.740 doing the podcast, we gotta-" Yeah. 00:15:13.010 --> 00:15:13.920 "... we have to pick a date." 00:15:13.920 --> 00:15:17.410 Russ: For months, for a couple months, we're like- Yeah ... "We 00:15:17.410 --> 00:15:18.560 need to start the podcast." 00:15:18.650 --> 00:15:18.760 Yeah. 00:15:18.920 --> 00:15:19.760 We need... And we're like, yeah. 00:15:19.760 --> 00:15:20.180 Something kept 00:15:20.180 --> 00:15:20.600 Ashley: happening. 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:20.880 Russ: Yeah. 00:15:20.880 --> 00:15:22.670 Ashley: And stuff was still going on and everything. 00:15:22.670 --> 00:15:25.950 You know, you're always pushing it back and pushing it back, and we finally 00:15:25.950 --> 00:15:28.910 were like, "We're not doing this podcast unless we pick a date," 'cause we 00:15:28.910 --> 00:15:32.380 know ourselves, and we know that we'll do it if we say we're gonna do it. 00:15:32.530 --> 00:15:32.650 Yeah. 00:15:32.650 --> 00:15:33.410 Like, we will never- We're 00:15:33.410 --> 00:15:34.460 Russ: master procrastinators. 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:34.630 We 00:15:34.630 --> 00:15:35.170 Ashley: are. 00:15:35.170 --> 00:15:36.770 We, we work best under pressure. 00:15:37.260 --> 00:15:39.490 But, like, today is Tuesday. 00:15:39.930 --> 00:15:40.030 Yeah. 00:15:40.030 --> 00:15:42.620 The day that we- Edit and finish our podcast. 00:15:42.620 --> 00:15:44.880 Russ: We're gonna record this ... we don't have to- We're gonna edit it and 00:15:44.880 --> 00:15:47.420 put it out tonight- Yeah ... at midnight 00:15:47.420 --> 00:15:47.770 Ashley: Midnight. 00:15:47.770 --> 00:15:49.300 This is, and we'll be up all night doing it. 00:15:49.970 --> 00:15:52.920 This is the podcast for today, and this is also on the day, so. 00:15:52.920 --> 00:15:54.270 Russ: Also, happy Cinco de Mayo. 00:15:54.470 --> 00:15:55.640 Yes. 00:15:55.780 --> 00:15:57.910 Ashley: And we have to, we were supposed to go out to a Cinco de Mayo- 00:15:57.910 --> 00:16:00.650 Yeah ... dinner tonight with work people. 00:16:00.800 --> 00:16:01.080 So- 00:16:01.280 --> 00:16:01.530 Russ: Yeah 00:16:01.860 --> 00:16:05.280 ... Ashley: it's gonna be a fun, full night of Cinco de Mayo fun. 00:16:05.310 --> 00:16:07.520 But no, we will be here. 00:16:07.520 --> 00:16:08.320 We'll always come back. 00:16:08.350 --> 00:16:09.590 It might take us a little bit. 00:16:09.670 --> 00:16:15.170 I apologize for the delay, and I just wanna be honest with you guys and 00:16:15.170 --> 00:16:16.950 be real with you guys, and explain. 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:17.990 It got pretty bad. 00:16:18.130 --> 00:16:20.260 Winter is a hard, hard time. 00:16:20.260 --> 00:16:21.970 We call it the sad season for- It's sad season, man. 00:16:21.970 --> 00:16:23.920 I, winter, I struggle with winter. 00:16:23.950 --> 00:16:26.720 I, sun, I need sun to be whole. 00:16:27.370 --> 00:16:30.710 I get really in... I had, I've always struggled with seasonal 00:16:31.170 --> 00:16:36.720 depression, and this year it got super bad n- on out of nowhere. 00:16:37.270 --> 00:16:40.030 I know it was a bunch of little things, like I said it was just a lot of little 00:16:40.030 --> 00:16:45.840 stuff, but it was a lot of little personal things, and kept piling on, and I think 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.480 it was just sad season and winter. 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:53.210 And, luckily got myself out of that and recognized, because doing all the work and 00:16:53.210 --> 00:16:57.100 stuff, at least I was able to recognize how bad it was and how bad it got. 00:16:57.690 --> 00:17:01.590 And yeah, just pulling, pulling back a little bit, taking some time off. 00:17:01.590 --> 00:17:04.890 We had Christmas after the last episode. 00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:05.460 We had Christmas. 00:17:05.460 --> 00:17:05.680 Russ: Yeah. 00:17:06.140 --> 00:17:06.630 So- 00:17:06.660 --> 00:17:06.920 Ashley: And 00:17:06.920 --> 00:17:10.560 ... Russ: we'll just start from w- kind of where we left off- Yep ... on the last 00:17:10.560 --> 00:17:10.870 Ashley: episode. 00:17:10.870 --> 00:17:11.840 Which might be two episodes. 00:17:11.840 --> 00:17:12.250 We're- 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:13.220 Russ: We- 00:17:13.220 --> 00:17:13.680 Ashley: We'll figure 00:17:14.030 --> 00:17:14.090 Russ: it out. 00:17:14.090 --> 00:17:18.990 Our last episode, we both went down to Secrets, then I had to come back Friday 00:17:18.990 --> 00:17:24.000 and go to work, and you stayed down there for our friend Mike's birthday. 00:17:24.300 --> 00:17:27.670 Went to the beach, watched a rocket launch, did all the 00:17:27.670 --> 00:17:30.520 things, and that was in October. 00:17:31.040 --> 00:17:31.100 Ashley: Yeah. 00:17:31.350 --> 00:17:33.660 And that was when I be- Mm-hmm ... I was burnt out at that point. 00:17:33.690 --> 00:17:33.750 Yeah. 00:17:33.930 --> 00:17:37.130 I had gotten to, that was, that Secrets trip, I burnt out. 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:39.730 I f- I went inward. 00:17:39.760 --> 00:17:41.730 I isolated. 00:17:41.730 --> 00:17:47.110 I took my, took, I w- had a great time, but I did keep it calm. 00:17:47.110 --> 00:17:51.030 I did make a lot of time to relax and to just, 'cause I was aware that 00:17:51.030 --> 00:17:52.850 I was burnt out, and I was done. 00:17:52.850 --> 00:17:56.840 And we knew we were, it was gonna be winter, stuff was starting to end. 00:17:56.840 --> 00:17:57.630 It was gonna be quieter. 00:17:57.630 --> 00:18:00.850 So it was just getting there, and then we went with our friends, 00:18:00.850 --> 00:18:04.500 Anything But Vanilla, to their favorite island, Captiva. 00:18:04.500 --> 00:18:06.400 They've been going to for like- 00:18:06.600 --> 00:18:06.940 Russ: Ever 00:18:07.060 --> 00:18:07.520 ... Ashley: forever. 00:18:07.710 --> 00:18:09.490 And so they wanted to show it to us. 00:18:09.490 --> 00:18:12.050 Russ: Yeah, Rob said that he's been going there since he was a kid. 00:18:12.170 --> 00:18:12.290 Yeah. 00:18:12.320 --> 00:18:14.810 And we unders- we fell in love with it as well. 00:18:14.810 --> 00:18:16.500 Ashley: It was so good. 00:18:17.020 --> 00:18:22.470 And we stayed in a big Airbnb, and our kids went, and we had so much fun. 00:18:22.500 --> 00:18:22.610 Yeah. 00:18:22.610 --> 00:18:25.700 It was, like, a five-minute walk to the beach. 00:18:25.700 --> 00:18:26.850 It was right off of the beach. 00:18:26.850 --> 00:18:27.930 Perfect distance. 00:18:28.260 --> 00:18:30.575 They had plenty of space outside. 00:18:30.575 --> 00:18:31.395 They had a pool. 00:18:31.395 --> 00:18:31.705 Mm-hmm. 00:18:31.705 --> 00:18:32.715 The screened-in pool and everything. 00:18:32.715 --> 00:18:34.745 .. I went down a couple days before you. 00:18:34.745 --> 00:18:38.425 You had to work, and then he met us down there. 00:18:38.485 --> 00:18:38.545 Yeah. 00:18:38.845 --> 00:18:44.175 And I brought the kids with me, and we had perfect weather. 00:18:44.175 --> 00:18:46.815 Always 85 and sunny- Yeah ... at all times, so it was- I 00:18:46.815 --> 00:18:47.985 Russ: brought down all the- 00:18:48.305 --> 00:18:48.725 ... Ashley: beautiful 00:18:49.425 --> 00:18:52.175 ... Russ: everything I needed to cook a Thanksgiving feast. 00:18:52.215 --> 00:18:52.895 Yeah. 00:18:53.065 --> 00:18:55.585 Ashley: We got to... They brought their kayak, and we got to go 00:18:55.585 --> 00:18:58.695 kayaking in the morning and watch the sun go up, and the dolphins. 00:18:58.695 --> 00:19:02.345 There was dolphins and manatees and all the things. 00:19:02.345 --> 00:19:07.515 And yeah, we just relaxed, and it was much needed, and hung out with the kids. 00:19:07.515 --> 00:19:11.185 And they had a little cute little ice cream place and little shops, 00:19:11.185 --> 00:19:13.475 and it was just a really small place. 00:19:13.605 --> 00:19:16.325 It was this tiny little island- Yeah ... that you just had Airbnbs and 00:19:16.325 --> 00:19:20.005 homes on, and a few little shops with a little restaurant, a couple restaurants. 00:19:20.005 --> 00:19:21.155 We went to Mexican and- 00:19:21.515 --> 00:19:22.705 Russ: Yeah, we would go down- 00:19:22.905 --> 00:19:23.705 Ashley: Ice cream 00:19:23.745 --> 00:19:25.055 ... Russ: spend all day on the beach. 00:19:25.095 --> 00:19:25.305 Ashley: Yeah. 00:19:25.805 --> 00:19:26.985 Russ: Go kayaking and- 00:19:27.135 --> 00:19:27.395 Ashley: Yeah. 00:19:27.855 --> 00:19:30.855 Then take showers and went out to dinner and- Yeah 00:19:30.855 --> 00:19:34.735 we just, we were so spent and tired and went to bed early. 00:19:34.735 --> 00:19:40.375 No, no guilt at all, just a lot of relaxing and hanging out, and the kids 00:19:40.375 --> 00:19:43.965 had so much fun, and we're definitely, definitely gonna be back again. 00:19:43.965 --> 00:19:44.215 Yeah. 00:19:44.295 --> 00:19:44.825 For sure. 00:19:45.495 --> 00:19:52.255 Russ: So after Thanksgiving, we came home, and b- before Christmas, 00:19:52.255 --> 00:19:59.895 Dan and Laci from Swing Nation had a Toys for Tot drive at Trapeze. 00:20:00.045 --> 00:20:00.115 Ashley: Yeah. 00:20:00.295 --> 00:20:03.185 Russ: So e- everybody that bought a toy got a discounted price. 00:20:03.215 --> 00:20:03.425 Oh. 00:20:03.855 --> 00:20:06.410 And they raised So many toys Yes. 00:20:06.410 --> 00:20:06.760 So many 00:20:07.090 --> 00:20:07.250 Ashley: toys 00:20:07.340 --> 00:20:09.140 . Russ: They got so many toys from people 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:09.260 Ashley: Yeah. 00:20:09.360 --> 00:20:10.040 They do it every year. 00:20:10.040 --> 00:20:10.690 It's a really good- 00:20:10.690 --> 00:20:10.870 Speaker 5: Yeah 00:20:11.150 --> 00:20:11.730 ... Ashley: It's a good thing. 00:20:11.920 --> 00:20:14.890 Russ: But we, so we decided to go to that. 00:20:15.060 --> 00:20:19.230 Ashley: We- And he happened to have off, and we, it all worked out 00:20:19.230 --> 00:20:22.290 and we went with Rob and Lindsey. 00:20:22.780 --> 00:20:26.150 And then on the way there we found out, or right before we left the 00:20:26.150 --> 00:20:28.840 hotel we found out that Flirty Pineapples were gonna be there, so- 00:20:28.910 --> 00:20:29.290 Russ: Yeah 00:20:29.320 --> 00:20:30.540 Ashley: we were so excited. 00:20:30.540 --> 00:20:31.680 Yeah, we hadn't- We love them 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:34.190 ... Russ: hadn't seen them- So much ... since San Antonio. 00:20:34.330 --> 00:20:36.730 Ashley: Yeah, you're gonna see- So ... we had them on our podcast for 00:20:36.730 --> 00:20:38.310 this season, so you'll see that soon. 00:20:38.310 --> 00:20:39.640 But we love them so much. 00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:41.310 We could talk for days about them. 00:20:41.310 --> 00:20:45.550 We have, yes, spent time with, a little bit of time here and there with them, 00:20:45.610 --> 00:20:48.190 and yeah, we get along really well. 00:20:48.190 --> 00:20:51.720 And we went with the owners of STD Hero, which we love as well. 00:20:51.750 --> 00:20:52.580 Yeah Really good friends. 00:20:52.900 --> 00:20:57.780 And then the Swing Nation crew was there, and old friends that we 00:20:57.780 --> 00:20:59.500 hadn't seen- ... in a very long time. 00:20:59.980 --> 00:21:02.320 We went and had a great night. 00:21:02.320 --> 00:21:03.070 It was so much fun. 00:21:03.070 --> 00:21:04.300 Yeah It was a very quiet night. 00:21:04.300 --> 00:21:05.970 Russ: We kinda kicked it old school. 00:21:06.090 --> 00:21:08.460 Ashley: It was a very quiet night, and so we decided to 00:21:08.460 --> 00:21:10.020 end it with a bang, like we do. 00:21:10.120 --> 00:21:10.360 Russ: With 00:21:10.530 --> 00:21:10.780 Ashley: a bang. 00:21:10.780 --> 00:21:10.810 Pun 00:21:11.030 --> 00:21:12.130 Russ: intending. 00:21:12.330 --> 00:21:15.970 Ashley: Yeah, we had a good old group fun. 00:21:16.320 --> 00:21:16.580 We did. 00:21:16.580 --> 00:21:17.410 Like the olden days. 00:21:17.450 --> 00:21:18.740 It was very- We did ... it was nice. 00:21:18.740 --> 00:21:26.040 Russ: Although it's been a while since we had a good old swinger society orgy. 00:21:26.040 --> 00:21:26.230 Yeah, 00:21:26.650 --> 00:21:26.900 Ashley: yeah. 00:21:27.100 --> 00:21:28.250 And it was needed at that time. 00:21:28.500 --> 00:21:28.620 It was- 00:21:28.620 --> 00:21:32.760 Russ: And for me anyways, I forgot about the crowds that watch it. 00:21:32.760 --> 00:21:33.380 Ashley: Yes. 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:34.140 That was, 00:21:34.180 --> 00:21:34.240 Russ: yeah. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:41.070 And so all the guys there- I forgot that ... were having troubles keeping- Yeah 00:21:41.580 --> 00:21:41.840 ... Ashley: hard 00:21:42.040 --> 00:21:42.400 ... Russ: hard. 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:42.930 Yeah. 00:21:42.930 --> 00:21:44.440 Ashley: You can say that here on the podcast. 00:21:44.500 --> 00:21:44.750 Russ: Yeah. 00:21:44.990 --> 00:21:45.110 Ashley: Yeah. 00:21:45.520 --> 00:21:52.700 Russ: So we were all having performance problems or issues, and we had fun. 00:21:52.890 --> 00:21:53.620 Ashley: Yeah, it was a good time. 00:21:53.620 --> 00:21:54.150 Russ: And- 00:21:54.440 --> 00:21:58.080 Ashley: I was the one on their podcast that they were talking about and they 00:21:58.080 --> 00:22:03.070 wouldn't say my name about, I said, "I miss swinger society orgies." "I miss 00:22:03.070 --> 00:22:04.210 swinger society orgies." That was me. 00:22:04.210 --> 00:22:05.170 Yeah, Dan was like- I 00:22:05.170 --> 00:22:07.670 Russ: texted Dan ... "I think we just sold five tickets." 00:22:07.670 --> 00:22:08.000 Ashley: Yeah. 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:09.960 He's like, "You..." He, he said 10. 00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:13.970 I was like- ... "I hope I at least get you five." But yeah, I texted him l- 00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:18.820 after I listened to it and I was like, "You're welcome." "And thank you." Also. 00:22:19.220 --> 00:22:20.060 But, you're welcome. 00:22:20.610 --> 00:22:22.390 But yeah, I, I don't know. 00:22:22.500 --> 00:22:24.120 It's just easy, you know? 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:25.180 it's just easy. 00:22:25.180 --> 00:22:26.760 Yeah Sometimes you just need easy. 00:22:26.760 --> 00:22:28.610 You just want easy. 00:22:28.750 --> 00:22:29.590 No drama. 00:22:29.590 --> 00:22:30.200 You don't want- Yeah 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:34.110 emotions, you don't want feels, you don't want... You just wanna put on 00:22:34.110 --> 00:22:40.030 a sh- little bit of a show, have good hot sex, and you know- Yeah ... just 00:22:40.700 --> 00:22:43.000 do it without all the extra stuff. 00:22:43.070 --> 00:22:46.470 And I don't know how else to really describe that, but some people, 00:22:46.470 --> 00:22:48.500 it's just easier to do that with. 00:22:49.000 --> 00:22:50.750 It's not extra. 00:22:50.750 --> 00:22:54.360 It's nothing to, against other people, but it's just sometimes, especially 00:22:54.360 --> 00:22:58.230 where we were at that time we just wanted to be swingers and just fuck. 00:22:58.320 --> 00:23:00.740 And so we- Did ... love group play. 00:23:00.740 --> 00:23:01.690 We love group play. 00:23:01.730 --> 00:23:03.970 That's definitely, we've talked about it a million times. 00:23:03.970 --> 00:23:08.400 We love group play, and we love being able to pick and choose, and it's hot. 00:23:08.520 --> 00:23:09.190 It's fun. 00:23:09.190 --> 00:23:13.210 And so yeah, when did that, that was that. 00:23:13.240 --> 00:23:16.100 And then we had Christmas. 00:23:16.140 --> 00:23:17.390 We did Christmas home. 00:23:17.390 --> 00:23:18.450 We just, we had a- Just 00:23:18.450 --> 00:23:19.690 Russ: good, our normal Christmas 00:23:19.690 --> 00:23:21.750 ... Ashley: good old flannel pajama Christmas. 00:23:22.100 --> 00:23:22.340 Yeah. 00:23:22.790 --> 00:23:25.150 Spoiled the kids, all the things. 00:23:25.150 --> 00:23:29.320 And then all of our friends were going to Trap for New Year's, and we were on 00:23:29.320 --> 00:23:31.460 the fence until the couple days before. 00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:33.000 Yeah we really were unsure. 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:33.420 We didn't know. 00:23:33.420 --> 00:23:34.940 We were kinda gauging what everyone else 00:23:34.940 --> 00:23:35.250 Russ: was doing. 00:23:35.250 --> 00:23:37.960 Yeah, we weren't sure what we were doing for New Year's yet, so- 00:23:37.990 --> 00:23:39.680 Ashley: And we had to decide if we wanted to do Trapeze. 00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:40.370 We've done it before. 00:23:40.370 --> 00:23:45.070 Last year we went, and it's a lot of money for a Trap night. 00:23:45.500 --> 00:23:47.920 Yeah And it's a Thursday or Tuesday, or whatever day it falls on. 00:23:47.920 --> 00:23:49.080 It's Monday- Yeah ... or something like that. 00:23:49.130 --> 00:23:54.180 And so we were like, "I don't know that I wanna do that." So we had been asking 00:23:54.180 --> 00:23:58.410 friends what their plans were, and we all kinda decided on a small group of 00:23:58.410 --> 00:24:01.680 us to go to our friends, Ash and Bo. 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:03.850 I know a lot of people know them. 00:24:04.410 --> 00:24:06.490 Ash30815, you might know her as. 00:24:06.490 --> 00:24:09.450 But she's been on TikTok and everything. 00:24:09.840 --> 00:24:11.220 She was back in the day. 00:24:11.260 --> 00:24:13.820 And we love them so much. 00:24:13.820 --> 00:24:16.710 They've been through a lot, and they are finally getting their house put 00:24:16.710 --> 00:24:19.390 together, their new house, and they got their house rebuilt, and they 00:24:19.390 --> 00:24:20.550 wanna show it off and stuff, too. 00:24:20.550 --> 00:24:21.370 We wanna go see it. 00:24:21.890 --> 00:24:25.570 And so we all decided to just do a low-key stay at- Yeah ... the house, 00:24:25.640 --> 00:24:29.690 and everyone get to see the new house, and everyone just relaxed and- 00:24:29.690 --> 00:24:29.960 Russ: Yeah. 00:24:29.960 --> 00:24:34.490 It wasn't even spi- Like, there was a few spicy moments, but it really 00:24:34.490 --> 00:24:36.170 wasn't a spicy- We, yeah ... weekend. 00:24:36.170 --> 00:24:38.180 It was very just pajamas. 00:24:38.280 --> 00:24:38.490 Yep. 00:24:38.550 --> 00:24:38.900 Eat. 00:24:38.930 --> 00:24:40.140 Ashley: Flannel pajamas, comfortable. 00:24:40.140 --> 00:24:40.990 It was freezing. 00:24:41.100 --> 00:24:41.760 Russ: Talk, drink. 00:24:41.820 --> 00:24:41.920 Sat 00:24:41.920 --> 00:24:42.500 Ashley: out by the fire. 00:24:42.500 --> 00:24:42.520 Just 00:24:42.520 --> 00:24:43.080 Russ: laugh. 00:24:43.110 --> 00:24:43.660 Ashley: Oh my gosh. 00:24:43.810 --> 00:24:44.180 Yeah. 00:24:44.240 --> 00:24:48.690 And then we with Lady Haighze and her husband, and then Ash and her 00:24:48.690 --> 00:24:51.920 husband, and we had fireworks. 00:24:52.160 --> 00:24:53.670 Thought that was a great idea. 00:24:53.670 --> 00:24:54.660 It was so dry. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:24:55.580 Russ: And windy. 00:24:55.610 --> 00:24:56.350 Ashley: And windy. 00:24:56.350 --> 00:24:56.950 Russ: And windy. 00:24:56.950 --> 00:25:01.080 Ashley: Everyone... It went, it was complete chaos. 00:25:01.420 --> 00:25:01.810 Russ: So- 00:25:01.910 --> 00:25:03.570 Ashley: Complete insanity 00:25:03.730 --> 00:25:06.540 ... Russ: I, I still say we were being a little dramatic. 00:25:06.540 --> 00:25:07.410 Ashley: It was a lot of drama. 00:25:07.410 --> 00:25:08.150 There was a lot of drama for what it 00:25:08.150 --> 00:25:08.290 Russ: was. 00:25:08.290 --> 00:25:09.930 It was a lot of drama going on. 00:25:09.930 --> 00:25:09.990 It wasn't 00:25:09.990 --> 00:25:10.470 Ashley: really that scary. 00:25:10.470 --> 00:25:11.140 We had it under control. 00:25:11.170 --> 00:25:11.330 Russ: Yes. 00:25:11.330 --> 00:25:12.110 But- So- It 00:25:12.110 --> 00:25:12.280 Ashley: did 00:25:12.280 --> 00:25:12.780 Russ: get big ... here's the thing. 00:25:12.780 --> 00:25:17.880 We had a big, from the rebuild of their house and stuff like that, they had- Yeah 00:25:17.880 --> 00:25:20.840 ... a big pile of a burn pile, a giant. 00:25:21.130 --> 00:25:22.110 Yeah And he, and- Just 00:25:22.110 --> 00:25:22.910 Ashley: junk, yeah 00:25:23.110 --> 00:25:27.260 ... Russ: and r- they were like, "We're gonna burn that tonight just to get rid of it. 00:25:27.260 --> 00:25:29.140 We can s- you know, have a big fire. 00:25:29.140 --> 00:25:30.160 It'd be, it'd be fun." Got the hose 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:30.560 Ashley: out. 00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:32.130 Russ: He had a hose out. 00:25:32.130 --> 00:25:33.110 Like, everything was safe. 00:25:33.110 --> 00:25:33.170 Yeah, 00:25:33.170 --> 00:25:33.800 Ashley: everything good. 00:25:34.450 --> 00:25:35.540 Yeah, firefighters were there. 00:25:35.540 --> 00:25:36.950 And- We had firefighters there. 00:25:37.450 --> 00:25:40.340 It was, it was- Yeah ... we had it under... It was fine, but- 00:25:40.480 --> 00:25:40.820 Russ: But- 00:25:40.820 --> 00:25:41.540 ... Ashley: the drama 00:25:41.935 --> 00:25:42.585 Russ: And add 00:25:42.585 --> 00:25:43.685 Ashley: fireworks to it 00:25:45.265 --> 00:25:52.195 Russ: At w- some point, they brought fireworks out and I s- what, the, where 00:25:52.195 --> 00:25:57.165 the fire burned like burn ring, like burned the grass away from the fire, I 00:25:57.165 --> 00:26:01.725 put one of those little I don't know, Roman candle like, little box things. 00:26:03.165 --> 00:26:04.565 Lit it, walked away. 00:26:04.565 --> 00:26:04.915 It, yeah. 00:26:04.915 --> 00:26:08.765 As soon as the first shot thing went off, it fell over. 00:26:08.765 --> 00:26:08.915 Flipped 00:26:08.915 --> 00:26:09.635 Ashley: over, of course. 00:26:09.675 --> 00:26:12.995 Russ: Oh And starts shooting The drama E- e- everywhere In the grass 00:26:13.245 --> 00:26:15.995 And catching grass on fire- The whole pile ... in, like, patches 00:26:16.095 --> 00:26:16.245 Ashley: Yeah. 00:26:16.735 --> 00:26:18.495 So everybody was just trying to stomp it out. 00:26:18.495 --> 00:26:19.185 Russ: And- 00:26:19.185 --> 00:26:20.115 Ashley: Running around. 00:26:20.335 --> 00:26:20.645 Pure 00:26:20.645 --> 00:26:22.735 Russ: chaos Oh, it was, it was pure chaos. 00:26:22.735 --> 00:26:26.465 So much chaos And then the hose wouldn't reach around to all the spots. 00:26:27.065 --> 00:26:30.245 There's another burn pile across this little lane. 00:26:30.245 --> 00:26:30.945 Speaker 6: I was stomping 00:26:30.945 --> 00:26:34.445 Russ: out I found, like, a plastic table That table And so I start 00:26:34.445 --> 00:26:37.865 stomping it with this plastic table. 00:26:38.125 --> 00:26:38.275 Ashley: Yeah. 00:26:38.395 --> 00:26:41.205 It was, it was, it was something. 00:26:41.205 --> 00:26:42.525 It was, it was a time. 00:26:42.615 --> 00:26:44.275 We had a time that night, but- 00:26:44.465 --> 00:26:45.225 Russ: Yeah, it was- 00:26:45.265 --> 00:26:45.615 Ashley: It was fun. 00:26:45.645 --> 00:26:46.105 We had a lot of food 00:26:46.105 --> 00:26:46.215 it 00:26:46.215 --> 00:26:46.385 Russ: was 00:26:46.385 --> 00:26:46.475 Ashley: fun. 00:26:46.555 --> 00:26:48.105 We had a lot of food, ton of food. 00:26:48.135 --> 00:26:51.525 We brought all the stuff for charcuterie trays and for- 00:26:51.555 --> 00:26:51.975 Russ: Yeah 00:26:52.305 --> 00:26:53.265 ... Ashley: we had all sorts of- 00:26:53.315 --> 00:26:55.475 Russ: Ash made, what was it? 00:26:55.475 --> 00:26:56.045 Ashley: Pulled pork 00:26:56.245 --> 00:26:57.275 Russ: Onion pie? 00:26:57.275 --> 00:26:57.435 Oh, 00:26:57.435 --> 00:26:57.555 Ashley: yeah. 00:26:57.555 --> 00:26:58.195 Onion pie. 00:26:58.225 --> 00:26:59.545 Russ: Yeah, never had one of those before. 00:26:59.545 --> 00:26:59.925 That was good. 00:26:59.925 --> 00:27:00.625 It was, it was good. 00:27:00.835 --> 00:27:01.235 Ashley: Yeah, it was good. 00:27:01.535 --> 00:27:02.125 Russ: It was good. 00:27:02.475 --> 00:27:04.415 It was like a quiche and then, yeah, I think the- 00:27:04.545 --> 00:27:05.185 Ashley: We all brought, like- 00:27:05.185 --> 00:27:09.795 Russ: Uh, Bo made- Pulled pork ... a pulled, yeah, a pork butt 00:27:09.795 --> 00:27:09.975 Ashley: Bo made that. 00:27:09.975 --> 00:27:14.585 And then we had a Blackstone, and he cooked hibachi 'cause Lady Haighze- Yeah. 00:27:14.585 --> 00:27:17.015 was, said she was craving it- Yeah ... at, like, 10:00 PM. 00:27:17.055 --> 00:27:19.655 Russ: Yeah, at 10:00 o'clock, Lady Haighze- Out of nowhere ... she's 00:27:19.655 --> 00:27:24.035 like, "How much do you love me?" I'm like, "What do you want?" Yeah. 00:27:24.805 --> 00:27:28.895 She's like, "If I DoorDashed groceries-" Yeah "... could you 00:27:28.895 --> 00:27:30.105 make hibachi?" Like, Came in 00:27:30.515 --> 00:27:31.075 Ashley: with like- 00:27:31.075 --> 00:27:31.315 Russ: I'm 00:27:31.455 --> 00:27:32.285 Ashley: like- ... 20 pounds of- 00:27:32.285 --> 00:27:32.495 Russ: Yeah 00:27:32.525 --> 00:27:33.345 ... Ashley: hibachi noodles 00:27:33.345 --> 00:27:33.975 Russ: and- Yeah, 00:27:34.005 --> 00:27:34.035 Ashley: I 00:27:34.585 --> 00:27:34.795 Russ: can 00:27:34.795 --> 00:27:38.205 chicken And she's like, "Okay, what do you need?" So I told her everything I needed. 00:27:38.675 --> 00:27:41.615 She, he DoorDashed it, and 00:27:41.665 --> 00:27:46.595 I think we ended up leaving two tubs of hibachi rice and 00:27:46.795 --> 00:27:49.245 teriyaki chicken in their fridge. 00:27:49.275 --> 00:27:50.905 That's good. 00:27:50.905 --> 00:27:54.545 But then that was New Year's. 00:27:54.605 --> 00:27:56.135 I mean, just super low-key. 00:27:56.135 --> 00:27:57.195 Had so much fun. 00:27:57.505 --> 00:27:57.565 Ashley: Yeah. 00:27:57.565 --> 00:27:59.395 And we did New Year's at home with 00:27:59.395 --> 00:28:00.075 Russ: the kids- And 00:28:00.155 --> 00:28:00.445 Ashley: then- ... and- 00:28:00.865 --> 00:28:05.005 Russ: Yeah, so then we came home and did a whole New Year's 00:28:05.475 --> 00:28:06.115 Ashley: with the kids 00:28:06.115 --> 00:28:06.635 Russ: and things like that 00:28:06.635 --> 00:28:06.985 ... Ashley: with the kids. 00:28:07.035 --> 00:28:10.845 And then we didn't do much until the end of January. 00:28:10.845 --> 00:28:16.875 We had met a couple at Secrets when Russ was there, and they had a 00:28:16.875 --> 00:28:21.195 group of really awesome, hot people. 00:28:21.465 --> 00:28:21.865 Russ: Yeah. 00:28:22.065 --> 00:28:24.255 Ashley: That is pretty secretive. 00:28:24.255 --> 00:28:27.495 It's one of those invite-only, if you know you know- Yeah ... type places. 00:28:27.495 --> 00:28:27.555 So 00:28:27.555 --> 00:28:29.645 Russ: this group wasn't even supposed to be there that weekend. 00:28:29.645 --> 00:28:29.775 Yeah. 00:28:29.775 --> 00:28:31.065 They were supposed to go to Hedo. 00:28:31.065 --> 00:28:31.485 Yeah. 00:28:31.755 --> 00:28:33.715 But then they had hurricanes. 00:28:33.715 --> 00:28:33.825 Yeah, 00:28:33.985 --> 00:28:37.235 Ashley: so S- Secrets hooked up with Hedo to be a place that people 00:28:37.235 --> 00:28:38.555 could go instead of going to Hedo. 00:28:38.555 --> 00:28:38.655 Yeah. 00:28:38.725 --> 00:28:43.125 So they did a Hedo kinda thing at Secrets while we were there 00:28:43.225 --> 00:28:45.255 with iCandy all at the same time. 00:28:45.315 --> 00:28:46.185 So we had met them. 00:28:46.185 --> 00:28:51.815 They were a few doors down from us in our room, and we kept connecting with them. 00:28:51.845 --> 00:28:55.155 And then he ended up handing us a metal card. 00:28:55.155 --> 00:28:55.915 It was so official. 00:28:55.915 --> 00:28:56.505 It was like this. 00:28:56.585 --> 00:28:58.215 He was like, "Scan this." 00:28:58.615 --> 00:28:58.875 Russ: Yeah. 00:28:58.875 --> 00:28:59.485 " Ashley: Fill out the form." 00:28:59.485 --> 00:29:03.155 Russ: Yeah, he pulls, reaches in his pocket and pulls out a metal card, and 00:29:03.345 --> 00:29:08.625 it has a QR code on it, and he's like, "Scan this." He's like, "Fill it out. 00:29:08.975 --> 00:29:15.430 Just put our names on it, and we'll get you invited to our meet and greet." 00:29:16.090 --> 00:29:19.210 Ashley: You have to be vetted through this system. 00:29:19.310 --> 00:29:20.800 It's a group of, like, 250 people. 00:29:20.990 --> 00:29:22.580 It's a pretty large-sized group. 00:29:23.980 --> 00:29:26.860 But they have people that are, like, ambassadors. 00:29:26.860 --> 00:29:29.330 They pick couples that get to host and stuff. 00:29:29.380 --> 00:29:33.780 And so it's a system of you get to hop around to different bars and restaurants. 00:29:34.140 --> 00:29:35.620 You meet with these couples. 00:29:35.650 --> 00:29:37.440 There was two or three couples at each spot- 00:29:37.630 --> 00:29:37.930 Russ: Yep 00:29:38.050 --> 00:29:40.610 Ashley: that were in the group, and they were already been there for a while. 00:29:40.610 --> 00:29:42.890 They've earned their, you know, spot. 00:29:43.170 --> 00:29:46.210 And they were all wearing a different color. 00:29:46.890 --> 00:29:49.190 And so you went to the restaurant. 00:29:49.190 --> 00:29:51.950 You each had your own unique schedule what time to be where. 00:29:52.220 --> 00:29:56.560 So you had to follow this to the T to make it all work, and they were very- Yeah 00:29:56.560 --> 00:29:57.610 they were very punctual. 00:29:57.610 --> 00:29:59.760 Everyone was, like, they were very good. 00:29:59.820 --> 00:30:00.010 Russ: Yeah. 00:30:00.010 --> 00:30:02.010 I don't know how- To have a group of swingers- Yeah ... they 00:30:02.010 --> 00:30:05.050 stick to a schedule like that is- They were- ... very impressive 00:30:05.100 --> 00:30:06.370 ... Ashley: very impressive. 00:30:06.410 --> 00:30:07.620 I was impressed by the whole thing. 00:30:07.620 --> 00:30:10.470 The whole th- I really wanna do it locally here myself. 00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:13.650 I wanna kind of steal their idea, 'cause it's genius. 00:30:13.840 --> 00:30:14.070 Russ: Yeah. 00:30:14.100 --> 00:30:19.100 Ashley: And it's just... So we drove there. 00:30:19.100 --> 00:30:20.110 How long was that? 00:30:20.110 --> 00:30:21.110 Like, four-hour drive or 00:30:21.110 --> 00:30:21.690 Russ: something like that? 00:30:21.690 --> 00:30:23.680 Uh, it was, like, almost a six-hour drive, wasn't it? 00:30:23.680 --> 00:30:23.880 No, 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:25.020 Ashley: I thought it was... I don't know. 00:30:25.020 --> 00:30:26.090 It was, like, I don't know. 00:30:26.390 --> 00:30:27.030 My- Or maybe it was, we'll 00:30:27.030 --> 00:30:27.540 Russ: only say four 00:30:27.540 --> 00:30:27.890 Ashley: hours 00:30:27.890 --> 00:30:30.050 like, my time is- Yeah ... very now that I travel all the time, 00:30:30.080 --> 00:30:32.100 but it wasn't too, too bad. 00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:35.820 And then we got there, and the couple that we were invited by, we ended 00:30:35.820 --> 00:30:38.760 up being invited to dinner with them, so we went to go hang out. 00:30:38.760 --> 00:30:41.980 We really, they took us to all their favorite bars, their favorite- 00:30:42.150 --> 00:30:42.360 Russ: Yeah 00:30:42.360 --> 00:30:44.460 ... Ashley: buildings, their favorite places to eat. 00:30:44.460 --> 00:30:46.820 Russ: And went to one cool- Cocktails after ... little, like, 00:30:46.820 --> 00:30:49.470 bar/restaurant and had dinner and a couple- It was really cute ... drinks. 00:30:49.550 --> 00:30:50.330 Ashley: The whole town was really cute. 00:30:50.430 --> 00:30:54.860 Russ: And then they took us to a couple more bars that were very trendy. 00:30:54.860 --> 00:30:59.150 Yeah and really... the whole town- It's really cute ... in itself is trendy. 00:30:59.430 --> 00:30:59.500 Yeah. 00:31:00.060 --> 00:31:04.560 Ashley: And then we did that, and we went back kinda early-ish, and we went to bed. 00:31:04.650 --> 00:31:08.220 I did some different, TikToks and pictures and stuff. 00:31:08.220 --> 00:31:11.970 We got some cute little videos of us and stuff to make content. 00:31:11.970 --> 00:31:15.410 And then the next day was the day, and it started at 3:00, 00:31:15.410 --> 00:31:17.130 4:00, 3:00 in the afternoon. 00:31:17.130 --> 00:31:17.160 Oh. 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:17.450 It was, like, 3:00. 00:31:17.450 --> 00:31:17.510 Yeah. 00:31:17.510 --> 00:31:20.570 So it was an- I forget what time it started ... entire day full. 00:31:20.630 --> 00:31:23.150 And we didn't get our schedule until the day before. 00:31:23.150 --> 00:31:25.350 They sent it to our email, and we had our own personalized. 00:31:25.380 --> 00:31:28.020 And we had, they were each color-coordinated, so each place 00:31:28.020 --> 00:31:31.610 was, like, blue, red, pink, whatever, and they were all wearing that 00:31:31.610 --> 00:31:33.670 color, so you knew who they were. 00:31:33.830 --> 00:31:34.170 Russ: Yeah. 00:31:34.440 --> 00:31:37.930 Ashley: And so we, you would get to meet the two or three couple host couples, 00:31:37.930 --> 00:31:40.690 plus you would get to be with two or three other couples- Yeah ... that 00:31:40.690 --> 00:31:41.160 Russ: were also 00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:41.370 Ashley: being vetted. 00:31:41.370 --> 00:31:41.460 So 00:31:41.560 --> 00:31:44.590 Russ: every 30 minutes we were walking to a different bar. 00:31:45.020 --> 00:31:45.080 Yeah. 00:31:45.080 --> 00:31:50.655 And so there was two other host couples at every bar, and then- They 00:31:50.655 --> 00:31:52.965 were also meeting with two couples 00:31:53.055 --> 00:31:53.165 Ashley: Yeah 00:31:53.415 --> 00:31:56.695 Russ: So we would meet, so each bar we were meeting new couples 00:31:56.695 --> 00:31:58.015 that we met for the first time. 00:31:58.045 --> 00:31:58.685 Ashley: Yeah, it was fun 00:31:58.985 --> 00:31:59.275 Russ: Yeah 00:31:59.435 --> 00:32:02.195 Ashley: And they would just ask you, you know, you had to do your whole 00:32:02.195 --> 00:32:03.735 like how'd you get into the lifestyle. 00:32:03.765 --> 00:32:08.535 They, we had, there was a few really good ones that were getting pretty deep. 00:32:08.595 --> 00:32:11.005 I mean, they don't mess around, and if you mess up, you're done. 00:32:11.095 --> 00:32:13.655 So it's very much, they wanna know the scoop. 00:32:13.735 --> 00:32:15.025 They wanna know if you're gonna be drama. 00:32:15.025 --> 00:32:16.755 They wanna know if you guys like each other. 00:32:16.755 --> 00:32:18.855 They wanna know if you are gonna be cool. 00:32:19.325 --> 00:32:19.635 Yeah. 00:32:19.675 --> 00:32:21.885 If you can hold a conversation, if you take care of yourself. 00:32:22.145 --> 00:32:25.495 They are all very good-looking and very taken care of. 00:32:25.495 --> 00:32:25.865 Some of the 00:32:25.865 --> 00:32:27.065 Russ: prettiest- They take the 00:32:27.065 --> 00:32:27.385 Ashley: prettiest- 00:32:27.385 --> 00:32:29.755 Russ: Like collectively, they're some of the prettiest people 00:32:29.755 --> 00:32:30.735 I've ever seen Inside and 00:32:30.735 --> 00:32:31.105 Ashley: out. 00:32:31.105 --> 00:32:35.825 Like they were super sweet- Yeah ... super nice, such good conversationalists. 00:32:35.875 --> 00:32:39.595 I don't know, I'm, they, and but they'll, so many of them says that 00:32:39.595 --> 00:32:40.855 they've, this is all they've ever done. 00:32:41.445 --> 00:32:42.535 This was where they started. 00:32:42.575 --> 00:32:42.635 Yeah. 00:32:42.715 --> 00:32:45.645 This was all they stick to, and I see why they stick doing that. 00:32:45.645 --> 00:32:46.105 Yeah I would too. 00:32:46.105 --> 00:32:46.215 It's 00:32:46.215 --> 00:32:46.715 Russ: safe. 00:32:46.715 --> 00:32:47.465 Ashley: It's, they're 00:32:47.465 --> 00:32:48.065 Russ: hot 00:32:48.065 --> 00:32:48.285 ... Ashley: it's 00:32:48.285 --> 00:32:49.465 Russ: vetted ... it's vetted 00:32:49.465 --> 00:32:52.585 Ashley: You pay like a, enough to take care of parties, and then 00:32:52.585 --> 00:32:57.115 the hosts have this house that was b- built to be a playhouse. 00:32:57.115 --> 00:32:58.715 It's- Yeah ... you don't get the address. 00:32:58.715 --> 00:33:00.915 So if you, okay, so we're skipping ahead. 00:33:01.255 --> 00:33:03.245 So you went and you did your interviews, and there was like 00:33:03.245 --> 00:33:04.345 six spots that you went to. 00:33:04.345 --> 00:33:04.415 Yeah. 00:33:04.415 --> 00:33:07.205 And you meet all these people, and connected with all these couples. 00:33:07.205 --> 00:33:10.365 And then at the end, all of the host couples go to a secret 00:33:10.365 --> 00:33:12.655 location while you leave. 00:33:12.705 --> 00:33:16.875 So we ended up, we were done at like 11:00 PM. 00:33:16.875 --> 00:33:18.905 We had started at 3:00 PM, so we were starving. 00:33:18.965 --> 00:33:19.145 Yeah. 00:33:19.145 --> 00:33:20.985 So we ended up s- actually sitting down and eating- 00:33:20.985 --> 00:33:23.595 Russ: Yeah, that last bar we- ... something ... met with- Yeah ... we're 00:33:23.595 --> 00:33:25.845 like- We're just gonna stay here and eat ... let's stay here and let's, let's 00:33:25.845 --> 00:33:27.115 get a table and get something to eat. 00:33:27.115 --> 00:33:29.495 Ashley: Cause we knew they had to deliberate together at this- Yeah 00:33:29.495 --> 00:33:30.145 secret location. 00:33:30.145 --> 00:33:31.985 So they had to get there, they had to sit, and they had to talk, 00:33:31.985 --> 00:33:32.785 and they were gonna eat dinner. 00:33:32.785 --> 00:33:38.265 So we got dinner, got some snacks and stuff, and then we went back to the hotel. 00:33:38.525 --> 00:33:43.695 So they had to each pick a couple that they choose their favorite one for the 00:33:43.695 --> 00:33:45.875 night, so it's not very many of us. 00:33:46.205 --> 00:33:49.065 And then they would all hash it out and everything, and they would 00:33:49.065 --> 00:33:51.195 pick a certain amount of couples. 00:33:51.225 --> 00:33:54.035 It was only a few that was picked out of everyone that they met. 00:33:54.225 --> 00:33:54.355 Yeah. 00:33:54.355 --> 00:33:55.475 And so we went back to the hotel. 00:33:55.475 --> 00:33:56.205 'Cause you don't know. 00:33:56.255 --> 00:33:59.725 And when you get through, if you're a favorite couple, they'll 00:33:59.725 --> 00:34:01.255 invite you to their after party. 00:34:01.255 --> 00:34:04.715 Their after party's super vetted, and it's at their personal residence. 00:34:04.815 --> 00:34:07.255 Russ: You can be invited to the after party if you 00:34:07.255 --> 00:34:08.255 Ashley: were picked as a favorite. 00:34:08.255 --> 00:34:11.685 Russ: But then that's like another test as well 00:34:11.815 --> 00:34:12.045 Ashley: Yeah, yeah 00:34:12.215 --> 00:34:14.825 Russ: Like, the final stage, the boss level. 00:34:14.825 --> 00:34:15.035 It 00:34:15.115 --> 00:34:15.655 Ashley: felt like 00:34:15.825 --> 00:34:16.385 Russ: Survivor. 00:34:16.385 --> 00:34:19.715 Because even if you're invited to the after party, doesn't mean- 00:34:19.715 --> 00:34:20.345 Doesn't mean you're in the group 00:34:20.345 --> 00:34:21.895 you'll be invited to the group. 00:34:21.895 --> 00:34:22.205 Ashley: Yeah 00:34:22.395 --> 00:34:23.005 Russ: We waited. 00:34:23.005 --> 00:34:26.435 We had to wait a- Yeah ... oh, we got our e- the email the next day pretty 00:34:26.435 --> 00:34:26.525 Ashley: quick. 00:34:26.525 --> 00:34:27.465 We were pretty... Yeah. 00:34:27.585 --> 00:34:27.825 We- 00:34:27.825 --> 00:34:28.195 Russ: But- It 00:34:28.365 --> 00:34:29.985 Ashley: was pretty fast, but you just don't know. 00:34:29.985 --> 00:34:32.255 And then when you're going there to these meet and greets and getting 00:34:32.255 --> 00:34:35.015 in the hotel and you... I mean, w- we could have not heard anything 00:34:35.015 --> 00:34:36.035 and that was all it would've been. 00:34:36.035 --> 00:34:38.855 It would've been just us at the hotel for the weekend just hanging out, which was 00:34:38.855 --> 00:34:41.435 fine, you just don't know- Yeah ... what you're, if you're going to a swinger 00:34:41.435 --> 00:34:43.125 party, if you're going to a house. 00:34:43.155 --> 00:34:43.955 It's a house party. 00:34:43.985 --> 00:34:47.355 The, so they had a house that was made for this club. 00:34:47.825 --> 00:34:51.715 That was their club, and that is where they hang out, and that is where the pl- 00:34:51.715 --> 00:34:56.505 they had playrooms, they had TVs set up, they had stations, they had locker room. 00:34:56.505 --> 00:34:56.645 They had- 00:34:56.795 --> 00:35:00.165 Russ: Well, one of our favorite parts was before the party started, remember? 00:35:00.995 --> 00:35:01.455 Where- 00:35:01.495 --> 00:35:01.655 Ashley: Yeah 00:35:01.960 --> 00:35:05.310 Russ: Like, We all were kinda just talking and mingling, and then 00:35:05.310 --> 00:35:07.430 before they open the playrooms- 00:35:07.670 --> 00:35:07.760 Ashley: Yep 00:35:07.910 --> 00:35:09.680 ... Russ: everybody gathers in this living room. 00:35:09.710 --> 00:35:10.980 Ashley: Yeah, it's a living room with this big, 00:35:10.980 --> 00:35:11.790 Russ: giant TV. 00:35:11.790 --> 00:35:14.140 And the host- Yep 00:35:14.140 --> 00:35:17.740 gets on the fireplace mantle like a stage, and he has a 00:35:17.740 --> 00:35:20.350 whole PowerPoint presentation- 00:35:20.510 --> 00:35:21.220 Ashley: He turns the lights down 00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:21.900 ... Russ: about- 00:35:21.900 --> 00:35:22.930 Ashley: PowerPoint, about consent 00:35:22.930 --> 00:35:25.400 ... Russ: the rules, the house rules- Yeah ... consent. 00:35:25.460 --> 00:35:25.660 It was 00:35:25.660 --> 00:35:26.190 Ashley: so beautiful. 00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:27.100 I teared up a little. 00:35:27.100 --> 00:35:31.090 It was everything that I want everybody to do every time they're doing anything. 00:35:31.090 --> 00:35:31.160 Yeah. 00:35:31.160 --> 00:35:33.670 It was so perfect, and it was a PowerPoint. 00:35:34.020 --> 00:35:38.410 And everyone had to agree and say yes, and everyone, they... And 00:35:38.410 --> 00:35:41.370 then they highlighted highlights from people in the group, and they 00:35:41.370 --> 00:35:44.320 talked about accomplishments, and then they would, it was like a club. 00:35:44.740 --> 00:35:44.830 Yeah. 00:35:44.830 --> 00:35:48.010 And they just were like, "Oh, you've been here this," and "Congratulations on this." 00:35:48.010 --> 00:35:50.990 And it was a club, and it was in this living room, and it was so 00:35:50.990 --> 00:35:52.550 sweet and so beautiful to watch. 00:35:52.600 --> 00:35:55.170 And then they were making frozen pizzas. 00:35:55.170 --> 00:35:56.180 They had- Yeah ... drinks. 00:35:56.180 --> 00:35:57.060 They had food. 00:35:57.280 --> 00:35:59.770 They'd pop in, " Anybody want some gr- like, grilled 00:35:59.770 --> 00:36:01.270 Russ: cheese?" I got to open- I think it's grilled cheese ... a 00:36:01.270 --> 00:36:02.820 bottle of champagne with a saber. 00:36:02.850 --> 00:36:04.750 Ashley: They were, yeah, they had saber knives. 00:36:04.750 --> 00:36:07.220 And they were doing it by the fire, just chopping. 00:36:07.220 --> 00:36:09.750 Russ: Yeah, they had a big- Yeah ... they had a hot tub over there. 00:36:09.750 --> 00:36:10.880 Then you walked down some stairs. 00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:13.530 They had a big fire pit. 00:36:13.810 --> 00:36:15.220 Ashley: With 20 seats around it. 00:36:15.220 --> 00:36:15.480 Yeah. 00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.860 It was made for this. 00:36:16.860 --> 00:36:19.350 This was ex- Yeah ... all the LED lighting was in the walls. 00:36:19.350 --> 00:36:20.370 It was made. 00:36:20.820 --> 00:36:23.710 They had condom stations, hydration stations. 00:36:23.740 --> 00:36:24.260 It was- 00:36:24.600 --> 00:36:25.490 Russ: All the towels. 00:36:25.490 --> 00:36:25.530 You 00:36:25.530 --> 00:36:27.000 Ashley: could- All the towels you could imagine ... yeah. 00:36:27.060 --> 00:36:27.880 There was rules. 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.470 The rules were very thought out, very... It was good. 00:36:30.510 --> 00:36:31.820 It was so good. 00:36:31.890 --> 00:36:35.530 And upstairs in the loft, they had the, just tons of mattresses 00:36:35.530 --> 00:36:39.190 and porn playing and lights, and it was like a big group area. 00:36:39.220 --> 00:36:39.420 Yeah. 00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:40.630 And then they had private rooms. 00:36:40.630 --> 00:36:43.720 They had... It was top-notch. 00:36:43.780 --> 00:36:44.470 So much fun. 00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.170 Honestly, I would go back in a heartbeat. 00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:48.580 I, there was not one complaint. 00:36:48.580 --> 00:36:48.640 Yeah. 00:36:48.640 --> 00:36:49.970 I didn't have one complaint. 00:36:50.040 --> 00:36:52.320 Russ: We've been so busy we haven't- We just haven't ... had a chance. 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.840 Ashley: It's not- But- It's not close close, so it is a hike. 00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:55.820 It is a whole weekend thing. 00:36:55.820 --> 00:36:59.090 We have to plan life and stuff, and weekends are hard, as you know. 00:36:59.090 --> 00:37:01.220 So we're gonna get back to another party. 00:37:01.220 --> 00:37:03.690 We really wanna go to a summer... They do inflatable parties where 00:37:03.690 --> 00:37:08.930 they just have dozens of inflatables- Yeah ... and just lube and baby oil. 00:37:08.930 --> 00:37:12.310 And I've heard so many good things about all the parties that they throw and stuff. 00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:14.950 And such a great group of people. 00:37:15.020 --> 00:37:15.100 Yeah. 00:37:15.100 --> 00:37:19.540 I, like, Beautiful, gorgeous people, but also they're just the sweetest 00:37:19.540 --> 00:37:21.320 and kindest and so welcoming. 00:37:21.320 --> 00:37:24.170 They love their city, and they're very proud of their city. 00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:24.560 Oh. 00:37:24.590 --> 00:37:24.970 And- 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:25.700 Speaker: Yeah 00:37:25.750 --> 00:37:28.440 ... Ashley: they were willing to help us out with anything. 00:37:28.440 --> 00:37:31.320 They really wanted to welcome us in, and we thank them. 00:37:31.350 --> 00:37:32.200 They know who they are. 00:37:32.230 --> 00:37:34.170 I know they don't wanna really be talked about, and it is 00:37:34.170 --> 00:37:35.430 a very kinda secret thing. 00:37:35.430 --> 00:37:40.100 But we, we did wanna tell them we wanted to share our- experience. 00:37:40.100 --> 00:37:42.850 They were open to us sharing our experience, and we vlogged 00:37:42.850 --> 00:37:44.410 and did the little thing around. 00:37:44.410 --> 00:37:47.240 It was, it w- was like a, it was a wild game of Survivor. 00:37:47.240 --> 00:37:48.550 It wa- Swinger Survivor ... it was so much fun though. 00:37:48.910 --> 00:37:51.940 And we, if you can't tell, we didn't actually say that, but we got, we 00:37:51.940 --> 00:37:54.220 were also picked as a favorite, so we got to go back to the house, 00:37:54.220 --> 00:37:56.370 and we were accepted to the group. 00:37:56.370 --> 00:37:58.360 So- It worked out. 00:37:58.360 --> 00:38:00.040 But it was stressful, and I wasn't sure. 00:38:00.040 --> 00:38:00.160 It was. 00:38:00.160 --> 00:38:03.140 And I was, yeah, I was second-guessing myself when we kept meeting all these 00:38:03.290 --> 00:38:05.110 beautiful, amazing, gorgeous people. 00:38:05.110 --> 00:38:08.940 I was like, "I don't, I don't know." It was hard, hard competition. 00:38:08.970 --> 00:38:09.820 We had hard competition. 00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:10.020 Yeah. 00:38:10.020 --> 00:38:11.160 But we made it. 00:38:11.580 --> 00:38:12.060 Russ: We made it. 00:38:12.060 --> 00:38:13.520 Ashley: And it was so much fun, and I can't wait to go back. 00:38:13.520 --> 00:38:13.720 Russ: Yeah. 00:38:13.720 --> 00:38:13.980 Ashley: So. 00:38:14.010 --> 00:38:18.910 Russ: So right shortly after that, though, I had a random- 00:38:19.190 --> 00:38:19.250 Speaker 4: Yeah 00:38:20.130 --> 00:38:21.650 ... Russ: night off and- Were shut 00:38:21.650 --> 00:38:23.990 Ashley: down for the night, and it was, like, last second, so we were like, 00:38:23.990 --> 00:38:25.090 "Well, we have a free Friday now." 00:38:25.180 --> 00:38:28.170 And we decided to go to Trap. 00:38:28.170 --> 00:38:30.560 We hadn't done a spontaneous Trap night- Yeah ... in a really long time, 00:38:30.560 --> 00:38:30.610 Russ: so. 00:38:30.610 --> 00:38:32.540 So we just drove up and went to Trap. 00:38:32.640 --> 00:38:33.590 It was pink night. 00:38:33.660 --> 00:38:35.170 We d- I'd had my pink suit on. 00:38:35.170 --> 00:38:36.340 You had a pink dress on. 00:38:36.680 --> 00:38:38.390 Ashley: Yeah, and then it happened again. 00:38:38.790 --> 00:38:42.760 Russ: And then- For Mardi Gras ... the next time, yeah, for the Mardi Gras 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:46.250 night, I had a meeting all day Friday. 00:38:46.450 --> 00:38:48.480 Ashley: It was a f- I mean, this was, like, a month, like, it was a while. 00:38:48.510 --> 00:38:49.170 It wasn't right back-to-back, so. 00:38:49.330 --> 00:38:51.590 Russ: Like I said, I work- Yeah ... Friday, Saturday- 00:38:51.590 --> 00:38:53.900 But ... Sunday night shift. 00:38:54.350 --> 00:38:54.620 Ashley: Yeah, so. 00:38:54.620 --> 00:38:57.740 Russ: So since I was in meetings all day Friday, I didn't have 00:38:57.740 --> 00:38:59.660 to go to work that night. 00:38:59.660 --> 00:39:00.110 For the night. 00:39:00.230 --> 00:39:00.340 Ashley: Yeah. 00:39:00.400 --> 00:39:02.040 So it was another Friday night. 00:39:02.040 --> 00:39:02.720 Russ: So- 00:39:03.010 --> 00:39:03.080 Ashley: Yeah. 00:39:03.650 --> 00:39:04.890 We didn't tell anybody at 00:39:04.890 --> 00:39:04.970 Russ: all. 00:39:04.970 --> 00:39:05.740 We, I, I- Didn't 00:39:05.740 --> 00:39:07.020 Ashley: tell anyone this time. 00:39:07.220 --> 00:39:08.260 Russ: I came home. 00:39:08.340 --> 00:39:09.530 I got changed. 00:39:09.790 --> 00:39:11.060 You were already ready to go. 00:39:11.310 --> 00:39:11.810 Ashley: Yeah, we just- 00:39:11.810 --> 00:39:13.430 Russ: And we- ... left ... went up to Trap. 00:39:14.080 --> 00:39:14.340 Yeah. 00:39:14.340 --> 00:39:17.270 And oh, that was the first time in a long time where we drove up 00:39:17.270 --> 00:39:19.590 there, we went, we had some fun. 00:39:19.700 --> 00:39:20.290 Ashley: And came back. 00:39:20.290 --> 00:39:21.310 Russ: And then we drove home. 00:39:21.390 --> 00:39:21.560 Ashley: Yeah. 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:24.540 It was a good low-key, it was a very old-school Friday- 00:39:24.540 --> 00:39:25.930 Yeah ... Friday night Trap night. 00:39:26.330 --> 00:39:30.840 And then my next trip was a solo trip to Rumors, finally. 00:39:31.410 --> 00:39:33.750 Went to go check out Rumors Atlanta, which is Atlanta's 00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.790 dungeon, pretty much their dungeon. 00:39:36.790 --> 00:39:36.890 Yeah. 00:39:36.950 --> 00:39:41.350 And I have known the people that are part of it for a really long time, and 00:39:41.350 --> 00:39:42.320 they've been telling me all about it. 00:39:42.350 --> 00:39:45.090 Speaker 4: I have been wanting to go forever, and I finally. 00:39:45.090 --> 00:39:50.080 They were doing a Pineapples After Dark night and so I decided to go. 00:39:50.110 --> 00:39:52.800 I went up with ThaMFKNLees. 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:55.660 I stayed at their house and went with them, so I didn't have to go alone 00:39:55.660 --> 00:39:56.690 'cause I was kind of intimidated. 00:39:56.690 --> 00:39:57.290 Ashley: I wasn't sure. 00:39:57.290 --> 00:39:58.490 That's why I didn't go the last times. 00:39:58.490 --> 00:40:00.390 I wasn't sure about doing a dungeon alone. 00:40:00.510 --> 00:40:01.090 I wasn't sure. 00:40:01.090 --> 00:40:01.220 Yeah. 00:40:01.550 --> 00:40:05.060 Now I know it's just really is just demonstrations and just showing 00:40:05.160 --> 00:40:07.360 the club, and it's a lot of that. 00:40:07.730 --> 00:40:10.410 Definitely wanna go back with Russ eventually. 00:40:10.540 --> 00:40:11.130 That's the goal. 00:40:11.200 --> 00:40:13.200 I really would love to go back with less people. 00:40:13.670 --> 00:40:15.940 It was overwhelming amount of people, which is great for them. 00:40:15.940 --> 00:40:17.940 Russ: Yeah, I heard... Yeah, it was great for- It's great ... great 00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:18.720 for them, but I heard- 00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:19.020 Ashley: It's- 00:40:19.050 --> 00:40:20.080 ... Russ: it was just loud in there. 00:40:20.080 --> 00:40:20.590 'Cause- Yeah ... there 00:40:20.620 --> 00:40:21.840 Ashley: was a lot of demonstrations going on. 00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:24.620 They had wax demonstrations. 00:40:24.620 --> 00:40:25.620 They had the violet wands. 00:40:25.670 --> 00:40:29.040 They had a bunch of people doing rope tying, and a whole bunch doing 00:40:29.040 --> 00:40:32.360 suspension, and flogging, and all sorts. 00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:34.590 They had a bunch of crosses set up and everything, so there was a lot 00:40:34.590 --> 00:40:38.630 going on at one time, and it was essentially just pretty much one room. 00:40:39.170 --> 00:40:41.980 So it was a big warehouse feel to it, so it was just like, echoey. 00:40:41.980 --> 00:40:43.270 There was just a lot going on. 00:40:43.300 --> 00:40:46.830 I could have never... I had thought about getting on a cross a couple 00:40:46.830 --> 00:40:50.940 times and just, for funsies, but- Mm-hmm ... I just knew it wasn't gonna 00:40:50.940 --> 00:40:53.570 be... Like, I was never going to really enjoy it because it was too- Yeah 00:40:53.570 --> 00:40:53.740 much. 00:40:53.740 --> 00:40:56.020 My brain cannot handle all of that. 00:40:56.020 --> 00:40:58.490 So I did really had a g- I had a great time just watching. 00:40:58.490 --> 00:41:04.400 I just kind of walked around each station and mingled and watched and saw all the 00:41:04.400 --> 00:41:06.720 demonstrations and did all that fun stuff. 00:41:06.720 --> 00:41:09.670 And then it was a kinda earlier night. 00:41:09.750 --> 00:41:11.850 I had a really nice facial that night. 00:41:11.970 --> 00:41:12.650 That was fun. 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:13.760 Took some good pictures. 00:41:14.490 --> 00:41:15.810 Yeah, my fave. 00:41:16.070 --> 00:41:21.740 And then we, right around the corner, we had planned a big Gatlinburg trip. 00:41:21.970 --> 00:41:25.300 We have been talking about doing it for s- we always talk about doing a 00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:30.160 mountain trip, and we finally grabbed a group- Yeah ... of, like, 12 of us. 00:41:30.190 --> 00:41:34.360 Russ: So the ThaMFKNLees- Did it ... have been talking about 00:41:34.430 --> 00:41:35.980 getting a group- They talked 00:41:35.980 --> 00:41:37.240 Ashley: about it on the podcast, when they were on 00:41:37.240 --> 00:41:37.440 Russ: the- Yeah 00:41:37.440 --> 00:41:37.900 ... Ashley: podcast. 00:41:37.930 --> 00:41:38.070 Russ: Yeah. 00:41:38.070 --> 00:41:40.050 They, they- They finally did it ... love Gatlinburg. 00:41:40.050 --> 00:41:40.930 They always have a good time. 00:41:40.930 --> 00:41:42.260 They know a lot of people down there. 00:41:42.260 --> 00:41:43.660 They know a lot of the bartenders. 00:41:43.660 --> 00:41:48.180 So they always wanted to get a group of us down there and show 00:41:48.530 --> 00:41:50.320 us their side of Gatlinburg. 00:41:50.350 --> 00:41:51.360 Ashley: Oh, they do Gatlinburg. 00:41:51.520 --> 00:41:54.300 'Cause we've only been with family, and it's been very touristy. 00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:54.790 Russ: Yeah. 00:41:54.790 --> 00:41:57.700 Ashley: And it was during cheer competition, and it was not the- 00:41:58.060 --> 00:42:00.200 Yeah ... the experience that most people have of Gatlinburg, so- 00:42:00.200 --> 00:42:00.920 Russ: So- ... we've done 00:42:01.050 --> 00:42:01.460 Ashley: it before 00:42:01.490 --> 00:42:04.750 ... Russ: we got a group of, what, eight, 10? 00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:07.210 Ashley: It was started with, like, the first night was, I think, 00:42:07.210 --> 00:42:09.710 eight or 10 of us, but then we had people come in the second night. 00:42:09.710 --> 00:42:11.420 So there was, like, 12 in the end, I think. 00:42:11.420 --> 00:42:11.670 Yeah. 00:42:11.670 --> 00:42:15.470 But we got hotel rooms, but they were all next to each other. 00:42:15.470 --> 00:42:16.170 Two conjoining- 00:42:16.680 --> 00:42:16.880 Russ: Mm-hmm 00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:22.730 ... Ashley: rooms, us and the ThaMFKNLees and they stayed with our friends 00:42:22.730 --> 00:42:24.540 D and D. We'll call them that. 00:42:24.620 --> 00:42:27.140 And if you know, you know who they are. 00:42:27.370 --> 00:42:31.390 And then, yeah, we did the whole Gatlinburg thing, did the 00:42:31.690 --> 00:42:36.740 moonshine tastings, and we walked the strip and ate the food. 00:42:36.740 --> 00:42:38.410 We went out to a really nice steak dinner. 00:42:38.410 --> 00:42:40.610 We had so much fun. 00:42:41.470 --> 00:42:42.080 It was really good. 00:42:42.110 --> 00:42:42.170 Yeah. 00:42:42.320 --> 00:42:45.440 I had my... I had really good girl sex. 00:42:45.760 --> 00:42:46.990 Russ: Yeah, you had girl sex. 00:42:47.130 --> 00:42:50.110 Ashley: Me and one of my favorite girls that I love with all of my 00:42:50.110 --> 00:42:54.360 heart, we had really hot girl sex, and that was- We were- I was an 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:56.220 absolute feral menace that weekend. 00:42:56.280 --> 00:42:59.360 Russ: We both were pretty- We both ... feral that weekend. 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:00.970 Ashley: We were really feral that weekend. 00:43:00.970 --> 00:43:01.910 Russ: We were. 00:43:02.220 --> 00:43:03.710 We had moonshine- I forgot I wanted 00:43:03.970 --> 00:43:04.160 Speaker 6: that, 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:09.260 Russ: oh ... with, and we're unaccompanied And like- My children ... 12 of 00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:10.440 our closest friends, you know? 00:43:10.440 --> 00:43:12.070 With 12 of our closest friends. 00:43:12.110 --> 00:43:12.250 Ashley: Oh, gosh. 00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:12.950 It was so much fun. 00:43:13.110 --> 00:43:15.100 We went mini golfing. 00:43:15.180 --> 00:43:16.260 We did mini golfing. 00:43:16.260 --> 00:43:16.340 Yeah. 00:43:16.380 --> 00:43:21.830 Our friends, Holbrooks on social media, he, her husband is very competitive 00:43:21.950 --> 00:43:24.910 dude, but he's also the luckiest guy you'll ever meet in your entire life. 00:43:24.910 --> 00:43:28.220 He's just one of those guys that win every raffle, win every lottery, 00:43:28.220 --> 00:43:31.630 win all the things, just always just so easily wins everything. 00:43:32.270 --> 00:43:32.760 He just does. 00:43:33.120 --> 00:43:36.950 And he does it in such like a competitive, non-competitive way. 00:43:37.000 --> 00:43:37.080 Yeah. 00:43:37.080 --> 00:43:39.340 Just sort of nonchalant about it, and so do you. 00:43:39.750 --> 00:43:43.380 He always is giving Mike Lee crap because he, that's just what he does. 00:43:43.380 --> 00:43:44.530 He likes to do that. 00:43:44.710 --> 00:43:48.240 And so he, and he's not very good at golfing, mini golfing. 00:43:48.420 --> 00:43:53.240 And so the whole time he was so focused on beating Mike that he had 00:43:53.550 --> 00:43:55.900 completely forgot to watch Russell here. 00:43:56.390 --> 00:43:59.590 And he ended up losing to Russ by one point. 00:43:59.870 --> 00:44:04.160 Russ: Yeah, by the like, I don't know, the s- 15th or 16th hole. 00:44:04.160 --> 00:44:04.290 Yeah. 00:44:04.290 --> 00:44:04.920 Ashley: He's like, "Oh, shoot." 00:44:04.920 --> 00:44:07.440 Russ: He's like, "Who's winning?" Just as to when he was. 00:44:07.750 --> 00:44:12.980 And then, and then the guy that was keeping score was like, "No, Russ is." 00:44:13.620 --> 00:44:15.560 And he's like, "What?" And like- 00:44:15.560 --> 00:44:16.060 Ashley: Didn't 00:44:16.300 --> 00:44:17.870 Russ: expect that. 00:44:17.950 --> 00:44:18.050 Yeah. 00:44:18.050 --> 00:44:23.060 And then, so there for the last few holes were just kinda, typical banter. 00:44:23.060 --> 00:44:23.790 Ashley: Yeah, yeah. 00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:24.170 The boys- 00:44:24.170 --> 00:44:24.440 Russ: And- 00:44:24.440 --> 00:44:25.110 ... Ashley: played and 00:44:25.110 --> 00:44:27.450 Russ: with each other ... he's, you know- Yeah ... he was talking, he's 00:44:27.450 --> 00:44:31.240 like, "Oh, you have to make this putt, Russ. You gotta make it. Gotta make it." 00:44:31.370 --> 00:44:31.690 He's like, yeah. 00:44:31.690 --> 00:44:34.340 And then he got to see- That was awesome ... the cocky side. 00:44:34.340 --> 00:44:34.580 It was 00:44:34.580 --> 00:44:36.090 Ashley: awesome 'cause he's the same way. 00:44:36.090 --> 00:44:36.940 They're so similar. 00:44:36.940 --> 00:44:38.950 Russ: Usually I'm pretty just whatever. 00:44:38.990 --> 00:44:39.050 Yeah. 00:44:39.110 --> 00:44:39.670 Because- But he 00:44:39.670 --> 00:44:40.210 Ashley: is like 00:44:40.420 --> 00:44:42.510 Russ: very- And then I'm like... Yeah. 00:44:42.730 --> 00:44:45.990 And then he, he, he's like, "Oh, don't miss this putt." And 00:44:45.990 --> 00:44:47.040 I'm like, I'm like- But I did 00:44:47.040 --> 00:44:50.620 "I won't. Don't worry." And then he was talking, and I was looking at him. 00:44:50.620 --> 00:44:53.840 I'm like, "There's one thing you don't know about me." He's like, "What's that?" 00:44:53.880 --> 00:44:57.590 I'm like, "I'm clutch," and I just hit it while making eye contact with him. 00:44:57.590 --> 00:44:58.060 Flipped him. 00:44:58.090 --> 00:44:58.430 I watched it. 00:44:58.430 --> 00:44:59.540 And just nothing but cup. 00:44:59.660 --> 00:45:00.190 It was 00:45:00.190 --> 00:45:00.250 Ashley: so 00:45:00.250 --> 00:45:01.180 Speaker 6: good, 00:45:01.180 --> 00:45:03.940 Ashley: and he made it and it won the game and everything was... 00:45:04.020 --> 00:45:04.970 That was so much fun. 00:45:04.970 --> 00:45:06.370 Russ: Oh, but yeah, so- Yeah, we did 00:45:06.370 --> 00:45:06.860 Ashley: mini golf 00:45:06.860 --> 00:45:07.320 ... Russ: that was- 00:45:07.570 --> 00:45:08.880 Ashley: We did the touristy stuff. 00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:09.260 We did- 00:45:09.310 --> 00:45:09.880 Russ: Yeah, we went to- You know, we 00:45:09.880 --> 00:45:10.530 Ashley: went down the strip 00:45:10.530 --> 00:45:18.300 ... Russ: so The Lees- They know a lot of the bartenders that do these tastings. 00:45:18.540 --> 00:45:18.650 Ashley: Yeah. 00:45:19.730 --> 00:45:24.290 Russ: And so they, we were going around to the different distilleries 00:45:24.870 --> 00:45:27.150 finding the certain bartenders. 00:45:27.330 --> 00:45:27.390 Ashley: Yeah. 00:45:27.940 --> 00:45:31.950 Russ: And so we got extra, let's just say- The extra 00:45:31.950 --> 00:45:34.780 Ashley: perks from knowing all of the people that work there. 00:45:34.980 --> 00:45:36.500 So we had a great time. 00:45:36.530 --> 00:45:39.680 And the whole table, you know how it's like only so many people, we would 00:45:39.680 --> 00:45:42.790 have... We'd fill the whole thing up because it, we had such a big group. 00:45:42.860 --> 00:45:42.920 Yeah. 00:45:43.120 --> 00:45:45.680 So we got to do all these things with us- Yeah 00:45:45.720 --> 00:45:46.630 and then a person. 00:45:46.770 --> 00:45:48.630 So- Or us and some random people. 00:45:48.970 --> 00:45:49.080 Yeah. 00:45:49.080 --> 00:45:54.210 And so him and our friend loves the pickle juices. 00:45:54.210 --> 00:45:55.440 They were digging the 00:45:55.440 --> 00:45:56.030 Russ: pickle juices. 00:45:56.030 --> 00:45:57.760 So here's what started this. 00:45:59.980 --> 00:46:05.280 We were at one of the distilleries and- Yeah ... he had all of his flavors out 00:46:05.280 --> 00:46:06.450 there of the moonshine, and he's like- 00:46:06.990 --> 00:46:07.300 Ashley: Pick one 00:46:07.460 --> 00:46:09.210 ... Russ: "let's make some shit up." 00:46:09.270 --> 00:46:09.390 Yeah. 00:46:09.390 --> 00:46:10.300 And- Let's just mix 00:46:10.300 --> 00:46:10.740 Ashley: things 00:46:10.740 --> 00:46:15.170 ... Russ: and then I'm like, "Blue razz and pickle." Oh, no. 00:46:15.170 --> 00:46:17.830 And he's like, "Huh?" Pickle's not- He's like, "You know what? 00:46:17.970 --> 00:46:23.730 Fuck it." So he gave everybody- Mixed them ... a mix of the- Moonshine ... moonshine 00:46:23.730 --> 00:46:27.050 pickle juice and blue razz moonshine. 00:46:27.180 --> 00:46:29.360 Ashley: And we named it Butt Stuff. 00:46:29.520 --> 00:46:31.990 Russ: So now- And I thought it was delicious. 00:46:32.020 --> 00:46:32.130 Ashley: Yeah. 00:46:34.550 --> 00:46:35.710 Russ: My friend- Horrible 00:46:35.710 --> 00:46:36.880 ... Ashley: thought 00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:37.870 Russ: it was delicious. 00:46:37.870 --> 00:46:38.430 Ashley: Absolutely horrible. 00:46:38.430 --> 00:46:41.520 You and her are the only ones who are crazy enough to think that was 00:46:42.370 --> 00:46:42.460 Russ: good. 00:46:42.460 --> 00:46:42.520 Ugh. 00:46:42.520 --> 00:46:48.300 And so at that point on, every distillery we went to, we made them make it for us. 00:46:48.300 --> 00:46:48.340 And 00:46:48.340 --> 00:46:49.460 Ashley: we named it Butt Stuff. 00:46:49.460 --> 00:46:50.770 So we, and we had a chant. 00:46:50.770 --> 00:46:53.230 We all run around, "What stuff?" 00:46:53.590 --> 00:46:57.680 And then everybody say, "Butt Stuff." And someone yell, "What stuff?" And then we 00:46:57.680 --> 00:47:01.060 had these few other couples that were on the other side- Yeah ... of the bar that 00:47:01.060 --> 00:47:04.220 were having the best time of their life. 00:47:04.220 --> 00:47:04.770 with us. 00:47:04.820 --> 00:47:11.210 Russ: Well, so all the guys... Well, okay, all of- Yeah ... you girls had made 00:47:11.210 --> 00:47:13.460 shirts for us for Valentine's Day- Yeah 00:47:13.840 --> 00:47:15.350 with pictures of you guys on them. 00:47:15.350 --> 00:47:17.900 And they were like- Yeah ... lingerie pictures and, like, sex pictures. 00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:18.100 That's, like, the 00:47:18.100 --> 00:47:18.850 Ashley: graffiti T-shirt. 00:47:18.910 --> 00:47:19.990 Russ: It got your name on it. 00:47:19.990 --> 00:47:20.140 Yeah, 00:47:20.210 --> 00:47:20.960 Ashley: like a graffiti T-shirt. 00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:21.250 Russ: Yeah. 00:47:21.390 --> 00:47:21.530 Ashley: Yeah. 00:47:22.100 --> 00:47:25.410 Russ: And so all of us guys are wearing these T-shirts- 00:47:25.440 --> 00:47:25.690 Ashley: Yeah 00:47:26.040 --> 00:47:27.550 ... Russ: with you on them. 00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:31.950 One of the last tastings we did, we were standing in line and there was this group 00:47:31.950 --> 00:47:34.340 of older people- Yeah ... behind us. 00:47:35.190 --> 00:47:35.580 Yeah. 00:47:35.580 --> 00:47:40.220 And they saw our shirts, and they started making comments and this and that. 00:47:40.820 --> 00:47:47.760 We- Mm-hmm ... didn't really say anything, but they could tell that we were all 00:47:47.760 --> 00:47:49.230 very comfortable with each other. 00:47:49.260 --> 00:47:49.350 Yeah. 00:47:50.120 --> 00:47:50.190 Yeah. 00:47:50.490 --> 00:47:51.280 And so they knew. 00:47:51.540 --> 00:47:52.490 They knew. 00:47:53.230 --> 00:47:55.280 Anyways, they were laughing with us. 00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:56.420 They were joking around. 00:47:56.760 --> 00:47:57.310 At one- "Oh, yeah, we're on 00:47:57.310 --> 00:47:57.930 Ashley: social media. 00:47:58.540 --> 00:48:00.010 "What?" "Yeah, we're on social media." 00:48:00.040 --> 00:48:00.100 Yeah. 00:48:00.100 --> 00:48:02.530 "You can follow us and everything." And so they were giving out 00:48:02.530 --> 00:48:04.470 cards and they were so much fun. 00:48:04.650 --> 00:48:04.750 Russ: Yeah. 00:48:04.750 --> 00:48:05.090 Ashley: They- 00:48:05.300 --> 00:48:07.970 Russ: At one point I made the whole, I got the whole bar to do the wave. 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:08.750 Ashley: Yeah, we did the wave. 00:48:08.750 --> 00:48:09.470 We have that. 00:48:09.580 --> 00:48:12.500 We have so many clips that we've never shown. 00:48:12.500 --> 00:48:12.590 Oh. 00:48:12.590 --> 00:48:15.130 I need to get my life together and make content- But- 00:48:15.130 --> 00:48:15.930 about that weekend. 00:48:15.930 --> 00:48:16.120 Then 00:48:16.120 --> 00:48:17.710 Russ: we made the- I'll do it ... whole bar- 00:48:17.850 --> 00:48:18.250 Ashley: I'll do it 00:48:18.370 --> 00:48:20.210 ... Russ: drink, Butt Stuff. 00:48:20.210 --> 00:48:20.640 Butt Stuff. 00:48:20.640 --> 00:48:20.800 What 00:48:20.800 --> 00:48:21.230 Ashley: Stuff? 00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:26.190 Russ: And so we yelled, "What Stuff?" And then the other half of the bar 00:48:26.190 --> 00:48:28.390 goes, "Butt Stuff." Butt Stuff. 00:48:28.390 --> 00:48:29.390 And we all do this shot. 00:48:29.390 --> 00:48:29.670 And 00:48:29.670 --> 00:48:30.790 Ashley: we got everybody to do it. 00:48:30.790 --> 00:48:33.010 It was... You had to be there. 00:48:33.040 --> 00:48:34.540 It was so, so good. 00:48:34.540 --> 00:48:39.400 We were complete... We actually, it was just so good to be able to let 00:48:39.400 --> 00:48:43.290 our hair down and- Yeah ... have fun and be with our people, 00:48:43.340 --> 00:48:46.040 and it was such a good weekend. 00:48:46.070 --> 00:48:48.750 There was a few hiccups. 00:48:49.080 --> 00:48:51.350 There was some, you know, I keep it real with you. 00:48:51.350 --> 00:48:52.200 We're keeping it real. 00:48:52.200 --> 00:48:53.360 We're gonna be honest with you. 00:48:53.360 --> 00:48:55.970 There was some stuff with a couple. 00:48:55.970 --> 00:48:57.630 There was some struggle. 00:48:57.680 --> 00:49:02.710 Not great communication between them and a lot of figuring that out. 00:49:02.860 --> 00:49:05.480 We're very close with these people, so, you know, of course 00:49:05.480 --> 00:49:06.770 we all stop what we're doing in- 00:49:07.220 --> 00:49:07.600 Russ: Yeah 00:49:07.640 --> 00:49:09.870 ... Ashley: the middle of chaos, but we stopped what we were doing and 00:49:09.870 --> 00:49:10.540 we really... 00:49:11.110 --> 00:49:13.390 you know, once everybody was aware of what was going on and just 00:49:13.390 --> 00:49:15.660 kinda helped them work through it. 00:49:15.750 --> 00:49:17.040 I think they're still working through it. 00:49:17.040 --> 00:49:18.960 I think- They're getting there. 00:49:19.080 --> 00:49:21.040 They're getting through- Yeah ... stuff, and I think that 00:49:21.040 --> 00:49:23.530 the more they talk, the better. 00:49:23.650 --> 00:49:27.620 You know, it's, it's not... We make it seem like this crazy fun all the 00:49:27.620 --> 00:49:30.880 time party wild everyone's perfect all the time, and it's not like that. 00:49:31.160 --> 00:49:33.180 Sometimes m- there's miscommunication. 00:49:33.580 --> 00:49:34.770 Sometimes there's feeling. 00:49:34.770 --> 00:49:35.780 Sometimes there's- 00:49:36.070 --> 00:49:36.360 Speaker 6: Yeah 00:49:36.430 --> 00:49:38.990 ... Ashley: feeling left out or not feeling like you're getting attention 00:49:38.990 --> 00:49:44.550 from a person or those things are very common to have, and it's always 00:49:44.550 --> 00:49:46.980 leads down to just communication was wrong, communication, they just 00:49:46.980 --> 00:49:48.300 both weren't communicating or- Yeah 00:49:48.510 --> 00:49:52.070 if they were communicating, not communicating correctly, someone gets 00:49:52.070 --> 00:49:56.490 their feelings hurt, someone... You know, stuff like that is so normal, and it 00:49:56.490 --> 00:49:58.720 doesn't have to be the end of the time. 00:49:58.720 --> 00:50:03.570 We, of course, when it happens and you're in it, and you're a part of it, 00:50:03.570 --> 00:50:07.020 you feel like you ruined the weekend, and you ruin everyone's time, and you 00:50:07.020 --> 00:50:08.950 ruin all the things, and sh- you know. 00:50:08.980 --> 00:50:11.030 But it's so normal and so okay. 00:50:11.030 --> 00:50:11.200 Yeah. 00:50:11.200 --> 00:50:14.010 And not any of us are expecting everyone to be perfect all the time. 00:50:14.660 --> 00:50:18.240 If it becomes a problem, if it is an issue, and if it becomes to be a 00:50:18.240 --> 00:50:21.720 pattern, that's when you're g- you should step back, and you should leave, and 00:50:21.720 --> 00:50:22.930 you should take time, and you should- 00:50:22.930 --> 00:50:23.130 Speaker 5: Yeah 00:50:23.360 --> 00:50:24.060 Ashley: be alone. 00:50:24.090 --> 00:50:26.080 But it's okay to mess up. 00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:27.530 It's okay to have an off night. 00:50:27.530 --> 00:50:32.060 It's okay to be in your head, be self-conscious, be, you know how we get. 00:50:32.060 --> 00:50:32.760 That's normal. 00:50:32.760 --> 00:50:36.080 That's so normal and so okay, and you can work through that. 00:50:36.080 --> 00:50:38.290 You don't always have to just get up and leave and go home. 00:50:38.290 --> 00:50:39.580 You don't have to ruin the night. 00:50:39.580 --> 00:50:40.820 You don't have to make it a whole thing. 00:50:42.180 --> 00:50:44.440 It's okay to just take a break and step back- Yeah ... and 00:50:44.440 --> 00:50:45.880 talk and work through it. 00:50:45.910 --> 00:50:50.810 And we put fun and play second to all of that. 00:50:50.840 --> 00:50:53.710 If someone's struggling and something's going on, we're all adults. 00:50:53.710 --> 00:50:54.760 We're all going to stop. 00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:55.930 We all love everybody. 00:50:56.160 --> 00:50:58.380 We're gonna stop what we're doing and focus on that. 00:50:58.430 --> 00:51:01.110 And, you know, it doesn't ruin- Yeah ... the time. 00:51:01.200 --> 00:51:02.870 We had the best time. 00:51:02.910 --> 00:51:04.550 It's just, it is what it is. 00:51:04.550 --> 00:51:05.150 It happens. 00:51:05.150 --> 00:51:06.040 It's so normal. 00:51:07.200 --> 00:51:08.260 It doesn't have to be a thing. 00:51:08.350 --> 00:51:08.590 Russ: Nope. 00:51:09.180 --> 00:51:12.430 Ashley: Then that leads us up to March, and that was birthday weekend. 00:51:12.430 --> 00:51:18.160 But we are already almost an hour in, and we're gonna have 00:51:18.160 --> 00:51:19.000 to save this for next week. 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:19.260 Yeah. 00:51:19.350 --> 00:51:21.000 So stay tuned for next week. 00:51:21.030 --> 00:51:22.040 We're gonna keep you around. 00:51:22.610 --> 00:51:25.260 Whether you like it or not, you're gonna have to come back and find out 00:51:25.340 --> 00:51:28.310 what we did pretty much more recently. 00:51:28.310 --> 00:51:28.380 Yeah. 00:51:28.640 --> 00:51:28.880 We're getting 00:51:28.880 --> 00:51:29.010 Russ: to- 00:51:29.010 --> 00:51:29.820 Ashley: Most recent stuff we- 00:51:29.820 --> 00:51:31.170 Russ: We're getting to the most recent stuff now 00:51:31.170 --> 00:51:35.235 ... Ashley: we have some really good- crazy first experiences that we had 00:51:35.235 --> 00:51:38.635 that- ... we're gonna talk about that I'm still trying to wrap my head around, 00:51:38.705 --> 00:51:41.035 and stuff nobody really knows much about. 00:51:41.035 --> 00:51:42.775 And yeah, we're excited. 00:51:42.805 --> 00:51:48.325 But before we leave, we do want to mention May 15th, if you're not doing 00:51:48.325 --> 00:51:52.245 anything please, please, if you're around Atlanta or if you can make it work 00:51:52.245 --> 00:51:54.305 and you're not come to Fresh Fridays. 00:51:54.345 --> 00:51:56.545 We are very passionate- Yes ... about, that we're going to, you're gonna hear 00:51:56.545 --> 00:51:59.525 about Fresh Fridays a million times from us because that is our current heart 00:51:59.525 --> 00:52:03.945 project, our soul project, and we really have just heard so many times over the 00:52:03.945 --> 00:52:05.945 past few years that people are scared. 00:52:06.075 --> 00:52:06.955 Scared to go. 00:52:07.135 --> 00:52:07.865 They're alone. 00:52:07.865 --> 00:52:08.515 They're single. 00:52:08.515 --> 00:52:09.585 They don't know- Yeah ... what to do. 00:52:09.585 --> 00:52:10.105 Don't- It's 00:52:10.105 --> 00:52:10.945 Russ: inti- they're intimidated 00:52:10.945 --> 00:52:11.495 ... Ashley: terrified of Trapeze. 00:52:11.495 --> 00:52:11.675 They're 00:52:11.675 --> 00:52:12.235 Russ: nervous. 00:52:12.305 --> 00:52:15.165 Ashley: They're- And no matter how many times we say it's not that scary, don't 00:52:15.165 --> 00:52:18.275 make it weird, it's not that serious, all the things, nobody believes us. 00:52:18.275 --> 00:52:24.195 So we decided to make a night every third Friday that is for you guys. 00:52:24.305 --> 00:52:28.965 And I know we, for the most part, our content is kinda geared towards 00:52:28.965 --> 00:52:30.785 new people in the lifestyle- Yeah 00:52:30.985 --> 00:52:33.835 and people experiencing things for the first time, may have been 00:52:33.835 --> 00:52:36.625 in the lifestyle for a while but not done much, that type of thing. 00:52:36.625 --> 00:52:39.295 And so we want to hold your hand, and we will literally hold 00:52:39.295 --> 00:52:39.965 your hand if you want me to. 00:52:39.965 --> 00:52:40.585 I will hold your hand. 00:52:40.585 --> 00:52:42.565 I have held hands already. 00:52:42.945 --> 00:52:46.155 And this is our third one, and they are going amazing. 00:52:46.255 --> 00:52:49.815 We currently have the biggest discount you'll ever find at Trapeze ever. 00:52:49.845 --> 00:52:50.295 Russ: Yes. 00:52:50.425 --> 00:52:53.175 Ashley: You'll never find a cheaper price for what we have, and you'll 00:52:53.175 --> 00:52:57.185 get two months of membership at Trapeze, and then you will get access 00:52:57.185 --> 00:52:59.315 to Diamond Club, which is huge. 00:52:59.825 --> 00:53:03.115 And you, if you're going to Trapeze, you have to do Diamond Club. 00:53:03.155 --> 00:53:03.285 Yeah. 00:53:03.285 --> 00:53:04.335 It's, it's a must-do. 00:53:04.465 --> 00:53:07.335 And this is a perfect way to try it out and do it, and then you get a membership. 00:53:07.335 --> 00:53:07.955 You can come back. 00:53:08.295 --> 00:53:10.525 You can do the next one and you don't have to pay for the membership. 00:53:10.525 --> 00:53:13.455 You already have one, so you're saving even more money. 00:53:13.455 --> 00:53:15.515 It's going to, it's such a good time. 00:53:15.515 --> 00:53:21.345 So 7:30 we will come out and get you guys, and we will take you on a tour. 00:53:21.345 --> 00:53:22.645 We will show you all the things. 00:53:22.645 --> 00:53:24.585 We will answer any questions you have. 00:53:24.585 --> 00:53:25.545 We will guide you around. 00:53:25.835 --> 00:53:26.705 The lights are all on. 00:53:26.965 --> 00:53:28.765 Nobody's around except people working. 00:53:28.925 --> 00:53:30.655 There's no other swingers in the rooms. 00:53:31.095 --> 00:53:31.875 It's just us. 00:53:31.875 --> 00:53:32.905 There's just us and Just 00:53:32.905 --> 00:53:33.985 Russ: showing you the club 00:53:34.025 --> 00:53:37.245 ... Ashley: and we will walk around and we will get along great, 00:53:37.245 --> 00:53:38.265 'cause I promise we will. 00:53:38.295 --> 00:53:39.395 Everyone will get along perfect. 00:53:39.425 --> 00:53:42.935 And it also gives you a chance to meet another few couples- 00:53:43.055 --> 00:53:45.265 Yeah ... 'cause there'll be new couples that are coming there, too. 00:53:45.265 --> 00:53:46.585 And so you get to meet these new couples. 00:53:46.585 --> 00:53:47.365 You get to meet us. 00:53:47.415 --> 00:53:49.675 Rob and Lindsey will be there, and you'll get to hang out with them. 00:53:49.705 --> 00:53:51.905 And you'll get to start a connection, and that gives you 00:53:51.905 --> 00:53:53.075 confidence going into the night. 00:53:53.075 --> 00:53:57.225 And then you'll be able to, we will walk you back up and check you in early, get 00:53:57.225 --> 00:54:00.835 you all figured out on the computers, have everything paid for- And then you 00:54:00.835 --> 00:54:04.015 can find your locker and get a table, a seat at the table while no one's there. 00:54:04.045 --> 00:54:05.815 Order dinner when you first get there. 00:54:05.945 --> 00:54:07.585 We always say that's the move. 00:54:08.205 --> 00:54:11.135 Order your dinner, and it kinda gives you a place you can sit 00:54:11.135 --> 00:54:12.295 on the couch, find a spot. 00:54:13.085 --> 00:54:16.135 You already- Yeah ... have some familiar faces that you've already made contact. 00:54:16.135 --> 00:54:19.285 We can introduce you to all of our friends and all of the people we love. 00:54:19.795 --> 00:54:21.745 Love showing people the way, and we love Trapeze. 00:54:21.835 --> 00:54:25.385 And so we are so excited to partner with them for Fresh Friday. 00:54:25.385 --> 00:54:27.695 Every third Friday of the month we will be there. 00:54:27.695 --> 00:54:27.785 Yeah. 00:54:27.815 --> 00:54:31.755 And this month we have really, really, really good group of friends 00:54:31.755 --> 00:54:35.045 coming too, so we're excited that we're get to see some new f- we're, 00:54:35.105 --> 00:54:39.085 we're, we are connecting a lot with people from the past, a lot lately. 00:54:39.085 --> 00:54:39.285 Yeah. 00:54:39.285 --> 00:54:44.905 And so it's crazy how it's all come full circle, and you kinda figuring out who, 00:54:45.055 --> 00:54:46.735 who's, who's real ones and who's not. 00:54:46.765 --> 00:54:50.775 And kinda connecting with people that you love with all your heart. 00:54:50.775 --> 00:54:52.415 So a lot of them are gonna be at this one. 00:54:52.415 --> 00:54:53.905 He unfortunately is not gonna make it- 00:54:54.135 --> 00:54:54.375 Russ: No 00:54:54.475 --> 00:54:54.945 ... Ashley: to this one. 00:54:54.945 --> 00:54:57.815 I will be riding that one solo, but we're gonna have a good time. 00:54:57.875 --> 00:54:58.685 It's gonna be fun. 00:54:58.735 --> 00:55:01.265 It is Leather and Lace for May 15th. 00:55:01.265 --> 00:55:03.575 So one of our favorite themes. 00:55:03.575 --> 00:55:03.735 Yeah. 00:55:03.885 --> 00:55:04.295 We love that theme. 00:55:04.295 --> 00:55:04.395 Go to the 00:55:04.395 --> 00:55:04.805 Russ: website. 00:55:04.805 --> 00:55:05.765 We have a whole- 00:55:06.415 --> 00:55:08.595 Ashley: Yes ... go ahead ... thathotcoupleinga.com. 00:55:08.945 --> 00:55:09.085 Yeah. 00:55:09.125 --> 00:55:10.775 And you'll see Fresh Fri- You'll see the banner. 00:55:10.775 --> 00:55:12.665 You'll see the theme will be there. 00:55:12.665 --> 00:55:15.695 We'll put the theme every month and kinda tell you how the 00:55:15.695 --> 00:55:17.355 process works and everything. 00:55:17.355 --> 00:55:20.775 And then if you have any questions, just message us, or you know how to get a 00:55:20.775 --> 00:55:22.405 hold of us, all of our pages and stuff. 00:55:22.435 --> 00:55:24.155 But yeah, other than that- 00:55:24.765 --> 00:55:25.965 Russ: It's not that serious 00:55:26.005 --> 00:55:27.005 ... Ashley: don't make it weird. 00:55:27.215 --> 00:55:28.425 We love you guys. 00:55:28.525 --> 00:55:29.125 Russ: Bye. 00:55:29.165 --> 00:55:29.315 Ashley: Bye.