The Birth of Electric Pleasures: Music, Madness & Memories

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If you want to party with us and the other faces and names that you know from social media and TikTok, head on over to swingersociety.net. Can't wait to see you there. Hey there, pineapple people, and welcome to the Swing Nation podcast. We are your hosts, Northern Guy. And Southern Girl. And we are back with another full-length episode of the Swing Nation podcast. We are. Today's episode, we're going to be talking about last weekend. We are. Today is Wednesday. Yeah. And a podcast comes out. And so we're talking about Electric Pleasures. Like two days after we got home. So it's pretty fresh on our minds. It is, which I like it better when it's like that. Yeah, me too. But sometimes our schedule doesn't allow for us to podcast so quickly. Yeah. I'm still a little tired, if I'm being honest. I'm still pretty tired. Okay, so if you don't know, Electric Pleasures is our new hotel takeover brand. And the idea of it is kind of Mixing Alternative Lifestyle with like music festival vibes. Yeah. And to be completely transparent, we have been to like two or three music festivals. So we are not like experts in this. We've brought in some DJs. We have some friends. We have people around us that are better or more versed in this than we are. It's just kind of like a dream and an idea. And then we just pulled from other resources that do have some more knowledge of it. Yeah. Yeah. That being said, we do like the music. Yeah. Uh, and it seems to me that the lifestyle is really trending in that direction. We're seeing EDM music more and more, um, at lifestyle events. Yeah. We're seeing it on bliss cruise. We're seeing it at naughty in new Orleans. Um, I feel like the next generation. So like the 50, and under, 45 and under crowd is really kind of likes that direction, is going that direction. And then especially if you talk about 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds, that's their jam. So it seems like the lifestyle is going that way. Yeah, I feel like we're doing less swinger clubs that require button up the front shirts, no hats, you know, like kind of like old school swinger clubs is going more towards this like EDM festival, rave sort of concept. Even if you think about secrets, secrets is sort of the same. You know, Hedo, you can get, you know, there's not a whole lot of being so buttoned up. A lot of those things, I feel like it's getting away from that. Now, don't get me wrong. I love a good trapeze where you got to dress nice and stuff like that. I love some of that. Right. Trapeze, Colette, I think those are some of the clubs that are still, you know, aligned with that. Yeah, I think there's a place for all of that. But I do find, and I think, I honestly think it's the younger generation that is driving a lot of this. I also think that they mix just like non-monogamy or this alternative lifestyle in almost everything they do, and it just becomes more natural. And that's kind of what we've tried to do with Electric Pleasures. And y'all would laugh at us as trying to explain it to the people that work for us or the people around us. Like our vision, we're like, think orgy dumb. at Burning Man type of vibes and they thought we were crazy. I can remember at one point over the weekend looking at one of the people that worked for us and was like, now do you get it? And they're like, yeah, I see it. I see the vision now. So it was kind of, it was a neat experience to see it all come to life. It was. All right. So let's get into it. All right. So because this is a hotel takeover, it's really probably the largest event as far as planning goes that we've ever done. And crowd-wise, it was probably pretty close to one of our largest events ever as well. I feel like Secrets is a little bit more. We've had bigger crowds. So if you don't know, when you do a hotel takeover, what we've done traditionally, if you've followed us on the podcast, we've done takeovers of swinger clubs and we've done takeovers of swinger resorts. So Hedo, Secrets, we've brought groups onto the Bliss Cruise, and then we've taken over various swinger clubs across the country. Well, and in those situations, we're basically just bringing the crowd and we're setting the vibe. You know what I mean? We bring our DJs. We bring some, you know, we do the decorations. You know, we've brought LED walls and lights and stuff. So we basically, you know, that's been our niche for here for the last three, four years is just bringing our crowd and our energy to other people's spaces. But those clubs provide the security. They provide the staff. They have the bartenders. They have the playrooms. staff. So it's really like we're just bringing the people and the energy. They provide everything else. At Electric Pleasures, we brought literally everything except for the hotel and the restaurant staff. Yeah, for sure. Which was quite the feat. And that's kind of why we partnered with some people that had done it before because it was a lot of undertaking. And we didn't get everything perfect. There's definitely room for improvement. And when I give my review of the weekend, I'm definitely going to point out the things that I think we could have done better. Because I feel like that's only fair. And there were several times throughout the weekend that I remember catching myself like, if this wasn't our takeover, would I be complaining about XYZ? Not to staff, but like, you know how we come on the podcast and we tell y'all what we like and what we don't. So I tried really hard to like, almost think objectively. So I'm going to point out some things that I know we could do better. Okay. Okay. All right. So let's get into it. So we left our house and headed down to Gulf Breeze on a Tuesday. Tuesday. I want to talk about our decision making as far as why Gulf Breeze and why in January. Because we did get, we've been getting the reviews back in and we're obviously reading them. And a lot of the reviews were like, oh my God, this hotel would have been great. in July or June or something like that. There was a lot of questions of why we went to the beach in January. Because I actually pushed back just to be super transparent. I was like, who wants to go to the beach in January? I think it worked out. I think you nailed it. But I want to just kind of give people a little bit of behind the scenes, if that's okay. Yeah, so it's a few reasons. One, finding a hotel that wants to work with swingers, period. is very difficult. But then secondly, finding a hotel on the beach that is going to let you throw a party in the summertime is pretty much impossible. One, the rates would be a lot higher. And most hotels, especially beach hotels, they would make you book out the hotel for a whole week. So this particular hotel would let us do a summertime party if we wanted to, but we would have to take the hotel for a whole week. And the price, the room night price would be probably close to double what it was in January. So, you know, you do the math on that and it basically equals going to Gulf Breeze for a week would cost you close to what it would cost to go to Hedo or Bliss. Which is crazy. So, I think most people would be uninterested in that type of party, which I can't blame them for. So, yeah, it's mostly the pricing and the logistics that's kind of behind it. So, because we were there in January, we were able to get a much better rate and they were willing to do just a weekend price instead of a whole week price. Um, and we, we targeted this particular hotel with one, because it's, it's where it's located. It's usually mid sixties, even in January. So that's doable for an outside music festival. Um, and to the location, as far as the way it was laid out, you know, being on the beach and on the water, uh, was kind of perfect. So, um, I agree it would have been better in June or July, but that's just, that's impossible. Yeah. I will say the hotel, very much reminded me of secrets. Like before they renovated a lot of it, like the setup that like literally the layout was exactly like secrets, except for it had a beach, which I loved. Right. Okay. Okay. Now we can go in. Sorry. I didn't mean to. No, it's okay. But I know we got a lot of those. We did get some feedback. So I think I thought it was important to kind of give people a little bit of behind the scenes. Right. Okay. So we live, we left on Tuesday and the goal of Tuesday was just to get to Gulf Breeze. Yeah. So we left. about like one or two and we took our time we actually like stopped and had dinner which we never do um and we eventually got there late 10 o'clock 11 o'clock something like that some of our business partners and stuff were already there so we got to kind of just check in take a look around quick huddle yeah but really that night was just let's go to bed and then wednesday morning uh i got up early because y'all are going to laugh at me. But when we're at Secrets, there's going to be this beauty expo the same time we're at Secrets. And so me and a bunch of other girls that were going to Secrets were like, let's get up early and try to get these tickets. I got up early, refreshed my phone for an hour. I did not get tickets. So I totally wasted my sleeping in time. But you got up shortly after I did because we had a tent being set up. So you went and started on the tent. Yeah, which honestly was nice because I didn't really have to do much. But we're just helping make sure the tent got set up in the right location and things like that. And then after that, you kind of I feel like you sort of piddled throughout the day as far as like starting to set up and unload and stuff. Didn't you? Yeah. So once the tent was done, we actually unloaded trailers. So and I think we did do a little setup in the indoor ballroom. And then we basically just the goal was to get all of the stuff. that was going into the tent, into the tent, and then we set up the next day. Yeah, and a lot of people that were coming in helped us, which was very nice. At some point, you and I went to the grocery store. We also had Mandy that worked for us birthday, along with several other friends birthday, but definitely Mandy's was one we were celebrating. And so we went to Publix, got her cake. You and I got to have lunch together. And then we went to Home Depot for some last minute supplies. And then we came back. And about the time we started getting back is when kind of like Mandy arrived. That's when a lot of the other people started getting in. I think that's, I think we actually got it wrong. We actually unloaded a little bit later in the afternoon and went and ran our errands first. Yeah. But this night was pretty low key. We ordered Carrabbas. We had, we ate in the room. Just, there wasn't a whole lot. It was kind of like the calm before the storm. Uh, we didn't, we hadn't really decorated a lot. Hadn't really done a lot. kind of started getting set up. Correct, yeah. So, Thursday morning, you got up at the crack of dawn. And I don't know why. I did get up early. It was like 8 o'clock or something like that. But you worked. Which is not the crack of dawn, but. For us, it is. You worked your ass off. Mm-hmm. This whole weekend, but you definitely started here on Thursday. And that's one thing. I think a lot of people saw how hard he worked because several people said that to me. I didn't have a whole lot I know nothing about electronics. And outside of the electronics, the only thing really to set up was like the backdrops and stuff. And I tried to help with that. But the electronics is kind of all you and you had double everything than you normally set up. So you want to talk a little bit about that? Yeah. So we ran two stages at Electric Pleasures, which I actually think went really well. And the main stage was outdoors in the courtyard area by the pool. And so we had to set up all the auto the audio equipment, all the light equipment. We had an LED wall that was kind of the DJ booth that we had to set up. So all that has to get, you know, physically set up the lights put on trusses. And then a little more of the meticulous work is you have to run all the cabling. So all the lights were not only powered, but also DMX and programmed to a controller that I use to run the lights. So it's just kind of slow, meticulous, put all the lights up, run all the cables. I mean, it took quite a bit of time. And then like you said, because we had two stages, it was double. So once we had the outdoor stage set up, we had to then move indoors and essentially repeat the process. The indoor stage was a little bit smaller, not quite as many lights. So that was a little bit quicker, but still took a lot of time. So that was, I mean, the majority of our, my day on Thursday was setting up all the audio and visual equipment and running all the cables and, you know, doing sound checks and doing, running the lights through a couple checks and stuff like that. But yeah. But it's fun. I kind of enjoy it. I mean, it's not really, like, physical hard work if you're just running cables and stuff like that. I think the hardest work is, like, loading and unloading the trailers and that kind of stuff. My back still hurts. But, yeah, setting the equipment up is not that too bad. I tried to help where I could. You know, I helped Mandy build some poles and helped with the 360 and helped with the backdrops. I mean, I'm not super helpful, but I tried as much as I could. I did have, like, a custom-only that I slipped away at some point and made. I mean, I didn't really provide a lot of help. Yeah, there was a lot of people that were coming up to me and being like, Dan, can I help you? Dan, can I help you? But the problem is you're running cables and you can really only do it like, you know, you're running. They're all linked together. So it's like one at a time. So you could have somebody like pass you things and do little things like that. But it's not like you could have a dozen people trying to do it and make it quicker. It would honestly would probably like bog down, you know. Yeah, where we need help mainly is like carrying the stuff in and out, loading, unloading. So we did all of that. And at some point, you kind of wrapped everything up. And we kind of threw Mandy a surprise sort of birthday. She didn't really know about it. She knew we were doing dinner. So this was kind of my idea because there was, we knew there was going to be like 70 rooms checking in on Thursday. So I thought, well, everyone's probably going to want to go to dinner. And I didn't want to leave anybody out. And I also didn't want to take 70 plus people to like a, like a restaurant. So I was like, there was a restaurant on property and I knew they did pizza. So why don't we just, I was like, why don't we just do pizzas? It's like the perfect birthday party. Yeah. And I'd gotten her a cake and stuff. And so we set up, they had this really nice patio, uh, right by the water. So we set up out there. and did that. Honestly, she came up to me and she was almost about to cry. She was like, thank you so much. Nobody's ever done anything like this for me, which made me feel good. But I like doing things like that. That's kind of like my love language. I like giving gifts. I like throwing parties. I like making people happy. So it felt good to me. Yeah. And Mandy particularly is, you know, all our staff is amazing. But Mandy really is, has become kind of the backbone. of our business, not only Swinger Society, but now Electric Pleasures. I mean, she, you know, if you have to cancel your room, if you want to change a room, if you're talking to Mandy, if you have an issue with the website, all of that goes through Mandy. She deals with the hotels and room changes and, you know, putting things on and offline. She does all of the designs, each event and the the write-ups and tracks everything that there is to track for us. She basically runs a lot of our business for us and has really become kind of like family. We've gone through staff and we've had several people work for us and she really is kind of a star, a stud at doing all that. I don't think this event or really any of our events would be possible without her. We kind of get wrapped up in what's going on and don't really pause to give people appreciation. And she definitely deserves it. And her husband comes to as many events as he can. And he's like. He did help me on all the setup. Yeah. I mean, he's always there to jump. Not only like to jump in and help, but he's also like just a fun vibe. You know, he like brings the party. And so we're super grateful for them. And as a volunteer. Oh, yeah. We didn't pay him. Yeah, we don't pay him. I mean, he gets a room for free because maybe he gets a room. But you know what I mean. He's just there to help. And we really appreciate him. So I was happy to celebrate. Now, I'm going to talk about one thing that could have been better. The pizza took one hour to come out. And they knew we were coming. Yeah. You're going to notice there's a theme throughout us talking about this weekend in the restaurant. And I think it's important to, I think, I don't want to become across overly critical of the restaurant. because I think they were well intended. I just don't think they were used to what happened. They're not used to swingers. And I don't think they were prepared. We tried to prepare them. We had conversations with them ahead of time. We kind of tried to tell them what to expect. But you know business owners think they know what they're doing. And you know they. Well especially somebody that's been in the restaurant business for 40 years I think is what he said. We just know what swingers kind of want and what they're going to do. And he felt Like, he knew what people wanted in swingers are a little different. And so, and basically, just to give you a little bit of behind the scenes, we wanted the restaurant to not be open to the public. One, because we knew that our people were going to be swingers, you know? We knew they were going to be. Well, they were running around in thongs and pasties. And, you know, so if you had it open to the public, not that there's nothing illegal about walking around in thongs and pasties, but. You know, if I was somebody bringing my little kids to a restaurant and they were exposed to that, you might not be okay with that, right? So even though it's not illegal, it's not necessarily, you know, if people aren't expecting it, it could be shocking and maybe a little bit uncomfortable. So we don't want to upset anybody in the community. So what made the most sense was for them to shut down and then serve our crowd and focus on our crowd. And that's what we were able to negotiate that with them. Which ended up, what happened is we had to guarantee that they would make a certain amount of sales throughout the weekend. So that's why we were trying to help them, help them, encourage them. So when we went for this pizza party, they knew we were coming. We had given them like a four or five day notice. We got there. I was hangry by the time the pizza came out. Now, don't get me wrong, the pizza was extremely good. It was. I mean, like, we all scarfed it down, but they knew we were coming, and it took an hour for them to even get the pizza. It took them 45, 50 minutes to get a salad out. Not only did they know where they were coming, they knew what time we were coming, right? Yeah. And I even told them I'll order 10. I didn't even order pizza. I didn't tell them I want three cheese, two pepperonis or anything. I just said, bring me 10 pizzas. I don't care what they are. So they literally could have had them all prepped and just ready to go into the oven when we walked in the door. But that's not what happened. I mean, it took them like probably 50 minutes just to get a salad out. Now, their staff, Everybody was wonderful. We ended up getting to know a lot of them throughout the weekend. I mean, I can't say enough about their employees that worked there. And honestly, their food was really, like, I had some things that were very, very good. So I want to make sure I say that. Yeah, their menu items, most of them were excellent. Yeah. So this is Thursday. Okay, so after the party and all of that, we had cake. One of our other friends, Dwayne, which we've talked about on the podcast, it's his birthday weekend. as well. They brought a king cake because they're from Louisiana, so we did happy birthday. We did all the cakes, and then we all kind of scattered. We went to bed. I don't know if other people went to fuck, but we went to bed. Yeah. That was pretty much Thursday. That was our Thursday. Okay, so Friday morning, of course, Dan got up early. Mike and Daphne came in relatively early, too. I think like 10-ish, 11. the party was started. I was like, if you watch my vlog on TikTok and Instagram and stuff, I was trying to get ready. And I was like running around in my pajamas with no bra on, but then like half of my hair done just because it's kind of like secrets where your doors are open. They've got these big windows. So it was like people were coming in and out of the rooms. It was definitely a vibe from like morning time on. And people can't, like you said, people came in. So we opened the doors at two o'clock. You could check in and we started. People checking in earlier. There were people trying to check in at like 9 a.m. There were people talking about tailgating in the parking lot until they could check in. I think most of them, we were able to get them checked in earlier. At least they came and hung out in the courtyard area until we could get them checked in. But definitely people hit the ground running and ready to party. Yeah, because basically if you got there at check-in, there was already music. Because music started at 2, so like they're automatically. And so you had nine DJs, correct? And how long were their sets? Because I feel like the DJs were changing all day, like all night. Yeah. And that's kind of the idea. So if you've ever been to a music festival, you know that most DJ sets aren't more than two hours. I don't think any of, I think our longest set was an hour and a half. So basically every hour and a half, the DJs were swapping out and the music was changing, which I actually really, really enjoyed. And I, it seemed like most people did enjoy that. Yeah. So they went from 2 a.m., 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. But there was like an hour there, where there was no music, like from 9 to 10 or so, which I didn't know. So this, again, we're kind of learning this. Like had I would have known that there was that hour, I probably would have planned that hour to like switch from my daytime to my nighttime outfit or have dinner or something like that. I didn't know going into, which obviously I should have known that. I could have just asked you. I just didn't know to ask you. So I think like as we do more of these, people will start to understand that. Well, and I think I'm going to change it up. So the music started at 2 p.m. There was a break between 8 and 9 o'clock where we closed out the music outside and then basically the music outside shut off at 8 and then it started back up at 9. So that hour block was meant so that we could take there is equipment that we were using outside that needed to move inside both the VIP couches and also a little bit of DJ equipment that had to move. And so that's why the music had to turn off and then turn back on. I think going forward I'm going to have enough stuff. so that I can at least keep like a playlist music going outside. Yeah. So that because it was more so I think on Friday than Saturday. I think maybe people were more prepared for it on Saturday. But it was almost jarring. Yeah. So people I think that the music just stopped. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So let's get back to the day. Sorry, I jumped ahead. So everybody got in their rave outfits, which was super fun. I loved all of the outfits personally. And Friday. So if you don't know, A. Snowstorm has hit everywhere in the U.S. basically. And so there was a lot of people that had to cancel and we had to rebook because of the stuff, which we were still sold out. We were just people got to move from the overflow hotel. So it was fine. But there was some question, is it going to be warm enough? Is it going to be too cold? Friday day was so warm. I had on like pants and like long sleeves. People were driving me crazy about the weather. People a month ago. before the event were texting us and asking us about the weather and am I worried and is it going to be too cold and what should they wear and then the days leading to now snowmageddon is about to hit the United States the same weekend that we're throwing a party at the beach but if you kept an eye on the weather the Gulf Shores in Florida was like the one area of the whole country that wasn't super affected at least not Friday and not Saturday Friday was beautiful I mean so Friday was and 70 degrees. Now, once it got dark, it got a little chiller. I think it did get down to the mid-50s Friday night. But Friday day was amazing. And outside, we had heaters. Honestly, never really got cold on Friday. I was a little chilly on Saturday, but not Friday. So, yeah, I loved seeing everyone's outfits. I loved all the DJs outside. It was fun. There was a light show outside on Friday. At some point, we went. And we actually ate in the restaurant again. You did the buffet. I had pizza again because I knew it was good. So we took a break like at five or six and went and did that. And then I guess this is where I struggled. And then this is where the music cutting off kind of threw me for a loop. At Secrets, there's an obvious division between the day party and the night party. You're at the pool all day. Then like four or five, you go to your room. You kind of sober up. You have dinner. Then you get ready in your night portion outfit. And then you go. Because there was basically music all day, I didn't know where that time period was. Which I think I'll get better the more of these we do. And I think people will start to learn. And then listening to us, we'll kind of figure it out together. But I think I'll do better next time. It's figuring out when to eat, when to change, all those things. Yeah, so at Secrets, you're right. The pool party is really what sets the day schedule. Yeah. And the pool parties at Secrets go from like 11 a.m. to like 4 p.m., right? So at this, we didn't start the music until 2 p.m., which I enjoyed. And I think most people enjoyed that it was like a later start. But because it was a later start, we basically ran the music. It never stopped. So like you're right, at Secrets at 4 or 5 p.m., everybody's like, okay, they go back to the room, take a nap, take a shower, get some food, change, and then go to the club. where here, there's no real, there's just that one hour break, which I guess you could then target that. But so anyway, it ended up that you'd had to go eat while there's still music playing or, you know, or whatever. Which is fine. I just, it was my first one. So I didn't know. So I think I'll do better next time figuring that all out. Me and you were actually talking about it. So I didn't feel like I'd made a lot of TikToks. I just, I, I wasn't quite, I've kind of got a routine down for secrets. So I've got to make one now for a lecture pleasures. So after the Glow Show and all of that, because it was like 7.15, 7.30 on Friday night, basically we just had hired a company with their performers came out and did like a light show basically out there. They were dancing and stuff. So after that, I went in and changed. And what I did was actually very smart, but I didn't realize I was this smart. I just kind of fell into it. But I wore, basically just wore lingerie at night. Because normally at like Secrets or like a hotel take, a lot of those things you do in the pool during the day. So you just wear a bathing suit or you're nude. And then at night is your like theme outfit. But this was different. So like my theme outfit was almost like during the day. But then you kind of had like a night portion outfit too. So I just went with lingerie. And it worked out because the club was like, like three degrees away from hell. And that would be one of the critiques. And the problem is it was a quality in hotel. That was probably like 50 years old air condition. It just could not keep up. It was so hot, but it ended up working out because I had like little to no clothing on. You can't really see hardly any pictures and video of me because all the social media platforms want to ban it. But yeah, no, I think that's actually a good, I think what you said, I think this electric pleasure thing is new and it's kind of this hybrid between a swinger hotel takeover and a music festival. So like what do you do? Like music festivals, you know, people show up at noon and rave till two o'clock in the morning and I think they're in the same outfit the whole time. But because we're in a hotel and you can change and like I didn't really want to wear the same outfit all day. I wanted to change for the night. Well, I think also because it is alternative lifestyle friendly. I think wearing a rave-type outfit during the day party and then switching into a naughty lingerie-type outfit for the night party kind of fits the vibe, right? It's kind of like this is a music festival but a little bit dirtier, like a little bit sexier. So I could see maybe that becoming more normal for people. And there also is like rave wear that is a little bit more sexy. Yeah, there is some rave wear that's basically lingerie. Yeah, like Pacey's in a thong. You could totally have gotten away with that in the club. It was that hot. There was people in that exact thing. So yeah, I loved the night portion. It was a ballroom that we had kind of transformed into a club. My only critique was the heat. It was beyond hot. But that's pretty standard for hotel takeovers. You put that many bodies in a room like that, dancing, grinding on each other. It's just bound to happen. Yeah, I love the vibe. I think it was you know we've we talked a lot about the speakeasy at Naughty New Orleans which was like a low ceiling suite that they turned into it so this was a smaller ballroom that had low ceilings we put our DJ equipment in there with the lasers we put two stripper poles on either side of the DJ equipments we've had some VIP couches in there it very much had like this base mini you know speakeasy like yeah like old school back room like yeah yeah kind of Yeah, and the fact that it wasn't like the, like it wasn't the fanciest hotel, the fancy, it kind of leaned into that. It kind of like made the vibe even better. You know, it wasn't like a standard cookie cutter ballroom. I even would say, I think it being hot and sweaty was kind of part of the vibe too. No, I agree. Agree. And then like, you know, we had two stripper poles and we had, you know, these ladies that were there dancing and they were They were amazing. And the one lady, which you can see her a little bit on one of my TikToks, you know, is a beautiful plus size lady. And she had on this like glow lingerie. And she looked. And to me, everything about that just screamed alternative lifestyle and like embracing everyone in all sizes and all colors. And it just made me like very proud to be a part of it. Oh, yeah. She was a person of color as well. Yeah. And I will say that throughout the weekend, I definitely, you know, When we made Electric Pleasures, it says it right on the banner on the website that this is an LGBT-friendly group and that we welcome everybody. And it's for any alternative lifestyle or music. And you can be a music person and not be a swinger. You can be a swinger and not a, you know, it's whatever. It's just an open-minded environment where people come together. And it felt like that. It did. I mean, there were people there that were just straight rave people and were not swingers or were not, you know, weren't swapping, weren't non-monogamous. There was one guy who had three wives there, and one of his wives was in a hover-round, like a mobile scooter. I don't know what her disability was, but she obviously needed that. It was pretty awesome. At some point, somebody came up to me and said, I don't know who's swingers and who's not. Part of me was like, that's the point. They were not complaining. But I'm like, that's what we were going for. We wanted this to be a safe place for everyone, regardless. You could just be a girl who loves music and likes to have her tits out, but you're 100% monogamous and you are so welcome here. And I love that about it. And my point to me is go talk to people. Get to know them. Ask those questions. At what point in time, I think it was the next night, the lady in the mobility chair was getting a lap dance as she was driving around. Yeah. No, for sure. It was amazing. She also had a neon sign on the front of her. That said free love. That said free love. And I don't know what it was wired to or how it was working, but she was wonderful. She had rainbow hair. She was awesome. There was dogs walking around with rainbow clothes on. I mean, it was a vibe. It was a total vibe. I want to talk about the DJs before we move on. The DJs at night. So you DJed. It was just in time. Justin, you. Me, Wondipa. On Friday Night, Filthy Frequency was a dubstep DJ finished. And I will say the music, I mean, from Sophie's girl bop music to me playing more like hip hop remixes with EDM music to Juan Deepa and his, you know, deep house to, you know, Filthy Frequency and Max who played some dubstep. Max was playing some, I guess, deep bass, like Denver deep bass. I don't know what it was, but I loved it. Some whompy, whompy stuff that just like made your heart shake. Like this small town Southern girl who knows nothing about anything. I loved it. I mean, like I loved all of it and I thought they all killed it. You know, every single one brought something different and that's what I loved about it. Yeah. When I think that's when you, when you give a DJ an hour, an hour and a half set, they can pour their heart and soul into that as opposed to traditionally lifestyle events. You know, DJs up there, playing four, five, six, seven, eight hours. At some point in time, they're just shuffling music more than they really are DJing. Where at this event, I mean, they were dancing, they were singing, they were jumping up and down. I mean, they were providing, they were giving their energy to the crowd and the crowd was responding to it. Yeah, I mean, they were totally the entertainers. It was not just somebody up there hitting buttons. They were really fun. But yeah, I mean, I loved the club. I thought it was awesome. At one point, that one of the owners, not us, but one of the, he was like, nobody's in the playroom. And I was like, because Dan's DJing. Cause you had the, like, you had the second to last set on Friday night. And it was like, you didn't come off until 1230. So everybody was ready to go play. And I was like, Dan gets off in five minutes. Can y'all wait? And everybody's like, we'll wait, we'll wait. And so it was like a joke when you came off. I mean, I'm sure you were exhausted, but we were like, let's go, let's go. Yeah, I will say, this is probably the only time where I was like, I'm okay if we don't go fuck right now. And I felt like that all weekend. And it's because I was just balls to the wall. You know, basically two days of unloading trailers and putting up equipment and all that. And then to go from that to trying to DJing and kind of putting all your energy into that. I think when that set finished on Friday night, I was like, I could go lay down and go to bed right now. But the crowd was definitely like, we need to go fuck. We were all waiting for you. Do you want to take a break and then come back and talk about play-ins since we're already a little over halfway through? No, I think now's the perfect time to hear from the partners and sponsors of the Swing Nation podcast. And then when we get back, we'll tell you if we made it to the playroom. And we'll tell you all about what happens on Saturday night. Yeah. All right, guys, we'll be right back. Lacey, the question we get asked on social media and TikTok more than any other question is how do I find lifestyle people, lifestyle events, lifestyle parties, lifestyle cruises, lifestyle people? I think I already said that. Yeah. In my area. Basically anything lifestyle you need. How do I find it? You need to get on a Swinger website and SDC is one of our favorites. It's really big here in the Southeast U.S. for sure. Yeah. And it has all the clubs listed. It has all the parties listed. You can find information on cruises. You can find our podcasts on SDC. Yeah, you can. And if you want to try it completely risk-free, we have a free trial link for you. We do, yeah. So how do people go and find that free trial link? If you go to theswingnation.info and scroll to the bottom, you're going to find some of our favorite products and brands. And you're just going to click that link and go straight there. All right. If you guys want to find lifestyle people in your area, go sign up for SDC. Completely risk-free. Yeah. And see if it works for you. I agree. All right, guys. Bye. Go check it out. Lacey, one thing I don't leave home without when going to a swinger event is my ED medication. That is correct. Performance anxiety is 100% a real thing. Having sex in an orgy room with 100 people in there is way different. than having sex at home in your bedroom. It is. So I like to have what we call little insurance policy and have some of that ED medication in my pocket. Shameless Care is who I use for that. And they actually just came out with a new product called the Shameless Duo. Yeah. Which is a combination medicine that has Viagra and Cialis in it so that one, you can be ready whenever, but also it's got that dose that you can take when you're, you know, as you're getting ready to go to the playroom and you need that to kick in. Yeah. So I love it. I mean, I used it at Hedo for the first time and that combination. You've kind of pretty much switched to that, haven't you? That's basically what I use all the time now. Yeah. So if you're looking for ED medication, if you're new to the lifestyle and you're going to an event, you might want to get some and have it just handy in case you need it kind of thing. Yeah. And the really cool thing about Shameless Care is they don't set you up on a reoccurring plan. So you're not going to get all of this ED medication that you have in your nightstand built up. When it's time that you need more, you'll get an email from them and they'll ask you, hey, are you ready for another round? And you can respond back. Yes, please refill it or no, I'm good right now. Thank you. So it's really cool because you don't end up with all these extra pills and spend a bunch of money that you're not, you know, you don't need to spend. Yeah. And my favorite part is you don't actually have to go into an office and talk to your family doctor or a military doctor. You can do it all right online from the privacy of your home. you just go to their website, you fill out some forms, the doctor reviews it, approves you, disapproves you, and you move on from there. So if you would like to get some medication, you can go to theswingnation.info, click on the little recommended apps and products, scroll down to the shameless care icon, click on that, and that's going to take you over there. There's some discount codes there for you so you can get a discount off your first order. But I highly recommend if you're going to some events or parties, go get you. some lifestyle insurance. All right, guys. Check it out. Lacey, if you're going to be a swinger, you need to be a responsible swinger. I agree. And part of being a responsible swinger is getting tested on a regular basis. Yeah. Now, something I didn't know is not all STI, STD testing is the same. That is correct. Not every family doctor fully understands how you should be getting tested. That is correct. What one doctor thinks is a full panel, another doctor may have a completely different version of that. And being somebody in the lifestyle and engaging with multiple partners, what you should be getting tested for is probably, if you're not telling your doctor that, what you should be getting tested for is probably different than what they're thinking. Yes. In their head. Yeah, because they don't know your lifestyle. Or even if they do know your lifestyle, there's a like, for instance, there is a new one called Imgen. And we just recently met a doctor at a lifestyle party and said that she had never even heard about it. And so she was awesome that we had educated her on that. So a lot of these doctors don't, they don't know it all. Right. So if you are going to participate in the lifestyle, you probably need to get tested from people that are meant to do this. Yes. So we use I Know My Status. We do. It's the same people behind Talent Testing who are the, it's a company that tests all the porn stars. So they're used to testing people that engage with multiple partners. They know all the latest on what STIs are, you know, coming up and spreading and they track all the stats. I mean, they know how to test people for STIs. They're the experts. They are. And if someone that you engage with, you know, if they have used I Know My Status, they can actually give you a QR code and you can scan it and you can see their results right on your phone so you can confirm everything that they're telling you. Yeah, 100%. So please, if you're getting tested, get tested the right way. We recommend using I Know My Status. You can go to theswingnation.info, recommended apps and products. Scroll down to the I Know My Status icon and you can get a discount off your first test. But please, if you're swinging, if you're engaging with people in the community, please be safe about it. Go get tested. Yeah, because we want you to fuck like a porn star. For sure. All right, guys. Welcome back. Welcome back. Thank you for listening to our sponsors. We love our sponsors. We do. Okay. So when we left you, we just left you in the club on Friday night. I had just finished DJing. You and basically all of our friends were like, let's go fuck. Yeah. And I was like, are you sure you don't want to go to bed? It's 1230. I'm tired. I've been going for 48 hours straight. We could go to bed. I was like, no, we're going to fuck. Which is probably the only time. in history ever where I was ready to go to bed and you were ready to go fuck. Yeah. So we haven't told the story of Trimex yet. We have purposely not told y'all. And the reason we didn't tell the story on the podcast is because it really wasn't like a swinger thing. Even though we swung. Yeah. But we filmed it. We haven't talked about that. But we haven't talked about it because it was really just one night and it didn't. I don't think it warranted. the whole podcast. But right before, right after New Year's, we went to Nashville with... Southern Swap. Southern Swap, Tiffany Bell and her husband. And we were making content. And at some point, she wanted to do... Well, we did four videos. So we did two videos. Yeah. And then we went to do a third video and she wanted to do DVP. And I was struggling to maintain my erection during that. Yes. Like, it's just awkward to get into that position and do that, which it's super hot to do. But with condoms and awkward maneuvering, it can be hard to maintain an erection. So we did the thing that we tell you not to do, but we were 100% sober. Well, we were sober and they had the reversal with them. We weren't at a party. Somebody there was medically trained. Yeah, there was a nurse. So the husband takes the dick shot. And she was like, I can give you a shot, which is Trimex. We talked about on the bar, I guess. And Dan was like, okay. Well, I was like, I've never tried it before. And this is, if I'm going to try it, this is the right setting, right? We're not even partying. We're in our hotel room. It's just the two couples. We have all the right medicine. If I'm going to try this, this is the environment to do it. Yeah. So you did it. And it was fucking amazing. He came. You immediately took the reversal. Because we were actually going. It was like midday. We were going to dinner after. We did our work first and then went to dinner. So you immediately did the reversal. And everything was good. It went down. Literally the next day, I was like, send me the link. So we ordered it. It came in. And so this was the first time. We didn't even get a chance to practice at home or anything like this. This was the first time. And it actually kind of worked out because you were so exhausted. You probably, you don't, you kind of got it for content, not so much swinging, correct? Correct. Yeah. But because you were so exhausted and because there was a hundred nurses there, not really, but there's probably five or six, because there's so many nurses there. We were like, okay, nurse, somebody come teach Dan how to do this. So Jersey couple, she came, taught Dan how to do it. And immediately it worked. So this is right before we go into the Playroom Friday night. Yeah. I'm kind of jumping back. Sorry. So, you know, again, we're a little bit limited on time. But what I did like about what is nice about Trimex is it's basically a guarantee. Yeah. Right. And it doesn't matter what headspace you're in. It doesn't matter if you're tired. It doesn't matter. Now, I will say it probably matters less if you're drunk or something like that. But that's, again, I would not be not sober and trying to mess with these shots that I'm not. Do Not Do That. But I can see why people in the lifestyle lean on this shot because it basically takes out all those factors. And it's almost it's a guaranteed thing. Yeah. But I get it. You know, I get why people use it. And it definitely works really, really well. So we went to the playroom. So the playroom at Electric Pleasures, it was basically two suites that we had cleaned up. Adjoining. Yeah, we had cleaned up really nice. We had gotten some. Lights, mattress covers. Obviously, you just want to protect everything. There was a sex wing. A lot of stuff like that. Things we could have done better. We didn't have any water in there. We know better than that. That's obviously something that we'll fix for next time. There could have been more towels. We'll fix that for next time. We're learning. We're getting there. I had a great time. I can sit here and count. I think four guys. I thought it was five. I counted somebody that I thought I fucked, but I didn't. But it was a good time. I also had a good time. So I would say I kind of pulled the you where I was like, you know what? We could just go to bed and I'd be happy. And then you talked me into going to the playroom and I loved every minute of it. I got to connect with Buffy, who I haven't got to play with for a while. Fucking her while saying you're stretching out my pussy and it feels so good. that's going to live in my memory probably for a while. I got to fuck Jersey, who I have not fucked in a while. I got to fuck Daphne, who I haven't got to fuck in a little while. And yeah, overall, it was just a good time. I fuck somebody new. And I don't know their screen name, so I'm going to choose not to say it. But he knows who he is if he listens. He was very shy. And I pretty much started putting the vibe out the night before. And then I kind of just scooped him up. I was just like, he was standing there and I was like, hey, you want to do this? Because I kind of knew that he probably wouldn't have asked me, which again is not like me. I'm not, I mean, I'm either hit or miss. I'm either shy, you don't say nothing, or I'll scoop you up real quick. And that's kind of what I did. I was like, hey, do you want to play? And he was like, yeah, absolutely. You didn't play with a wife, which I would have loved to have seen that. I think she would have enjoyed that. But maybe next time. But yeah, it was a really fun time. Yeah, there was a lot of people here over the weekend that I would have really liked to fuck. Same. You know, I think because I was running around like a crazy person, I didn't get as much opportunity to connect physically with people. Even like, you know, typically when we are on the dancing and stuff like that, like I'm making out with people. You know, you're touching and feeling on people. of that. It was like, run around like crazy, run around like crazy, DJ. And everybody's like, okay, let's go fuck now. It's like, okay, let's go fuck. You know? So I think I, especially like you're saying, this was a new person. I didn't really get to know her. So that's probably why that connection didn't happen. Yeah. Um, it kind of reminded me of like a mini secrets. So there was a lot of friends there that we've played with in the past, a lot of potential that I honestly would have been happy to play with any and all of them. So it kind of worked, you know, I mean, I'm glad we got that chance. that we did, but yeah, there was a lot more people that I would have loved to engage with that we didn't get a chance to do. I got turned down. You did get turned down. I wonder if she's going to listen to this. Did you say she sent a, I had a, Beauty and the Beast couple. Can I tell them? Yeah, yeah. Beauty and the Beast couple. She got, she gets a little freaked out in situations and I think she. She gets easily overstimulated. Yeah, that's a better way to. In crowded environments. Yeah, and she got, and it was pretty, there was a good audience. I think there were some people that she I don't think she played with anybody. I went down on her. She might have played with one or two. But she was not feeling it. She pulled a lacy and kind of sat out. Which it happens. I do it. So no shame on that. Well it's funny because I went down on her. I asked her. I'm like is it alright if I go down on you? She's like yeah okay. And then I did that and I think she came and I got up and I was like do you want me to fuck you? And she's like no I don't think I can. I was like it's okay. And I knew It's totally okay. I'm like, you're overstimulated, aren't you? She's like, yeah, you know me so well. But I think that's important to talk about because sometimes that happens, you know, and it's okay. Sometimes you're going to get turned down and it may have absolutely nothing to do with you. Right. I could have been like, oh, you're not into me or, you know, whatever. And it literally had nothing to do with that. And I knew that. I even text him today and we were like joking about something and she even brought it up. She was like, maybe next time I won't turn you down, Dan, or something like that. So it's fine. So after that, went to bed, but you, and then, well, we didn't go to bed. We fucked and you came and then I went to bed and then your, your hard on wouldn't go down. Yeah. My dick was still hard. Yeah. And so this is a part of the Trimex thing is dialing in the dosage and it does not take very much to keep your dick hard. Um, but it, you know, if you take too much, you need the reversal to go down. So I, obviously I took probably a little bit more than I need to. Um, but I took the reversal when it went, I was kind of waiting to see if it would go down naturally without having to take reversal. And probably had I waited a little longer, it probably would have. But I was tired. So I'm like, what I don't want to do is fall asleep with a heart on. So I'm going to just take the reversal. So I know it's I want to make sure my dick is soft before I get to sleep. I remember you getting up and me thinking, do I need to get one of the other wives, somebody that knows? But you were like, no, I think I can do it. And you did it and it went down. Is it scary sticking your dick with a needle? They're little needle. I mean, they're. They're mid-sized needles. But I think because I've been on testosterone and stuff and I'm just so used to sticking needles in me that it wasn't that big a deal, no. But yeah, putting a needle in your butt and putting a needle in your dick is two different things. So I think that would be a lot of guys' concern. I would, you know, again, and we've even, when we've talked about Trimex before on the podcast, I think the key to it is it's a, if you, you have to be a sober-minded body know what you're doing to do it. It's not a drug to mess around with. Well, your dick's not a part of your body that you want to fuck up. So it's important. Right. So, yeah. And I will say I was basically sober at that, you know, because I DJ'd and been running around. I maybe had one or two drinks the whole entire day. Yeah. I did not drink a lot. I did, like, some Fireball at night. But I honestly, I found myself drinking less. I just was having fun organically. I didn't really need a whole lot. So it was It was fun. I had a great time. Okay, we need to move to Saturday because we're running over time. It's going to be a little long podcast, guys. Sorry, guys. Stay with us. Sorry. Okay, so Saturday, you got up early. I was dying. I felt like I was sore. I felt like I had fucked a whole baseball team or football team. Even though I'd fucked like four guys, but I don't know if I was rough or if I was wild or what, but I woke up and I was very sore. I was exhausted. Yeah, I was too. I'm sure you were. And you kind of immediately went into like work mode. And then you came back. And at some point we went and had like a late breakfast lunch slash lunch. Which again. Was subpar. Was subpar. And overexpensive. Very. Yeah, very. We'll just leave it at that. We got back to the room. It was 1.30. And the room crawl started at 3. So I was like, oh shit. So you had gone to like start the music and all that. So I got ready and then started setting up for the room crawl. And so I was supposed to do a room crawl. And so was Daphne. Because we didn't have a lot of people sign up to do room crawl, which was another criticism that we got in the reviews, more rooms. The problem is we couldn't convince people to do rooms. So I was setting up for the room crawl. And somehow Daphne decided to just like jump in mine. So then we cut it by another one. I don't think she was prepared. as me just saying that i love her but she's not you know yeah she's hit or miss with i think we had five rooms and i think two of them dropped out so i think we had like three rooms in the room crawl which is not enough we really need like six or seven not and something which crazy is like sometimes we have to tell people like no or cut it down because there's too many but this it was new new group i think i get it a while to get used to it yeah um but i danced my room crawl look like a kid's birthday party kind of did yeah but i thought i did If you threw your kid a pineapple birthday party, you would have decorated it and done exactly what Lacey did. Yeah. Listen, my drink was good and that's all that really mattered. And they got prizes. They got stickers. They got bracelets. They got sprouts. They got all the things. So, it was good. I got to meet a lot of people. It was fun. I enjoyed it. You were gone, basically, the entire room, Carl. What were you doing? I don't even remember. Couldn't even tell you. Which is kind of our typical. You're very rarely there at secrets. Somehow, But the good thing is Daphne was in there, Mike. And so us three kind of did it together. But it was fun. I think it was like an hour and a half or so, and it was pretty constant of people coming in. Some people came back and got seconds, which I was cool. We ended up having a decent amount of shots left. I did like a sex on the beach type theme. And so I ended up putting the table out in the walkway with chocolate, and people drank on it all night, which made me feel good because everybody loved it. So I appreciated that. After the room crawl. Which I wore. I ended up ordering too many outfits. No way. What? So. You bought too much stuff? Yeah. I don't believe that. I never do that. No way. So. For the room crawl. I wore something that was. It was a little bit chillier on Saturday. It was probably the same temperature. But the sun wasn't out. So. It wasn't even. It was like 60 instead of 70. It was like 10 degrees cooler. And the sun wasn't out. It definitely Saturday was chillier. And one of my outfits was sleeveless, basically. It's like a halter-type thing. So I wore that for the room crawl so I could get pictures and video and then changed after that. So after the room crawl, I put on this, like, probably one of my more favorite outfits I've ever wore. It was this, like, jeweled bodysuit-type thing. It was cute pieces. Oh, the zipper incident. I tried it on at home, but I did not zip it up. The zipper was stuck, but not because I was fat. It kept catching on part of the cloth that was on. Yeah, so I'm going to have to take it and have the zipper replaced. It wasn't cheap, but it wasn't the most expensive, but it was definitely worth replacing the zipper to wear it again at some point. But I love the outfit. To me, when I dress up in rave clothes and stuff, I look like a clown. I can't even take myself seriously, but it's also so much fun. You can be. You're perfect. Basically. Yeah. So I put on my outfit and then went and hung out with everybody. I put on an outfit as well. Yes. You had an electric pleasures baseball jersey. Oh, you put your lifeguard outfit on? Yeah. Yeah. Because at some point. Which you've probably seen on TikTok. Yeah. So we did a polar plunge. And Dan said that if 10 people jump in the water, that he would jump in. Right. You would have 10 people? Well, so here's the thing. Leading up to it, we did the polar bear plunge. And you thought I was crazy. The girls that we work with were like, nobody's going to jump in the water. It's too cold. I thought people would jump in the water. I just knew I wasn't. So Lacey got me this life guard outfit, which is pretty good. I mean, it's got a visor, a t-shirt. I had red sunglasses. I had a whistle that I was obnoxious with. And I had like one of those Baywatch like red float. Like a lifeguard would have. It was like a blow-up one, like a cheesy blow-up one. So anyway, I come out in my lifeguard thing and I'm like blowing my whistle to the music and people are all like laughing at me and think I'm ridiculous, which I was a little ridiculous. So then I get up on the microphone and I'm like, okay, five minutes till the polar bear plunge. And I said, I'm going to make you guys a promise because everybody's telling me nobody's going to jump in the water. If 10 or more people jump in the water, I will also jump in the water. In hindsight, I should have said a a much higher number than that. That's not a very big number. Figuring there was like 500 people there. 10 is not a very big number. There wasn't 500 people outside, though. No, but I mean, yeah. How many people do you think jumped? I don't know. 20, 20, maybe 20 to 25. It was more than I thought. It looked like a lot around. And when you didn't jump with everybody else, you jumped after. But like, I didn't feel like enough time had passed. So I was like, just kind of recovering from every jump. And then all of a sudden, I hear your whistle and you take off running. got it recorded but idea yeah well so i was gonna go out there and like count everybody down and stuff with the microphone but the microphone wouldn't reach out to the pool it wasn't enough you know the it didn't reach that far and so i had to like count them down underneath the tent and that's why i couldn't jump with them and then once they all jumped i put the microphone down and then i just ran out there and jumped in while blowing my whistle obnoxiously That water was cold. It was freezing. Take your breath away cold. That's funny. It was good. It was fun. A lot of people did it. I was happy. It seemed like a lot of people liked it too. It was funny. It was fun. It was just kind of like an activity to kind of give people something to do. I obviously wasn't going to. At 5 o'clock, I'm not going to get my hair wet. No. I'd have to go to the room for two hours. Anyway, I went back and showered after that to just like a nice warm shower. Now, I will say those showers didn't get that warm. Even, you know, people were like, oh, there's too many people and there wasn't enough hot water. It wasn't that. It was that that water just didn't get because we were there all week. It was like that. We were there on like a Tuesday and I think there was like 10 people in the whole hotel. Yeah. And that water still the max temperature was like lukewarm. Yeah. But anyway, it still felt good. And so that's when I got changed into the Electric Pleasures outfit. Okay. And then that so that was at five there. We were supposed to have a fire show Saturday night, but the winds were pretty windy. It was windy. There were some concerns about that. So we decided instead of starting a fire and it was raining off and on as well. So we decided it would probably be best to not do that. Actually, they decided. And so they just they used the same like LED stuff they used the day before, but just made them fire colored instead. So instead of their LEDs, Being blue, they were like orange and red and stuff. Oh, I guess I didn't even notice that. So yeah, they came out. They did another fire show, which was awesome. And then after, so this is when I start to figure out, okay, this is when I go in. So we had ate earlier. I had ordered, um, we finally just said, forget the restaurant. We weren't doing that. I ordered chilies and got you and Mike a steak. And then I got, you know, some appetizers. And so we had had dinner. So after the light show, I went in, Tried to rest my feet. Even though I didn't have, like, heels or anything on, my feet were killing me just from standing. I had done, like, 20,000 steps each day, and I wasn't even running around crazy. I wonder what mine was. I know. I wonder. So, there's no telling. So, I kind of just, like, sat down for, like, 30, 45 minutes, which I didn't really do that the night before. I was trying to, like, reserve some energy for the night portion. It ended up, just because of the way the hotel, there's so many people coming in, So much going on that it was kind of hard to rest, really. But we got ready. We got changed because the club portion opened at night. So this night, I just wore none of my out. Well, I guess my the first night I wore blue. But the second night, the theme was orange. And I had like a magenta color laundry set on. I just. This works. Yeah, I just was like, I'm not. What did you think about? So, you know, that's a distinct thing. So for electric pleasures, instead of us having like pirates or, you know, like themed outfits. It's just, we were setting colors. Um, what did you think about color? The colors kind of went with the location. So we did like beach, like water, the sunset. I loved it. Um, honestly, some, I, I love a good theme. You know, I'm a swinger through and through, so I do really love a good theme. Sometimes it can be a little much, you know, so I genuinely enjoyed the, um, colors, the colors of electric. I think that was, It's really fun. For somehow, you called it last night, we accidentally picked basically the same colors for the next one. Yeah. Which that was a total fail. I realized that. Last night I was looking at, you know, because we're starting to promote the, we have another event in March in Atlanta. And so we were starting to promote that now that, you know, the Gulf Breeze one's over. And I was looking at it. I'm like, are these the same colors? And they're, they're called different things, you know. But they're roughly the same color. Basically it's blue and red or blue and orange. Yeah. Yeah. It's blue and magenta. which is funny because I wore blue and magenta. Yeah. But you know I really loved it. I felt it left a lot of self-expression. If you just wanted to be pretty basic with it you could. If you wanted to be elaborate you could and I genuinely enjoyed that. Yeah. And I think it's easier for people like to dress in a color than it is to come up with a whole ass pirate outfit or whatever. So yeah. One less likely to see the same thing I think. Yeah. I didn't see many. I don't think I have any matching outfits. If they match it was because They wanted to. Right. Yeah. But you always see that at swinger events. For sure. People wearing the same thing from Amazon. Yeah. So we went to the club. I had DoorDashed two fans. So we had fans. It didn't help any. It helped some, but it still was hot. It was very hot. But the club, again, was amazing. I don't know how. I mean, in this night, Juan Deepa's wife. I was going to say her name, but I won't. Yeah, I don't say her name. She is a pole dancing instructor. Like she has a corporate, normal, everyday job. But she actually teaches pole dancing. And she is amazing. And so she came and the girlfriend of one of the other DJs, which I think is their best friends, she came too. And they both, we had two poles. They both performed during Wandiva set. Amazing. And they are so good. Oh my gosh. Better than any stripper I've ever seen. In real life. And they were doing handstands. And they were putting themselves vertical. And upside down. And sliding down in the splits. And doing things you didn't know you could do with a pole. And they're both beautiful women. So it was a pretty hot set. Yeah. So you DJed earlier. So it went Justin to me to Juan to Max. I have to give a shout out to Justin. Because I. So he's just in time. I gave him shit on this podcast. a while ago and said that he looked like a Jehovah's Witness. And he has never let me live that down. He came fully prepared. He had on a mesh neon green shirt. I saw that, yeah. And his wife said, he said, he's going to be so proud of me. So I have to give him credit. He killed it on the outfits. He did not look like a Jehovah's Witness. Maybe if the Jehovah's Witness was going to a rave. But he, yeah, so the DJ lineup was really, really good. You did good. I like that you were a little bit earlier this time than the night before. Max came on after. Everybody was trying to go play kind of like. After I got done DJing. Well yeah but the problem was is it was like. Everybody wanted to see the pole dancing though. Yeah so everybody was a little later. So they were like going to play at like 1.30 and you had to cut the music off at 2. Right. So if we would have went you would have had to leave. So. And we were exhausted, so we didn't play. Basically, I skipped play, which shows you how tired I was. If you told me, Dan, you're going to be too tired to go fuck, I'd have been like, no. But it was a combination of, well, I've got to be back here in 30 minutes, so they're just kind of pointless. And also, I'm exhausted. So I was not upset to not go play. Yeah, for sure. There was a lot of people that I wanted to. And people were coming back and being like, are y'all going? There was plenty of opportunity. It sucked that we had to miss out on it. But. It's part of the when you're working the event and trying to party at it at the same time. Yeah. That's one of the things. Now I will say I also didn't want to miss any of the music. Yeah. Because like Juan Deepa's set was amazing. But that Max guy that went after him, he played some music I've never even heard before. And. But it was like. Your whole body would like shake. Yeah. And it was just like this deep trance kind of music. It just it fit the vibe like perfectly. And there were people in there like still dancing, like a decent amount of people at 2 a.m. Both nights. Like when he cut the music off, I mean, there was still a decent. People were like, boo. I know. And it was just really. People were coming up to me and asking. They're like, can we keep going? Can we keep going? And I was like, no, we have to break down. We have to go home. We have to sleep because we have to leave tomorrow. Because we stayed for that, you know, extra 30 minutes and just kind of stood around and it was much thinned out crowd. We got to meet a lot of people. We got to thank them for coming. People that we had never met. So it was really, it was nice to be able to do that. Yeah, one thing we didn't talk about that I want to touch on real quick is Friday during the day, the music. We trip breakers. You know, not one person mentioned that in the reviews. Yeah. I thought that was pretty awesome. And I was freaking the fuck out. So if you don't, so because it's a 50-year-old hotel, we had done, we went and we did a, like a pre-site survey. We actually got with the maintenance people and asked them, you know, hey, what's this plug go to? How big is this breaker? What's this plug go to? How big is this And we had a whole electricity plan. Turns out what they told us was not what was actually the case. So we ended up blowing some breakers. We actually blew a breaker. We got it fixed. And then we blew another breaker. And then we got that fixed. So Friday, the music went out like three times because of breakers. And I was extremely frustrated. But most people didn't really seem to care. I showed them my titties every time it went out. Even though we had a pasty policy, I broke the rules. and was like, look, titties. And I feel like I saved the day. So that's another area. You know, you're saying self-critique. I think we need to actually trace out some of these breakers and make sure that what they're, that not just go off of what the random maintenance guy says. Yeah, we have gave the shout out to the nurses. Shout out to the electricians that were there that came in and held. We had electricians, real deal electricians that were just there as members that were helping us sort some of that stuff out. So thank you to them. It takes a village. Dick shots, music, But yeah, that was pretty much it. We did end up staying until Monday. A lot of people got stuck. I know there's some people that are still there, actually. It's Wednesday. The breaking down process was a nightmare. I'm not going to lie. It's a lot of equipment. We could have done a better job of scheduling people to be there to help because I feel like I could have helped you better, even though I can't really do So I don't, I would have been like more of like a moral support, but we, you and I were like, like loading up in like pretty gnarly cold weather at nine, 10 o'clock at night. And we were kind of both pretty dead. So I think that's something that we need to improve on for next time. Yeah. Another thing is, uh, so Sunday, it, it basically rained off and on like thunderstorms, pouring rain off and on all day and it dropped. It went from, you know, 60 degrees on Saturday to I think it was in the 40s, maybe 50s, probably 40s. And then at some point later in the night when we actually packed the trailer, I think it got into like the 30s, not below freezing, but like high 30s. Well, and we were also right on that water. And so the wind, that's probably what got me is like, because when we were unloading, we're right there by the water and that wind coming off was like, cut you into two. So Sunday, sometime, or I don't know, one, two o'clock, I'm in the ballroom. breaking down the DJ equipment that was inside. So the plan was we were going to break down the inside, load that into the trailer, and then go break down the outside and load that into the trailer. So I'm inside the club breaking down the DJ equipment, and Lacey comes walking in and says, Dan, the tent is about to blow away. And I look at her, and I look outside. So in the ballroom there, we had the doors open. And I look outside, and I'm like, it doesn't look that bad. So I look back at Lacey, and I'm like, those tents are rated for 40 miles an hour. I bet that wind was 40 mile an hour winds. I bet it was close to it. It's not going to go anywhere. She's like, you need to come outside. Well, I was worried about the equipment. I mean, there was a lot of money worth of equipment underneath that tent. So I go outside and when I get out the front doors, it is clearly 30 plus mile an hour winds. There's like five people in the tent just hanging on to it as the walls are like coming undone and blowing sideways. The whole tent is shaking. So when I looked outside from the indoor ballroom, I'm looking outside on the back side of the hotel. The wind was all on the front side of the hotel. So the hotel was kind of blocking the wind. So it didn't seem windy on the back side. Well, because it's right there by the water. So like all of that wind was, it was something else. So anyway, I run out to the tent through the hurricane and we had to get some, we got some ratchet. So these people are, you know. Well, keep in mind, we're also under a tornado warning. So we've had 70 degrees. Now it's freezing and we're under a tornado warning. We had all weather. So anyway, we ended up getting the one wall that was facing the wind like ratchet strapped so that it's blocking most of the rain that's coming in. Some of our equipment got a little bit wet. Nothing was damaged, thankfully. The tent, thankfully, shout out to whoever set up that tent because they stick that thing down real good and it didn't go anywhere. So we survived what was basically And then we had to wait for that to finish, go back out there, wipe everything down, then finish packing. We did not get done packing out the trailer until, I don't know, 10 or 11 o'clock at night. And it was an all-day process. You were like really dead. I was pretty exhausted, but you really, you were. I don't know if I got eight hours of sleep the entire weekend. Yeah. And then, then the question was, how do we leave? When do we leave? How do we get home? Because like a snowstorm had hit basically everywhere. Schools were canceled. My mom had a procedure on Tuesday yesterday. So I was like, I've got to get home because she's got to have somebody to drive her. So at some point I was like, I'm done. You got to get me home. Like, I don't know if it takes us, it's about a five hour drive for us, five and a half. I was like, I don't care if it takes us 10 hours. Let's get out of here. So Monday, you know, we're loading up our personal belongings. We realized that we couldn't find the which is the phone that y'all call when you do tuesday talks yeah that was the same phone we use for the 360 camera that was a whole the ordeal we spent a couple hours tracking on the phone it ends up that we had left it in the in one of the rooms and it got turned into the front desk yeah so we find and then we like are trying to load the car which i pulled it up it said it felt like 17 this is at the beach it felt like 17 degrees outside it was so cold but we We finally got loaded, got in the car, and got the hell out of there. We got home Monday at probably about 6.30. That's when y'all heard Tuesday Talk earlier this week. We realized we didn't have a podcast. On the drive home Monday night, we realized, oh crap, we didn't pre-record our Tuesday Talk podcast. Which we're usually pretty good about. Which we'll never do that again. We had to get home, drop the trailer, and then basically come to the studio, podcast so that then I could edit it and get it posted so that it would come out Tuesday morning. And so I think I was up till 12 o'clock, one o'clock in the morning getting that edited and posted. Yeah. So man, it was a weekend. Yeah, it was. We're still like, because I, you know, I hear it in our voice. My mom, you know, had a procedure the next morning, you know, so we had to be there bright and early. And then today we had to be up early. So we have just been, we just haven't really quite caught up. on our sleeps. And my back's hurting from lifting and all the things. And taking all that dick. But I will say, to wrap this up, because we are a little over time, one of my favorite events. And here, I say this every fucking time. But Electric Pleasures, you know, when was it? Back in October, November, we sat down at the kitchen table with Bobby and our business partner from Open Instinct. and me and you and um we just decided we want to do hotel takeovers together and we said well what is this going to look like and i said well me and lacy have been wanting wanting to do something that's more festival you know it's kind of the direction that swinger side has been going in but i think if we rebranded it in a way that wasn't specific to swingers that would be more inviting to everybody and you know we sat at the table for what do you say like four four, five, six, eight hours planning all this. And then to go from an idea to an event and executing it. And not only executing it and having it, you know, be successful, but executing, you know, sold out and all that. But it actually, I think being what we envisioned, like it really seemed like it was an alternative lifestyle music festival. And it lived up to that in so many different ways. ways from people having orgies in the desire space to people getting flogged on the dance floor or on outside by the main stage you know they had a flogging bench out there at one point in time and as people are dancing around this lady she's getting flogged as there's lasers and stuff going on above her um to the diversity that you saw there people of all um different colors and people of all different sexualities uh it it really is an amazing thing And I know, you know, Bobby and his wife actually got emotional at one point in time looking at the crowd. You know, there was a full packed dance floor at like three o'clock in the afternoon outside in like 50 degree weather. And so there were several times throughout the weekend when we stopped and we're like, is this is happening? Like we did this. This is real. What I think is also really cool is we pulled that off in four months. Imagine what we could do in eight months, a year, four years. years, I'm excited for it. And, you know, we've said this a lot of times, Swinger Society is not going anywhere. This is just a different brand. I think there's a person for each and there's people that can do both. I think if you were there, you see the clear difference. Yeah, it's definitely different. So I don't, you know, I think that's important. We try to make sure we reassure everyone that Swinger Society is not going anywhere. However, there have been opportunities where we could have, we could learn from some of the things that we did do with Swinger Society. and maybe do it a little bit differently this time. So we're using that as opportunities. But we still love and we love Swinger Society. We love what it stands for. We love how amazing it is. But excited to do this as well. Yeah. So if you came out to Electric Pleasures, thank you for making the first event successful. If you were there, I think you felt the energy. I think you saw it. So many people came up to us after and were like, this is the best event I've ever been to. Which is like crazy because it was like kind of a a shitty hotel. I mean that in the nicest way possible. It was not a five-star. It was a quality in. Yeah, it was a quality in. It was not a five-star hotel. And it was in January. So for people to have that reaction really speaks volumes to me. Yeah. Yeah, I agree. So anyway, we're going to do it again in March. And then in June. And then again in June. So if you're interested, if this kind of music festival vibes at an alternative lifestyle-friendly environment sounds good to you, Maybe if you're curious about alternative lifestyles, but you're not ready to say you're a swinger. Maybe you just like music. Maybe you're a furry. Maybe you're, you know, I don't care who you are. Maybe you just want your tits out. All right. Maybe you just want to come to a friendly environment. I think Electric Pleasures could be the brand for you. And you can find links for the March event in Atlanta in the Chattanooga event in June. If you go to... Is that an event announced? Did you just give a little tea? I might have just announced it. I don't know. It's about to come out. Hold on to your hats. We'll be in Chattanooga in June. The contract's signed, so I don't feel bad saying it. So you can go to electric-pleasures.com or swingersociety.net, swingersociety.net, and find tickets to both those. I would predict that after this weekend, and I'm already seeing it in the ticket sales, that the March tickets are not going to last much longer. We were already halfway sold out going into last weekend. This part, yeah. And I think, yeah, there was quite good. Like a dozen people that booked at the party. And then people have been booking it up left and right since then. So if you do want a room, especially, you know, we will have an overflow hotel. But if you want to be in the main hotel, go get your rooms. I think they extend the payment plan. So if, you know, if you don't, if you can't make the payment all at once, I think we extended the payment plans for another week or two. So go check it out. Put your, put a down payment. I think it's like $99 or something to sign up. Did I see that? I don't think it's $99. Oh, I can probably tell you. But anyway, Go to electric-pleasures.com or swingerside.net. $200 down. I was $100 off. Sorry. That's what I thought. Yeah. And get signed up and secure your room so that you'll be there. If you thought Gulf Breeze was cool, wait until you see what we do at Atlanta. Yeah. We got some big plans. Yeah. I think it's going to be a good time. And it's all inside. Yeah. And you're not going to get cold. Yeah. I promise you. Yeah. Okay. Anything else for the Swing Nation listeners? That's it. All right. Huge shout out to Yeah, everybody, our whole staff, everybody at Gulf Breeze. All of our friends that trusted us. The restaurant staff, the certain waitress. There was a waitress there that loved us. She was amazing. She actually has a profile on Electric Pleasures now. You can connect with her there. Which I love. I love, yeah. But huge success. And yeah, thank you for everybody that supports us and believed in us. You know, it's something to book that and not know, you know, without knowing. But it shows people that they have faith in us and I appreciate that. Yes. All right. Anything else for the Swing Nation listeners? That's it. All right. I think with that, guys. In a world full of apples. Be the pineapple. Be the pineapple, guys. Bye. Bye. If you've enjoyed our podcast and want to support us, leave a five-star review wherever you're listening. If you want to see more of our content, you can find links to Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, OnlyFans, and more in the show notes. 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