Bliss Cruise Part 1: Networking and Naughty Nights

Bliss Cruise Part 1: Networking and Naughty Nights | Episode 243

Join Dan and Lacy for Part 1 of their wildest Bliss Cruise recap yet — a trip they jokingly dubbed “The Anal Cruise” after realizing just how much their adventures revolved around butt play this time around.  From steamy playroom experiences on the ship to swapping with another couple, they dive into the sexy, chaotic, and hilarious moments that made this cruise unforgettable.

But it wasn’t all nonstop play. Lacy opens up about finally feeling more relaxed on this cruise than ever before, allowing herself to let loose, be present, and genuinely enjoy the experience in a way she hadn’t on previous trips. Dan and Lacy also pull back the curtain on what it’s really like being affiliates on lifestyle cruises — balancing the fun with the pressure of networking, appearances, and business obligations, while sometimes feeling guilty they couldn’t spend as much time with their friend group as they wanted.

From naughty confessions to behind-the-scenes cruise life, this episode is packed with laughs, lifestyle stories, and plenty of unfiltered honesty. Tune in now for Part 1 of the Bliss Cruise recap!

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

This podcast is intended for adult audiences. Over the age of 18. It contains adult language and situations. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to us, and not of any employer, organization, committee, or other group or individuals. This podcast is not intended to be taken as professional advice.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

Welcome to the Swing Nation Podcast, a podcast by swingers for swingers, where we look to educate others and push back on the negative stigmas and misconceptions associated with our lifestyle. Come with us and share our pineapple journey as we travel the globe. Interview the experts. Learn and grow together. Join the nation. 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. Yes. Just returned from Bliss Cruise. Yeah. And this is going to be, I'm assuming, part one of at least two, if not three, of our Bliss Cruise.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Yeah, it was quite the um experience. Yeah, yeah. It was we uh just a little sneak peek, we named it the um The Anal Cruise.

SPEAKER_04 1:23

The anal cruise. This is the anal cruise. Uh yeah. So if you remember back way back, you know, in February. Yeah when we went on our last cruise, uh, it was not the best experience for us. Um the weather was bad the first two days. Uh, and then I got sick.

SPEAKER_00 1:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:44

And it was only a four-day cruise. So it's like bad weather day one, everybody was seasick, day two, a little bit better weather, but still too cold. And then day three, Dan gets sick and it's it's all downhill from there.

SPEAKER_00 1:57

Yeah. So like when we got off the February ship, we were like, at least we have April, which we honestly felt bad for. A lot of our friends had never been on Bliss and and chose that one to go because it was a little bit more affordable. It was only four nights, so it's easier to get away when you have kids. So we really hated that their experience was that rough. I mean, we didn't have a great time. We just, it was just not our bet. We were not at our best.

SPEAKER_04 2:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

So we were very excited to go into April, and honestly, it we totally redeemed ourselves.

SPEAKER_04 2:26

Yeah. And then if you want to go way back in time, the cruise before the April cruise was no the November of last year Bliss cruise where Lacey forgot her medicine. And we kind of the f the first few days of that were a great cruise, but yeah, the ending was a little rough.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

It was.

SPEAKER_04 2:42

And so we have had not the great bliss experiences, the last two cruises.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

No, honestly, after February, I was like, maybe we're just not like maybe the cruises in our, even though we love them, it just it seemed like every time we try to do it, it just it wasn't working. And so honestly, a couple of times in February, I was like, maybe this isn't maybe we aren't cruise people. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_03 3:07

Maybe we're not swinger cruise type people.

SPEAKER_00 3:09

Yeah. And so I was excited to go into this, but honestly, we didn't put a lot of pressure on us, and maybe that's why it ended up we totally redeemed ourselves. It ended up being amazing, but maybe that's why it turned out being really good. I don't, I don't know. I also want to read something before we jump. This is a little sidetrack, but before we jump into it, because like one of the nights on the cruise, I'm you know, I'm a Redditor, I I stalk Reddit. Y'all know that.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:37

And I somebody had posted like a Snapchat, a snap snapshot of you know, some some of the major podcasts. And I want to read to you, shout out to Angela on Reddit.

SPEAKER_04 3:49

Um God.

SPEAKER_00 3:50

We can never figure out if she hates us or if she likes it.

SPEAKER_04 3:52

She flip-flops.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

She flip-flops, which I think I like that because she's neutral.

SPEAKER_04 3:56

I guess she's honest. Yeah. Sometimes pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 3:58

So this was her response. So as the week went on, this was playing in my head. And so, like, this is I don't think there's ever been a more honest review of our podcast. It's like three sentences. So listen, it says Swing Nation last Thursday. Lacey goes to Secrets, complains about the drive, doesn't take her meds, eats at the Italian restaurant next door, gets drunk again, films some TikToks, fucks a couple who helped her with her luggage, and complains there's not enough time for Orgies when Dan DJs. Is there a pattern here? Isn't that perfect?

SPEAKER_04 4:31

Yeah, what is the pattern you getting drunk or well the pattern is You getting drunk and complaining?

SPEAKER_00 4:36

And forgetting my medicine. I always complain about so anyway. Yes, Angela, you summed it up. Uh the same things happen here. I'm usually either hungry, horny, some I think somebody commented that. Like, listen, if I'm gonna be feeling a way, I'm gonna, I'm gonna tell you.

SPEAKER_02 4:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:51

And the good thing is this is our podcast, so I can I can say the things that I want to do.

SPEAKER_04 4:54

She has said things she she's criticized us pretty harshly a lot over the years. A lot of times it's right, but she's she's uh she said some nice things too. So I don't know, I don't know what side she's on, but uh I don't know but she knows that appreciate it.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

That is very true. I'm always bitching about the drive. I get drunk, I forget my medicine. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:11

Welcome to our life.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Yeah, welcome to Dan's life.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

All right, so back. Going into April cruise, we have this almost um bad taste in our mouth about the last two cruises. And so, you know, that's kind of where we walk into this. Now, another thing I think is worth mentioning, I'm gonna speculate here because I don't know for sure. So this is Dan speculating, right? This is my thoughts and opinions. I have no actual facts to go on.

SPEAKER_00 5:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:39

Um, but there was a lot of industry people on this cruise that aren't normally on a Bliss cruise. Yeah. My suspicion is because this cruise didn't sell out.

SPEAKER_00 5:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 5:49

I don't know that to be true or not true. That's my suspicion.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

A lot of them were added last minute, and even some of them we didn't even know we're gonna be on it until we got on the ship. It was sort of like a running joke that if the ship went down, the lifestyle was fucked. Yeah. Because basically, most everyone that has a play in the lifestyle, business-wise, was on the ship.

SPEAKER_04 6:10

Right. And I only bring that up because that changed a little bit of the dynamic of this cruise. So we went into it. Um, we only brought, I think, what was it, eight couples on this cruise besides us. Yeah. So we were going into it thinking, and then we scheduled like one or two things of content. Uh and when I say content, I don't mean OnlyFans content. I'm talking about like interview. We did an interview with Malcolm, we did some tours of the playroom and stuff. You know, normal stuff we didn't do.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

We did no OnlyFans.

SPEAKER_04 6:34

But uh compared to what our normal workload is, because you had said I did too much in the last cruise, and I felt the same that we did too much.

SPEAKER_00 6:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 6:41

We had tried to go a little lighter on this.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

Yeah, I think some of the reason I think February for me didn't go well is I felt like going into it, we there was a lot on my plate, and so I was internally panicking before there was any reason to panic. So I think that kind of derailed me from the beginning. So I was happy that this time there wasn't, we did have our normal, you know, we work closely with Bliss as far as like bringing you behind the scenes and stuff like that. And then my normal TikToks that I make in their room and all of that. So like we had all of that plan, but outside of that, there wasn't a whole lot. But knowing that there was so many industry people there was also another thing to think of when we were going in. Like we needed to be on our best behavior. We can't be showing our ass in front of all these people. Dan is a little under the weather, he has a swinger flu or something, we don't know, but he his voice is a little shot. So we're I'm gonna try to carry most of the podcast. So if you're wondering why I'm doing most of the talking, we appreciate you.

SPEAKER_04 7:37

Okay, so what I was gonna say is there was a lot of people on this cruise, industry type people. And I'll I'll name some. Uh I'm not gonna name them all, I'll probably forget some, but uh, there was Bob Hanniford from Naughty Events, so Naughty New Orleans. There was um James uh Carmen and Carmen from Secrets. Uh so they're owners, part owners. I don't I don't know exactly how Secrets is split up.

SPEAKER_00 8:01

And his son Junior.

SPEAKER_04 8:03

James Jr. uh was on the cruise. Um and then there was uh John and Jackie Melfi. John and Jackie Melfi from Colette, uh our partner and EP, Bobby, who uh we're also partnered with in a in a marketing called Momentum Marketing uh firm. Uh there was representations from SDC, there was representation from SLS swing.com. Um caliente. Caliente representation.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Uh the sanctuary, the owners of the sanctuary were there. Right.

SPEAKER_04 8:38

And then plus all the normal um all the different travel agencies and stuff that are on most Bliss Cruises, and there was probably other club owners and other group organizers that were on the cruise that I don't know or didn't, you know, interact with personally.

SPEAKER_00 8:53

Tests from Naughty, I'm sorry, tests. NCSF. Yeah, from NCSF was there. So yeah, there was a good amount of people there.

SPEAKER_04 8:59

Right. Uh which is not usual for a Bliss cruise. So usually when we, you know, when you have industry come together, that happens every year at Naughty and New Orleans. Um, and I not to say a lot of industry people go on Bliss Cruise, um, but not this many and not kind of organized in the way that it was in this cruise. Uh so that was, you know, we learned about that just like the week before going on the cruise, days before going on the cruise. So we're like, oh, this is this is interesting. Okay, all right. So that's kind of I think a fair foreshadowing of uh this cruise. Kind of give you a scenario of what we were walking into. All right, so now let's get into what actually happened.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Lacey was hungry.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

Yes. Lacey was horny.

SPEAKER_00 9:42

No, I didn't. Just kidding, just kidding. Okay, so um we left, so we got on the ship on Sunday. So we drove. Obviously, we all know I hate that, but we're not gonna get into that. So we left Friday night and drove like four or five hours Friday night.

SPEAKER_04 10:02

I guess another thing that we didn't mention is we had secrets two weeks. Two weeks before this.

SPEAKER_00 10:07

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 10:08

It was a pretty quick flip coming back from Secrets and then going straight to Bliss.

SPEAKER_00 10:12

Yeah. Like a week and a half, yeah. So um, so we left Friday, drove, you know, a couple of hours, slept. It's about a 12-hour drive. So if we can get, you know, half done, that's ideal. So we did that, and then we got up Saturday morning and drove the rest of the way in. We got to Fort Lauderdale about 4 30, and we immediately went in and saw I Know My Status, which if you don't know, they are an S T I S T D testing company that we work closely with.

SPEAKER_04 10:47

A friend and sponsor of the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 10:49

Yeah, yes, and we've made great friendships with them. So really we were not doing any, we weren't getting tested, we weren't, we were just seeing them for because we were excited to see them then they were there. So we went, hug their neck, super excited. They partnered with Bliss, so they do like a Bliss panel. They were very busy, so that we loved to see that. We love to hear that. So excited for them. They were pretty busy, but it was time they were basically wrapping up. But we did get to hug their necks and say hello, and then and then after that, we went to the topless travel um meeting. If you don't know, we are a sub-affiliate of topless travel. So when you book your Bliss Cruise with us, you actually are also booking with Topless Travel. So if you go on a Bliss cruise or HEDO or whatever it is, you get the benefits of booking with us as well as benefits of booking with Topless. Um, and just like side note, I've met hundreds of people on the Bliss Cruise that were like, we're here because of you, but we only brought eight couples on the cruise with us.

SPEAKER_02 11:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:50

So I would say if you're if you've Googled Bliss or and found this podcast, please use our link, uh swingersociety.net and book with us. You get an extra swag bag. You get, you know, you get to be in a group chat with us. Sometimes the group chats are more lively than others. It's kind of hit or miss, you don't know, but we're definitely there. We do pre-cruise Zoom calls. So we try really hard to give you something and you don't pay any more money. So yeah, we but it benefits us, it helps cover our costs to go. So we greatly appreciate it. And there's so many people that we meet that are there because of us, but did not use our link. So anyway, shameless plug. So we went to the topless travel meeting, which is nice, you know, like party mark, frisky business, all of the uh Rachel's, is it not Rascals anymore? It's Rachel's Revels, maybe she's in there. So a lot of people that you see in all of the topless, they're all there. So that was lovely. After that, we had were hungry, so we went to Outback and um ate and I had one drink, not drunk, walked right out of Outback and completely busted my ass.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

In front of a couple.

SPEAKER_00 13:04

Well, and I thought it was just like a random couple going to Outback. No, they were like, you should love your podcast. Yeah, or you should have made a TikTok out of that. They said something so embarrassing. Honestly, I'm lucky I didn't really hurt myself because I hit pretty hard.

SPEAKER_04 13:18

And you know, if you've listened to the podcast for a while, you know that Lacey tends to hurt herself uh in and around Bliss Cruises. She tends to have to go to the medical bay on board uh Bliss Cruise. So uh day one, when we arrived at the hotel, then go eat, and we're walking out of the uh restaurant, and Lacey falls uh on the pavement. I'm immediately thinking, oh my gosh, if she like breaks her ankle or twists her leg.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

I got very lucky. And I had so I had platform flip-flops on, and I guess I just stepped off, right? I was not drunk at all. I had a full meal and one drink. I wasn't, I think it was just the way I stepped. Somehow I did not break any skin, did not break any bones. I got very lucky. I definitely was sore the next day, and I even saw that couple a couple times on the cruise, and they were so sweet. They were like, I'm shocked. You hit so hard.

SPEAKER_04 14:11

I'm like, I I don't know, but you did give yourself a couple good bruises.

SPEAKER_00 14:15

Yes, of course. It's not a swinger party.

SPEAKER_04 14:17

You surviv you survived.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Yeah. So after that, we went back. So we stayed at the embassy suites there in Fort Lauderdale. That tends to be one of the main hotels for Bliss Cruise. Um, it's kind of the topless travel hotel, and that's where they have their pre-cruise meet and greet. So we usually stay there, and it's a great hotel. It's kind of right in the middle of everything, lots of food, lots. If you forgot anything, there's pretty much everything close by. And so we um we got ready. So we got the theme, it's like I don't, there's not a theme.

SPEAKER_04 14:53

It's it's like cocktail hour. Yeah, you know, so you'll see people uh in everything from like cocktail dresses to like slacks in a decent shirt, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:02

I just wore like a little black dress, and then wore some nice jeans and a black button-up, simple. It was a great party. I felt like it um it died off earlier than it normally does. Normally we like shut it down at 12 30, and it definitely seemed like it was a little bit like yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:24

So I can remember if you think back to the February cruise and the February cruise pre-party, I can remember during the plea the pre-cruise party, that that pre-party was wild. And like you said, there was a a crowd in there that stayed all the way to two o'clock. I mean, that club was pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Well, it's only to 12 30, baby.

SPEAKER_04 15:46

Oh, anyway, yeah. Yeah, but I I remember there was energy all the way till they shut the music off. And I can remember thinking on the last cruise, oh my goodness, the energy.

SPEAKER_00 15:55

This is probably the the wildest pre-party we've ever done for I think because like 1,100 people on the February cruise were there, was it their first Bliss cruise? It also was a much younger crowd. Yeah, I think that's so I really think that had to do with it. I mean, at some point there was very little people on the dance floor. So we walked out and just stood out there and just talked to people, which we met some like great people, people that weren't even going on the Bliss cruise. They were just hanging out, they came to the party because they were local. Um, I mean, I I had a great time. It the energy was definitely not like February, but still fun. Mark, Party Mark tried to get us to go to Trapeze Fort Lauderdale, which honestly I wanted to go. They were gonna go at 12:30. Uh, and then uh Trapeze is open till four, so you still could get a couple hours. I originally I was like, yeah, we're going. At some point, I was like, eh, maybe not.

SPEAKER_04 16:52

Yeah, you so this is what happened. You probably had had a few drinks at this point, and so you promised Party Mark and DJ Frisky that you were going to go.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:03

I did not want to go.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

No.

SPEAKER_04 17:05

And um Miss Frisky did not want to go.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 17:09

And then so I told her, well, if you go, I'll go. Yeah. And so me and her made a pact that if if if one was gonna go, the other was gonna go. Well, then we go up to the room to change or whatever, right before we're supposed to leave, and you're like, baby, I'm actually tired and I just want to go to bed. In my head, I'm thinking, well, that's what I've been trying to say all night long is that going out and partying, especially with party Mark, he has a little bit of a reputation uh that precedes him. I'm like, I do not want to get on the ship already hung over and not feeling well.

SPEAKER_00 17:37

No, it was a smart decision. Yeah. So we ended up not.

SPEAKER_04 17:40

So you backed out, and then I see Miss Frisky the next day on the bliss cruise, and she don't want to even want to talk to me. She's like, You promised me she's like, I will never trust you again. Like, she was mad at me.

SPEAKER_00 17:51

She was mad.

SPEAKER_04 17:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

So we went back to the room and we were hungry. So I ordered us DoorDash IHO. And because it was not like a hotel tager, but they could bring it to your door, you know, they didn't have to drop it at the front desk. So while we waited on our food, um, we had sex. And this is where the term anal cruise started. So we had anal sex and you came in my ass.

SPEAKER_04 18:19

Well, so I think you to give the full Yeah, you want to go back. But this is the first It was the week leading up to Bliss Cruise, yeah. So just a few days before this party, we were fucking, you know, just at home on a random Wednesday night, we're having sex, uh, and you like to get out your Hitachi wand, you know, when you're when you're when we're fucking each other, your magic wand, whatever they're calling them these days. And you like to use that while I fuck you. Well, you're doing that, and then out of nowhere, you're like, put it in my ass. And I was like, oh okay. And so I did that. And and when I did that, you had an orgasm that apparently a type of orgasm you've maybe not experienced before.

SPEAKER_00 19:04

It was different. I don't know, it was different. Uh, I felt like I couldn't move my body, I was so relaxed. But you so you came in my ass. So just for context, we have had some anal sex in the past. I don't actually had some anal sex with like daddy Mike quite frequently.

SPEAKER_04 19:19

Me and you have had anal sex maybe twice before before this period of yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

It was a little virgin to come ass. So we're fucking, I come, you come in my ass. This is like maybe three or four days before blisk group, yeah. So now all of a sudden I'm a changed woman.

SPEAKER_04 19:38

This is like immediately after you were like, I don't know what that was. But we're doing it, but I liked it, and I want to figure out how to be able to do that more.

SPEAKER_00 19:47

Yeah. So I think we even tried like one other time before we left for the cruise. It didn't work, didn't work. I couldn't get like relaxed enough. So now we're, you know, we're on the cruise. We had had a couple of drinks, I was dilat, I had my wands, and then so you fucked my ass, and I came. Which again, like a whole I feel like a whole new world has been over. I I see I see the world in color now.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

Yeah, and people listening are gonna be like looking at their wife and and and they're gonna be like, C C C. I've been trying to get Lacey to have anal sex with me since we met each other.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

It was like a me thing. Like I had to, and I don't even know, I couldn't even tell you. The wand definitely helps me. I have to get to like a certain level of like turned up. Like it kind of reminds me, I wasn't on any kind of gummies. I can't take them because I'm drug tested for ADHD medicine anymore. But it kind of reminds me of like when you're on like a gummy and you're like just very relaxed and just kind of like I don't, it's sort of kind of like if I could get my body to that stage where I can let you give it to me, and then I I can take it. But yeah, I have to get there first. And I I can't really predict when that's gonna happen. But it ended up happening quite a bit on this cruise. Let's just say that. So anyway, we had anal sex, you came in my ass, then we ate our IHOP.

SPEAKER_04 21:08

Went to bed.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

And went to bed, and it was glorious. It was so much better than going to Trapeze. So that was our that was our Saturday night. We haven't even got on the so this is how like we're going into the cruise. So we're in a really, really good spot.

SPEAKER_04 21:22

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're having butt sex. I mean, it doesn't get life doesn't get much better than that, right?

SPEAKER_00 21:26

So we get up Sunday morning. Again, we're not in any rush to get on the ship. I know some people, you know, they get to do like one or two lifestyle things a year and they are ready to go. They're on that ship in their bathing suit at the pool the moment they can. That's not us. We take our time. We got on about 1 30. We ended up having to go to CBS like right before and get a couple of last minute things. And we got on the ship about 1 30. Checked into our muster station. We went to our room. We kind of carried on one bag, so we dropped that bag, went and grabbed some. Lunch and then we came back and we packed the swag bags, which again we only had like eight, so it was pretty simple. So I packed the bags while you posted a TikTok.

SPEAKER_04 22:09

Yeah, one thing on this ship that was very confusing is normally on a cruise, the room numbers are like a hotel room, right? It's on the first floor, it's one one two, one, two, one, one, two, one, one, three, one, one, four, right? And then two, and then three and four, right? On this cruise, there were certain floors, like we were on the 11th deck, whatever you call it.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

But our yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:34

But our room number was 15 something.

SPEAKER_00 22:36

It was very confusing.

SPEAKER_04 22:37

And there were two or three decks that had these extra numbers.

SPEAKER_00 22:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:41

And I don't know why.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Luckily, we only had eight bags and we did it together because if I had to do that on my own, I would have never figured it out.

SPEAKER_04 22:47

Yeah, there were two or three bags where we had to like figure out because the numbers were like 15, 16.

unknown 22:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 22:53

We had to figure out like what deck has 16 numbers on it.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

We ended up doing it though. It wasn't as hard as we thought it was, but it was a little confusing. So we went to um the pool after we delivered our swag bags. We didn't put bring our bathing suits like in our carry-on. So they were our bathing suits hadn't been delivered. So we just kind of like went in our clothes and we kind of walked, you know, walked around, kind of checked everything out. And it looked like it was about to rain. So we went to the top deck and I made a TikTok for DandaPost, just saying, you know, like as the ship was leaving port, you know, we're leaving, excited to be here. And then after that, um, we went in and kind of rested because we had to be um ready by like seven to do TikToks in the solarium. So by this point, it's like five or so. So by the time we got in and I got ready, it was basically time. So one of the benefits of working closely with Bliss is they give us the opportunity to go into the playrooms before they open to the public and film. So a lot of what you see behind the scenes is actually before they open. And so we'll go in there real quick, film, do a tour, film a couple of TikToks just so that way people can actually see what they're getting themselves into before they book a bliss cruise. And we're super grateful for that. We're happy that they're gonna be.

SPEAKER_04 24:14

Yeah, those videos always do really well. And I think it, you know, it's we've been trying to do this for a while. And I think when we first started doing this, there was a lot of pushback to it. But more and more we're we're experiencing where clubs want this kind of content to be able to put up on their website and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_00 24:30

For sure. So on this night we did TikToks in the solarium, which if you don't know is usually on like a cruise ship. It's like the 18 plus or 21 plus type of area. It's very spa like, usually glass ceilings, um, a swimming pool, hot tubs. They basically just make that into a playroom. So they um they kind of close it off and they put beds and stuff like that in there. And so it's actually a really neat playroom.

SPEAKER_04 24:58

We it's one of our playrooms on Bliss Cruise are probably my favorite playrooms. Specifically, this ship had a very the way the you know the solarium on the last uh ship was cool because it had like this tropical kind of vibe, but it was smaller, it was better decorated, but not as much space. This one didn't have all the crazy jungle stuff in it, uh, but it had a good amount of room. Yeah. Specifically, it had those nice big orgy bed spaces, which we love, which is our favorite.

SPEAKER_00 25:30

So um this night uh was naughty, nautical, which I loved. We had never done any kind of nautical type, and we've done like pilot. I'm trying to think. We did something with mermaids that a lot of people did like an under-the-sea kind of thing. Yeah, and a lot of people did like the sailor type thing, but I I did mermaids. Uh, but this is the first time we've ever done this theme. The funny thing is Dan and half of the ship had the same shirt on.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

Literally half of the ship.

SPEAKER_00 26:05

I mean, we all of us wise were on the same page, basically. It was really funny. Maybe you had to be there, but every time we'd walk, there would be like another It's like, hey, hey, hey. We even at one point got a picture of like 10 guys together. Obviously, we can't share it because they're not public. They're not public, but there is one that maybe Dan can share Thursday when this comes out of him, James, the owner of Secrets, and Russell, the owner of Bliss. We all had the same shirt on. Yeah, it was pretty cute.

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Now, another funny thing, so partly why that's so funny is because Lacey for this night had gone on what, Etsy, and found a girl to like custom make her this probably one-off, you know, one of a kind.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

It's not one of a kind.

SPEAKER_04 26:52

With one of five or something.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Well, no, she it's for sale. I just asked her to make it without the crystals because it was like a little out of my price range. And I love the outfit, and I really, really wanted it, but it was like covered in Swarzsky crystals, and I was like, that's ridiculous. I don't need all of that. So I messaged her, I'm like, hey, can I get this outfit but without the crystals to kind of make it more of my kind? I mean, right.

SPEAKER_04 27:16

So you my point being you had a custom made to your body outfit, and then you went and bought me the first t-shirt you found on Amazon.

SPEAKER_00 27:23

It wasn't the first, yeah, it was a good shirt.

SPEAKER_04 27:25

Yeah, I'm just saying. Yeah, half the ship thought it was a good shirt.

SPEAKER_00 27:29

So after that, we went and had dinner, and we had dinner with Reno couple, and you've heard us talk about them over the years. Um, we went to Reno in January to celebrate their birthdays. Super excited that they were on the ship. They're a super fun couple to hang out with. Really are we had dinner with them, and and then after that, it was um we went to the party. So a lot of the party for this ship was in the Sky Lounge, which is kind of like a a pretty awesome location. But the way that the new owners of Secrets are doing it is uh Bliss Cruise. New owners of Bliss Cruise. New owners of Bliss Cruise. It's a lot, so instead of having like one big party like at a hotel takeover, they have a whole bunch of smaller parties. So you find the music that you like. So if you like EDM, you find that a lot of times they'll have country, sometimes they'll have uh music that fits the theme. Uh they'll have a piano bar. So just like whatever you're into, they'll they'll you who can find that. We tended to end up in the Sky Lounge most of the time.

SPEAKER_04 28:37

More so than normal. And I don't know why. Usually we kind of chase the EDM party. Um, but for whatever reason, on this cruise, the EDM party never really seemed to be a popping party. Yeah, it seemed like the main party in the solarium was always the main part, you know, with the most busy party.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

In the Sky Lounge, you mean?

SPEAKER_04 28:55

Or in the sky, that's what I mean. In the Sky Lounge, sorry. Well, and I feel like And I also feel like a lot of times in the Sky Lounge, they're playing EDM type music.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

Yeah. I actually saw somebody complain on something, Facebook or something about too much EDM. But uh we tend to find DJ Frisky, his music, and then also Philly Phil. There is several other DJs that I feel like we barely saw. There was another female, and I think she was really good, but for some reason we just never really we saw some of hers, like especially on Glow Night, but not a ton otherwise. Right. I guess we were sort of just drawn to those two DJs, not on purpose, but they just kind of are they are both kind of friends at this point too.

SPEAKER_04 29:37

So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

So uh we partied and danced in there, and then at some point we ended up in the casino, which we spent a lot of time in the casino. This trip we don't normally let's not normally our scene, but the owners of secrets tend to be there.

SPEAKER_04 29:55

Um, so we we a lot of the industry yeah people. So this is where we saw like Russell, the owner of Bliss, we saw James, the owner of Secrets, um Bob Hanniford, the owner of Naughty New Orleans, were there so it was like and then that this we saw um Yeah, the bar in the casino seemed to be that hangout spot for most of the industry people, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Kind of throughout the cruise for whatever reason, and it was kind of like on a main walkway, too.

SPEAKER_04 30:21

So we tended to like if we'd walk by and they were all there, we just kind of got sucked in.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

Yeah, so we we ended up hanging out with them for a while. Um at some point we got back to the club. I was actually flogged for the first time by Carnival Risquet. She asked me um if she could flog me, and I said sure. And it was I actually enjoyed it. She didn't, it wasn't hard or anything. So it was um and then after that, we you and I went to the playroom, just the two of us, which is becoming a trend at the beginning of the cruises.

SPEAKER_04 30:58

I think the first night, we almost always do this, and I I kind of like it. Yeah, it's kind of a way to ease into it and give us like some us time. Yeah, but also it's us time, but it's a little sexy because there's a bunch of people having sex around us. So it's it's you know, it's kind of a good way. Now, and I also say on previous bliss cruises, you know, when we have 10, 20, 30 couples, we usually have a group of our friends and we tend to fall quicker into the orgy every night um kind of mentality on this cruise because really the only couples we knew that you know we were sexually active with, we knew several of the industry people, but the only couple that we really knew that we were, you know, played with was Reno couple.

SPEAKER_00 31:38

Uh and so, you know, we got some good quality time with them, which super appreciative of, but we were kind of in this weird, a different space for us where it's there wasn't a group of friends to where there was like built-in orgies every night, which can be good and can be bad, and you know, it kind of forces us out of our comfort zone and makes us kind of like learn what it's like to be not podcasters, yeah, you know, it makes us have to like work a little bit harder at the connections, which is honestly a good thing for us. Um, I do know that like for some reason I was a little bit distracted in the playroom this night, and I don't know why. I think there was just like kind of a lot of people around us. So we ended up stopping, going to get milk and cookies and late night snack, and then went back to the room and finished fucking before we went to bed. So I was some for some reason distracted.

SPEAKER_04 32:30

Yeah, you kept saying things like look at me or something like that. I'm like, well, we're in a fucking playroom. I'm pretty sure we were on an orgy bed with like six other couples, even though it was just us that was playing. And it's like the only way I can look at you is either like stare you in the face or close my eyes.

SPEAKER_00 32:43

I don't know why I was feeling that way because I wasn't feeling like insecure. Maybe I was just wanting to connect more. And it's kind of hard to do that in the playroom. So we went. Now I wanted, I don't know how long are we at a break yet?

SPEAKER_04 32:57

Yeah, we're about to a commercial, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Okay, so let me I want to talk about this. So I really realized on this first day that I was having genuinely a good time. Okay, and I know that like shouldn't you always have genuinely, but did we have butt sex? Probably.

SPEAKER_04 33:15

Not in the No when we went back to the room pretty true.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Probably we pretty much did every single night. Um, but like I genuinely, like, for instance, I was like, yeah, I was very YOLO, you know, like yes, flog me. Yes, let you know. Um, I was very much just like genuinely happy and genuinely having a good time. I felt good in my body, you know, recently lost some weight, and I've also changed my medications over the last years, and now I'm on hormone replacement. And I can remember thinking, I feel like I'm a delight, you know, like and I'm like, I feel like in the past, I had I've probably came across very uptight because I felt uptight, you know, and like in here, I just genuinely had fun. And I feel like this is like the first time, especially on a bliss cruise, that I had felt that way in quite a while.

SPEAKER_04 34:10

Now, do you think it's because there was only eight couples and not 30 to this time? I would say there was times where we spent, you know, time we had dinner and stuff with the the group, but a lot of times it was just me and you, or just me and you and Reno couple. Like there wasn't a couple of communities around us.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

I think it was a combination of my whore, my my pellets are just at the the peak. I think it was I mean you were really in a good place. We didn't disagree one time on this entire ship. I think I felt good in my body, like I felt confident. I think, I mean, just I think all of those I didn't feel a lot of pressure to to host a ton of people. You didn't have me working a ton. So I think it's just like a combination of it all. And whatever it was was magic for me. And my goal is to continue that throughout the year. And um, so I I just really wanted to, I think I probably came across like a stick in the mud to so many people over the years because I just genuinely was like struggling. And I for once really, really felt just good. Just really, really good. So I think that's worth notating.

SPEAKER_04 35:20

All right. Well, I think on that note, let's take a little break and hear from the partners and sponsors of the Swing Nation podcast. And then when we get back, we'll talk about what happened on day two, but the first full day of Bliss Cruise. Yeah. All right, we'll be right back, guys. Lacey, people are always asking, how do we get to a party or an event that you guys are hosting? Like, how do we find these things? Where did they exist?

SPEAKER_00 35:54

Yeah, because we're pretty open about where we're gonna be. So if you want to find these places, you need to check out swingersight.net.

SPEAKER_04 36:02

Right. So you can go to swingersight.net, sign up for a profile. Most of our friends, most of the people that are attend our events, all are on there and have profiles. So you can message them, link up with them before party, get to know some people. Uh, please become a diamond member. Okay. So this is the way that we keep are able to throw events, or it's a way we're able to have staff. Uh, really, it's the the community that keeps those memberships on swingersciety.net that really keep this whole thing running.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 36:28

Um, if you're a diamond member, it gets you early access to tickets. Uh so you can get those VIP tickets in the clubs and you know, those preferred rooms at a place like Secrets. Um, our diamond members usually grab all that up. So if that's something that you're interested in, you definitely want to become a diamond member, or if you just want to support us, support what we're doing, uh, and help us pay our staff, please go sign up and be a diamond member. Yes. It's super helpful for us. Uh, and you can do that by going to swingersociety.net.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

Correct.

SPEAKER_04 36:57

Uh, and sign up today. Hopefully, you come become part of our community, and we hope to see you at a future event. Yeah. Thanks, guys. Lacey, one thing I don't leave home without when going to a swinger event is my ED medication.

SPEAKER_00 37:13

That is correct.

SPEAKER_04 37:14

Performance anxiety is 100% a real thing. Um, having sex in an orgy room with um a hundred people in there is way different than having sex at home in your bedroom.

SPEAKER_00 37:24

It is.

SPEAKER_04 37:25

Um, so I like to have what we call a little insurance policy and have some of that ED medication in my pocket. Um, 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 that combination.

SPEAKER_00 37:57

You're going to pretty much switch to that, haven't you?

SPEAKER_04 37:59

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 uh 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.

SPEAKER_00 38:11

And the really cool thing about shameless care is they don't set you up on a recurring 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.

SPEAKER_04 38:40

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. Um, you can do it all right online from the privacy of your home. Uh 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, uh, scroll down to the shameless care icon, click on that, and that's going to take you over there. Uh, there's some discount codes there for you, so you can get a discount off your first order. But uh, I highly recommend if you're going to some events or parties, go get you some lifestyle insurance. Yeah. All right, guys. Check it out. All right, guys, welcome back. Welcome back. Thank you for listening to our sponsors. Lacey loves our sponsors.

SPEAKER_02 39:31

I do.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

All right, when we left you, we had just finished having butt sex for like the third time um after fucking in the playroom, just the two of us. Uh, and that brings us to waking up on the cruise ship for the first time.

SPEAKER_00 39:48

Yeah, so this is Monday morning.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Now, I will say, so a few notes now. You vlogged throughout this cruise.

SPEAKER_00 39:57

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 39:57

Which is probably the first time you've done that that I can remember.

SPEAKER_00 40:00

No, I did it in February.

SPEAKER_04 40:01

You did? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 40:03

Uh so it's it just probably wasn't that great because we weren't having that much fun.

SPEAKER_04 40:07

No. So anyway, if you're curious about a bliss cruise, go go back and look at Lacey's. What's your the tag on TikTok or Instagram for you for that? It's like Miss Swing Nation, I think.

SPEAKER_00 40:17

Miss underscore swing underscore nation.

SPEAKER_04 40:20

That's both TikTok and Instagram, I think. Yeah. Uh so go back and you can watch like kind of a day-to-day recaps of everything that we do, which is great. And then we also took some other horizontal video.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

Yeah. We'll have a YouTube.

SPEAKER_04 40:32

I need to splice that together and do like a YouTube vlog of this trip. So stay tuned. Uh, watch our socials and stuff. I'll post that as soon as I, you know, am not sick in bed. Yeah. Um, so anyway, we wake up on the cruise ship. This is one of my favorite things about bliss cruise. Yeah. Or I guess cruising is general, is we always get a balcony suite and we always leave the window and the door open. Yeah. And so, like, you go to bed listening to the ocean, you wake up to the nice sunny sun in the ocean, the ship is not rocking, you're not sick.

SPEAKER_00 41:04

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 41:04

So we woke up in paradise.

SPEAKER_00 41:06

Yes, we really did. So I um this morning they had like where you can have complimentary breakfast delivered to your room. So we tried it this day. It was the only day we did it. It was just okay. It was like an assortment of muffins and like something.

SPEAKER_04 41:19

I don't so you're right, you could do that. And I think it was like ten dollars.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

No, it wasn't. It was if you got the premium. This was free.

SPEAKER_04 41:25

Oh, it was free? Yeah. Because of our room type?

SPEAKER_00 41:27

I don't know, baby.

SPEAKER_04 41:28

Yeah, I don't know either.

SPEAKER_00 41:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 41:29

Uh, but anyway, you were so you were you were so happy about this. You were so happy about this at Hito.

SPEAKER_00 41:36

I don't know why.

SPEAKER_04 41:36

I feel like on Bliss Cruise it was just the same as it was on Hito, and you like loved it at Hito, like two years ago when we were. You seemed indifferent about it on Bliss Cruise.

SPEAKER_00 41:47

Yeah, it wasn't that great.

SPEAKER_04 41:49

I'm indifferent about it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 41:51

Just let me have my small things.

SPEAKER_04 41:52

Okay, babe.

unknown 41:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

So we um we had that food and we kind of relaxed. No big, huge rush for this day. Um, we got up and got ready. We went and had pizza, which, you know, obviously my favorite.

SPEAKER_04 42:06

Lots of pizza on the power.

SPEAKER_00 42:07

Lots of pizza. We went to the pool. Um, we hung out for a little bit. You know, I I love the pool. It's a great way to meet people, but it's not really made for swingers. You know, like if you go to Secrets and they've got that huge pool and it's totally made for swingers. Bliss, it's not. This is like a regular vanilla ship and they try to make it into it.

SPEAKER_04 42:28

So I'm of the opinion that um Russell needs to get with Royal Caribbean and build a swinger cruise ship that is purpose-built for swingers. Yeah. Or for lifestyle. I mean, they could use it for other, you know, some of these topless cruises or things like gay cruises. Yeah, it could be used for multiple things. Um, but you know, get rid of the slides and the rock walls and the tennis courts, right?

SPEAKER_00 42:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 42:55

Put in a nice big pool that's waist deep.

SPEAKER_00 42:57

Yeah, because one was like almost six foot, so you can't really stand in that. And the other one you could stand in, it was very small. So, I mean, we stayed out there for, you know, a qu a while, you know, got drank a few drinks, enjoyed the sunshine. The pool games were going on, which is, you know, always fun.

SPEAKER_04 43:15

But we just Yeah, the pool is fun, it's just way too crowded.

SPEAKER_00 43:17

It's way too crowded.

SPEAKER_04 43:18

You can never find a seat, you can never, even when you're in the pool, you know, you're basically stuck in this little tiny, you know, you're not soup with everybody and you're all crowded on next to each other, which I like being crowded, but not that crowded.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

Yeah, because it kind of forces you to talk to people. And honestly, some of our favorite connections we have made in those how we met Reno. Yeah, I mean, definitely do it if you're going on a cruise, but it's just it can be it's a you're smushed in there. Also, the deck is like so hot, it was burning our feet. So you had to like run to your shoes. You know, it just there's not a lot of chairs. That's definitely not my favorite part of bliss. Is it worth going and doing some? Yes, but. I would not want my entire days to be up unless I had like a chair kind of near the DJ where I could sort of like Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:07

I think it was last cruise we actually ended up with chairs near the pool. And that was pretty fantastic. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 44:12

Yeah. So if you could get one of those chairs, great.

SPEAKER_04 44:15

Neither one of us is one of those get up at four o'clock in the morning to go get a chair kind of people. We're not those cheap both.

SPEAKER_00 44:20

So um we got out of the pool, we got some French fries, we went, but that's when the guy said, I'm I was like, my hands are full, so I was eating the French fries like off the plate, like with no hands. And this guy's got this guy in the elevator was like, I've got a French fry you can scoop up or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 44:37

I was like Another thing to note, because I remember that, and you were a little tipsy at that point, and probably why you were being silly. You we did have drink packages for the first time on this bliss cruise. So we probably did drink more.

SPEAKER_00 44:52

But we didn't really get that drunk, but maybe one time. I was I say kind, like a little tipsy, but not yeah, I didn't get trash.

SPEAKER_04 45:01

But do you think that maybe helped make you a little more loosey-goosey for the trip?

SPEAKER_00 45:06

Or maybe, but I mean you would think if we had the drink package, we would have been like just chugging them. And we really weren't, and we were doing like very easy.

SPEAKER_04 45:14

Honestly, I I would I don't know. I didn't go back and look, but I doubt we even paid for our drink package and amount of alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 45:19

But I did go and look and we spent the same amount on the February cruise that we did on this cruise.

SPEAKER_04 45:26

And that was only a four-day cruise. Yeah. Yeah. Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 45:30

Um, so we I mean, we didn't, I think we just kind of were like we I guess when you drink when you're paying for each, you feel like you need to make it worth it, you know? And I feel like we just sort of like kind of sipped. It wasn't like right. Now the last night, we'll get to that night. We went out with the bang. But for the most part, we just sort of kind of stayed in that I'm not tipsy to like a little tipsy sort of area. Yeah. So we went back to the room and I think we got back to the room about three. On this night, we had a pretty busy night because we had something at five and we had something at six. So that meant, and it was formal night. So it meant that I needed to be completely ready before that five o'clock thing because that meant like I needed to be able to put my dress on and be ready by seven when our things were over. So I got completely ready, but then just like threw a romper on. So we went to the topless travel meet and greet. And this is if you book with us and or topless travel, you can come. And it's really it's really anybody. It's really anybody. So you can bring your friends, everyone. They don't turn people away if you didn't book with them. But it's just like a nice place to like meet everybody, meet all the sub-affiliates, meet all the topless travel girls and couples that are there. Um, party mark is there. Um, you get free drinks, which are which are lovely. If you didn't get a drink package, you can, you know, hit up the free drinks. Um, so yeah, it's just a nice, relaxing, not super overly crowded, but nice, meet and great.

SPEAKER_04 47:05

Yeah, I will say, you know, topless travel, we've been partnering with them for a few years now. Um, they are, you know, they're they're the top seller of Bliss Cruise. I think they're one of the top sellers of HEDO, um, a great group of people that really care about lifestyle travel and really go above and beyond um to take care of their customers. And I think this is, you know, there's no obligation. You know, I don't know who knows how much they pay for this meet and greet and free alcohol for everybody and all that stuff. But it's just another one of those ways that it where it shows that they're going above and beyond um to take care of their people. And and also during that meet and greet, they always, you know, shout out all the employees and the staff and they thank everybody, you know, that booked with them. And uh, they really are a top-notch organization and one of those in the lifestyle that if you're looking to go on a trip, I would highly recommend um booking with Topless or booking with us through Topless.

SPEAKER_00 47:58

Yeah. So, like for instance, uh Mandy works for us. Y'all all know Mandy, everybody gets taken very good care of by Mandy. Mandy works very closely with RJ at Topless. So if you've ever you know had to deal with Topless, you probably know who RJ is. So like if you're looking for a specific room type or just something, if you get with Mandy, she will she will help you get in contact with RJ so that way we can still, you know, get they're really good at you know, if if you know, I think November of this year is already sold out, right?

SPEAKER_04 48:30

But if you if for some reason you're trying to get on that November bliss cruise, um Mandy and Topless are really good about when people cancel, you know, pulling in those rooms and trying to get people on the side.

SPEAKER_00 48:42

We had friends last minute on the November like two years ago, like two weeks before. So if you really want to go on a ship that's sold out, definitely get on the waiting list with them. They'll they'll take care of you.

SPEAKER_04 48:52

So reach out to Mandy. Admin at swingersciety.net is her email. Um, yeah, that's probably the best way to get a hold of her.

SPEAKER_00 48:59

Our very first ever affiliate meeting on a Bliss Cruise. So, like I mean, very first like industry type meeting, which was an affiliate meeting on Bliss Cruise. You know, when we go to Naughty New Orleans and stuff, they have a lot of industry type things. So this was the first, so that was nice. We got to, you know, see the owners of the sanctuary, which we mentioned before, a lot of the different um anybody that's kind of associated with like a lifestyle business was there. So it was nice to put faces to names, all of those things. So that was good.

SPEAKER_04 49:31

Yeah, super good. Uh I love I love industry, I love lifestyle industry. You know, we've been doing this TikTok thing, we've been kind of in this space for the last four years now. I think it's something that's growing, and I will also say four years ago, or even go back two or three years ago, there was a lot of like competition and rivalry and backstabbing and you know, that kind of stuff going on. I I felt like maybe heard rumors of. Um, I feel like in the last year or so, people are coming together. And I really felt like on this Bliss cruise, it was even more evident of that. Where people really had to, you know, hey, this lifestyle is becoming mainstream if we want to provide the best services for this community. We really need to work together to do that. Um, and I think that's really good to see. I like seeing that. And it was evident, I think, throughout this cruise.

SPEAKER_00 50:31

Yeah, I agree. Um, so after that, we went to our room and put on our formal wear. I had a beautiful dress. I loved it. Uh, my mistake was I didn't try it on with my shoes because it was a little too long. So in the last minute, I had to get Dan to like cut my dress. Not ideal, but it was I knew that it would save the night. So he just he just hemmed it basically um a little shorter so that way I could wear it.

SPEAKER_04 50:57

Yeah, so I get, you know, Lacey's like, cut my dress. I was like, okay, yeah. And I cut her dress, and I was like, so what is this like a$20 like Amazon thing? And she's like, no, this is a hundred dollar dress. But like what He had me cut it with a pair of scissors.

SPEAKER_00 51:10

Well, but what else? What was that gonna do? Like fight with it on nine. I don't know. Rip it. We don't know. It's fine, baby.

SPEAKER_04 51:17

Just you know, just hack up a hundred dollar dress, no big deal.

SPEAKER_00 51:19

So then we went. First world problems. So on this night, we did a tour of the dungeon, which in my opinion was was not that grand.

SPEAKER_04 51:27

We were rushed.

SPEAKER_00 51:28

We were rushed.

SPEAKER_04 51:29

I haven't even looked at it yet. Well, hopefully it came out good.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Um they um they didn't have a whole lot of equipment in there and they weren't also set up. So like a lot of times the the people that were the dungeon bring in, so like they had the riding bench and the St. Andrews Cross, but like a lot of the toys and stuff weren't there, so I don't really feel like the tour is gonna give like a trick. I will say representation.

SPEAKER_04 51:52

On this cruise though, so if you go back and you looked at like the February cruise, they were like in a side room. Yeah, so on this cruise, they were in like a theater type room. And because we haven't done much vanilla cruising, I don't know what that is that like for the comedy shows? Is that for me? I don't know what that room is used for on a normal ship. Um, but when they have that room on this ship, they use it for the dungeon. And we probably need to go in there sometime when they're actually doing scenes and stuff.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

I think I have at some point, it may be in years ago, but my understanding is while they're doing scenes, you can sit and watch, which I think a lot of people like that because they want to like learn and kind of like see it, but you it's kind of weird when you're like standing over somebody. So in this, it kind of gives you a place to sit.

SPEAKER_04 52:38

Yeah, I bet it feels more like a show. Yeah. And I bet if you're, you know, one, if you're a voyeur and you like being watched, being up on the stage with like a bunch of people sitting in a theater around you watching you get your ass beat, you know, it's probably gonna kind of hot.

SPEAKER_00 52:51

Okay, so let's make a pack that in November, I don't know what it's gonna look like.

SPEAKER_04 52:54

Is it that type of room?

SPEAKER_00 52:55

No, I say let's just go regardless. Okay, yeah. Let's just go one night and just kind of take it all in.

SPEAKER_04 53:00

Right. Because you're right, when it's all one level and you're walking like through it, it's a little you feel like you're invading people's space more.

SPEAKER_00 53:09

Correct, yes. And then like when you have the seats, it kind of gives you a place to sit and sort of take it in. Okay, so after we did the tour, we went to dinner with the big group, which if I'm gonna say I have one regret of the whole week is that we didn't do this again. So we did one dinner as everyone that booked with us. And not everybody came. Some did. Because we were a large group, because we actually ended up having Bob, the owner of Naughty New Orleans, we had Bobby, who owns Electric Pleasures with us, because we had other industry people, we ended up having to be like two tables because they can only fit like eight people. So I did feel bad that we weren't like. I mean, the other table got to sit next to Bob Hanniford, the owner of Naughty, which I mean, we would have totally geeked out, you know, years ago if that was us. So, like, hopefully they got something from it. But I do kind of wish we would have been able to do this again. Our schedule just was kind of crazy this time.

SPEAKER_04 54:06

Yeah, so I will say that is having a small group of eight couples, you would think we would have got more time with those eight couples. Unfortunately, not what happened, which is no fault of anybody and wasn't what we planned, but because all of these industry people were on the ship, we got sucked into a lot of these industry dinners and yeah, we went to a lot of dinners, and so that took time away from our group, which is unfortunate. And I'm sorry if people felt like we didn't spend enough time with them, uh, that booked with us. You know, we we saw all of them. We saw all of them.

SPEAKER_00 54:39

Like this night, like we sat, you know, we anytime we saw, we we chatted, we got to know a few of them pretty well. So it just kind of depends. Some couples, you know, will come up and speak to us every time we see them. Others, you know, we'd have to go seek them out. And that's okay if that's more your jam, you know, whatever. But on this night we did have dinner with everyone. We got to sit and chat, and which was lovely. Um, after um dinner, we went and I changed shoes because I knew that I'd be uncomfortable. And then we went and danced for a little while in the Sky Lounge, or actually, we were in the quasar, which was kind of like imagine where they do like a silent disco on a regular vanilla cruise. Um we I didn't last long in my dress, it was just not the most comfortable thing. So at some point I went and changed into lingerie, which it was like a beautiful honey burden set that I wore to Electric Pleasures not long ago. And so many people loved that outfit on me, which made me feel super confident and beautiful, which you know that's a win-win for me. Um, but we danced uh quite a bit, and at some point, probably around midnight or so, we went to the playroom. We actually went to the playroom in front of the ship. So another one we haven't talked about yet because we haven't done the tour of it yet, and we'll talk about it more when we get to that tour. But literally on the front of the ship, they have like it's kind of another one of those 18 plus, 21 plus type areas. Um, but they have beds and the breeze is amazing up there, it's beautiful. Um, and we we ended up swapping with Reno couple for the first time of this trip up there in the front of the ship.

SPEAKER_04 56:31

Yeah, I will say, you know, Gulf's cruise always does an outdoor playroom type space. It often ends up in one of like the the tanning type side areas. Or like the basketball court, or it's ended up on basketball or tennis courts before. Um, this be was the nicest outdoor play space I have seen on a on a Bliss cruise. And it was on the very front of the ship. Now I will say on previous cruises, that would have been a problem because of the weather.

SPEAKER_03 57:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 57:01

This cruise, the weather the weather was immaculate throughout. There was very rarely that breezy where you couldn't be out on the top deck or even on the top deck in the front of the ship.

SPEAKER_00 57:13

Half the time it didn't even feel like we were moving. But now the front, there was a decent amount of wind up there, which honestly when we were fucking was perfect because it made it very like enjoyable weather temperature-wise to be up there. So yeah, I mean, we we swapped.

SPEAKER_04 57:29

There was even like a secret hot tub up there. Yeah, there wasn't.

SPEAKER_00 57:32

I don't know if many people knew about there's bathrooms up there, which was lovely. And there wasn't we shower, we never really saw a ton of couples up there. So we ended up going up there this night and then another night to make TikToks and videos and stuff. So it was never really crowded, but I would say if you've never fucked on the top deck of a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean, highly recommend it.

SPEAKER_04 57:54

Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 57:54

It was a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_04 57:55

It was agreed, agreed. And uh, you know, Reno Couple is always a good time.

SPEAKER_00 57:59

Always. So after that, we went and had our snacks, milk and cookies, and then bed.

SPEAKER_04 58:07

And bed. And I think that's gonna be where we're gonna have to leave it for this episode. Uh, because we're about out of time. But like Lacey said, if we you've listened to this, um, part one of the Bliss Cruise, and you you want to do a Bliss Cruise, we'd really appreciate you booking with us. And you can do that by going to swingersociety.net. Um, these cruises sell out almost a year in advance.

SPEAKER_00 58:32

Yeah. Um, so I believe April was the exception to that, which was odd. This past this one we just went on was is odd that it didn't sell out. But yeah, you typically about a year out.

SPEAKER_04 58:44

So if you know, if you're thinking about the November cruise, it is sold out. But if you email uh Mandy at admin at swingersociety.net, she can add you to the wait list so that if people cancel uh last minute, we can kind of get you slide you into that.

SPEAKER_00 59:00

Yeah, and that just to note Wonder of the Seas, like the second largest ship in the fleet.

SPEAKER_04 59:05

Yeah, I'm trying to organize the largest orgy ever. I'm still I need to talk to Russell about that.

SPEAKER_00 59:09

Like 6,000 swingers. Um, some of the stuff that they have planned for that is going to be amazing. We have lots of friends on it. We have a big group again. So I will mentally prepare myself. But I think we've learned. Dan's not gonna have me do any work. When we have that many people, we need to keep our work.

SPEAKER_04 59:27

I got 18 tour videos planned for that cruise. So we've never been on a big ship, so we there's a lot of tour videos we gotta do. It's gonna be crazy. Get yourself ready. So, anyway, um, definitely if you I mean I think February is getting of 20 what seven now?

SPEAKER_00 59:41

Yeah, we just I just actually booked that on our way to this cruise. So there's still our rooms later.

SPEAKER_04 59:47

I think it's getting close to being sold out.

SPEAKER_00 59:48

It's getting pretty close to being sold out.

SPEAKER_04 59:50

And then April 27 and then November 27. Yeah, and I think they just launched February 28th.

SPEAKER_00 59:57

Yes, which is gonna be the Mardi Gras cruise. So if you don't know, that is um, so they're there you get on the ship in New Orleans and it's like a four or five-day um cruise, and then you come back and you actually get off the ship during Mardi Gras, so like Fat Tuesday, and they're doing a hotel takeover um in the French Quarter, uh in that general area. I do believe the hotel is already sold out, but you can get just the passes, so you can stay at a hotel nearby or an Airbnb or something, which honestly, in hindsight, might have been the better uh way to do it. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:37

I feel like after so many days, from what I've heard, getting around Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras is crazy. So I think being in the host hotel is the way to go.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:46

Well, yeah, it's ideal, but I'm just saying if you didn't get the hotel, it's okay. You just it the passes for the week, it's like$500. So it's like$250 per person. So anyway, we will be on that. People have asked. We are booked. I booked it while we were on the cruise, so we are booked and paid, and we'll be there.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:04

Right. So if you want to try out any of those, go to swingersciety.net. Uh, what else is coming up? We are gonna be in Salt Lake City, Utah next weekend.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:14

Yes, we will.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:15

And that is for a Swinger Society Takeover. We're gonna be there Friday and Saturday night. If you are anywhere near Salt Lake, this is the furthest west we've gone to do a takeover. So if you're anywhere out there, um come see us.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:30

And that's gonna be May 15th and 16th at the Sanctuary in Salt Lake City. We are also doing like a meet and greet uh during the day for lunch.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:41

At the hall pass.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:42

Yes. So definitely check out if you're not following Swinger Society on socials, please check that out. It's on on Instagram. It's Swinger Society official. If you just want to search that, I've been posting every day the info for that meet and greet. So if you can't, like let's say you have kids and you can't make it out that night, you can still you're welcome to come to the lunch. We'll be there in our vanilla clothes and and and having lunch with everybody.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:06

Yeah, and swingersociety.net for tickets to the sanctuary. Um, you do there is some kind of uh process you have to go through to get an approved membership. So if you are thinking about going, I would go sign up and get your tickets now so that you get your membership approved. I don't want to I don't want anybody to get stuck the week of and not get their membership approved and then show up.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:26

Which we did ours and it took like a day. So pretty quick, they're on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:29

But uh definitely, you know, don't wait. Just go get your membership now, get your tickets now, and we'll see you next weekend um at uh the sanctuary.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:38

I'm very excited. Me too. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:39

Uh it's gonna be a good time. Uh and then what else? I think then the next thing after that is gonna be uh Chattanooga, right?

SPEAKER_00 1:02:46

Well, no, after that we're gonna be at Splash Houston.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:48

Oh, that's right.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:49

So that's gonna be Memorial Day weekend, so like May 28th through the 31st. So if you're in the Texas area, we will be at Splash Houston. You've heard us talk about Splash for years, they're just a very well-run hotel takeover. So if you're in the Texas area and you'd like to come, you can get tickets for that as well as anything we talked about here today at swingarcity.net. Dan and I will be in attendance. Dan will be DJing.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:14

I just found out I'm DJing.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:15

Yeah, I literally booked our flights yesterday. Um, so and then Dan's probably gonna be doing some pool stuff, possibly playing games and stuff.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:22

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:23

So we'll be there. So swing aircrafty.net, and then after that, then it's where in Chattanooga. Then we'll be at our electric pleasures event in Chattanooga, which is music festival vibes meets the lifestyle. Best way I can describe it. Right.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:37

So if you like music, um, if you like especially EDM music, but we're gonna be playing a variety of music. Uh and you want to come to Chattanooga, Chattanooga with us, um, go check that out. And that's June. What? Um, you find the dates. So yeah, go come check it out.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:53

It's 12th and 13th.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:55

And I think we're like 80% sold out on that one. So um, if you do want a room in the host hotel, don't wait till last minute. Go book that as well.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:04

And we will be releasing day passes closer to town.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:07

What else? Uh, secrets. Our separate secrets September has like five rooms left or something. Yeah. So if you're hearing this, it might be sold out. But if it's not, sprint yourself on over to swingersciety.net um and book September Secrets. That was almost sold out before it even went to the public. I think it went public with like 15 rooms or less.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:28

Yeah, it went public May 1st.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:30

I think there's like maybe five left now.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:31

So we're recording this May 5th.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

So um, so when this comes out, there may or may not be rooms. Check it on Swingersciety.net. If there's not rooms, you can get added to the wait list by emailing Mandy at admin at Swinger Society, or you can always stay in a local hotel and come party with us um and get day passes. Yep. All right, anything else for the Swing Nation listeners?

SPEAKER_00 1:04:53

I think that's it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:54

All right, guys. I think with that, in a world full of apples.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:59

Be the pineapple.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:00

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