I could buy swinging with 6 or 7 more couples because those things just happen at swing parties but definitely not in the same arrangement they had with the Imholtes, a de facto polycule.
I don't get the impression that Nick was a particularly successful swinger before meeting the Imholtes.
Remember, this is a guy who derailed streams in 2022 and 2023 (including during the tail end of his most successful period where he was making thousands of dollars a night) to try to convince a paypig named "Mandy" to meet up with him and his wife at Matsuri, because he really believed that "Mandy" was the sexy mechanic gamer girl who was paypigging him thousands of dollars because she wanted him so bad, and was unable to predict it was a man pretending to be a woman who lived in the same city as him like 15 years ago or whatever.
If you listen to the hot tub stream again, I'm pretty sure Nick also insults a certain Minnesota swinger event. I don't 100% recall, but I'm pretty sure that happened. That gives the suggestion that he went and wasn't impressed with what he found there.
Before the Imholte situation became apparent around the start of this year, my personal suspicion as to what "swinging" became was that it ended up being that Nick had the
Pantsu Pass Lady Gollum Grant to pick up prostitutes.
- Nick was linked through Instagram with one person whose escort ad was found.
- Nick repeatedly mentioned prostitutes on stream, including his quip to Camelot about "that's why I have all their numbers" in relation to strippers also working as escorts.
- Camelot used the term addiction/addicted in regards to Nick's relationship to prostitutes. He also said he straight up saw the prostitute Nick picked up while in Vegas for his event.
- He had the weird conversation with Kurt about the place near him that got closed down that he said he never went to.
I'm pretty sure that Aaron has said most or all of what he knew, but I don't think he was privy to all of it. Pretty sure he said he had no idea about all the prostitutes.
The information that we have in relation to Nick's debauchery is only the tip of the iceberg. I'm quite confident that over the past 2 years or so Nick's life has been at least as debauched and degenerate as Ralph's and probably a LOT more, to be honest.
On another note, as I search for the clip of Nick talking about the church group, enjoy this series of non-sequitors. This might be the forst time I was really confused what was happening before I guessed drugs.
What is the date of that clip?
A popular theory is that he got into coke at Hedonism II. I think Coomalot let that slip at some point (@Balldo's Gate might remember).
Camelot let slip that Nick was (according to him) spending $20k monthly on coke.
Camelot also let slip that Nick told him that the best diet was to do coke, not eat anything all day because of the decreased appetite, and then eat ramen at 3am as the only meal of the day.
Since Rekieta was losing weight throughout 2023 and the ramen face-stuffing took place during the Locals streams throughout 2023 (as
@Himedall All-seeing Waifu can attest), he probably was addicted to coke long before people really suspected it, but just not the total junkie freak he eventually morphed into after April Anderson entered his life.
Nick openly said he did coke in Jamaica in August 2022, but denied liking it.
Nick Rekieta ADMITTED to having tried coke for the first time at 40 years old at the infamous swinger resort HEDONISM II IN JAMAICA in August 2022!
Here's a cut of Rekieta clips from 2022, showing he denied ever using coke earlier in 2022. In August and September 2022, after returning from Hedonism II, Rekieta admitted trying it but said HE HATED IT!
My guess is that he made friends at Gay 90s or somewhere else in Minneapolis to buy the drugs there and got addicted over the course of 2023.