Date Night with Jake and Page

SHE'LL inspire you to decorate your house to within an inch of its life. HE'LL crack your back... while cracking you up. On this episode of the Date Night with Jake and Page podcast, we talk with Ariene and Daren Bethea. Ariene (@dressmyroom) owns an eclectic furniture and home goods boutique, and has recently been featured in Essence, House Beautiful, Arch Digest, and Elle Decor. Daren (@inhomech...

This one was a bit of a Date Night reunion. We first met Vani Hari more than a decade ago when she was just starting to build her Food Babe empire. She was young and hungry. We had kids who were also both of those things... and we were feeding them crap. Vani came in with a cheese grater and cauliflower "pasta" to save the day. (A quick run through her social media and YouTube will bring up the ho...

You didn't think we'd forget to give you a full recap of how Whole30 was, did you? C'mon! Come for the recap, stay for Page's horrifying story of how, a week after completing Whole30, her body finally got around to rejecting the previous seven days of falling off the wagon. It's an all-timer that involves Roto-Rooter, a gas station and a 63-year-old woman. Crying just typing this. Look, our result...

When you host a podcast called Date Night, and you try to round up two EARLY morning broadcasters on a school night, you either better bring the coffee, or a healthy dose of energy. Fortunately we had plenty of the latter with Power 98's Ms. Jessica and "The Guy" joining the pod! Ms. Jessica, aka The Girl Next Door, is one of the hosts of the No Limit Larry and the Morning Maddhouse radio show in...

We're doing Whole30. We mean we're going on a diet. We mean we want to try to eliminate some foods from our diet. We mean Jake is going on a beard cleanse. Whatever you want to call it, we're doing it: Whole30. We've done minimal research. Page forgot to meal prep for work on Day 1. Jake plans to eat only chicken. We're off to an amazing start. Why are we doing it? Not really sure. We both know we...

It's time to head "back" to "school" on Monday... but this year, when home was the classroom, then summer camp, and now the classroom again, did we ever really leave? And what are we heading "back" to, anyway? 2020 has been a challenge, you guys. And if you're a parent of young children, school has been one of the toughest parts. On this episode of "Date Night with Jake and Page" we talk with Shan...

If you live in Charlotte, you just read the headline to this podcast and IMMEDIATELY got hungry. That's right, The Batchmaker is in the building! We were thrilled to welcome Cris and Pablo Agurcia to the podcast for this episode. We've been trying to get Cris - aka The Batchmaker - on for months, but she can barely come up for air with how popular her business has become. But first, a bit of the b...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Page and Jake's Takes are back! And we're comin' in HOT off a beach trip for the ages. This episode is about "The Sweet Spot." That glorious moment when your kids are old enough to fend for themselves. When you can go to the beach and realize seven days later that you have no idea what any of your children had for lunch last week. When your kids say, "Don't worry, Mom an...

First of all, Jake does know what a bustle is. He is very smart, after all (p.s. this is Jake). For this episode we step into the realm of quarantined Zoom calls, bringing on Ryan and Samie Roberts, co-founders of Bustld. Ryan and Samie's company is based in Charlotte, and they serve brides and grooms in the southeast by bridging the gap between them and wedding vendors. Their company is surviving...

It's always fun when we bring on return guests. Especially when their family has doubled since you last saw them. And ESPECIALLY during a global pandemic. Emily Breeze and Montell Watson were our guests on Episode 3. THREE. This is episode 49. They've had three kids since then. Or is it 2? Wait, when was their first born again? Exactly. Who knows. When you have kids, your brain fries, and that was...

Welcome to the definitive Coronacast. For our last episode, we recorded a podcast with our friend Lindsay Shookus, who had taken a flight down to N.C. with her daughter. Lindsay sat on a couch next to Page while we recorded. She used a headset that had been used by a previous guest. Following the podcast, we took an Uber to a shopping center where we ate dinner in a crowded restaurant. How insane...

Welcome back to Date Night! This episode marks our first threesome. OK, relax. It's not like that. It's just that we brought on our first single lady - Head of the Saturday Night Live Talent Department and the person who introduced us, Lindsay Shookus! Lindsay and Page met as freshmen at UNC (Go Heels!), and their friendship took off from there. They were roommates in Chapel Hill, and then later a...

Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we chat with Charlotte blogger and influencer, Miranda Miller, and her husband Joshua. Miranda and Page met on Page's literal first day of launching Good Day Charlotte on Fox 46. Miranda made the celebration cake. It was delicious. And beautiful. These were her pre-purple hair days. A few years later fate brought them together again on the me...

Happy New Year! In our last episode we teased that 2020 was (hopefully...maybe...yeah, definitely) going to be a big year for the podcast and otherwise. We get into those goals on this episode. The headline - More. Getting. Ish. Done. We hope you have a safe and happy start to your new year, and we look forward to having you along for the ride in 2020. Past episodes and more can be found at jakean...

Happy Holidays from the Fehlings! The cover image for this end-of-year episode is fitting. We've clearly got a plan - we're wearing matching, albeit it purposefully hideous outfits, but we're also clearly not quite nailing it. That's what the holiday season has represented for us with the podcast each of the last three years. Life gets in the way of podcasting. Go figure. In 2019 we brought on som...

Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we chat with Jeff Tonidandel and Jamie Brown, the husband-wife duo behind some of Charlotte's favorite restaurants. Jeff and Jamie co-own several of the NoDa neighborhood's favorite spots, including Haberdish, Crepe Cellar, Growlers Pourhouse and Reigning Doughnuts. Both are business-savvy, MBA-carrying entrepreneurs who had careers outside o...

Hello there, Date Nighters. Been a while! For this episode, we're bringing back two of our favorites as part of a live show meets date night meets Page and Jake's takes. The audio is from a September conference in Charlotte called EmpowerCon. Our good friend Meredith Dean rounded up some of Queen City's finest for the event, and she also invited us. Speakers talked culture, politics, entertainment...

Warning. Luke warm takes on screens are coming. Oh yeah. We're going there. What started as an idea to talk about screens and kids and how much kids should be on screens, quickly turned into a discussion about screens, technologies and behaviors among...ADULTS. And to say we disagree would be an unders---sorry...hold on one sec...sorry, a friend is texting...yeah, sorry, it's just that we haven't...

The wheels on the bus go 'round and 'round...'round and 'round...'round and--OK, you get it. And much like the wheels on the bus, we're back around again for another dose of Page and Jake's Takes. This week marks Back to School week for many here in Charlotte, so we thought it was fitting to weigh in. Jake loves to make a big deal about Back to School, and while Page appreciates it, she doesn't th...

“I just want to be clear...this is not a man-hating thing. I LOVE men. The men I’ve worked with along the way are WHY I am where I am today.” That was the quote, from a “Women in Sports” panel hosted by the Charlotte Knights, that made Page fall into both professional and friendship love with Charlotte Checkers COO Tera Black. Ever since hearing it, Page and Jake have wanted to get Tera and the on...

Welcome to another round of Date Night! In this episode we're bringing back Penn and Kim Holderness of the Holderness Family, but this time, we're on their turf. This episode is a replay of a Holderness Family Podcast episode they aired of us on June 11. We talked Father's Day, making friends as adults and much more...and then we talked about it again, because Penn forgot to insert a memory card f...

You already know what time it is. Buckle up for another episode of Page and Jake's Takes, where parenting topics are bandied about. What? My thing. Your thing. Scoreboard. Keeping score. Whatever you want to call it, this is how we run our house, relationships, chores, trips, etc. Jake gets a guys trip? You better believe Page will have one with her girlfriends before the end of the year. Page pri...

You know the Girl Tribe girls, Carrie Barker and Sarah Baucom. But do you know their boys, Derek and Ryan? Well, you will after listening in on the triple date night we had with them. You’ll learn how Carrie and Sarah turned a high school “close acquaintanceship” into two besties starting and now running one of the fastest growing businesses in Charlotte, why none of us will be chairing our local...

Welcome to another round of Page and Jake’s Takes, where we offer super-extra-barely-mild opinions on parenting-related topics. The rules of babysitting...are they for the kids? The babysitter? The parents? Heading into this we always thought we had one main rule concerning babysitters: USE THEM. Early and often. (Sort of like how we wish we did for the wedding in the cover image of this episode!)...

When Page first started interviewing for her job at FOX 46 back in 2014, it was Nick Kosir who kept her in the loop through the 807 step process. Teeing her up for good answers during auditions. Calling to tell her that their head of sales was the one voting for a different morning anchor. (Editor's note: She's never let him live that down.) When Page eventually landed the job, she and Nick realiz...