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 Shannon and Andrew ("Drew") Houlihan. Drew's the Superintendent of Union County Public Schools. That wou...
Aug 12, 2020•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 53
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 back story... Cris and Pablo are high school sweethearts from Honduras, which, upon her finding out, ...
Jul 24, 2020•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 52
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 and Dad, we'll brush our teeth and put ourselves to bed." All right, maybe that's getting a bit greedy...
Jul 14, 2020•22 min•Ep. 51
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 this madness, but the same can't be said for many of their clients' planned weddings. We talk shop ...
May 21, 2020•39 min•Ep. 50
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 on display for the first couple minutes while we embarrassingly tried to figure out basic math. Int...
May 05, 2020•40 min•Ep. 49
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 does that sequence of events sound today? Crazy times. For this one, Page and I talk quarantine, los...
Apr 13, 2020•53 min•Ep. 48
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 again a couple of years post-graduation in New York City. Both worked for NBC - Lindsay at Saturday N...
Feb 22, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 47
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 mean streets of...Pineville. Which...was only mean because this time all of both of their children wer...
Jan 16, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 46
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 jakeandpage.com.
Jan 01, 2020•19 min•Ep. 45
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 some amazing guests. We introduced Page and Jake's Takes. We had a TON of fun. But our goals for 2020 a...
Dec 28, 2019•24 min•Ep. 44
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 of the culinary industry before quitting and traveling internationally to figure out what they wanted...
Nov 07, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 43
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, and yes - parenting. Or adulting. Or how to make a fool of yourself in front of large groups. Eith...
Oct 17, 2019•48 min•Ep. 42
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 heard from him in a while...OK, yep...sorry, one more sec...OK where were we? What are your screen/p...
Sep 19, 2019•25 min•Ep. 41
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 think working parents should stress if they miss it. Jake reminisces on the one outfit he wore for ess...
Aug 29, 2019•19 min•Ep. 40
“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 one man she loves the MOST onto Date Night. And Tera better love Jamie Black a lot, because not only a...
Aug 15, 2019•1 hr•Ep. 39
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 for the first recording. OMG, Penn. We love Penn and Kim. We don't need to belabor it here - you can ...
Jul 19, 2019•48 min•Ep. 38
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 primarily does laundry, dishes, communication with teachers; Jake does bills, car stuff and emptying bo...
Jul 06, 2019•15 min•Ep. 37
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 chapters of the La Leche League anytime soon, and that “be the scientist” is the relationship advice...
Jun 20, 2019•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 36
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!) Turns out there’s more to it than that. During this episode, Page and Jake discuss everything from ...
Jun 06, 2019•18 min•Ep. 35
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 realized neither of their families knew many people in Charlotte. We had kids the same age. His wife worke...
May 16, 2019•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 34
Welcome to another round of Page and Jake’s Takes, where we offer super-extra-barely-mild opinions on parenting-related topics. Family vacations. Do those even exist? Or should they be called family trips? We've taken the kids to a million places, but can only recall one trip where they behaved from start to finish. The trip was to Utah in 2017, and it made us think that we had this parenting thing down. It was incredible. We laughed, we hiked, we ate real food. Then we went to a local park a co...
May 02, 2019•16 min•Ep. 33
Have you ever had a secret so juicy you just had to tell someone even if it wasn’t yours to tell? And have you ever gotten a few of those details dead wrong in the telling of what you thought? Saw? Heard? Had someone’s sister’s husband’s friend’s neighbor’s Aunt LuAnn repeat on a garbled voicemail that you used as your source anyway? *hand raise emoji* That’s how a lot of people in the Charlotte area (and beyond) felt about a year ago when they started hearing rumors about our latest Date Night ...
Apr 18, 2019•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 32
Welcome to another round of Page and Jake's Takes where we offer super extra barely mild opinions on parenting-related topics. In this episode we discuss parent behavior at youth sports games. Jake likes to think he's not over the top (spoiler alert: he is, and the kids call him on it). Page has her moments but is definitely the more appropriately behaved of the two. But what's the right call? Shut up and let the kids enjoy it? Go nuts so your kid understands that their future is riding on EVERY...
Apr 11, 2019•16 min•Ep. 31
Former Pro Bowl Carolina Panthers fullback Mike Tolbert and his wife Shia join the podcast to discuss life after retirement, the best wings in Charlotte, parenting, San Diego vs. Buffalo, and why shooters shoot. What? You'll have to listen to figure that one out. *face palm emoji* Thanks for listening! Please share, comment and suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakeandpage.com.
Mar 21, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 30
Welcome to the next installment of what we're now calling Page and Jake's Takes. Quick episodes featuring luke-warm-at-best takes on all things adulting. Today's episode focuses on adult birthdays and whether or not a grown man or woman is allowed to throw themselves a birthday party/celebrate their own birthday. How Jake handles himself every January 30th may or may not be the reason for the episode... Please share, comment and suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jak...
Mar 07, 2019•15 min•Ep. 29
Steve Maney - know by most in Charlotte as "Maney" - and his wife Amanda join Jake and Page for the latest episode of Date Night! We learned that Maney does indeed have a first name, how he navigated the craziest emcee gig ever at the Cam Newton Foundation Gala with Cam and Michael Strahan, and how another couple handles insane morning schedules. *Fair warning, there's some language in this one. ;-) * Please share, comment and suggest ideas for future guests! For past episodes please visit jakea...
Feb 24, 2019•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 28
Page was featured in CharlotteFive recently as part of its "Moms Making It" series (shout out to Beth Booker for the write-up!). The title of the article says it best: Page Fehling on waking up at 1:57 a.m. and the conversation with male coworkers she’s sick of having. She discusses the article, her hot takes on the topic of parenting - AND WHY THEY SHOULDN'T BE CONSIDERED HOT!!! - and by the end of this podcast, we're pretty sure she was sick of Jake as well. Here's a link to the article: https...
Jan 26, 2019•17 min•Ep. 27
Happy New Year! OK, it's way too late for that, but it's our first date night of 2019...and what better way to ring it in than with the co-founders of the home of thousands of new year's resolutions! Meet Devan and Morgan Kline, the couple behind Burn Boot Camp. Burn has taken over the exercise world over the last several years, growing from humble beginnings in Charlotte to the national fitness phenomenon it has become today. As with many stories like this, though, there is a back story that is...
Jan 26, 2019•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 26
December 25 is a special day every year around this time, and so it's fitting that we bring you Episode 25 this holiday season. Our most recent episode features Joe and Katy Kindred of Charlotte's runaway hit restaurants Kindred and Hello, Sailor! Let us first acknowledge the return of Page's favorite podcast intro on this episode. While we will always thank our buddy Penn Holderness for whipping together the intro you've heard over the previous 24 episodes in about 39 seconds, it was the throwa...
Dec 19, 2018•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 25
Welcome to Episode 24 of Date Night with Jake and Page, a podcast focused on bringing you some of the most interesting couples in...Honduras...? Let us explain. Meet Joey Hewell and Scott Lindsey, formerly co-owners of the beloved NoDa Company Store, co-founders of the NoDa Farmers Market and the - we've now learned - sort of real sort of not real Linwell Farms. While they're known throughout the Queen City for all they've brought to Charlotte's culture and the NoDa area, Scott and Joey recently...
Oct 23, 2018•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 24
