Let's Talk Local Podcast | More Than the NFL: Jane Slater’s Hustle & Heart

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Speaker 1

Hey, y'all. It's Sarah Subiata Bennett, and I am pumped for today's episode of Let's Talk Local. Joining me is none other than the fabulous Jane Slater, a true Dallas gem and a total rock star in the world of sports broadcasting. Jane's been holding it down at the NFL Network for the last decade, Breaking stories, breaking barriers, and today she's here to dish on all things Dallas and what life's like constantly on the move. Trust me, this conversation is just as fun as it is inspiring.

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Speaker 1

Jane's one of my favorite humans on the planet and after this episode, she might be one of yours too. So hit those like and subscribe buttons and let's dive into this awesome convo with the one and only Jane Slater. Jane, thank you for making it in. I absolutely love you. You're my girl and you are a boss.

00:58

Speaker 1

We have some freaking I have some boss friends, don't I Shannon? Like how incredible are they? And as I was sitting here kind of driving in and I was praying, was just like, how grateful am I to be at this point in my life, have such wonderful women in my corner? I just wish I could see you more, but we're both traveling like crazy.

01:18

Speaker 2

It gave me chills, right, as you said that, Sarah, because I've said that to so many friends lately. I mean, not to get too personal, but I know that you and I have dealt with loss with our parents. And I think you and I value relationships a lot. We do. When you start

01:33

Speaker 1

seeing Almost to a fault sometimes. About getting emotional.

01:35

Speaker 2

I know. When you start seeing things through that lens, you are so appreciative. People show up in different ways. So I don't judge them how they show up. But again, chills.

01:44

Speaker 2

At my age, I have so many women that are in my corner, but that I respect and I push. Even when I met you, there was sort of this you you can kind of I see parts of myself in you and I think you saw that vice Of course, yes. And it was just so authentic in the sense that I don't feel like I have to call you every day to be best friends. That when we see each other, it's like we're picking up, we're always cheering each other on. And when I saw you doing this, it was so exciting to me because I think the one thing that I gravitated to you over was just how intelligent and curious you've always been.

02:19

Speaker 2

And I just love finding women that carry themselves that way and that feel empowered enough just to have a voice, have an opinion. You. You know? And so and don't force those opinions on people. It's more of like, if you want to talk, I'm interested about these things.

02:35

Speaker 1

For sure.

02:35

Speaker 2

And so I think that's, I love that you're kicking that off with this because it's the off season. I don't love doing podcasts or being interviewed.

02:43

Speaker 1

Oh my god, I know. I know.

02:45

Speaker 2

When it's you She loves me. Exactly. But when it's you, I enjoy having authentic conversations with you, whether it's recorded or if it's offline and we're out at the ranch.

02:54

Speaker 1

I'm so excited that I get to spend time with you this weekend. I know it's gonna be a big bash, but just to be able to meet this part of you, this other half of you these days. Can you tell us a little bit about him? Yes. Are you willing to?

03:10

Speaker 1

I am.

03:11

Speaker 2

Okay. You know, it's so funny when they say that when you meet the right person, it'll just fit. You don't have to force it. And I think, in my job I put a lot out there on my Instagram. And I authentically sometimes forget that strangers follow me, as weird as that Yeah, no, I get it.

03:32

Speaker 2

And so I post my life organically. I don't feel like it's curated. I don't feel like there's ever an intent behind it, or I haven't been masterplaning what I want the aesthetic of my life to look like. But you also open yourself up to scrutiny. And so, you know, I'm 44 years old.

03:51

Speaker 2

And I think the easy narrative is, well, why isn't she married or have kids? She must be crazy. Or she must be just obsessed with her job. And the truth is, I was married once. And when that didn't work out, and I gave up a lot of things that were important to me for that marriage, I really focused on my job for a while, and I'm proud of that.

04:12

Speaker 2

But then you find yourself almost getting too used to being independent that I think that can sometimes stand in the way of an authentic conversation with people or letting them help you or being in your feminine. And when I met Oh, yes. When I met my person, we were just walking out of a concert. And we locked eyes, and he pursued me the way that you should pursue a Oh, I didn't know that. Multiple dates, and it was kind of this slow burn.

04:42

Speaker 2

And there's just an authenticity to him. We're in the same age class. And I think he's the guy I've ever dated that always makes me feel like he's got it. Like a true man. And a man in the sense of he's not out there trying to be this machismo.

05:00

Speaker 2

He just makes me feel like for the time in my life, I've got someone that can help me. Because I feel like I can take care of everything. You almost kind of being the oldest daughter, pursuing a job like this, you of you figure it out. And when you've allowed somebody you got married once and it didn't work out you let somebody. And when they didn't feel helpful, you're like, well, I tried that and I got burned.

05:23

Speaker 1

That's right.

05:24

Speaker 2

And so I tried not to harden over the years, right? And then I kept striking out. It wasn't like I wasn't trying, but then I felt like I was kind of forcing it too as I got older. Well, maybe you're not going to get everything. And I think those things are not meant to work.

05:40

Speaker 2

And it's weird. I don't think I would have met this guy if I hadn't been with my last because they shared a mutual group of friends. I just I believe in the butterfly effect. I believe in Kismet. And yeah, he this is the person I've ever been with where I just for us, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.

05:57

Speaker 2

And when I say that, some of my friends are like, oh, are you Okay? Then he will come in and affirm it right there on the spot. He's very good at affirming. He's very good at leading. And it's the time I felt truly in my femininity.

06:12

Speaker 2

And I wish I could explain that to men, that there

06:15

Speaker 1

is I understand that.

06:18

Speaker 2

And it's like when you find that, there's a level of peace. And I don't think a man should define you. But it's certainly when you feel like you have like a true partner, an equal emotionally, intellectually, I just feel like life is just getting started. That's exciting at 44.

06:38

Speaker 1

Is. It is, it is. And I'm sitting here getting a little emotional because I'm thinking about the role models that you had in your mom and your dad. Yeah. It was beautiful.

06:49

Speaker 1

And I am just so grateful that you have found that partner for yourself. Because I can tell you, I mean my dad before he passed clearly, whenever Monty came into my life he said, oh my God, finally a man that you will not walk all over.

07:08

Speaker 2

Well and I think you and I, we don't want to be that, right?

07:11

Speaker 1

Of course not.

07:12

Speaker 2

And I think that was horrible

07:14

Speaker 1

doing And that was

07:14

Speaker 2

kind of the hardest thing for me to articulate or try to explain to people. I don't want to be in this masculine It's exhausting. Right? I don't want to always be tough. For sure.

07:25

Speaker 2

I would prefer to be soft. Yep. And I think it was a side that only a few people saw. And I hated that because I authentically felt that way about myself, but I wasn't projecting that. Yeah.

07:37

Speaker 2

And it's funny you bring up that because my mom was she was a silent type A.

07:42

Speaker 1

That's what you said.

07:43

Speaker 2

Yeah. But my parents met. And they from meeting to marriage, eleven weeks. And I think my brother and sister and I always thought that it was almost hard to replicate that. Yeah.

07:54

Speaker 2

But I truly feel like I found that. That's

07:57

Speaker 1

what's so Jane, I love it.

07:59

Speaker 2

It's a very confident, healthy, mature we give each other our space. And we're so supportive. And it's probably the person I've ever been with that if I and I wouldn't do this. But if I wanted to look through his phone, or I wanted to walk into a room but not completely walk in to see how they speak of me, he would never speak ill of me in a room. I love that.

08:25

Speaker 2

And I feel like I was competing with a lot of people I dated before. And that's exhausting.

08:33

Speaker 1

It is. It is exhausting. And I know that feeling. Monty absolutely loves me. And it's the best feeling, right?

08:42

Speaker 1

To know that they have your back at all times. Yesterday I went to lunch with Kelly Surna, you know her.

08:48

Speaker 2

And

08:50

Speaker 1

she was like, you have to work out with me. And I thought, oh my God, I was supposed to do this with Jane forever ago. Do you do one of those passes?

08:59

Speaker 2

Is that what you said that you were doing? So, mean, we can get into another chapter of our lives at 44. And then after losing my mom and I started noticing weight gain that wasn't normal for me. And a lot of people look at me and say, oh, well, she's size four. You're tiny.

09:17

Speaker 2

But for me, I was caring for my body a lot heavier than My face felt inflamed. I wasn't eating well. I was getting the night sweats. I was getting the depression that was really But when you're dealing with this situation with your mom, your job, you don't know if it's depression, if it's you're just not eating right. Well, it's perimenopause.

09:42

Speaker 2

And I went and got my AMH levels, so if you're not familiar with that, it's your egg reserves. And I think my mom had a hysterectomy when she was 29. Oh. So I could never ask her, well, did you start menopause?

09:56

Speaker 1

Got it.

09:56

Speaker 2

And when I talked to my aunts about it, they'd be like, oh, you're silly. We didn't start until we were in our 50s. And even though my menses were very regular, I knew something was up. And sure enough, my AMH levels were so low. And I'll never forget getting the paperwork that said hormones with big exclamation points.

10:20

Speaker 2

I have the best OBGYN. And it was bio identical hormones. And once I got on estrogen, I all of a sudden felt 28 again. I was doing a bunch of HIT classes and putting strain on my body. When you go into those hot classes, I love Ritual one.

10:37

Speaker 2

I love doing the hot That's

10:39

Speaker 1

one of me to go.

10:40

Speaker 2

It's great. Is it? But I was doing it four or five times a week. And I think when you're doing it really hot and you're not using the best, you're not lifting as heavy, you're also not I mean, you're so dehydrated. I mean, would go through a huge thing of water.

10:55

Speaker 2

I went back to and people are kind of rolling their eyes these days, but it's true. Protein, protein, protein. As you get in your 40s, I started lifting heavy and just weight training. And then using the rucksacks, you know, the weighted Oh, I I have never been in better shape. Have energy has not existed since my 20s.

11:15

Speaker 2

I'm eating well. I'm happy. I feel like the brain fog, the depression, all the stuff that comes with perimenopause has disappeared for me. And so I've just been encouraging women, look, I'm not a doctor. But for me at this age, nobody is talking enough about I think there's some celebrities that have come out here lately, like Naomi Watts, Halle Berry.

11:37

Speaker 2

But I think as a woman, when you start talking about menopause, you just start feeling old. I think I have to raise my hand and say I didn't I talk about a lot of things. I didn't feel quite comfortable yet talking about that. But it's worked so well for me that I just encourage women, go and find someone that will do the blood work.

11:58

Speaker 1

Kind of moving over, if you're even able to talk about it, the most difficult parts of your job because I thought about that a lot actually. When I was kind of in these really dark spaces myself, I mean you know after my father passed I went to trauma treatment for forty days. Mean like But dark shadows in my past but dark shadows in my past just really surface. And I get that I've had a more challenging life than a lot of people, which is fine. It's just how and I thought to myself, how is it that people like Jane or right and then I think about all these people who are on TV all the time, what do they do when they can't show up?

12:42

Speaker 1

When they can't do that? Is that the most challenging aspect of your job or is it the schedule, right?

12:50

Speaker 2

Got really, really lucky that I had really compassionate bosses. Good. I mean, this is now my tenth year with the NFL Network. Probably one of the Tenth year, which is crazy. I mean, most of time in our jobs, Shannon will know this.

13:04

Speaker 2

You get one to two years job security.

13:06

Speaker 1

Yeah.

13:07

Speaker 2

And it's such a volatile business these And I just had really incredible bosses. And I tried not to take advantage of it, but they allowed me to show up and I think you know this about me. I'm pretty much an open book. Yep, same here. And so I would just tell them, here's what I'm dealing And I think it's important because I think you and I show up in ways to others where they think there's no struggle.

13:32

Speaker 2

Or I got really, really pissed off a couple of years ago when it was during COVID and I put out this tweet about a free internship. And the fact that Walter Cronkite, AOC, The View, weaponized it and turned it into something it wasn't. And then they went and found an article about me praising my grandfather for his emotional and financial help in college. He was the president of Wolf Brand Children. Oh, Wolf, yeah.

14:00

Speaker 2

And the the assumption was that the the headline in The UK Daily Mail, and it was right right above Megxit. My boss joked, oh, look. You're bigger than Megxit. Was that chili baroness or chili heiress thinks people should work for free. That was the headline.

14:18

Speaker 2

And I was livid because I'm friends with so many people in, the media industry. Someone could have gotten my phone number, messaged me, and I had a lot of people sliding into my DMs and life explaining me. And I was like, wait a minute. This was for a performance center during COVID who couldn't do interviews for, you know, kids going or these future draft prospects. And normally, you're able to highlight their lives, their training, who they are as men, and they weren't getting that access.

14:49

Speaker 2

And I had mentioned to them, well, why don't you just hire an intern to help set up these interviews? And for them, they could set up their own reel and maybe it turns into a real job. And they said, we don't have the funding for it. And where would you even find them? I go, well, let me just put out this tweet.

15:04

Speaker 2

I'll say that it's not free. Don't have the budget. But I would have loved this opportunity. And people turned it into something. And I found myself having to fend.

15:13

Speaker 2

My parents weren't perfect. My dad struggled with alcoholism. And you don't want put your parents' business out there.

15:23

Speaker 1

I get it.

15:24

Speaker 2

Childhood was not easy. Yeah. And we didn't grow up the way people see me and But it's easier. Yeah. And so I found myself getting very defensive about And I think that was a challenge for me.

15:37

Speaker 2

And I had to sort of have a talking to from the network saying that I couldn't go after people. But when you're coming from my family, you're misrepresenting who I am or the fact that my grandfather had no college education, grew up with two deaf parents, spent most of his time in the Maryland School for the Deaf, and made something of himself. But you're also suggesting that I have this cache of cash. Do you think I would put up with billionaires for a living? Or some of the millionaire athletes in the way that they can sometimes treat people If that if I came from that same background, absolutely not.

16:11

Speaker 2

And so it was that that was frustrating for me back then. Just I think some people, you know, they it comes with the territory, But they see you and they make assumptions about you. Mhmm. And that's fine. I enjoy having spirited dialogues with people that I'm very different than Same.

16:28

Speaker 2

What you might assume. But, you know, I find not a ton of people give you the space to explain that. People are so lazy about journalism these days, and I think that's what really frustrates me sometimes. And I will say that I think that experience, though, going back to the gratitude, made me even more vigilant in how I reported on others. And I go out of my way to get a three sixty perspective.

16:52

Speaker 2

Yeah. Every single side of the story. And, you know, I think sometimes as annoying as it is to find yourself and it's I will tell you, when you find yourself becoming the story, it's the one thing they teach journalists. You report the story, you don't become the story. It gave me a level of anxiety and I think I'm really deeply appreciative of that when people allow me opportunity to share their story.

17:16

Speaker 2

I'm so sensitive about it now because I don't want to misrepresent them or their journey.

17:22

Speaker 1

You know Jane, there is something about you that is so down to earth. And I'm not just saying it because you're my friend, but it's just you're approachable, people feel safe with you, you're kind. And because you do kind of put it all out there, there's a trustworthiness that comes along with you, which I love. And sometimes I think to myself, I bet these guys are just thrilled and always wanting to talk to her and all these things. But I'm sure, and I know, some of them can be absolute jerks.

17:58

Speaker 2

Well, and I also think the other things that I I'm still relatively young looking. You are. I've done events where I'm interviewing a player and a wife will be in the audience. And you feel attention. And even when I dated guys, they assumed that I'm on the road dating all of these players.

18:19

Speaker 2

And so you're always having to also prove yourself, hey, this is a job. And I'm not interested in dating. I might hang out with an attractive group of girls and there might be this assumption that I'm in it for this or that. And that can be a challenge sometimes You know me. I'm more of a girl's girl.

18:44

Speaker 2

Yeah. You know, I've I can very much be a, you know, a guy's girl, but I'm looking out for the women and their husbands and their boyfriends. Are, girl. You know? Oh, you are.

18:55

Speaker 2

I you know, that's that's always that that's always tricky too. You know? It's I tell myself I'm not, you know, I'm not sitting here investigating Watergate every day. That's right. There is a level of entertainment value in what I do, and sometimes that's also a struggle that I have because I got in this and started out eight years in hard news reporting.

19:14

Speaker 2

I consider myself still very much a journalist. Yeah. And our business has sort of continued to go the way of entertainment and less journalism. And so I struggle with that sometimes. I think when you go back to the vulnerability, I've always found I don't want to share things with people who are keeping parts of themselves closed.

19:32

Speaker 2

You want me to open up.

19:34

Speaker 1

That's right.

19:34

Speaker 2

But yet, you're not willing to share anything. I think when you look at Vulnerability. And it's funny when you look back at some of the journalists that I looked up to. Barbara Walters, I'll never forget what she came out with her salacious book. She had a whole another life,

19:46

Speaker 1

Yes, yes, yes.

19:47

Speaker 2

But I found Barbara Walters so much more interesting. And I think you are a more interested person when you've had an interesting life because you know there's layers to people. And for me, the reason why I love being journalists is I love peeling the onion and understanding people. My favorite people are the ones that are you know, misaligned in society. People have got it like, a very strong narrative about them.

20:13

Speaker 2

And those are the people I wanna interview because I wanna know why it got to that point. Yeah. And so I've always found myself, you know, particularly wide receivers in the league. They have the biggest personalities. Really?

20:24

Speaker 2

Yes. We like Oh, that's interesting. We crush them for their passion on the field or their personalities. And you don't get to know them. And once you get to know them, you have a deeper appreciation for them.

20:34

Speaker 2

And so I've truly I don't love going out and just getting stories. I love getting to know what makes people tick, particularly people who have overcome great adversity to become successful. And I find selfishly, I'm always looking for what's the secret. Yeah. You know, I find like I learn something about myself or something I can work on through interviews.

20:59

Speaker 2

And that's how I approach a lot of my interviews. I really love connecting with people. You,

21:06

Speaker 1

I bet, can guess what player might come in and shake things up to rock the core and the foundation of a team pretty quickly. Because a lot of people don't have that gift.

21:24

Speaker 2

I think it's an energetic thing. It is. I think energetically I can sense whether a person has good or bad motives, or if they're misunderstood, or they're very understood. Or maybe they don't know how to articulate their passion or their drive or their needs. And so sometimes I'm wrong.

21:46

Speaker 2

100 I think we're all guilty of bias. But I think energetically, I have a good sense of who my people are. I was at Longhorn Network at ESPN and I had a boss who literally had somebody come in, a consultant, because she didn't think I knew sports. And it pissed me off. I was like, I had a five day a week, four hour sports talk show.

22:07

Speaker 2

But instead of using that to be mad, I came back so ready the next season to prove And then I didn't get re upped. They eliminated the position. If it hadn't been for that, wouldn't have landed NFL Network. And authentically, I love covering the NFL. I love NFL football.

22:24

Speaker 2

More than college, all of that.

22:25

Speaker 1

Yeah, I do too.

22:26

Speaker 2

So I found exactly where I was supposed to be. But if I had been constantly told yes or stayed in the college stratosphere, I wouldn't have gotten to this place. And so I always tell people, fail. Fail often. Rejection is good.

22:41

Speaker 2

Because I always find that you end up exactly where you're supposed to be. You're right.

22:45

Speaker 1

So I'm thinking, Okay, people still love the Cowboys, right? Always will. Yeah. It is really America's team. And do you think there are any possible people who looking at who the Cowboys are looking at this point or perhaps having option to drop certain people to free up some capital, that may actually position the Cowboys to have a good season?

23:11

Speaker 2

I actually think and people it's so funny. You know, I was critical of the Cowboys the last couple seasons, so much so that you know, I heard it from Steven at Combine. Uh-huh. But my argument was, you can't find good people at training camp or during the season,

23:30

Speaker 1

and

23:32

Speaker 2

you're not giving your team the best chance to build, gel the culture if you're doing this so late.

23:39

Speaker 1

That's right.

23:39

Speaker 2

And this year, they went out and I think they did a really good job of finding some really they called it selectively aggressive some really smart pieces for each position that they were missing. And then they were able, because they did it early, to draft with intention. The Cowboys are a different team in the sense that of all the 32 teams I cover, there's not a lot of turnover in the front office. The way they do things is very different.

24:05

Speaker 1

Oh, Okay.

24:06

Speaker 2

And I think a lot of outsiders that come in don't quite get that. Or they get frustrated that there's all these leaks, whatever. Well, reporters and people have been here for forever. Yeah. And I think gets that, but I think Shoddy also appreciates like, when you ask him questions, when you and I sit in an interview, don't you find yourself buying in or listening to what people have to say when they're giving you complete answers?

24:28

Speaker 2

They're thoughtful answers. They want to talk to you. That's how he is with us in the media. That's how he is with the team. Now, I continue to couch this by saying, I have no clue how that's going to translate throughout the season.

24:39

Speaker 2

Because I think we prematurely say, oh, the Eagles are going to repeat, or Washington's the team to watch. I think we should watch out for the Giants, quite frankly. I think Jackson Dart's got a little something to him with Cam Scatabow, the running back up there. But I keep saying, as much as I've talked about energy and culture feeling different, this because I feel like he really authentically wants it to be. I asked him in the introductory press conference, when this is all said and done, what do you want to be known for?

25:07

Speaker 2

And he said, for having the best culture in all of sports. And I was such an interesting answer to me. It wasn't Okay. It wasn't obviously that comes with all of Of course. But if you look at these teams who they'll go back and they'll be like, that was the greatest season.

25:23

Speaker 2

Or we had if you look at the Eagles, they had a bunch of adversity in the beginning. Yeah. They were they had a really young defense. They were struggling. Vic Fangio was kind of an older coach who'd come in, and they turned the season around.

25:34

Speaker 2

If you ask any of those guys, it was culture. And so everyone kind of rolls their eyes when you say culture because it's one of those intangible things. Can't Can't buy it. You can't explain it. It's organic.

25:44

Speaker 2

And I think there's something special happening around there. I think a lot of those guys feel like they've got something approved too. I think Dak feels like he's got something approved.

25:51

Speaker 1

As you know, to be in this career, in this industry for as long as you've been, and to be a woman, it's almost unheard of.

26:01

Speaker 2

I will say that there sometimes is a gut check. As women, we are such people pleasers.

26:05

Speaker 1

And

26:05

Speaker 2

so if we go up to someone and we want to ask a question, and I've had one guy go, I'm not effing talking to you, It kinda it makes you kind of Of course. Like, oh. What did I you find yourself going, well, what did I do?

26:17

Speaker 1

That's that.

26:17

Speaker 2

And you as you get older, you find yourself going, that's not a Mm-mm.

26:20

Speaker 1

Me problem.

26:21

Speaker 2

That's a you problem. That's right. And then I found it was universal. He was doing it to all the other players. So it wasn't personal.

26:26

Speaker 2

But as a woman, I hate that that's our instinct of, well, what

26:29

Speaker 1

did I do? The less than.

26:30

Speaker 2

And so I think if you can I think in order to stay in this business, I think as a woman Mhmm? You don't have to masculine up, but you sort of do have to check-in with yourself every day and do a little gut check. And just say, you know, I deserve to be here.

26:46

Speaker 1

And Lord knows you do. I'm like, I'm going to just hit some questions real fast, like fast. We love it. And then I want you to just give your best impromptu answer.

26:57

Speaker 2

I love it.

26:58

Speaker 1

Okay. All right. Best NFL mascot.

27:01

Speaker 2

He gets killed, but I'm going to have to go with Tutti for the Commanders. Okay, yes. Yes. Is so obnoxious to so many people because he's like this commander that's a pig. And he's awkward, and he's funny.

27:13

Speaker 2

But people just bust up on him, and I find him so entertaining.

27:16

Speaker 1

I love that.

27:16

Speaker 2

So I'm going Tutty.

27:17

Speaker 1

Okay. I love that. Okay. Most epic game you've ever covered?

27:21

Speaker 2

Oh, that's easy. That was Saints, Rams. There was a no call. I'm in New Orleans. It's the postseason.

27:29

Speaker 2

So the refs don't make this call. Rams advance. It was a one season. Sean Payton was about to go back. Probably his best team.

27:36

Speaker 2

And when I say we're allowed on the field five minutes

27:38

Speaker 1

Mhmm.

27:38

Speaker 2

Before the game ends, the Superdome in New Orleans is a special place to watch

27:44

Speaker 1

a game.

27:44

Speaker 2

It is so loud. The people are decked out in Mardi Gras outfits for every game. I mean, women wearing the most obnoxious gold sequins, and everyone is just hammered. I mean, it's just for them, it's their college and NFL team rolled up in one, and it's meant so much to them since Katrina. And to watch that no call and just the energy sucked out of the the building, That

28:07

Speaker 1

was tough. Best NFL wife girlfriend you've met?

28:10

Speaker 2

I really enjoy Lauren Rush, Cooper Rush's Okay. She's really, really great. She looks cool. And Ida Cobb, she is Randall Cobb's wife. Okay.

28:19

Speaker 2

She is a chemical patent attorney. Stunningly gorgeous, so smart. They have the most beautiful kids, beautiful family. So absolutely love them. And then Taylor Lewand's wife, Taylen.

28:30

Speaker 2

When I met her at Pro Bowl, she was fishing in the pond behind the hotel. And they have a farm. And she is this stunning beauty from Vancouver. And they are just the most down to earth, awesome So yeah, I love some of those Okay.

28:45

Speaker 1

How about the best fan base in the NFL? I know the Cowboys claim it, but who really stacks up?

28:50

Speaker 2

I'll have to go with the Eagles. Okay. People are gonna hate when I say that. Are I brought my dad to his Super Bowl, and I covered the Eagles this year. And my dad had to be in a hotel with the Eagles fans.

29:01

Speaker 2

And that was they are I would say they're the wildest. Uh-huh. But I took my dad to a 49ers Cowboys postseason game Uh-huh. While my mom was sick. Mhmm.

29:11

Speaker 2

And I only had one seat for him, and it was in the end zone. And the 49er fans treated him like one of their own. They were buying him beers. They walked into his car to make sure he was okay. And my dad was, like, near tears in the car.

29:23

Speaker 2

He was like, Jade, I don't even care if the Cowboys lost. That was my Super Bowl. And so shout out to the 49er fans the way they treated my dad. Really good That's amazing. And the Buffalo Bills fan base is always amazing.

29:34

Speaker 2

After a loss or if a team advances, they're always donating money to a charity of that team's choice or one of the players' choices. That is an incredible fan base in Buffalo.

29:44

Speaker 1

Wow. Chili debate beans or no beans?

29:49

Speaker 2

I like chili so many different ways.

29:51

Speaker 1

Me too.

29:52

Speaker 2

So I like beans and no beans. I don't have a strong take on that Okay, good.

29:56

Speaker 1

Favorite patio in Dallas?

29:58

Speaker 2

Dosie Mesas over there at the Knox Henderson area. It's a cute little house.

30:02

Speaker 1

How is it?

30:02

Speaker 2

It's got so much charm. And I just went to an incredible patio in Bishop Art. It's called the By Zelda. And it was a former Dallas mayor's house. And it's incredible Turkish food, so it's got all the tapas, whatever, and it has an incredible view of Downtown Dallas.

30:18

Speaker 2

So really, really enjoyed it.

30:19

Speaker 1

Oh my god, I'm so glad

30:19

Speaker 2

that's And then you'll always catch me at Monkey Bar.

30:21

Speaker 1

Best girls night out spot?

30:23

Speaker 2

We're a Bistro thirty one group as girls.

30:24

Speaker 1

Oh yeah,

30:25

Speaker 2

yeah, yeah,

30:26

Speaker 1

It's always fun. Okay, best underrated place to watch a game in Dallas? I enjoy Chelsea's Corner.

30:31

Speaker 2

Oh, yes. Backyard is awesome. I love it.

30:34

Speaker 1

We love Chelsea's Corner. Yeah. Okay, timer tip. If someone's visiting Dallas for the time, what do they absolutely have to do?

30:41

Speaker 2

I mean, sounds cliche, but I think any time I take someone to Highland Park Village Yeah. It's just so obnoxious. And you know, you're just you're seeing all these people dressed up to the nines on a you know, it's anytime I go to other cities, I don't see this in LA. Uh-huh. I don't see it.

30:59

Speaker 2

It might be it's people you know, it's it's incredible. They see the cars. Yes. So I would take them there. I know that sounds obnoxious, but I would take them there.

31:07

Speaker 2

And then I find it fascinating. I'm such a history buff. I love politics too. I mean, I think going down to Dealey Plaza is fascinating.

31:15

Speaker 1

Yes, ma'am. I knew you were going to say that.

31:17

Speaker 2

Yes. Think it's you know what's sad is I didn't even know where the ex was, which is so morbid to begin with. But I lived right down the street from it. And during COVID, I would

31:26

Speaker 1

go out

31:26

Speaker 2

and walk every day. And that was the time I saw exactly where it was. And people were always shocked. Growing up in Dallas, you never saw where Kennedy was shot? No.

31:34

Speaker 2

So I think that's interesting.

31:36

Speaker 1

It is. And last but not least, what is the best date spot

31:40

Speaker 2

in all DFW? Let's do that. It's so funny because we're not the biggest we really like Paradiso Okay, yeah. And Bishop Arts. I think that's really great.

31:50

Speaker 2

But for us, it's music. We love going to concerts. So for us, it's very much a good concert and dive bar.

31:58

Speaker 1

I love it. Oh my god, Jane. I'm so glad that you were able to come in.

32:02

Speaker 2

Yes, thank

32:03

Speaker 1

you for having me.

32:03

Speaker 2

You're the best. The You're

32:05

Speaker 1

an angel. Appreciate it. Oh my god, you too. Alright, we're done. Thank you my love.

32:10

Speaker 1

Love you.

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