Bar Talk with Jenna

Has anyone felt emotional and physically hangover since December? Well Jenna has. Today she breaks down why she has felt this way and the correlation this all has to her birthday. Jenna also discusses birthday depression and how this is an actual thing. She leaves you with 5 ways to get out of this January funk if you feel like you're in it.

After the news of Damar Hamlin needing CPR during the Monday Night Football game Jenna wanted to talk to former college football player and host of Are You Serious Sports podcast, Blake Ruffino. The two discuss how we have de-humanized football players, how the game can make these players become desensitized to the risk and is it worth it.

This week Jenna sits down with New York City bartender and host of the podcast, She Werks Hard for the Money, Nina Scalera. The two talk about what goes on behind the bar, the biggest tip her ever received and the lessons she has learned while being in the hospitality industry.

Football and Thanksgivings go together like fireworks and the 4th of July. Jenna wanted to learn more about how this tradition began. This week hear from football historian, Jeremy Swick (@theaveragehistorian) to learn when the first NFL game on Thanksgiving happened, why the Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys will always be apart of the day, and how the tradition actually started from Ivy League college football.

This week Jenna invites Annie Costabile to the bar. Annie is a multimedia journalist for the Chicago Sun Time covering the Chicago Sky and Red Stars and she has also been covering the Bulls this season as well. She is the host of the podcast Equal Play where she aims to highlight the brightest women in sports from the field to the front office. In this conversation Annie discusses the importance of showing up, why patiences isn’t always a good thing and so much more.