The Hunting Whines with Jaime Ray Newman

Whine Down with Jana Kramer

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You know her as Callie the Sherrif’s wife in “The Hunting Wives” on Netflix, and now Jamie Ray Newman is hanging out with Jana to spill all the behind the scenes stories!
Jana reveals to Jamie that she was close to scoring the same role, and we find out ANOTHER Hunting Wives star also auditioned for the part.

Jaime takes us through the preparation for the show, which included picking out an “intimate” toy for a certain bedroom scene (IYKYK).

Plus, Jaime and Jana bond over the challenges of balancing a career as an actor with being a mom.

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:06.1	Wind down with Jana Kramer, an IHeart Radio podcast.
0:10.8	All right, so a lot of chatter about hunting wives that we've talked about on this couch.
0:17.7	And guess what?
0:20.2	We have Callie coming on.
0:23.5	Formerly known as.
0:24.6	Formally known.
0:26.5	It is Jamie Ray Newman.
0:28.0	She's coming on.
0:28.8	She plays Callie.
0:30.1	And, you know, I just feel like we should just...
0:33.3	I mean, I have so many questions.
0:36.1	You know the question.
0:37.4	I sure do. I bet she gets the question all the time. Let's get around. Hi. How are you? I'm good. How are you? Hold on. Why am I? So pretty. Beautiful. Ritorical. So pretty. Ritorical. Does I do want them to have children here? Mom of three. Mom of three. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. So, you know, because you have, how many do you have? I have two. You have two. And what are the ages? Five and six. Love it. Okay, well, we'll just jump right in. All right. So I think the coolest part about, well, just for starters, we are also Michigan girls, All of us. No way. Yeah. Which I think makes us pretty rad, which is probably why we're so cool and laid back. Don't you think ladies? Come on. There's something about Michigan. Where? Well, I'm from, I was born in Detroit, but I was raised in Rochester, Washington Township. So I went to Rochester Adams because it was the only school we had like in that area. So that's where I'm from. And then Ann Arbor area, Celine, Eastern Michigan. Yeah. Oh my God. Wow. Michigan girls in the house. It's like we work hard. We have good grit. I feel like we're,
1:44.2	grit. That's what my therapist says. She's like, oh, she's like, you're a scrapper. That's what it is. Like, she's like, you just scrap. The greatest compliment you could ever give anyone. I know. When did you move out to Los Angeles from Michigan? I left Michigan when I was 18. So I went to like, I went to a Jewish Day School called Hellel Day School.
1:44.3	And then I went to like I went to this, uh, to a Jewish day school called Hellel Day School. And then I went to Cranbrook. Crambrook. Yeah. My cousin went there. Okay. So it's a very artistic, you know, like when, when I knew I was an artsy kid, I went to interlock in arts camp in the summers. With your blue polo, Jamie.
2:18.4	With my blue polo.
2:19.7	With my knickers, with my blue knickers and red socks.
2:23.0	What a time.
2:24.2	What a time.
2:25.0	I mean, the most glorious time of my life.
2:27.2	I pray that one of my children, anyone, because my mom went there.
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