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SouthBound #196: Jeremy Markovich
I feel like I haven’t given enough of a spotlight in this newsletter to my podcast, SOUTHBOUND.
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The time Jay Bilas subpoenaed Barney the Purple Dinosaur
ESPN's most famous college basketball analyst once forced the beloved and annoying children's show character to appear in federal court in Charlotte…
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Winston-Salem's hottest new trend: Watching a skyscraper's lights turn off
Someone noticed that their city's most phallic building went dark every night at midnight. So they started posting videos. Now? People are coming into…
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May 2025

What if federal hurricane relief dries up in Western North Carolina? Here are some lessons from history.
In 1916, the Asheville area was hit by flooding that was eerily similar to Hurricane Helene in 2024. With millions of present-day recovery dollars in…
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Happy 250th Birthday to the MecDec, Which People Still Cannot Find
The O.G. Declaration of Independence was signed in Charlotte on May 20, 1775. Did it really exist? Probably? Here are a few stories about America's most…
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Hate Will Make You Strong, North Carolina
This week, a collection of hatin'. Contractors! The Washington Capitals! Wilmington! Charlotte! ESPECIALLY you, Charlotte.
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Goodbye to the Duck-Rabbit
One of North Carolina's O.G. craft breweries abruptly closed this week. It's a sign of the times, but also showed that big things are still possible in…
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The internet comes to life above a urinal in a brewery
A short story about writing on bathroom walls, the effects of being too online, and there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos, it'll be a home…
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April 2025

The Edmund Fitzgerald was a big ship (before it sank). Could it have made it upriver to Wilmington?
Let's get hypothetical! Here's a reader question about the legendary ship, which became a legendary shipwreck.
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I told a guy where he could dig a hole for fun. Now there's a 28-minute-long YouTube video about it.
Years ago, I went up to Hiddenite to dig for emeralds. I came up empty. But apparently I was just too far ahead of the internet's hottest hole-digging…
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I found actual quicksand in North Carolina. This is not a drill.
An entire generation grew up being told that they were surrounded by spots where they might slowly sink to their doom. But is quicksand a real problem…
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A quick trip to Southport, where Snooki is not welcome
Here are a few things I saw in town this week. Apparently New Jersey needs to watch its back.
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