All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

Browse all of the newsletters, stories, podcasts, and otherwise that we’ve published here, from newest to oldest.

Yearbooks

Oct 12, 2023

What Fools These Mortals Be!

Today's edition is a three-parter that includes signs at the state fair, incredible yearbook pictures, and an update on the guy who sued Texas Pete because he thought it was made in Texas.

Jeremy Markovich

Carnivals

Oct 5, 2023

A Fair And Its Missing Train

Strates Shows and its carnival rode the rails to North Carolina for more than 70 years, prompting smiles, tributes, and warnings about stripper-assisting birds. So, what happened to its trains?

Jeremy Markovich

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

Raleigh

Sep 28, 2023

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

"First in Flight" has been this state's standard license plate since 1982. It replaced a controversial slogan and came from a different era, when it was okay to clown on the Wright Brothers.

Jeremy Markovich

A Rabbit Hole Investigation: Did Sen. Richard Burr cast an official Senate vote in shorts?

Politics

Sep 21, 2023

A Rabbit Hole Investigation: Did Sen. Richard Burr cast an official Senate vote in shorts?

The U.S. Senate got rid of its unofficial dress code, and people are sort of upset about it! But did North Carolina's once-senior senator break the code to conduct official business? We investigate.

Jeremy Markovich

Reidsville

Sep 19, 2023

Random Road Trip: Reidsville

I made a quick trip to a North Carolina town I've never visited before. Here are three quick impressions and a little bit of history to go with them.

Jeremy Markovich

Hardly anybody votes in off-year elections. Why does North Carolina have them?

Politics

Sep 14, 2023

Hardly anybody votes in off-year elections. Why does North Carolina have them?

Generations ago, leaders thought local elections should be protected from state and national issues. We're still dealing with the effects of that thinking today.

Jeremy Markovich

The story behind the GIF of a woman throwing an entire folding table during a brawl

Charlotte

Sep 7, 2023

The story behind the GIF of a woman throwing an entire folding table during a brawl

Someone asked me to find a North Carolina connection to a viral brawl in Alabama. Here's something that's, maybe, even more legendary.

Jeremy Markovich

Wake Forest's greatest football coach was a “con artist”

College Football

Aug 31, 2023

Wake Forest's greatest football coach was a “con artist”

Peahead Walker led the Demon Deacons to arguably their greatest seasons ever. He also smoke, drank, cussed, paid his players, and lied about everything he could get away with.

Jeremy Markovich

Raleigh

Aug 24, 2023

A Guy in Raleigh Owns The World's Most Influential Cowbell

Before Will Ferrell made it famous, Blue Öyster Cult haphazardly added an instrument to one of it's biggest songs. A PR executive in North Carolina paid a lot of money to own it.

Jeremy Markovich

All Known Rabbit Holes, In Descending Order

What Fools These Mortals Be!

A Fair And Its Missing Train

North Carolina's unkillable 41-year-old license plate

A Rabbit Hole Investigation: Did Sen. Richard Burr cast an official Senate vote in shorts?

Random Road Trip: Reidsville

Hardly anybody votes in off-year elections. Why does North Carolina have them?

The story behind the GIF of a woman throwing an entire folding table during a brawl

Wake Forest's greatest football coach was a “con artist”

A Guy in Raleigh Owns The World's Most Influential Cowbell

North Carolina Rabbit Hole