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Sex, Drugs, and Ay Ziggy Zoomba

College Football

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Sep 5, 2025

Sex, Drugs, and Ay Ziggy Zoomba

UNC and Bowling Green are polar opposites, yet they both share a weird fight song. Why? Blame a man who the CIA drugged with LSD, wrote lots of erotic novels, and sang a song that makes no sense.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
LL Cool J used to live in Charlotte for some reason

Carrot Top

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Jul 10, 2025

LL Cool J used to live in Charlotte for some reason

The rapper/actor bought a house on the south side of town in the late '90s. But he wasn't the last major musician to live there.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
The Edmund Fitzgerald was a big ship (before it sank). Could it have made it upriver to Wilmington?

Music

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Apr 29, 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.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
Bills that make you raise up and say Wooooo!

Music

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Mar 27, 2025

Bills that make you raise up and say Wooooo!

North Carolina's state senators introduced nearly 300 bills in a single day to try and beat a deadline. Here are a few of the most ridiculous ones.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
Wait, Roberta Flack and Lee Greenwood recorded a duet? About North Carolina?

Raleigh

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Feb 27, 2025

Wait, Roberta Flack and Lee Greenwood recorded a duet? About North Carolina?

In 1987, two hugely-popular musicians came together for the first time to sing about how great this state was. Why? Because a local television station in Raleigh needed some promos.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
Here's a dirty joke (?) from Elvis about a short visit to a small North Carolina town

College Football

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Jan 23, 2025

Here's a dirty joke (?) from Elvis about a short visit to a small North Carolina town

In 1956, The King wasn't The King yet when he stopped off for a show in Lexington. It was a night that the town never forgot. It led to a comment that some Duke football players also never forgot.

Jeremy Markovich
Jeremy Markovich
Why the French film composer who created The Olympic Fanfare is buried in North Carolina

Music

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Aug 8, 2024

Why the French film composer who created The Olympic Fanfare is buried in North Carolina

Leo Arnaud had a long career as a musician in Europe and Hollywood. A blind date led him to a simpler life.

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

Raleigh

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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
Jeremy Markovich

North Carolina Rabbit Hole

Get lost in the strange minutiae of the best state in the country.

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