Last night my son and I went into a Cook Out in Greensboro because the drive-thru line was nuts. He ordered a junior tray. I planned on eating leftovers at home. While we waited, the cashier said "Here, you want this?" and handed me an entire meal free because someone left without paying. I ate it.

Here’s me and @benmcneely.bsky.social awarding points to you all, based on how badly some of you mangled the pronunciations of beloved North Carolina place names youtu.be/VlJP10tvwgk?...

The rest of the podcast went pretty much like this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

people who can't pronounce fuquay-varina get it eventually

The rest of the podcast went pretty much like this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

Know there's a lot going on right now, but if you need an escape, I wrote about the Ochocinco-Raleigh thing. If you think you've heard someone mangle a North Carolina pronunciation worse than he did, I urge you to call and leave me a voicemail www.ncrabbithole.com/p/this-is-an...

Spent most of the season not being invested in the panthers only to become incredibly invested in the panthers over the last two hours, which was probably the wrong time to do that

A friend just called Mendoza “a sincere Russell Wilson” and my god that’s the most accurate statement I’ve heard in 2026

SUGGESTED HEADLINE: Joe Ovies contracts previously unknown disease

The German National Soccer Team is gonna train at Wake Forest University and stay at Graylyn in Winston-Salem during the World Cup. news.wfu.edu/2026/01/09/g...

I grew up in Wilson Co, where only the locals pronounce it properly. With a T between the L and the S.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, a DEA official called me to discuss a pharmacy relocation in "Sha-lah-té." I finally realized he was talking about Shallotte.

I had a temp job back in the 90s at WUNC and a new news announcer came down from DC and was talking on air about traffic in “Mee - Baine” and the lady I worked for said to a colleague “you wanna tell him or should I.”

Sir Walter Ra-LEE-uh sounds way better anyway

Challenge: find an example that does not include "Fuquay-Varina"

I said "app-uh-LAY-shun" state once on a podcast and got dragged for a good year afterward

Pittman estimates it will take up to two years to get the former prison ready for as many as 300 residents who would live on the campus until they completed the six months-long program. Another class of up to 300 would replace the previous residents each six months, he said.

oh naur

Know there's a lot going on right now, but if you need an escape, I wrote about the Ochocinco-Raleigh thing. If you think you've heard someone mangle a North Carolina pronunciation worse than he did, I urge you to call and leave me a voicemail www.ncrabbithole.com/p/this-is-an...

“Close enough. Don’t worry about it” in other words “I’m right on this and it is not worth my time to argue about”

this is how Ochocinco pronounces “Raleigh”

fwiw @aburtch.bsky.social pointed out that the new ncrabbithole dot com didn't have an RSS feed set up, so I went ahead and did that. If you want to get Rabbit Hole posts that way, it's here: rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/qaC8hJ...

Thought this was a really great episode of @pablo.show. They all are! But the bit about U.S. News and World Report rankings really hit for me. Amazing what you talk about when you aren't trying to to put things in precise order. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Adb...

Local angle!

For the first time in state history, North Carolina has more registered Republicans than Democrats. Data released Saturday by the State Board of Elections show that Republicans became the second-biggest voting group last week.

Here's @michaelngraff.bsky.social delving deeper into the legendary Brentson Buckner quote that @daringantt.bsky.social got 20 (!) year ago: “I always say, [Charlotte] is a married man’s paradise.” charlotteoptimist.com/why-charlott...

Anti-war protestors are hitting the highest-traffic area: The intersection in front of the Greensboro Costco on a Sunday afternoon

Congratulations to the ACC Champion Carolina Panthers

NC is the center of the world

there's always a north carolina connection: venezuela edition www.ncrabbithole.com/p/when-a-ven...

If the Browns have the Factory of Sadness, the Panthers play in the First Bank of Futility

Can always count on the Panthers to do the most disappointing thing in the most important situation

Doubt my employer will be using this in marketing materials for the Hickory campus anytime soon, but still interesting nonetheless

there's always a north carolina connection: venezuela edition www.ncrabbithole.com/p/when-a-ven...

stayed up after midnight to watch a grown man subject his entire family to a mayo bath

they’re chanting “ACC” in here, @joeovies.bsky.social

let’s get weird deacs

en route to the mayo bowl

Don’t make it weird, ok? www.ncrabbithole.com/p/five-days-...

here's the last rabbit hole EVER . . . . . (of 2025) www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-last-r...

RIP to the guy who invented Blinkies www.ncrabbithole.com/p/behold-the...

merry christmas

Breaking my sabbatical to let you know that there's a brand new Rabbit Hole out this morning about a unique style of Christmas lights called Blinkies, the relentless inventor who made them, and why they haven't spread far and wide beyond North Carolina (yet). www.ncrabbithole.com/p/behold-the...

Breaking my sabbatical to let you know that there's a brand new Rabbit Hole out this morning about a unique style of Christmas lights called Blinkies, the relentless inventor who made them, and why they haven't spread far and wide beyond North Carolina (yet). www.ncrabbithole.com/p/behold-the...

Celebrating the move of the great @ncrabbithole.com by becoming a paid subscriber! Great stories about North Carolina that you won’t find anywhere else. This is one of my favorites from the archives.

thought it was gonna take a long long time to migrate the rabbit hole from Substack to Beehiiv but… never mind, it’s all done! www.ncrabbithole.com

"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."

no, fartin van buren, she was not www.ncrabbithole.com/p/fart-licen...

i beg to differ