It has been a wild third season for us here at TCB - we started before Covid-19 was even a concern here in the U.S. and are wrapping this season up with quarantine, contact restrictions, and face-mask regulations all under our belts. What. A. Ride. So join us for the last episode of this journey where we discover that cars are still transported via ship, moving a thicc body requires a helper, and that there was such a thing as the New York Cotton Exchange. We also have a few questions for those of you describing your check-ins on Untappd...maybe you're just going stir crazy? Stick around for the obligatory conspiracy theory, plus several poorly conveyed movie references. We'll see y'all back in six weeks!

Welcome back to another week of Charlotte history, where somehow the most notable moments in this episode come from Dru's unique portrayal of our sponsor. Aside from that, we dive into his deep love of the Carolina Caviar - a term neither of us had ever heard before now, only to follow that up with a woman who essentially became Voldemort to her family back in the 1800s. We'll touch on some conspiracies about childbirth, tuberculosis, and local craft cheese - not all in one story, thankfully. So get comfortable, because you've got a Master's thesis, surgery stools, and subliminal messaging all coming your way.

It's the battle of the Harveys this week as we explore two black men born in the 1940s, each leaving their own mark on Charlotte's history. We'll discuss great parenting styles, questionable transportation solutions, and a court appointed college education. Along the way, we'll ask the important questions: Do ghosts exist? Does Harvey Gantt blame Michael Jordan for his Senate loss in the 90s? What do you do with six doctorates anyway? We'll touch on the first black students at Clemson, Obama's political roots, and the Mecklenburg County seal's official owner. Don't forget to drop us a comment on IG telling us if celebrities should promote their political views online or not!

It's a Bizarre Ride this week and that's just the beer we're drinking! Which also helped us learn that Dru has a knack for reading your Untapped comments; what do y'all think - should he start a TikTok account doing dramatic readings of beer reviews? A few other factoids this week include: kaiser is more than just a roll, moonshining can help you win NASCAR races, and the 1940s had more spectators at their races than 2020 - we'll give you one guess why. We'll also take a moment to debate terrible taglines for our friends at SpookyCLT on Instagram, look at contradictory stereotypes, and highlight a brief moment where a black man's word was accepted over several cops' - rest in peace, ReRe.

This week we're going to tackle some very important questions, like: why do used books cost such a ridiculous amount? Which conspiracy makes more sense - cult or trafficking? Why can't Chrissy say the word narrator? All of these will be asked and none will be answered as we dive into the Union County ties to the James Gang and a family that vanished into thin air...maybe they never even existed? Join us as we look at a 1970s version of Stranger Things, discuss the practicalities of being a part-time bank robber and part-time barrel builder, and try to determine what would possess anyone to go by the name "Mome." You'll just have to decide for yourself if we can count this week as history or lore.

Ever wonder what the mastermind behind the Bank of America Stadium had to say about seeing his plan come to fruition? Well, after forty years of building our city through art, sport, and culture, his profound response to seeing this development was, "I put that there." You heard it here first, kids. Other than discovering that success comes in 'cans' and not 'can'ts,' this week is full of questions, like: are cemeteries appropriate picnic locations? What kind of brain do you need for farming? If Dru sings, will it scare away sponsors? Naturally, none of these questions will be answered but we will throw out more conspiracy theories for another murder case gone cold. Who do you think is to blame?

We've got a full cast of characters for you in this episode, including but not limited to: two famous actresses who are attached at the hip...literally, a convict who supposedly tells the truth after incarceration, and a balloon salesman named Myer Myers - you can't make this stuff up. Join us on a wild ride down Wilkinson Blvd. during the 1960s as we drink a beer that sounds more like a cicerone's rap name and Dru delivers pun after pun that are both terrible and great. A final word of advice: never trust anyone who claims that a person named Myrtle was involved in a crime. And don't forget to send us your ideas for what we should name our Charlotte crime podcast!

You're in for a weird episode this week because even we don't know what to make of it. Join us as we explore the enigmas of the mystical - or perhaps, a gardener hopped up on the devil's lettuce? Dru makes a fairly compelling argument to discredit decades worth of supernatural events with just one excuse: marijuana. You'll just have to decide for yourself what's true. Along the way, Chrissy will get called out for her weird "food disabilities" (allergies; they're called allergies, Chrissy), we'll get the longest reference to Forrest Gump possible, and Dru will find his version of heaven: a year without summer. The haze in NoDa is getting pretty thick this week, and we're not even talking about the beer.

Happy Thursday! At least we hope it's Thursday - is anyone else struggling to keep track of the days through quarantine? Anyway, this week we're diving into Lake Norman...literally. Did you know there is a TON of stuff under there? We're giving you the full bodycount ...err... rundown of what's buried in the deep, but let's just say that more headstones were relocated than actual caskets. We're also going to take a stroll through what could be Charlotte's version of Serial, but our brief recap is like watching Forrest Gump on cable: you just know there's a ton of stuff missing. Along the way we'll learn that you can't take pillows to Goodwill, there's a better way to preserve historical battlefields, and propose an eerily beautiful way to honor the dead.

Join us this week as we not only dive into Charlotte history but the history of our podcast too - complete with prolonged confusion about a topic we may or may not have already covered, checking a few things off our first-episode bucket list, and airing out some of the dumb mistakes we made in that debut episode. Come along for an interstellar adventure with so many dad jokes that it'll be hard to keep your head in the clouds long enough to ask, "what's up there?" Then we take a somber turn into Charlotte's only lynching, conspiracy theories that are quite likely true, and the most racist game of hide and seek we have on the books. Oh, and you'll never look at the 40 yard line the same again!