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This week, we go aboard the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington with local paranormal investigators, The Ghost Guild.  Learn more about The Ghost Guild - https://theghostguild.weebly.com/ Battleship North Carolina - https://www.battleshipnc.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It might be hard to believe but 61 years ago, history in North Carolina was almost irreparably changed when two nuclear bombs fell from a crashing military airplane, landing in a field near Goldsboro. Go with WRAL Tar Heel Traveler Scott Mason and Hidden History reporter Heather Leah on a trip to the site. Read more about the bombs - https://www.wral.com/nuclear-mishap-the-night-two-atomic-bombs-dropped-in-north-carolina/20088410/ See the Tar Heel Traveler report - https://www.wral.com/lifestyles/travel/video/11301705/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we take a trip to Juniper Level Botanical Gardens in Raleigh to find out about this 28-acre campus. Tony Avent and his wife started Juniper Level Botanical Gardens in 1988. It is a nonprofit botanical garden in southern Wake County. In this episode, Tony speaks with WRAL multi-platform reporter Maggie Brown about sustainable gardening, the effects climate change has on North Carolina's biodiversity, and what's kept Juniper Level Gardens in business all these years. Get more information about Juniper Level Botanical Gardens - https://www.jlbg.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This podcast was recorded LIVE at the Earfluence podcast studio at American Underground in Durham on March 16, 2022. During this episode, WRAL lifestyle editor Kathy Hanrahan talks with Durham Performing Arts Center's Community Engagement Manager Megan Rindoks. Find out more about DPAC's Community Programs - https://www.dpacnc.com/community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We started working on this episode last month, weeks before Sola Coffee co-owner Jeanne Luther passed away. WRAL multi-platform producer Maggie Brown interviewed her husband and Sola co-owner John Luther at the cafe. He talked a little about Jeanne's health - words that are even more poignant since her passing last week. Read more about Jeanne and Sola Coffee - https://www.wral.com/20233240/ Sola Coffee's website - https://www.solacoffee.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are "out and about" a lot and when we come home we just want to relax and not step on LEGO bricks. For tips to help us declutter our lives, WRAL contributor Tara Lynn turned to Sarah Valeri with Hello Clutter. She has some great tips, especially for our closets! Get more tips in this story on WRAL's Go Ask Mom: wral.com/20234726 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, WRAL contributor Sloane Heffernan takes us on a trip into the world of anti-aging products and treatments. It's time to take care of yourself, but how do you know what products will actually work? Sloane interviews Amelia Aesthetics' Plastic Surgery and Skincare educator Gretta Nance. (https://askamelia.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Out and About Podcast is ready to take you places! After a brief winter break, we are back with more topics, more hosts and even more fun! This week, we welcome Mix 101.5 FM's Diane Ramsey to our slate of podcast hosts! Diane chats with Emily Foster, the Marketing Director and Associate Interim Festival Director at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The festival is coming up April 7-10, 2022. Get more information about Full Frame - https://www.fullframefest.org/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Out and About Podcast is taking a break for the holidays! Make sure to check out Out and About on WRAL.com for all of our gift guide and holiday coverage! WRAL.com/wraloutandabout Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raleigh embryologist Alease Daniel has become a TikTok star. She takes people into the fertility lab and explains everything from how embryos are graded and to sperm motility. This isn't your average Out and About Podcast this week! We are talking TikTok, science, fertility and even monthly cycle myths. Follow Alease on Tiktok @aleasetheembryologist - https://www.tiktok.com/@aleasetheembryologist Learn more about Alease and what she does at Atlantic Reproductive: https://www.wral.com/meet-the-local-embryologist-taking-over-tiktok/19963795/ Host Kathy Hanrahan's blog about infertility and IVF - https://www.wral.com/inconceivable-a-look-at-infertility-and-ivf/19824916/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Ghost Guild take a break from ghost hunting to talk about their most recent paranormal investigations and where you can find them next! You can actually see them virtually on Oct. 21, 2021, via a presentation with Wake County Public Libraries and on Oct. 28, 2021, via another virtual event with the North Carolina Museum of History. Find info about their upcoming events and investigations - https://theghostguild.weebly.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

County superstar and Garner native Scotty McCreery recently stopped by to talk about his new album, Same Truck. We chatted in the WRAL Azalea Garden about the album, marriage and his beloved pickup truck. Find out more about Scotty's new album and see our full interview - https://www.wral.com/scotty-mccreery-talks-new-album-and-his-beloved-pickup-truck/19879448/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yes, that Bob Saget. Danny Tanner himself stops by the podcast to talk about his new standup show coming to Raleigh Improv on Sept. 24-25. Plus, we talk about his dear friend Norm Macdonald, who recently passed away. See Bob Saget at Raleigh Improv - https://improv.com/raleigh/event/bob+saget+with+special+guest+mike+young/11169305/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Comedian Jen Fulwiler has six children. She says the jokes just write themselves. A former talk radio show, Jen is an author, podcaster and social media superstar going viral on TikTok and Instagram with her parenting hot takes.  Fulwiler drops by the podcast to talk about her upcoming Raleigh Improv show on Sept. 23, 2021, and other funny musings about parenting life! Get more info about Jen Fulwiler - https://jenniferfulwiler.com/ Jen's Raleigh Improv show details - https://improv.com/raleigh/event/jen+fulwiler%3a+the+minivan+fabulous+tour/11297045/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inez Ribustello is a mom, restaurant and brewery owner and now an author. Ribustello has self-published a book about the past 20 years of her life. The book includes her time in New York, when he worked in the north tower of the World Trade Center in 2001. Ribustello was out of town the day of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, otherwise she would have been at work on the 107th floor. Follow Inez on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inezribustello/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alejandro Contreras is a one-man operation. He is the chef and owner of one of the most Instagrammable treats in the area - Tepuy Doughnuts. He shares the reason why he wanted to make doughnuts in the first place and what drives him to create such fun flavors (banana pudding!) on this week's podcast. Find out more about Tepuy Doughnuts - https://www.instagram.com/tepuydoughnuts/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cape Fear Farm Credit CEO Evan Kleinhans talks about the company's Produce Project, which has helped local farmers and food banks.  Learn more about the Produce Project: https://www.capefearfc.com/produce-project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Spoon Roasters was born out of founder Mark Overbay's love of homemade peanut butter. This Durham-based business has grown from his kitchen to stores around the world. We find out how he got started and what the future holds for this locally made product. Find out more about Big Spoon Roasters - https://bigspoonroasters.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brenna Doyle started Six Foot Fit after being laid off from her job as a fitness coach. What started as a small group personal training session in a park has since become a full-fledged business with multiple class options and even children's classes. Brenna fills us in on how she got started and what people can learn in a Six Foot Fit class! Learn more about Six Foot Fit - https://www.sixftfit.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we're sharing a taste of a new podcast from WRAL Studios, hosted by Amanda Lamb. Follow the Truth tells the real story of the James Jordan murder and the man who says he didn't do it. Daniel Green has served nearly three decades in a North Carolina prison maintaining his innocence in the murder of Michael Jordan's father, James. This case is full of mystery, contradiction, and dogged by conspiracy theories. The ten-part series from WRAL Studios questions the evidence, scrutinizes the circumstances around the conviction and explores the possibilities of who else may have been responsible for James Jordan’s tragic death. Episodes 1 and 2 are available now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices