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Inside Carolina: A UNC athletics podcast

Inside Carolina, North Carolina Tar Heels, North Carolina, North Carolina basketball, UNC basketball

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The Inside Carolina Podcast network features a wide range of current UNC sports topics, from game previews and instant postgame analysis, to recruiting breakdowns. IC’s stable of writers, insiders and analysts -- plus special guests -- comprise each program.
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TarHeel247 - A UNC Basketball podcast with John Henson

247Sports, John Henson, UNC Basketball, UNC Tar Heels, College Basketball

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Carolina blue runs deep — and so do the stories. Hosted by John Henson, TarHeel247 - A UNC Basketball Podcast, takes you inside the heart of Carolina basketball with the voices who know it best. Each week, John sits down with legendary players, coaches and insiders for real, unfiltered conversations about the past, present and future of the program. Whether it’s behind-the-scenes moments from the locker room, deep dives into the state of the team, or candid reflections on what it means to we ...
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Tar Heel Voices

The Varsity Podcast Network

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Dive deeper into the personalities, teams, and stories that embody the winning tradition of Carolina athletics. Tar Heel Voices is your home for Holding Court with Courtney Banghart, The Scott Forbes Show, Anson Dorrance's "Vision of a Champion," and more Tar Heel content.
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Tax Chats

Dyreng and Hoopes

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Taxes touch every aspect of society, including who rules, where factories are built, what people drink, what car they buy, when they have children, and when they die. Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC), two accounting professors, chat about taxes, including current events, with the energy of an over-caffeinated chihuahua. Listening is guaranteed to be far more entertaining than actually paying your taxes.
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PTI

ESPN, Tony Kornheiser, Michael Wilbon

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Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon face off in the nation's capital on the day's hottest topics.
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The Four Corners Podcast is your home for the latest Carolina Basketball news, & opinions. Hosted by Josh Marlow, & Anthony Pagnotta, the podcast covers the program all season long, with a relentless passion and desire, that hopes to inform, educate, and entertain UNC fans around the world. *All calls in the intro do not belong to me. They are properties of the Tar Heel Sports Network & CBS Sports*
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GN in Ten

International Society of Glomerular Disease

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A bite-size podcast brought to you by the International Society of Glomerular Disease. Nephrologists and glomerular disease experts Dr. Kenar Jhaveri (Northwell Health/Hofstra University) and Dr. Koyal Jain (UNC Chapel Hill) take a lighthearted look at the latest research, discuss clinical practice, and interview leaders in glomerular medicine — all in a short enough time to listen on your coffee break.
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NC Criminal Debrief is a podcast hosted by UNC School of Government faculty member Phil Dixon on all things criminal law. The podcast primarily focuses on state criminal law developments but also includes discussion of significant federal decisions from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as current events affecting criminal law. The episodes are designed to provide context and insight into all aspects of criminal law for both court-system actors and the p ...
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We bring you to the center of the sustainability conversation at UNC-Chapel Hill as we explore the technologies, partners, and exciting happenings that make our campus sustainable. From the North Carolina Piedmont to around the world, we seek out and discuss the latest in sustainability.
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SleepHawk Worldwide

with Tyler Hansbrough

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SleepHawk Worldwide features UNC basketball legend Tyler Hansbrough (Big Hawk) and his sidekick, Brandon Staton (Sleep Dawg). Together they cover everything from college basketball to the Bachelor.
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DJ UNC Podcast

Twelve30Music

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Twelve30Music is dedicated to House music all year long. Deep, Electro, Progressive, Afro, Soulful; You name it, we mix it and then we master it. We are completely in the box with all the necessary software to give you the finished sound you're looking for. Established in 2019 by James(DJ UNC) Webb, a New Jersey based DJ(30+years)Twelve30Music supports House music, its creativity, originality and artistic value. Peace&madLove James(DJ UNC)Webb
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Blue Blood TV Podcast

Hassan Pinto, Darryl Brunson, and Will Phelan

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Blue Blood Rivalry TV is a weekly show airing every Thursday night. Hosts debate, discuss, compare, and contrast all Duke & Carolina basketball. The debate hits its pinnacle when the Blues battle it during their annual Blue Blood Rivalry matchup. The show stars Hassan Pinto (Moderator), Will Phelan (UNC Pundit), and Darryl Brunson (Duke Pundit). The pundits will give their unfiltered and passionate opinions about the biggest stories from that week and their thoughts about the upcoming weeken ...
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Welcome to UNC Study Abroad Podcast. With 300 study abroad programs spanning 70 countries, UNC Study Abroad has a lot to offer. In this podcast we sit down with UNC students and alumni and learn how study abroad has led to personal and academic growth. Website: https://studyabroad.unc.edu/
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Focusing on insightful conversations for students and professionals, this podcast will discuss upcoming technology, social change, and the impact we can have on the community in UNC Charlotte and beyond. Episodes will be released weekly on Wednesday, add to your library and follow @niner_times and @the.nazareth for updates on upcoming episodes
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The Institute Podcast

Institute for the Arts and Humanities (UNC-CH)

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The Institute for the Arts and Humanities empowers faculty to achieve their full potential by creating community and cultivating leadership. At the heart of this mission is the affirmation of the crucial value of the arts and humanities to the life of the university and the world. The Institute Podcast engages in conversations with faculty, program directors, and guest scholars about their work in teaching, service and research. We learn the makings of successful leaders across disciplines. ...
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Data @ Rest

UNC Chapel Hill's & UNC Fayetteville State's Information Security Offices

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"Data at Rest" is an accessible but informed discussion of current concepts, best practices, and personal experiences in computer security, network security, and information security overall, including interviews with expert guests and the history of each topic.
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The Refreshingly Normal Podcast Welcome to The Refreshingly Normal Podcast, where real life meets real laughs. We are Kēfla and Lucrecia (Cree), a married couple of 22 years, long-time educators, and now stepping into the world of mental health counseling. Think of us as your favorite Unc and Auntie of the podcast world, keeping it honest, heartfelt, and hilariously human. We’re also proud parents of twin young men who just turned 21 and are officially stepping into adulthood, which means pa ...
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Sports Focus Archives - Chapelboro.com

Sports Focus Archives - Chapelboro.com

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Sports Focus, presented by WCHL and the UNC School of Media and Journalism, is dedicated to in-depth examinations of issues of overarching importance in the sports world. Each week we’ll discuss problems and look for solutions to problems in professional, collegiate and amateur sports hosted by UNC journalism professor Charlie Tuggle.
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NEGDIRP'S NEST

Kris Pridgen aka NEGDIRP

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Come take a dive into my crazy brain and see what random thoughts have popped up today! We will be discussing WWE, Miami Dolphins, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, UNC Tar Heels basketball and many more of my hobbies/fan interests.
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Stone Written

Sonja Haynes Stone Center

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Stone Written (@stonewrittenpod) is an educational foray into the rich tapestry of Black experience, with navigating life at a PWI taking center stage. Hosted by Dr. Rhon Manigault-Bryant (@DoctorRMB), listeners can expect candid takes, insightful interviews, captivating stories, and an audio journey that honors the resilience and brilliance of our communities. Tune in and experience the official podcast of the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC-Chapel Hill, where our culture resonates, our hi ...
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This podcast is a channel on the New Books Network. The New Books Network is an academic audio library dedicated to public education. In each episode you will hear scholars discuss their recently published research with another expert in their field. Discover our 150+ channels and browse our 28,000+ episodes on our website: ⁠newbooksnetwork.com⁠ Subscribe to our free weekly Substack newsletter to get informative, engaging content straight to your inbox: ⁠https://newbooksnetwork.substack.com/ ...
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Chapel Phil

Chapel Phil

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We are UNC's student-run philosophy podcast! Sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics and the Philosophy Department, we bring UNC students' and professors' ideas to life.
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Phantom Island

Steven Godfrey & Ryan Nanni

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Every week, Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni walk you (and one another) through a question from the sports world. While they don't promise any conclusive answers, you'll get an interesting and thoughtful look at topics from a variety of perspectives. This feed is also home to Steven and Ryan's other work, including The Single Wing, where Godfrey answers listener questions, We're Not All Like This, Ryan's interview series profiling different sports fanbases, and more. Find out more at https://ww ...
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Upstaging Podcast

Upstaging Podcast

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We're Jeremy, Adrian and Drew, three drama majors from UNC-Greensboro. Every week, we're going to discuss a different play or musical, analyze it and pick it apart. Email us at [email protected] with any suggestions you'd like to hear. Follow us on Twitter @UpstagingCast, or on Instagram @Upstaging.
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Jordan, Jesse, GO!

MaximumFun.org

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What is the dumbest show you can imagine? This award-winning show may be dumber. It has no content. No format. Yet it's going on ten years of delighting hundreds of thousands of people. It's been an iTunes editors choice, and Rolling Stone picked it as one of the world's best comedy podcasts. It's light in the dark, comfort in the cold and a penguin in the pants (long story). Join hosts Jesse Thorn (NPR's Bullseye) and Jordan Morris (Comedy Central's @Midnight) and a celebrity guest on a rau ...
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Navy by Nature

Navy by Nature

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The Official Podcast of Pro UNC Alternate Uniform Enthusiasts and Critics of the Bachelor/Bachelorette Okay, so we're just two guys that like to watch and talk about UNC sports and Bachelor/ette. The problem is that Julian is in grad school at FSU, and Gray works in Raleigh. So we're using this podcast to surmounting the geographic chasm so we can continue to talk about the stuff we like to talk about, and apparently (as a pleasant side-effect) bring you entertaining commentary. iTunes link: ...
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Weekend at EFFY's

EFFY + Petár

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EFFY, from wrestling and the internet, goes over his weekend with trusted spiritual guide Peter. Mostly because it can't stay in my head and we were going to talk about it anyway. Enjoy!
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Chancellor Lee Roberts has been on the job at the University of North Carolina for nearly two years and in that time, the landscape of college athletics has changed dramatically. Inside Carolina’s Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley discuss the past two years of Roberts’s tenure, the decisions made and the decisions ahead. This show is brought to you by I…
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TONIGHT. This ain’t the end of Season 2… this is the final show of the YEAR. Conversations With Big Unc “UNCUT” goes live tonight, and Big Unc is closing this year out with a bang. Same way we came in real, raw, and uncut. No filters. No holding back. Before you start making all them New Year’s resolutions… before you start talking about what you a…
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In today’s news: Orange County reports a positive rabies test in Hurdle Mills, and UNC women’s basketball gets a big win at Boston College. Also: U.S. House Rep. Valerie Foushee weighs in on the impact of federal research funding cuts; Planet Fitness moves out of University Place mall; a state auditor’s report dings the North Carolina Education Lot…
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In High School Students Unite! Teen Activism, Education Reform, and FBI Surveillance in Postwar America (UNC Press, 2025), Aaron G. Fountain Jr. highlights the crucial impact of high school activists in the 1960s and 1970s. Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well document…
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In this edition of the podcast, Josh & Anthony talk about the latest regarding the future of the Smith Center, as Carolina continues its search to find the best solution for a state-of-the-art basketball facility, & they discuss what the home-and-home series with Georgia means for the non-conference schedule next year See omnystudio.com/listener fo…
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In this edition of the podcast, Josh & Anthony recap the win over Florida State, as they try to process another sensational performance from Caleb Wilson, who made UNC history in they win, they praise another stellar defensive performance, & debate if it's time for Jonathan Powell to start over Luka Bogavac See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy i…
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Tonya Council of Tonya’s Cookies and Cafe is bringing back a Mama Dip’s tradition with a New Years Day Feast, which will be available January 1, New Year’s Day, at the Cafe on S. Elliot Road in Chapel Hill and also available for takeout and pre-order. Tonya spoke with 97.9 The Hill News Director Brighton McConnell about bringing this tradition back…
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For players in the US and Canada, the road to the NHL used to be divided into two primary paths: play in the Canadian Hockey League or for an NCAA men's hockey team. But thanks to recent rule changes, CHL players can now jump to college hockey. Ryan Nanni walks Steven Godfrey through what that means for both groups, the impact on college rosters, t…
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Dejan Djokić's book A Concise History of Serbia (Cambridge UP, 2023) covers the full span of Serbia's history – from the sixth-century Slav migrations through until the present day – in an effort to understand the country’s position at the crossroads of east and west. The book traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities ass…
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What is political independence? As a political act, what was it sanctioned to accomplish? Is formal colonialism over, or a condition in the present, albeit mutated and evolved? In Critique of Political Decolonization (Oxford UP, 2023), Bernard Forjwuor challenges what, in normative scholarship, has become a persistent conflation of two different co…
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The Metaphysics of Race seeks to reframe debates on the conflicting scientific and spiritual traditions that underpinned the Nazi worldview, showing how despite the multitude of tensions and rivals among its adherents, it provided a coherent conceptual grid and possessed its own philosophical consistency. Drawing on a large variety of works, the vo…
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To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions through a process of conflict and accommodation. Why Congress (Oxford University Press, 2023) demonstrates the value of this activity by showing the legislature's distinctive contributions in two crucial…
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Dejan Djokić's book A Concise History of Serbia (Cambridge UP, 2023) covers the full span of Serbia's history – from the sixth-century Slav migrations through until the present day – in an effort to understand the country’s position at the crossroads of east and west. The book traces key developments surrounding the medieval and modern polities ass…
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Why is religion today so often associated with giving and taking offense? To answer this question, Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India (U Chicago Press, 2023) invites us to consider how colonial infrastructures shaped our globalized world. Through the origin and afterlives of a 1927 British imperial law (Sect…
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Past human space missions were protected by Earth’s magnetic field and a measure of luck, but future missions beyond the Earth–Moon system will face far greater and longer-lasting radiation risks that cannot be managed by route planning alone. The authors argue that safe deep-space exploration will require major advances in understanding radiation,…
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In 1966 Stanley Kubrick told a friend that he wanted to make “the world’s scariest movie.” A decade later Stephen King’s The Shining landed on the director’s desk, and a visual masterpiece was born. J. W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich's book Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (Taschen, 2023) is the definitive compendium of the film that transformed the horror…
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Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and they impact everything from how we shop to how we travel to how the global economy is managed. But few people likely give them more than a second thought. In a way, the barcode's ordinariness is the ultimate symbol of its success. However, behind the munda…
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Many women wrote philosophy in nineteenth-century Britain, and they wrote across the full range of philosophical topics. Yet these important women thinkers have been left out of the philosophical canon and many of them are barely known today. The aim of Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Oxford UP, 2023) is to put them back on the ma…
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Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
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From whiskey in the American Revolution to Spam in WWII, food reveals a great deal about the society in which it exists. Selecting 15 foods that represent key moments in the history of the United States, this book takes readers from before European colonization to the present, narrating major turning points along the way, with food as a guide. US H…
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With North Carolina's offense struggling and visiting Florida State muddying up the game, Caleb Wilson took over on both ends of the floor, pushing the Heels to a lead they would not relinquish. Wilson's 22 points and 16 rebounds led the way with Kyan Evans dropping 15 on five threes in the 79-66 win. Inside Carolina's Rob Harrington joins Tommy As…
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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life (Reaktion, 2023) recreates medieval people’s experience of time: as continuous and discontinuous, linear and cyclical, embracing Creation and Judgement, shrinking to ‘atoms’ or ‘droplets’ and extending to the silent spaces of eternity. They might measure time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and suns…
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Carolina’s ACC season begins with a Florida State team very different from what the Seminoles have been in years past. Inside Carolina’s Greg Barnes and Tommy Ashley preview the matchup and dig into what makes this FSU team so different, both on the court and on the sidelines. This show is brought to you by Inside Carolina, the No. 1 site for UNCsp…
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Trending today: an unnatural battle between wolves, deer, sea otters, and polluting humans on the ironically-named Pleasant Island in Alaska. (Also, Aaron is impressed by sea otters for the first time ever, and Victor tries to ruin your day.) Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning w…
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Carolina wrapped up non-conference play just before the holiday break (8:10) and begins ACC play against Florida State in the Smith Center (21:54) Journalist/author Larry Keith joins (31:56) Plus: Postcard wall (1:19:39), Biltmore Christmas is BACK (1:23:30) and questionable CFB scheduling (1:31:38) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy a…
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Menstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual's period as useless, and some doctors still believe it's unsafe for a menstruating person to swim in the ocean wearing a tampon. Period: The Real Story of Menstruation (Princ…
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Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar. Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witch…
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What went wrong with Burma’s democratic experiment? How are we to understand the country’s turbulent politics in the wake of the 2021 coup? In this conversation with Duncan McCargo, Amitav Acharya talks about his new book on Burma, which draws extensively on communications with young activists he refers to as “thought warriors”. He also discusses t…
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Witchfinder General, Salem, Malleus Maleficarum. The world of witch-hunts and witch trials sounds archaic and fanciful, these terms relics of an unenlightened, brutal age. However, we often hear ‘witch-hunt’ in today’s media, and the misogyny that shaped witch trials is all too familiar. Three women were prosecuted under a version of the 1735 Witch…
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Scott A. Mitchell is the Dean of Students and Faculty Affairs and holds the Yoshitaka Tamai Professorial Chair at the Institute of Buddhist Studies in Berkeley. He teaches and writes about Buddhism in the West, Pure Land Buddhism, and Buddhist modernism. As of 2010, there were approximately 3-4 million Buddhists in the United States, and that figur…
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The Frankfurt School’s own legacy is best preserved by exercising an immanent critique of its premises and the conclusions to which they often led. By distinguishing between what is still and what is no longer alive in Critical Theory, Immanent Critiques: The Frankfurt School Under Pressure (Verso, 2023) seeks to demonstrate its continuing relevanc…
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Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials. The dispensation of justice during communist rule in Albania, East Germany, and Poland was reliant on legal propaganda, making the visual a fundamental part of the legitimacy of the law. Anal…
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Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that remains relevant to our own anxieties and yearnings, to all the contradic…
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In his influential Anti-Semite and Jew, French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre observed "If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him." In doing so he articulated the figure of an Antisemite responsible for imagining the Jew in a formulation that has lasted for decades. This figure became an indispensable trope in the period immediately …
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Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism. Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African (Oxford University Press, 2023) by Dr. …
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In his new book B-Sides: A Flipsided History of Pop (Headpress, 2023), Andy Cowan explores a century of music b-sides. Pop music would be a different beast without the B-Side. Music history is riven with songs deemed throwaway that revolted against their lowly status and refused to be denied. Be it rock'n'roll's national anthem ('Rock Around The Cl…
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In this edition of the podcast, Josh recaps the latest Hubert Davis press conference, as the head coach talked about areas the team can improve in ACC play, what he thinks about the play of Kyan Evans, while previewing the matchup with the Seminoles tomorrow in Chapel Hill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.…
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We are joined by Eddie Averill AKA @Realhoopermovie to discuss Sports, Movies, and Sports Movies! We talk about his experience as the admin of the legendary @nbafilmtweets account, why basketball players make good film critics, and how athletes are the new movie stars. Then we talk about Marty Supreme (SPOILERS START AT ROUGHLY: 23:28 UNTIL ROUGHLY…
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Because Steven Godfrey and Ryan Nanni are fools, they believed the coaching carousel for 2025 to be largely complete. Then Sherrone Moore was fired for cause and arrested, and the Wolverines spent about two weeks rumoredly attached to several candidates before hiring Kyle Whittingham. With the dust settled (for now), we sat down to discuss how Utah…
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Inside Carolina's senior reporter joins Greg Barnes joins Tommy Ashley to look into the conference slate ahead and how a very different ACC awaits the Tar Heels in Hubert Davis's fifth season. Barnes details the strength of the league - especially after a disastrous 2024-25 for its members. UNC opens with Florida State on Tuesday night in the Smith…
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Trending today: a survey finding that almost half of American adults use their smartphones in bed, even though we all know that’s not great for sleep. (Also, Victor doles out advice to all the women he’s ever met – plus one guy.) Want to know what folks are talking about on social media? Every weekday on 97.9 The Hill’s “This Morning with Aaron Kec…
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Aaron welcomes Dr. Ryan Schulteis of Carolina Longevity, a new clinic on Governors Drive with an innovative approach to long-term health and wellness. Conversation presented by Carolina Longevity. Visit CarolinaLongevity.com to learn more. 97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Car…
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In today’s news: a Chapel Hill home catches fire twice over Christmas weekend, and CommunityWorx is ending operations at its decades-old thrift shop. (The store itself will stay open, though, run by a different nonprofit.) Also: Carrboro chooses a new poet laureate; UNC women’s basketball preps for Boston College; and we look back at some of the to…
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John Boorman's Point Blank (1967) has long been recognized as one of the seminal films of the sixties, with its revisionary mix of genres including neo-noir, New Wave, and spaghetti western. Its lasting influence can be traced throughout the decades in films like Mean Streets (1973), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Heat (1995), The Limey (1999) and Memento …
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How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style but because they appear to embody national values of continuity and in…
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Breakfast Cereal: A Global History (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Kathryn Dolan presents the long, distinguished and surprising history of breakfast cereal. Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history – around 10,000 years ago, wit…
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A concise overview of fertility technology—its history, practical applications, and ethical and social implications around the world. In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman’s uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forwar…
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Jeremy Black's book A History of Artillery (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023) traces the development of artillery through the ages, providing a thorough study of these weapons. From its earliest recorded use in battle over a millennium ago, up to the recent Gulf War, Balkan, and Afghanistan conflicts, artillery has often been the deciding factor in battl…
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