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Anybody who’s been around the music business for any length of time has met performers who are – how can I put this gently – legends in their own minds.

Hemp farms have been legal and prosperous around the world long before our state decided to loosen restrictions and join the market a couple years ago. Our next guest decided to tap into that worldly knowledge and partner with a Swiss company to accelerate their opportunities in hemp. Mike Switzer interviews Harold Singletary, CEO of BrightMa Farms in Charleston, SC.

When you are thinking about investing some money into the financial markets, are you thinking about the potential reward? Or maybe the amount of risk involved? Those are certainly things to think about. But our next guest says you should start with the purpose and time frame of your investment. Mike Switzer interviews David Turner, a certified financial planner in Greenville, SC.

In a lifetime of performing and teaching, I’ve never once witnessed an argument that had anything to do with where somebody was from, nor, for that matter, have I ever heard, among the musicians I’ve known, a single word of nationalist or racist invective.

So where does the word "fiddle" come from?

I came across a collection of the letters of Arturo Toscanini recently, and in the introduction the editor writes, “A whole psychology textbook could be written about Toscanini and anger.” Well all I can say is that if there had been such a book, Toscanini should have read it.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Don Rockey about alcoholic liver disease. Dr. Rockey is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist and Director of the Digestive Disease Research Center at MUSC.

During the twenties, thirties and through the forties tons of asparagus vegetables were shipped to northern markets.

My husband’s mother, born in 1901, said that when she was young and sat down at the dinner table with her numerous brothers, sisters, maiden aunts, parents and guests, the children often gave out a collective groan when the cooks appeared with platters of asparagus. “Oh, Momma, asparagus again!”

Picking asparagus is stoop labor; the spear is cut right at the soil surface with a sharp knife. A deceased older friend said he preferred picking cotton to harvesting asparagus.