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Our state has many resources for small businesses these days. 21 of those happen to be the Small Business Development Centers that are located across South Carolina. One of which recently won the SBDC Excellence and Innovation Center Award for 2022 from the US Small Business Administration. Mike Switzer interviews Ben Smith, Region Director for the Clemson Area Small Business Development Center at Clemson University.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about the new Verizon Innovation Experience Hub coming to the McNair Center at USC in Columbia.

The Medical University of South Carolina recently made a move to strengthen their research commercialization efforts for new healthcare-related products and services. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Mike Yost, CEO of the newly-formed Zucker Institute for Innovation Commercialization in Charleston, SC.

Anglepod milkvine, also called anglepod, anglepod milkweed or angular-fruit milkvine, occurs throughout the southeastern U.S. from Texas to southeastern Kansas to southern Illinois and Indiana to Maryland and southward.

This plant's unusual leaves, similar in texture and appearance to yucca, are thick and stringy and deer and rabbits tend to avoid it – remember nothing is absolutely deer proof, but you certainly couldn’t go wrong trying it in your pollinator garden.

Many people get most excited about butterflies on their pollinator plants, but Eryngium yuccafolium, flowering late summer, perhaps attracts a larger diversity of visitors than almost any other insect magnet. According to the Xerces society website --bumble bees, yellow-faced bees, sweet bees, multiple beetles and dozens of fly species.

The world’s most famous Halloween movies are still going. The last two were HALLOWEEN 2018, HALLOWEEN KILLS, and the current one is HALLOWEEN ENDS. But is it really, finally ending? Maybe we should ask the film’s star. Mike Switzer interviews James Jude Courtney, a graduate of the College of Journalism at the University of South Carolina and a current resident of Columbia, that is when he’s not working in Hollywood as the infamous Michael Myers.

The world’s most famous Halloween movies are still going. The last two were HALLOWEEN 2018, HALLOWEEN KILLS, and the current one is HALLOWEEN ENDS. But is it really, finally ending? Maybe we should ask the film’s star. Mike Switzer interviews James Jude Courtney, a graduate of the College of Journalism at the University of South Carolina and a current resident of Columbia, that is when he’s not working in Hollywood as the infamous Michael Myers.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John tells us about Dash EV, an electric vehicle company that is moving its headquarters to Greenville, SC and about the big money coming soon to SC to support EV production at BMW’s plant in Greer, SC. Resources: Greenville Area Development Corp and BMW plans to invest $1.7 billion in U.S. to produce electric vehicles and McMaster executive order involving EVs.

Earlier this year, the US Small Business Administration named our next guest as the South Carolina Small Business Person of the Year for 2022. Mike Switzer interviews Ann Son, owner of Holy City Linen Service in North Charleston, SC.