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After founding, operating, and exiting several small businesses throughout his life, our next guest launched his current enterprise: elevated dog beds. Why? Let’s find out. Mike Switzer interviews David Prince, founder of Truman and Teddy in Greenville, SC.

“L” is for Lexington (Lexington County; 2020 population 23,554).

Have you by any chance been hanging on to your grandparents’ old 78 rpm records? Carting them around, perhaps, and storing them on shelves or in boxes whenever you’ve moved from place to place?

Diogmites neoternatus, commonly known as the hanging thief robber fly, use their front legs to hang from plants in order to catch prey with the other four legs.

If you’ve seen the movie Amadeus, or the play it was based on, you may have gotten the impression that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was some sort of giggling idiot who just happened to be really good at writing music. Nothing, in fact, could be further from the truth.

Rudy Mancke helps to identify a mystery skeleton sent to him by Jim Welch, his former co-host on SCETV's "NatureScene."

For two years in a row now, our next guest’s university has been named as the best in the country for veterans by the Military Times. And they weren’t even on the radar three years ago. Mike Switzer interviews Jared Evans, executive director for Veterans and Military Affairs at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC.

“M” is for McCollough, John DeWitt (1822-1902). Minister, architect.

The Small Business Act, signed into law by President Eisenhower in 1953, created a new government agency whose mission was to promote the interests of small businesses in order to enhance competition in the marketplace. Seventy years later, the institution continues to be a valuable resource for our nation’s small business community. Mike Switzer interviews Gregg White, the SBA’s district director for South Carolina.

Rudy Mancke helps a listener identify a caterpillar that is preparing to pupate.