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Most people know that you can cash in your life insurance policy, if it has any cash value that is. But have you ever thought about selling your life insurance policy? Did you even know that you could sell your life insurance policy. Our next guest says it could make sense to do that instead of cashing it in, if you don’t need it anymore. Mike Switzer interviews Ashton Lawrence, a certified financial planner with Goldfinch Wealth Management in Greenville, SC.

When we were down at Daniel Island earlier this year to cover the Credit One Charleston Open women’s professional tennis tournament, we were intrigued by an ice cream cart we saw that was selling what appeared to be fried chicken. Of course, it was actually ice cream but in the shape of pieces of fried chicken. Upon further investigation we discovered that the owner of this business is a six-time James Beard Foundation Award semifinalist for Outstanding Pastry Chef and now she’s an entrepreneur. Mike Switzer interviews Cynthia Wong, founder of Life Raft Treats in Charleston, SC.

Pizzicato is the Italian word for “plucked.” Why is pizzicato never translated? Beats me. Maybe just because pizzicato is a delightful-sounding word. It certainly sounds better than “plucked.”

“B” is for Barrett, James Lee (1929-1989). Screenwriter.

June 25, 2022 — Reaction from prominent South Carolina lawmakers to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down Roe v. Wade; the latest on the bipartisan gun violence recently passed by Congress; reporting on the Palmetto State's new medical ethics law; and more.

We often hear about carbon sequestration as an effort to combat climate change and our next guest says it’s important for our state to participate in these rapidly emerging carbon markets, such as paying landowners for carbon sequestered by their trees. Mike Switzer interviews Mac Rhodes, managing member of Essex Farms in Charleston, SC.

We musicians have all known people we’ve found to be thoroughly unpleasant, even cruel, or thoroughly insipid and boring, who walk on stage and play or sing beautifully, movingly. How is this possible?

A listener finds some bones washed up on Sullvan's Island...

Counterpoint, also called polyphony, is the art, in musical composition, of combining two or more simultaneous lines of music.

Performers and performances come and go, but what lasts is the music.