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Have you ever wondered why pianists need page turners? They’re not, after all, the only ones who use both hands to play their instruments.

So here’s the famous riddle: Which came first, the chicken... or the violin? Or the piano? Or the valved horn? By the mid-to-late-1500s the members of the…

A couple of years ago, I interviewed someone from our next guest’s organization about a free software coding education platform for adult residents of our state. That program is still up and running and they have now started a first-of-its-kind software development fellowship program in their continuing effort to find solutions to the tech workforce gap here in South Carolina. Mike Switzer interviews Katie Miller, program director at SC Codes in Greenville, SC. New program: www.developcarolina.org

Ever since the pandemic started we’ve been hearing about supply chain issues, most famously beginning with the toilet paper shortage. While we have been back in the saddle again (so to speak) as far as toilet paper goes, there are still problems, most notably with microchips. Our next guest says that the situation is less of a ‘supply chain’ problem and more of a ‘supply web’, or ‘network’ problem. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Hee Yoon Kwon, assistant professor of Supply Chain Management at The Citadel in Charleston, SC.

If there’s one thing our next guest says companies should have learned as a result of the pandemic, it’s the importance of making an emotional connection with their customers. Ad, he says, it’s not too late. Mike Switzer interviews Kyle Duford, agency director at The Brand Leader in Greenville, SC.

Exidia recisa (common name willow brain or amber jelly roll) is a jelly fungus in the family Auriculariaceae. It is a common, wood-rotting species throughout the northern hemisphere, typically growing on dead attached twigs and branches of willow and other broadleaf trees.

A listener made an unusual sighting...

The southern house spider is a species of large spider in the family Filistatidae. Currently given the scientific name Kukulcania hibernalis, it was formerly known as Filistata hibernalis. Found in the Americas, it exhibits strong sexual dimorphism. It is occurs in the southern states of the USA, throughout Central America and some of the Caribbean, to southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. Today, John highlights two groups who are striving to make changes to our state's education system.

Earthquakes are not unusual in South Carolina. However, the number of quakes in recent months is unusual .