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By now, we’ve all heard about and many of us have experienced the problems caused by supply chain issues. Our next guest says this is also causing marketing headaches for the business community. Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Bob Riggle, a marketing professor at The Citadel in Charleston, SC.

Each year, Inc magazine ranks 5,000 companies in the US according to percentage revenue growth over a 3 year period. And each year, many companies in our state make the list of these fastest growing enterprises. Our next guest’s company made the list with an average annual growth rate of 158% due to the demand for their diesel engine diagnostic software. Mike Switzer interviews Tyler Robertson, CEO of Diesel Laptops in Irmo, SC.

In his new book, Liberty is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (2021, Simon and Schuster), Dr. Woody Holton gives a sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans—women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters.Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Holton explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers.Woody Holton joins Walter Edgar to talk about this “hidden history.”

Pantherophis alleghaniensis is found in the United States east of the Apalachicola River in Florida, east of the Chattahoochee River in Georgia, east of the Appalachian Mountains, north to southeastern New York and western Vermont, eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, south to the Florida Keys.Additional common names for the eastern rat snake include black rat snake, pilot snake, pilot black snake, chicken snake; and in Florida, yellow rat snake and Everglades rat snake.

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for November 13, 2021, we look back on the life of Hugh Leatherman, the powerful state senator from Florence, who passed away this week.

Percussion instruments, whether alone or in combination, have always been very useful ingredients for adding flavor and color to orchestral compositions.

When it comes to Spanish composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the three most important names are certainly Isaac Albeniz, Enrique Granados, and Manuel de Falla – all composers who brilliantly integrated Spanish folk influences into the Western classical tradition.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C.

Many financial planners and portfolio managers will sometimes recommend that their clients keep a portion of their portfolios in something known as alternative investments. These can be liquid or illiquid assets so our next guest says you should be aware of the differences. Mike Switzer interviews Chris Cabri, a certified financial planner with Wells Fargo Advisors in Greenwood, SC.

We’ve discussed many times on this program the fruitful partnerships that exist between our state’s research universities and industry. And we’ve just become aware of a global membership organization comprising top-tier innovation companies and world-class universities--that also happens to be based in our capital city. Mike Switzer interviews Jennifer Carinci, executive director of the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance which is an initiative funded by the National Science Foundation Engineering Directorate and administered by the University Industry Demonstration Partnership in Columbia, SC.