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Citheronia regalis, the regal moth or royal walnut moth, is a North American moth in the family Saturniidae. The caterpillars are called hickory horned devils.

Eumorpha fasciatus, the banded sphinx, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. The species was first described by Johann Heinrich Sulzer in 1776.

Our next guest is a University of South Carolina computer engineering graduate who became a serial entrepreneur with three successful startups and exits. His fourth recently received funding from our state’s VentureSouth angel fund for a car wash business that has begun operations in five states, including this year in ours.Mike Switzer interviews Scot Wingo, CEO and co-founder of Spiffy in Durham, NC.

We keep hearing about inflation and a subsequent rise in interest rates but so far only one has happened. Economists don’t seem worried about either. How about one of our friendly stock market prognosticators?Mike Switzer interviews Wes Johnson, a certified financial planner with ACT Advisors in Charleston, SC.

Over the past several years, many of South Carolina’s local governments have stepped up their efforts to bring in more economic activity. And now they may soon be receiving large sums of federal money to boost those efforts even further.Mike Switzer interviews David Benjamin Moye, a city councilperson in West Columbia, SC.

The U.S. Department of Labor recently awarded Apprenticeship Carolina, a division of the SC Technical College System, a $7.7 million grant to expand their programming and increase workforce diversity in our state. Our next guest is hoping this investment in our state’s workforce will help alleviate our current employment crisis that has been exacerbated by the pandemic.Mike Switzer interviews Dr. Amy Firestone from Apprenticeship Carolina at the SC Technical College System in Columbia, SC.

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Laura Carpenter about the prevalence, diagnosis and symptoms of autism in girls vs. boys. Dr. Carpenter is a Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at MUSC.

J.S. Bach composed his St. Matthew Passion in 1727. But for the better part of a century after that, the piece essentially disappeared, unknown to all but…

Gabriel Fauré is often referred to as one of the greatest French composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. But I wonder if that…

A listener shares a tale of a predator and its prey...