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This week Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Heather Boger about healthy aging and super-agers, who have the mental and or physical capability of people decades younger. Dr. Boger is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and she’s Education & Outreach Director of the Institute for Healthy Aging at MUSC.

Mable Owens Clarke is the sixth-generation steward and matriarch of Soapstone Baptist Church in the rural Pickens County community of Liberia. In 1999, a few days before she died at the age of 104, Mable’s mother, Lula Mae, made her daughter promise never to let the historically Black church close.Mabel, along with Carlton Owen, President of the Soapstone Preservation Endowment, join Walter Edgar this week to tell the remarkable story of how she set out to keep that promise through her monthly, fundraising fish fries held at the church - and how word of her delicious, traditional foods spread the word about Soapstone Church around the world.

For many South Carolinians, large medical expenses can change their lives completely. In fact, the Palmetto State currently has one of the highest levels of uninsured of any state. On this episode of InDebted, we look at medical debt in South Carolina and the very high cost of falling ill.

April 5, 2023 — A special conversation on how the first year of the legislative session is looking, what the major spending priorities are, and which bills have the best shot of making it to the governor’s desk before session ends on May 11. Jeffrey Collins with the Associated Press and Joe Bustos with The State newspaper join host Gavin Jackson to discuss the latest.

Art galleries, art education, public art, art crawl, art competition with a $50,000 first prize, in other words - art madness. Certainly sounds like a big city event, yet a small town in our state has been doing this type of art festival for a decade now. Mike Switzer interviews Carla Angus, director of community engagement for the 11th annual edition of Artfields in Lake City, SC, coming April 19-29, 2023.

In 1950 a musicologist named Wolfgang Schmieder published an enormous catalogue of J.S. Bach’s works, but Schmieder organized it by category, that is, by type of composition, not by date of composition. The catalogue is known in German as the Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis, or BWV, and that’s why you often see Bach’s works listed in programs with their BWV numbers.

The recent news regarding some regional bank failures has definitely added to the economic confusion that so far has dominated financial news in 2023. Is there any reason to believe that the skies will clear before this year moves too much further along. Mike Switzer interviews Joey Von Nessen, chief economist at the Darla Moore School of Business at USC in Columbia, SC.

Mike Switzer interviews John Warner, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Innoventure in Greenville, S.C. John talks about April being designated as Innovation Month in our state and what the state’s challenges are in this area and what is being celebrated.

The Luna moth (Actias luna) also known as the American moon moth is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly known as giant silk moths.

The eastern garter snake (Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis) is a medium-sized snake indigenous to North America.