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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is iHeartRadio's CEOs. You should know, and we'd like
to welcome to the iHeart studios. Now Molly Fortune, the
CEO of SC two fifty, and good.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Morning, Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm excited to learn about this. I've already learned a
new word just looking up a little bit about you
as a kid. I grew up in the seventies living
through the bi centennial. But now I guess we're all
going through the sester centennial.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So a lot of people say semi ses centennial and
some people say sester centennial. Both of them are absolutely
horrid to spell.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is it just the same way of saying two to fifty?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I guess? So?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right, right, And so SC two to fifty. This
has to do with America, correct, and the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary that we're going.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To be celebrating of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
the Great American Experiment.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So now SC two fifty, what is that?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It is the South Carolina Commission, statutorily set up by
the legislature to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries
of the Southern campaigns. Each state has a commission of
their own. So some are North Carolina to fifty, or
Massachusetts two fifty, or Pennsylvania two fifty, even Nevada to fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well how did Nevada get in on that?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, you know, it's across the country. It's actually all
fifty states and all the territories.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So even were involved that weren't here two hundred and
fifty years ago. Well, they were here, they weren't with us.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
They weren't yeah, with the team. They weren't with Team thirteen.
I guess you could say that's a new phrase, but
they were not with Team thirteen. But you know, because
of what we did, and you've got the player's characters,
Jefferson who decides, you know, hey, let's purchase Louisiana, those
things start to happen. But I will tell you a
lot of people don't know that the Spanish were involved,
(01:54):
and they had New Orleans and they had part of Florida.
So there are these characters we have forgotten about. So
it's been rather interesting to figure out what how each
state is going to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So you're basically in charge as the CEO of SC
two to fifty trying to help the state of South
Carolina figure out how to celebrate this two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, fantastic, And I will say, not to be rude,
we're really calling in a commemoration. Okay, some folks, it's
not a celebration if you're in our African American community
or if you're in our Native American community. Even the
women who were not remembered as Abigail Adams tried to
get her husband to say, remember the ladies. It's a
commemoration of an event that really changed the world. Okay,
(02:40):
biggest baddest breakup letter ever in the history of the world,
and no one knew exactly what was going to happen
after that. Yeah, but we're commemorating that because if we
wouldn't be sitting here today, we wouldn't have our former government,
we wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So this is quite a big job that
you have.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It is a huge job. And I'm not from South Carolina,
so it's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, you're nearby, You're what from Georgia.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, So I usually introduced myself and say I'm the
CEO of SC two fifty and I am from the
Penal Colony to the west the colony. So I grew
up in Georgia. I grew up in the Great State
of Atlanta. I grew up right down town, and you know,
we had our year of Georgia history, and I didn't
know what this lord proprietor stuff. I thought every colony
(03:27):
was a bunch of penal people. Okay, I had no idea.
So and I also thought the state flag was a
homage to Hilton Head. It has it has a tree
and a moon for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I could see the Hilton you can say, can you
see it? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, so for those of us in the Penal Colony,
we obviously our education system was a little short that
we didn't know what was going on in South Carolina.
So to move here, it has been so much fun
to learn the history. And if I can get excited,
and my kids can get excited, and my husband can
get excited, we have an amazing story to tell.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, and your husband was I think a lieutenant colonel. Yeah,
so he's retired now.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He is retired now. Yeah, he went to some real
winners of a place too, So is.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That what brought you here? Was the military?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, believe it or not. I was at the Fox
Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. My background is historic preservation using architecture,
and you tell stories through buildings and you revitalism revitalize
them for downtowns. And I was lucky enough to be
the only director of restoration and operations in the country
for a major historic theater. Fox Theater was five thousand seats,
(04:36):
second largest in the country, okay, And we started a
program called the Fox Theater Institute, which was outreached. So
Georgia has one hundred and fifty seven counties and most
of them have a historic theater. So it was taking
those theaters, taking those buildings, in those stories, and turning
it into stories that would make people want to come
and visit and drop their money. So when my husband
came home from Afghanistan, both said we had two small children.
(05:03):
Both children were born while he was gone. He was
here for the event, but not yeah, okay, yeah, so
he anticipated, we don't need to get into the biology.
But we both took a step back and said, you know,
let's focus on the kids. And I got a call
from a colleague here in South Carolina that says I'm retiring,
Can you take my job? And I said no, and
I said no three times, and finally my husband said,
(05:24):
get in the car, We're going to Newberry. And we
fell in love with it and we bought a house
and I became the director at the Newberry Opera House,
which was doing the same thing, using the premiere performing
arts venue in the state of South Carolina in a
small town. But again, you know, people say, well, how
did you jump from the entertainment world or the preservation world.
This is the same thing. Yeah, these stories are who
(05:46):
make us who we are today. They make who the
state of South Carolina is.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's great to see people get excited about history. And
that's the key, right If you can get excited about
the stories, then you're going to learn the stories, and
then you're going to have a better grasp about why
we're where we're at.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you know, a lot of people think history is dead,
and that's not the case. It really isn't. History is
the current event of today. The things that we are
working on in our own country, the things that we're
working on on our own city level, or even in
our own homes, believe it or not, have a route
somewhere else. Sure, and it's we're not that different. It's
just the communication style has changed a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now we do it on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Right, nothing like a good old fashioned let me find
a feather to send you a note that I'm not
real sure we'll even get to you, but good luck.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, that was a lot different back in those days.
So here in South Carolina, this is all going to
take place now? Is this like a year long event
that we're looking for?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That is a really great question, and that's something that
we get asked a lot. There are some states that
are going to do it and have a really big
whizbang July fourth, twenty twenty six. Okay, South Carolina has
made the decision to We started in seventeen seventy, so
that's our first date. And that's what the Boston massacre
because so many things start to happen in South Carolina.
(07:05):
People are paying attention and they're going, are we really in.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
For that tax?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So ooh, the British are getting a little stronghold. We
go all the way to seventeen eighty three, so that
takes us to twenty twenty six. So we have the
signing of the Declaration of Independence July fourth, twenty twenty six. Well,
guess what the week before that, down at a little
four that wasn't even fully built, with the tree that's
(07:30):
on our flag, that palmettow, we beat the British navy
for the first time in two hundred years. Yeah, where
did that go in history? And then we send them
away while they kind of leave for a little while,
and that's when our own civil war starts to happen.
That's what's so different about South Carolina compared to some
of our other Northern thirteen colonies. I didn't like your
(07:51):
potato salad that you served at church, so now I'm
going to use the fact that I think you're a
loyalist against you. And these things start to brew. And
then when things in the north become a stalemate, the
British are positive that South Carolina is all theirs, that
everybody here is going to love them, and they come
(08:12):
back down and they find out, hmm, things aren't quite
what they seem. So for us, you know a lot
of people think, oh, it's over very soon. No, it
actually goes for a very long time. And we got
to tell all those stories because it goes right up
to seventeen eighty two when we kick them out, believe
it or not, from the corner of Marion Square that
still exists today in Charleston, that you have stood there
(08:34):
to try to cross that street and not get hit
by bus. That was where they all left from. And
we got to tell those stories. I mean, Newberry's got
great stories, Sumpter's got great stories, but it goes all
the way up to the Treaty of Paris.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So I'm sitting here as a South Carolina resident and
I want to be a part of this. What do
I do? How do I plug in? How do I
find out how to participate?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We Our website is great SC two fifty dot com
or you can spell it out if you really want
to just sit there and type South Carolina two five
zero dot com. And we have a list of educational resources.
We're putting it back in the schools. And it's not
just K through twelve, it's K through dead. As I say,
we be through Dead'd be like that heard that K
through gray and I'm like, it's K through dead. Well,
(09:18):
we have so many people moving into South Carolina, you know,
US Penal Colony people we've come over. We got to
educate everybody. You know, is there augmented reality that we
can do. So we've got lots of great resources on
our website with that. If you are a book nerd
and you need something to listen to, we've got a
great bibliography. If you have all of a sudden an
idea that's like, hey, why haven't we ever studied slave
(09:42):
manumissions in South Carolina? Folks that were enslaved that became
free because of this event. We have a grant program
for that. Wow, And we've already given over nine million
dollars to our counties alone for projects, parades, brave markers,
markers along the side of the road, anything and everything
(10:05):
that you can think of from Kather Dead we can do.
But our website's one of the greatest. South Carolina is
very different in how we set up our commission. We
went to the counties first, so we spent a good
two years traveling to every single county and getting a
resolution in every single county saying that they would support this.
So there is a local community in your county that
(10:28):
is working on this. You don't have to be a
historian you could be a science teacher that is just
fascinated with the fact that we found these fourteen gentlemen
on the Camden Battlefield. We did DNA testing, and we
reburied them. We've got a whole program related to that
that you can bring that to your science class. So
we are in everything and everywhere, and if we aren't,
(10:52):
and you've got a great idea, bring it to us,
We're happy to do it. We have to explore it.
But each county also has, like I was saying, committees
that you can get involved in. We're happy to come
and talk to your groups. We want you engaged where
you are. You don't necessarily have to come to our tent.
We want to engage you where you are.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wow. So the state of South Carolina is taking this
very serious and the very invested.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Our state legislator, they are amazing, amazing, amazing people. And
you know, I say to our communities all the time,
please write a handwritten note to your legislator thanking them
for funding us. We are public funded. That sometimes might
rub people wrong. You know, why would you talk about
these hard events with public funding? Because it's hard events
that we need to have. I'm happy to jump in
(11:39):
any alligator pit and have a hard, complex conversation because
it's our conversation.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, it's nothing's really ever so black and white.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No, And you know what, having that conversation, or having
any conversation is the beautiful part of that July fourth. Yeah, document,
it's not perfect. I'm not perfect, but you know, let's
sit down, let's break bread together, and let's talk about
it and educate me and I'll educate you. And we
(12:11):
are actually better people for that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I get the feeling you're going to do more educating
of me, the point of you. But Molly's fortune, you are,
You're a You're now a South Carolina treasure.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
We're so happy to have you in our state. And
as we get ready to celebrate our two hundred and
fifty or commemorate our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, people
should start now going to SC two to fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Go to SC two to fifty. You can plant flowers
in your yard, you can just put out your flag.
You can do whatever you want, whatever is your heart's desire,
or you don't have to participate at all. And I
love that too.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There's so many great stories to learn. I can't wait
to get on that website learn more of them.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh yeah, you just go with me. We were joking
earlier about moments with Molly. I spend so much time
on the back roads that I'm going to start stopping
with cow and talk to them about what I've learned.
Because I get home and I'm like, blah blah blah
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So both stay did for that? Are you still working
with the Newberry Opera House?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I am not working with them right now, but I
live in Newberry. I stayed and a crazy, crazy thing,
and so I still go to performances and things like that.
And they're still all my good friends by sure. And
I still, like I said, to live on Main Street
in Newberry. We didn't move. I could live anywhere in
the statement. Stayed so from the penal colony. My my
(13:31):
people are over mountain men from North Carolina. And I
finally said, Okay, if I'm in this job, I need
to I need to get my swizzle sticks together. So
I joined DAAR And by the way, one of the
largest African American DAR chapters is outside of Charlotte. A
lot of people don't realize that either.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I wouldn't have suspected that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Right, You never know. That's something you don't ever assume.
But I'm sitting there one night on my front porch,
my house is old wrap around port, sitting on Main
Street some prosecco, knee deep in some sort of rabbit
hole related to one of my patriots. And I found
out that my patriot actually walked from ninety six to
Winnsboro on Main Street, which was a colonial road.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I'm not even from here. So you never ever
know where your ancestors and where your history is going
to take you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You got some deep roots here you didn't even know
about them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You wan't that crazy fly?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right? Oh my guys, Well again, the CEO of SC
two fifty MILEI fortune. It's been a pleasure, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And thank you for listening to Iheartradios. CEOs you should
know
This is iHeartRadio's CEOs. You should know, and we'd like
to welcome to the iHeart studios. Now Molly Fortune, the
CEO of SC two fifty, and good.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Morning, Good morning, how are you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I'm excited to learn about this. I've already learned a
new word just looking up a little bit about you
as a kid. I grew up in the seventies living
through the bi centennial. But now I guess we're all
going through the sester centennial.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
So a lot of people say semi ses centennial and
some people say sester centennial. Both of them are absolutely
horrid to spell.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Is it just the same way of saying two to fifty?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
I guess? So?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
All right, right, And so SC two to fifty. This
has to do with America, correct, and the two hundred
and fiftieth anniversary that we're going.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
To be celebrating of the signing of the Declaration of Independence,
the Great American Experiment.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
So now SC two fifty, what is that?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
It is the South Carolina Commission, statutorily set up by
the legislature to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries
of the Southern campaigns. Each state has a commission of
their own. So some are North Carolina to fifty, or
Massachusetts two fifty, or Pennsylvania two fifty, even Nevada to fifty.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Well how did Nevada get in on that?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Well, you know, it's across the country. It's actually all
fifty states and all the territories.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
So even were involved that weren't here two hundred and
fifty years ago. Well, they were here, they weren't with us.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
They weren't yeah, with the team. They weren't with Team thirteen.
I guess you could say that's a new phrase, but
they were not with Team thirteen. But you know, because
of what we did, and you've got the player's characters,
Jefferson who decides, you know, hey, let's purchase Louisiana, those
things start to happen. But I will tell you a
lot of people don't know that the Spanish were involved,
(01:54):
and they had New Orleans and they had part of Florida.
So there are these characters we have forgotten about. So
it's been rather interesting to figure out what how each
state is going to commemorate the two hundred and fiftieth.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
So you're basically in charge as the CEO of SC
two to fifty trying to help the state of South
Carolina figure out how to celebrate this two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yes, fantastic, And I will say, not to be rude,
we're really calling in a commemoration. Okay, some folks, it's
not a celebration if you're in our African American community
or if you're in our Native American community. Even the
women who were not remembered as Abigail Adams tried to
get her husband to say, remember the ladies. It's a
commemoration of an event that really changed the world. Okay,
(02:40):
biggest baddest breakup letter ever in the history of the world,
and no one knew exactly what was going to happen
after that. Yeah, but we're commemorating that because if we
wouldn't be sitting here today, we wouldn't have our former government,
we wouldn't have any of this if it wasn't for that.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yeah. Yeah, So this is quite a big job that
you have.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It is a huge job. And I'm not from South Carolina,
so it's been awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Well, you're nearby, You're what from Georgia.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Right, So I usually introduced myself and say I'm the
CEO of SC two fifty and I am from the
Penal Colony to the west the colony. So I grew
up in Georgia. I grew up in the Great State
of Atlanta. I grew up right down town, and you know,
we had our year of Georgia history, and I didn't
know what this lord proprietor stuff. I thought every colony
(03:27):
was a bunch of penal people. Okay, I had no idea.
So and I also thought the state flag was a
homage to Hilton Head. It has it has a tree
and a moon for crying out loud.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
I could see the Hilton you can say, can you
see it? Well?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
You know, so for those of us in the Penal Colony,
we obviously our education system was a little short that
we didn't know what was going on in South Carolina.
So to move here, it has been so much fun
to learn the history. And if I can get excited,
and my kids can get excited, and my husband can
get excited, we have an amazing story to tell.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Well, and your husband was I think a lieutenant colonel. Yeah,
so he's retired now.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
He is retired now. Yeah, he went to some real
winners of a place too, So is.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
That what brought you here? Was the military?
Speaker 2 (04:14):
No, believe it or not. I was at the Fox
Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. My background is historic preservation using architecture,
and you tell stories through buildings and you revitalism revitalize
them for downtowns. And I was lucky enough to be
the only director of restoration and operations in the country
for a major historic theater. Fox Theater was five thousand seats,
(04:36):
second largest in the country, okay, And we started a
program called the Fox Theater Institute, which was outreached. So
Georgia has one hundred and fifty seven counties and most
of them have a historic theater. So it was taking
those theaters, taking those buildings, in those stories, and turning
it into stories that would make people want to come
and visit and drop their money. So when my husband
came home from Afghanistan, both said we had two small children.
(05:03):
Both children were born while he was gone. He was
here for the event, but not yeah, okay, yeah, so
he anticipated, we don't need to get into the biology.
But we both took a step back and said, you know,
let's focus on the kids. And I got a call
from a colleague here in South Carolina that says I'm retiring,
Can you take my job? And I said no, and
I said no three times, and finally my husband said,
(05:24):
get in the car, We're going to Newberry. And we
fell in love with it and we bought a house
and I became the director at the Newberry Opera House,
which was doing the same thing, using the premiere performing
arts venue in the state of South Carolina in a
small town. But again, you know, people say, well, how
did you jump from the entertainment world or the preservation world.
This is the same thing. Yeah, these stories are who
(05:46):
make us who we are today. They make who the
state of South Carolina is.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
It's great to see people get excited about history. And
that's the key, right If you can get excited about
the stories, then you're going to learn the stories, and
then you're going to have a better grasp about why
we're where we're at.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Well, you know, a lot of people think history is dead,
and that's not the case. It really isn't. History is
the current event of today. The things that we are
working on in our own country, the things that we're
working on on our own city level, or even in
our own homes, believe it or not, have a route
somewhere else. Sure, and it's we're not that different. It's
just the communication style has changed a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Now we do it on Instagram and TikTok.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Right, nothing like a good old fashioned let me find
a feather to send you a note that I'm not
real sure we'll even get to you, but good luck.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, that was a lot different back in those days.
So here in South Carolina, this is all going to
take place now? Is this like a year long event
that we're looking for?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
That is a really great question, and that's something that
we get asked a lot. There are some states that
are going to do it and have a really big
whizbang July fourth, twenty twenty six. Okay, South Carolina has
made the decision to We started in seventeen seventy, so
that's our first date. And that's what the Boston massacre
because so many things start to happen in South Carolina.
(07:05):
People are paying attention and they're going, are we really in.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
For that tax?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So ooh, the British are getting a little stronghold. We
go all the way to seventeen eighty three, so that
takes us to twenty twenty six. So we have the
signing of the Declaration of Independence July fourth, twenty twenty six. Well,
guess what the week before that, down at a little
four that wasn't even fully built, with the tree that's
(07:30):
on our flag, that palmettow, we beat the British navy
for the first time in two hundred years. Yeah, where
did that go in history? And then we send them
away while they kind of leave for a little while,
and that's when our own civil war starts to happen.
That's what's so different about South Carolina compared to some
of our other Northern thirteen colonies. I didn't like your
(07:51):
potato salad that you served at church, so now I'm
going to use the fact that I think you're a
loyalist against you. And these things start to brew. And
then when things in the north become a stalemate, the
British are positive that South Carolina is all theirs, that
everybody here is going to love them, and they come
(08:12):
back down and they find out, hmm, things aren't quite
what they seem. So for us, you know a lot
of people think, oh, it's over very soon. No, it
actually goes for a very long time. And we got
to tell all those stories because it goes right up
to seventeen eighty two when we kick them out, believe
it or not, from the corner of Marion Square that
still exists today in Charleston, that you have stood there
(08:34):
to try to cross that street and not get hit
by bus. That was where they all left from. And
we got to tell those stories. I mean, Newberry's got
great stories, Sumpter's got great stories, but it goes all
the way up to the Treaty of Paris.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
So I'm sitting here as a South Carolina resident and
I want to be a part of this. What do
I do? How do I plug in? How do I
find out how to participate?
Speaker 2 (08:57):
We Our website is great SC two fifty dot com
or you can spell it out if you really want
to just sit there and type South Carolina two five
zero dot com. And we have a list of educational resources.
We're putting it back in the schools. And it's not
just K through twelve, it's K through dead. As I say,
we be through Dead'd be like that heard that K
through gray and I'm like, it's K through dead. Well,
(09:18):
we have so many people moving into South Carolina, you know,
US Penal Colony people we've come over. We got to
educate everybody. You know, is there augmented reality that we
can do. So we've got lots of great resources on
our website with that. If you are a book nerd
and you need something to listen to, we've got a
great bibliography. If you have all of a sudden an
idea that's like, hey, why haven't we ever studied slave
(09:42):
manumissions in South Carolina? Folks that were enslaved that became
free because of this event. We have a grant program
for that. Wow, And we've already given over nine million
dollars to our counties alone for projects, parades, brave markers,
markers along the side of the road, anything and everything
(10:05):
that you can think of from Kather Dead we can do.
But our website's one of the greatest. South Carolina is
very different in how we set up our commission. We
went to the counties first, so we spent a good
two years traveling to every single county and getting a
resolution in every single county saying that they would support this.
So there is a local community in your county that
(10:28):
is working on this. You don't have to be a
historian you could be a science teacher that is just
fascinated with the fact that we found these fourteen gentlemen
on the Camden Battlefield. We did DNA testing, and we
reburied them. We've got a whole program related to that
that you can bring that to your science class. So
we are in everything and everywhere, and if we aren't,
(10:52):
and you've got a great idea, bring it to us,
We're happy to do it. We have to explore it.
But each county also has, like I was saying, committees
that you can get involved in. We're happy to come
and talk to your groups. We want you engaged where
you are. You don't necessarily have to come to our tent.
We want to engage you where you are.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Wow. So the state of South Carolina is taking this
very serious and the very invested.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Our state legislator, they are amazing, amazing, amazing people. And
you know, I say to our communities all the time,
please write a handwritten note to your legislator thanking them
for funding us. We are public funded. That sometimes might
rub people wrong. You know, why would you talk about
these hard events with public funding? Because it's hard events
that we need to have. I'm happy to jump in
(11:39):
any alligator pit and have a hard, complex conversation because
it's our conversation.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Yeah, it's nothing's really ever so black and white.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
No, And you know what, having that conversation, or having
any conversation is the beautiful part of that July fourth. Yeah, document,
it's not perfect. I'm not perfect, but you know, let's
sit down, let's break bread together, and let's talk about
it and educate me and I'll educate you. And we
(12:11):
are actually better people for that.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I get the feeling you're going to do more educating
of me, the point of you. But Molly's fortune, you are,
You're a You're now a South Carolina treasure.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Oh thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
We're so happy to have you in our state. And
as we get ready to celebrate our two hundred and
fifty or commemorate our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, people
should start now going to SC two to fifty.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Go to SC two to fifty. You can plant flowers
in your yard, you can just put out your flag.
You can do whatever you want, whatever is your heart's desire,
or you don't have to participate at all. And I
love that too.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
There's so many great stories to learn. I can't wait
to get on that website learn more of them.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh yeah, you just go with me. We were joking
earlier about moments with Molly. I spend so much time
on the back roads that I'm going to start stopping
with cow and talk to them about what I've learned.
Because I get home and I'm like, blah blah blah
blah blah.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
So both stay did for that? Are you still working
with the Newberry Opera House?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I am not working with them right now, but I
live in Newberry. I stayed and a crazy, crazy thing,
and so I still go to performances and things like that.
And they're still all my good friends by sure. And
I still, like I said, to live on Main Street
in Newberry. We didn't move. I could live anywhere in
the statement. Stayed so from the penal colony. My my
(13:31):
people are over mountain men from North Carolina. And I
finally said, Okay, if I'm in this job, I need
to I need to get my swizzle sticks together. So
I joined DAAR And by the way, one of the
largest African American DAR chapters is outside of Charlotte. A
lot of people don't realize that either.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I wouldn't have suspected that.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Right, You never know. That's something you don't ever assume.
But I'm sitting there one night on my front porch,
my house is old wrap around port, sitting on Main
Street some prosecco, knee deep in some sort of rabbit
hole related to one of my patriots. And I found
out that my patriot actually walked from ninety six to
Winnsboro on Main Street, which was a colonial road.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
And I'm not even from here. So you never ever
know where your ancestors and where your history is going
to take you.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You got some deep roots here you didn't even know
about them.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
You wan't that crazy fly?
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Right? Oh my guys, Well again, the CEO of SC
two fifty MILEI fortune. It's been a pleasure, it's been fun.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Thank you so much for the time.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
And thank you for listening to Iheartradios. CEOs you should
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