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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Telling the Story of Captain Robert Smalls With Michael B. Moore and Rob Edwards

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by screenwriter Rob Edwards and congressional candidate Michael B. Moore to discuss their graphic novel ‘Defiant: the Robert Smalls Story’ (7:41), and Edwards compares the pressure to that of writing ‘The Princess and the Frog’ in 2009 (10:26). Plus, Moore, a descendant of Smalls, talks about sharing his great-great grandfather’s story with early learners (18:17). Host: Bakari Sellers Guests: Rob Edwards and Michael B. Moore Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

Welcome to another episode of a car accident.

0:17.0

Today is an interesting episode.

0:20.0

First we have two people.

0:21.0

We have Michael Moore and Rob Edwards who are joining us but they're actually

0:25.1

talking about something that we all need to know more about some places we

0:28.7

need to visit some things we need to do some experiences that need to be had, and just a really, really dope project.

0:35.4

So first let me welcome Michael Moore and Rob Edwards to the show.

0:38.6

How y'all doing today?

0:39.6

Well, we're doing great, doing great.

0:41.6

Thank you for having us. Yes, absolutely. Yeah, for sure. So we start each one of our shows in a unique way and each question is usually the same to the overwhelming majority of our guests, but we like to start our show by having our

0:53.7

guests walk us through the arc of their careers and you've both had story careers

0:58.4

outside of your latest project involving legendary South Carolina and Robert Smalls.

1:03.6

But Michael, talk a bit about all the things you've done from being a CEO

1:07.2

to being the founding president and CEO of the International African American Museum

1:11.6

in Charleston, to your current project honoring your great- great-

1:15.4

grandfather, Robert Smalls, and I hope I put enough greats in there.

1:18.6

Just too.

1:20.6

Yes, great, great, okay, I got you. Yeah, yeah, thank you. You know, I grew up, I've been a business guy. I was fortunate to get a wonderful scholarship to get an MBA from Duke University and from there jumped in and worked at

1:36.8

Coke and at Kraft and then sort of went on a more entrepreneurial path. I got to South Carolina, was CEO of a company called

1:46.2

Glory Foods and we brought that museum that at the time was a fledgling idea that Mayor Joe Riley was heading.

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