Rod Shealy Sr.
By Jeffrey Sewell
Today Mike Green and I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with one of our friends Rod Shealy Sr. This candid interview held at his newest venture a retro 50’s style ice cream parlor, complete with a working skeet ball challenge, classic posters of everything from Super Man to movie posters of Bogart and if you can imagine it, it’s there. Personally I felt like a kid in this true to its conception a recreation of the soda fountain of old; this venue was all Rod Shealy!
I don’t get nervous generally if I am prepared but how do you prepare to discuss the inevitable brain surgery to remove a tumor from the person I have come to revere and most acknowledge as the most successful long running political consultant in South Carolina?
I was nervous that we do it right and I think we did, we forgot about ourselves and just let Rod be Rod and share what he wanted. The interview lasts some two hours with about a dozen interruptions whether they are an important cell phone call or a friend stopping by to say hello. None of which mattered to us, this is Rod and it was a pleasure. We will be posting the series over the next week and hope you enjoy it as much as we did and will.
