Mount Pleasant Magazine
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Mount Pleasant, told through its local voices.
Mount Pleasant Podcast brings Mount Pleasant’s local magazine sensibility into relaxed conversations with business owners, local leaders, artists, spiritual leaders, and public figures. It is practical, neighborly, and anchored in the places residents already recognize.
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Mount Pleasant Podcast is a local interview show with a community-magazine heart. Brian Cleary keeps the format simple: introduce a Mount Pleasant person, business, event, or institution, then ask direct questions that invite useful detail. The result is warm and practical. Episodes make room for the Blessing of the Fleet, local shrimpers, charity beneficiaries, and the work of the Town of Mount Pleasant around Waterfront Memorial Park. They also follow quieter neighborhood subjects, such as backyard bird feeding, seed feeders, suet, bird baths, native plants, and the way Wild Birds Unlimited frames birding as a connection to nature. Arts and culture get similar treatment. The Venue MTP appears as a community art center with music, dance, theater, and adult programming in view. Business profiles are a major part of the mix, from decluttering and early learning to senior advocacy, endurance sports, dentistry, and customer-facing local retail. The show often asks guests to explain what their work looks like in everyday terms. That gives the conversations a useful, service-oriented feel. It can sound like a guided walk through a town issue, a storefront, or a seasonal event. The public-history episodes add another layer, especially when Tommy Hartnett tells stories about Congress, Reagan, Bush, Air Force One, and old political friendships. Faith coverage is handled through community conversation as well, with Mount Pleasant spiritual leaders reflecting on shared civic life. The tone is rarely adversarial. It favors introduction, explanation, and memory. The format can carry sponsor and event details, but the strongest moments are grounded in local knowledge that would be hard to get from a calendar listing alone. It is a show for people who want to know the texture behind Mount Pleasant’s public life, from festivals and businesses to churches, theaters, shops, and civic traditions.
Made for: Designed for Mount Pleasant residents, Lowcountry newcomers, local business followers, and community-minded listeners who enjoy practical interviews about nearby people and institutions. It especially suits anyone who likes town events, small businesses, arts, faith, and civic life explained in plain language.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the close local framing: guests are not abstract experts, but Mount Pleasant figures talking through specific places, services, traditions, and events. The show feels less like regional commentary and more like a conversational extension of a local magazine.
Mount Pleasant Podcast features discussions about the people, places, and events that make Mount Pleasant such a special place.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brian Cleary makes Mount Pleasant's civic culture legible through detailed conversations with the people shaping its teams, events, airwaves and storefronts.
Mount Pleasant Podcast turns local public life into friendly, explanatory interviews, with Brian Cleary guiding guests toward the practical details of their work.
From Friday-night football to backyard bird baths, Brian Cleary gives your Mount Pleasant curiosity room to roam.
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A warm local festival story centered on seafood, charity, volunteers, and Mount Pleasant pride.
The annual Blessing of the Fleet gives this piece its shape, and the festival comes across as a major point of pride for Mount Pleasant. Brian Cleary speaks with Nicole Harvey and Dana Robinson about seafood, local shrimpers, charity beneficiaries, volunteers, and the practical…
A warm local portrait that pairs practical birding advice with a broader sense of place.
Mount Pleasant Podcast paints a warm local portrait of Wild Birds Unlimited, with Brian Cleary and Danielle Motley presenting the store as part of Mount Pleasant's everyday community life. Danielle's path, which began there at 18, gives the conversation an easy groundedness.
A local-history interview that turns Washington memories into easy, memorable stories.
Mount Pleasant Podcast leans into local history as Tommy Hardnett looks back on six years in Congress, his move from Democrat toward the Republican Party, and the Southern Democrats who stayed in the party as it moved left.
A steady local football roundup that values culture as much as scorelines.
Friday-night football in the Lowcountry gets a community-podcast treatment here, with Brian Cleary speaking with the head football coaches at Lucy Beckham, Wando, Philip Simmons, and Bishop England High School about the season and what each program is building.
A warm local-radio hangout that turns memory, movement, and community into the story.
Brian Cleary uses this Mount Pleasant conversation to sketch how a radio career can widen into travel, memory, and local presence. The pace stays easy, with The Critic reflecting on leaving radio, the long-running One Day Fun Day idea, and the old Wave days with clear affection…
Aurora, heard up close.
Southeast Texas, explained locally.
April 26 anchors the conversation.
Spring is here.
This episode features an interview with Keely Enright, artistic director of The Venue MTP, discussing the new arts center's mission to provide high-quality cultural and performing arts programming for adults in the Mount Pleasant community.
This special episode highlights three women business owners voted Best of Mount Pleasant, starting with Rebecca Deans of Shift into Organized discussing decluttering services for homes and businesses.
This episode features an interview with Catherine Hollister, owner of Blue Sky Endurance, discussing her multi-sport retail business, community fitness events like group runs and 5Ks, and her journey into the industry.
This episode features an interview with Dr.
Tommy Hartnett remembers D.C.
This episode features an interview with several Mount Pleasant faith leaders discussing their inclusion in a magazine photo and their perspectives on community and interfaith collaboration.
Friday nights mean football in the Lowcountry, and Brian Cleary keeps it close to home.
The Critic is back on local radio, and Brian Cleary lets the story breathe.
This episode of the Mount Pleasant Podcast explores the town's new Town Talks series, focusing on improving communication between government and citizens, with insights from town officials Liz Boyles and Kara Browder.
This episode features an interview with Dave Woodson, founder of FlyAway Logistics, discussing his third-party logistics company that specializes in supporting interior designers in the Charleston area and along the East Coast.