Michael Smith

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92 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 20 Jun

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So he called me and he said, I really don't like plates.

I don't want plates.

What can we have?

I don't want dishes, I think is what he said.

So I called the Smithsonian and I said, what do you have in the way of workable models of patents?

And they had like incredible, the cotton gin.

This is a telegraph model.

So that's what this is.

It's a working model.

I mean, this is a recreation of that working model.

Working telegraph.

Samuel Morse.

Right.

And my whole thing with these was, like, look, these are pieces of American ingenuity, American exceptionalism.

They were beautiful sculptural, and they were so Barack Obama, right?

So he would be curious, and he loved it.

And again, words.

Words, and an idea, a crystallization, a three-dimensional model of American exceptionalism and invention, literally invention.

My agenda was not to make it more propagandistic.

I felt like you walk in, the room already has you.

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