Michael Smith
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106 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Michael Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Correct.
Well, let me tell you something really interesting about this.
One, there are three sofas in the White House, the same, because they're constantly being touched up because people, A, wipe sweat because they're nervous, their palms, so they touch the sofa, so sometimes it has to be touched up.
But that's not the thing that really is the most important.
The most important thing is that men who come, women probably too, but definitely men, polish their shoes.
So their shoes are newly polished.
And in their sort of anxiety, they pull their feet up and rub the shoe polish on the back of the sofas.
So the sofas have to leave all the time to take black shoe polish or brown shoe polish out.
But think about it.
No matter who you are, no matter where you come from to walk into this room, it's that feeling, that sort of sense of awe about being in this room.
I had something to do with it.
The florists of the White House called me, and they said, what kind of flowers does President Obama want on his desk?
Very simple but somewhat impactful question.
So I said, I'm going to have to call you back.
And I thought about it, and I thought about it, and I thought about Johnny Appleseed, America, all these things.
And I said, listen, I called him, and I said, he's not such a flower guy.
But I said, I have a shaker bowl I'm sending it to you.
And what I want you to do is fill it with apples every day because apples are America.
They're no nonsense.
They're healthy.
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