Nagra

You know, the Swiss knife.

There is Nagra.

I always loved their very small products.

I don't know exactly the reason why we go for small products that integrate, that packs a lot of technology.

Thanks for the invite.

Well, this has been a long time coming because I'm trying to remember, it was probably a year or so ago we heard that you are going to be donating your two Oscars, as well as a Nagra sound machine, to the brand new Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture downtown on the mall.

How did they contact you, first of all, and what was sort of behind your decision to donate? Because these are some prized possessions of yours, sir.

Yeah, many people have asked me that, Jason, and in terms of why I want to donate, I'm a D.C. native, and I felt that, and not only D.C., but Southeast D.C.

What will our listeners, if they head out there this weekend, what are they going to see in the exhibit? Explain it's the two Oscars.

But tell them also what a nagra is, because a lot of people don't know what it is.

Well, long before we had the iPods and all these digital devices that everybody just puts in their pocket and carries around and sometimes walks out in front of traffic unknowingly, in order for us to record live dialogue on the set, this recorder called a Nagra, which it's already heavy without batteries in it, and it carried 12 D-cell batteries.

Those of you who don't know what a D-cell is, Google it.

No, it was transferred.

They were using Nagras by then.

Yeah.

Quarter, quarter-inch reel-to-reel tape recorder.