Animator J.J. Sedelmaier—you don’t know his name, but you know his work for MTV and SNL—is fascinated by Samuel Insull, Edison’s former assistant, who brought electricity to Chicago, achieved global fame, and whose name you (and I) also didn’t know. “There’s no reason he shouldn’t be up there with Carnegie and J. P. Morgan.”
You can hear the full episode at personplacething.org.