Washington Monument
Monument in Washington, D.C., United StatesWikipedia
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Sep 14, 2026
David RubensteinGUEST
And then, uh, the Thirteenth Amendment, which freed slaves, and then other historic documents.
David RubensteinGUEST
And I started fixing up buildings like the Washington Monument, Jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Memorial.
David RubensteinGUEST
And the reason is, I want people to know more about American history.
David RubensteinGUEST
And if you have original documents, people may be more likely to look at them, learn more about history.
Derek DeStefanGUEST
Right
Tyler KiwalaHOST
... pentagram was doing that, you know, 'cause obviously it ties directly in with the grid, and that's why they have, like, the Washington Monument and stuff like that.
Tyler KiwalaHOST
So by destroying something that's there, it actually potentially, like, like you said, it upsets that-
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AdamHOST
And that gets addressed multiple times in weird vignettes throughout these two issues.
AdamHOST
And you have weird things like Cannonball mourning at the Washington Monument.
AdamHOST
It's very strange.
ZachHOST
It's weird.
Don WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Backhand, goes to third, and the tag is made on Stephenson.
Don WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Frank Howard at the Washington Monument picked this one off.
Don WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A good backhanded stop, saw Stephenson going for third, and he guns him down.
Don WellsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And John Stephenson, a man with a very surprised look on his face as he came in standing, and he almost danced with Don Wert.
TaylorHOST
that they're just evil.
TaylorHOST
The scene where there's all the Boy Scouts at the Washington Monument and they zap the Washington Monument and then they keep pushing in different directions to try and crush the Boy Scouts.
TaylorHOST
That's...
TaylorHOST
That's objectively, they're just evil.
Devin TappoNARRATOR
The tract of neglected undergrowth and wild woods, with its surrounding dilapidated picket fence, was transformed into the park which now faces the east front of the capital.
Devin TappoNARRATOR
The Washington Monument, which all during and for years after the war stood as an unsightly stump surmounted by wooden scaffolding, grew to a stately shaft, a thing of beauty, and the debris and litter which for twenty years or more had cumbered the ground at its base at last vanished.
Devin TappoNARRATOR
The old system of schools gave way to the new, and in 1876, Washington, for the first time, had a high school.
Devin TappoNARRATOR
Its Baptist College, now Columbian University, with a thousand students, dates from 1821, while the Jesuit College in Georgetown is yet older.
Mike SlaterHOST
It was just five sticks made to look like a person running absurd.
Mike SlaterHOST
I, um, Well, my next statue I would take down, other than the entire African American History Museum, which is just disgraceful being right next to the Washington Monument there, it's so ugly, is the IRS building.
Mike SlaterHOST
Outside the IRS building, look up this guy Larry Kirkland.
Mike SlaterHOST
And the statue outside the IRS building is called Vox Populi, Voice of the People of Latin.
Anthony W. RobinsGUEST
The, uh, pastor of the church said, "You know what? We're not going to rebuild the spire because now it would just be competing with the marketplace, with the secular world, and we're just not interested in doing that."
John HopkinsHOST
Around the end of the 19th century, the tallest buildings in the world are Cologne Cathedral, whose spire reaches 512 feet, and the Washington Monument at 556 feet tall.
John HopkinsHOST
Though the Eiffel Tower is almost twice the size of these, as a mere iron structure, it is not habitable and therefore doesn't qualify as the tallest building.
John HopkinsHOST
But soon, the construction of early skyscrapers gets underway.
Aaron KuhnHOST
Like, there, there's so much that they've, they-
Tyler KiwalaHOST
The Washington Monument is an obelisk
Aaron KuhnHOST
...
Aaron KuhnHOST
Washington Monument, the-
Tyler KiwalaHOST
[chuckles]
Aaron KuhnHOST
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BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
That's really tall.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
If you're familiar with the Washington Monument, that's 550-ish feet high, so half the height of the Washington Monument.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
And then I start asking myself, like, engineering-wise, and I'm not an engineer, but can the coast of a swamp town hold the weight of that much stone? Because the Washington Monument, I can't spin out over this, the Washington Monument is on, like, solid ground in the middle of, like, this park.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
But to build an arch that big...
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
You know what? No.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
[laughs] I think it's a great idea.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
Definitely nobody ask any questions.
BravobravoduckingbravoHOST
We'll come back to the Washington Monument in a second.
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