final Four Best USA Monuments

[00:00:18] Speaker A: Welcome to Friendly Competition, a podcast to discover the best of all time. I'm Nick Carey alongside my co host and best friend, Cody Lena. Discuss various pop culture topics and narrow it down to truly the best of all time. [00:00:29] Speaker B: Or as we like to call it, the boat. Before we get some foot on the boat, we put him into a sweet 16 style tournament. We argue each round. We sign a winner. Nick, what criteria do we use? We decide to step foot on the. [00:00:38] Speaker A: Boat, whatever the hell we want. Cody, you want to tell him what we're talking about this season? [00:00:41] Speaker B: Absolutely. It was like, it took like seven days. It was dark and then there was light. And then a guy came down with a hammer and chisel and he carved a rock. And then God said, good job, dude. And then they put stuff on it, like buildings and bridges and playgrounds and dinosaurs. But then the dinosaurs left, and this is what we are left with. Is that good? [00:01:05] Speaker A: Is this, so is this, by the. [00:01:09] Speaker B: Way, final four of that? [00:01:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:01:10] Speaker B: Is it? [00:01:11] Speaker A: Is, was that linear? Because I do like to imagine that we did build playgrounds and then the dinosaur showed up. [00:01:17] Speaker B: Well, of course. [00:01:18] Speaker A: What are all these playgrounds here for? [00:01:20] Speaker B: What kind of God would make dinosaurs and not let them go down a slide? Are you kidding me, dude? [00:01:26] Speaker A: What kind exactly? If there is a God, then you have to believe that. He was like, I'm gonna give these dinosaurs a slide. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Yeah, dog. I refuse to believe in a God that's not given. Dog slide. See, I've seen dogs go down slides. [00:01:39] Speaker A: It's amazing. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Can go down slides? Yeah. Swing sets for dinosaurs. [00:01:43] Speaker A: I wanna see, I really wanna see dinosaurs just having fun, like, in the way that, like, you just see, like, animals, like, who, like, get in like, a spillway and they'll just like, go down like a quick spillway and they're like, oh, my gosh, that was wild. They run back up and go do it again. And you're like, look at these little idiots. [00:02:00] Speaker B: Like, they're, that's what I just want. [00:02:02] Speaker A: To see dinosaurs doing it, though. [00:02:03] Speaker B: I'm thinking about it this way, though. I've seen birds in my yard, which I think are playing. I've seen my cat with, like, fuzzy little toy throwing in the air and trying to catch it. Clearly playing, right? Yeah, dogs play. We've seen it all. I have never seen a lizard play now, have you? I've seen lizard people. I've seen snake people. And anytime they're like, oh, look how cute it is. It just does be standing there. [00:02:23] Speaker A: It do just be there. It does. Yeah. You're right. There does not seem to be whimsy. Like, I look in them weird eyes and I'm like, I don't see any hint of a. Of curiosity. [00:02:34] Speaker B: I don't think alligators play. [00:02:37] Speaker A: No, they, like, they're really about like, I'm here to kill something. Like, I'm here to be like, spill blood. I'm like, I guess maybe though, is that something where you're the greatest, you were one of the greatest apex predators, right? Like in. [00:02:49] Speaker B: Absolutely. I'm doing that mindset. I'm there. [00:02:53] Speaker A: You're in the Serengeti. You are one of the apex predators. Would it go against your image if all the gazelles saw you on Friday night doing karaoke? [00:03:06] Speaker B: Dude, it's okay. Well, you're telling me is it's like when, it's like when Jay z back in like 2004 popped his collar in a pink polo and everyone was like, hip hop can't wear pink polos. [00:03:16] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:16] Speaker B: Like we're just, we're just waiting for. Cuz they're all so hard. But then like one guy gets less hard and now it's okay. So we're just waiting for like one alligator to come out with that top hat on and be like, yeah, I don't know about you guys, but I'm. [00:03:28] Speaker A: Just trying to have some fun here. You guys, like, you make us look weak. You make us look weak. [00:03:34] Speaker B: I think that's all it's going to take. It's just going to take that one lizard to finally play. [00:03:39] Speaker A: So. And that's why we have started a charity, everyone. Uh, it's called top hats for lizards. And what we're going to be doing is we're going to be taking donations, uh, which you can just send directly to our venmo's. Uh, you know, you know where to find those? [00:03:52] Speaker B: It's a lizard wizard at. From the competition. Yeah, send it to that. [00:03:58] Speaker A: And we're going to. And we're going to start, we're going to head. Cody and I are going to head down to Africa and just start putting hats on algae. [00:04:05] Speaker B: I'm just, I'm imagining me and you sitting at the bank of a river. [00:04:09] Speaker A: With all these alligators in it. [00:04:10] Speaker B: And we're just literally like ring tossing. [00:04:12] Speaker A: Top hats out and trying to get. [00:04:13] Speaker B: Them on their head. Come on, come on. Just the water's full of top hats floating down the river. How's our own environment? The locals are like, these guys are bad for the environment. I don't know if top hats are biodegradable, but they don't seem to be. [00:04:27] Speaker A: I don't think. [00:04:27] Speaker B: And also, this. This top hat literally says on the bottom, $0.99 made out of microplastics, and they're just throwing it into the river. [00:04:35] Speaker A: Yeah. And we're not going to be checking. Yeah, that's not our job. Like, we're here. [00:04:38] Speaker B: We. [00:04:39] Speaker A: I mean, at some point, we also have to think of, like, hey, we got to buy in bulk top hats. So, like, I'm sorry, we can't get the. [00:04:45] Speaker B: Well, actually, I will say a lot. [00:04:46] Speaker A: Of this comes down to you. [00:04:47] Speaker B: This comes down to you. The list. How much are you going to donate? [00:04:49] Speaker A: How much are you going to donate to save the environment, but also give these alligators top hats. [00:04:56] Speaker B: And we can't just buy one good top hat either, because no matter how much we tell them, alligators keep going underwater, and these top hats are not supposed to get that wet. [00:05:03] Speaker A: There's not. And we can't. And I'm going to tell you this right now, we're not going to get ones with little strings to put under their chins. I'm not. We're not trained to do that. Like, this is not. That's not the point of this. So they mostly. We're just hoping it'll kind of stay on top as they float along the river. [00:05:18] Speaker B: Yeah. And honestly, I think if even it's. [00:05:19] Speaker A: On their back, I think that counts. Like, I think. [00:05:22] Speaker B: Enough. Dude, it's a lizard. It's fine. Yeah. So. [00:05:26] Speaker A: So that's what we'll be doing after we get through this here. Final four of the greatest monuments in the United States. And I'll even say this. The contiguous United States. Get out of here. Hawaii and Alaska, mostly because you deserve to be back to the indigenous people who. Who were there first and had no, like, wait, what? We're becoming a state who? [00:05:48] Speaker B: Why? [00:05:48] Speaker A: What? [00:05:49] Speaker B: Second of all, no cool playgrounds, no cool monuments. Get out of here. [00:05:53] Speaker A: We have our group a champion, the Grand Canyon, going up against the group b champion, Statue of Liberty. And then on the other side of the bracket, we have the national mall, going up against the group D champion, Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse Cody. Where do you want to start? [00:06:09] Speaker B: Let's just get this out of the way. Let's have statue Liberty goes go versus the Grand Canyon. Okay. Man versus nature at its most extreme. Right? What. [00:06:19] Speaker A: What is extreme about the Statue of Liberty? [00:06:22] Speaker B: I mean, it's extreme in the sense that I don't think nature could do it. You know, like, they're extreme opposites. So, like, I don't think man could make the Grand Canyon, and I don't think nature could do the Statue of Liberty. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Okay. Points proven there. Well, I'm moving on. I'm moving on. [00:06:38] Speaker B: Here's. [00:06:38] Speaker A: Okay, so here's my question. When it comes to these are national monuments. These are things that we. We, as the United States are saying, like, this is our shit. If you come here, that's that shit that represents us. Can we actually claim the Grand Canyon? [00:06:53] Speaker B: I mean. Yeah. [00:06:54] Speaker A: Do anything, by the way. That's what I'm saying. We did no part of this. We just got to get here and be like, this is sick as fuck. Look at this. [00:07:06] Speaker B: Actually, I'm trying to think of other countries that, like, have stuff like that that they claim is theirs. Maybe, like Mount Kilimanjaro or Everest, but that's literally it. Everyone else is like, oh, no, our monuments. We did make it. The United States is like, we found a fucking hole. It's better than yours. [00:07:21] Speaker A: And now we're good. Now you got to pay to see the hole. You're like, wait, what? [00:07:24] Speaker B: Why would I. [00:07:25] Speaker A: That's the. It's the earth's. It's not yours, right? No, it's in America. [00:07:29] Speaker B: So that's. That is the beauty of capitalism, too. I found a hole, and I'm going to charge you for it. Yeah. [00:07:38] Speaker A: So, in that way, it is very american. [00:07:40] Speaker B: Yeah. So I think if we take. Take that aspect of it, and we did commercial, like, if you can ride donkeys to the bottom, I'm pretty sure there's a sbarro down there. [00:07:48] Speaker A: I'm pretty sure. [00:07:50] Speaker B: I'm pretty sure. Right. [00:07:51] Speaker A: Well, what do you. [00:07:52] Speaker B: You got to eat, dude, they should put a Nike store at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and it's the only place you can get a certain pair of shoes. [00:07:59] Speaker A: I guarantee if they release Jordans, like, special Grand Canyon Jordans at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. [00:08:08] Speaker B: Yeah, you gotta go to. [00:08:09] Speaker A: I don't even want. [00:08:10] Speaker B: I. The. [00:08:11] Speaker A: The hype beast that would come out of the woodworks. I'd love to see all those hypebeasts actually have to hike their asses down there. Like, the only way is you do have to hike it. Like, there's no donkey. [00:08:22] Speaker B: No. And we can't mail it. No shipping. Only one per person. Yeah. It has to be the size of the person that walks in. And also, once you get them, we tattoo you so you can't come back permanent. [00:08:32] Speaker A: Yeah, dude, that ship, you and the shoes, if you're ever with it, if those. If. If those ever get separated by more than 50 you feet, we blow up the shoes. [00:08:41] Speaker B: Not only are you buying these shoes, you have to wear them at all. [00:08:44] Speaker A: Times or at least keep them on your person. [00:08:46] Speaker B: Yeah. Carry backpack, dude. Wrap them around your neck. I don't get. [00:08:48] Speaker A: I don't care, Nick. [00:08:49] Speaker B: Whose collab would hurt? Hit harder. Whose collab would take us to the next level? Nike in the Grand Canyon or Nike in the Statue of Liberty? [00:08:58] Speaker A: Here's the thing that would have to happen, okay, for the Statue of Liberty. One is they'd have to hike up the skirt, the dress. Like, they would have to, in essence, either build a new statue or somehow cut out the bottom of it and install a new bottom. That is her pulling it up just enough so you can see some sick dunks. [00:09:21] Speaker B: Those will be fired. If we rebuilt the Statue of Liberty just so it was a hype beast. I'm just saying, that's what it needs. It needs a remake. That's the problem with all these monuments are oldest. Fuck, yeah. We need to make them cool. I look outside at the apartment like, no one dresses like that. Statue of Liberty? [00:09:38] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:09:39] Speaker B: This is. [00:09:39] Speaker A: Oh, it's. Oh, okay. [00:09:41] Speaker B: You're. [00:09:42] Speaker A: You're in charge of the redesign of the Statue of Liberty? [00:09:45] Speaker B: Yes. [00:09:46] Speaker A: What. [00:09:47] Speaker B: What are. What's. [00:09:48] Speaker A: What stays and what goes for you. [00:09:50] Speaker B: Cool. Okay. I guess we keep it a statue that stays. Actually, I'm just gonna. You know, I would replace it with, you know, like, the statue they have from the people at Iwo Jima putting up the flag. Yeah, I would have something very similar to that, except it's just the cast of the expendables. So they're doing it. [00:10:09] Speaker A: It's a. Wait, but is it all or. [00:10:10] Speaker B: All. [00:10:11] Speaker A: Is the entire cast the size of the current statue of Liberty? [00:10:15] Speaker B: They're each. They're each the size of the statue. Right. So the island, it becomes Expendables island. Expendables island. Exactly. And they just stand at all corners of the island looking out, like Colossus. [00:10:28] Speaker A: I. I. Ellis island is pretty small, so this would be. We'd be packing them in. I don't hate it, though. I think I would want. I like the torch, but I want. I want a. I need real flames. I really feel like we really missed. Like, we gotta get a bonfire cooking up there at all times. [00:10:47] Speaker B: I know. We gotta. Actually, we gotta think about this. I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. But if they do any work to modernize the Statue of Liberty in any way, they are turning it into a mech. Right. That's gotta be what they do. [00:10:59] Speaker A: That's the secret government, like, oh, we're just doing maintenance on it. We're gonna do some upgrades, but it is to make it a mech on the east coast. Yeah. Like, duh. That's what, would we have too many. All of our mechs would be on the east coast, though. Because if Abraham Lincoln's a mech mech, for sure. And stature of Liberty's a mech mech. [00:11:18] Speaker B: Washington comes out penis first out of the ground. [00:11:21] Speaker A: That's our. Maybe Mount Rushmore is four mechs. [00:11:24] Speaker B: Oh, that'd be badass. Or it's a one mech with four heads. Ooh. [00:11:28] Speaker A: That's probably it. [00:11:29] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:11:30] Speaker A: What do we have anything on the west coast? Is our west coast completely unguarded from. [00:11:34] Speaker B: Dude, if it comes. Oh, my God. [00:11:37] Speaker A: This literally is the point of Pacific rim, is that we were so weak on the west coast. Dude goes away. [00:11:42] Speaker B: It's also stupid, because if there's any coast, we need to pretend. If any country's coming at us with mechs, it's the Japanese. [00:11:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:11:50] Speaker B: They attacked from that side before, and we expected it. [00:11:53] Speaker A: That's clearly our weak side. We have done nothing to improve our defense from the west. [00:12:00] Speaker B: You tell me there's not a single gundam like mech in Pearl harbor anywhere. Anywhere. [00:12:09] Speaker A: Oh, actually, you know what there is in San Diego? There's the statue of the guy kissing the girl. Like, bet, you know, from, like, the boys coming back from world War two. [00:12:21] Speaker B: Yeah, those are Max. Both of them. [00:12:22] Speaker A: So those are. So we do. [00:12:23] Speaker B: All right. [00:12:24] Speaker A: I feel better about that. I feel more comfortable knowing that we are. Our defense is in place. What if we gave the Statue of Liberty a bbl? Is that defacing it or making it better? A brazilian butt lift, Cody. [00:12:36] Speaker B: Okay, we don't make that. [00:12:37] Speaker A: We don't give that cake because there's no way this thing's got got ass. [00:12:42] Speaker B: No, no, it's the French. [00:12:43] Speaker A: And I'm sorry if I know one thing about the French, is that they're stinky. [00:12:47] Speaker B: Ha. [00:12:47] Speaker A: Got you. [00:12:48] Speaker B: If I bitch, they ain't got that ass. They ain't got it now. Like that. Not like me and Nick. [00:12:55] Speaker A: No. So it's like, do it. And I feel like we should give the. Give the statue Liberty some cake. [00:13:00] Speaker B: Just, I mean, we back. We gotta cake it up. That goes without saying. That goes without that system. Any modern statue now. And it's definitely gotta be caked. I'm talking to airplane seats worth of cake. [00:13:11] Speaker A: You know, I'm saying, uh, Leonardo da Vinci got it with. With the David boys kicked up. [00:13:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:19] Speaker A: All his homies are caked up. Some would argue that that's because that's what he was into, but nonetheless, he at least understood. He's like, I'm gonna kick it up. [00:13:26] Speaker B: I'm gonna kick it. Well, he wanted his art to stand the test of time, right? That's the problem with the people who made the Statue of Liberty. They weren't thinking future proof, you know? [00:13:34] Speaker A: They didn't even rust proof it, you know what I'm saying? [00:13:37] Speaker B: They gave us, they gave us a. [00:13:38] Speaker A: Copper statue and, like, didn't. Didn't put any rust. Rusties on it or anything. Like, just something. [00:13:44] Speaker B: Even when I. Even when I, like, build a patio or if I do any home maintenance, even I anti rust my stuff. Rust. Stupid as fuck. [00:13:52] Speaker A: Yeah, I knew to do that. [00:13:53] Speaker B: So I. [00:13:54] Speaker A: The French. I don't know what you were doing over here. [00:13:56] Speaker B: Geez. I'm not getting in the Grand Canyon after all that. It only makes sense. [00:14:00] Speaker A: I understand, but I. The one thing I can't get over, and I won't be able to get over unless it. I don't think. It's not untrue. It's that, like, the Statue of Liberty was there, like, for, like, when you were, like. I just can't imagine, like, coming into port, right? You're coming from. You're coming from Ireland, you're coming from the british, you're coming from all the Italy, and you're coming into port, and there it is. This the one thing they told you you would see, and now you've seen it and like, that, to me, there's just something special about it. I gotta go. [00:14:33] Speaker B: Statue of Liberty. I think that's good and beautiful. I like that. I got to go Grand Canyon because you could accidentally walk into it, and that's a funny joke. [00:14:41] Speaker A: No, I don't. I don't disagree with you. So we'll settle this the only way we know how, with the american voting coin of 2004, as brought to you by random.org, we got George Bush facing up, which means John Kerry is on the other side. Low seed gets to pick. That's going to be Cody. [00:14:56] Speaker B: I got to go with Bush, baby, because I think he might accidentally fall into the grand Canyon. And that would be funny. [00:15:02] Speaker A: Would be funny. [00:15:03] Speaker B: Dude, would you stop it? Have we not. [00:15:06] Speaker A: Has no one thought about bringing Trump to the Grand Canyon? Because, like, motherfucker looked at the eclipse like, you can't tell me that he's not gonna be like, I'm gonna get to the edge, you know, gotta. [00:15:15] Speaker B: He's gotta be okay. We gotta get Trump to the thing. When he's there doing his speech, we'll be like, so you're gonna jump into the river and the. Like, what? When Biden was here, he jumped from here into the river. [00:15:26] Speaker A: He actually evil knieveled it. [00:15:28] Speaker B: He was awesome. [00:15:30] Speaker A: It was wild, dude. [00:15:31] Speaker B: That's what. That's why I'm voting for him. Yeah. [00:15:34] Speaker A: I could do it. I'll. Give me the biggest motorcycle. I'll do it. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Right? [00:15:37] Speaker A: Yeah, sure. [00:15:38] Speaker B: Of course. [00:15:38] Speaker A: It's right over there, actually. [00:15:39] Speaker B: We have yet. [00:15:40] Speaker A: Yeah, just gun that. Take that ramp, big boy. [00:15:43] Speaker B: Why is that ramp pointing the long way down the cannon? I don't know, man. That's how Biden did it. [00:15:49] Speaker A: Like, and then, honestly, I would have Biden show up the next day and beg, do you know what Trump did? [00:15:54] Speaker B: Yeah, no, I'm not. Yeah, I'm not playing favorites here. Yeah. Like, I'm like, I'll do that. They both can jump the king. This is just a test. [00:16:00] Speaker A: This is honestly a test to see who, like, once again, if you fail the test, like, you kind of don't deserve to be president. [00:16:05] Speaker B: So first thought that comes to your mind, if we decided president by who could do the gnarliest jump, who would be president? Go. [00:16:12] Speaker A: My first thing was Johnny Knoxville. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Me, too. It was either him or Tony Hawk. [00:16:17] Speaker A: I think Johnny Knoxville is a fair president. I think there's something about, because he commanded the jackass crew and got them through to number four, which is wild, that he was somehow able to hold that group together, bring them. Bring the boys back, and be like, hey, we're going to do this. [00:16:35] Speaker B: Hopeless drug issues. [00:16:36] Speaker A: Yes. [00:16:37] Speaker B: Crimes. [00:16:37] Speaker A: Yes. [00:16:38] Speaker B: Firearms and Johnny Knoxville's over here. That's. If. If the. If running the government is like wrangling cats, then that's what Johnny Knoxville has done. [00:16:47] Speaker A: This. So Johnny Knoxville for president. Pretty obvious one, I think. All right, we will flip. It's George Bush, baby. All right, Grand Canyon. Moving on. Where it'll go up against either the National Mall or Mount Rushmore. Here's my problem. The National Mall, I feel, just almost has too much right, because this is. We put it all there. We got all. We got all the presidents represented and JBL, like, I know. Here's the LBJ. Sorry. [00:17:17] Speaker B: JBL is the wrestling. Wrestling. Sorry. My bad. John Bradshaw. Lakefield's also here. But the problem, I think the opposite. I think about Rushmore doesn't have enough. [00:17:26] Speaker A: Not enough presidents. [00:17:27] Speaker B: Not enough presidency. Do you need more presidents? If there was 28 presidents, would that without. Wet your whistle. Let me wrap. What if we wrapped it around the whole mountain? [00:17:37] Speaker A: Just keep. But it's like, just because there's only so many sizes of rocks there. Some of them are a little bigger, some are a little smaller. [00:17:44] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:17:45] Speaker A: You just happen to be on the small side of the mountain, big guy. [00:17:47] Speaker B: Nothing I can do about it. [00:17:48] Speaker A: No, but sorry, Jimmy Carter. [00:17:50] Speaker B: If I'm thinking about where I want to, actually, if someone reaches out to me, like, hi, my name is Paul, and I live in Uruguay. And I fucking. I'm coming to the United States. I can only go to one place. Where should I go? I'm. I can't say. Mount Rushmore, my dude. It's what. We were there. We grew up there. We were there. We were there. [00:18:09] Speaker A: It was. [00:18:09] Speaker B: Honestly, look into my eyes and tell me you'd send someone there. [00:18:13] Speaker A: It was one of those things, like, growing up in that area and every summer, seeing people from clearly all parts of the world, right, from every continent represented, you know? And I work target, so, like, they would come through to, like, maybe get. Get some stuff for their hotel or something. Like, so I'm hearing all these different languages, and every single time, I was like, my guys, like, this is what you. You can't. Please tell me this is, like, your 7th trip to America. [00:18:39] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. Every time I see. [00:18:41] Speaker A: Please don't be the first. [00:18:42] Speaker B: And it's like, 30 people from China. I'm like, you came to South Dakota. [00:18:46] Speaker A: My brothers and sisters, please tell me you're doing. You have to be going coast to coast, right? Because you can't have just come here. I can't accept that that's what you spent your good, hard earned money on, was coming to South Dakota to see something. Now, I will say this. I I, for the longest time, was down on it. I was like, just google it. It looks like it does in Google. Exactly. I I will now say, like, as an adult, I can appreciate the. The hours and time that was put into making Mount Rushmore and can see the beauty of that. But at the same time, it do look like the photo. If I were choosing, like you said, if you were choosing to go to another country and in. And, like, you're like, I want to go to. I want to go to France. [00:19:31] Speaker B: Right? [00:19:31] Speaker A: You've been to France? [00:19:31] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. [00:19:32] Speaker A: And you're like, hey, I like to go to France. And then the main suggestion was to go to just, like, the middle of it. There's really, like. There's, like, one cool vineyard. [00:19:43] Speaker B: It's like if the Arc de Triomphe was just in the middle of a town in south of France, it's like, that's it. That's the ark. Okay, cool. What else is there? That's it, my dude. [00:19:51] Speaker A: That was it? That's all you got? [00:19:52] Speaker B: That's. [00:19:53] Speaker A: That's all we have to do here. [00:19:54] Speaker B: And here's the thing. You can say you learn stuff at Mount Rushmore, but you don't. [00:19:58] Speaker A: You don't. [00:19:59] Speaker B: You don't, because they're too all over the place with their message. It's half about the guy who made it and half about the. You learn nothing that you wouldn't learn in elementary school. [00:20:08] Speaker A: Well, and also. Yeah, and they're like that. They always just, like. Because of the four presidents that it is, they're always like. And, you know, George Washington, the first president, you're like, I was aware of this. Thomas Jefferson, the next guy up. You're like, I was aware of that, too. But Lincoln, he did civil war, and we're like, I'm. Once again, I know this. [00:20:28] Speaker B: And then when you go inside to the actual museum, it's about gut. Borglum, the guy who made it, designed it, we. Who gives a shit? [00:20:35] Speaker A: Yeah, it's just. Yeah, you're like. And also, because that's spoilers, but he died before it got finished, so it's kind of just like, I don't know why we. He didn't even see his own creations. I don't even know why we care. [00:20:45] Speaker B: I. Like, I don't know. [00:20:46] Speaker A: Like, he wasn't there for it. Like, I know he started it. [00:20:49] Speaker B: And now on. If you die during art, then everyone who is helping you make art, they randomly draw straws, and it becomes there. Whoever it wins, get. [00:20:57] Speaker A: It's their art now. That's all I'm saying. We're literally, right now in Spain, they're finishing a cathedral that started in, like, the 16th century. Sagrada del familia, I think. [00:21:07] Speaker B: Yeah. Catherine was just there. Yeah. [00:21:08] Speaker A: So they're finishing it now after the guy who tried to create it died. Was killed. [00:21:13] Speaker B: So it's not his. Now. We're. [00:21:15] Speaker A: They need to just go to that construction crew, draw names, and be like, Johnny, it's yours. [00:21:20] Speaker B: Hell, yeah, dude. [00:21:21] Speaker A: You're going on the book. You're going, man. [00:21:22] Speaker B: That's all yours. That's what I'm saying. All right. I can't. I can't. Good conscience. I hear Mount Rushmore. [00:21:28] Speaker A: I hear and there's also some other unconscionable things about. Oh, there's that terrible things about unconscionable things. Yeah. I. I'm glad you made it to the final four. Mount Rushmore. I mean, also, crazy horse is a part of this. And crazy horse, that one's also tough because it's just. [00:21:43] Speaker B: It's. [00:21:43] Speaker A: When it's done, it will maybe be the greatest, coolest thing we've ever seen. [00:21:46] Speaker B: Yeah, but it ain't done. [00:21:47] Speaker A: But it ain't done. So when we get there, let me know. [00:21:51] Speaker B: Hit me up. We will. [00:21:53] Speaker A: We're happy to reevaluate and relitigate. So once crazy horse is completed, I'm happy to come back to this final four and have a new conversation. But, yeah, until then, I think we. We do got to move the National Mall on. So here we go. We got the Grand Canyon going up against the National Mall. Okay. So, Cody, going back to your point, though somewhat. Paul from Uruguay. [00:22:14] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:14] Speaker A: It's like, hey, I'm coming to America. I got three days. Where are you sending. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:20] Speaker A: Because is the Grand Canyon. Does the Grand Canyon have the same problem as Mount Rushmore or. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Because. [00:22:27] Speaker A: Let's see. I think one important thing to know is how far is the grand Canyon from, like, Phoenix? What is the. Near 3 hours. Okay. [00:22:35] Speaker B: Not too bad, but it's a major city. But here's the thing. The Grand Canyon. I feel like there's just. Once you're at Mount Rushmore, there's nothing besides our Rushmore. It's Grand Canyon. I feel like you could take. You could take donkeys to the bottom. There's probably a place for food. There's probably. There's that other park that's just out the way where they got the big rocks in that area. There's more to do. [00:22:56] Speaker A: Sure, sure. Okay. Now my other question goes back to something we kind of talked about already, but I want to bring it back. So the national, this is, we are saying, the best us monument, right? [00:23:08] Speaker B: Yes. [00:23:08] Speaker A: The Grand Canyon in no way tells our story. [00:23:12] Speaker B: Right. [00:23:12] Speaker A: Our history, our story. I'm not saying that it's important to say. I'm just saying it doesn't. National Mall feels like we are doing that, but it is just a lot of white dudes there. [00:23:24] Speaker B: Yeah, I hear you. I hear. [00:23:26] Speaker A: And an MLK, which also feels kind of how they've, like, treated chaboy. [00:23:30] Speaker B: Yeah. Gotta get like, no, he's basically one of them. [00:23:32] Speaker A: It's like he was not even close, but I guess like. Okay, sure. No, he only did one speech. He only talked about one thing ever. He definitely wasn't like, hey, I'm pretty sure the CIA is going to kill me. Because I'm talking about. I'm telling black and white people, like, what? You're both poor. Why do you give a shit? Fight. Fight against them. [00:23:48] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:23:48] Speaker A: They don't put that on his plaque, which bothers me. [00:23:50] Speaker B: Should I. Should I understand? They should be. But I think there's something about the Grand Canyon that is. I think what being one of the natural wonders is cool. You can't go anywhere else in the world and see this. I can go get political propaganda, and basically any country I go to, that's fair. That's fair. [00:24:11] Speaker A: Like, okay, I'm trying, like, if I were to go to another country, I'm trying to think, like, what am I? What is the thing that I'm old like, that I really want to see? And is it the wonders of the world? Or is it. [00:24:23] Speaker B: I go into my own heart. It's just big stuff that people made. I like big stuff. I like big rocks. They've been carved. I like buildings. I like stuff that goes up and down, shakes me side to side. [00:24:36] Speaker A: Just at your core, you're like, man, it's so big. [00:24:39] Speaker B: It's so big. [00:24:40] Speaker A: It's so big. And it started from an even bigger rock. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:43] Speaker A: That's crazy. It feels like it's cheating, though. This is my problem, is, like, I feel like it's cheating. Like, do you feel like if we would have only allowed it to have, like, the Abe Lincoln or the George W. We both know if it was just the George Washington, we would have kicked this out. [00:24:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:59] Speaker A: You mean nothing? George Washington? Abe Lincoln's is sick. Thomas Jefferson kind of has his own cool little setup and thing. [00:25:06] Speaker B: All right. Okay. That's true. But I think we gotta. If I'm at the National Mall, right? Yeah. [00:25:12] Speaker A: It has to be put together, though. It's all right there. [00:25:15] Speaker B: Like, it's gotta be all one thing. And also, like, that's where Forrest Gump was there. Forrest Gump did the thing there. And, like, the X Men had a thing there. And, like, no one does anything at the Grand Canyon, is my point. Like, we have this big hole, but, like, think about Hollywood. They don't use the hole. The whole. [00:25:32] Speaker A: Yeah, they rarely. [00:25:33] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:33] Speaker A: They do not focus. Yeah, we can. We're like, it is what it is. [00:25:37] Speaker B: That's my only. And that. [00:25:38] Speaker A: I think that's the scary part about the Grand Canyon for me. We talked about this, right? We talked about this. In group a. So I'm not, I'm not splitting the atom here. What if I'm not amazed? What if I drove 4 hours from Vegas, right? I'm just in the mecca of sin, and I'm like, you know what? I'm going to take a day. I'm going to drive out. I want to see the Grand Canyon, right? I want to see the sunrise over the Grand Canyon. Let's do it. And then I get there and I'm just the thinking the whole time that I'm, like, really rather be playing craps. Yeah, you're saying craps. Whereas, like, at least I feel like the National Mall. Your, your expectation is kind of set, right? I know exactly how I'm gonna feel looking at a statue. I'm gonna read a little bit, grab some new info, be like, oh, interesting. Did you know Thomas Jefferson was allergic to honey? I didn't know that. [00:26:26] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:26:27] Speaker A: And then be like, okay, cool. Now I'm gonna go eat. Now I'm gonna go do something else. Like, I can kind of compartmentalize it. But the Grand Canyon, if I am awed by this and I find God, then that's, then it maybe is the greatest. [00:26:41] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. You either find God or lose God. At the Grand Canyon. There's no there. [00:26:46] Speaker A: There are people there. It's just tears for a lot of different reasons. [00:26:50] Speaker B: At the Grand Canyon, I'm lucky to the National Mall. I think at the end of the day, I thought I was gonna be a Grand canyon boy, I thought I liked this big hole. But I, to be a national monument, I want to embrace the history, but I also want to embrace the creation of it. Like, somebody had to make this stuff and be inspired and build it. Right. [00:27:09] Speaker A: Not just put. Not just build roads and then put a ticket, you know, it's a monument. [00:27:14] Speaker B: To something, not a monument to whole. [00:27:17] Speaker A: Right, right. Yeah, I I think I'm with you here. I think I got to go. National Mall. Maybe it's a little, maybe it's a little overpowered. But, hey, I would say, like, also you're in DC. That's a pretty good spot to go. [00:27:29] Speaker B: Nick, would you if we. Okay, I'm giving you the option. You get to keep the Grand Canyon or you can get rid of the Grand Canyon completely. It becomes just normal dirt over there. Sure. But there is one hole that's 1ft round, but it is completely bottomless and science can't explain it. Am I. [00:27:49] Speaker A: Because you're not allowed to do this in the Grand Canyon. Am I allowed to throw pennies down it? [00:27:53] Speaker B: Yeah, whatever. No, science can't explain it. That's fine then. [00:27:55] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, pennies down it. [00:27:57] Speaker B: That's. [00:27:58] Speaker A: That's all I'm trying to do. And I don't like the Green King's like, hey, you really can't do that here, man. Like, what? [00:28:03] Speaker B: Impressive, though. Like, if you're just looking at it on the ground. Just a hole. [00:28:07] Speaker A: Yeah, but it's just. They're like, no, for, like, you get, like, one of those, like, high powered, like, lasers, and even then you can't. [00:28:13] Speaker B: Like, you're just like, no, science can't do it. There's nothing. [00:28:15] Speaker A: And, like, there's nothing. There's no way. [00:28:18] Speaker B: I'm just. I guess I'm just sad that science explained the Grand Canyon, and that's all I wanted to say, that. [00:28:23] Speaker A: That someone figured out erosion, and you were just like, man, there it goes. [00:28:28] Speaker B: There it is. [00:28:28] Speaker A: So that's all it was, just wind and rain. That's kind of. I'm being honest, kind of sucks. It's not really that cool. [00:28:36] Speaker B: Oh. [00:28:36] Speaker A: And it took billions of years, so I will. I will never see the Grand Canyon change in any major way ever. [00:28:43] Speaker B: So. Oh, I'm supposed to love this hole with my heart and soul, but I don't even get to see a sequel? [00:28:49] Speaker A: No, sorry. We're probably adding new shit to them all the time. [00:28:53] Speaker B: We just add MLK. [00:28:54] Speaker A: Like I just said, we're going to add new people to it all the time. Always a reason to go back to the mall. Ain't nothing for you. You know what? Fuck the Grand Canyon. [00:29:03] Speaker B: I'll say it. I don't even get it. [00:29:05] Speaker A: Screw you. Can't screw you, Grand Canyon. [00:29:07] Speaker B: What do you come until you get a sequel? [00:29:09] Speaker A: Until you get a better sequel? I don't even know if I'm going to go. [00:29:11] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm probably not. I decided that right now. So I'm like, in National Mall, dude. I'm. [00:29:16] Speaker A: I'm like, in the National Mall as well. And that is it, folks. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of friendly competition. National Mall, you're on the boat. If you liked what you heard, please go hit that. Follow that like that. Subscribe, make sure we're showing up in your feed so you can see all the great episodes and give us those five stars, please. [00:29:37] Speaker B: Paulson, all of our social media, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Jessica, bat friendly compod. If you have an idea for a whole 16 team tournament you'd like to see, email us to us at friendly. [00:29:47] Speaker A: Competitionpodcastmail.Com as always, shout out to Charizard for that intro to our music. You want to hear more of their stuff? And over to bandcamp, type in Charizard and replace the vowels with sixes. That is going to be it for us. We got a new season coming out on Monday, but until then I've been Nick Carrey. [00:30:05] Speaker B: And I'm Cody Lena. See on the boat.