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Hi everyone, I'm Emily and I'm Vince and this is the lighthouse

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Very good intro 50th episode

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edition

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It's very exciting the big five. Oh, I kind of I've said this before but when I started this I wanted us to get to

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See look at us. So we're doing something special for this episode. I wanted it to be special

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We don't have a history of we because I suspect

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That this is going to be very long. Okay, nice or at least there's a possibility for it to be pretty long

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Because I took lots of notes. Okay, which is funny because it's like

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95% history lesson 5% lighthouse. We love history. We also love lighthouses. Yeah, they're in there. It's just not a

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Lighthouse history is fun, too a major a major boom

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So today we're talking about excuse my pronunciation

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their liberty a clone lemon or

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Liberty enlightening the world also best known as that you have liberty lady

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My lady my lady liberty. So you're speaking French. Yeah, France. I'll say I don't know how to say that

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there's lots of French names in here and

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There's like an English pronunciation, which is just sad and the French pronunciation and the guy it's like a video

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you can watch that it's like he did a series of

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Prominent French people in history how to pronounce their names and he's French and so he'll say it and he's like I know it's really hard for

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People who don't speak French to say this. So here's the English pronunciation. I'm like, oh boy

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We have a crutch so most people know what the Statue of Liberty is I'm assuming

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internationally

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Because you know, we know very I mean we know what the Eiffel Tower is

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So I would think people know what the lady I think so liberty is it's one of our international symbols

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Yeah, but I'll break it down so that for the people that don't know they can hear about Statue of Liberty

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So it's an enormous copper

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Neo classical sculpture in New York City on Liberty Island in the New York Harbor. It's a figure of

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Libertas which I could not find the pronunciation for so

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That one's Latin and it's the Roman goddess of Liberty or freedom. Oh, so she's supposed to be a depiction of a

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Greek god, I think

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I did not know that yeah in her right hand she holds a torch and in the left is a tablet that says July 4th

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1776 which was in Roman numerals, which was when the US declared independence

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And at her feet are a broken shackle and chains that she's walking out of which signifies the

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abolition of slavery after the American Civil War and the idea for her was actually born

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At the very end of the American Civil War by a French abolitionist who supported the Union during the Civil War

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I did not know it was related to the Civil War at all directly related

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Which is very interesting abolition of slavery. Yeah, so from the back you can see that her other foot is pushing off

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So it's like she's stepping out of the chains of slavery cool

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Very cool on her head is a crown with seven spikes which signifies the Sun the seven seas and the seven continents

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Which is why she's called liberty enlightening the world and not just liberty and lightning, you know the Americas or whatever

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That's awesome. There's a gift from the French to the United States

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It was and that's basically as far as it goes in like American history classes

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They just say like I was a gift from the French but there's so much cool history and like how it came to be that

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I'm gonna cover it. Oh

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Cover it awesome. I was gonna ask a bunch of questions, but I'll hold my tongue

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Okay, so where did you come from?

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She was a gift from the French people which is important to specify that the government was not involved in

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Anything that happened with the Statue of Liberty really like there was some commute

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I mean obviously there was communication had to be like I

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Think the French government funded

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the shipment of the Statue of Liberty, but everything

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was funded by the people French people and US people because

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The French funded the building of the statue and the US funded the building of the pedestal

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Which is like half the height of the entire statue

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Nice. I'm getting ahead of myself. So the idea for the Statue of Liberty was born in

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1865 at the end of the Civil War a French historian and abolitionist

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Yeah, if anybody watches a national treasure, he's in there. Is that the second one?

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It must be I don't know. Oh, no, maybe it's the first one. I just remember them saying well, yeah

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He gets all excited talking to the French police

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Okay, this is off topic drone type just a little bit but there is a third

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National treasure like kind of in the works. No, no, no, come on. It's good. Nick Cage is gonna be in it

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Okay, it's the same producer and everything. All right. I have

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Doubts. Okay. Yeah, maybe I shouldn't get my hopes up, but I hope it's great

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Okay, so anyway la Balay

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Suggested a monument to commemorate a hundred years of independence that

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would be in 1876 the Perseverance

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the Perseverance of American democracy and the abolition of slavery

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So it's supposed to kind of just be like an all-in-one gift to the American people. Yeah, the conversation inspired

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Bartoldi Bartoldi. Oh

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Man, I'm glad this is not my episode. I'm yeah Bartoldi Bartoldi

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Bartoldi Bartoldi who was a French artist French sculptor

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Although he didn't start work on it right away due to having other projects in the work. And this is this very interesting

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He in the late 1860s. So around the same time that this was suggested by his friend lovely he approached the

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Ruler of Egypt, I guess with a plan to build Egypt carrying the light to Asia which was going to be a huge

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This was his plan for it. So you can clearly see like the Statue of Liberty

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Kind of like yeah form came from by looking at a picture of what his plans were for this lighthouse. That's awesome

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So it was going to be a depiction of an ancient Egyptian female peasant

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Robed and holding a torch aloft at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal in Port Said

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Oh, yeah, because it had just opened and so it was like this big deal

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He wanted to make this statue in this lighthouse to go at the front

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But it would have been too expensive for Egypt to have foot the bill. Yeah

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The Suez Canal is the one that got blocked by a cargo ship not long ago. Oh, no way. I'm pretty sure

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Yeah, that was two years ago. Exactly

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I'm pretty sure it was two years ago time really is getting weird doesn't exist

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But anyway, so obviously you can see how we got our Statue of Liberty from his earlier plans. It's kind of crazy

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Cool painting too. Just to show a mock-up. Yeah, I wonder if he did it because I mean he was an artist

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So let me just throw this together real quick. Yeah, just show you what I'm thinking. You have watercolors

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So anyway in 1871 Bartoldi sailed to the US I

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Guarantee I'm saying that wrong and I'm gonna say his name so many times during this episode

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So I want to apologize in advance to everybody, especially the French people who gifted us this amazing statue

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But he sailed to the US to pitch the idea for his sculpture because it wasn't a government thing

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He had to go and actually convince people to donate and like be on board

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Yeah for having this this big statue when he arrived on the boat coming into the harbor

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He saw Bedloe's Island and knew that it would be the perfect place and I have a map

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Although I don't think I'm close enough for it to be super helpful

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But if you look oh, yeah, you can see it. It's underneath this New Jersey

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That's Bedloe's Island, which is where we currently have the Statue of Liberty and see how like there's this dotted line around it

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Yeah, it's technically in New Jersey, but it's owned by New York

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They like worked out the details so that they could still keep the island whenever like lines were getting redrawn

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That's crazy. Isn't that cool? I did not know that so what was there before when it was was it Bedloe's Island?

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It was already owned by the government because it was a defensive position for coming into the harbor

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So that was the good thing is that he got there wanted this island and President Grant assured him that they'd be able to use it

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Because they already owned it

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So he had some say and you know where they were going to put it. Of course he needed a like government

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Agreement for where he was going to put this colossal statue

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Crossed the United States twice by rail

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Spreading the idea everywhere he went for eventual funding and support this guy just got on a train and just crossed the entire United States twice

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Just to get the word out there

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I just I never considered that the actual sculptor would go out and just be like hey fund my statue

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Like this was a starving artist sort of thing. Yeah, well, that's yeah, that's quite an adventure

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And especially because now we know him. He's like it's a big name

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He did great things like all kinds of cool stuff

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But before anything he was just a guy trying to get his name out there and get his art out there and

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Did it in the biggest way possible?

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So at that time like I just told you it's a depiction of libertas

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Liberty? Yeah

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What?

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Libertas is it just means liberty?

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It's the the Roman goddess. Oh the goddess. Yeah

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Right probably with the word liberty coming out

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Yeah, right probably where the word liberty comes from nice. Yeah, I think it's just liberty in latin

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But she was already depicted a ton in the united states

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So it wasn't like this weird figure that he just pulled out of nowhere. It was like it was on

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Oh, I actually have pictures

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I also did not fully set in my slideshow pictures, please pictures

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Boom. Wow. So the first picture is what's on top of the u.s. Capitol building

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It's a depi it's called um statue of freedom, which is also libertas

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And there's like a whole bunch of history and drama surrounding this because a lot of people thought she was a native american

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When they put it up there tassels. Yeah, and

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Her headdress or you know, like her helmet was different and they had to change it because yeah, there's like all kinds of

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Stuff that happened with the building of the statue which I didn't get too deep into because i'm talking about a different statue

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Sure, but the u.s coins also for like centuries had a depiction of libertas on the back

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So I included a couple of those from the 1700s 18s and 1900s super cool. Isn't that neat? So she was everywhere. It wasn't like um

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Just a random figure. Yeah, it was it was widely

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Um accepted in the united states as like a depiction of what we were aiming for

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Yeah in 1875 so 10 years a decade after he suggested this

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Label a suggested the french people financed the building of the statue because they had tried to get government funding and it wasn't happening

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Which also happened in the u.s

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They tried to get a hundred thousand dollars and was vetoed and they tried to get fifty thousand dollars vetoed

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And then they decided it was just gonna have to be crowdfunded which is the first time it was kind of like

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That crowdfunding happened a huge project. Yeah

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He also suggested the u.s fund the pedestal and the site for where the statue was going to be so it wasn't like all on

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the french people which some people had a problem with but

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It wasn't like it wasn't like half and half. They still paid way more than we did

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It was like two-thirds, but to receive a gift you have to pedestal. Yeah true

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Gotcha, I don't know. I would have thought it was cool

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If you're getting a 300 foot statue, I'd be like, you know, okay today

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With the the stuff they're like, hey you want to pay a tax to okay?

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Like all of the sports stuff going on right now in Kansas City Kansas City sports is asking for tax money

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To build a new stadium that no one no one I don't want it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, let's not

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We don't need it. I don't think it's not it's it's super not necessary, but people want it so that

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We don't get left or something like the chiefs don't leave but it's

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It's abnormal for sports to leave their hometowns like that's my politics

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But but the point is if they were saying hey, let's build a yeah

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Multi-million dollar pedestal to put a multi-million dollar and you can pay for it from the french. I'd be like

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Didn't we already do this one time?

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Can you just polish that one it all went over but it was at first it was very very difficult to get funding and right

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It was just getting vetoed everywhere. So Bartoldi began sculpting designs in 1870

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So it was like five years after the suggestion

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So he was on board right away and he actively oversaw sculpting between 1875 and 1884

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That's how long it took to finish the statue. It was nine years. It was done by hammering 31 tons

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of copper

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I like what tons of copper sheets onto iron framework, which was done by Gustav Eiffel

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So the guy who built the Eiffel Tower heard that name responsible for the internals of the Statue of Liberty big iron

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guy pretty cool. Yeah, one of the earliest examples of curtain wall construction

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You know what that is? Nope. Okay, the outer layer is not load-bearing and so it's like attached but kind of floating

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Like there was like room between it so that

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In the high winds of the harbor it could shift without um, like putting pressure on the statue. That's cool. Isn't that cool?

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Between the iron and copper to prevent galvanic corrosion. Yeah, which

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We'll find out later didn't work

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So then it became extremely hard to deal with it

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Yeah, and there was tons of corrosion, but i'll talk about there's a restoration a humongous restoration

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They did later that i'll cover. Okay. So as each piece was completed like

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Statue of Liberty was built in pieces like her head and her arm her hand like everything was separated

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And as each piece was completed they were displayed at like international

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Conventions and like they had it in manhattan for a couple of years like her um torch bearing arm. Yeah

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That's cool. Here's a picture. I think this was in display in france

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And you can just go and take a look at it and in all the old pictures

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You can tell that it's still copper colored, which I think is so funny because now she's green

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But they're always dark like very dark which

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I'll talk about that later as well. It's super cool. Yeah

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Says colossal hand and torch liberty. Yeah, the guy's like as I build these I need somewhere to put them

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Yeah, i'll just send them around the world

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Yeah, and it would gain funding people see it and they're like, oh I can donate to make this happen. Like that's so cool. So in france

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To get the money bartoldi

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Appealed to the rich and powerful to donate as well as sold tickets for people to watch the sculpting work

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Which I think I would definitely pay to see people hammering away

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Yeah to like build stuff and then they would like to buy them and then they would like to buy them

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Like build stuff and he also did auctions and sold

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Small models of what the statue would look like and it's like a six inch one was a dollar

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And a 12 inch one was five dollars. So that'd be so cool

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At the time one dollar was like thirty three dollars. So it's cool. Yeah, cool. It is an artist-made piece. Mm-hmm

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Or maybe it was mass produced or something but like a mold of what it's going to look like

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I bet you they're worth a couple more dollars today

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The liberty museum which is on the island that she's on. So talk about that, too

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It's gonna be such a long episode i'm so sorry, it's all good. Yeah, why am I apologizing i'm

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Gifting you with all this knowledge. I'm along for the ride

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So that's how he got money in france the u.s

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Stalled immediately because they couldn't get any funding at all. So then the publisher

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Of the new york world newspaper joseph pullitzer. Oh, i've heard of that name. Mm-hmm pullitzer prize pullitzer prize

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My god friday afternoon sipping my coffee sipping on that starbucks

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Hmm hot coffee was a good move. Oh, yeah, I guess I wouldn't have considered getting a hot coffee, but i'm fully on board

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It's a move. So the publisher started to oh my gosh started a donation drive to get a hundred thousand dollars

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$20,000, okay, which at the time

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2.4 million dollars. So just like hey, let's just like a little momentum. So he started a donation drive

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So in the newspaper, he said no matter how much you donate even if it's just like a penny

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so there's this huge incentive for anybody and everybody to end up in the newspaper and you can like

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I wish I'd taken a note of an example, but it was like

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young lonely old lady like donates two dollars like you could just

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Say whatever you wanted to say about yourself and he would print it. So

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obviously that gained a lot of traction, especially with like school children like lots of

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Young children just gave whatever they had like just a couple of pennies or whatever because it would be so cool for your name to be in a newspaper

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It's the gilfundme the original because that was like the only form of of media was just to see the newspaper

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So like to have your name in there would be so cool, especially in a big city, New York. Yeah, so you attracted 120,000

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um people who contributed and most gave less than a dollar which is like I said 33 dollars what

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Thirty three dollars. I mean I would pay more than that. I think

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So that was a big move pollitzer. Yeah, so he pretty much single-handedly

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Was like the orchestrator of raising the money for the pedestal of the statue and he also did auctions of artwork and poetry

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And included a sonnet which has lines on a plaque on the statue. Oh cool

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I should have also made note of that but I have so many notes. It's unbelievable. It's called the new colossus

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and um heard of that he had a poet write

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Some poetry to donate so that they could auction it off. Yeah, i've heard all these things but it's been almost 20 years

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You think you heard it in school? Oh, yeah, I've heard those words

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I feel like I didn't hear anything about this in school. History was like awesome when I was in school. I loved history. Yeah, but then

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Um real life came crashing down. We had to become engineers. Yeah, gross. Had to

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Another cool thing is that I don't know if it was with his own money or with like leftover money or something

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But after the completion of fundraising he commissioned a giant stained glass piece of the statue

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Which is now at Columbia University that you can go and like see. Let's see it. That is cool. Isn't that so pretty?

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Two earths. I wonder

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How big we're talking

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And how much was it to commission? I don't know pretty cool though. Yeah, very cool. Incredible. That was

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Fundraising the Statue of Liberty. It's crazy, but it did the trick and the sculpture was shipped to the u.s

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In crates and assembled in what was called Bedloz Island at the time right now. It's different in the end

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It cost France two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which is five point nine million dollars today

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Nothing in the u.s. A hundred thousand which is two point four

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And the Statue of Liberty was entirely crowd funded besides. I think transportation

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Wow, so the u.s. Did a big celebration a big unveiling of the Statue of Liberty

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And it was the first ticker tape parade, which i've heard of because it's in france

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Apparently they went by the stock market and they threw ticker tape as confetti and nowadays

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It's confetti. Oh, yeah, they make confetti now. Yeah, so that was a ticker tape parade. I was like, I don't I don't know

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What year was the unveiling in the u.s. 1887

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The the whole like because then they had a ceremony by president cleveland on october 28th 1886

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And oh, I have a cool picture, too

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This was a an etching which was a depiction of what it looked like when they unveiled it. They had a fireworks and

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There was like the a big parade of boats and everything that came to go and see it. So that is cool. Yeah, it was pretty cool

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And it's so funny seeing this

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engraving and just like

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New york was not a big city

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Of skyscrapers at that it was the late 1800s. It was all just like looked like a normal

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Yeah, I don't know when all that started. You know, there's the famous photos of

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I think it's new york where they started building the high-rise. Yeah skyscrapers. They had the iron workers people were dying every single day

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But I think that was early 1900s. So after this but yeah

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I think it had to have been yeah, because it's

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In like old photos of it even there's no buildings in the background because it's so high up that nothing

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Comes close to it. There's a movie

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Sorry, there's a movie I was looking at watching. I've already seen it's called hill doggo. I tell you this no, it's about a

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Cowboy if you will a western man who participates in a great horse race

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It's really it's like 2004 2005. It came out

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But it's set in the 1890s, I think and there's a scene a cut scene where they're in new york city and

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Getting on a boat to go

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To europe and uh the Statue of Liberty is new in the oh, they're like looking at it

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That's pretty cool. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, I touched very briefly on that as well, but

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This so this commemorative moment

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It began its history as a lighthouse

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And it's not a success story. Oh, no, so

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Okay, I have so many questions. No, no, go ahead. It was designed to be a lighthouse. No, that's the problem

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Yeah, it was not designed to be a lighthouse

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He made plans for another statue that looked very similar to be a lighthouse, but this one was not going to be so but the egypt

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Egyptian the egypt one was supposed to be a lighthouse. Yeah, it was kind of a okay

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Yeah, so it kind of was a

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Yeah, so it kind of crossed over but he obviously did not like put forth any plans that would make this lighthouse

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I don't really know what happened that they randomly decided to make it an age navigation

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You know that tall thing it's tall. It has a light like let's make it a lighthouse

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Trees for navigation they used to point at bays and say you have a tall elm over there

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Yeah, you know that tall tree or they would like put sticks just like a tall stick

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So like okay, it's a day mark but like at night it was supposedly just pitch black like you can see it

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I'll go into the details, but november 16th 1886 so less than a month after the ceremony. Yeah

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President cleveland declared the statue quote

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Be at once placed under the care and superintendents of the lighthouse board and that it be from henceforth made

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Under the care and superintendents of the lighthouse board and that it be from henceforth maintained by said board as a beacon end quote

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ah like

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What do you mean?

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Here take this you can't just say that it's okay. It's a lighthouse. It's like this. You don't know

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So funny, so between then and its ceremony lighting the sculpture had been just like an absolute

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part of my language part of my french shit show

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Because it wasn't made to light up like he didn't consider like how is this thing to be lit and it wasn't his problem

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He built the statue and then I was like, okay if you want to light it up, you can light it up but floodlights

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Were was like not a thing yet. Yeah, and so they kind of

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Started floodlight like it's funny because in this etching it's shown all lit up, but that just wasn't a thing

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Well, yeah, they probably fireworks lit it up. Yeah

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electricity was also a new thing and so it was

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You got this giant statue. How new out on an island

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Electric lights first appeared in 1880 on broadway

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The first were brand new. Yeah, we're talking brand spanking new. That's

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Yeah, you had that six years later light bulbs that we want floodlights

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Being able to cover. Yeah, that was 300 feet on an island in the middle of water. Not possible

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With that technology

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With that technology the requirements were crazy

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But it was first attempted to be lit

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The evening after its dedication

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And it was so faint that the world said it looked quote more like a glow worm than a beacon. Oh

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Absolutely tragic shame

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Bartoli never outlined how he meant to light the torch or the statue

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Like I said, he didn't plan on it

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So it was just a major struggle of getting it all tied together and there were lots of ideas thrown around about what it was

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Going to look like what they wanted it to look like that. It's outlined really well in

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lighthouse friends dot com

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So if anyone wanted to go there and wikipedia also has tons of information on it

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I know wikipedia is not like a reputable source, but was there electricity on the island? No, they had to lay uh

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Wires or whatever, you know, um under tables. Yeah along the bottom of the harbor and that was new technology

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Yeah, that's crazy. It was just funny that they were just like oh crap like how are we gonna like this?

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Run a cord out here

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Solar panels. No, do you know and he's like no leds. No batteries. No. Yeah

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so there are all kinds of ideas like

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beams straight up from the torch into the clouds or like

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beams on her face coming from the torch like

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All kinds of cool ideas, but there was no way to execute them and there was also no money

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Which is the other thing like nobody?

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Anything other than getting the statue put together crazy. There are

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Details I wasn't going to cover all of them because they did all kinds of stuff like they cut

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portholes in the torch and like put colored

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Sheets of glass so that it was like I don't know. It was all kinds of all kinds of weird stuff

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But check out our links for details. You can find all kinds of stuff there

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Cool. So November 1st was the first day that the statue was reliably lit

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But the american electrical manufacturing company who donated a lot of the equipment to light up the lighthouse

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Only agreed to keep the lights on for one week. So it was like, uh, yeah

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They're like here. We'll donate all this stuff, but we're not gonna fund

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The electricity that lights the lighthouse. You're gonna have to figure out funding like we'll fund it for a week

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but after that you're gonna have to figure it out so

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So congress so far had not been able to secure funding

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So after bartoldy came and approved the lighting situation, she was turned off for two weeks

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So she was lit for a week and then down again for two weeks

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And during this time the lighthouse board worked behind the scenes to secure funding and a team

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And so then the president naturally rolled over responsibility to the lighthouse board. Let's go lighthouse establishment. Let's go

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November 22nd 1886 the statue of liberty became an operational lighthouse

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And the long story short is that it just she just sucked at it

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There's no question about it. She was not made to be a lighthouse

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So she failed as a lighthouse the lighthouse board were totally against having this lighthouse

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Or the statue of liberty as a lighthouse

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Because they didn't think it made any sense as an aid to navigation. They didn't need a lighthouse there

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They never planned on putting one there. Yeah. Well, I mean they're already stretched thin and then you have

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Oh, yeah, we built this artistic piece and uh, it's pretty tall. So oh, it's a lighthouse. Yeah, you take care of it. Oh

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Oh no, you know hot potato. Yeah

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So they tried a lot of different methods to increase the effectiveness of at least the outer lights like the flood lights

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Because when they first turned them on it was like illuminating

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Certain parts of the statue and then the rest of her was just in shadow

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So it was like oh no, like what is happening and bartley came back in 1893 with suggestions for how it could help

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But nothing really worked at illuminating the statue how they wanted it to

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But as a lighthouse, I mean there there's there's details. She had a fresnel lens. So like hell, yeah

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The focal plane was at 305 feet above sea level. Yeah, so I remember in the tallest I think the first episode

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Other than the lighthouse of alexandria

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Yeah, hang on. Let me check. Isn't Hatteras like 260 280. No, not that tall. Uh,

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Two-something i'm guessing two

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Focal plane of 192 180 feet

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Tallest in the u.s. Okay. I wasn't close. I thought it was 200 something. It was two something. Yeah, but anyway

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Yeah, the statue of liberty was the tallest lighthouse

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besides the lighthouse of alexandria, which was

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Somewhere between 338 and 387 feet

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dang so

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Crazy, which is so crazy because there's

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Almost no evidence that it ever existed because its pieces were used to build something else alexandria. Yeah

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Yeah, I need to cover that one as well. So did uh

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So did uh, the lady liberty fail as a lighthouse because too tall didn't have the lighting technology

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Wasn't needed. I mean as an aid to navigation. There was no gusto to making it work because it wasn't necessary. It was just kind of like

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Okay, the lights aren't working

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Who knows a lot about lights in a structure like this because like the upkeep of

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No, as a lighthouse was not problematic. They weren't upset that it was this huge statue

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It was like we have tons of experience working with tall structures and it was just that they were peeved that they were given

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This thing that they didn't consider to be actually useful in navigating. So they're just like why do we have this?

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But anyway, her light was fixed white had nine arc lights inside a small fresnel lens

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So I don't know exactly which order it was but it was a fresnel lens

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And it should have been seen 24 and a quarter miles out to sea

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But it just didn't like it if you think about it

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The torch is not glass

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So you're not like you'd be seeing it through these tiny port holes that they cut it just didn't make sense

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There was a keeper. Can you imagine?

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The keeper of the statue of liberty be crazy a lot of climbing going on. I think it was a lighthouse for

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16 years. Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, and he was the keeper the whole time

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There's no other head keeper and originally they had four assistant keepers

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And then it dwindled to two and then to one and then it was cut

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So his name was albert e littlefield

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They all lived so all of these assistant keepers and the head keeper lived with their families on the island in a three-story building

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Albert was a machinist for the lighthouse board for five years before serving at the statue of liberty as a keeper

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And then because of his background in electrical stuff, he was paid a thousand dollars a year

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When normally it was like four hundred dollars a year dude is pulling money. Yeah, because he had expertise special machinist

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fabricator man

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After the statue of liberty was cut he returned to being an electrical engineer slash machinist

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Until he retired in 1919. Do you know who you worked for or there was a lighthouse board?

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Oh electrical engineer and machinist for the lighthouse board

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That's cool. Yeah, I bet he has a fun story. Yeah, I mean more than what we just said. There's tons of files

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About him after death. I don't know what happened like a ghost

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He wrote letters

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He fell in love with lady. It was like all kinds of legal stuff happening

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Oh, I don't know if like and it was always in it seems like his son's name

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So maybe there was some kind of I don't know. There was some kind of drama going on after life that overtook

423
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,960
his legacy in

424
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:37,120
1901 president roosevelt ordered the discontinuation of the lighthouse and it was extinguished in march

425
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,160
1902 and handed over to the war department

426
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:45,600
Because originally the island was cut into three pieces part of it was the war department

427
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:49,600
Part of it was lighthouse board and part of it was something else. I can't remember some other

428
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:54,400
Department of it was still used as a defensive position. Yeah for a little bit. Yeah

429
00:32:54,400 --> 00:33:00,160
So at least the lighthouse board part was handed back over to the war department

430
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:06,720
So that that's like i'm gonna keep going but that's the history of it as a lighthouse. That's

431
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:12,160
16 years is a pretty good run, but we're not even like we're barely into the 1900s

432
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:15,520
And there's still like so much to talk about the statue of liberties. Yeah

433
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:18,800
So i'm going to keep going for anyone that loves history

434
00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,240
past the lighthouse mumbo jumbo you're gonna get it

435
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:31,120
By the time it was extinguished the statue was already being talked about in the press for its creeping green patina

436
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:34,480
So what we know today is the statue of liberty was

437
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:40,480
Alarming people that they were starting to see this patina show up on all the copper

438
00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:44,640
I have a picture that i'll show you of this like really old

439
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:49,680
Sepia photo of yeah, what it looked like before and you can tell in this picture that it's still copper

440
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,040
So the statue itself was pretty dark because

441
00:33:54,080 --> 00:34:01,280
Pretty much immediately after its unveiling it stopped being metallic and shiny because patina like oxidation

442
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,600
And so it became like a dull copper. So it was kind of hard to see her details

443
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,760
So the patina was actually kind of a blessing

444
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,120
So it started in 1901 and it was a little bit of a

445
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:17,920
Patina was actually kind of a blessing so it started in 1901 and it started to turn green and fully covered by 1906. So

446
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,560
Okay, it was very fast

447
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:22,880
like relatively fast process of

448
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,500
Turning it's right on the water. Yeah, it's inevitable

449
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,280
But congress thought it was evidence of corrosion

450
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:33,680
And so they appropriated almost sixty three thousand dollars

451
00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:39,760
Which is over two million dollars to paint over it and do restoration work. No. Yeah, they were painting it

452
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,440
no, because

453
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:43,440
Everyone had a lot to say about that

454
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:48,240
because people thought that the green was nice they liked it because

455
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:54,960
Black the original was so dark that the the light like allowed you to see shadows and stuff

456
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,560
So the the army corps of engineers protested as did the public

457
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:05,040
And after their investigation the engineers concluded that it protected the skin the patina actually wasn't being problematic

458
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:11,840
But it was like a good thing and quote softened the outlines of the statue and made it beautiful. Well, they probably I was thinking about copper

459
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:17,680
They probably used copper because it was malleable so they could form it not because they wanted a golden shiny

460
00:35:18,240 --> 00:35:21,520
You know it I don't know but i'm i'm guessing it wasn't like

461
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:27,840
Copper that you see when you strip a wire where it's shiny and it's brand new and they had to have known

462
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:32,880
I mean they used copper for ages like they had to have known that it was going to oxidize

463
00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:37,120
copper working metal working though in the 1800s is still

464
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:42,400
Not perfect. I mean even there's the whole thing. I won't go too far, but oh the

465
00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:49,440
If you look up the metal the steel that was used in the titanic which was built what 1913?

466
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,600
Somewhere in there. We talked about it recently. Yeah, the titanic ship

467
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,280
had a

468
00:35:55,280 --> 00:36:01,920
Ductile to brittle transition temperature and dbt that when it hit the iceberg the metal split rather than

469
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:07,520
Oh, yeah deforming like anyways, uh, that's its own thing, but metal working was not perfected

470
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,920
Yeah, maybe it's still not didn't have all the details

471
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:16,640
Yeah, but so lady liberty was probably picked for malleability for copper not that they wanted to remain that color

472
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:19,520
But I wonder if they thought about it. Oh, well, I was just thinking

473
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:26,720
How strange that they didn't think that it would turn green or like wouldn't gift it and be like by the way

474
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:28,480
because

475
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:35,760
The like the arm itself we showed a picture. Yeah was shipped around and it was in manhattan for two years and it's like nobody

476
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:38,560
Saw anything or like there was no

477
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:43,280
It was it took nine years to build this the copper didn't have any sort. I don't know

478
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,400
it looks like it corroded bottom to top as far as

479
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:52,880
Uh being closer to the water. I would guess yeah, maybe just exposed metal. So it was fun that they

480
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:59,680
They referred to it as like more beautiful. Yeah over time like a lot. I feel like nowadays if something happened

481
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,360
It would be like no put it back to the way that it was before like this is a failure

482
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:08,400
But they just loved the way that she had turned out just over time. Yeah, it's very unique

483
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,520
Yeah, and they and they talked a lot about like referencing the statue as like this beautiful

484
00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,240
you know, it's just a statue but

485
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,560
people especially like immigrants or

486
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,520
people coming over from

487
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:23,760
Europe or whatever just saw it as this

488
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:31,200
Amazing like in that the sonnet that I was talking about earlier. She describes her as the mother of exiles

489
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,920
So it's like supposed to be a welcome to all the weary that are coming to america

490
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,200
And you have to pass right by her coming into harbor

491
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:45,280
so all these people just just shitty travel months of being on the sea in a ship and

492
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:51,680
Having to leave everything behind. They don't know they don't speak our language. They don't know anybody they're just

493
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:53,520
severing ties with

494
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:58,880
Everything that they know show up in america and are welcomed by this like incredible

495
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,440
depiction of liberty just like a freedom and I mean at that time

496
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:10,240
Coming to america was like we had tons of land all the opportunities. It was just you could be anything

497
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:12,240
You could learn everything. It's just

498
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,800
It's like this really

499
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:23,200
really powerful image to come in after all this hardship and just know that like you were about to start anew and it was like an exciting thing

500
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,360
I've heard people talk about that. I mean

501
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:27,840
in written history like

502
00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:30,320
How how much of a badass you'd have to be?

503
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:36,720
To pack your life into a suitcase or a couple and then go to a place you've never seen

504
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:43,600
And you don't even use your currency like you don't have anything you show up and you tell them your name and they misspell it

505
00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:45,280
That's your name

506
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:51,120
You know what I mean? Like yes, even bailey. My last name was part of that system that was misspelled

507
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:53,680
I did want to say though

508
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:58,480
So that's I mean just like today if they're like, oh we can move to mars like there's a new colony on mars

509
00:38:58,720 --> 00:39:02,160
It's gonna be great. That would be like I don't want to go there. Let's get rid of all of our stuff

510
00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:04,560
We'll just bring a suitcase and we'll be in this new place

511
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:09,200
Yeah, I think I have a very privileged life and a lot of the immigrants probably did not no

512
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,600
But it's hard is ellis island out here. Yes

513
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:18,640
It's next it's nearby. It's like included in the same. I'll talk about it later

514
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:23,360
It was like during the restoration they included both islands in like the restoration efforts

515
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:28,000
So cool, I didn't talk too much about it, but there's um, it's like an onboarding. Yes

516
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:32,000
I couldn't think of a name but doc. Yeah on ellis island. So

517
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,040
It kind of solidified. It's like

518
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,980
Originally bartoldi meant for this to be a symbol of enlightenment, you know, like this

519
00:39:41,620 --> 00:39:44,020
powerful symbol of like america being

520
00:39:45,180 --> 00:39:52,420
Intelligent for having all like the freedom and the liberties our freedom of speech and this bill of rights amazing. Yeah

521
00:39:52,740 --> 00:39:54,740
declaration, but it became this

522
00:39:55,540 --> 00:40:00,500
Beacon of welcome of anyone who was coming into america, which I prefer

523
00:40:00,500 --> 00:40:05,860
They had a quote from a greek immigrant who came in on a boat and saw the statue of liberty

524
00:40:06,020 --> 00:40:09,700
And he said quote I saw the statue of liberty and I said to myself lady

525
00:40:09,700 --> 00:40:13,300
You're such a beautiful you open your arms and you get all the foreigners here

526
00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:18,020
Give me a chance to prove that I am worth it to do something to be someone in america

527
00:40:18,340 --> 00:40:21,940
And always that statue was on my mind think about the symbolism too

528
00:40:21,940 --> 00:40:25,460
It's this thing you're seeing probably on a boat, which is incredible

529
00:40:26,020 --> 00:40:28,900
And it's it's a gift from a western european

530
00:40:28,900 --> 00:40:33,220
Established people the french which are respected through most of history, right?

531
00:40:33,220 --> 00:40:36,980
We all are at some point, but the french are are well known for many good things

532
00:40:37,540 --> 00:40:42,820
They've given this to us. The people have given this to us if you know the whole story. Yeah, and then

533
00:40:43,460 --> 00:40:49,380
When given the gift the americans rose up and built a pedestal dedicated an island

534
00:40:49,940 --> 00:40:51,940
And put it in a foremost location

535
00:40:52,260 --> 00:40:57,220
Like new york. Yeah, it's just incredible so around that time whenever they

536
00:40:57,220 --> 00:41:03,620
Around that time whenever they gifted or at least had the idea and kind of started to execute the statue laboulet

537
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:08,740
Referenced that this time was oppressive for the french. There was the the russian

538
00:41:09,380 --> 00:41:12,660
war there was a war with russia or something that they lost and

539
00:41:13,460 --> 00:41:17,700
People a lot of people say that this statue was actually like a huge middle finger

540
00:41:18,180 --> 00:41:23,800
From france to its government where the people funded this depiction of liberty and freedom

541
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,800
Um because the government in france was so oppressive. It was like

542
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,480
Like we're gonna fund this big thing like it's an fu

543
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,200
I don't know history very well. Didn't we fight the french on world war one?

544
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:40,360
If i'm wrong someone out there is just gonna be so upset

545
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:46,280
Let me look it up. No, no, no, we didn't we came we came to their aid. Yeah

546
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:48,520
britain france

547
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:50,120
We're the allies

548
00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,960
britain from french

549
00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,080
italians

550
00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:55,400
austria at the time in germany were the axis

551
00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:59,880
And I don't even know if they call them that actually in world war one. That's a world war two term, but

552
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,080
Oh, no, see this is um, oh

553
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,040
A war okay. So this is why I got confused

554
00:42:06,600 --> 00:42:08,600
It's called the franco

555
00:42:08,740 --> 00:42:14,520
Prussian war I should probably butchered that but it's not russia. That's why I got confused

556
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:21,640
It's france and germany. Okay was the war that they lost and like had oppressive government

557
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:23,640
Yada yada. Yeah, so

558
00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:26,600
World war one which was 1914 to 18

559
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,320
The allied powers were france uk russia italy and us

560
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:36,200
And the central powers whatever they were called germany austria hungary

561
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,320
the ottoman empire

562
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,680
bulgaria and other minor central powers

563
00:42:43,240 --> 00:42:44,920
and russia was

564
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:49,800
Allied no, yeah, russia was allied we were with the russians. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. Sorry

565
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,280
Sorry all of history, but i'm uneducated

566
00:42:53,080 --> 00:42:55,960
I know we really don't know I promise I can tell you about certain things

567
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:01,560
I just can't tell you about world war one history. Yeah, my great-grandfathers fought in world war one all three of them. Oh

568
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:03,960
they were uh

569
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,960
My my grandpa's dad

570
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:07,560
and brothers

571
00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,560
um highly

572
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,740
They were canadian they highly discouraged

573
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,440
um

574
00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:17,080
Not fighting in the war

575
00:43:17,080 --> 00:43:20,840
And my grandpa complacency was in college world war two kicked off

576
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,960
He was like I am not

577
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,560
Going to world war two voluntarily and he was drafted

578
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,680
And it's a whole long story, but yeah pretty wild

579
00:43:31,480 --> 00:43:38,120
Whole family relationship world war one and two wicked wicked surprised. I'm here. But here we are. Yeah

580
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,240
So that's the statute of liberty

581
00:43:41,240 --> 00:43:44,120
For people I remember that it was a lighthouse because we mentioned it

582
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:48,760
I think you did early on and like trivia first episode or something. Yeah, and then yeah trivia

583
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:53,080
I'm pretty sure I did but super cool. Yeah, even though it sucked as a lighthouse

584
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,960
It tried its best

585
00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:03,020
But the war department held control of the light through world war one when in 1916 german saboteurs

586
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:09,800
Set off a huge explosion near the statue. I didn't know that there was a shipment of I don't know if it was missiles or explosives

587
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:11,800
Or something being sent to russia from the u.s

588
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:15,320
And they blew it up and so it cost

589
00:44:15,940 --> 00:44:20,760
2.7 million dollars in today's money just to fix the island and the right arm

590
00:44:21,560 --> 00:44:25,480
Was damaged and so originally you could climb up the right arm

591
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,600
Into the torch and see from up there

592
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:34,920
But at this point it was closed for like fixing and reconstruction stuff and it was never opened again

593
00:44:35,240 --> 00:44:38,280
Really? Yeah, never once I mean never again today

594
00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:41,320
It's been closed forever

595
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:43,660
1916 that's interesting. So

596
00:44:44,460 --> 00:44:50,940
Maybe you're gonna tell me but when you go and visit, what can you see? Well, i'm gonna let you know. Oh, oh, oh there's details

597
00:44:51,260 --> 00:44:55,020
It's actually quite nice. It's very inclusive. I'm excited to tell you about it

598
00:44:55,580 --> 00:44:56,380
so

599
00:44:56,380 --> 00:45:02,380
Around this time when they closed the right arm and fixed it from all the explosion the statue finally got adequate floodlights

600
00:45:02,780 --> 00:45:04,780
Wow, it only took like

601
00:45:06,380 --> 00:45:08,380
30 years. Yeah

602
00:45:08,380 --> 00:45:11,420
just a few decades, but you know you you

603
00:45:11,740 --> 00:45:16,620
Gotta make do with what you got and electricity just needed some time to grow before

604
00:45:17,420 --> 00:45:21,580
Could really handle something of the stature, but let's see how I get I pronounce it

605
00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:24,140
Oh gosh

606
00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:26,060
gutson

607
00:45:26,060 --> 00:45:28,060
borglum

608
00:45:29,660 --> 00:45:34,060
I'm sorry if that's wrong. Um, but anyway, he later sculpted mount rushmore

609
00:45:34,060 --> 00:45:39,900
So we got lots of big names around the Statue of Liberty. He redesigned the torch replacing a lot of the copper

610
00:45:40,380 --> 00:45:42,380
of the torch with stained glass

611
00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:44,620
What listen?

612
00:45:44,620 --> 00:45:46,620
i'm a stained glass artist and

613
00:45:48,060 --> 00:45:51,420
That is an awful idea to replace something

614
00:45:52,380 --> 00:45:53,580
metal

615
00:45:53,580 --> 00:45:59,180
300 feet something feet replace metal. I'll show you a picture of what it looked like before they replaced it again

616
00:45:59,180 --> 00:46:03,900
And don't look okay stained glass itself

617
00:46:04,460 --> 00:46:06,940
Don't don't don't don't you know?

618
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:12,700
I'll show you a picture. You'll understand. But basically that's a huge failure of a decision. That's fragile. Come on gutson

619
00:46:15,020 --> 00:46:19,980
So in world war one the image of the statue was used a lot for drafting to push the idea that

620
00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:26,940
To support. Thank you french. We'll fight in the war with yes to support and secure liberty

621
00:46:26,940 --> 00:46:31,980
For the rest of the world, you know, like come on. Look what we have. Look at this relationship that we've fostered

622
00:46:31,980 --> 00:46:36,300
We need to go and help. Yeah, we need to go and help the war to end all wars, right?

623
00:46:36,300 --> 00:46:38,300
Yeah, so like drafting images

624
00:46:38,860 --> 00:46:41,180
Often had the Statue of Liberty on them

625
00:46:41,660 --> 00:46:46,140
It's a great kind of yeah get some get some emotional symbol. Yeah

626
00:46:46,620 --> 00:46:50,860
I have no complaints with that. I think it's yeah, I don't see it and say let's go to war but you know at the time

627
00:46:50,860 --> 00:46:54,060
Maybe I see her more as like a soft

628
00:46:54,060 --> 00:46:56,060
like a gentle

629
00:46:56,380 --> 00:47:00,300
Like a hug. It doesn't like cannon next to her. Yeah. No, it's not like she's

630
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:05,100
That reminds me. Have you seen there's like images of like a

631
00:47:05,660 --> 00:47:11,580
Statue of liberty in like a war helmet. No, it's awful. But it was another like promotional thing

632
00:47:11,580 --> 00:47:16,060
It's like oh gosh just no, I haven't seen it. I know what you're trying to do, but

633
00:47:16,780 --> 00:47:21,020
Give her back her crown. It's like, what was it ruby riveter? What was her name?

634
00:47:21,020 --> 00:47:25,020
Oh, um, ru-

635
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:27,020
Wasn't ruby. No

636
00:47:29,340 --> 00:47:31,340
Rosie. Oh

637
00:47:32,380 --> 00:47:34,380
Rosie the Riveter

638
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:41,580
Moving on so Statue of Liberty was dedicated as a national monument in

639
00:47:42,140 --> 00:47:47,740
1924 which that took a long time a national you're gonna use it as a depiction of the draft people into a war and it's not gonna be

640
00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:51,420
A national monument. I think that's crazy long application lots of paperwork

641
00:47:51,420 --> 00:47:58,220
It was handed over to the National Park Service in 1933, which is still what it's under today. Nice. They've done good

642
00:47:58,220 --> 00:48:05,260
National Park. Yeah, the rest of bed low island followed suit in 1937. So the entire island is national park land

643
00:48:05,260 --> 00:48:10,540
100 years. Yeah, they immediately began transforming the space into a park and restored some of the areas

644
00:48:10,540 --> 00:48:13,740
Which is good because they were talking about it being just like a dump

645
00:48:13,740 --> 00:48:17,180
rotting wood stairs like only one

646
00:48:17,740 --> 00:48:22,140
Entry way was open for this to get into the statue and it was just like

647
00:48:22,860 --> 00:48:26,300
People talked about how they're surprised people didn't die going inside

648
00:48:26,300 --> 00:48:34,220
Like it was just like muggy and sick smelling like it was just like an awful. Yeah, I mean, there's no funding

649
00:48:34,220 --> 00:48:36,220
What are you supposed to do?

650
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:40,220
So anyway, it was really good those handed over to the National Park Service because they really didn't

651
00:48:40,220 --> 00:48:49,340
Amazing things to it, especially today. So World War II hit and it was no longer lit at night. So they just stopped

652
00:48:50,300 --> 00:48:53,500
Lighting it because there was like rolling blackouts for the war

653
00:48:54,460 --> 00:49:00,380
And it was only lit twice total during World War World War II on the new year in 1944

654
00:49:00,700 --> 00:49:03,580
Very briefly just like happy new year. Okay

655
00:49:04,940 --> 00:49:06,940
Like take that back down

656
00:49:06,940 --> 00:49:13,900
And the second time was on D-Day when the light flashed dot dot dot dash, which is morse code V for victory

657
00:49:14,700 --> 00:49:17,340
Which is awesome. I mean an awful

658
00:49:17,980 --> 00:49:21,820
Event but super cool lighting scenario. My grandpa was there

659
00:49:22,540 --> 00:49:24,940
Storm the beach and he didn't even want to go

660
00:49:26,220 --> 00:49:33,740
1956 just gonna flow right over that bedlose island was officially renamed to liberty island, which was bartledy's original

661
00:49:33,740 --> 00:49:37,260
Plan was to name it liberty island. So it just took

662
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:39,900
You know a while

663
00:49:40,460 --> 00:49:46,300
60 70 years. Yeah, they're like, yeah, let's rename it. You might as well as well. Who's bed low?

664
00:49:46,300 --> 00:49:48,300
Anyway, I don't want to pay taxes on this thing

665
00:49:50,060 --> 00:49:52,060
So now i'm going to go into

666
00:49:52,860 --> 00:49:59,900
The restoration hit it. So they planned a centennial celebration in 1986. So 100 years of the statue

667
00:49:59,900 --> 00:50:06,060
Being built they wanted to have a big celebration. So they needed to make sure that it was structurally sound and

668
00:50:06,860 --> 00:50:11,820
See when it'd be fixed on it and holy cow. It needed some serious work

669
00:50:11,820 --> 00:50:15,180
Like yeah, I think it would have been cheaper to build a new statue. Oh

670
00:50:16,620 --> 00:50:20,940
So french and american engineers gave it a evaluation

671
00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:24,540
And this was um, like five years before the celebration

672
00:50:24,540 --> 00:50:27,020
So they planned on having a new one

673
00:50:27,020 --> 00:50:33,260
So in 1982 they finished their evaluation and concluded that it needed considerable restorations

674
00:50:34,060 --> 00:50:39,980
President reagan announced the statue of liberty dash ellis island centennial commission

675
00:50:40,540 --> 00:50:45,340
Which was going to be responsible for funding or you know collecting funds for the project

676
00:50:46,140 --> 00:50:48,140
And they raised 350 million dollars

677
00:50:48,780 --> 00:50:50,780
Wow

678
00:50:51,340 --> 00:50:53,340
I don't know if that's in

679
00:50:53,340 --> 00:50:59,420
That time's money or if that's in today's money, but like still that's insane 350 million. Hopefully today

680
00:51:00,140 --> 00:51:03,340
It's gotta be right. I mean wall street in the 80s was pretty lit

681
00:51:03,340 --> 00:51:10,460
But part of that was because american express card promised one cent of all credit card purchases would go towards the project

682
00:51:10,940 --> 00:51:12,940
And it's still on the american express card

683
00:51:13,660 --> 00:51:15,660
The statue of liberty is

684
00:51:16,140 --> 00:51:20,620
That's cool. Yep, you have one. Yeah, my wife and I are going to be doing that

685
00:51:20,620 --> 00:51:26,380
And it's definitely pretty cool. Yep, you have one. Yeah, my work card my old one now. Oh

686
00:51:26,940 --> 00:51:32,380
I never even noticed that and it's the same color. Yeah, they're probably gonna milk that forever like we did it

687
00:51:32,860 --> 00:51:34,280
the statue was closed in

688
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:40,620
1984 so we have two years until it's centennial celebration and it was closed that entire time for

689
00:51:41,100 --> 00:51:43,900
construction efforts and restorations and everything and

690
00:51:44,780 --> 00:51:48,780
The reopening would be on fourth of july weekend, which would be called liberty weekend

691
00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:51,220
So let me pull up a picture.

692
00:51:51,220 --> 00:51:54,980
They built the world's largest freestanding scaffolding.

693
00:51:54,980 --> 00:51:55,820
Yeah.

694
00:51:55,820 --> 00:51:57,740
That is terrifying.

695
00:51:57,740 --> 00:52:02,480
If you think about, you're like 250 feet up in the air.

696
00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:03,320
Just.

697
00:52:03,320 --> 00:52:04,140
That's pretty wild.

698
00:52:04,140 --> 00:52:06,620
I think I have a little bit of a fear of heights

699
00:52:06,620 --> 00:52:09,580
because I can't even imagine.

700
00:52:09,580 --> 00:52:12,020
I don't think I can climb the Statue of Liberty.

701
00:52:12,020 --> 00:52:13,860
Everybody fears heights to some degree.

702
00:52:13,860 --> 00:52:15,020
They stand on it, don't they?

703
00:52:15,020 --> 00:52:17,340
Like the scaffolding, the stairs.

704
00:52:17,340 --> 00:52:18,740
Yeah, there's like boards.

705
00:52:19,780 --> 00:52:23,780
I mean, at this point they have like modular,

706
00:52:23,780 --> 00:52:25,360
they're not boards anymore,

707
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:29,060
but modular metal aluminum pieces that are like platforms.

708
00:52:29,060 --> 00:52:31,180
So you build stairs into it.

709
00:52:31,180 --> 00:52:32,900
I've been on some stair towers and stuff

710
00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:37,140
that are scaffolding, but not 300 feet tall.

711
00:52:37,140 --> 00:52:39,180
I'll be honest, the tallest one I remember

712
00:52:39,180 --> 00:52:43,500
was in a project where it was like 40 feet of stairs,

713
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:44,500
all made out of scaffolding.

714
00:52:44,500 --> 00:52:45,700
It was kind of.

715
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:46,540
Sketch.

716
00:52:46,540 --> 00:52:47,380
It was my favorite.

717
00:52:47,380 --> 00:52:49,140
I could do it, but I didn't wanna hang out there.

718
00:52:49,140 --> 00:52:51,420
Okay, because I was like 60 feet up,

719
00:52:51,420 --> 00:52:53,420
but it was see-through grading.

720
00:52:53,420 --> 00:52:55,220
Like you just see down to the earth.

721
00:52:56,100 --> 00:53:00,660
I have never struggled so hard against my own brain

722
00:53:00,660 --> 00:53:01,800
than I did in that moment,

723
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:06,800
where I genuinely struggled to take a step forward on this.

724
00:53:07,060 --> 00:53:09,980
The ground, like you can see.

725
00:53:11,780 --> 00:53:12,620
This is.

726
00:53:12,620 --> 00:53:13,580
I actually struggled.

727
00:53:13,580 --> 00:53:14,620
We can cut this if you want,

728
00:53:14,620 --> 00:53:18,620
but this was my internship with the Louis Dreyfus Company.

729
00:53:18,620 --> 00:53:21,060
They had these huge, they were seven stories.

730
00:53:21,060 --> 00:53:24,460
So 70 feet in the air at least.

731
00:53:24,460 --> 00:53:26,020
And they're grain silos.

732
00:53:26,020 --> 00:53:28,260
And on top you could go between.

733
00:53:28,260 --> 00:53:30,900
And below you was like where the semi trucks drove.

734
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:34,060
So, and it was only, I swear it was two and a half feet wide.

735
00:53:34,060 --> 00:53:36,260
It was like two people couldn't walk next to each other.

736
00:53:36,260 --> 00:53:38,260
And it was just a single handrail.

737
00:53:38,260 --> 00:53:40,820
And I just, I like walked across it

738
00:53:40,820 --> 00:53:42,620
maybe 10 times over the summer.

739
00:53:42,620 --> 00:53:44,380
Never once like stopped and looked down.

740
00:53:44,380 --> 00:53:45,220
No.

741
00:53:45,220 --> 00:53:47,260
Because I just knew it was going to be so sketchy.

742
00:53:47,260 --> 00:53:48,780
Oh gosh, yeah.

743
00:53:48,780 --> 00:53:49,620
It was high.

744
00:53:49,620 --> 00:53:50,660
I really thought I was going to faint.

745
00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:52,420
That was like around a distillation column.

746
00:53:52,420 --> 00:53:54,340
So you know those get very, very tall.

747
00:53:54,340 --> 00:53:55,780
Gassy.

748
00:53:55,780 --> 00:53:56,620
Gassy.

749
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:00,540
I may have been gassy from fear.

750
00:54:02,140 --> 00:54:04,260
So anyway, I just wanted to point out the scaffolding.

751
00:54:04,260 --> 00:54:05,140
It's insane.

752
00:54:05,140 --> 00:54:06,660
Yeah, it's incredible.

753
00:54:06,660 --> 00:54:09,580
So the first phase was using liquid nitrogen

754
00:54:09,580 --> 00:54:11,340
to remove years of paint layers

755
00:54:11,340 --> 00:54:14,220
on the inside of the sculpture.

756
00:54:14,220 --> 00:54:15,180
Okay.

757
00:54:15,180 --> 00:54:18,620
Then blasting baking soda on the walls after that

758
00:54:18,620 --> 00:54:22,100
to remove coal tar, which they used to plug holes

759
00:54:22,100 --> 00:54:25,300
and like any openings in the wall.

760
00:54:25,300 --> 00:54:26,300
I know.

761
00:54:26,300 --> 00:54:29,620
And then, so this is where the asbestos came into play.

762
00:54:29,620 --> 00:54:32,940
Bartholdi had used to prevent corrosion,

763
00:54:32,940 --> 00:54:33,780
which didn't happen.

764
00:54:33,780 --> 00:54:35,340
Didn't work, yeah.

765
00:54:35,340 --> 00:54:37,140
So workers needed to use,

766
00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:39,660
they needed to wear moon suits is what they were called

767
00:54:39,660 --> 00:54:40,940
in order to work inside the statue,

768
00:54:40,940 --> 00:54:44,700
which had its own circulating air supply.

769
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:46,900
Like, I mean, they didn't know that asbestos

770
00:54:46,900 --> 00:54:50,420
was gonna be such a huge thing, but.

771
00:54:50,420 --> 00:54:51,260
Sounds awful.

772
00:54:51,260 --> 00:54:52,500
Use something that was actually gonna work.

773
00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:54,120
Don't get.

774
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:56,340
Well, asbestos was fantastic.

775
00:54:56,340 --> 00:54:58,260
Asbestos was an awesome material.

776
00:54:58,260 --> 00:54:59,780
As far as material science goes,

777
00:54:59,780 --> 00:55:04,460
it was like super cheap to make, super well insulating.

778
00:55:04,460 --> 00:55:06,540
You use it in a bunch of different like thicknesses.

779
00:55:06,540 --> 00:55:08,780
So they're always in ceilings, old ceilings.

780
00:55:08,780 --> 00:55:10,860
Ceiling tiles, like pipe insulation

781
00:55:10,860 --> 00:55:13,020
floor tiles, drywall.

782
00:55:13,020 --> 00:55:14,420
It was all over the place.

783
00:55:14,420 --> 00:55:15,860
Cause it was like a miracle

784
00:55:15,860 --> 00:55:18,100
that we discovered how to make asbestos.

785
00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:19,380
I don't know the history,

786
00:55:19,380 --> 00:55:21,260
but I think it was like 20, 30 years

787
00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:24,420
before they knew like, it's killing people.

788
00:55:24,420 --> 00:55:25,260
Yeah.

789
00:55:25,260 --> 00:55:26,100
And it's not even like questionable.

790
00:55:26,100 --> 00:55:27,540
You know how there's like everything

791
00:55:27,540 --> 00:55:29,260
they say causes cancer these days,

792
00:55:29,260 --> 00:55:32,780
but this was like, there is no refuting it that it is.

793
00:55:32,780 --> 00:55:34,780
Mesothelioma.

794
00:55:35,860 --> 00:55:37,180
Wow. I think.

795
00:55:37,180 --> 00:55:38,500
Big word. I don't know.

796
00:55:38,500 --> 00:55:41,100
We'll just go with it.

797
00:55:41,100 --> 00:55:42,460
Yeah. So what'd they do about the asbestos?

798
00:55:42,460 --> 00:55:43,500
Oh, they had to wear moon suits.

799
00:55:43,500 --> 00:55:46,700
Yeah. So yeah, they could, they removed it all, but.

800
00:55:46,700 --> 00:55:48,180
Those guys had to be paid a lot.

801
00:55:48,180 --> 00:55:49,980
I know. I wonder if like people died.

802
00:55:49,980 --> 00:55:51,580
I didn't look up if anybody died on this.

803
00:55:51,580 --> 00:55:53,220
They were uncomfortable, I would say.

804
00:55:53,220 --> 00:55:54,340
Oh, that scaffolding.

805
00:55:55,820 --> 00:55:57,860
Why did they need it all the way over on the right?

806
00:55:57,860 --> 00:55:59,780
It seems like it's so far away from.

807
00:55:59,780 --> 00:56:00,620
I don't know.

808
00:56:01,500 --> 00:56:04,420
So they replaced all the iron armature,

809
00:56:04,420 --> 00:56:06,900
fixed large holes in the copper sheeting,

810
00:56:06,900 --> 00:56:10,020
which was like a total of 2% of the skin

811
00:56:10,020 --> 00:56:11,980
needed to be replaced, which is pretty hefty

812
00:56:11,980 --> 00:56:15,340
when it's 31 tons of copper.

813
00:56:16,300 --> 00:56:18,580
The copper that they used to fill the holes

814
00:56:18,580 --> 00:56:22,500
was taken from the roof of Bell Labs,

815
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:25,260
which was like a laboratory or something.

816
00:56:25,260 --> 00:56:26,420
Yeah, Bell Labs is famous.

817
00:56:26,420 --> 00:56:29,020
Yeah, it had a similar patina to the statue.

818
00:56:29,020 --> 00:56:31,820
And so they took it from that and in compensation,

819
00:56:31,820 --> 00:56:34,140
they gave them the old pieces of the Statue of Liberty

820
00:56:34,140 --> 00:56:35,620
that they could do like tests on.

821
00:56:35,620 --> 00:56:36,460
That's cool.

822
00:56:36,460 --> 00:56:37,300
Isn't that cool?

823
00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:38,140
Yeah.

824
00:56:38,140 --> 00:56:39,220
I thought that was so neat.

825
00:56:39,220 --> 00:56:41,540
They're just like, can we take your roof?

826
00:56:41,540 --> 00:56:42,740
They're like, yeah.

827
00:56:42,740 --> 00:56:44,220
I've got a business proposition for you.

828
00:56:44,220 --> 00:56:45,060
That's all right.

829
00:56:45,060 --> 00:56:47,380
This is where the torch comes in.

830
00:56:47,380 --> 00:56:48,220
The new one?

831
00:56:48,220 --> 00:56:51,460
Because it was stained glass for no reason at all,

832
00:56:51,460 --> 00:56:55,540
it's been leaking water since he first did it in 1916.

833
00:56:55,540 --> 00:56:59,100
So the whole thing had to be replaced, the entire torch.

834
00:56:59,100 --> 00:57:02,460
So, but they made one from Bartoldi's original design.

835
00:57:02,460 --> 00:57:06,500
So it was exactly the same as it was when it was built.

836
00:57:06,500 --> 00:57:08,940
And they gilded it with 24 karat gold.

837
00:57:08,940 --> 00:57:11,180
I was gonna say, how is it still gold?

838
00:57:11,180 --> 00:57:12,020
Yeah.

839
00:57:12,020 --> 00:57:14,700
As he originally intended so that when it's sunny out,

840
00:57:14,700 --> 00:57:16,100
it reflects off the torch.

841
00:57:16,100 --> 00:57:16,940
So it's really bright.

842
00:57:16,940 --> 00:57:19,980
And then at night they use floodlights on it.

843
00:57:19,980 --> 00:57:21,100
So it's still, it lights up.

844
00:57:21,100 --> 00:57:21,940
That's really cool.

845
00:57:21,940 --> 00:57:22,760
It's really cool.

846
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:24,300
24 karat gold, just all over that thing.

847
00:57:25,180 --> 00:57:26,020
How does that work?

848
00:57:26,020 --> 00:57:27,140
Look at the carats of gold.

849
00:57:27,140 --> 00:57:30,180
Is it a thickness or a grade?

850
00:57:31,140 --> 00:57:31,980
I don't know.

851
00:57:31,980 --> 00:57:32,820
I'm not really into it.

852
00:57:32,820 --> 00:57:35,460
I feel like the higher quality,

853
00:57:35,460 --> 00:57:37,420
higher karat, the more yellow it is.

854
00:57:37,420 --> 00:57:41,340
So it must be like concentration of gold particles

855
00:57:41,340 --> 00:57:44,140
or gold element in the substance.

856
00:57:45,060 --> 00:57:45,900
Can't tell you.

857
00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:46,740
Sounds right.

858
00:57:46,740 --> 00:57:47,560
Somebody let us know.

859
00:57:48,500 --> 00:57:51,700
But the old torch that has stained glass all over it

860
00:57:51,700 --> 00:57:55,100
is in the museum that's on the island now.

861
00:57:55,100 --> 00:57:56,780
So you can go and see the old ones.

862
00:57:56,780 --> 00:57:58,940
I am really surprised they didn't just knock it down.

863
00:57:58,940 --> 00:58:01,060
So, and it's so ugly. Oh, come on.

864
00:58:01,060 --> 00:58:03,260
I'm like, what is that?

865
00:58:03,260 --> 00:58:04,940
That is not what I pictured.

866
00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:06,780
I had this big- And it's big to crap.

867
00:58:06,780 --> 00:58:11,780
I had this wonderful idea of like a big ball of glass

868
00:58:11,900 --> 00:58:13,380
that would just, you know, just as a light.

869
00:58:13,380 --> 00:58:14,220
Yeah, like illuminate.

870
00:58:14,220 --> 00:58:15,740
No, it wasn't even pretty.

871
00:58:15,740 --> 00:58:17,100
It wasn't an improvement.

872
00:58:17,100 --> 00:58:18,300
It was just-

873
00:58:18,300 --> 00:58:19,900
That looks like a middle school project.

874
00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:21,300
They worked way too long on.

875
00:58:21,300 --> 00:58:22,460
Because they left the copper.

876
00:58:22,460 --> 00:58:24,020
They just cut squares into it

877
00:58:24,020 --> 00:58:26,180
and then put stained glass in the squares.

878
00:58:26,180 --> 00:58:27,420
It's really awful.

879
00:58:27,420 --> 00:58:28,380
That would be a terrible.

880
00:58:28,380 --> 00:58:31,180
What if you were commissioned to do the stained glass

881
00:58:31,180 --> 00:58:33,140
and you're like, oh my God, what an honor.

882
00:58:33,140 --> 00:58:35,740
And then you see the idea and you're like, oh no.

883
00:58:36,660 --> 00:58:39,340
I'm just cutting squares of glass.

884
00:58:39,340 --> 00:58:42,580
Yeah, so obviously I have a picture up next to the new one

885
00:58:42,580 --> 00:58:44,260
and the new one just looks so much better.

886
00:58:44,260 --> 00:58:47,180
It's so clean and really pretty.

887
00:58:47,180 --> 00:58:48,180
I love that gold.

888
00:58:49,060 --> 00:58:51,220
There's the twin towers in the background.

889
00:58:51,220 --> 00:58:54,140
There's the guy crawling over the scaffolding.

890
00:58:54,140 --> 00:58:58,980
He's probably got fall arrest.

891
00:58:58,980 --> 00:59:01,220
Twin towers in the background of both photos.

892
00:59:01,220 --> 00:59:02,340
There are some things that happened

893
00:59:02,340 --> 00:59:06,220
in the Statue of Liberty after 9-11.

894
00:59:06,220 --> 00:59:07,780
There's a lot of pictures of the Statue of Liberty

895
00:59:07,780 --> 00:59:09,140
with the burning buildings in the background.

896
00:59:09,140 --> 00:59:11,700
I just didn't think that was a thing that we had to show.

897
00:59:11,700 --> 00:59:12,860
It's not a, it didn't need to be.

898
00:59:12,860 --> 00:59:15,140
But anyway, to get back to the restoration,

899
00:59:15,140 --> 00:59:16,820
they found out that the right arm

900
00:59:16,820 --> 00:59:18,980
had not been placed correctly

901
00:59:18,980 --> 00:59:23,980
and had been swaying in the wind for almost 100 years.

902
00:59:24,180 --> 00:59:25,900
No way.

903
00:59:25,900 --> 00:59:26,740
Yes.

904
00:59:26,740 --> 00:59:27,580
What do you mean?

905
00:59:27,580 --> 00:59:31,620
And one of the rays of the crown was a few degrees off.

906
00:59:31,620 --> 00:59:35,580
So it touched the arm every time that it swayed in the wind.

907
00:59:35,580 --> 00:59:36,420
No way.

908
00:59:36,420 --> 00:59:39,700
Wore a hole into her torch bearing arm.

909
00:59:39,700 --> 00:59:40,540
No way.

910
00:59:40,540 --> 00:59:41,500
Because they had just built her on,

911
00:59:41,500 --> 00:59:45,260
they put her head on two feet off.

912
00:59:45,260 --> 00:59:46,220
Let me go back.

913
00:59:46,220 --> 00:59:47,060
Can you go back?

914
00:59:47,060 --> 00:59:47,900
To what?

915
00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:48,900
No, a picture.

916
00:59:50,260 --> 00:59:51,500
I wanna see this.

917
00:59:52,820 --> 00:59:53,940
Or forward maybe.

918
00:59:54,780 --> 00:59:56,260
Her head's two feet off.

919
00:59:56,260 --> 00:59:58,220
Yeah, so one of those rays.

920
00:59:58,220 --> 00:59:59,380
To the left.

921
00:59:59,380 --> 01:00:00,780
To the right.

922
01:00:00,780 --> 01:00:04,940
It's just mind blowing that a statue of this stature,

923
01:00:04,940 --> 01:00:09,540
like we've got a literal colossal statue

924
01:00:09,540 --> 01:00:12,220
could be put together incorrectly.

925
01:00:12,220 --> 01:00:13,100
Yep.

926
01:00:13,100 --> 01:00:14,860
I work in construction

927
01:00:14,860 --> 01:00:16,500
and a lot of the guys that work for me

928
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:19,460
do sheet metal work and I've seen some things.

929
01:00:20,740 --> 01:00:22,220
Metal will bend and you hit it.

930
01:00:23,220 --> 01:00:26,140
Yeah, so it just wore this hole in the arm

931
01:00:26,140 --> 01:00:27,660
and they didn't find out until at this moment.

932
01:00:27,660 --> 01:00:28,500
100 years.

933
01:00:28,500 --> 01:00:31,540
They patched that because the National Park Service

934
01:00:31,540 --> 01:00:33,860
couldn't really afford to replace the whole arm

935
01:00:33,860 --> 01:00:35,780
so they were just like, just patch it.

936
01:00:35,780 --> 01:00:38,700
And then they moved the ray on the crown

937
01:00:38,700 --> 01:00:41,980
so that it was no longer bumping against the arm.

938
01:00:41,980 --> 01:00:45,100
So I have a picture pulled up of them just adjusting it.

939
01:00:45,100 --> 01:00:45,940
Crazy.

940
01:00:46,940 --> 01:00:49,060
So huge and you think about in this photo

941
01:00:49,060 --> 01:00:51,140
how high they are up off the ground.

942
01:00:51,140 --> 01:00:53,100
Like it just looks like, oh, I'm just up here.

943
01:00:53,100 --> 01:00:55,700
Like you're at the top of the Statue of Liberty.

944
01:00:55,700 --> 01:00:57,180
I don't think they have fall arrest systems.

945
01:00:57,180 --> 01:00:58,020
Maybe they don't exist yet.

946
01:00:58,020 --> 01:00:59,180
I don't think so either.

947
01:01:01,180 --> 01:01:03,900
For those who don't know, maybe you care, I don't know.

948
01:01:03,900 --> 01:01:06,420
Construction has come a long way in the last 20 years.

949
01:01:06,420 --> 01:01:07,940
Yeah, especially safety.

950
01:01:07,940 --> 01:01:09,340
Well, in the last 200 years for sure,

951
01:01:09,340 --> 01:01:11,100
but 20 years in safety.

952
01:01:11,100 --> 01:01:13,220
Like there's a lot of construction companies

953
01:01:13,220 --> 01:01:15,300
that won't even allow ladders at all.

954
01:01:15,300 --> 01:01:17,260
Like you cannot have a ladder on the job site

955
01:01:17,260 --> 01:01:19,260
because so many injuries happened

956
01:01:19,260 --> 01:01:21,260
from people falling from ladders.

957
01:01:21,260 --> 01:01:24,460
So and heights, you know, slips, trips and falls.

958
01:01:24,460 --> 01:01:26,260
But that's crazy.

959
01:01:26,260 --> 01:01:27,100
Ooh.

960
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:30,300
So that was the basics of the restoration efforts

961
01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:32,860
that happened, filled with nervous laughter

962
01:01:32,860 --> 01:01:35,580
because apparently at heights I'm sweating.

963
01:01:35,580 --> 01:01:39,620
I think I have a problem.

964
01:01:39,620 --> 01:01:42,300
So anyway, immediately, so this is what I was talking about.

965
01:01:42,300 --> 01:01:44,260
This is what I'm talking about, 9-11,

966
01:01:44,260 --> 01:01:45,100
which is like this short thing.

967
01:01:45,100 --> 01:01:49,300
But immediately following the events that happened,

968
01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:52,300
the statue was closed for eight years

969
01:01:52,300 --> 01:01:55,820
because they realized they could not evacuate people

970
01:01:55,820 --> 01:01:57,940
out of the Statue of Liberty if something were to happen.

971
01:01:57,940 --> 01:02:00,820
It just kind of like, you know, the awareness boom

972
01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:03,180
of America where they were just like,

973
01:02:03,180 --> 01:02:06,820
oh, if something happens, how are we gonna handle it?

974
01:02:06,820 --> 01:02:10,940
Like it just made it so obvious that we hadn't considered.

975
01:02:10,940 --> 01:02:13,540
If terrible people were to do terrible things.

976
01:02:13,540 --> 01:02:14,660
In the worst case scenario.

977
01:02:14,660 --> 01:02:16,020
Yeah, what would you do?

978
01:02:16,020 --> 01:02:17,620
And the Statue of Liberty was one of those things

979
01:02:17,620 --> 01:02:20,340
where it had one way up and one way down.

980
01:02:20,340 --> 01:02:23,980
It was small, there was an elevator, but like.

981
01:02:23,980 --> 01:02:24,820
It'd be bad.

982
01:02:24,820 --> 01:02:25,660
Yeah.

983
01:02:25,660 --> 01:02:27,220
Also it's a symbol of America.

984
01:02:27,220 --> 01:02:28,540
So it's likely to be attacked.

985
01:02:28,540 --> 01:02:29,380
Right.

986
01:02:29,380 --> 01:02:31,220
Yeah, I'm sure that's what they were thinking.

987
01:02:31,220 --> 01:02:32,060
In those times.

988
01:02:32,060 --> 01:02:34,980
Following 9-11, one of the things that they talked about

989
01:02:34,980 --> 01:02:38,300
in the towers were the stairwells.

990
01:02:38,300 --> 01:02:39,140
It's a whole long thing.

991
01:02:39,140 --> 01:02:41,460
You should go look into it on your own,

992
01:02:41,460 --> 01:02:45,340
but they couldn't evacuate well in the stairwells

993
01:02:45,340 --> 01:02:46,740
and have firefighters help.

994
01:02:46,740 --> 01:02:51,220
And mostly, one of the reasons was they're too narrow.

995
01:02:51,220 --> 01:02:52,820
And they had gotten a special exception

996
01:02:52,820 --> 01:02:54,620
to be built more narrow than code.

997
01:02:54,620 --> 01:02:55,460
Oh wow.

998
01:02:55,460 --> 01:02:57,540
Because of floor space.

999
01:02:57,540 --> 01:02:58,380
Yeah.

1000
01:02:58,380 --> 01:02:59,220
I mean over these huge towers.

1001
01:02:59,220 --> 01:03:00,460
Long, long story, go read on your own.

1002
01:03:00,460 --> 01:03:01,700
I won't bore you.

1003
01:03:01,700 --> 01:03:04,940
But the end of it, the city of New York was like,

1004
01:03:04,940 --> 01:03:07,020
oh, well we've got to increase our width

1005
01:03:07,020 --> 01:03:08,940
of our stairwells for safety.

1006
01:03:08,940 --> 01:03:10,620
You've got to be able to have one person go up,

1007
01:03:10,620 --> 01:03:11,660
one person go down.

1008
01:03:11,660 --> 01:03:12,500
Yeah.

1009
01:03:12,500 --> 01:03:14,980
And people will know that's how you go downstairs

1010
01:03:14,980 --> 01:03:16,260
when you're evacuating.

1011
01:03:16,260 --> 01:03:18,620
And I think it was in litigation for a while

1012
01:03:18,620 --> 01:03:22,060
to make a new code standard for buildings.

1013
01:03:22,060 --> 01:03:24,900
And the cost impact to those couple of square feet

1014
01:03:24,900 --> 01:03:28,380
on every floor on New York land, real estate,

1015
01:03:28,380 --> 01:03:30,180
I think it was eventually just dropped.

1016
01:03:30,180 --> 01:03:31,220
Oh no.

1017
01:03:31,220 --> 01:03:32,540
Maybe if you build a new building,

1018
01:03:32,540 --> 01:03:35,300
you have to have a wider stairwell.

1019
01:03:35,300 --> 01:03:36,140
Yeah.

1020
01:03:36,140 --> 01:03:36,960
I don't know.

1021
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:37,800
There's many other things that happen.

1022
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,020
If you build a new, like if anything built is new,

1023
01:03:40,020 --> 01:03:42,180
then it has to conform to some standard.

1024
01:03:42,180 --> 01:03:45,140
But that's so awful.

1025
01:03:45,140 --> 01:03:46,220
But I just thought it was interesting

1026
01:03:46,220 --> 01:03:49,540
because it's probably applying to the infrastructure here too.

1027
01:03:49,540 --> 01:03:50,380
Yeah.

1028
01:03:50,380 --> 01:03:51,200
So that was a huge thing.

1029
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:54,420
But they added new elevators and staircases

1030
01:03:54,420 --> 01:03:55,780
and reduced the number of people

1031
01:03:55,780 --> 01:03:57,440
that could be inside at one time.

1032
01:03:57,440 --> 01:04:00,580
So I think total, you can have 10 people in there

1033
01:04:00,580 --> 01:04:01,480
in the statue at a time.

1034
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:04,300
The pedestal is a different, a whole different thing.

1035
01:04:04,300 --> 01:04:09,300
But yeah, so like a total of I think 240 people

1036
01:04:09,820 --> 01:04:11,980
can be there in a day.

1037
01:04:11,980 --> 01:04:15,380
So like in one day, only a total of 240 people

1038
01:04:15,380 --> 01:04:17,100
can climb the tower.

1039
01:04:17,100 --> 01:04:19,780
Have you ever been to the St. Louis arch?

1040
01:04:19,780 --> 01:04:20,620
No.

1041
01:04:20,620 --> 01:04:21,680
Arch.

1042
01:04:21,680 --> 01:04:22,620
Arch.

1043
01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:23,700
Yeah.

1044
01:04:23,700 --> 01:04:25,500
Well, it's the gateway to the West,

1045
01:04:25,500 --> 01:04:26,420
I think is what they call it.

1046
01:04:26,420 --> 01:04:29,040
But I don't know, I don't remember the history.

1047
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:31,900
But you go up in an elevator that's like,

1048
01:04:31,900 --> 01:04:35,420
you sit in it and it's like a ball or a barrel shape.

1049
01:04:35,420 --> 01:04:36,620
Ew, no, I don't like that.

1050
01:04:36,620 --> 01:04:38,660
I think it fits four people, maybe six.

1051
01:04:38,660 --> 01:04:41,780
But it's like, as you go up, the elevator has to correct

1052
01:04:41,780 --> 01:04:44,980
because if you were to go up, you'd be like turned sideways.

1053
01:04:44,980 --> 01:04:45,820
Yeah.

1054
01:04:45,820 --> 01:04:46,640
So it has to like.

1055
01:04:46,640 --> 01:04:48,780
Oh, no, no, no.

1056
01:04:48,780 --> 01:04:49,620
Oh no.

1057
01:04:49,620 --> 01:04:51,260
At the top, I don't know how tall it is,

1058
01:04:51,260 --> 01:04:52,900
but I went up there 10 years ago.

1059
01:04:52,900 --> 01:04:53,740
You did, okay.

1060
01:04:53,740 --> 01:04:56,420
At the top, there's these little windows you can look out

1061
01:04:56,420 --> 01:04:58,380
and the whole thing is moving in the wind.

1062
01:04:58,380 --> 01:04:59,980
It sways back and forth.

1063
01:04:59,980 --> 01:05:00,820
I'd pass out.

1064
01:05:00,820 --> 01:05:02,620
I had to build it that way because, you know,

1065
01:05:02,620 --> 01:05:04,300
durability versus rigidity.

1066
01:05:04,300 --> 01:05:05,380
It's just like the Statue of Liberty

1067
01:05:05,380 --> 01:05:07,700
where the outside was all flexible.

1068
01:05:07,700 --> 01:05:09,040
It's insane.

1069
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:11,220
Insane. No, no, I know.

1070
01:05:11,220 --> 01:05:12,060
It was cool.

1071
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:13,580
A lot of people don't go up.

1072
01:05:13,580 --> 01:05:14,420
I would never.

1073
01:05:15,380 --> 01:05:16,640
So I've sidetracked you,

1074
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:19,020
but I just think it's so interesting.

1075
01:05:19,020 --> 01:05:20,540
I've never been to New York at all.

1076
01:05:20,540 --> 01:05:21,380
I'd like to go.

1077
01:05:21,380 --> 01:05:24,060
Hey, we went to New York together.

1078
01:05:24,060 --> 01:05:24,940
Well, that's true.

1079
01:05:24,940 --> 01:05:27,140
I've never been to New York for more than a day.

1080
01:05:28,180 --> 01:05:29,020
How rude.

1081
01:05:29,020 --> 01:05:30,020
We didn't see the Statue of Liberty though.

1082
01:05:30,020 --> 01:05:31,580
No, it was part of my plan,

1083
01:05:31,580 --> 01:05:33,180
but the ferry that takes you out there

1084
01:05:33,180 --> 01:05:34,020
would have been too long.

1085
01:05:34,020 --> 01:05:39,020
So Vince and I had an eight hour layover at JFK Airport.

1086
01:05:39,220 --> 01:05:41,620
We had to pick and choose what we were gonna make happen

1087
01:05:41,620 --> 01:05:42,620
in that time span.

1088
01:05:42,620 --> 01:05:46,140
So it was Times Square and.

1089
01:05:46,140 --> 01:05:46,980
Central Park.

1090
01:05:46,980 --> 01:05:47,800
Central Park, yeah.

1091
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:48,980
And then we got some pizza.

1092
01:05:48,980 --> 01:05:49,820
And pizza.

1093
01:05:49,820 --> 01:05:54,820
So it was opened again after, so 2009, it was opened again.

1094
01:05:55,380 --> 01:05:58,340
Originally, only about 20% of the island's visitors

1095
01:05:58,340 --> 01:06:01,540
were allowed in the museum that was inside the pedestal.

1096
01:06:01,540 --> 01:06:03,180
So originally the museum was in the pedestal

1097
01:06:03,180 --> 01:06:05,100
and it was like a very exclusive club

1098
01:06:05,100 --> 01:06:07,340
that if you wanted to go into the museum,

1099
01:06:07,340 --> 01:06:10,100
it's like you either had to be a donor or.

1100
01:06:10,100 --> 01:06:12,140
Like going to the Statue of Liberty anyway

1101
01:06:12,140 --> 01:06:13,780
was not like a.

1102
01:06:13,780 --> 01:06:14,600
Tourist thing.

1103
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:17,580
Yeah, it was like a invitational sort of thing.

1104
01:06:17,580 --> 01:06:18,420
Cool.

1105
01:06:18,420 --> 01:06:20,020
Which, I mean, you could go,

1106
01:06:20,020 --> 01:06:21,940
but I just don't think it was as common as it is today

1107
01:06:21,940 --> 01:06:25,140
where people like really flock to go and check it out.

1108
01:06:25,140 --> 01:06:27,580
In 2016, they built the new museum,

1109
01:06:27,580 --> 01:06:30,580
which is on the island separate from the Statue of Liberty.

1110
01:06:30,580 --> 01:06:32,100
I didn't pull up a picture of it,

1111
01:06:32,100 --> 01:06:37,100
but they began construction in 2016, finished it in 2019.

1112
01:06:37,220 --> 01:06:40,780
Which is so weird, yeah, because it's only five years ago.

1113
01:06:40,780 --> 01:06:42,100
So weird to me that they're working

1114
01:06:42,100 --> 01:06:43,460
on the Statue of Liberty today.

1115
01:06:43,460 --> 01:06:44,300
Yeah.

1116
01:06:44,300 --> 01:06:45,940
Like even the ancillary buildings.

1117
01:06:45,940 --> 01:06:48,180
Like it's just like another national park

1118
01:06:48,180 --> 01:06:49,860
where they're constantly doing work on it.

1119
01:06:49,860 --> 01:06:51,780
Just, I'm like, the Statue of Liberty.

1120
01:06:53,420 --> 01:06:54,700
The lighthouse.

1121
01:06:54,700 --> 01:06:55,540
The lighthouse?

1122
01:06:55,540 --> 01:06:57,820
It's one of the worst ones ever.

1123
01:06:57,820 --> 01:06:59,420
Dang it.

1124
01:06:59,420 --> 01:07:01,300
She's amazing, but she's not a lighthouse.

1125
01:07:01,300 --> 01:07:02,660
That's for sure.

1126
01:07:02,660 --> 01:07:04,220
Not no more.

1127
01:07:04,220 --> 01:07:07,060
It also wasn't until 2017 that the statue was like added

1128
01:07:07,060 --> 01:07:09,740
to the National Register of Historic Places.

1129
01:07:09,740 --> 01:07:11,500
2017?

1130
01:07:11,500 --> 01:07:13,220
That's less than a decade ago.

1131
01:07:13,220 --> 01:07:14,040
What?

1132
01:07:14,040 --> 01:07:14,880
I don't know.

1133
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,340
It was built in 1886.

1134
01:07:18,340 --> 01:07:19,360
I just think that's crazy.

1135
01:07:19,360 --> 01:07:20,620
National Register of Historic Places.

1136
01:07:20,620 --> 01:07:22,780
People just don't like to do paperwork, I'm telling you.

1137
01:07:22,780 --> 01:07:25,260
I can't feel like it can't be that hard.

1138
01:07:25,260 --> 01:07:28,380
And who else is gonna qualify than the Statue of Liberty?

1139
01:07:28,380 --> 01:07:29,740
You know there's a Statue of Liberty

1140
01:07:29,740 --> 01:07:31,580
in my hometown, Hayes, Kansas?

1141
01:07:31,580 --> 01:07:32,420
No.

1142
01:07:32,420 --> 01:07:34,100
About six feet tall, it's right next to the library.

1143
01:07:34,100 --> 01:07:35,180
Oh, that's a shame.

1144
01:07:35,180 --> 01:07:38,900
There's another one we saw in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1145
01:07:38,900 --> 01:07:39,720
I didn't see it.

1146
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:40,560
Statue of Liberty, yes you did.

1147
01:07:40,560 --> 01:07:41,500
No, we did not.

1148
01:07:41,500 --> 01:07:42,340
We saw the Eiffel Tower.

1149
01:07:42,340 --> 01:07:43,540
New York, New York.

1150
01:07:43,540 --> 01:07:44,360
Saw the Eiffel Tower.

1151
01:07:44,360 --> 01:07:45,660
There's a casino called New York, New York.

1152
01:07:45,660 --> 01:07:46,500
We didn't go.

1153
01:07:46,500 --> 01:07:47,740
Well, we were there.

1154
01:07:47,740 --> 01:07:48,580
Are you kidding me?

1155
01:07:48,580 --> 01:07:50,020
We didn't get to see.

1156
01:07:50,020 --> 01:07:51,700
There's one in France too.

1157
01:07:51,700 --> 01:07:52,520
Really?

1158
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:53,460
I think I knew that somehow.

1159
01:07:53,460 --> 01:07:54,420
How did I know that?

1160
01:07:54,420 --> 01:07:56,420
Oh, from Nicolas Cage.

1161
01:07:57,620 --> 01:07:59,100
Heard it straight from the source.

1162
01:07:59,100 --> 01:08:00,260
I feel bad for our listeners,

1163
01:08:00,260 --> 01:08:01,900
but this is just what we do nonstop.

1164
01:08:01,900 --> 01:08:02,740
Yeah, this is like a normal life.

1165
01:08:02,740 --> 01:08:04,220
Just get a window into our lives.

1166
01:08:04,220 --> 01:08:06,820
Just sit at a table and just put microphones on it.

1167
01:08:08,940 --> 01:08:10,500
Okay, wow.

1168
01:08:10,500 --> 01:08:12,900
I'll put a little bit about how you can visit in here

1169
01:08:12,900 --> 01:08:14,020
because it's important.

1170
01:08:14,020 --> 01:08:16,020
Because one day we'll be visiting.

1171
01:08:16,020 --> 01:08:18,700
And I said that I wouldn't be able to climb it, but I will.

1172
01:08:18,700 --> 01:08:19,540
Whoa.

1173
01:08:19,540 --> 01:08:21,060
I'm gonna make it happen.

1174
01:08:21,060 --> 01:08:23,120
So you can only be reached by ferry.

1175
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:27,180
It's $25 for a ferry ticket to get there and back.

1176
01:08:27,180 --> 01:08:29,980
But, so what I was saying is that this was pretty nice.

1177
01:08:29,980 --> 01:08:31,620
Inclusive.

1178
01:08:31,620 --> 01:08:36,580
You only pay 30 cents more for a ticket to get to the crown.

1179
01:08:36,580 --> 01:08:39,060
So to climb, it's not an exclusive thing.

1180
01:08:39,060 --> 01:08:42,620
We have to pay, twice as much, pay $100 for a ticket

1181
01:08:42,620 --> 01:08:43,700
to climb the lighthouse.

1182
01:08:43,700 --> 01:08:44,860
Oh my gosh.

1183
01:08:44,860 --> 01:08:45,940
Yeah, you know what?

1184
01:08:45,940 --> 01:08:47,260
To climb the lighthouse.

1185
01:08:47,260 --> 01:08:49,740
Is there a stamp for the lighthouse password?

1186
01:08:49,740 --> 01:08:50,580
Yes.

1187
01:08:50,580 --> 01:08:51,400
Nice.

1188
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:54,380
There's a stamp for the Statue of Liberty.

1189
01:08:54,380 --> 01:08:56,940
Everyone get a passport now, ushs.org.

1190
01:08:56,940 --> 01:08:57,980
I don't have mine still.

1191
01:08:57,980 --> 01:08:58,820
I gotta go make sure.

1192
01:08:58,820 --> 01:09:00,420
You gotta order it.

1193
01:09:00,420 --> 01:09:03,420
I realized that I did have to pay for it.

1194
01:09:03,420 --> 01:09:04,500
Sorry, I keep interrupting.

1195
01:09:04,500 --> 01:09:06,640
So you were saying, 30 cents?

1196
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:07,980
It's only 30 cents more.

1197
01:09:07,980 --> 01:09:09,600
But the problem is that it's,

1198
01:09:10,460 --> 01:09:11,620
you make a reservation in advance

1199
01:09:11,620 --> 01:09:14,060
and it's booked for months in advance.

1200
01:09:14,060 --> 01:09:15,540
So you have to know when you're gonna go

1201
01:09:15,540 --> 01:09:17,180
and what time you're gonna be there.

1202
01:09:17,180 --> 01:09:20,060
And then buy the ferry ticket for that specific time

1203
01:09:20,060 --> 01:09:23,980
with the stipulation, 30 cents addition at the bottom

1204
01:09:23,980 --> 01:09:26,060
that it's a crown ticket.

1205
01:09:26,060 --> 01:09:26,900
Nice.

1206
01:09:26,900 --> 01:09:27,740
And you can also,

1207
01:09:27,740 --> 01:09:29,620
there's the same thing for the pedestal as well.

1208
01:09:29,620 --> 01:09:32,820
So 30 cents extra, you get to go on the pedestal.

1209
01:09:32,820 --> 01:09:36,020
But it's 162 steps, so you gotta be ready

1210
01:09:36,020 --> 01:09:37,960
to climb it once you get in there.

1211
01:09:39,220 --> 01:09:42,500
Yeah, I got a nice photo of what the island looks like.

1212
01:09:42,500 --> 01:09:43,740
It's got a beautiful dock.

1213
01:09:43,740 --> 01:09:45,660
Yeah, a couple of them.

1214
01:09:45,660 --> 01:09:48,180
But isn't the pedestal cool, the star shape?

1215
01:09:48,180 --> 01:09:49,020
Yes, it is really cool.

1216
01:09:49,020 --> 01:09:50,780
It's always been that way, it's really cool.

1217
01:09:50,780 --> 01:09:52,020
I like that idea.

1218
01:09:52,020 --> 01:09:53,980
I was looking, is that Ellis Island over there?

1219
01:09:53,980 --> 01:09:54,900
Yeah.

1220
01:09:54,900 --> 01:09:57,020
And that is our 50th episode,

1221
01:09:57,020 --> 01:09:59,500
special edition Statue of Liberty.

1222
01:09:59,500 --> 01:10:01,140
Yes, she was a lighthouse.

1223
01:10:01,140 --> 01:10:02,900
16 years a lighthouse.

1224
01:10:02,900 --> 01:10:06,100
Yeah, 16 solid sucky years.

1225
01:10:06,100 --> 01:10:07,180
Not great years.

1226
01:10:08,180 --> 01:10:10,260
She gave it the old college try.

1227
01:10:10,260 --> 01:10:12,820
Super cool, thank you for doing this.

1228
01:10:12,820 --> 01:10:13,820
Yeah, I got really excited.

1229
01:10:13,820 --> 01:10:15,020
I love history stuff.

1230
01:10:15,020 --> 01:10:16,060
It's a weekend of history.

1231
01:10:16,060 --> 01:10:16,880
Oh.

1232
01:10:16,880 --> 01:10:21,060
I was recently interviewed by US LHS historian

1233
01:10:21,060 --> 01:10:23,740
and podcast host, Jeremy DeTremont.

1234
01:10:23,740 --> 01:10:24,580
Yeah.

1235
01:10:24,580 --> 01:10:25,500
And it was a great time.

1236
01:10:25,500 --> 01:10:27,440
So I posted about it on LinkedIn.

1237
01:10:28,820 --> 01:10:30,700
I think that's the only place I posted about it.

1238
01:10:30,700 --> 01:10:31,540
Okay.

1239
01:10:31,540 --> 01:10:33,020
So just said thank you to him.

1240
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:33,860
But yeah, it was a lot of fun.

1241
01:10:33,860 --> 01:10:36,140
We're on an interview, it's like 40 minutes.

1242
01:10:36,140 --> 01:10:38,700
And I did not listen to it.

1243
01:10:38,700 --> 01:10:39,540
I didn't either.

1244
01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:40,360
I'm kind of scared to hear it myself.

1245
01:10:40,360 --> 01:10:41,200
I don't wanna hear it myself.

1246
01:10:41,200 --> 01:10:43,140
But y'all can go listen to it.

1247
01:10:43,140 --> 01:10:43,980
Yeah, it's a.

1248
01:10:43,980 --> 01:10:44,800
Lighthearted podcast.

1249
01:10:44,800 --> 01:10:47,220
Yeah, lighthearted.

1250
01:10:47,220 --> 01:10:48,980
You can go to the US LHS website.

1251
01:10:48,980 --> 01:10:52,240
It has under one of their tabs, it says podcast.

1252
01:10:52,240 --> 01:10:53,600
And then you can go and listen to it there.

1253
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,880
Or it's like on Apple or Google, Spotify, whatever.

1254
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,460
Anything else you wanna say?

1255
01:11:00,460 --> 01:11:01,780
Nope.

1256
01:11:01,780 --> 01:11:03,580
You guys should check out our Instagram.

1257
01:11:03,580 --> 01:11:05,860
You can go to our website, thelighthouselowdown.com

1258
01:11:05,860 --> 01:11:07,940
where you can leave us a review

1259
01:11:07,940 --> 01:11:09,820
if you like this episode, please do.

1260
01:11:09,820 --> 01:11:11,060
We love it when we get reviews.

1261
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:12,660
And you can also leave a voicemail,

1262
01:11:12,660 --> 01:11:16,540
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1263
01:11:16,540 --> 01:11:18,100
I said lighthouse, okay.

1264
01:11:18,100 --> 01:11:19,460
The lighthouse lowdown.

1265
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,220
So that's it.

1266
01:11:22,220 --> 01:11:23,700
We hope you enjoyed listening to this

1267
01:11:23,700 --> 01:11:24,940
super special episode.

1268
01:11:24,940 --> 01:11:28,940
And we'll catch you next time on The Lighthouse Lowdown.

1269
01:11:28,940 --> 01:11:43,960
We keep you lasted.