19: Before Mount Rushmore, There Was Stone Mountain (Part 2)

An Old Timey Podcast

True Crime, History, Comedy

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🗓️ 21 August 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Before he set his sights on Mount Rushmore, sculptor Gutzon Borglum had a vision for a massive monument to the Confederacy. He figured that Stone Mountain, located just outside of Atlanta, would be the perfect spot for his magnum opus. The United Daughters of the Confederacy agreed. So did their BFFs, the KKK. For years, the project seemed to be going well. It ended in disaster.

Remember, kids, history hoes always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
The book, “The Carving of Mount Rushmore,” by Rex Alan Smith
The documentary, “Mount Rushmore”
“The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore,” by Matthew Shaer for Smithsonian Magazine
“The Carving of Stone Mountain,” PBS.org
“Biography: Gutzon Borglum,” PBS.org
“Stone Mountain: A Monumental Dilemma” by Debra McKinney for the SPLC
“The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore,” by Amy McKeever for National Geographic
The documentary, “Monument: The Untold Story of Stone Mountain,” from the Atlanta History Center

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0:00.0	Hear ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Kristen Caruso.
0:07.0	And I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be, Normi Sea.
0:15.0	Wow, you're confident today.
0:17.0	And on this episode, I'll be talking about the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial.
0:23.4	Woe!
0:26.4	Do you know where my little best there ever was phrases from?
0:30.5	No.
0:31.5	I stole that from Brett the Hit Man Heart, one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid.
0:37.0	Oh, yeah, okay. Well, no, that any sports reference is going to pass me on by real fast.
0:44.0	Yeah, if you think that came from me, absolutely.
0:47.2	I thought you were trying on a new personality,
0:49.4	a new confident boy.
0:51.2	No.
0:52.4	Stone Mountain. Yeah. Okay, when you mentioned it last week. I looked it up and I didn't realize it doesn't even really look like a mountain. It's just like a giant stone. It looks...
1:03.4	No wonder they call it stone mountain. It's like a granite dome. I think it looks kind of like a big
1:09.2	jelly bean. Mm. We had some jelly beans the other day. A big problematic jelly bean. Well you say we, you mean me. Everyone, I'm going through some hormone changes, okay? And part of my fun hormone changes are that once a month I get a really next
1:26.8	level craving for pink jelly beans pink jellybbellied beans.
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:33.3	And if I don't have an entire package to myself, I go ape shit.
1:38.8	Yeah, when I brought this home from the grocery store,
1:41.3	I thought you were gonna make love to me right then in there.
1:44.8	I had to eat the jelly beans first.
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