20: Wait… Does Mount Rushmore Suck? (Part 3)

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True Crime, History, Comedy

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

There are so many reasons why Mount Rushmore National Monument *shouldn’t* exist. Right from the start, there was opposition. Environmentalists called the proposed monument a desecration. Native Americans rightly asserted that the Black Hills — and specifically the Six Grandfathers Mountain (aka Mount Rushmore) — was their property.

But that didn’t stop Gutzon Borglum, or his circle of high-powered supporters. Together, they pushed forward. They even manipulated a president! Thanks to a mix of hubris, luck, and money, Mount Rushmore National Monument began to take shape.

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
“Biography: Gutzon Borglum,” PBS.org
“The heartbreaking, controversial history of Mount Rushmore,” by Amy McKeever for National Geographic
“Why Native Americans Have Protested Mount Rushmore,” by Jodi Rave for History.com
“Are treaties perpetual? United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians,” by Reid Benson for teachingamericanhistory.org
“The largest mass execution in US history,” Death Penalty Information Center
The video, “The dark history of Mount Rushmore,” for TedEd.com
“BIOGRAPHY: Native Americans and Mount Rushmore,” PBS.org
“United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians,” Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

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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 they call me Normi C and I'm Horno for Dijorno.
0:11.0	Oh no, you leave that pizza alone and on this episode Mount Rushmore gets its nasty start
0:19.3	Nasty Yeah, whoever built Mount Rushmore was also Horno for Dejourno?
0:25.8	It's possible. It's possible that we could have avoided this whole calamity
0:29.8	by just giving him a Dejourno pizza. A frozen pizza? That's right. Very cool. Speaking of Mount Rushmore, someone on our
0:40.4	subreddit, our slash old-timey podcast. They mentioned that you've talked about
0:47.3	Gutsin Borglem already. Okay this is the wildest thing. Back on let's go to court. You've talked about them.
0:54.1	People have said that I talked about my love for Lucille Ball
0:59.6	on let's go to court.
1:01.6	And that I talked about Guts and Borg court. Yep. And I talked about guts and Borgum.
1:04.0	Yep, you've talked about my testicles.
1:06.0	Okay, that's enough.
1:09.0	These are amazing discoveries to me because I don't listen to myself half the time but to have people actually
1:15.7	really paying attention is quite the deal and the person said that I mentioned
1:21.5	guts and Borglum and I said I thought he was full of shit.
1:25.0	Do you still feel that way?
1:27.0	Absolutely! Get out of here!
1:28.0	Yeah, it was kind of cool.
1:30.0	Feels like destiny for you to talk about Guxen-Borbergen.
1:34.0	This was meant to be.
1:36.0	It's the best podcast that's ever been created on the face of this earth.
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