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This 1_000-Ton Statue Looks Machined_ But It_s From 980 AD _ Joe Rogan _ Cassie Coppersmith · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Weeks ago and I saw something there that was the
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  Speaker 1: most impressive thing I've seen with my own two neck,
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  Speaker 1: two eyes. It's called the Bahu Bali Statue. I have
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  Speaker 1: photos in the India folder. It's a thousand tons, so
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  Speaker 1: it's as big as the biggest destroyed structures or the
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  Speaker 1: biggest destroyed statues in Egypt. But it's still standing. It's
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  Speaker 1: in India, it's on top of a mountain. It's made
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  Speaker 1: of granite. That's a person. WHOA at the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 1: Holy shit, it's made of white granite. There's you know,
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  Speaker 1: the jury's out on whether it was moved there, built
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else and moved there, or whether this was built
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  Speaker 1: at the top of the hill from living stone. But
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  Speaker 1: in my mind, this thing is clearly machined. It's absolutely perfect.
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  Speaker 1: Those ears are five and a half feet long.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa, look at the lips and the fingernails and everything.
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  Speaker 2: How crazy the precision is.
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  Speaker 1: It's perfect. Look at the head. So these are all
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  Speaker 1: photos I took while I was there. It stands. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's sixty feet tall. It's a thousand tons, so it's
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  Speaker 1: the largest standing statue on earth from ancient times.
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  Speaker 2: And where's the stone supposedly coming from well.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the story is, and I actually think I
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  Speaker 1: believe it. The whole mountain is granite and so in
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  Speaker 1: order for this thing. So that's just it poking out
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  Speaker 1: above the temple that's built around it.
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  Speaker 2: That's mad.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane that you know. The story is that basically it.
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  Speaker 2: Was called leaves on his arm, that they.
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  Speaker 1: Built it out of living stone, that it's still connected
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  Speaker 1: to the mountain, and it kind of looks like that
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  Speaker 1: when you walk around it. You can see this rough
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  Speaker 1: stone at the bottom, but it it looks very different
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  Speaker 1: than the stone from the mountain itself. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a white granite, yes, so you can see how it
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  Speaker 1: almost looks like living stone. And I can't imagine how
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  Speaker 1: you could have erected that and moved it to the
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  Speaker 1: top of this mountain. So I personally believe that it
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  Speaker 1: was it was found, you know, it was built there,
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  Speaker 1: and it was all connected a.
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  Speaker 2: Large stone that was there and they just went in
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  Speaker 2: and chiseled the statue out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, it represents Babu Bali, which was the it's a
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  Speaker 1: jane statue and Babu Bali was a man who achieved
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  Speaker 1: enlightenment by standing still for a full year. So the
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  Speaker 1: anton cobra hills at the bottom and then the vines
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  Speaker 1: grew up around him. Oh so he is the picture
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  Speaker 1: of enlightenment. Wow, so just just look at that image it.
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  Speaker 1: How was that built? Out in front of this thing
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  Speaker 1: for two hours, just entranced by it. And the beautiful
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  Speaker 1: thing about this the temples in India is they are
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  Speaker 1: all living temples, so they're actively being taken care of
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  Speaker 1: by the community. They're active places of worship. They're not
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  Speaker 1: often the jungle breaking down. They're being taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, this looks like it was carved yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And what timeline is this attributed.
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  Speaker 1: To about nine eighty a d.
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  Speaker 2: And why do they think that?
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  Speaker 1: Because of those very unsophisticated inscriptions at the base of it.
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  Speaker 2: Can I see those inscriptions? Yeah right there? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: not so sophisticated. They look really shitty.
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  Speaker 1: So they carved those around the base and they said,
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  Speaker 1: I built this.
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  Speaker 2: Look how clunky those inscriptions are. This paragraph here on
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  Speaker 2: this thing I showed you about anger watt HM shines
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  Speaker 2: a little light onto that. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like
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  Speaker 2: I'll let you read it. Buildings of temples by the
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  Speaker 2: Khmer kings was a mean legitimizing their claim to political
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  Speaker 2: office and also to lay claim to the protection and
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  Speaker 2: powers of the gods. Hindu temples are not a place
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  Speaker 2: of religious congregation, instead their homes of the God. In
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  Speaker 2: order for a king to lay claim to his political office,
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  Speaker 2: he had to prove that the gods did not support
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  Speaker 2: his predecessors or his enemies. To this end, the king
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  Speaker 2: had to build the grandest temple palace for the gods,
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  Speaker 2: one that proved to be more lavish than any previous temples.
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  Speaker 2: In doing so, the king could make make visible his
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  Speaker 2: ability to harness the energy and resources to construct the
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  Speaker 2: temple and assert that his temple was the only place
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  Speaker 2: that a god would consider residing in on Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Interestingly, in Cambodia, all of the pyramids were the first
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  Speaker 1: structures claimed by the kings. So the first king built
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  Speaker 1: the first pyramid, the second king built the second pyramid.
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  Speaker 1: So what I think they were doing is they were
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  Speaker 1: going into this landscape and they were finding these incredibly
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  Speaker 1: sophisticated pyramids, and just like that paragraph suggests, they said, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is the coolest thing I can find around, and
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  Speaker 1: they wrote their name on it, you know. And then
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  Speaker 1: once all the pyramids were taken, then they started claiming
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  Speaker 1: the berets. They started claiming the really nice temples, Like
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  Speaker 1: there's a temple called Bantier Soray, which is a red
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  Speaker 1: sandstone temple. It's beautiful. It's one of the coolest places
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  Speaker 1: I've ever been.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: They claimed all of these places first, so all of
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  Speaker 1: the coolest stuff in Cambodia is the oldest. And then
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  Speaker 1: once everything was claimed, then they started building new ones
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  Speaker 1: like that Bayond temple that you saw with the faces
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  Speaker 1: and the smaller stones. So that's what I think happened
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  Speaker 1: in Cambodia, Jamie.
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  Speaker 2: Can you go back once again to that giant statue
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  Speaker 2: and the inscriptions on it. Those inscriptions are weird because
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  Speaker 2: it's so shitty. Yeah, like look how bad the lines are,
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  Speaker 2: how squiggly they are and broken up.
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  Speaker 1: And there's another photo in there of the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the inscriptions. They're even worse. I mean, these are actually
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  Speaker 1: very nice compared to the ones that.
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  Speaker 2: Are, but not when you consider the grandness of the
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  Speaker 2: actual statue itself. The statue is so spectacular, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, look how they wrote it, just up any space
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  Speaker 1: that they could find. They wrote their name there. But
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  Speaker 1: it looks entirely different than the rest of the statue.
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  Speaker 2: Right, it looks super clunky, Yeah, like it really does it.
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  Speaker 2: It's a stark contrast.
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  Speaker 1: The toe on this statue is three feet long. The
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  Speaker 1: ear is larger than most humans.
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  Speaker 2: That's so crazy, like looking at it. So it's so
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  Speaker 2: it incredible. Imagine the time that it would take to
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  Speaker 2: make something like this with chisels.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and there was nothing else made like it.
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  Speaker 2: Not only that, Like, what are we talking about in
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  Speaker 2: terms of metallurgy back then.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, hammers and chisels.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well did they even have iron?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: They had iron, So they had iron chisels. And this
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  Speaker 2: is again was it nine nine.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred eighty.
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  Speaker 2: God?
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  Speaker 1: And it's almost perfectly symmetrical.
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  Speaker 2: And you think it looks machined. I do.
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  Speaker 1: It looks very similar to the Egyptian statues. I have
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  Speaker 1: some side by side photos in the folder us.
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  Speaker 2: On the neck, Jamie, go back to the neck because
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that was crazy about when you
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  Speaker 2: saw the image of the neck, like look at the lines.
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  Speaker 2: I know, like, what is that?
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  Speaker 1: There's lines? Similar lines like that on the large statues
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  Speaker 1: in Cambodia, and there's similar lines like that on the
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  Speaker 1: large statues in Egypt.
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  Speaker 2: Smiler reminds about Mount Rushmore. Didn't we make that by
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  Speaker 2: hand or No? I don't know. I think they used dynamite.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just scared, just like that's the only thing I
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  Speaker 2: might can think of. No, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore is immense and this is white granted, so
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  Speaker 1: this is an extremely hard stone.
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  Speaker 2: What was Mount Rushmore? Maybe I don't have to look.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just just thinking of it. It's like we made
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  Speaker 2: that thousand years later. That is true. That is true.
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  Speaker 2: But we did that with machines. They have machines back then. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they had jackhammers. They had all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: stuff back then.
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  Speaker 1: When these were civilizations that were at war. But somehow
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  Speaker 1: they found the time to carve this.
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  Speaker 2: I just I'm wondering what those lines in the neck
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  Speaker 2: are supposed to represent. The statue is so beautiful, isn't
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  Speaker 2: it amazing? God, it's so incredible. Maybe they were going
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  Speaker 2: to make something and stopped. Yeah, dope, that would be
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  Speaker 2: if that was in your backyard. I've never get anything.
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  Speaker 1: You can see this thing from fifty miles away. It's
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  Speaker 1: up on top of a mountain and it's at the
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  Speaker 1: peak of the mountains. So from fifty miles in each
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  Speaker 1: direction you can see this massive statue just staring serenely.
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  Speaker 1: So if you it's a Gomuch Schwara Bali Bali statue
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  Speaker 1: of No. So there's a couple of different ones. This
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  Speaker 1: one's the best one. That's the third picture to.
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  Speaker 2: The right, one in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Ye. So yeah, that's a drone photo of it.
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  Speaker 2: When I was at it, this craze.
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  Speaker 1: It's crazy and it's the largest ancient standing statue in
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  Speaker 1: the world and very few people talk about this thing.
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  Speaker 2: I've never even heard of it till today.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. So that was probably