 All I know is I want today's video to include toothpicks, tinfoil, shaved crickets, and bald eagles with ointment and nude, cranky old men. You got that for us? Well, it is an ock-shave video. Josh! Hey, welcome back to our Stupid Picks sub-corporate. It's gonna have every one of those things. You've all seen Scrum, Twitter, Forge, you've seen it on the YouTube channel, you've all seen it on the YouTube channel, and also I lied, it's not an ock-shave video. Oh, I got excited. I was looking forward to water. No, no ock-shave-vitter. Ock-shave-vitter. Ock-shave-vitter. Ock-shave-vigger. I know why his past couple of films haven't done so well. Why? Bring the water back. I agree. Bring the water back. I guess the next film we're seeing in theaters will be PS2, I think. I would fun facture to say that's probably true. Fun Angry Fec. Uh-oh. You know that film with Vijay Thalapathy. Right, the one that we wanted to see. They've now added some shows, but down where we saw the other Malayalam film. Yeah. But it's only Telugu dubbed. Oh, good grief. Oh my God, what the fuck? What? I don't understand. Ugh. Makes me so mad. Anyways, today we gotta be, this is the How the World's Tallest Statue in India was built. So the World's Tallest Statue. We've seen a video comparing the tallest statues in the world. This is obviously the tallest. And this is how it was actually built. This was built purely on the kinetic energy that has been exuded over the years. Of Indian patriotism. Of SRK's arm spread. Probably. It's the combined amalgamated energy that produced the statue. Probably. And made it hard. Here we go. 182 meters tall and decorated with 12,000 uniquely crafted bronze panels. India's 50 story statue of unity is a triumph of aesthetics and engineering. And get this, it's made from melted down old farm equipment. How did they do it? Can it really withstand earthquakes? And how will its appearance change over the coming decades? Join us today as we look up and ask how the World's Tallest Statue was built. That was a great shot. subject for the World's Tallest Statue than Iron Man. No, not that Iron Man. Indian statesman and independence activist, Vallabhai Patel, is nicknamed the Iron Man of India for his incredible nation building work. Uniting all 562 independent princely states on the subcontinent after the British abruptly peaced out in the 1940s. The statue was commissioned to celebrate Patel's monumental achievement. And to underline the fact it's for all Indians, farmers from all across the nation Patel helped create sent in their old unused scrap iron. Oh, that's awesome. Wow. A million farmers are said to have participated, yielding 129 tons of scrap iron. That's really cool. That's fantastic. Forms the foundation of the statue. That's really cool. I love that. 182 meters tall. And that's no accident. 182 was chosen because that's the number of seats on the Gujarat legislature. It's constructed on a river island near where Patel grew up, facing the mighty Namada Dam. That dam, like so much else in modern India, was also partly his idea. Celebrated Indian sculptor Ramvi Sutta, distinguished winner of the Padma Bhushan award for service to his country, was chosen to lead the design team. He'd already made a statue of Patel, the one currently residing at Amdabad International Airport. Sutta reportedly combed through thousands of photographs and consulted many historians in order to achieve the perfect likeness for his masterpiece. Then he made models. First three feet high, then 18 feet, then 30 feet. The finished clay model underwent meticulous 3D scanning, with the model used as a reference for Chinese casting company, Jiang Chi Tong King Metal Handicrafts, where the bronze outer layer was manufactured. Funding for the project came from a variety of sources, mostly the Gujarat government, but also private donations and even a fun run marathon. In total, it's estimated the cost amounted to almost 400 million US dollars. New York firm Michael Graves Architecture and Design was hired to oversee the project, along with the Singapore-based Mine Hardy Group and Indian infrastructure giant Larson and Tuba. Some 4,076 laborers worked alongside 250 engineers for 57 months on the project. Work began in earnest when Narendra Modi, then Premier of Gujarat, now Prime Minister, laid the foundation on the 31st of October, 2013. What would have been Patel's 138th birthday? The hillocon which the statue stands was flattened from 70 meters to just 55 meters in order that the foundations could be laid. Of the many thorny engineering problems that had to be overcome, the most striking related to the statue's so-called slenderness ratio. What that basically means is that tall structures should ideally be more slender at the top than at the bottom. It seems obvious, right? Manvisutha's sculpture of Valabai Patel, however, is clearly narrower at the base. At least on the outside. The statue's thrusting progressive stance meant those dainty sandaled feet are some 6.5 meters apart. Engineers decided the best way to solve this problem was to create two separate concrete cores. The same kind of core you'd have seen a hundred times on skyscraper construction sites. Between them, these cores incorporate around 210,000 cubic meters of cement and concrete, 6,500 tons of structural steel, and 18,500 tons of reinforced steel. Working in Gujarat's hot climate created challenges for the concrete pool team who needed to use an assortment of chiller systems to keep the all-important cores Wow. So I'm guessing they've made those panels out and brought them in. Sculpted them? Wow. What a view. Move. Yeah. I figured it was the wind, yeah. Yeah. I figured it was the wind, yeah. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. That's always an argument. Nice. Dang. That was super informative. Engineering is super impressive to me. Cause it's, obviously it's a, something that you have to go to school for cause it's incredibly complex and stuff like that. But it's also an art form. It is. Like it's a incredibly mathematical art form. Yeah, it really is. Especially the, I don't know what type it is, but the one that actually builds. Right. Buildings and different stuff like that. It's a mathematical artwork, I feel. Yeah, I do too. And sculptures of all shapes and sizes are my favorite form of visual artistry when you're talking about the fine arts and you have paintings and sculptures. If I'm in a museum, the thing I want to see more than anything are sculptures. You'd love the Louvre. Oh, they boggle my mind. I wish I could touch them. I marvel at. The marble. At the marble, yes. At steel and marble being made to look soft and fluid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The veins and the arms of people and muscle and facial expression. It's extraordinary to me. The statue, I don't know where it is, but, and I'm sure there's a bunch, but there's a man holding a woman's thigh. I know it. Yes, and his hand is pressing into the thigh. It's, it's unbelievable. I don't know how they do it. It's absolutely insanity. Yeah, I can stand and look at sculptures for inordinate amounts of time. And it never ceases to amaze me. So something of this stature with this kind of softness and fluidity. Talk about a beautiful place. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. And you always get the, if this was in the United States, it'd probably be of, you know, like some confederate dipshit. We don't, we don't really build statues very much anymore here. And it's just cause we is one, I don't, I feel like, especially in America, there's, is there a different culture around statues for one? Because we have so many bad ones. And I have, I have one that's my favorite. There's very little that is worthy of being celebrated. Yeah, in that way. There's very little humans on this earth that in my opinion. My favorite is without question. And there's not even a close second in America as the Statue of Liberty. No, we didn't even do that. Yeah, because one, we didn't do that. She was a gift from the ones who helped us win our independence. And what she represents, the city that she's in, and she was the thing that people saw who were coming to America for the first time that marked the entryway and what the plaque at her feet represents. So there's not even, I can't think of any other statue in America that I have any respect for other than the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, no, it's, I don't like, there's a bunch that I think should be taken down. Rushmore is an abomination. Yeah, let's take this beautiful mountain and put a bunch of racists on it. On other people's lands. On other people's lands that we had previously promised would be theirs when we became a nation. It's, it makes you want to vomit. Mount Rushmore is hideous. There's a lot more into it in America because we live on stolen land. And I understand people who would say, and they have a point about the amount of money put into that, better allocated toward. Helping people. However, at the same time, these kinds of things almost always generate long-term profits that wouldn't have been there. And instead of having been invested into a temporal part of contribution, the amount of tourism that you gain and the amount of publicity that you gain has a monetary value that lasts. And it turned green. That's what's happened to the, I mean, that's for anything the size that that's, that's pretty, I think that's actually a nice and endearing quality to hold such a marvel of how they did it. It's incredible. That's absolutely insanity. So much respect for engineers and stuff like that. No, I didn't do this because I couldn't tell you the first step. I was like, just like, sculpt it and put it up. Yeah. Just build it. I can't even make them, I couldn't even help the kids make a model for school. No, definitely not. Out of matchsticks and silly putty. Yeah. Anyways, let us know your thoughts, likes, dislikes, if you hate it, if you love it and any of those where we need to know down below.