What Is An Ancient Egyptian Obelisk Doing in Central Park?

Where the Vatican is, there's like this courtyard. They have an Egyptian obelisk that somehow or another they moved from Egypt. I mean this thing's huge. This huge stone obelisk that's carved and somehow or another they got it and had it stand up. It's planted in the middle of this little... Have you seen the one in Central Park? Is there an Egyptian one from Egypt? It's huge. From Egypt? Yeah. Whoa. No shit. Yeah. What one was that one put in? 1881. Dude, Central Park is pretty fucking amazing. If you're so lucky you can get an apartment that overlooks Central Park, that makes New York a totally different place. Wow, look at that man. That's nuts. An Egyptian obelisk put in New York in 1881. What? Yeah. That's nuts. There's all sorts of hieroglyphs all over it. Wow. Nobody tagged it? No. I've only seen it once. Do you think they have 24 hour guards around that thing? I don't think so. But they have guards all over New York so someone might find it quickly. Those cameras and stuff. I'm amazed that no one did anything to fuck with that. That seems like a little too precious to be just out in the rain and snow. I mean when was that constructed? Is that like an artifact? I've looked up this, I don't remember, I've looked it up before. It was transported there for a very particular reason but there's these little crab claws at the very bottom of it which are interesting. Well the whole thing's interesting. The whole thing's cool, yeah. Yeah I mean all of the hieroglyphs on it too. That might be one of those things where you could never put that there today. If you said, hey there's this place in Egypt, I know we can get an obelisk. Let's just put it in the middle of Central Park. They'd be like, get the fuck out of here. Cleopatra's needle. Yeah. That's unbelievable. Yeah, people would be like, what the fuck are you talking about man? No, you can't take an Egyptian artifact and just leave it in a park. How do you take a 200 ton thing like that on a boat? Strap it to your dick. 200 ton granite obelisk first shifted from vertical to horizontal nearly crashing to the ground in the process. Steamship. Oh my god, they brought on a ship. 200 tons and you're making the fucking ship. Plus the 50 ton pedestal. You'd be looking at everybody on that boat going, don't you eat too much you fuck. We're barely hanging in here. 32 horses brought it from the banks of the East River into Central Park. 32 horses? With railroad ramps they put up to imagine that day. God. That's nuts. Took 112 days to move the obelisk from a quarantine station to its resting place. Wow. There you go. That's weird. It's weird they would just keep it there. Because again, if you had an obelisk that you found was an ancient historical object and you're like, let's just leave it in the park. Put it in the middle of the park. You can't do that you asshole. You have to put a fence around it. You have to put it under glass. This is art that was made thousands of years ago. These people are dead. They didn't even know what they were doing. It's just sitting there.