It's time for Pastor Mike.
This we bring in different voices
for this segment of feature.
Lots of local comedians. Because we
love hearing their jokes and their joy.
Today we're talking about a special
birthday for one DC and on one of
America's most recognizable landmarks,
the Lincoln Memorial turned 100 years
old. That's right,
if you listen to our Mike drop.
Yesterday, you got the notice.
Yes, it is become the backdrop of many
historic moments in American history.
It was modeled after the Parthenon in Greece,
which your boy has checked out.
The memorial gets about 6 million
visitors a year and only briefly did
because of the pandemic. Only briefly,
pretty much anybody you talk to
has vivid memories of the memorial,
so I brought in my man old Mike B to
discuss when you hear Lincoln Memorial,
what's the first thing that comes to mind?
I, I think I think of Martin Luther King.
Instantaneously I think I'm out.
Luther King and the civil rights.
And then I also think about that.
I've read in the article there's
87 steps and I give them more
props because they wrote they.
I've I've walked those 87 steps in
in regular Jordans and my feet hurt.
But they walked those 87
steps in church shoes,
so that's that's a hell of a
feat. That is a hell of a feat.
No pun intended. Actually,
the original design on it had Lincoln on
a pyramid before it got its temple look.
Now how would you have felt about
the pyramid Lincoln Memorial?
I think that would have been kind
of fly, actually. They have a have
a pyramid linking in a pyramid.
Yeah, I think it would be.
It would look cool, but it
would be a whole. It would
be the subject of a whole lot
of Q Anon articles. At this
point. Yeah, I don't think it would have aged
particularly well where we are right now,
especially with the third eye. The third
eye might. It would change
from the Lincoln Memorial
to the Third Eye monument.
I think that's you right?
You right on the money on that
one. The third eye.
It will be an issue.
What memories do you have
of the Lincoln Memorial?
A field trip I went when when
I was in elementary school.
Just driving from north
while riding from Norfolk,
VA to the Lake memorial in the school
bus and thinking it was the best
thing smoking because it was in the,
you know we was going to DC and
we walked around the monument
and everything and went up the
steps and played and just the
looking from the Lincoln and then
being able to see the capital.
I think it's capital the the,
the mall and everything is amazing
and it's it's funny because I as
an adult now being able to go
into the city whenever I want to.
It's amazing how much we
take for granted that.
Right?
Like being able to walk up those steps,
turn around,
look at the the the memorial
and the mall and everything.
So that's one of the things
that I enjoy the most.
That's actually that's actually quite
true about taking it for granted.
My wife and I actually had our
first kiss at the Lincoln Memorial,
and we decided to make it
part of the wedding, right?
So we ended up taking a bunch
of photos by the Lincoln,
and you know, all down the ball in
the tuxedo and the wedding dress.
And people were so nice about coming up
and congratulating us for getting married.
And I was like I didn't even know that
that was a thing that people did well.
You congratulate people when you see I
get annoyed when I see people getting mad.
Ohhh hey here they come,
they're gonna take up all now.
Now I gotta get out the way right
now I can't now I can't get my selfie
because you got your professional
photographer and and and all hell
y'all who just got married and don't
let me start hating on on the couple.
For for whatever reason all you
know that ain't gonna work out you
know what we get you know we get
our head I'm like wow
it's a blocking traffic you
tried to get somewhere to block
the traffic from Memorial Way.
Whatever they block the traffic
so you can't go nowhere and then
the Secret Service is out there
because the president is out there?
What does he doing out here today?
He ain't got nothing to do? This
world is giving me a lot of reasons
to be negative and pessimistic about
the state of our world. But that
day of the Lincoln, everybody was there.
Almost undid it.
You didn't, you didn't undo it,
but you almost you came really damn close.
So shout out to them all those
random anonymous people,
most of which were probably tourists.
So look the tourists being implant
they didn't even come here.
They don't live here.
They would have been mad at you.
You guys are much better people
than me because I still get
annoyed whenever I see somebody.
And Ohh now now now I gotta wait to
take my photos for the gram because
somebody decided to get married.
By the way, I still put out that
the Lincoln Memorial is the goat.
However, a close second as we
learn on 980 today, the Awakening
the Awakening. Somebody bring the
awakening back into public view.
By the way, if you want to hear
more from oh Mike B, he has a
weekly show on Tuesday at 8:00 PM
at shenanigans and Adams. Logan called
Broken Mike Comedy presents talk to me
Tuesdays. Yes, I know the awakenings.