Tyler McBrien

But I never went.

It's kind of like, you know, New Yorkers never going to the Statue of Liberty or something.

And also it's a granite monument.

It seems so solid.

And then, so the real reason I was then just like obsessed with it was when it blew up and I was like, realized I could never actually visit.

And so maybe that's part of this obsession is this like sense of loss or something.

I know, like attach any conspiracy theory and insert the Georgia reason, you know, if aliens landed and this was a UFO landing pad, why would they land in rural Georgia?

If this was the birthplace of the lizard people, why there?

There is one common theory, more of the QAnon theory,

New World Order flavor that the Guidestones, the point where the Guidestones sit or sat is exactly as the crow flies, 666 miles away from the United Nations headquarters, which of course is run by the global elites.

And you know, it's pretty close.

I checked, it's like 664.6.

So they may be onto something there.

Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it.

I think also the granite companies were like, this is some weird shit that we can build that kind of will attract people to the town and show off the artisans of the granite industry.

Because it was a pretty remarkable piece of...

art and craftsmanship.

I mean, they had to, this is 1979, they had to quarry it all.

They had to sandblast 4,000 characters in 10 plus different languages, which they, you know, had to research and figure out how to translate.

And these 10 commandments or precepts, I mean, it's pretty stunning.