Vancouver monolith mystery revealed: JACK 96.9 morning show claims responsibility
Posted December 11, 2020 9:01 am.
Last Updated December 11, 2020 10:37 am.
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The return of Drex to the local radio landscape is already rocking the boat: it turns out the silvery monolith that appeared at Kits Beach earlier this week was actually the workings of the new JACK 96.9 morning show.
The official reveal was made on the show Friday morning.
“I wonder how much the fine’s going to be from the City of Vancouver for defacing Kits Beach,” Drex joked. “If you’re wondering, yeah, that was our monolith at Kits Beach. We built — well, I didn’t build it, it’s terrible. It’s awful.”
The Kits monolith showed up early on Wednesday, which happened to be JACK’s new morning show launch day.
“We were planning on, if it was going to get bad publicity, we were just going to ignore it and not even say that we had anything to do with it,” Drex told NEWS 1130. “The one thing we were worried about was getting a littering fine from the City of Vancouver on Kitsilano Beach. Because that thing is enormous and that would probably carry a $2,000 fine.”
As the JACK team pointed out, the stunt got plenty of media coverage and was even talked about on other morning shows.
Of course, Twitter responded.
“This looks like a subtle breeze could tip it over… Saddest. Monolith. Ever,” Sportsnet 650 producer Dominic Šramaty wrote on Twitter.
“This has a ‘made at Michael’s’ feel to it,” another tweet reads, while another says,” Bavaria did it better with a wooden phallus. This is passé.”
This has a “made at Michael’s” feel to it…
— Jesse Miller (@MediatedReality) December 9, 2020
“I just want to go back to the comment where it looks like it was made from Michael’s, I can tell you it was made in a parking garage in Steveston,” Drex said.
Built in a garage in Steveston. pic.twitter.com/1VeQgCrNqS
— (@drex) December 11, 2020
By the way, you may have noticed Klingon writing at the bottom of the monolith. It actually translates to D.O.J., which stands for Drex on Jack.
The Vancouver monolith is unrelated to the others that have popped up in places around the world in recent months. The mystery behind those sculptures has yet to be cracked.
