The Incomplete Castle - One Mans Fortress Of Faith

0:20 welcome everyone today we're going to go

0:20 to Tennessee Tennessee to The Unfinished

0:23 19 year-old creation a work in progress

0:27 of Floyd junr Banks Junior what's he

0:30 creating you ask well this a castle

0:35 created entirely by hand by him over two

0:39 decades let's go inside join me shall

0:42 you

1:28 love Junior Banks how are you pretty

1:28 good I'm from Florida saw your saw a

1:31 thing online about you okay my dad's a

1:33 I'm a preacher's kid so I found it

1:35 mildly interesting I think you going to

1:37 like all this okay okay you had no hurry

1:39 with you don't give a grand no I'm not

1:40 in any hurry at all well you come here

1:42 you like K okay you mind if I take any

1:45 pictures while I'm out here that's how

1:47 long you been building this place uh 19

1:49 years 19 years yeah so almost two

1:53 decades you've been working on this

1:54 thing yeah CR

2:05 these were all your pets he got six Tom

2:05 brought up but most of I used to get

2:06 every $600 come to were they mostly dogs

2:09 or they other animals a billy go that

2:11 got struck with light and blown m a

2:13 billy go which one was he okay see it's

2:16 got Billy on the how you named them

2:18 Billy yeah they chicken got roll on the

2:20 road I breed them together put Billy the

2:23 goat and chick okay which one's got the

2:25 B I can't see well here's wolf man here

2:27 okay here's Billy the goat right here

2:29 that's him yeah okay so he got struck by

2:32 lightning huh Billy the

2:46 goat out of curiosity do you have the

2:46 three Thrones for the Trinity the the

2:47 father Son and Holy Spirit look at this

2:49 Christ Image yeah see the Christ Image

3:14 I think I've carved the whole thing see

3:14 I just about quit carving there Drew all

3:16 these yeah see mine's got lines in

3:18 Smokey the Bear I see there here's your

3:19 Mickey Mouse there oh yeah that would be

3:22 my that would be where from I'm from

3:24 there down towards Disney World is that

3:25 right yeah oh people leave their names

3:27 on the wall yeah I got sick they a't put

3:28 that up in a long time you no kidding

3:30 people that visited well they they leave

3:32 her name on in papers and I put it up

3:34 later on for them you know all people

3:36 that have visited here over the

3:59 years I love this kind of stuff I love

3:59 this kind of

4:00 sure so that's going to be a lighthouse

4:02 huh yeah recessed into that it be

4:05 plaster M up put three wiers in it I had

4:08 turn electricity off up here next time

4:10 you come back may have it you got no

4:11 power now I finally bailed out man I I

4:13 was at he never been a dead up to there

4:16 man for for a year or two do you have a

4:19 way if people wanted to donate to you is

4:20 there a way they could get a hold

4:22 wishing wheel little oh you got a

4:23 wishing well okay this pennies I don't

4:25 even really charge them

4:51 what is the symbolism of the eyes here

4:51 okay any reasoning for that this looks

4:53 like the a Tex okay sort and then these

4:56 sish here and I just put them a lot of

4:59 people don't even notice thaty observe

5:01 it man cuz I hat a lot of people I'm

5:03 going to put a little eyeball in I like

5:04 the serpent here as well yeah they they

5:07 was a it was snake not this oh full on

5:10 okay I

5:24 see that guy's got about many teeth I

5:24 have there you

5:27 go I like the little firl place here

5:41 yeah you ever had anybody stay up here

5:41 have you ever stayed up here I

6:01 now I I like this here this is pretty

6:01 neat where you built sort Clos I had to

6:03 put these brick on the inside cuz they

6:04 were old you know brick F old Crum

6:07 outside see these are solid right these

6:09 are solid but see these kind you can

6:11 tell that was outside that doesn't been

6:14 gold man and see what look like

6:15 reinforcement rods be P to sure probably

6:19 ever have to use it but he wants you to

6:20 say just in case

6:31 yeah that's neat so this is your actual

6:32 tooth right here huh yeah and I've got

6:33 another mature pocket here you just

6:36 wedge your tooth into the fireplace this

6:38 is this stuff you know these food that

6:40 releases chemicals where you feel great

6:42 I can't eat none cuz I life all day and

6:44 never know why I'm laughing okay I just

6:47 noticed the seashells you got up here oh

6:49 yeah yeah they they sever people in

6:51 Florida they bring me seashells

7:14 so you put those up there recently huh

7:14 well yeah well I guess some time goes to

7:17 Quick six or eight months you know so so

7:20 a guy can get up his letter don't even

7:22 reach and look how heavy that is man him

7:24 old can't hardly walk you can't see for

7:27 sure ain't complaining somebody stole

7:30 all their coins so these were all each

7:32 one of these had a different coin

7:34 somebody came in here and stole all of

7:50 them did somebody steal the little axe

7:50 there yeah they yeah but I'd hate to put

7:52 them home when

7:54 you we going to chase the thief out when

7:56 they get the axe and reason all this you

7:58 the dog teach teenager look right here

8:01 if you live right here look here what a

8:02 messes been made kind watch I get wet

8:05 look here see this little snapper turtle

8:07 oh yeah I can see the face of the turtle

8:09 right there okay that's only way he say

8:11 violence he's saying violence with that

8:13 cuz you know that thing to viol right St

8:16 your finger off he's violence not

8:17 talking about Turtle they got his gist

8:19 but he's talking about saying violence

8:21 but look at his nose if it'd been broke

8:23 it wouldn't have been no messy but see

8:24 how his nose is broke it does look like

8:27 a turtle see how the shells been beat

8:29 with a baseball bag yeah what was the

8:31 first thing out here that you built what

8:33 was the very first thing that started it

8:34 all okay I started up there on the

8:36 corner you know where I go in the car

8:38 you started the indoor section first

8:40 well yeah see I stopped going other way

8:44 and come down this way go down man so

8:47 what's your your eventual goal what do

8:49 you want to just make a complete Castle

8:51 all four walls I just bought man just

8:53 follow whatever the Lord tells you to do

8:55 okay oh there's your ladder there yeah

8:58 look at I tell you you tell me

9:00 I got it lock up here so somebody

9:02 doesn't steal it yeah yeah you got

9:04 something coming up what is this over

9:05 here okay great V I'm going run this you

9:07 got some grapes coming uh yeah these

9:10 find what is this right here okay that's

9:11 radishes I believe this up here radishes

9:14 yeah the this dirt came from I pushed up

9:16 here to wheel so this dirt ain't got the

9:18 accident see the difference on got the

9:20 accident in one a yeah they got some

9:22 garlic yeah you love G next time up here

9:24 I like the old plow you got over there

9:26 yeah that's pretty neat that's antique

9:30 look down here man oh yeah onions yes

9:34 you see big up cuz you know you welcome

9:36 through there man I usually raise 20,000

9:39 20,000 onions so how many days a week

9:42 are you usually out here working on this

9:43 on average every day

9:55 yeah that picture's pretty nice grass is

9:55 all green oh yeah is that pretty and now

9:57 look what I come to the door here right

10:00 see the ghost yeah I do the Holy Ghost

10:03 the represent the almighty it has to be

10:06 like an old man in Authority like an old

10:07 man with judges wig on right look right

10:10 up here above you see an old man with

10:12 judg wigs you see an old man with judg

10:14 wig yeah you can kind of make it out

10:23 there all in all I had a good time

10:23 visiting with the man who spent the last

10:25 two decades building this Castle kids EV

10:30 vandalized and stolen yet he keeps

10:32 building he keeps

10:39 building I got some rooms up here I'll

10:39 be a fire if you you bring some kind of

10:43 what you call it sleep sleeping bags

10:45 yeah it'd be great to stay up here that

10:46 would be interesting

The Incomplete Castle - One Mans Fortress Of Faith

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