Inside The Jeepers Creepers Screen Used Truck & Horror Film Movie Props / The Milestone In Charlotte
Jeepers Creepers Truck and The Milestone
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as
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the recording of this wednesday february
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16th
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2022 a retro tire place across the
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street and on this corner in charlotte
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north carolina a piece
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of punk rock history the milestone which
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opened in the late 60s
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and over the years especially in the 80s
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you know late 70s early 80s into the 90s
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a punk rock mecca
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if you will i'll be able to go in here
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shortly and then after that
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i'm going to be venturing into some
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other areas
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and possibly an opportunity to see
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some quarter stream used vehicles
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it's just going to be a whole mishmash
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of today i'm inviting you
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to join me
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chalia
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by the way i played here in a band 10 11
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years ago bringing back memories to be
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here and many musical acts you might
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have heard of performed
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here rem nirvana black flag dead milkman
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i'll show some flyers too that kind of
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dug up
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of who took the stage
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and even on that little sign right there
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it's kind of waving in the breeze it
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says established 1969 the address is
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3400
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and also tagging along scott on tape
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you're very excited about what to walk
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in here i am so i'm doing a full video
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from inside adam and i'm very excited
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and now i'm going to do this
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walk off oh you have a what's the shirt
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you're wearing
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it's a little band called
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pearl jam i should also mention before
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we walk in a big thanks to the new
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owners for coming down here early to let
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us in all right i just looked it up when
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i was here it was august 6 2010
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and i'd like to introduce you to rayan
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who has been in many bands in the
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charlotte area what bands were you in
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when you played here
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silly scream frankenstein drag queens
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wednesday 13 lunatic candy creek all
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kinds of punk rock bands all right yeah
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and uh so you kind of came to did the
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connection got a hold of the owners and
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so thank you to you for letting us go in
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here too when i knew you guys were
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coming through i thought this would be
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the perfect spot to bring you by and i
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found out you play here is even cooler
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that is cool i have a page called nerd
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locations on instagram where i do like
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thin and now pictures of pop culture
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places i haven't gotten into vlogging
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yet but if i do this would be an epic
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first appearance in a vlog all right
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gonna go in turn the corner there's kind
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of like a bar area here
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and then we're gonna walk this oh yeah
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this is already bringing back memory
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because this place is full
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of stickers
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the merchandise area was set up over
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here
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yeah i remember this booth right here
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this pretty much looks identical we had
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our merchandise t-shirts and stickers
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and whatnot oh there's even a bad brains
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inscription right there and here is the
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stage right here look at this
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this is the stage minor threat tag when
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they were here
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so they put that when they were here
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wow so that was like from 82. yeah they
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have a sign up that says respect our
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historic graffiti there's an rem tag
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from when they were playing there's two
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are you so this was not placed here
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after the fact this was placed here back
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the band put this on here according to
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the owner according to the owner there's
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another one up here
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this one is the most famous one
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which is uh
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let's see
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here's the rem tag oh wow look at that
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yeah and here's me right there so that's
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2010 august of 2010
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me right there in the
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center of the
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of the stage a few people there watching
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us not too many but a few yeah when
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nirvana was here they had a parachute
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going around the back of the stage
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notice how chris over here has a shaved
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head
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that's the same
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is when we play with that
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when was the last time you played here
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early 2000s so it's been a while yeah
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it's been a while now take a look at
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these old flyers there's rem
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there's the go-go's
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of course dead milkman
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and
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bad brains
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back in 1982 april on a tuesday 1982
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and then of course one of my favorite
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bands ever
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that room
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was graffiti free until like 2004. it
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was just black and red essentially it
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was always dimly lit and had low
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ceilings because the second floor was
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still there ages at the time and they
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found out about the place and they were
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like we want to play the milestone
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they're like well we already showed that
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night then they decided to do a matinee
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here and i have the flyer from the
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matinee really so that was no effects
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what year was that i want to say it was
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89 wow uh i can send you this stuff that
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was like s m airline years
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yeah yeah that was early no effect
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coming here and placing their first
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shows and cut their teeth and stuff like
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i love having bands here that are too
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big to play here i love packing the
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place out all right i'm now gonna put
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one of my stickers right up here on the
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side
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of this
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for
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posterity all right that was pretty dang
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cool
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stop it in there real quick moving on to
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the next spot okay i've commuted a
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little bit of a ways over to a
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residential neighborhood well i will be
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getting a view of these screen used
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jeepers creepers the first jeepers
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creepers filmed in florida
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two of the cars from the movie
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right over here in this neighborhood is
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one of the movie i wasn't
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whenever i was looking at
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getting ready to buy the actually screen
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used impala
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uh
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the guy was kind of being a little
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wishy-washy with him like well look you
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know i'm not going to put up 100 all my
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eggs in this basket i got a chance to
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get one i could build a replica i got
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the real deal here so yeah so that is
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that is the real the real truck it is
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he put a lot of work into making it look
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like it was in the movie
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well i
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i did
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all of the distress and to make it put
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it back this way because whenever i
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first got it
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these pieces that were right here
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i literally had to screw them back up
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into it because they were falling off
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you could take your fingers and stick
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them inside the ca and you could stick
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them inside the truck because there was
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just so much because they built this
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truck they basically threw it together
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with 22 gauge
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10 more or less yeah and it
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it leaked real bad and everything
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whenever we took it apart we took all
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the metal off the sides all the metal oh
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we left the top but we took some stuff
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off of it and then came in and uh
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put it back where it needed to be
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and uh
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how long have you had it
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i took ownership of the this truck in
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september uh correction
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november 2nd of 2018
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do you ever take it to conventions and
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stuff and have people see it i take them
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all over the place uh i've got the
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convention lined up i'll be at carolina
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fear fish in raleigh north carolina
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coming up and
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that's going to be
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pretty sure that one's in may uh i'm
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actually working i'm brokering a deal
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right now with a guy uh down in ocala
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florida where the movie was filmed yeah
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okay
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oh i've heard of that yeah we're looking
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at bringing the truck down to spookover
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that would be cool find out
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i think that's the first big convention
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ocala is ever going to do we should
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probably move
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that's pretty loud me and the other uh
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i'm friends with a guy named tom
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redemper over the other screen used
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truck you saw it was used in jc one and
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jc3
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and there in the process of everything
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that he done to it we're actually
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building a real
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sound
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type creeper truck horn like you put
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here yeah but we're patting in it and
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everything and
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it's not something you want to use
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inside a convention center
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just too loud it is loud
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i keep it all covered up so it doesn't
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get damaged because like i said
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whenever i got it the people that had it
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didn't take care of it very well yeah
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the previous owners didn't put a whole
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lot of money into i've dropped insane
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amounts of money i could imagine
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so how many different vehicles were
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there for the truck was this the only
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one there was three trucks total of
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three total of three this is the the
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this truck was used in the scene for the
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creeper
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basically there's a scene where the
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creeper the doors fly open yeah the
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creeper basically takes his hat and puts
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it on yep and then he basically takes
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the body and puts it back here
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and then opens the door up and tosses
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the head in that's this trick that was
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this truck here's actual picture of
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jonathan standing back here and you know
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you got your scissors right here and
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this is how you can tell the continuity
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of it being an actual truck right if you
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look
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right here in the door
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this latch piece right here is basically
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kind of makeshift welded you got a flat
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piece if you look at it it's the exact
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same piece this is the same piece
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but the scene in the movie is this one
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whenever he opens it up and he's putting
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the policeman's body in the back yeah
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did you have to go out and find a lot of
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props that look very similar luckily the
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guy that i bought it from was a huge fan
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as well and he's actually friends
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with everybody like i am yeah so he had
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a lot of the stuff he had a lot of the
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stuff yeah in the movie uh
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all
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the trucks one didn't run at all and the
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other two were very wishy-washy the way
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this one was done
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um
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pretty much uh they would run this one
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long enough for it to get up to operate
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the temperature and it would overheat
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and pull it over and then they grab the
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other truck right so they did it
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multiple times because
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whenever i got it the problem was the
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vehicle overheating i ended up putting
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the radiator so this was not the one
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where they're speeding down the street
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so this this is not that truck that's
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the v8 chase this is where the slower
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one's moving yeah and the interesting
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part uh is the v8 chase truck you'll um
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that's the one that's destroyed now
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right uh but if you were to look at the
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way the v8 chase truck was
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the v8 chase truck everything out of the
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back of this was good
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there's two main support frame rails
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right here and what they did is they
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basically put the engine
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and transmission right back behind the
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driver's seat and they had an air ride
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seat for the uh for the person driving
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and they would do the shots and the
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second shot's over with they would stop
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jerk the doors open the driver get out
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because it was such a sweat box
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and justin's up there so he gets up
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there beside me and starts you know
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making smirk faces giving me the evil
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eye and a whole bunch of other cool
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stuff
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and the whole time he's just you know
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cutting up and acting a fool eventually
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he comes over and he's he's being cool
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and cutting up and stuff and jeannie was
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just a sweetheart
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but uh
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you know and then right there towards
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the end he uh he comes up and he goes
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looks up at me and he says you sure got
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pretty eyes you
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and uh some of the props that you see
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here some of the stuff is actually this
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is you know that was from jc2 now this
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is actually uh the makeup appliance from
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jc2 where uh the creeper gets the heart
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the javelin huh yeah yeah that's a great
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scene yeah that is the actual makeup of
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planks that went through his eye i
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figured y'all want to see that oh my
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gosh that's incredible
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looking at you know building me a
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creeper truck calling stuff you know
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would there be a possible way i could
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drive up to where he lived he lived up
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in elkton maryland and he said
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absolutely let me get a weekend set up
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set aside and stuff and you know you can
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come up and sure enough one weekend i
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drove up and got a hotel room next day
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came out and
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seen the truck took pictures of it and
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a lot of the pictures that you see
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that for that particular weekend if you
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get online any of the memes that you've
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seen it says your uber driver's here and
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it's got a picture of the people
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standing next to the truck that's my
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picture that's not jonathan brett oh
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okay that's me so there's picks hundreds
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of thousands of pictures of me that
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truck and those floating around and
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stuff so
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whenever all it was said and done i
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looked at him and says hey well if you
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ever get a wild hair and decide you
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think you might want to let it go please
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keep me in mind
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oh no no i'll never sell it i'll never
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sell it well
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fast forward to whenever they film
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jeepers creepers so he basically got the
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original truck
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took all the parts together
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and built one really good one and then
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he distressed it and restored it and
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that's the truck you saw in jupiter's
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creepers part three okay so
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tim was kind of upset i think
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that they didn't use the truck so i
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think he kind of you know well you know
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i don't really need it no more and so
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after it was over with um
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and they were done filming uh he ended
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up coming back on the side and putting
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this on the market
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and whenever they put this on the market
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i refinanced my house
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to buy it
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because you know this is you know for me
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it's a big big thing and you know i
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that's what i wanted to do at the time
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and it you know it's definitely paid off
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because it's you know for me it's when i
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retire from a full-time gig i'm i'm
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gonna do this travel across the country
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bringing it all over the place because i
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got like next year uh i'll be going to
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corpus christi texas with the truck yeah
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i've got i'm already booked up full for
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october and i've got weddings and
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everything else i'm doing there that's
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cool what's your channel
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oh yeah plug your channel uh
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the channel for the creeper truck is
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called the creepers truck it's pretty
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self-explanatory it's um the youtube
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instagram uh facebook and tick tock
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everything is the creepers truck
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you know i've got about probably
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85
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85 to 90 videos on the channel and the
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channel goes back to whenever i actually
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went to maryland road in this truck for
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the first time this is not your average
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thing to work on and it's not the
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average thing to get parts for so right
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now when you do that convention in ocala
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are you going to drive to the spots and
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go to the where the church was and all
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that i'm going to probably go a couple
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days early and i'm going to take the
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truck down there and drive and stuff and
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i'm probably going to get in costume
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because not too long ago i got to go
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down there for the first time and i got
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to see the police station spot and you
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know guy hit me up not too long ago
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because everybody anything creeper
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related i get contact that's how i have
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all the information regards to jc4
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um but
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guy hit me up and says hey man this is
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they're bulldozing the darn police
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station are they just gone it's
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gone yeah
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it's not for the biggest people
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okay so be careful getting in
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i don't want to know what's in the back
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of this thing
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should i look back there
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all right we're going to get some food
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we'll see you later
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nice to meet you
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that's awesome yeah that's so cool but
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you also have it on your clicker you can
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do it right here i'll walk back here to
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show you okay
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so this is the angle same where the
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scene with the doors there double door
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in the movie it shows
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a scene
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where the doors
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open just like right yeah
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the creeper comes in kind of stands
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there for a second
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and uh he reaches over he takes the
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policeman's body
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and he sets the body down
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and then he basically takes his hat and
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puts it on yep and then he shuts one
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door like this
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shuts the back door
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then he opens the door he tosses the
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head in that's right and then shut it
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back
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brilliant
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that is awesome
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but it all happened right here so
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all that right there you were in branson
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missouri the day before you they have a
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replica there yeah and you got to got to
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drive that around but crazy that's not
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screamiest no i was asking you when we
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say the beginning of the video but it is
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a tough car to drive it is something i
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drove it around the corner and plus i
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got a guy from rob zombie band beside me
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so that's nerve-wracking as well wow i'm
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just waiting for a head to roll back
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there
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oh my goodness got to keep you on your
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toes
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i'm not just on my toes i'm on my
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something else
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nice all right rip kind of crank it up
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strike it up as black boxes say
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oh going forward
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i was waiting for the horn
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that's so awesome
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it's awesome
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so right behind that seat right there
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there was a 2.5 gallon fuel cell you put
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in a dragster just a two a little too
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far to go whenever i restored this truck
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i needed to make an actual functional
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truck to where i could use the
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conventions the haunted traction stuff
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like that so i wanted actually a real
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truck so
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we came in here and put a real gas tank
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in it
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so
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i've actually got a real gas tank in it
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oh wow so if you're a hardcore creeper
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fan you'll get a kick out of this you
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ever seen movie called powder
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yeah powder
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in in the movie they're talking about
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kessel county
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where
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jesus takes place yeah and they're
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talking about poe county they talk about
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all the elements of jeepers creepers in
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that movie and troy was nice enough to
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give me this and also sign
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the back right here
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thanks for coming to see the jeepers
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truck 2022.
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the creepers cousin
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i love it
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this was so awesome
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so cool
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um so this is the this is the get up you
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put on at conventions
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well yeah this is this this jacket is
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the one i use now uh this is my my mask
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uh and then this is my original costume
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and then i got my
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autographed pictures of jonathan brick
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and i got my thank you notes from
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jonathan over here
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okay now this is
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this is for posterity i like to say
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and now walking over to get a bite to
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eat for dinner
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approaching pinky's west side grill
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which used to be an old automotive shop
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speaking of jeepers creepers oh i almost
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missed this
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plenty of them take a look at this but
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they're all it's all that's the only
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thing that's in here is it's going deep
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what year did this restaurant open
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five six years ago five or six years so
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it just kind of sat empty for a long
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time
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so that bw bug's been up there for many
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years even before the restaurant yeah
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when it was the car shop it was every
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time i would drive by it even as a kid
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it was up there i don't even know if you
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could move it right
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so they just kept it up there pinkies
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it's called pinkies
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and also they got the neon up top
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but this says pinkies
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as well right there see and got an
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assortment of different things my burger
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i ended up getting pimento cheese on a
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pimento cheese on the burger itself
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and then the other guy's got an
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assortment of different items as well
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yeah pretty pretty decent amount of food
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we got here the chow down always good to
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end the day with a delicious meal
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pinkies
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and there's that dinosaur over there do
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not climb
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on the dinosaur
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all right dinosaur it's been fun
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thanks for watching i'll see you in the
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next video the vlog
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is over oh and one last view there of
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downtown
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charlotte north carolina
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off in the distance