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Unleashing Spirit Man | Episode 223 · Voices for Voices®

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Justin Alan Hayes: Welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast.
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Justin Alan Hayes: I am your host, founder and executive director of Voices for Justin Alan Hayes.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Over the years.
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Justin Alan Hayes: We're well over 200 episodes on our way to 300 total by the end of 2025.
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Justin Alan Hayes: And we are very, very excited to have our guests with us today, to have our guest with us today.
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Justin Alan Hayes: As you know, I love to learn and to find my new areas of what people do and how they do it, and so we wanted to bring this guest to you to be able to share some of that.
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Justin Alan Hayes: I'm going to give a little bit of a little bit of a bio and then we're just going to jump into conversation here, and the interesting part here on the bio of the first slide says that, in a word, he's boring, but we don't think so.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He has always been a writer.
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Justin Alan Hayes: When he was oh, wow, yeah, his mom taught him to read.
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Justin Alan Hayes: When he was two to three, he had an 11th grade reading level going into first grade, which is miraculous.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He's always been writing plays and stories in grade school.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He's written several Christian plays that he has performed with various small groups.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Over time.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He's also written a novel that he has been attempting to see if he can get that published in some way.
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Justin Alan Hayes: If anybody who's out there can help, please let us know.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He's also written several scripts for what he calls ASMR, but he likes to refer to it as POV Theater, which online voice actors can use if they so choose.
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Justin Alan Hayes: His scripts can be found on Reddit.
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Justin Alan Hayes: His username you may have heard and know that is edgyscript, which is E-D-G-I-S-C-R-I-P-T, and he has had over 300 fills on these scripts.
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Justin Alan Hayes: We'll understand a little bit what a fill is.
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Justin Alan Hayes: The scripts are all over the board as far as theme and genre, but he does have a general rule, which is one of the reasons why we're having him on our show is that they all end up well in the end for everyone involved, and he wants them to be hopeful and not dark.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Even if that script does go dark play, it go to dark places in between, and so spirit man, which is well known for, began in junior high, created a character in the full armor of God that was in the physical world, and it began as more of a campy band-ex-wearing superhero that fought over the top villains and he even had a teenage sidekick named Shine, much like Captain America's Bucky or Batman's Robin.
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Justin Alan Hayes: He has met Everett Paul Burris although he went by Paul, he didn't realize that was his first name was Everett for years as an artist and he played with the idea of turning this into an actual comic and let's just jump right in.
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Justin Alan Hayes: There's so much content, so much experience that he's had, so we want to introduce our viewers and listeners to Scott also goes by Edgescript.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you for joining us.
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Scott Edgiscript: Thank you for having me.
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Scott Edgiscript: This is pretty cool.
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Scott Edgiscript: Thank you for having me.
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Scott Edgiscript: This is pretty cool.
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Scott Edgiscript: Thank you for having me on your show.
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Scott Edgiscript: All right, good night, we're leaving.
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Scott Edgiscript: No, I'm kidding, yeah, go ahead.
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Scott Edgiscript: I guess I'll start from the beginning, Just to let you know Spirit man, the comic.
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Scott Edgiscript: I, like you said, I created it when I was about 14 or 15.
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Scott Edgiscript: And it was just kind of me and my friend Paul hooked up.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was a writer, he was an artist, and we hooked up.
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Scott Edgiscript: We both were huge comic fans, Always been.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, for me, I've always been a Spider-Man fan, uh, as well as several others.
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Scott Edgiscript: But Spidey was my guy and it started kind of as a a GI Joe type of thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: He was going to fight this terrorist organization, Um, and it never really went anywhere.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, we, we were.
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Scott Edgiscript: We had high hopes and dreams, but we were a couple of teenage kids and for about a year or two we played with it, we had fun with it, we bonded over it, but we didn't really have any experience.
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Scott Edgiscript: We didn't know what we were doing.
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Scott Edgiscript: How, how do you publish?
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Scott Edgiscript: How do you?
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Scott Edgiscript: How do you get this out?
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Scott Edgiscript: Now, remember too this is really before the Internet.
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Scott Edgiscript: So publishing meant going to Marvel or DC or someplace like that, or maybe an indie marketer or trying to do it on your own.
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Scott Edgiscript: Well, we didn't have funding, we didn't have knowledge, we didn't know what to do.
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Scott Edgiscript: We realized we were in over our heads and it was a fun time.
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Scott Edgiscript: So we each went our separate ways.
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Scott Edgiscript: About 20 years later, paul contacts me Now.
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Scott Edgiscript: We've been in contact here and there every once in a while during that time, but essentially I live in the Des Moines Iowa area.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was in that area at the time.
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Scott Edgiscript: He lives in St Cloud, minnesota.
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Scott Edgiscript: He lived there.
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Scott Edgiscript: He's still there and he calls me up.
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Scott Edgiscript: He's part of this program.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh, and I don't have it here.
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Scott Edgiscript: Did I include it in the bio?
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Justin Alan Hayes: Portable vision.
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Scott Edgiscript: Portable vision.
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Scott Edgiscript: Thank you, thank you.
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Scott Edgiscript: That's it and I want to give them a shout out to in the St Cloud area, if anyone wants to look them up, that they do amazing work.
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Scott Edgiscript: But it's it's part of a mentorship program for artists and things like that and it was and it's helping, you know, teens in need, troubled youth, things like that, and it was and it's helping, you know, teens in need, troubled youth, things like that, and just sharing the gospel with them through art and and teaching these guys you know how to become artists themselves.
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Scott Edgiscript: And it's grown.
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Scott Edgiscript: Since he talked to me it's been about boy.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's been about 15 years now since he first came back and brought this up.
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Scott Edgiscript: They have grown much, much larger and they do a lot more with.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's not just art now, it's music and other programs.
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Scott Edgiscript: But if anyone is happens to be in the central Minnesota St Cloud area, please look them up if you're interested in joining, but also if you're interested in helping.
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Scott Edgiscript: I know they'd appreciate it.
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Scott Edgiscript: Interested in joining, but also if you're interested in helping, I know they'd appreciate it.
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Scott Edgiscript: But he as a mentor, as an artist, he got to share with the students a little bit about who he was and he brought up the comic and how he he and I had this idea and we were going to do it, but it never got off the ground and the students asked him well, why can't you do it now?
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Scott Edgiscript: And he realized he had no good answer for why not.
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Scott Edgiscript: So he contacted me and he said are you, are you interested in restarting this?
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Scott Edgiscript: And now that he had gone through art college, he had actually been to several comic cons with other work and things like that.
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Scott Edgiscript: He actually had experience creating comics and publishing things.
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Scott Edgiscript: Um, and I told him I said yeah, I'm very interested.
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Scott Edgiscript: But now it's 20 years later.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm a different person.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's going to be a different story.
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Scott Edgiscript: Are you okay with that?
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Scott Edgiscript: He's like absolutely, I'm bored.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, you write it, I'll draw it and we'll go.
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Scott Edgiscript: And so Spirit man became less of a comic book, like I said, like you said in the bio spandex superhero type person.
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Scott Edgiscript: He became more of a soldier.
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Scott Edgiscript: So he's the story that we have now is it's Martin.
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Scott Edgiscript: He's a 15 year old kid who basically doesn't think he can handle anything, and essentially he's me, at 15 years old, who thought you know, I want to be used by God, I want to be helpful to people.
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Scott Edgiscript: I want to be out there, but but who am I, by God?
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Scott Edgiscript: I want to be helpful to people, I want to be out there, but who am I?
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Scott Edgiscript: I can't do anything and nobody notices me, nobody cares, I got no skills.
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Scott Edgiscript: And his spirit, man with the armor of God, begins projecting into the real world, and he can't figure out why, and so that's where the comic goes in.
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Scott Edgiscript: So we take that supernatural element, we start blending it into the physical so he can, so he can have these adventures and it's fun, but but also so he can begin to learn just who God made him to be.
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Scott Edgiscript: And that's one of the messages that we have with this comic is that it doesn't matter where you are and who you are, as long as you say, yeah, god, use me, you know he's got the rest, it doesn't.
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Scott Edgiscript: You don't have to have everything set, you don't have to have everything perfect.
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Scott Edgiscript: He is perfect, he's got it.
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Scott Edgiscript: You just need to be willing to let him use you.
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Scott Edgiscript: And part of what we were trying to do with it, too, was show anyone.
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Scott Edgiscript: A lot of people say this is a teen, you know, oriented thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's not.
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Scott Edgiscript: We didn't write it for anyone in particular Anyone.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know I'm 54 years old.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know this is, this is a story.
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Scott Edgiscript: I want to read this story.
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Scott Edgiscript: I want to.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know I'm writing it because it's story for me, but it's just to me.
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Scott Edgiscript: It was kind of sharing the excitement and the reality of spiritual warfare and how you really do make a difference.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's not just a quiet, pleasant, calming, meditating thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: You're really making a serious difference and that's part of what we were trying to get across with that.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, and it's the fact that you're kind of going to that next level, into the spiritual.
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Justin Alan Hayes: There's obviously a lot of battles that we all go through.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Should I do this, should I not?
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Justin Alan Hayes: Oh, I messed up here and so if I have a chance, should I try this again.
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Justin Alan Hayes: And so just giving, giving the audience the ability to think further helps, helps them on a deeper level than just the aesthetic side.
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Scott Edgiscript: Yeah, yeah, if you tell someone, like the Bible says, we should pray unceasingly.
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Scott Edgiscript: But what does that mean?
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Scott Edgiscript: Does that mean I'm supposed to fold my hands, get on my knees, hide in a room and, for 24 hours a day, never do anything else and just lock myself away and just be in continual prayer?
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Scott Edgiscript: No, it means that prayer is a conversation.
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Scott Edgiscript: We should continually be in that place, you and I.
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Scott Edgiscript: Right now, we're having this conversation, but we can still be in a place where God is invited in and I should be continually asking God into my life, talking to God about everything.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's not a formal ritual, the way a lot of people think it is, it's just.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean, prayer for me is very often hey, god, how's it going?
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Scott Edgiscript: You know how you doing, you know how awesome you are.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean that's prayer.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know it doesn't have to be.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh dear Lord, please give us these 19 things in order.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's not.
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Scott Edgiscript: It has to be worded this way.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's talking, just like you and me are right now.
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Scott Edgiscript: So this when you tell someone about the power of prayer, most people don't get it because they just see the quiet, reflective, boring side of it, quite frankly.
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Scott Edgiscript: And so with the comic, we wanted to show the real power going on.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean Ephesians talks about we fight against.
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Scott Edgiscript: We don't.
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Scott Edgiscript: Our fight is not against flesh and blood.
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Scott Edgiscript: Our fight is against spiritual forces in high places.
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Scott Edgiscript: Our fight is against wickedness going on in the spiritual realm and prayer and spiritual warfare makes a real difference.
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Scott Edgiscript: But it can be difficult to see and understand and that's what we were hoping with the comic it would make it more real, make people go.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh Now, obviously it's comic, it's fictional, but we were hoping it would help people go.
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Scott Edgiscript: So that's what's happening, that's what's going on.
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Scott Edgiscript: Just kind of give them a better grasp of that kind of thing.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, from just taking a step back.
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Justin Alan Hayes: How's that?
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Justin Alan Hayes: How's it make and the ink that goes on is reaching somebody in potentially a place where they do just need that encouragement.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's amazing, it really is.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I can't I don't want to sound like I did this for me I really felt doing this was being obedient to the division God put on my heart.
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Scott Edgiscript: But I got to be honest.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, I, when we started this, me and Paul I said I'm not going to pay attention to results, I just want to be obedient.
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Scott Edgiscript: God's got the results.
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Scott Edgiscript: Whatever happens happens If we touch one person, if we touch a million, whatever happens, if God said do it.
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Scott Edgiscript: I just want to.
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Scott Edgiscript: One day I'm going to stand before him, I'm going to stand before the throne and I want him to say good job, good job, you obeyed my good and good job, good job, you obeyed my good and faithful servant.
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Scott Edgiscript: Well done.
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Scott Edgiscript: That's what I was interested in.
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Scott Edgiscript: But I got to admit, yeah, one day Paul sends me I mean, we were probably two or three years into this and we'd gone to a few comic cons with this comic and I've connected with people here and there about you know about it and things like that and gotten some responses but one day he just sends me an email and said I thought you should see this, and it's just comment after comment after comment about how much we touch them and how much we reach them.
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Scott Edgiscript: And yeah, I got to admit it made me tear up and it was like, wow, I'm actually reaching somebody.
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Scott Edgiscript: And we've received uh letters from uh prison chaplains.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, they're using it.
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Scott Edgiscript: And we've received in hospital chaplains people who come in uh to the hospital that are suicidal or going through other difficulties and they said it's it's really helping them and it's really reaching these people in these situations, and that to know that it really actually is having real effects on people is is overwhelming to me and that's a Testament of who God is, not who I am, because I'm I mean, in all seriousness, I'm an incompetent boob.
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Scott Edgiscript: I am too yeah, I mean I and I embrace that.
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Scott Edgiscript: I don't say that to say to talk about how worthless I am and get this false sense of self-righteousness.
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Scott Edgiscript: Honestly, a lot of people do that.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh, I'm terrible.
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Scott Edgiscript: What they're really looking is for you to go.
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Scott Edgiscript: No, you're not, you're wonderful.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, I'm not looking for that.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm trying to be honest and say I can't handle this, those results.
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Scott Edgiscript: In no way in my history and my experience, my education, should this be happening.
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Scott Edgiscript: This is truly god and I want to give you a brief, if it's okay.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, a brief example.
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Scott Edgiscript: Um, uh, you read in the bio that that I had written several plays and, uh, I performed one one time.
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Scott Edgiscript: This is an example what I'm talking about.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, I performed one one time.
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Scott Edgiscript: This is an example of what I'm talking about.
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Scott Edgiscript: I performed one one time called the Executioner and it was about and I did it with a youth group, with a church youth group, and we went to a place and performed it and it's about a guy who he is saved, he knows Jesus, but he's not really living it and he doesn't really care and he's not chasing God.
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Scott Edgiscript: And so an angel comes and basically gives him a message, says God's going to reveal to you how, just what he did for you, and why you shouldn't take this for granted.
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Scott Edgiscript: And the guy goes back in time and it turns out he is the executioner of Jesus Christ.
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Scott Edgiscript: So he didn't, he nailed, he nailed Jesus down personally.
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Scott Edgiscript: And when it comes back to the very end, he goes, he meets these people, he connects with people.
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Scott Edgiscript: It turns out he's he's the guy who actually has to.
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Scott Edgiscript: And when he does, he slams his hand on the ground on stage three times.
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Scott Edgiscript: On the last one, he stays down and everything goes dark.
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Scott Edgiscript: And as it comes back up, the angel comes back out and the character's name was Jack and he says Jack, you're back.
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Scott Edgiscript: And Jack is just bawling and he says I nailed him, I nailed him down.
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Scott Edgiscript: And the third time he says it, he screams I nailed Jesus Christ to the cross.
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Scott Edgiscript: And the angel's last line is everyone has Jack, everyone has.
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Scott Edgiscript: Now we're performing this piece in front of a church.
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Scott Edgiscript: It was the first time I performed it with this group and I'm the drama director for these kids and I'm watching through the whole thing and, of course, I'm the director and I'm seeing oh, they did that wrong.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh, he said that wrong.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh, he should have been turned here.
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Scott Edgiscript: Oh, the blocking was wrong.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm seeing all the errors.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm saying, oh, we're going to have to correct this in practice.
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Scott Edgiscript: And so my time is coming on to perform.
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Scott Edgiscript: I get up from, I'm in the audience.
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Scott Edgiscript: I get up quietly because I got to go around to the back.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm going to come in from the back and there's a cord on the floor and I didn't see it and I trip, wham, I hit the ground and I'm down on the ground.
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Scott Edgiscript: I wouldn't, didn't hurt myself, but I'm thinking, oh no, everyone's looking at me.
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Scott Edgiscript: And so I stayed down as long as possible.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I looking at me, and so I stayed down as long as possible till I figured everyone in the audience turned back and is focusing on the stage.
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Scott Edgiscript: And then I ran out to the back, I do, I come in, I do my part, and then I tell jack, you've got to be the one to nail him.
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Scott Edgiscript: You do it and I leave, I'm in the back, I'm, I'm in a hidden room.
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Scott Edgiscript: We're waiting for the last part to be done.
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Scott Edgiscript: And there was another person back there who had a part earlier and he goes what are we supposed to do when it's all done?
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Scott Edgiscript: And I realized, oh no, I didn't tell anyone.
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Scott Edgiscript: I didn't tell anyone what we're going to do when we're finished.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I said, I said just follow me.
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Scott Edgiscript: We're.
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Scott Edgiscript: I hear them, I listen for the last line.
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Scott Edgiscript: We give it a couple of beats, they exit the stage.
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Scott Edgiscript: I said follow me.
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Scott Edgiscript: We walk out on stage.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I realized we haven't done, I haven't prepared anything.
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Scott Edgiscript: The audience might think this is part of it.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I just look at the audience and I kind of go.
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Scott Edgiscript: That's it.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, really anticlimactic, you know, and all I'm thinking is myself is oh, we screwed up so bad.
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Scott Edgiscript: I go and I sit down, the pastor comes up to the front and there's dead silence for about 45 seconds and what's going through my mind is oh man, they're trying to find something good to say.
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Scott Edgiscript: They're trying to find something good to say.
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Scott Edgiscript: They're trying to find some way to salvage this.
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Scott Edgiscript: And when she starts talking, her voice is cracking and she's stuttering and stammering.
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Scott Edgiscript: And it suddenly hits me oh my goodness, she's been overwhelmed.
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Scott Edgiscript: And when she can finally speak, she says crying.
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Scott Edgiscript: She says I hope you understand what a blessing you've received this day.
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Scott Edgiscript: And then afterwards people are just crying and coming up and hugging us and thanking us for coming, and all I could think of is I sat there and I just went.
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Scott Edgiscript: God, thank you for this experience, because this is you.
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Scott Edgiscript: All I could see was the errors.
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Scott Edgiscript: All I could see was the blunders.
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Scott Edgiscript: All I could see was the.
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Scott Edgiscript: We are incapable, we screwed up so bad.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean, I hit my face, I messed up the end.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was like and this, we got this result and and people are genuinely touched and and I just I thanked him because I said that was just a reminder to me I'm just the vessel, he's the potter, I'm the clay.
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Scott Edgiscript: Anything good that has come out of my life he gets credit for.
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Scott Edgiscript: And and I just appreciated that experience.
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Scott Edgiscript: And with Spirit man 2, I had that experience because of the fact that, you know, I created Spirit man.
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Scott Edgiscript: Right, I'm the creator, I'm the writer, it's mine.
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Scott Edgiscript: No, I appreciated that 20 years later I had given it up, it was gone, it was never going to happen.
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Scott Edgiscript: When Paul came back to me, I just had this feeling that, god, this is yours.
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Scott Edgiscript: To me it was dead and gone, but you wanted it to happen, so you made this happen.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I don't consider myself the creator of Spirit man anymore.
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Scott Edgiscript: I consider myself God's steward.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's his, he owns it, he's just put me in charge of it for a time.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, that's very powerful, and I have similar experiences where I go through a particular experience and all I'm looking at is the fault and what can do this, and I should have done that and I should have talked to this person or whatever that may be.
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Scott Edgiscript: and then when it's easy to do, isn't?
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Justin Alan Hayes: it.
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Justin Alan Hayes: It's so.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, that's the easy part is where a lot of us are.
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Justin Alan Hayes: You thought, with corporate america and everything of you know you have your goals and did you meet them and didn't you?
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Justin Alan Hayes: And so much time is focused on the negative of oh well, you're doing great, but there's these other things over here that you could do much better, and I think, just in general as a society, as human beings, we spend more time just reflecting on the positives that we would have a better, uh, let's say better, uh, better perspective on on ourselves.
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Justin Alan Hayes: That's like okay, well, yeah, I may have screwed this up or this might not have worked.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Um, but look at all these other things that I I've done and and that's part of what, uh, it landed me kind of in the psych ward in 2017, at rock bottom, mental health wise, and and it was all about the, the, the things I didn't do, that I didn't.
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Justin Alan Hayes: I could have done better that you know, the relationships I've treated, people and and instead of going, oh, my gosh, like I'm, well, I'm not the nobody's perfect, I mean God's perfect.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, so I shouldn't be expecting that every single thing that I do, every single step of the way, uh, right, it's going to be like that and I think that that's helpful and that that, and then, after all, that it was probably one of the best feelings you had once you kind of thought about it and as she was speaking to the audience, because it's a very freeing feeling to know God's got it, he's in charge.
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Scott Edgiscript: He only is asking you to obey.
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Scott Edgiscript: He's not asking you to be perfect.
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Scott Edgiscript: He says I'm perfect, just let me work through you.
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Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, uh, so you do also a voiceover.
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Scott Edgiscript: Work Is that right, I don't do voiceover work myself.
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Scott Edgiscript: What I do is, um, I've I started to write scripts online for ASMR artists, on YouTube primarily.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean they can be other platforms, but it's primarily YouTube.
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Scott Edgiscript: There's a long story with that too, and it's an amazing tale too, because this is not directly Christian in nature.
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Scott Edgiscript: They're just cute stories.
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Scott Edgiscript: They're just fun stories that I wrote.
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Scott Edgiscript: Christian in nature, they're just cute stories.
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Scott Edgiscript: They're just fun stories that I wrote.
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Scott Edgiscript: They do have.
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Scott Edgiscript: Now there's a long explanation of how I got to you know point Q, but I don't want to take you through you know A, through what you know, all the way through.
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Scott Edgiscript: That'd be too boring for one thing, uh, but I was writing these scripts for fun and, like I said, uh, you said, I always want to keep them positive and hopeful.
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Scott Edgiscript: A lot of scripts that other people write just end dark and depressing and uh, uh, very much, as some of them are, you know, very horror oriented, which you know.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's like, ok, you want to write that, that's cool, but I'm not going to go that route.
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Scott Edgiscript: Everything in mind has, you know, they tend to be a little romantic.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, the guy gets the girl in the end.
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Scott Edgiscript: He's not, not just left like nope, everything stinks and you shouldn't put all this effort in, because you know your life life is a tragedy.
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Scott Edgiscript: I didn't want to go down that road, um, so I started writing these scripts and I started building a little bit of a following.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, and different voice actors online were picking up my scripts.
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Scott Edgiscript: So, like you said, I've had about 300 fills now, which means a voice actor has taken my script and actually performed it on YouTube or somewhere else.
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Scott Edgiscript: So that's what a fill is.
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Scott Edgiscript: They filled my script.
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Scott Edgiscript: Now, what in the middle of all this?
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Scott Edgiscript: This is also where the novel came from.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I wrote one script for voice actors.
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Scott Edgiscript: When I got done with it, it kept haunting me.
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Scott Edgiscript: It was like I, in this, in this short 30 minute script, I felt like I created a much bigger world, and so I went.
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Scott Edgiscript: It kept driving me.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was just obsessed by this.
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Scott Edgiscript: I would come home from work and it was like I had to focus on the script and I wrote this novel and and I and I kind of kept going back to god like why, what?
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Scott Edgiscript: Why do I feel so driven to do all of this?
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Scott Edgiscript: And, and it again is one of those things where I'm just trying to be obedient and I don't, in my logic, my my perception, I don't know why I'm here.
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Scott Edgiscript: Um, this didn't seem to be something that made a lot of sense, but I've made connections in this world and I've touched certain people that I can.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'm starting to see.
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Scott Edgiscript: I think God in his sometimes we never know, sometimes, honestly, we never know God says I want you to go here, I want you to do this thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: We do it, we walk away.
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Scott Edgiscript: We never see the fruit, we never see the result.
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Scott Edgiscript: We just have to go on faith.
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Scott Edgiscript: That says God.
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Scott Edgiscript: You put me there.
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Scott Edgiscript: I don't know why, but I was obedient.
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Scott Edgiscript: But I believe God has allowed me to start seeing some of the fruit, and one of them in particular.
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Scott Edgiscript: I just want to, if it's okay, to give a shout out.
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Scott Edgiscript: Yes, one voice actor in particular I I'm debating whether I should say her name because I haven't got her permission.
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Scott Edgiscript: Yeah, but no, I'm going to go ahead.
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Scott Edgiscript: I think she'd be okay with it.
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Scott Edgiscript: She goes by the name Dragon's Tower.
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Scott Edgiscript: She's online as Dragon's Tower and she puts out very wholesome pieces, but she does what I call POV theater, where that most of all these people do, where it's like the listener is an active participant, so so it's point of view.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's like if I'm talking to you hey, how are you going, how are you doing today?
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Scott Edgiscript: And then there's silence in the script because the listener is supposed to be responding and then the speaker will say that's good to hear, wow, I'm glad, and it'll keep going that way.
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Scott Edgiscript: So it's a dialogue, but one of the parts is silent because the listener is supposed to be that part.
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Scott Edgiscript: So you're talking to the person who's actually listening to the presentation, person who's actually listening to the presentation.
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Scott Edgiscript: And someone took one of my scripts and did it and she was amazing and this was like her first or second script she had done period.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I was like, wow, this is incredibly professional, this is amazingly well done.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I started a communication with her Thank you for doing my script and and and and.
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Scott Edgiscript: Initially it was just very much, you're amazing, no, you're amazing, patting each other on the back, doing all that kind of thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: But as it went on, she did a few of mine and we started to connect personally and I started to find out more and more about her, and I won't go into details because, like I said, I haven't got her permission to share everything.
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Scott Edgiscript: But she, I found out she was going through some really, really hard times in her life and and, uh, a relationship, you know, someone left her, someone was abusive in their relationship, uh, a family relationship that was incredibly destructive and then, on top of this, a medical situation that was just devastating.
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Scott Edgiscript: And it was like one thing after another kept piling on.
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Scott Edgiscript: But with me she was always smiling and upbeat and cheerful and I was like this person is amazing.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I had been praying for her.
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Scott Edgiscript: I had been, I had been communicating with her as best I could.
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Scott Edgiscript: My you know Christianity, you know my beliefs, started to come into this conversation.
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Scott Edgiscript: I leave it out at the beginning, not because I'm embarrassed about it, but I truly believe nobody cares about what you think until nobody cares about what you know, until they know that you care.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I wanted to genuinely love these people and and, and this person in particular.
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Scott Edgiscript: My heart just went out to her and one day I just commented, I just sent her a text and I said look.
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Scott Edgiscript: And one day I just commented, I just sent her a text and I said look, I've adopted you.
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Scott Edgiscript: I said just, I want you to know you're my daughter now and she didn't have any parents at that time.
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Scott Edgiscript: They had died.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I just said, well, you're my daughter and I don't care.
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Scott Edgiscript: And I wanted to be genuine, but I was.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was playfully, uh, expressing it and said, and I don't care what you say, you have no say in the matter.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, I'm, I'm taking you.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know it's kind of jokingly.
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Scott Edgiscript: I was saying like I'm kidnapping you.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, you're, you're my long distance.
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Scott Edgiscript: Um, now, are you familiar with a?
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Scott Edgiscript: Yandere is no, no, okay, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a thing going on.
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Scott Edgiscript: It's, it's an old trope, but right now it's become fairly big in anime and in Japan.
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Scott Edgiscript: Yandere is Japanese for ill love, so it's those stories about someone who is so psychotically obsessed, obsessively in love with you that they'll do things like kidnap you and lock you in their basement so no one else can have you, and that kind of thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: So some of my stories have gone along this yonder day theme, uh, but, like I said, uh minor, uplifting and wholesome.
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Scott Edgiscript: So it's always it's either like the person has like a tragic past or something that they've gone to this length, and then you find out about it and then the listener like actually steps in and helps them through it, or something like that.
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Scott Edgiscript: So I had played around with these Yandere themes and so I jokingly I said you're my Yandere long distance daughter.
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Scott Edgiscript: You have no say in the matter, I'm just taking you and I just wanted her to know I'm going to be there for you.
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Scott Edgiscript: I just wanted her to know I'm going to be there for you.
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Scott Edgiscript: You've got a lot of crap going on in your life and and you're on my heart and I'm going to love you and my.
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Scott Edgiscript: My biggest worry when I sent that out was she was going to respond with this is creepy.
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Scott Edgiscript: I'd rather you never contacted me again, that kind of thing.
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Scott Edgiscript: But she came back calling me dad and and I got to tell you.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, I, I started crying when she did that.
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Scott Edgiscript: I mean I and, and to this day now we've known each other for about since that happened, we've she's been my daughter for about seven months now.
35:16
Scott Edgiscript: Every morning, I, I, I, I send her a discord.
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Scott Edgiscript: You know, uh, um, you know, good morning Uh, my, you know my wonderful, amazing daughter.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, I've been sending her Bible studies.
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Scott Edgiscript: Uh, she has received a new man in her life that is a wonderful man of God and has been helping her too, and I'm just rejoicing over everything that's been happening in her life and the fact that I can be there for it.
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Scott Edgiscript: And in the middle of all this, I sat back and went God, is that why I'm here?
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Scott Edgiscript: Is that what?