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AX And Sophia Waters (Episode 352) · Voices for Voices®

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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hey everyone, Justin here, Voices for Voices.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we're gonna cut to the chase of this episode.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It is titled, um, not only is it episode 352, uh, but we are actually gonna dub this particular episode AX and Sophia Waters.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh I'm gonna let our guest uh get ready, set, go.
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  David Solomon: And thank you, Justin.
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  David Solomon: Uh so you guys all know me as David Solomon.
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  David Solomon: And uh today I wanted to go over some really interesting facts because it's it's the anniversary of uh of when I became a Christian fantasy author.
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  David Solomon: So I thought it was appropriate to uh to go over this.
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  David Solomon: So um many of you know that I survived human trafficking at the hands of Bryan Davis and other individuals, allegedly, for purposes saying that.
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  David Solomon: And here's the deal.
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  David Solomon: In 2011, on this day, I wrote a story called AX, because God told me to do it.
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  David Solomon: And I was going to a youth group at the time in Oregon City, and Bryan Davis called my youth pastor up and had a five-hour conversation about my well-being, and uh, and then everything changed in my church.
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  David Solomon: Well, I wrote this, and um the next day, Bryan Davis just happened to be in our town, so my mom and I visited him and tried to figure out why he had a five-hour conversation with my youth pastor.
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  David Solomon: So AX is a Christian fantasy story about Saul who became Paul only.
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  David Solomon: Saul was a vampire in this fantasy world modern day, which is a soul sucker.
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  David Solomon: He sucks souls or a soul taker, and then he became a soul saver, so then he saves souls.
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  David Solomon: And AX was a parallel to the Bible, like veggie toes for a supernatural crowd.
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  David Solomon: When I met Bryan in 2011, on October the 26th at 5.30 p.m.
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  David Solomon: We also discussed another idea, and that was Sophia Waters, because he, for some odd reason, was fascinated with what I was writing these days.
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  David Solomon: Because I used to write for him, literally.
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  David Solomon: So Susie, his wife, sat down with me, and um she loved the idea of Sophia Waters being this girl who uses her sirene voice to open portals, and it's tied to the Tower of Babel.
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  David Solomon: And Bryan loved it too.
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  David Solomon: In fact, Bryan and I brainstormed a book idea called Superheroes Wanted by James Art Ville and Bryan Davis.
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  David Solomon: We'll get to that in a moment.
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  David Solomon: So Bryan picked my brain because I wrote for him before, and my mom didn't appreciate him reaching out to my youth pastor.
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  David Solomon: Um, that would be an understatement.
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  David Solomon: And um he said, So, what are your ideas for a superhero book, David?
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  David Solomon: Now, at the time, I wasn't known as David, I was known as Jeremiah.
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  David Solomon: To confuse you, my mom, because of my talent as a prodigy, hid my real name from people.
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  David Solomon: And then I had a dad who blew up our home who was in and out of prison, and so my mom was terrified of him for good reason.
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  David Solomon: She stuck the living, he stuck the living heck out of her.
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  David Solomon: So I was known as Jeremiah Paul Song.
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  David Solomon: And Bryan knew me as Jeremiah, not David or Solomon, if you will.
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  David Solomon: I remember that day, almost like it was yesterday.
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  David Solomon: It was very scary.
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  David Solomon: Where Bryan um he wanted to know my ideas, and my mom said, Well, why did you talk to his youth pastor?
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  David Solomon: And Bryan goes, I was just checking in on him, and she goes, There's no need, everything's fine.
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  David Solomon: What are you doing here?
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  David Solomon: And he goes, You moved, you didn't tell me.
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  David Solomon: So I get that.
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  David Solomon: My best friend, who also uh was like me and very talented, autistic, um has tret, if you will, they uh they also, if you will, were manipulated by Mr.
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  David Solomon: Davis in many ways.
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  David Solomon: And when we started talking about books, when we started talking about me doing his books and him wanting my mom to uh screenplay one of his books, and my mom said, It's creepy that you contacted his youth pastor after we left a situation, and we did, very intense situation, and uh we moved to Oregon City because of it, and you know it wasn't okay, so he got me outside and we talked for about three hours, maybe two, about ideas.
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  David Solomon: He wanted to pick my brain.
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  David Solomon: I was autistic and naive.
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  David Solomon: My mom talked to Susie and Amanda, not to be confused with my wife, Amanda Davis, who at the time was on tour with her father because she came out with a dystopian book, um, which actually, honestly, people is very good and doesn't have all this crap in it, so you should read it.
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  David Solomon: Um, it's under Amanda L.
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  David Solomon: Davis, if anybody ever wants to pick it up.
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  David Solomon: Um, but nevertheless, it was really hard that day after he talked to me for those hours, because then he wanted to meet me again the next day, and my mom found it creepy, but we did it anyway, and this was in Newburgh this time, and I had a friend that went to the Newburgh school there, and so we met up as a family and we talked to Bryan for four hours, maybe five, and he just picked my brain about all my writing, and uh we actually created with his daughter uh Starlighter, which technically was created a little bit before, but then he started putting everything together to make everything fit in the narrative, and at that point it was uh third Starlighter that we were plotting, and then he wanted to do the superhero series and then the children of the bard.
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  David Solomon: I was doing Legos for him.
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  David Solomon: You can look it up of Dragons in Our Midst because I'm really good at what I do, and it was his words.
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  David Solomon: So then Sophia Waters he said that would be a really cool story, and you know, it could fit in well with dragons in our midst, the story world, and pretty soon Bryan messaged me on uh on Facebook and started pursuing the idea of uh these Chinese dragons.
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  David Solomon: Um there were purple dragons.
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  David Solomon: There was a folklore that he was obsessed with that I posted on mythical creatures after I was trafficked.
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  David Solomon: Now we'll fast forward that he kept private messaging me about.
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  David Solomon: He wanted to know information on it.
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  David Solomon: It's a purple dragon folklore, and he and I went back and forth, even after trafficking me, he would not leave me alone, and then he kept asking me about Sophia Waters, and this idea actually works, and that idea doesn't, and um it was a whole mess, and after being trafficked, I was even more of a mess.
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  David Solomon: My mom, you had to understand, my mom was helping him write a screenplay based on Starlighter, which I have, by the way, Mr.
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  David Solomon: Davis, if you're listening, the original documents for that screenplay, if you would like to see them.
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  David Solomon: Oh, and they are notarized by my mom.
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  David Solomon: To you.
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  David Solomon: The name of that story is called Blood Brothers, based on Masters and Slayers and Starlighter, and it's about Jason Masters and Adrian, and they're two brothers.
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  David Solomon: And the story is about how this girl has gone missing because dragons are taking girls, right?
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  David Solomon: And they're enslaving them and breeding them on another planet, but that's folklore and legend.
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  David Solomon: And Adrian's brother Frederick has also gone missing trying to find these girls.
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  David Solomon: Isn't this like sounding familiar, people?
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  David Solomon: So um they're taken to the cattle camp, which is where these dragons, for all tents and purposes, sex traffic these children.
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  David Solomon: A cattle camp that a boy gets away from.
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  David Solomon: I'll let your mind wonder.
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  David Solomon: So this story is about human trafficking, and before I was trafficked, my mom was a big supporter of making people aware.
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  David Solomon: So we did a cartoon screenplay for Mr.
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  David Solomon: Bryan Davis with three months to live for her.
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  David Solomon: Okay.
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  David Solomon: So then I got trafficked, and we know that part.
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  David Solomon: It boggles the mind.
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  David Solomon: Why after that, Bryan did not let go and was obsessed with mythical creatures around the world and kept private messaging.
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  David Solomon: I have those messages, by the way, Mr.
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  David Solomon: Davis.
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  David Solomon: I really do.
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  David Solomon: And my Facebook got hacked through that too.
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  David Solomon: My old Facebook, Solomon O Stone, which is why I have AX up there.
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  David Solomon: Um, AX was going to be published.
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  David Solomon: Bryan stood in the way of it being published, and that was when the car accidents started in Oregon City for two years.
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  David Solomon: They would start.
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  David Solomon: Um after that, I started doing my own thing with mythical and distancing myself from people like Bryan, who kept hurting me and my mom and other people.
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  David Solomon: I looked up to Bryan Davis as a mentor and a father figure, and I was groomed since the age of eleven, in his words, because he met me at eleven, because I was a prodigy, and it is the biggest mistake I made letting that man get close to me or my mom.
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  David Solomon: Big mistake.
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  David Solomon: That's why I wrote the film Sound of Freedom.
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  David Solomon: It's why he wrote the film Center Soul.
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  David Solomon: I'm not here to wage war on Bryan or Scott or Realm or anyone.
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  David Solomon: I just want people held accountable for what they did in the Christian world, which makes it worse.
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  David Solomon: And I'm gonna resurrect the story, and I'm also gonna resurrect that screenplay for Starlighter, and I'm gonna put it out that my mom was forced to write that for Bryan And Sound of Freedom.
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  David Solomon: That was our baby that was that was mom and me and a few other people.
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  David Solomon: It's just so sad that we're here in this moment.
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  David Solomon: Someone that loves God and yet can be so dark and cruel and hates his children, God's children.
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  David Solomon: Here's a man who writes about dragons in our midst.
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  David Solomon: You know, book one was amazing, book two was really good, book three, book four.
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  David Solomon: I truly believe that God chose this man to write.
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  David Solomon: But then I think greed and power, and I stand by that, came to Bryan somewhere in there.
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  David Solomon: He changed.
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  David Solomon: You know, I pray for Bryan all my life, actually.
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  David Solomon: Every day I get up and I pray for Bryan Davis.
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  David Solomon: So funny.
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  David Solomon: I pray for my trafficker.
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  David Solomon: I'm such an evil person.
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  David Solomon: But I don't pray because I want to be around him.
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  David Solomon: I pray that he A turns himself in, B, repents, and C gets caught somehow.
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  David Solomon: But I do pray for his family.
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  David Solomon: But I do not pray that he dies.
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  David Solomon: I don't think he can say the same.
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  David Solomon: I've been called every name in the book today.
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  David Solomon: I even had someone stab me with a knife today.
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  David Solomon: I'm fine.
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  David Solomon: I'll get over it.
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  David Solomon: It was a little wound, but still happened.
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  David Solomon: It was a scary moment.
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  David Solomon: People with all this hate.
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  David Solomon: This is the America we live in.
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  David Solomon: We let monsters like this, dragons like this roam free.
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  David Solomon: This man should have been locked up fourteen years ago when he talks about talking to minor children about sex porn and cutting behind their parents' backs on the harvest interview.
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  David Solomon: We would not be here today.
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  David Solomon: I would not have gotten taken.
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  David Solomon: The other children would not have gotten taken.
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  David Solomon: So that's the story of AX and Sophia Waters.
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  David Solomon: He wanted those stories for himself, and he wanted me to make the uh uh Children of the Bard, uh Sila and Joran, um from uh Children of the Bard.
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  David Solomon: It was chapter one, it was every other chapter they would have a chapter.
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  David Solomon: So there's Bonnie in the prologue, and then we flash back to the uh second Eden, and it would be their story, and then it would be Bonnie's story, and then it would be uh present, which is Matt and Lauren, the children of Billy and Bonnie, which is how we wrote it.
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  David Solomon: Now that sequence continued in book two a little bit, but it triggered a uh a new character, and he brought Joan of Arc in uh book two towards the end, along with the prostitute for book three.
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  David Solomon: He brought everything in.
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  David Solomon: So my point is me and my mom were really working for him, and I became a better Christian writer because I learned from him, but I did not let that define who I am today.
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  David Solomon: So let me be hated for setting the standard on what true Christian fantasy should be, and that is something like mythical creatures around the world where a seven-year-old or an eight-year-old can pick up a book and not worry about little girls being raped by dragons in a kid's book, nevertheless.
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  David Solomon: I mean, it just boggles the mind how we get here.
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  David Solomon: And we say, Oh, it's fantasy until that fantasy becomes a reality.
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  David Solomon: And that that reality happened to me, literally.
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  David Solomon: So AX, I will be resurrecting, because it's a worthy story to be told that could save someone's life and lead them to Christ.
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  David Solomon: And Sophia Waters, I will also be resurrecting because that's a worthy story too.
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  David Solomon: But it breaks my heart that that Bryan, out of all people, just will not let this go.
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  David Solomon: You know, Bryan has talked to everybody but me now, literally.
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  David Solomon: Targeted everybody but me now.
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  David Solomon: He's literally had everybody else harass me.
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  David Solomon: But he won't actually be not a coward and actually have a conversation to me.
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  David Solomon: He has to do it in the shadows or have other people do it.
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  David Solomon: And today was the last straw.
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  David Solomon: AX is the story that uh my mom was very fond of.
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  David Solomon: It's a redemption story about a vampire who changes and doesn't become a vampire anymore.
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  David Solomon: God changes him.
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  David Solomon: It's a very powerful and profound story.
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  David Solomon: So that's the story of Sophia Waters and Axe.
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  David Solomon: It's painful to imagine that was twelve years ago.
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  David Solomon: And here we are.
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  David Solomon: Now and now, you know, we're doing sacred scales and dragons of camelot.
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  David Solomon: We haven't learned our lesson.
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  David Solomon: You know, in the new book we describe um a minor child not wearing undergarments.
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  David Solomon: It's kind of a weird detail.
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  David Solomon: The character looked under the girl.
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  David Solomon: Curious.
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  David Solomon: So that's for ages what, eight and up, I think.
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  David Solomon: Or seven and up one or the other.
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  David Solomon: It's a little innuendos like that that really piss me off.
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  David Solomon: You know, I'm at all.
• 28:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, thanks for sharing.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know it's deeply um just transparent into your heart and your soul.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and before we end uh this particular episode, uh, we want to thank our guests, uh David uh Salman, for coming forward for being a voice, not just for himself, but so many others.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Regardless of all the hate, regardless of everything.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We experienced that as well.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Voices for voices.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have people that intervene, people that uh I don't know.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, so I want to give a I want to give a big shout out uh to all the Rockstar attorneys and lawyers out there.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know it's not an easy uh it's not an easy profession.
• 29:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh a lot of emotions can uh come uh come up through that line of work, so I wanna give the shout out.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: To those rockstar attorneys who are following the law, who are listening to their clients, not going behind the backs of their clients, not reaching out to individuals or individual on the opposing side.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we're not giving a shout out to those people.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Those people, in our estimation, and good faith, are not attorneys.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They have no business anywhere near a legal document, a courtroom, a deposition room, none whatsoever.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so wanted to take this opportunity again to say thank you to all the rock star attorneys who day in, day out deal with just some just tough topics, tough experiences, and uh that can definitely eat into uh kind of that personal life of those uh those rock star attorneys.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um want to say thank you for those rock star attorneys because uh it is uh people like you who keep the uh the American justice system, uh the the wheels of justice uh turning, and we want to say thank you.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And however we want to uh be sure to um if you're experiencing any type of uh activity from an attorney that you have or somebody that you know has, don't be don't be shy about it.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Gonna come on our show, you have a voice just like just like I do, just like David does, just like our our other guests do.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh so let us know because we want a world where people are held accountable, and that includes people posing like attorneys, posing like they are representing you, or I hypothetically, and they're really not, they are doing shady business just to call it um just to keep it just to keep it uh you know children uh appropriate.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we do pray for those attorneys who may, after watching and listening to this episode or any of the other 351 episodes in our catalog, that the your heart does change, that you actually want to uphold the rule of law, that you really want to represent your clients and not the opposing side, that you want to represent and do what your clients want, not spending hours on the phone with individuals that have no business having conversations with with uh with an attorney.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and and so for those, we we pray for you.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We hope that uh that again we're all sinners.
• 34:28
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So we pray for ourselves and we pray for you if you are one of those attorneys.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We would pray for all attorneys, but especially those that uh are making decisions outside the purview of what they should be doing, and especially that attorney client privilege.
• 34:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's that that's one of the hallmarks that we're you know, we we're supposed to be able to put our hat on, um uh hang our hat on.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and so don't be afraid to reach out to your your bar association and report those attorneys.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thanks, David Solomon, for this episode.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Please be a voice for you or somebody in need, and celebrate all the voices and all of us.
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  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'll see you next time.