The Companion and the Right-Hand Man (part 2)
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Two of Joseph's fellow inmates encounter a helpful gift in the Hebrew—one that might just get him out of prison. …Or will it?
Text: Genesis 40:1-41:14
Players:
- Yahweh
- Joseph
- The Chief Cupbearer
- The Chief Baker
- Pharaoh
What's Spooky:
- Impalement
- Decapitation
- Bloodshed
- Birds eating human flesh
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Editing: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Intro Music: "Winds of Change," Four Trees
Outro Music: "Fine-Toothed Chrome," Sam Barsh
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What is a dream? When the body sleeps and the mind enters another realm, |
| 0:12.1 | when its defenses set like the sun and the subconscious shakes off its burial clothes, |
| 0:19.9 | rising to walk in newness of life. |
| 0:23.6 | When the laws of physics retire and the rigid structure of time grows supple, |
| 0:30.6 | what might happen in that space? |
| 0:36.6 | This is a story about a God who works in the dark. |
| 0:41.6 | A God who speaks plainly and in riddles. |
| 0:47.5 | A God who, when he has something to say, sometimes likes to say it in a dream. |
| 0:55.1 | Because when you're sleeping, he is not. |
| 1:00.5 | I'm Justin Gerhardt. |
| 1:03.3 | Welcome to Holy Ghost Stories. |
| 1:05.3 | Music I'm gonnae....you know... They're all yours. |
| 1:39.2 | Joseph looks up to see the prison warden shoving two men in his direction. |
| 1:46.0 | If you're going to offend someone, |
| 1:53.4 | make sure it's not Pharaoh, eh? If the warden laughs, the pair of new prisoners fail to share his amusement. They stare at the ground, trembling. Joseph bows to the warden and leads his most recent charges to their cells, |
| 2:04.3 | striding along the central corridor. As deputy of the captain's prison, Joseph operates with |
| 2:11.6 | significant authority in this place. The warden has demonstrated what's turned out to be |
| 2:17.3 | quite a penchant for delegation |
| 2:19.3 | over these months, years. But there is no forgetting. Joseph is still a prisoner. There is, though, |
| 2:32.3 | one crucial difference between the Hebrew and the other convicts in this pit. |
| 2:38.1 | Joseph is innocent. |
| 2:42.2 | Framed by a scorned woman and now left here to rot. |
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