The problem I was having had to do with this specific line:
scoreKeeper = GameObject.Find("Score").GetComponent<ScoreKeeper>();
I didn’t quite understand what this line of code was doing when referencing Brice’s example in the video, but this might help others who run into the same issue:
GameObject.Find is looking for the game element (in this case it is the text box in the game we use to show the score) called “Score” and then the GetComponent is looking for the element component attached to our text box with the name ScoreKeeper, which in this case was our script. Just make sure your naming convention is unique as Brice used the method name Score() inside ScoreKeeper and this was throwing me off since Score was the same name as the text element. I kept thinking the code meant “Find the method name ‘Score’ inside the script ‘ScoreKeeper’.” Probably a dumb mistake only I would run into it, but I just hope someone else learning like I am can find some help through my mistakes.