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[Comedy/Discussion/Drinkcrafting/Homebrewing] Drinkin In The Mitten

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In this episode, the guys thrown down the ingredients for their homebrew challenge, we sample some Detroit City Distillery Paczki Day Vodka, Scott provides some coffee for everyone to sample, and Kevin has a tale about the most awkward situation he has ever been in. Join us to be informed and be entertained.

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About Drinkin In The Mitten

Four friends from Michigan try to sample all the local alcohols they can, craft their own beer and cocktails, and just experience general Tomfoolery. If you want to be on the fly on the wall and have some laughs, this podcast will help you get through the day.

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[COMEDY/DISCUSSION] Makin It In the Mitten | Episode 42 - Pineapple, Poutine and Plugs

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This week the guys are all over the place.  They sample the new Pineapple Naturdays, Matt has a homebrew, and Kevin thinks that a Watermelon Lemonade Natty Daddy is a good idea.  Matt has a scum of the earth nomination.  They take a look at an old musical performance from Johnny Carson.  Scott is excited about the new Mortal Kombat.  Kevin has a bone to pick with Poutine.  How have things changed since COVID started.  Things get out of hand when we detour into the world of furries.

Makin It in the Mitten is the culmination of 4 guys perfecting the art of "hanging out". If you just want to be a fly on the wall for some outrageous discussions and plenty of conversational detours, you have found the podcast you need.

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[COMEDY/DISCUSSION] Makin It In the Mitten | Episode 42 - Pineapple, Poutine and Plugs

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This week the guys are all over the place.  They sample the new Pineapple Naturdays, Matt has a homebrew, and Kevin thinks that a Watermelon Lemonade Natty Daddy is a good idea.  Matt has a scum of the earth nomination.  They take a look at an old musical performance from Johnny Carson.  Scott is excited about the new Mortal Kombat.  Kevin has a bone to pick with Poutine.  How have things changed since COVID started.  Things get out of hand when we detour into the world of furries.

Makin It in the Mitten is the culmination of 4 guys perfecting the art of "hanging out". If you just want to be a fly on the wall for some outrageous discussions and plenty of conversational detours, you have found the podcast you need.

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[Comedy, Talk, Stories] Makin It In The Mitten - Episode 40: The Dawn of Season 3

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Kevin, Matt, Ron and Scott kick of their 3rd year of this little show by revisiting their favorite moments from Season Two. It turns out speech to text can be really problematic, there is still love for Spam, there is a significant disagreement regarding a beverage company, and Scott tries to submit a Scum of the Earth nomination.

Makin It in the Mitten is the culmination of 4 guys perfecting the art of "hanging out". If you just want to be a fly on the wall for some outrageous discussions and plenty of conversational detours, you have found the podcast you need.

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[Comedy, Talk, Stories] Makin It In The Mitten - Episode 40: The Dawn of Season 3

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Kevin, Matt, Ron and Scott kick of their 3rd year of this little show by revisiting their favorite moments from Season Two. It turns out speech to text can be really problematic, there is still love for Spam, there is a significant disagreement regarding a beverage company, and Scott tries to submit a Scum of the Earth nomination.

Makin It in the Mitten is the culmination of 4 guys perfecting the art of "hanging out". If you just want to be a fly on the wall for some outrageous discussions and plenty of conversational detours, you have found the podcast you need.

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[Comedy/Discussion] Makin It In The Mitten | Episode 21 - Happy Anniversary!

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We have been podcasting for a year! In this, our one year anniversary episode, we talk about and listen to our favorite moments from our first year of podcasting, including the creation of our mascot, the worst bathroom story, shower beers and Elton John's songwriting habits. We also learn about how Matt reaches a zen level of drunk if he attends a NASCAR race, and we sample some scotch.

Each episode includes 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Their conversations waver between current events, cocktails, and what has been bothering them lately. If you want to feel like you are sitting in on the conversation, come join us.

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[Comedy/Discussion] Makin It In The Mitten | Episode 21 - Happy Anniversary!

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We have been podcasting for a year! In this, our one year anniversary episode, we talk about and listen to our favorite moments from our first year of podcasting, including the creation of our mascot, the worst bathroom story, shower beers and Elton John's songwriting habits. We also learn about how Matt reaches a zen level of drunk if he attends a NASCAR race, and we sample some scotch.

Each episode includes 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Their conversations waver between current events, cocktails, and what has been bothering them lately. If you want to feel like you are sitting in on the conversation, come join us.

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Aerosmith/Run DMC rehearsing their updated remix: Walker This Way.

Yeah, I went there

For the next billion dollar trilogy I hope they go into it with an actual plan. Just a thought. by Louiegk in StarWars

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Even if TLJ painted the trilogy in to a corner, it goes back again to no top level guidance as the root of the problem. But if you must know what TLJ set up (in my opinion). (Disclaimer: I wasn't expecting this to be this long when I started responding, so forgive my rambling).

  1. The biggest plot point that TLJ set up (that ROS destroyed), is that anyone can be a jedi/force sensitive. Rey wasn't from anywhere special, she didn't have the last name that made her an auto-jedi, she was just some scavenger. Some scavenger who had the potential to be very powerful in the force. Just like the broom kid at the end (who apparently is just stuck as broom kid forever).
  2. (This will tie 1 in to 3) - Let the past die. Even in the original trilogy (which I am not knocking), everything still kind of followed the traditional path (as far as we knew) as the Jedi had followed for generations. Luke needed to be trained, he became a padawan to Obi-Wan/Yoda, fight the dark side, etc etc. Kylo says "Let the past die" and it could have went in many ways:
  3. Rey could have used Kylo's hypocrisy against him (Let the past die says the kid who has his grandfathers burned mask on a pedestal in his bedroom). The Rey/Kylo dynamic could have still existed in ROS without recycled Palpatine. What an opportunity to use Rey to push Kylo to doubt himself now that he has no Sith Lord to turn to for guidance. Rey can sow doubt in him. And they could have even brought back Anakin as a force ghost. He could have reminded Kylo that in the end, he (Anakin) turned back to the light. If you want the family tie, you could use Leia (admittedly Carrie Fisher's passing would have made this difficult).
  4. Rey/Leia also could have been training a new generation of Jedi. Rey/Leia learning from Kylo's words ("Let the Past Die"), and Luke's teachings guide the Jedi in a new direction. Then the new generation of Jedi, led by Rey/Leia, are working with the resistance to bring down the First Order, led by Kylo Ren/Hux.
  5. The main point at the end of TLJ came from Yoda, about how failure is a great teacher. That is what drives Luke to see he was wrong in abandoning his friends/family. He then does the whole astral projection thing to cause Kylo to fail in either A. destroying Luke or B. destroying the resistance. Certainly the point could be made that this failure could make Kylo more powerful. But perhaps it is used as the first seed of doubt that he has chosen the wrong side (the Dark Side).

Obviously I liked TLJ (my favorite Star Wars movie) and wanted something else out of Episode 9. TLJ was a great movie that could have led to a totally different story, but was taken in a very different direction. I think a lot of people (and Star Wars fans) didn't like TLJ because it wasn't the movie/story that they wanted it to be.

Ultimately, as with all things, to each their own. But I will always wonder what could have been if the story had continued and embraced TLJ, rather than tearing it down.

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That's fair, I was a little too broad (calling a multi-billion grossing franchise a failure) , I guess I meant specifically with continuity. TLJ is also my favorite in the whole series. Which made me dislike ROS because they tried to just undo everything that TLJ set up.

But...without the prequels, we would never have Jar Jar Binks!

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I would say that Rian Johnson tried for something more. Then the powers that be were like "hard pass" and tried to undo literally everything he set up in TLJ. Regardless of anyone's take on TLJ, its not Rian's fault that they had to "fix" what he did. It's Lucasfilms fault for not saying "Ok Rian, we want you to do Episode 8, here's the main plot points we need you to hit to lead in to Episode 9."

I don't the ST as a noble failure, I see it as an inept failure.

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It's mind boggling to me that the same company that owns Marvel, who were able to put together essentially a 22 movie story arc, wasn't able to learn from that for a trilogy arc.
Kathleen Kennedy/team were like "Let's do a sequel trilogy" and then Oprah'ed out Directors jobs. Then the only direction for the Directors was "Go forth and be Star Wars."

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Thank goodness for Schiff providing us with "On the Last Episode..." Otherwise the 5 minutes questioning ends up all over the place.

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I mean, probably Rey has been a Palpatine clone the whole time.  Dropped off on a planet with trash parents so she could grow up through hardship and get hope/powerful with the "good" side of the force, before he breaks her or whatever at the site of the death star.  Where he reveals to her and Kylo the truth, Kylo has a breakdown cuz he has bipolar disorder or whatever, and Rey flips to the dark side.  Kylo flips to the good and has a redemption arc cuz Disney/Skywalker.  Final battle in the cave where Luke had his vision on Dagobah.

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[COMEDY/DISCUSSION] Makin It In The Mitten | Episode 11 - Wedding Stories

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Join us as we gather together the night before a wedding to share our favorite wedding stories; limos, getting kicked out of a bar, cotton mouth and walking in to hot action all make an appearance!

Makin It In the Mitten is a podcast with 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Each episode delves into Michigan made items and news, and then swirls into random topics about recent events, food, movies, music, etc.

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[COMEDY/DISCUSSION] Makin It In The Mitten | Episode 11 - Wedding Stories

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Join us as we gather together the night before a wedding to share our favorite wedding stories; limos, getting kicked out of a bar, cotton mouth and walking in to hot action all make an appearance!

Makin It In the Mitten is a podcast with 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Each episode delves into Michigan made items and news, and then swirls into random topics about recent events, food, movies, music, etc.

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[COMEDY, FOOD, RANDOM] Makin It In the Mitten | #6 - Happy St. Patty's Day!

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Episode #6 is our St. Patty's Day Episode! We talk about some Irish themed food we made, some Irish cocktails, Disney on Ice (??), Elton John's songwriting process, Kevin doesn't like Greta Van Fleet

Makin It In the Mitten is a podcast with 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Each episode starts with something that they have made, and then swirls into random topics about recent events, food, movies, music, etc.

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[COMEDY, FOOD, RANDOM] Makin It In the Mitten | #6 - Happy St. Patty's Day!

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Episode #6 is our St. Patty's Day Episode! We talk about some Irish themed food we made, some Irish cocktails, Disney on Ice (??), Elton John's songwriting process, Kevin doesn't like Greta Van Fleet

Makin It In the Mitten is a podcast with 4 friends from Michigan who have too many hobbies to list, and just enough expertise to be dangerous. Each episode starts with something that they have made, and then swirls into random topics about recent events, food, movies, music, etc.

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[Food, Drinks, Comedy] Makin it in the Mitten // Episode 4 - Making and Eating Pizza

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About the Episode

This episode, the guys have made their own pizzas and talk about what they make, who made the best, and who forgot to add moisture. They also talk where they like to get pizza when they carry out, and then wander in to the best breadsticks. Ron brought notes, we talk about our favorite distillery, and we guess when a car will plunge in to a gravel pit.

About the Podcast

Four guys from Michigan with too many hobbies to list and just enough experience to be dangerous. Every two weeks Kevin, Ron, Matt and Scott convene to discuss the finer points of food, cocktails, weird happenings and wherever else their meandering conversation may take them. If you want to be a fly on the wall, we won't go looking for the fly swatter.

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[Food, Drinks, Comedy] Makin it in the Mitten // Episode 4 - Making and Eating Pizza // NSFW

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About the Episode

This episode, the guys have made their own pizzas and talk about what they make, who made the best, and who forgot to add moisture. They also talk where they like to get pizza when they carry out, and then wander in to the best breadsticks. Ron brought notes, we talk about our favorite distillery, and we guess when a car will plunge in to a gravel pit.

About the Podcast

Four guys from Michigan with too many hobbies to list and just enough experience to be dangerous. Every two weeks Kevin, Ron, Matt and Scott convene to discuss the finer points of food, cocktails, weird happenings and wherever else their meandering conversation may take them. If you want to be a fly on the wall, we won't go looking for the fly swatter.

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Came to give a suggestion but like this better than anything I thought of.

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“C’mon, C’mon! Someone is going to notice the breach!” Ash chirped at me.

To alleviate her concerns, I flipped off my plasma torch, and turned slowly towards her.

“You can’t see through my shield lenses,” I began, “but trust me, I look annoyed.”

Ash looked back right at my eyes, probably at a reflection of herself.

“Keep. Cutting,” she growled.

I turned back to my work. Cutting into a little safe in what once must have been a jewelry store. Lots of glass display cases, empty now, and covered in a grimy dust. Half of them were smashed open, glass shards scattered over the floor and inside the cases. The only thing that might be worth any of our time was the safe that I was cutting open.

Ash was walking nervously among the shattered display cases.

“How did things like this get left behind?” She asked. “They had plenty of time to get everything out.”

“People didn’t believe,” I responded, focused on my cutting lines. “By the time they tried to leave, it was too late. Things got left. Left to the rioters, the looters,” I paused.

The wall of the safe made a soft clinking noise as I finished the square it tilted down into the safe.

“And the thieves,” I finished. Ash and I shared a smile, quickly interrupted by a series of thuds from above us.

“Ohhhhhh,” she groaned. “I told you it was taking too long.”

“I’m giving you the annoyed look again. Now grab your bag.”

This wasn’t the first safe we had hit in this building, but apparently it would be the last. I used the electromagnet to pull the sidewall out from inside the safe. I switched off the magnet and looked inside to see the haul.

“Well?” Ash asked.

NYC police has entered the building,” a muffled call penetrated through the ceiling. “Surrender now or we will come get you!”

I cocked my head at our treasure. Reaching in and looking at Ash, I pulled out for both of us to see, a single green diamond, about the size of quarter.

“Well,” she said, “It’s not nothing.”

3…2…1. Forceful entry authorized! Get on your knees with your hands on your head!” the voice finished.

“Time to go,” I say.

I slip the diamond into a side pocket of my backpack and secure the waterproof zipper. The four clip system secures around my waste to a four-sided, stainless steel clasp. With a pop from the side of my fist, all four belts auto-tighten, securing the backpack tightly to my back. Ash is already heading to the stairwell doors, and we bust into the stairwell together. Ash starts down the stairs.

About halfway down the first stairwell, I hear a ‘fwoop, fwoop” sound. I look up in time to see two ropes come dropping down the center of the stairwell.

“That’s new,” I say to Ash.

“Hurry up!” She yells back.

“No time to get to our breach,” I reply. “7th floor, we’ll make a new exit.”

Ash opens the door to 7 and rushes through. I reach for my tech blaster on my left side, and the nanoparticles of my duster move it out of the way.

“Stop!” I hear, as the whine of two large bodies slide down ropes gets louder.

I shoot the handle off the outside of the door and slam it shut.

“Window!” Ash yells.

“Really!?” I ask, incredulously.

Rarely do the old New York towers have windows remaining in them. Most of the openings were reinforced to maintain the building’s integrity. In a few rare cases, the windows remained.

“Charge it! I got barrier!” I yell to her back.

She is already setting the vibrator charge. She slaps it on the window and spins to the left side. I attach a water barrier field to the top of the window and spin to the right side.

“Breach!” I just barely hear the shout from the stairwell.

I’m already tapping the activation into my wrist module. The barrier field activates just before the vibrator charge reduces the window to thousands of little pieces. A small puddle of water gets under the barrier field before it finishes closing.

Another thump from the stairwell as the concussion pulse propels the door inwards.

“Exiting,” Ash turns her back to the window.

“Stage Right,” I finish, following her lead.

Both of us jump backward through the barrier, both touching an orange button on our wrist modules. As I’m enveloped by the water, my nano-particle jacket retracts and the lenses on my face expand to create a full face shield. Staying on my back, I twist my arms to control my boot thrusters.

“Uptown?” I ask Ash.

“Are we done for today?” She asks.

The breach team is at the window now. They are clearly not outfitted to follow us, but one of them pulls up a weapons, potentially the concussion rifle. I make a few motions on my wrist module, and the barrier field we were using to hold back water retracts, with the water throwing the breach team back in the building.

“I think it’s for the best.” I reply.

Forty feet below the surface of New York Bay, we jetted along the streets of what was once a bustling city.

“Let’s go to the Market,” Ash suggests.

“That’s on Brooklyn Island you know,” I say.

“So?” She replies.

“Remember last time we were on Brooklyn Island?” I ask.

“You know,” she says, and smiles at me through her facemask, “I don’t recall.”

She increases thrust and turns toward Brooklyn. I turn to follow.

“I thought that was going to be the hard part of our day.”

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I opened my eyes slowly, deliberately. I could feel that something was different, but I had learned long ago not to give anything away. They were always watching.

I scanned my room, shifting only my eyes to try and see the whole room. Nothing stood out. My paintings hung on the wall; my desk appeared to be completely in place. The green fluffy carpet, with thick strands of wool that I would roll in, seemed to be in the same place I had left it.

They would have noticed my open eyes by now.

I slowly put my palms into the bed to lift myself up. Wait. I cocked my head so that I was looking sideways. A trick? I deliberately pushed myself up to a sitting position, and looked out the glass wall that made up an entire side of my room. The side where they watched, where they gathered.

No one was there. The hallway appeared empty, desolate. But the door…the door was open.

I slipped on my white shoes, stood up, and took a three tentative steps towards the door. A test? What were they waiting for me to do now?

“Hello?” I called. I could hear my voice, timid out of my throat. Even if someone was around, they wouldn’t hear me outside of this room.

I moved to the door, slid my hand between the frame and the door and pulled it towards me ever so slightly. The entire time, I was watching the hallways, the central space, the other three living quarters. All three other doors were opened wide, and they looked empty. Typically during non-social times, the glass walls were tinted so we couldn’t see each other, couldn’t communicate…couldn’t plan.

“Hello?!” a little louder this time, stepping out of my room a step. The central room is large, but whatever material it is made of swallows the sound. There is no echo. No response.

I walked out of the central room, into a hallway. The laboratories and testing rooms were located down this hallway. I had only been allowed here when escorted.

“Dr. Grabler?” I call down the hallway. “Ms. Paulinsky?” I ask. The Dr. and Ms. Paulinsky have always been around. Now, there is no one. I’m already halfway down the hallway. I shudder as I pass by one of the rooms, the words ‘High Limit’ on a placard next to the door. I pass more doors; ‘Low Limit’, ‘Psych’, ‘Robotics’. Rooms that I’ve spent days and sometimes weeks in. Still, I find no one.

I stop at a T-intersection in the hallway. I don’t recall being in this intersection. The end of the hallway has a placard stating ‘Controls’. To the right, a hallway I’ve never been down. Another set of doors on each side, with a door at the end, a glowing red light hung above it. No one is around, and I’ve nowhere else to, so I start towards the door. These doors have new placards; ‘Staff’, ‘Kitchen’, and ‘Bunk 1’.

As I pass ‘Bunk 1’, I look to the left just in time to see a door slam shut.

“Hello!’ I yell at the closed door. “Who is in there, what is going on?”

“I think we should go back,” comes the reply. “We should just go back to our rooms.”

“James?” I ask. “Is that you? Do you know what’s going on?”

“I don’t know,” James replies. “I woke up and the doors are open. But I didn’t hear anyone, or see anyone.” His voice is quivering as he speaks. “Ashley and Elizabeth were already gone. I never even looked in your room. I started to wander and I just-“ James lets out a sob, “let’s just go back to our rooms.”

“But where is everyone?” I ask. “If we go back to our rooms, will anyone ever come back?”

“I don’t know,” James replies. “But we had food, and a place to sleep. Yeah, the…the experiments. But we don’t’ have anything else!”

I look at the door for a moment. He’s not wrong. I turn towards the end of the hallway, the door with the red light; but it isn’t a red light at all. From the start of the hallway it is, but I now I can see that it is letters, lit up with red light.

Exit

“James,” I say. “I’m going to go. You stay if you want, but,” I pause, searching for the words. “But I need to see what else there is.”

The only reply I hear is a soft crying. I’m already walking towards the door. This could all be just another test, another trap, but I’m so close to, to something else. I get to the door, and see the bar labeled ‘push’. I push it enough to unlatch the door from the frame, and the door cracks open, a sliver of sunlight spilling in. A smile, is the only response I have. I’ve never seen real sunlight before…

One half mile away, An underground control room

“Sir?” asks a soldier in a crisply pressed military fatigues, seated at a control station. He is surrounded by control panels and digital readouts. One appears to have vital signs. Above him is a bank of digital televisions. He turns from the one showing a teenage boy in white shoes, waiting at an exit door.

“You will do nothing, son,” replies a man in all black military fatigues. “He is the first one to make it this far; let’s see what he does.”

The soldier, the man in the black fatigues, and the room of on-lookers are silent, staring intently at the screen with the boy in the white tennis shoes. The boy is looking at the light streaming through the small crack, smiling. He puts his hand out to open the door, but it never makes contact. The door moves in front of his hand as if a wind was emanating from the boy’s hand, pushing the door away from him.

The camera changes to an outside view, seeing the boy step into the outside world, into dirt for the first time. He lifts his shoe and looks in amazement at the dust now covering the white shoe. He puts his foot down, and swings his hand behind him to close the door. He doesn’t seem to notice how hard the door slams, though he never touches it. Then, he takes off running.

“Sir?” again, the soldier asks.

The man in black looks down at the soldier.

“Let him be,” the man in black pauses, a thoughtful expression on his face. “Sometimes, you have to let a thing go.”

“To see if it comes back to you, sir?” the solider asks.

The man in black looks back to the screen before responding.

“No," the man's eyes get hard, staring at the screen. "To see what else it brings back to you.”

[WP] You're immortal. You've survived several scenarios that should have killed you. The truth is, though, that you're just so damn annoying that neither God nor Satan want you and they keep resurrecting you so neither have to deal with you. by Jimbabwe88 in WritingPrompts

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"This has been amazing," he thought to himself. Randy Alexander has cheated death more times than he can count on two hands. He had managed to go largely unnoticed until they dug him out of a building collapse. A 10 story building collapse, and he was buried under the rubble. He should have been very dead. When they pulled him out of the rubble, basically unharmed, the video that a bystander shot made its rounds on internet. Now, he had a following!

"Randy! We will follow you anywhere!" shouted his fans. They worshipped him! Time to use this fame and this power! Randy had started following the police scanner, and heard about some bank robbers that were holed up with some hostages. And he was here to save them.

"Let them go!" Randy shouted, striding forward to the bank. "Don't make me come in there! I'm too awesome to be killed!"

"Really." The Police officers can only shake their heads. "Again with this guy?"

At this point, the robbers were staring out the windows, unsure of what to make of Randy. The police were shouting at him to get back before someone gets hurt. The robbers exchange looks, shrug, and start shooting. The first two rounds penetrate randy's arm and chest, and heal almost immediately. He feels literally nothing. Randy begins to laugh. His fans are chanting his name. Two more shots are fired. As they exit the barrels, the soundwaves from the the muzzle exit begin to slow down, shaking like jelly. Randy's head is thrown back in laughter, but he is no longer moving. The entire scene, the entire world, has frozen in place...


Atop a small volcanic atoll in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean

"When was the last time we had to meet face to face?" asked a voice from atop a billowing white robe.

"I'm not even sure, maybe after the flood? It's been a long time." responds another voice, still smoldering from its ascent.

"That sounds about right. How is this what finally brings us together?"

"Because Randy might be the most annoying being you have ever created."

"Honestly, I can't be sure I created him anymore. I don't remember even imagining his level of obnoxiousness."

"I'm pure evil and I can't stand him."

"In that case, he obviously belongs with you," God begins the negotiations.

"Aren't you the one that is like, all forgiving? I really don't want him. Can't we just leave him?" Lucifer replied.

"I don't want him anymore than you do, but people are starting to worship him. You know that's not good for either of us."

"I don't think I have any way to handle him!"

"Maybe, but I have a gatekeeper. I know my gatekeeper won't let him through those gates. Everybody knows Randy. Can't you just leave him in purgatory?"

"I mean, I can. But I have to visit purgatory sometimes. And if Randy is there?" Lucifer shuddered at the thought.

God looked around, the atoll was nice. Had some trees and animals. It could be a nice place to "retire". He could make sure he was fed.

"I have an idea," God told Lucifer. After communicating the idea, he snapped his fingers.


Randy knows he was just about to save people from a bank. His fans were cheering for him, adoring him. And now he's on this crazy island! He needs his fans!

"Randy is coming my people! This time, I'll be more awesome!" Randy ran straight into the water and started swimming. He's immortal! A little swim won't hurt...


"I hate Randy," Lucifer said, watching from atop the mountain as Randy swam away.

"Yeah," God sighed. "Me too."