Hey, hey, hey, time to put your middle to the test now.

Oh, bop, baa, baa,

hey, don't you know you're messing with the best now.

Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Anyway, that's why they call me Shadowfax Lord of all horses.

Hello everybody, welcome that. that's why they call me Shadowfax Lord of all horses.

Hello everybody, welcome the Hell to Podquisition.

First Podquisition of the New Year, thank you very much, 2018.

It means literally everything's different now and I'm joined by Laura which isn't different

Everything is the same everything's the same in 2018. How the hell are you Laura?

I'm bloody good. You know one thing that's different since last week that makes me very happy and I can already tell is going to make a big difference to the flow of this week's show?

We're back on Skype and oh my god I missed for all of the shit we give it

I missed Skype during like the one week we had to use discord again.

Yeah, we really do need to try mumble. We'll try mumble. Maybe we'll make that a resolution for 2018,

which it already is 2018, so we've fucked that one up. But I only just came up with it.

It's fine. There will be at least one episode during 2018 in which we try Mumble

and probably find a thing we hate about it and go back to Skype.

We'll try it.

Yeah. I'm also joined, always. Well not as always because sometimes he's not around. He goes on his he goes on these retreats to an old lighthouse where he deliberately sends ships to their doom.

But when he's not doing that he's here with us.

And I play guitar solos up on the top of the lighthouse.

Oh yeah. Like that top of the lighthouse. Oh yeah.

...