You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the once and future official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

For the first show of the new year, I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is for episode 150 is the founding panel.

We have freelance writer and gamers with jobs proprietor Julian Murdoch.

Hey, I like how I'm second seat because I'm regular. That's good. I've moved up in the ranks

over the last 150 episodes. A bit by bit, you'll get there. You've been taking over.

Dr. Bruce Garrick. Hello, Gamer.

And returning to prior to quarter to three, a freelance writer, Tom Chick.

Before we start, Troy, I just want to ask.

Bruce, would you get me a coffee, black and sugar?

Would you like Splenda?

No, no sugar, just black.

Thank you. A, ah, ah, ah.

Splendid is not sugar. It's sweetener. You know, sweetener's for babies. I like my coffee, black and bitter like I like my manna. Oh, I see what? You did a little Magic the Gathering joke there. That was good. Thank you. I'm glad to have someone on the podcast who isn't a hardcore strategy wonk with no awareness of the wider cultural factors like

Magic the Gathering. Thank you, Julian. I do what I can't. Isn't manna invented by World of Warcraft?

Please. Manna goes back to Hobbits, I believe. I think it goes back to the ancient Greeks. Can we figure out who invented Manna? That's going to be a link at the bottom of this podcast. You know, actually, don't get me started. Manna is actually a Hebrew word. Yeah. No, that's two ends. Two ends. Thank you. He is correct. Two ends. The Anna that fell in the Book of Exodus. But we're way off topic, which we haven't even set yet.

Already, and we haven't even started.

It's just like the old days.

That's why I miss you guys.

This is the first show of 2012.

You thought we would kick off the year with the original panel and

writes episode 150, so it's special.

And also a chance to look back at 2011,

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