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

I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is my one reliable panelist, freelance writer Tom Chick.

Hello. Troy, can I get you a coffee?

Yes, since it's just, I don't want to burden you with getting coffees for all of us. It's much easier when it's just you and I for me to make the coffee. Do you take sugar in it? It's an espresso. It's kind of bitter. No, I take my espresso completely straight or neat. Good man, good man. Whatever the expression is for fancy pants coffee.

Well, yeah, you said exactly the right thing.

It's like somebody who drinks a martini without even specifying whether it's gin or vodka because they know that it's gin.

Of course.

Same with espresso.

You're not putting sugar and junk in there.

So good man.

All right.

I'm glad we're seeing eye to eye on this.

It's an auspicious early start for this podcast.

Yes, I love a good cup of coffee.

I want to open with an apology to listeners of last week for the sound quality.

It was a little bit off for a number of reasons.

Our guest, Mark Walker, was on a satellite connection that we tested earlier

in the day, sounded perfect, and then when all of us were on the connection, it sounded

terrible, so we had to phone him, you to bring him in on a phone call, which somehow

transported my voice three seconds into the future, so I spoke much more than turned out in the podcast.

Just the recording ended up having my voice overlap a lot of conversation.

So that had to be edited out, leading to a podcast that was probably a bit confusing in parts.

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