This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hello and welcome to episode number 1,183.

Here we are in a brand new month, which is the last month of the year. Here we are in

December. I can't believe we've started a whole new month and we are about to come to the end of

yet another year, 26, just around the corner. Wow, that just blows me away. Anyhow, welcome to the episode. Like I said,

1,183. This conversation is a first for me. Before we get to that, I just want you to know,

I had an amazing Thanksgiving last week was Thanksgiving. We had four days off in a row. It was Thursday. It was Friday. It was Saturday. It was Sunday. All off for me. Except for when I was at the studio working.

I had a blast this weekend.

This past Saturday morning, we did our first at the studio.

Well, for me, first was a birthday party for a group of adults that was just, we just had a blast, we laughed a lot,

we, uh, well, actually, I shouldn't say this was the first. This was, this is the first one where I was

in charge, you know, teaching a class and, and taking the, taking a group through the potter's

wheel and just, it was fun. I'm just telling you, just telling it was fun we laughed hard we did a contest

this was kind of fun thing to do is I started out the the you know the event the first of the

two hours just teaching people first off how to center and how to cone and that was just going to

be like the very first thing and then I gave about five to ten minutes on who I said we're going to do a contest we're going to be like the very first thing. And then I gave him about five to ten minutes on who.

I said, we're going to do a contest.

We're going to do a contest here before, before we really get doing anything else to see who can

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