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.

Welcome to episode number 1,171 of the Potter's cast.

I've said this before, and I feel like it's okay to say it again,

but I'm filled with stinking joy hanging out with you today,

so thank you so much for taking the time to click the button and listen in on

the Potter's cast. Really means a lot to me. We've got an incredible amount of just stokedness

going on in the Blaze household because over the weekend, had our grand opening Friday night specifically.

I got to tell you, when you open something like this, yeah, you get excited, but you have no

idea how people are going to respond. Oh, we didn't.

I have a very dear friend of mine, Derek, who owns a company here in the Pacific Northwest called Marsees Bakery.

And Marsees is an amazing bakery.

They make amazing food, amazing baked items. My mouth is just watering, thinking of

some of those baked items. Anyhow, he had told me a while ago that he'd be providing the

snacks or the desserts or treats for our grand opening. And so he was asking me,

you know, a little while ago, how many do you need? Like how many people are showing up?

And I got to admit, complete transparency, a little bit of pride kind of crept in there. I said, I don't know,

50, 50 maybe, maybe 100, I don't know. I mean, truth be told, I really thought 20 was going to be it.

And so when I said, I don't know because they had to plan for the food, you know, the

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