This is the Potter's Cast.

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We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

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And welcome to episode number 1,152 of the Potter's cast. I am loving my mornings. I'm get up and I'm having

tea and I've been really focusing on my good medicine tea. Have you heard a good medicine tea?

They're out of Hood River, Oregon, and they ship all over the place.

But, oh my gosh, their tea is so good. I've got, I've got one tea that I really love that I'm

just obsessed with. It's like, there's two of them. One was the Firelight Chai tea. It's super good. And then they also have this black tea.

It's a, it's called fireside tea. And it's a, uh, a black tea that's been smoked under pine boughs.

It's, it's, I mean, you got to be into the smoky flavor. I get it. You got to be into that smoky flavor. If you're not into the smokyness, you're not going to like it. But I'm telling you what, I love it. And then I've been doing this kind of a cool thing that is fun to do is I get my to go cup and I will put in, I will make my tea in the morning.

It's loose tea. I'll make my tea in the morning and I'll usually have two cups of tea off

of the same, you know, loose tea bag, you know, not bag, but, you know, my little, my little

steeper, that's the word.

And so after I'm done with doing that, I will do one more cup of it, but I will put also

a fresh batch of, um, my firelight chai.

I will do, I'll do like, you know, a teaspoon of that.

And, but then I'll take my, my other

tea bag of the used smoked tea and put that in there. And I just let it go. I just leave it in

there for about three hours as it cools down and it all steeps together. And oh this is the good part you take the you take the

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