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, my friends, and welcome to the Potter's Cast.

This is episode number 730 of the Potter's cast. And I am really thrilled

because the Potter's cast is seven years old. That's a big age. I can't believe I've been doing this

for seven years. Now, actually, the actual birth date of the Potter's cast was last Thursday, which would have been April 29th, was the actual birth date of the potter's cast was last Thursday, which would have been

April 29th, was the actual first day that it came, you know, alive into the world. And anyhow,

I can't believe the potters that I've been able to have on the show. I've been so welcomed

into the community,

into the ceramic community, and it is nothing but gratefulness in my heart that I have for y'all

and for what you've allowed me to do for all these years. And so a great big thank you to you

for doing this. Now, people have asked me, hey, do you have any favorites? And,

and you're not supposed to really have favorites, I guess. I don't know why you're not supposed to,

but it's, I don't know how you can't. Some conversations just end up sticking with you a whole

lot longer than other conversations. You know, just there's someone that, something that was

poignant or it was someone that you admired. Well, today is a guest that I did admire. I have,

I was learning, when I was learning how to do ceramics, I would go on YouTube and that was my

main source of learning was through YouTube back in the day.

You know, I had been through a class with Kim Merton, who is a local potter here in Vancouver,

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