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.

Well, it's episode number 572, and today, at least here in the United States, it's Halloween and kids are out trick-or-treating

and at least they're going to be doing that tonight and it's going to be like a dentist's dream

come true lots of future cavities. Hey, well, we've got a cool show coming on today.

We tend to, for the last few years, have a Halloween episode every time right before Halloween

or when it lands on Halloween.

And we've got a monster maker coming on.

In fact, this guy is so cool.

I met Mike at Enceca a few years back, and

we became pals. And I'm really stoked to be able to call him a friend, like Instagram friends now.

You know, Enceca and Instagram friends. So we, you know, say hi to each other on Instagram, but also we

usually say hi to each other when we're at Enceca.

And it's very cool. He's also an FX makeup artist. And that's really not quite the right word, not makeup.

It's more like FX maker. He makes like monster things and

like gory things to go on bodies when they are in some kind of sketchy movie. And so

that's what he does. And then he found clay and he's brought that to his clay

ceramics that artistic flair of his and does it kind of this monstery type stuff and it's really cool

it's really cool so i thought it was time to get mike i've been thinking this for the last couple

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