PIP Coffee & Tea | Mara Friedman, Casey Bonnem, & Tom Budzak | Episode 828
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2022
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Mara & KC are a couple of graphic designers who live in the Phoenix metro area. KC was a hand builder in college and Mara became obsessed with wheel throwing just a few years ago. They started to look for a studio space outside of their laundry room and when they couldn't find one, they decided to create one. Like all little ideas, it snowballed, and before they knew it, they were opening a full-blown public ceramics studio and coffee shop/wine bar.
Tom started working with clay in middle school and has continued to work in the medium ever since for 25 plus years. He is based out of Tempe, AZ who creates functional and sculptural objects. All dots are individually applied one by one and all work is food, microwave and dishwasher safe. Tom earned his BFA from Arizona State University and his MFA from New Mexico State University both with an emphasis in ceramics. He is currently an adjunct professor at South Mountain Community College and instructor at PIP Coffee and Clay.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.2 | Hey y'all and welcome to episode number 828 of the Potter's cast. I love when numbers do that, 828. I don't know. I don't know. |
| 0:25.0 | It's weird. I know it's weird, but I love it. I love it. So anyhow, welcome to episode number |
| 0:31.4 | 828. Welcome to the show. I had an interesting experience this last weekend, and I thought that I would tell |
| 0:40.3 | you about it because it's quite fascinating. Now, y'all know if you've been listening to the |
| 0:46.1 | Potterscast for any length of time that Good Medicine Tea was a sponsor last summer, |
| 0:53.6 | and they're going to be again this summer, but I had |
| 0:57.3 | this big abundance of this fireside or firelight tea. It's a chai tea. Oh, it's so good. I still have |
| 1:09.0 | some tea left over that's called, it's called wildfire. Yeah, |
| 1:14.5 | I've got some of that left over. It's so good. It's so good. But here's something that is quite |
| 1:20.3 | fascinating. So I ran out of my firelight tea and so my wife went ahead and got me some new tea, |
| 1:31.2 | a new load of, or a new purchase, I should say, of firelight tea, which I love. |
| 1:37.8 | It's so good. |
| 1:38.9 | It's so good. |
| 1:39.4 | It's a black tea. |
| 1:40.7 | So it's caffeinated and it's full of happiness. |
| 1:43.5 | And you get a dash of joy and a special |
| 1:47.0 | little prompting of complete satisfaction. It's just an amazing chai tea. So I love it. That's my |
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