Sometimes people just undersell how amazing they are.

For instance, Jack Potts Pottery on Instagram has a beautiful post with a woodpecker on a tree on a beautiful plate that says,

This Morning Scratching, hashtag Acorn Woodpecker, hashtag Sgraffatop pottery, hashtag GR pottery forms.

Hey, it's not just this morning scratching.

It's amazing. If you want to

get put on the right path for making amazing work, then check out GRPotteryforms.com. Your

path to amazing. This is the potters 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 and welcome to episode number 1,137 of the potter's cast.

Now, I know this is a little bit of orthodox show.

We had the sponsors for the show right there at the very beginning.

That's because we've got some little bit of sad news here.

One of our guest alumni has passed away, John Neely, who was on the show just a little over

1100 episodes ago. He was episode number 31, which the podcast was so not known at that point.

I mean, we were just a little known podcast and just barely starting to make a,

make its voice being heard in the world of ceramics.

And especially when I reached out to him, it was an even younger podcast when I reached out to him, you know, because

obviously 31 hadn't been put out because he was episode 31. So I was reaching out to him

back when we were in the teens. And so we really had no track record, no track record of success

or of notoriety or anything.

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