Devon and Matt initially just wanted to talk about pottery, but end up spending a lot of time on the Mao Zedong regime. How did that happen? Listen to find out!
We didn't always have the potter's wheel, but did you know that it's older than the Epic of Gilgamesh?
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Music: "Strollin" by Elin Sandberg
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