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Hey there! We made it. Please, hold your applause. It's pretty crazy that this podcast had 100 episodes. Most of them out there do, and now The Potter Discussion is part of the One Hundo Episode Club. Cool. This episode was on the list for a while, but I never intended it to be episode 100. I always thought it would an episode hybrid or something like that, but this seems to work just the same. Originally, I was going to make this is regular discussion episode, but I started to play around with the idea of it being something more. Making an audio drama type episode was an episode I had always wanted to make. With this episode, it started out as just an experiment. Just a simple test of what an audio drama was like to produce. In the trials I conducted, the minute or two of audio I came out with wasn't actually the worst thing in the world. After the third test, it became clear to me that these 'trials' had the potential to become something. From that moment on, the operation began. The first step was the script. The script took a surprisingly short time to finish, at just three weeks. That may have been because I had been planning this episode in my head for a very long time before the writing of the script. When the script was complete, the hard part was staring me in the face. The put-together. I recorded the script and got to work. The most difficult by far was the actual composing of it all. Believe it or not, the music is of my own creation. I had a very specific image of what the music could do for the episode, and it turned out to be more difficult than previously anticipated.  The instruments I had at my disposal where plentiful, but almost to much so. It was hard to find just the right thing to use for a section or think of timing and rhythms. However, after the beginning few minutes of the episode, I found it easier to finish the episode. It took about a month to finish the first five minutes and the rest of the time to finish the rest of the episode. And when it was finally finished, then started the beta faze. I gave to first draft of the episode to some friends and family to see what was working and what wasn't. It turned out most of the first draft of the episode wasn't that bad. Only a few changes had to be made. And so it was that episode 100 was finished.

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