So I'm really excited to introduce our next speaker who is going to be talking about medicines and plants and the ailments of Henry the 8th.

And this is something that is so interesting to me, because we all kind of have

the stereotype of Henry being so hypochondriical. And it's really interesting to kind of hear

about the medicinal side of history, right? It's something that we don't really hear

as much about. So let me introduce you to Seamus O'Callie. He has always been interested in the

Tudor dynasty and also the many uses of plants. See how it merges together. He grew up learning

about plants from his grandmother, Anne Kelly, and mother Diane Prickett. Their love of plants has

manifested in Seamus through his love of being out in the wild, looking for medicinal plants,

through his spending lots of time in the family garden and spending time in the woods in the Pacific Northwest.

He is most often seen with his head down looking at the plants along the path and not at what lies ahead.

So I'm so excited to introduce you to Seamus, and we're going to jump right into the questions with me asking him about how he got interested in plants in the first place.

You know, always been interested in Jeannie Olegant, and specifically the Tudor dynasty, you know, so it's so filled with so much awesomeness.

You know, I mean, Elizabeth was fantastic.

Henry the 8th was great until he started killing people. You know,

like, I mean, he did really awesome things. He wrote music. He was, you know, in medicine,

and he did all these awesome things. He just went a little off the deep end. So, you know,

just that whole time period is really interesting.

The clothing is fantastic.

I actually almost feel more comfortable in it than I do in regular clothes.

And so, you know, I just, it's just a really cool time period.

My grandmother, the second reason, my grandmother was an avid gardener.

She went to school for botany for a little while before she married my grandpa and, you know,

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