And the This week we welcome to the show Sean Padreck O'Donoughue and Sean I'm

going to try a different way of doing the intros now and I've stolen it from

Dr. Tom Cowan which is I introduce you as best I know how and then you

correct it or work out what we should do.

So I'm going to go with, and I'm not sure this was from the website in the book,

but Sean is a writer and a teacher and a herbalist and

who lives in the mountains of Western Maine is originally from Boston of Irish

stock and has a background in political activism and independent journalism.

What else?

What would you add to that?

I'm also an initiated priest

and two pagan traditions.

And not from Boston proper.

I grew up a bit north of Boston area.

All right, all right.

We might have lost your video.

For people who are listening to this on audio, I'm trying a new recording system.

And it might not be the best space whether to do it but we get what we get.

Sean's video has been disabled due to internet qualities.

The video is still recorded.

Okay, so it's just me who's missing out.

Everyone else is going to continue seeing your lovely face, which means we'll carry on and ask the traditional first question then, which is Sean, who grew

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