In this episode we go over our personal backgrounds in the reptile field and the goals of the podcast. We also interview our very first guest Dr. Chris Carmichael. Dr. Carmichael teaches Ecology, Animal Behavior, and Vertebrate Zoology among other things at Bob Jones University. He is also the curator for the school's serpentarium. We discuss his research with Gila Monster venom for cancer treatment and Tuatara ecology and biology.