Chris recently graduated from Cornell with a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and now lives in Maryland working as a researcher at NIH. He lives with his wife Caroline and four kids. Chris grew up in Northern Virginia and attended high school on Capitol Hill. When not reading thriller novels, he’s searching for the next thriller novel to read.

Mike is a social studies teacher in Washington, D.C. and lives with his wife Rose across the Potomac in Alexandria, Virginia. Their black cat, Bert, can’t tell whether Mike spends more hours in a week reading, editing the podcast, or making homemade pizza.