As we start Season 3, we are so happy to have Ryan Derby-Talbot join us on our podcast. Ryan received his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin in Mathematics. He is a well-published and quite accomplished theoretical mathematician. We recently spent the weekend with Ryan and he graciously explained his research in low dimensional topology in a language that we could not only understand, but could see the elegance of his work. In his first podcast, we will explore his "accidental career" and how he stumbled into integral methodologies that have infused his teaching and administration.\xa0