So, Casey, we are back in the office after vacation, and I was going through my mail this morning, which is usually just junk and books the people send me.

Letters from prisoners.

Letters from prisoners.

But today, I got a letter that was neither a book nor from a prisoner.

It came from a seventh grader who wrote to us.

He said, Dear Casey and Kevin, I am Nathan Herrick, and I'm a seventh grader at St. Peter's School in Cambridge. He says some very nice things about the show.

Well, let's hear I'm in full.

Okay. He says, I wanted to inform you how helpful your podcast is for me. Before listening to your podcast, I always felt behind in tech.

All my friends were talking about things in tech

that I didn't understand.

It made me feel isolated and alone from them.

But your podcast helped me rejoin my friend group

with more confidence about technology.

He said,

thank you for creating hard fork

or as my sister calls it hard dork.

Brutal. And by the way, that is such a sister comment. It is. Nathan, don't listen to your sister. Don't not, do not listen to her. But do listen to Hard Fork. Absolutely. We're so glad to have you. And I'll just say it. If you're a seventh grader and you're writing paper, letters, and sending them in the mail to podcasts, you're going to make it in life. The idea that, like,

you're so far behind a tech news that it was, like, harming your relationship with other 12-year-olds.

It's like, what are they talking about? Who are these, like, nuclear physicists he's hanging

it out with on the playground?

They're running agentic loops.

Exactly.

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