It's the TED Radio Hour from NPR.
I'm Manoush Zomorodi.
And I hate to do this to you, but we are going to start the show back in the painfully awkward days of middle school.
If you think about a cafeteria, there was the cool kid table, there's the athlete table and maybe the edgy alternative table.
But there was always a table of nerds.
This is Ty Tashiro.
The socially awkward kids, who were the furthest thing from cool, who were maybe a little physically clumsy, who dressed frumpy.
And yeah, that was Ty.
I sat at that table.
So it was the first week of school.