Hi, My Year in Mensa fans! Here's a preview of a new podcast, Internet Hate Machine. Bridget Todd explains how bad actors use the internet to target and silence women, especially Black women. Excluding them from discourse and desensitizing us to sexist, racist attacks makes us all less safe. Bridget talks with women who have been the targets of coordinated attacks, activists who are fighting back, and experts to help break down the deliberate agenda behind it.

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Hi, My Year in Mensa fans! Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff is a weekly podcast exploring all the complex stories of resistance that offer inspiration for us today--all the Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

About Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff: This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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Hi, My Year in Mensa fans! Ghost Church is a weekly podcast hosted by Jamie Loftus, where she investigates American spiritualism, a tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across the country.

About Ghost Church:  In this limited series, Jamie Loftus investigates and interrogates American spiritualism, a century-old tradition of communing with the dead that takes place in camps full of mediums across the country. Who is drawn to these camps, how did the religion come together, and why are the tarot card readers and the seance-havers fighting? Ghost Church is a look at grief, religion, and loneliness, with on-site reporting and interviews with everyone from spiritualist psychics to Protestant pastors to a very lonely carnival employee.

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Who is Lolita? The Nabokov literary classic has sparked infinite discussion in the 65 years since its release, but the cultural memory the book has left behind lives more in romance and fashion aesthetics than a cautionary tale about a deceptive predator and his young prey. Jamie Loftus wants to know how we got here, and this series traces Lolita -- the person, Dolores Haze -- from her literary origin to current status as a doomed icon.

Welcome to My Year in Mensa, episode final!

NOTE: ALL NAMES IN THIS PIECE HAVE BEEN CHANGED. This is a first-person account based on my own writing and experience within the group, and the rest is sourced below. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out at myyearinmensa@gmail.com.

Theme song by Sadie Dupuis (@sad13)

Featuring the voices of Miles Gray, Caitlin Durante, Jacquis Neal, Anna Hossnieh, Danl Goodman, Ify Nwadiwe, Dani Fernandez, Maggie Mae Fish, Shereen Lani-Younes, Isaac Taylor, and Jack O'Brien.

Music used in this episode:

"Through the Crystal" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library 

"Absolutely Nothing" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library 

"Lost and Found" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Highland, Bagpipe, Joyful Song": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ZqBSq7_GA

Licensed to YouTube by Epidemic Sound (on behalf of Epidemic Sound); Epidemic Sound Publishing

"Scheming Weasel (faster version)" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Clean Soul" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

“Your Call" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"The Time of My Life" Karaoke (Fair Use): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGAW18eoevk

"Pixelland" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Official National Anthem" by Jingle Punks: from the free YouTube Audio Library

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Welcome to My Year in Mensa, episode three!

NOTE: ALL NAMES IN THIS PIECE HAVE BEEN CHANGED. This is a first-person account based on my own writing and experience within the group, and the rest is sourced below. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out at myyearinmensa@gmail.com.

Theme song by Sadie Dupuis (@sad13)

Featuring the voices of Miles Gray, Caitlin Durante, Jacquis Neal, Anna Hossnieh, Danl Goodman, Ify Nwadiwe, Dani Fernandez, Maggie Mae Fish, Shereen Lani-Younes, Isaac Taylor, and Jack O'Brien.

Music used in this episode:

"Through the Crystal" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Absolutely Nothing" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Lost and Found" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

Sheldon Cooper Sexist Joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQZuBytY4Q

"Unseen Horrors" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Pooka" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Scheming Weasel (faster version)" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Pixelland" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Welcome to My Year in Mensa, episode two!

NOTE: ALL NAMES IN THIS PIECE HAVE BEEN CHANGED. This is a first-person account based on my own writing and experience within the group, and the rest is sourced below. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out at myyearinmensa@gmail.com.

Theme song by Sadie Dupuis (@sad13)

Featuring the voices of Miles Gray, Caitlin Durante, Jacquis Neal, Anna Hossnieh, Danl Goodman, Ify Nwadiwe, Dani Fernandez, Maggie Mae Fish, Shereen Lani-Younes, Isaac Taylor, and Jack O'Brien.

Music used in this episode:

"Through the Crystal" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Absolutely Nothing" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Lost and Found" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Run Amok" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Onion Capers" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Sightlines" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Official National Anthem" by Jingle Punks: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Pixelland" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com

License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

"Welcome to HorrorLand Kevin MacLeod" (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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Welcome to My Year in Mensa, episode one!

NOTE: ALL NAMES IN THIS PIECE HAVE BEEN CHANGED. This is a first-person account based on my own writing and experience within the group, and the rest is sourced below. If you have further questions, feel free to reach out at myyearinmensa@gmail.com.

Theme song by Sadie Dupuis (@sad13)

Featuring the voices of Miles Gray, Caitlin Durante, Jacquis Neal, Anna Hossnieh, Danl Goodman, Ify Nwadiwe, Dani Fernandez, Maggie Mae Fish, Shereen Lani-Younes, Isaac Taylor, and Jack O'Brien.

Music used in this episode:

"Through the Crystal" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Absolutely Nothing" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

"Lost and Found" by Jeremy Blake: from the free YouTube Audio Library

Eric Andre goes to Mensa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-pAWbqdyuY

"Welcome to HorrorLand Kevin MacLeod" (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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Gather your SAT scores and your rawest ego: My Year in Mensa follows comedian Jamie Loftus's year-long journey with the high-IQ organization, from taking the test as a joke to getting sucked into the Mensa deep web after writing a column called "Good News, They Let Dumb Sluts Into Mensa" (it's about her, promise), to three days in Phoenix at the Mensa Annual Gathering in the dead of July with two thousand angry Mensans. It'll be a look at her experience, the history of Mensa and whether there's any point in using the IQ test at all. All four episodes drop soon!

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