Episode 1: IQ and the Average Girl
My Year in Mensa
iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
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)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.6 | Malcolm Gladwell here. |
| 0:05.9 | This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama, |
| 0:11.8 | where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control. |
| 0:15.6 | And he said, I've been in prison 24, 25 years. |
| 0:18.3 | That's probably not long enough. |
| 0:20.3 | I didn't kill them. |
| 0:22.1 | From Revisionous History, this is The Alabama Murders. |
| 0:26.4 | Listen to Revisionous History, the Alabama murders on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, |
| 0:32.0 | or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:34.5 | I'm Jonathan Goldstein, and on the new season of heavyweight... |
| 0:38.0 | And so I pointed the gun at him and said this isn't a joke. A man who robbed a bank |
| 0:43.9 | when he was 14 years old. And a centenarian rediscovers a love lost 80 years ago. |
| 0:50.6 | How can a 101-year- old woman fall in love again? |
| 0:57.7 | Listen to heavyweight on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 1:03.3 | podcasts. |
| 1:06.5 | I've always had smarts from the start. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm not going to hold it against you. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm like some people I know. |
| 1:17.4 | My Year in Menza. |
| 1:21.6 | Hi, my name's Jamie Loftus, and this is the first episode of My Year in Mensa, a four-part podcast series about that time I joined |
| 1:30.7 | Menta as a joke and then nearly got kicked out of it after getting targeted by a secret |
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