Welcome to Blockton reported. I'm Katie Herzog and joining me while Jesse is, you know what, who the hell cares? It's Helen. Hey, hello, it's me. I'm back. She is back. I should probably introduce you by your full title. According to our Reddit, you are now known as sir Helen Lewis good strong

you have been you have been what's the word what do they do over there on turf island well with the

knight with the sword yeah I'd be knighted but I mean I have to say that if I would the female version of

that is a damehood so I'd have to be dame Helen Lewis which sounds kind of of cool. I think Sir actually works for you. You've got a little butch energy. I, yeah, I have this

conversation with my friend Laura, who's always wanted to join the House of Lords, and she's

always said she wouldn't want to be a baron, not a baroness, because she thinks being Baron Laura.

Sounds awesome. All right, you of course need no introduction in the bar pod extended universe, but I'm going to give you one anyway.

Helen Lewis is a staff writer at The Atlantic, as well as the author of Difficult Women, a history of feminism in 11 fights and the forthcoming book, The Genius Myth, a curious history of a dangerous idea.

And in the second half of the show, we're going to talk about the book.

And Helen, you're going to lead us through a pre-internet schism in a high IQ society. But first, how the hell are you? I know you

saw Jesse in person recently. Are you okay? Yeah, I've seen Jesse twice in person in the last five days.

Is he stalking you? I think, I told him not to do this. Do you know what? He is actually stalking me because I asked where he was staying in London.

And he said, I'm staying in a little place called like Lewis Ham.

And I was like, that's where I live, Jesse.

That's literally 15 minutes from my house.

Why would anyone pick here?

Is it named after you?

It is, yes.

Actually, it wasn't called that before I arrived several years ago. We did a live show with also Hadley Freeman and Sarah Ditum at the weekend called

The Special Relationship, the premise of which being that half of the panel were Americans

and half of them were Brits.

And we played a Who Gets Custody of Various Celebrities?

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