This is an IHeart podcast.

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

Remember Movie Pass?

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

he built.

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

And then boom, it's everywhere.

And that was that moment.

Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories.

John Fiedler had a better deal than most New York City superintendents.

He was the first super for the New York Public Library, Main Branch, the famous Schwartzman building on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.

Their backyard was Bryant Park.

A 1913 article in the New York Times noted that before moving into the library,

Fiedler had worked as a merchant man,

dabbled in prize fighting, and studied engineering at Harvard. Notably, the 1913 article

focused on his new invention, an air purifier that promised to suck everything from arsenic

to iron particles out of the air. Our audience loved Kristen O'Donnell Tubbs' wonderful story

from her historical fiction book, John Lincoln Clem, Civil War drummer boy.

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