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.

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Music or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, and we tell stories about everything

here on this show, including your stories. Send them to Our American Stories.com.

They're some of our favorite. Up next, a story from Robert Frolic. Robert is the author of

Aameless Life, Awesome God, and a regular contributor to this show. Today, Robert shares with us

the story of a man who impacted him profoundly.

Take it away, Robert.

In World War I, Wilhelm Bistner was in the German army.

His assignment was to care for the horses that pulled the cannons to fight against the Russians.

During a gas stack in that war,

Wilhelm suffered the loss of his sense of smell.

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