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 our American stories and some of our favorite stories to tell are stories about our history.

From George Washington to Jackie Robinson, we love bringing you in-depth

looks into the lives of great Americans. Today's story is less about a great American, but his

pet parrot that had to be removed from his funeral. History professor Mark Cheatham tells us one of

his favorite stories that he learned while working at Andrew

Jackson's plantation, The Hermitage. Here's Mark. When I was a docent at the Hermitage,

the summer between my junior and senior years of college, one of my favorite stories to tell

was that of Paul the Parrot.

I never questioned its validity at the time, but several years ago I decided to check on this story and see, was it actually true.

Marsha Mullen, the authority on all things Andrew Jackson at the Hermitage,

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