Are Pigeons Smarter Than They Look?
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
| 0:07.1 | Remember Movie Pass? |
| 0:08.4 | All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks? |
| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
| 0:21.6 | he built. |
| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
| 0:30.7 | Listen to there are no girls on the internet on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:38.0 | Welcome to part-time genius, the production of IHeart Radio. |
| 0:46.4 | Guess what, Will? |
| 0:47.3 | What's that, Mango? |
| 0:48.0 | Did you hear about that pigeon that sold at auction for over a million bucks? |
| 0:51.6 | You know, I know you may find this surprising, but I actually don't keep up |
| 0:55.0 | with the world of pigeon auctions, but seriously, though, did somebody actually pay a million |
| 0:59.7 | dollars for a pigeon? It's actually slightly better than that. Somebody paid $1.4 million for a pigeon. |
| 1:06.0 | And they did it on this site. It's an auction site called Pippa, which is short for Pigeon Paradise, |
| 1:11.6 | which almost makes all of this better. But to be fair, this was no ordinary bird. This high-priced |
| 1:18.1 | Belgian pigeon is actually an esteemed champion racer, and his name is Armando. He's five years old. |
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