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, the show where America is the star and the American people.

Our next story is about one remarkable American.

Born the son of a Boston candle maker,

Benjamin Franklin grew into the symbolic role of the archetypal American.

He was indeed a blend of poor Richard and Leonardo da Vinci.

Franklin has the distinction of many firsts.

He invented the lightning rod, the Franklin stove, bifocals, the catheter.

Chess.com also reminds us that Franklin was also the first known chess player,

as well as the first chess author in America.

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