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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. Live from the Mercedes-Benz interview lounge.

Mark Summers is here. Yay, how are you? Nice to see you. Mark Summers, of course, last time we had you in as a guest, you were doing life and slimes of Mark Summers, your stage show, which was fabulous. Thank you. We were so nice to be there. How long ago was that? We opened February 14th.

We closed June 2nd.

So it was about five months.

Wow.

Well, welcome back.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

By the way, to be there. How long ago was that? We opened February 14th, we closed June 2nd, so it was about five months.

Wow. Well, welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. By the way, I listen to you guys all the time. I get the clips all the time. But congratulations to you for the CBS Sunday morning piece. That was spectacular. Oh, thank you. That was a multitude of dreams coming true.

I can't, you know, it's the best show on television. It really is. And for them to follow you around and tell your story, and how long did they follow you? You know what? It was seven and a half minutes long, that piece. Yeah. They did maybe a total of five days. Oh, my. I know. That's amazing. So there's a lot of stuff they didn't show. But it was a lot of it was last year. So that Christmas concert that you saw, we're having that again tonight. Tonight, right? So that was last year. So it's been a year. It felt like it was a year that they followed you around. I know it was probably in total a few days, but I just felt like they were here a lot. It was awesome. And they did such a great job telling stories, which is another reason why I loved your stage show. Oh, thanks. Because you told your story about Nickelodeon being slime, the whole thing. You told your story in such a beautiful way. Oh, thank you. And we all kind of fell in love with you a little bit. Aw. A lot bit. Well, you know, you never know when you put yourself out there. You know, I'm 72 years old. I'm doing like seven shows a week, whatever, 8, 7, 8. And somebody from Hallmark came in and afterwards came backstage and said, you know, this is really good. Would you like to maybe produce or write one of the movies? I don't do that anymore. I'm trying to retire, quite honestly, but I'm not good at it.

And a few weeks later, they called me and said, we're looking at a script and we think there's a part in here for you. And I said, yeah, but I don't act. And they went, no, no, we just saw your one-man show. You act. And I said, well, send me the script. So they sent it to me.

I read the first 20 pages.

I thought, well, I can do this.

There's not much in there for me.

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