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 Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

And now it's time for our recurring series with author Andrew Thompson.

His book is Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red,

the curious origins of everyday sayings and fun phrases.

He continues here to share another slice from his ultimate guide

to understanding these baffling mini mysteries of the English language.

A dark horse is a competitor that is unknown or wins unexpectedly.

And that expression originated with the writer Benjamin Disraeli,

who was also a 19th century British politician,

who became Prime Minister twice.

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