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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.

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An excerpt from the writings of the Kid Mero, as read by Lynn Manuel Miranda.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010.

New guy in the hood.

Yo, sometimes you move, B.

I don't think I know anyone that lived on one apartment slash house,

slash cabin, slash condo, slash box their whole life. The shit is when you move, you don't know anybody. And if you're an outside type of dude, it's hard to adjust and make friends. That sounds wild corny, but that's basically what you're trying to do. So I'm going to give you all some pointers on what to do when you move into a new hood. Don't just go up to dudes and try to shake hands on some Obama shit. You ain't Obama. You looking like a snitch right now. If we all stand in here smoking a blunt, you jump in the middle of the siph and your little girly mouth, mad excited, like you're about to start pop-locking. Stop that. If you do this, you fucked up. And it's irreversible.

It's just stay in your crib and play Crash Bandicoo because you can't come outside.

Fuck out of here.

These are.

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