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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 if there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

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

Today, Lisa is going to be unpacking the history of the Halloween haunted house,

which is directly tied into today's

practice of trick-or-treating. Lisa is the author of Trick-or-Treat, a History of Halloween. By the turn

of the 20th century, Halloween in America was nothing more than a day of pranking, kind of like

April Fool's Day. Here's Lisa Morton with the story.

So it was all good fun at first, but then by the 20th century,

as America is becoming much more urbanized and more populated,

these pranks move into the cities.

And when they move into the cities they become much less nice

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