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

Music or wherever you get your podcast. And we return to our American stories.

Up next, a story from Frank Skittoro.

Frank is the president of the Grant Monument Association, which he helped

revive after years of inactivity to protect the final resting place of General Ulysses S. Grant.

Let's get into the story. Here's Frank. I began my exploration of Grant's life and career, actually years before I started college.

At age seven, my parents bought an encyclopedia set, World Book Encyclopedia.

I went through it from A to Z, and I got caught up in the P volume in the president's article.

And over the years in grammar school, I devoured whatever I could about presidents as well as American historical topics.

And between the ages of 12 and 13,

I singled out Grant as an American who seemed uniquely

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