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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.

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue here on Our American Stories.

John Raffle was a fiction editor for many years. Raffles's most recent book,

The Strange Case of Dr. Cooney, how a mysterious European showman saved thousands of American babies.

Let's take a listen to this wonderfully unique American story. I spent about four years going down a rabbit hole of research

to find out what was the deal with one of the strangest stories in American medical history.

So early in the 20th century, if you were to go to Coney Island, the people's playground, also known affectionately as Sodom by the Sea for its hijinks,

or if you were to go to Atlantic City, which at the time was America's honeymoon capital,

or if you were to go to, say, a theme park in Chicago or Minneapolis, you would pass an exhibit

that would say infant incubators with real living babies and there would be a barker outside and

you could pay a quarter to go see living premature babies being cared for in incubators. So when I first stumbled across this,

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