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

Canada is an independent nation and not a part of the United States, most likely because of smallpox.

During the Revolutionary War, the most dangerous place for a continental army soldier was not on the battlefield,

but rather within an encampment. In fact, fever and infections from smallpox killed more soldiers than any wound suffered in battle.

And because smallpox was common in England, most British soldiers had already been exposed

and were immune, but the disease was less common in America and the average continental

soldier was not. Here to tell the story is William Federer. He is a nationally known speaker,

best-selling author, and president of Amerisarch, Inc., a publishing company dedicated to researching

America's heritage. Take it away. Smallpox is 10 times more terrible. The quote from John Adams is,

disease has destroyed 10 men for us,

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