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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.

You know, or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

And up next, we continue with our recurring series about the curious origins of everyday sayings. Here to join us once again

is Andrew Thompson as he continues to share another slice from his ultimate kind to understanding

these mini mysteries of the English language. To have someone over a barrel means that someone is helpless or at someone's mercy,

and it has nautical origins and relates to the practice of rescuing a drowning sailor.

Once hauled from the water, the other crew members would place the sailor face down over a barrel

in order to empty his lungs of water. The sailor would be rolled

back and forth in an attempt to expel the water from his mouth. Being completely helpless and

often unconscious, the sailor was totally relying on the other crew members to save him and he was

said to be over a barrel. To have the bit between your teeth means to take control of a situation and it has origins

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