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Our American Stories

I Paid My Own Child Support

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Jason Wolfe’s father left his family when Jason was six. Here’s Jason's story of becoming the father he himself never had. 

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

Adventure should never come with a pause button.

0:07.1

Remember Movie Pass?

0:08.4

All the movies you wanted for just nine bucks?

0:11.1

I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet.

0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

he built.

0:22.8

Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it.

0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

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

0:34.7

You're your podcast.

0:47.8

And we continue with our American stories.

0:51.1

And now Robbie brings us the story of Jason Wolfe.

1:01.0

He created the first online coupon site and was the first to seriously develop software that tracked web browsing using what are known as cookies. Jason is here to bring us the story of becoming the father that he never had himself. Here's Jason.

1:21.9

You know, I think my very first memories were when I was living in Virginia.

1:30.3

My dad worked in the CIA, so we lived in a place called Rustin, Virginia, which was like a new suburb of Washington, D.C. back then. I could remember having a bike and learning how to ride a bike with

1:36.3

my dad, and I must have been maybe three or four. And I remember going down this little hill that he was pushing me down and, you know, basically

1:50.0

being scared and then being happy that I learned how to ride a bike.

1:55.0

So, yeah, it was my earliest memory.

2:04.6

Something that happened in my life that I remember that was like a pivotal thing. Probably when my mom and dad got separated.

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