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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 IHurt Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hold on a day I wake up up. Wake your ass up. The breakfast club. You're all finished or y'all done? Morning everybody. It's DJ Envy. Just hilarious. Charlemagne Nagai. We are the breakfast club. Lauren Rosa is here with us as well. And we got a special guest in the building. Yes, we do. Her new book is out right now, the black family who built

America. Ladies and gentlemen, she's back. Cheryl McKissick, Daniel. Welcome. Thank you. How you feeling?

I'm so excited. Welcome back. Thank you. Thank you. Good to see you. Good to see you, too. You look

younger. I love that. Oh, I know. That's right. The dying is right. Okay. Whatever he's doing, I need some of that. So for people that didn't hear when you came up here last time or didn't read the book yet, explain what your family has done for this country. The black family who built America, break it down from your great, great grandfather, how he started and where it came from me. Moses.

Moses, McKizick, the first.

That's right.

Okay, so let me start with saying, I am the proud CEO of a fifth-generation business in America.

And I know Charlemagne keeps calling it seven generations.

He's just calling in the girl behind me and her children, my grandkids. He got in trouble for that earlier today. She was one of the producers was like,

it's fifth generation. I keep saying seven. I thought I was telling you're going to be.

Yeah, he's going to be. That's right. He's manifesting. So, uh, we date back

230 years in this country, uh, starting with the first descendant of our family, Moses

McKissick I, who came to this country in 1790 as a slave and was taught the trade of making brick.

His son was Moses McKisick the second, and he was a master carpenter.

And he actually started in North Carolina but he was given

as a gift to the Cheers family in Nashville, Tennessee, or Spring Hill. And so that's when

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