This is an IHeart podcast.

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. This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

And one of the things we love to do on this show is tell stories about our great American history.

Up next, a story courtesy of Vince Benedetto, founder, president, and CEO of Bold Gold Media Group on a story that he and I wrote together for Newsweek.

It's entitled Lincoln's Greatest Speech Americans Have Never Heard.

And the speech that we're talking about is the Cooper Union speech given on February 27, 1860,

a critical point in America's history from before Lincoln was president,

or even on the radar of being one. Without further delay, here's Vince with the story.

It was early winter in 1860, and the country was at an inflection point that makes today's division seem trivial.

It wasn't merely slavery that was on trial.

Not quite two decades shy of our first centennial, the founding father's vision itself hung in the balance.

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