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Our American Stories

Mr. 60s: A Baby-Boomer’s Story of Trials, Triumphs... and Redemption

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, our next story comes to us from a listener in West Virginia. Here’s Joe Quinn with his story.

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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 Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:44.8

The podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

0:48.3

Up next, a story from a listener in West Virginia.

0:52.1

Here's Joe Quinn with his story. On the morning of April 30th,

0:57.7

2019, I got back into acting after raising a family. And then on April 30th at 5.30 in the morning

1:08.3

while I was putting my boots on and getting ready for work. I felt something

1:14.8

funny. It wasn't funny like, ha ha funny. It was funny like, well, that was weird. So I started to tie my

1:23.2

boots and a little bit of a hard feeling in my right hand.

1:28.2

It wasn't working very well.

1:30.1

I looked at myself in the mirror, and I stuck my tongue out,

1:34.9

and my right side of my face just sagged, and I went, oh, oh, God, I'm having a stroke.

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