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.

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Our next story comes to us from a veteran of the U.S. Army.

He served with the 82nd Airborne Division in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here's Fernando Arroyo.

I remember it was 1991, and I was five or six years old.

I was sitting in my kindergarten class when the school principal walked in,

and Ms. Ponce, my Bandini Elementary School kindergarten teacher, she said, okay, kids, stop playing, sit in front of the class.

And then the principal stood up in front of us and he said, you know, you can be whatever you want when you grow up.

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