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.

No. or wherever you get your podcast. This is our American stories, and our next story comes to us from a man who's simply known as the History Guy.

His videos are watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages

on YouTube. The History Guy is also heard here at Our American Stories where he's a regular contributor.

Here's the History Guy with a fascinating story about the Medal of Honor recipient Rear Admiral Richard Bird,

the age of polar exploration, and the future of aviation.

We live in an era where air travel is common.

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization,

3.5 billion passengers were carried by scheduled air service in 2015. But a few flown, the odds are

that you flew in a heavier-than-air aircraft, and the general alternative lighter than

air-travel is largely relegated to a leisure activity. But that was not always a case.

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