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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 IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

And we return to our American stories.

And up next, a story that's one of a kind.

In the early 1950s through 70s, a son of penniless-check immigrants somehow managed to amass an arsenal of military aircraft, albeit unfliable, in his own backyard. His name was Walter

Soplotta. Here to tell his story is Wally Soplata, Walter's son, and the author of The B-25 in the backyard.

Here's our own Monty Montgomery with his story.

Our story begins in the home state of the Wright brothers, Ohio.

Here's Wally Soplata on the eccentric airplane collector that was his father.

Even as a young boy, I realized my father was different. As a result, the way we lived was different.

But though we had airplanes parked near our house, it wasn't anything I paid much attention to in my earlier years.

The planes didn't fly

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