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 if there are no girls on the internet on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

You know, or wherever you get your podcast. This is Lee Habib and this is our American Stories.

Before the advent of the Transcontinental Railroad, a journey across the continent meant a dangerous six-month trek

over rivers, deserts, and mountains.

Alternatively, a traveler could hazard a six-week fee voyage around Cape Horn or sail to Central America

and crossed the Isthmus of Panama by rail risking exposure to any number of deadly diseases in the crossing.

This is the story of the men known as the Big Four, who incorporated the Central Pacific Railroad

and helped build the Transcontinental Railroad. These four individuals risk their businesses,

money, time, and talent in order to achieve an unprecedented feat of engineering, vision, and courage.

Here to tell the story is Roger McGrath.

McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwayman, and Vigilantes, Violence on the Frontier.

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