The Heart of America: Texas Grocery Store Loses Power, Lets Customers Leave Without Paying
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Our American Stories listener Tim Hennessey talks about his viral Facebook post that exemplifies the everyday goodness in this country.
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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 IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | Music or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with Our American Stories. |
| 0:48.5 | And up next, a story from one of our listeners. |
| 0:51.5 | And by the way, we love our listener's stories. |
| 0:53.6 | Send them to Our American Stories.com. They are truly some of our listeners. And by the way, we love our listener's stories. Send them to Our American Stories.com. |
| 0:56.0 | They are truly some of our favorites. |
| 0:58.6 | When there was a break in the deep freeze |
| 1:00.3 | that swept across Texas in February of 2021, |
| 1:03.9 | Tim Hennessey and his wife, Deb, |
| 1:05.8 | piled into his Jeep and headed for H.E.B., |
| 1:09.0 | a beloved grocery store chain for many Texans. |
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