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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 Iheart radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue with our American stories.

There's been an ongoing debate as to whether the Irish were the first slaves in the Americas,

predating the first black African slaves by almost a decade.

Our next story comes to us from Colin D. Heaton and Mike Droberg, two military veterans

and the founders of the terrific YouTube channel Forgotten History.

Their videos focus on military heroes, actions, and events spanning across the globe and are watched by hundreds of thousands of people.

Here's Colin Heaton with the story.

Some groups deny the Irish slavery under English and later British rule, claiming that this was nothing more than voluntary indentured servitude, which did exist.

However, the official British legal terminology used was indentured servants.

Whether the servants in question had willingly signed the indenture contract to immigrate

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