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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. Hey, friends. just a heads up that we're talking about organ shortages today and we'll touch on topics like death and animal research.

So decide if this is an appropriate episode for you or your kiddos. According to Donate Life America, over 100,000 people are on the organ transplant wait list.

Approximately every eight minutes, another person is added to this list.

So while you are listening to our show, approximately five people will have been told that their life depends on receiving a new organ.

That wait might be quite long.

Some folks will wait years before that organ becomes available, and during that weight, the quality of their life could be quite poor.

And unfortunately, not everyone on this wait list is going to get an organ in time.

Every day, about 13 people on the waitlist will pass away because an organ was not made available

soon enough.

So what are our options?

Well, today we're going to talk about one of those options that's looking more and more promising every day, and that option is xenotransplantation.

That is, taking organs from a non-human animal, pigs in this case, and implanting them into humans.

This requires a fair bit of genetic engineering, and today we'll chat about how that's done.

Welcome to Daniel and Kelly's Extraordinary Universe.

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