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Speaker 1: The first home security system wasn't a company, it was

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Speaker 1: a black woman. Welcome back to it All to another

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Speaker 1: episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black Effect

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Speaker 1: podcast network, especially in February, entitled I didn't know Maybe

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Speaker 1: you didn't either. I'm your host b Dots And one

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Speaker 1: of my biggest fears is being home alone and somebody

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Speaker 1: breaking in while I'm on the toilet taking a number.

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Speaker 2: Two, Because what do you do?

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Speaker 1: Initially you say you got a wipe and pull your

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Speaker 1: pants up, But do you have time to wipe? But

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Speaker 1: if you don't wipe and just pull your pants up

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Speaker 1: and you run out there, god forbid, and get shot

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Speaker 1: and killed by the time somebody finds you, my god,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna be smelling.

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Speaker 2: How embarrassing is that?

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Speaker 1: Ah? Well, to kick off today's episode, I got three

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Speaker 1: of the most useless facts you'll never need not a

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Speaker 1: day in life.

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Speaker 3: Up.

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Speaker 1: First, the modern home security system didn't start with adt

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Speaker 1: or Ring. Your second useless fact. It was invented in

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty six by Marie Van Britton Brown, a black

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Speaker 1: nurse in Queens, New York. And your third useless fact

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Speaker 1: is Her system included cameras, remote control door locks, and

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Speaker 1: an alarm, basically your smart home before smart homes even existed.

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Speaker 1: So my question for you is, did you know about

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Speaker 1: this black nurse from Queens, New York? Because I didn't.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know. No, I didn't know. I didn't No,

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Speaker 3: I didn't know. I didn't I didn't know. I didn't know.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: Imagine living in nineteen sixties Queen, where Eddie Murphy came

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Speaker 1: to find a wife in coming to America. The crime

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Speaker 1: rates was skyha, police response was snail slow, people's homes

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Speaker 1: was food.

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Speaker 2: Marie van Britton Brown a nurse.

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Speaker 1: She just wanted a way to protect her family without

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Speaker 1: waiting for somebody else to have to come say, so,

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Speaker 1: she invented the first home security system.

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Speaker 2: Here's what She built. A camera system that could see

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Speaker 2: who was at the door.

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Speaker 1: Remote control locks to prevent unwanted entry, a panic button

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Speaker 1: to alert the police, and an additional alawn that will

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Speaker 1: warn neighbors and family.

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Speaker 2: Sound familiar, your Ring nest adt.

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Speaker 1: All of it traces right back to a black nurse

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Speaker 1: named Marie van Britton Brown in nineteen sixty six, before smartphones,

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Speaker 1: before Wi Fi, before Amazon bought Ring for over a

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Speaker 1: billion dollars. A black woman in Queen's designed the system,

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Speaker 1: and yet how many people are today years old when

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Speaker 1: you learned her name, how many security companies acknowledge her

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Speaker 1: origin story? Hardly any hidden in plane sits. This is

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Speaker 1: the same energy as the march in one hundred excellence.

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Speaker 1: Don't wait for permission, You build it, you operated, and

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Speaker 1: then the world eventually copies it. Credita, that's optional. Marie

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Speaker 1: didn't invent homes security to make headlines. She did it

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Speaker 1: because she needed solutions. And now, decades later, families everywhere

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Speaker 1: live safer lives because one black woman designed the first system.

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Speaker 1: It's right in line with Cardigie Woodson's century long vision.

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Speaker 1: Brown designed a system that safeguarded homes, a blueprint of

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Speaker 1: black innovation quietly embedded in everyday life. So every time

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Speaker 1: you check your doorbell camera, every time you lock your

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Speaker 1: door remotely, every time you feel safe at home, remember

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Speaker 1: a black woman made that possible.

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Speaker 2: And I didn't know. Maybe you didn't either,