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operator is the untold story of a company which dominated the phone sex industry until the money blinded them and it all came crashing down. The women behind the phones who created the close knit, yet dis functional family that turned american tell net into a multi billion dollar company. As fortunes grew, the founders were sailing lavish yachts, fueling wild drug parties and burning through cash by the minute. And the f c c was watching their every move. Now i'm going to play a brief preview of operator and introduce you to the heart victoria but wile yorls in. He gang mat here.

During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself “The Telephone Pimp.” He ran the company “like General Motors” and got filthy rich doing it. But for the (mostly) women who answered the calls and delivered fantasies 24-7, it was a different story. The powerful stigma against sex work was always lurking just beneath the surface, until it threatened to tear apart the whole company. Hosted by Tina Horn (Why Are People Into That?), OPERATOR is an eight-part series about big ambitions, Shakespearean-level corporate backstabbing, men and women at the cutting edge of a technological revolution...and on the front lines of a sexual one. Listen to

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