Surprising Former Careers, Part III: Goldberg, Trudeau and Buscemi
Ridiculous History
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The Night Whisperer
In 2011, Whoopi Goldberg was a phone sex operator. Back in the day, when the pursuits of vice were far less evolved, people would pay crazy amounts of money to have blue conversation with a stranger who would give them something we would call ASMR today. This is back in the days before the internet, where if you wanted a little, a little thump-some, you might call a number with a nine in it. It's like a 900 number, or I think there was also like 917. There was different ones, but there's a nine in them for some. Right?
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