- 29
- Episodes
- 13
- Transcribed
- 1,472
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Operator
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. Audible subscribers can listen to all episodes of Operator ad-free right now. Join Audible today by downloading the Audible app.
- Publisher
- Audible
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 25 Oct 2021
- Latest episode
- 12 Oct 2026
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Published 12 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Lights would flash on and off on their own, and I'd get this uncomfortable cold feeling whenever I was alone in the house. It freaked me out at the time, but the truth is, I didn't really think much of it. I was a teenager. I had other things on my mind. Every now and then, I'd ask my sister if she was messing with me, but she always swore she wasn't. I grew up, left home, and became a journalist for Al Jazeera. I cover things like French labour strikes and the war in Ukraine. I don't believe in ghosts. So when my family moved out of the house on Queen's Road, I completely forgot about the weird stuff that happened in there. […]
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- Dan Taberski
- Leon Neyfakh
- Gracie Canaan
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 820 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 652 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 28 / 100
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- Quality
- 26
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 76
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