Bryan Green

I'm not going to rehash my entire hour-and-a-half-long podcast, but it all started, this craze that's going on right now, started with the 1-900 numbers back in the 80s.

when they became very popular and very lucrative businesses for landline-based telecommunication companies who would charge outrageous per-minute fees for you to call and talk to a supposed psychic.

It was psychics and sex.

Those were the two things.

Psychics and sex.

You're right about that.

Yeah.

Psychics and sex.

You were either calling a dating hotline, a porn hotline, a sex hotline, or you were calling a psychic.

And for a minute there, for probably like a decade, it was really about the psychics.

And Dionne Warwick was buddied up and she had a line that I don't think got in any trouble, but maybe it did.

But the Miss Cleo thing.

just ended in the early 2000s, really.

Wow.

It lasted that long.

And that was PRN, the Psychics Readers Network.

And I was telling Chrissy, this led to an interesting conversation, but I was telling Chrissy that when I was a kid, I had my own phone line.

So for our 15th birthday, I think, 14th or 15th birthday, we

My dad installed a phone line for each of us.

That's nice.