Bryan Green

It's called a soft launch.

It means I don't like it.

So maybe you should go listen to it.

Thank you very much.

But we were talking about, it's about TV psychics.

It's about psychics in general, but I focus in on TV psychics, which has become a billion-dollar industry.

And this all kind of started.

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.