Bryan Greene

But she became the symbol of TV psychic culture, the one we all remember when we think of late-night infomercial fraud.

So after Miss Cleo went away and left a big hole in the teenage I'm-so-high-I-can't-see-straight entertainment gap, whole country back then was getting hot, you'd think America would have learned its lesson, right?

Well, of course not.

We're America.

We don't ever learn our lesson.

We just move psychics out of the infomercial and put them on prime time.

the 2000s was about to become the golden era of psychics on TV.

And as far as I can tell, it hasn't stopped.

It's only getting worse.

First up, let's talk about John Edward.

He had a show called Crossing Over, where the entire studio audience would show up and just watch him chat with their dead relatives.

Here's a clip from one of the episodes he gets it completely wrong.

So what was that last November that I was that?

Yeah, I'm not, I'm not feeling him.

That does not mean that he's not around you or that he's okay.

Here's another clip of him getting it completely wrong.

She's making me feel like when she passes, she passes either around or on a governmental holiday or something that would be celebratory but for the country.

I'm seeing the American flag.

So when I see the flag, when I see that, it lets me know that we're talking about like either July 4th, Veterans Day, Memorial Day.

Did he pass in the September 11th?