Bryan Greene

People are increasingly ditching organized religion, instead spending billions on other spiritual trends.

Like talking to the dead through people who call themselves medias.

Here's a stat that I think will put a pretty little bow on why this makes a perfect first episode of After The Break and why I'm personally so fascinated in the topic.

And it absolutely floored me when I figured it out.

In the year of our Lord 2022, Americans spent almost $2.3 billion on the psychic services industry

with $338 million of that being spent on telephone psychic services.

And if you're as ignorant as I am and made the assumption that the people using these services are lower on the socioeconomic ladder, you would be wrong.

These are not grandmas in the Appalachians who live in shacks and have fixed incomes.

I'm sure they use the services also.

the majority of users are under the age of 30 years old.

24% of 18 to 25-year-olds say they consult tarot cards annually.

51% of teenagers say they do that.

I get that.

When I was a teenager, I believed in some hokey shit.

Goth was the rue of the day when I was a kid, and we would light some candles and listen to Portishead and have some tarot readings before we had sloppy teenage sex.

I'm a virgin.

Sweet.

I like that.

Women are consulting psychics more than men by two to one.

Over 88% of them have a college education and the median income is well over $50,000.