Bryan Greene

When we get to the 21st century, radio and TV gave psychics a stage.

Jean Dixon in the 1960s claimed that she predicted JFK's assassination.

Spoiler alert, she also predicted World War III would start in 1958.

She was wrong, obviously, and off by about 73 years.

It's really going to start in 2025.

Not exactly batting a thousand there, Jean.

It wasn't until the rise of 1-900 numbers and infomercials in the mid-to-late 80s that young enterprising scamsters found a new way to get money out of your pocket.

While I found no evidence to give me the answer about who was the first 1-900 psychic, it was no surprise that PFN, or the Psychic Friends Network,

Founded by Baltimore businessman Mike Olasky, is one of the first and extremely successful pioneers in the psychic hotline business.

Michael Lasky was a New York ad man who basically invented psychic infomercials.

He co-founded that PFN or Psychic Friends Network in 1991 with Dionne Warwick as the celebrity face.

Today, you'll find out what Dionne Warwick has to say about the Psychic Friends Network.

I remember these ads running during the OJ trial.

And now your host of the Psychic Friends Network, five-time Grammy Award winner, Miss Dionne Warwick.

Thank you very much.

Imagine being alive in a time when OJ was on trial for murder and Dionne Warwick was pitching you $3.99 per minute phone calls for fake psychic services.

That's just what friends are for.

Warwick promised that her friends could help you with love, money, and career advice, a time-honored tradition with the psychic group.

By giving you nebulous and broad answers to life's most pressing questions, it would make you feel better temporarily, keeping you on the phone for an additional $3.99 a minute.

But the broad answers usually served a second purpose, in that you could never figure out if they were right or if they were wrong.