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Psychic Talk Show
The setup
The premise
Here’s the bit.
Miss Lycus welcomes an author to her psychic talk show, then barely lets him speak as she rushes through questions from the studio audience. Missing relatives, family mysteries and marriage worries all receive abrupt answers, even when her predictions contradict the people standing in front of her.
After hurriedly correcting earlier predictions, she accelerates into a speed round as her need for a bathroom grows more urgent. One audience member finally offers a success story, and his newly reunited brother tries to ask the neglected guest about his book.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 11
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
He drowned until he died.
No, but thank you.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.

Jimmy Fowlie
Writer

Martin Herlihy
Writer

Ceara O'Sullivan
Writer
Script
Automatically generated script; wording may contain errors. Speaker labels are inferred.
- 00:00
Speaker 1
She's blunt, she's clairvoyant, and she's got a hard out at seven. She is Miss Likas, the Fast Psychic.
- 00:09
Miss Lycus
Hey, welcome to the show. My name is Miss Likas. I'm a Fast Psychic, and as always, I have a hard out at seven. Joining me today is Tad Dowd, author of the book City of Ghosts. Thanks for being here, Tad.
- 00:18
Tadd Doud
Hey, thanks for having me. I've never seen the program, but I'm really...
- 00:22
Miss Lycus
Yeah, well, thanks for being here. Now, we've got a bunch of sad, desperate people in the audience who want answers from beyond the shadows, and I'm going to give them those answers. Okay, you in the tablecloth, go.
- 00:31
Angelina
Uh, hi. Um, my name is Angelina.
- 00:36
Miss Lycus
Angelina, what's your question? Go.
- 00:37
Angelina
Um, okay, so, 15 years ago, my dad left our house to buy a pack of cigarettes, and I haven't seen him since, so...
- 00:45
Miss Lycus
He's dead.
- 00:48
Angelina
What?
- 00:48
Miss Lycus
Honey, he died. He drowned. He drowned until he died. And now he's fish food. Does that make sense to you?
- 00:55
Angelina
No, but thank you.
- 00:59
Miss Lycus
Okay, next.
- 01:00
Tadd Doud
Wow, okay, that was very fast.
- 01:02
Miss Lycus
Okay, shut up. Next.
- 01:04
Audience Member
Hi. So, I had a question about my grandpa.
- 01:07
Miss Lycus
He's dead.
- 01:08
Audience Member
Oh, I know, but, uh, is he here right now? Does he have a message for me?
- 01:12
Miss Lycus
Uh, yeah. He says, hi from hell. Does that make sense to you?
- 01:16
Audience Member
No, but thank you.
- 01:18
Miss Lycus
Okay, next. Go, go, go, go.
- 01:21
Wife
Hi. So, my husband...
- 01:23
Miss Lycus
He's dead. He died. He drowned. Next.
- 01:25
Wife
Oh, no, actually, he's right here.
- 01:27
Miss Lycus
Oh, honey, I know. I know that. He drowned, but he's still alive. And what's dead is your marriage. I hate looking at you. You look like siblings. he's cheating on you with a woman as tall as he is. Does that make sense to you?
- 01:37
Wife
Not at all.
- 01:38
Husband
Yes, it does.
- 01:40
Wife
But thank you.
- 01:41
Husband
But thank you.
- 01:43
Tadd Doud
Thank you for what? Why are you going so fast?
- 01:46
Miss Lycus
Because I just took a colonoscopy drink, and it's running through me like a Japanese bullet train. Next, next, next.
- 01:52
Audience Member
So, my father recently passed away?
- 01:54
Miss Lycus
Honey, he's dead.
- 01:56
Audience Member
Thank you.
- 01:59
Miss Lycus
And now, as always, we need to issue some corrections for the predictions I gave last episode. Here we go. okay so those are that next
- 02:11
Audience Member
hi so I've always wondered who my biological mother is
- 02:15
Miss Lycus
well honey it ain't me the good news is it's Hilary Duff the bad news is it's not the one you're thinking of so sit your white ass down all right
- 02:22
Audience Member
hi
- 02:23
Miss Lycus
she's dead
- 02:26
Audience Member
who is
- 02:28
Miss Lycus
you are does that make sense to you
- 02:29
Audience Member
yep thank you
- 02:31
Miss Lycus
oh that sound means the bullet trains one station away so it's time for the speed round
- 02:39
Tadd Doud
that wasn't the speed round
- 02:41
Miss Lycus
okay going down the line dead dead alive drowned burnt drowned burnt drowned drowned drowned mary f kill undiagnosed diabetes and if i haven't gotten to you yet just know that the ghost of hulk Kogan says was
- 02:58
Tadd Doud
I what are you talking about
- 03:00
Miss Lycus
okay one more bring it home
- 03:02
Audience Member
hi two years ago I was on the show and you told me my brother was drowned but alive and thriving in Florida
- 03:10
Miss Lycus
yeah
- 03:10
Audience Member
I just wanted to say thank you because thanks to you we found my brother
- 03:14
Brother
and I'm actually a huge fan of Tad's and I had a question about his book
- 03:21
Tadd Doud
um okay great finally
- 03:23
Brother
so in your story about Lisa like
- 03:26
I was like, what are you...
- 03:26
Miss Lycus
It's seven,
- 03:27
Speaker 1
and this has been another episode of Miss Like Us, the Fast Cycle. Does that make sense?
- 03:32
No, but thank you.
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