July 21, 2025 • 10 mins
On the Monday July 21, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty One More Thing Podcast...
- Joe has a Nate Silver article stuck in his craw...
- A NYT columnist details his use of a pet psychic.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh, you're the smart, sophisticated one. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong andy, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
If that's going to work up a big belch to
follow that.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But that's too much even for me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
If New York Times readers are the ones that are
smart and sophisticated compared to the rest of us, and
I guarantee you they feel like they are, then why
are there so many articles about psychics and even pet
psychics and so many people who believe in that crap?
How do you put those together? I'm not sure that
(00:40):
there are more people that believe in pet psychics among
the New York Times reader crowds in the general population,
but they do think they're smarter and more sophisticated than
the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I just got hoodwinked into
starting an incredibly long article by Nate Silver about the
canceling of Stephen Colbert Show. And there's a fair amount
that was interesting in there, but one sentence just stuck
in my craw. I said progressives who are generally the
side that values evidence based decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Really And I'm like, wait, what, Wow, that's something that
he feels at Yeah, so he thinks the people on
the right, because they're religious more, don't believe in evidence.
That's that's the practically, the entire definition of being a
conservative is recognizing what is based on facts and figures
(01:36):
and your emotions.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Cold realism.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, that's wild now, although you know, in his weird defense,
I suppose if you just advocate as loud as you
can anything Trump tells you to advocate, okay, for instance,
in the same way that people just completely reversed their
field and sung the praises of Obama no matter what
they said in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But yeah, I thought that was so.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, progressives have very carefully assessed the evidence and decided
on thumbs up for pet psychics call.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Him in the New York Times. I took my dog
to a psychic, and I think it worked. When I
look into my dog's soulful brown eyes, it's hard to
know what he's thinking about me. Buddy is a near
constant presence in my life, following me from room to room,
lingering under foot in the kitchen, and cuddling on the
couch as I watch TV. In other words, a.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Dog a dog.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I think Buddy is the perfect name for a dog.
I've come to this conclusion recently. My neighbor has a
dog named Buddy, and I have a dog named Baxter,
and I constantly.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Call him Buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, Buddy's a good name, so you might as well
just give him that name, says this writer in the
New York Times, which is like the coolest job you
can have as a writer in the world. Practically who
uses pet psychics? I often wonder if he's not so
silently judging me when he saw and tosses me side eye?
Is he actually oh he is? Is he actually happy here?
(03:04):
Does he even like me?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Thanks to Nina unpronounceable, a vet turned pet communicator, Oh
good idea calling yourself a pet communicator instead of a psychic,
because psychics has a bit of baggage as a term.
You're a pet communicator while you're a vet. So she
went to vet school and still thought in all, but
there's more money and ripping off these morons who don't
(03:29):
have kids and put too much emphasis on their pets.
Or you saw over and over and over again people's
inability to come to obvious conclusions about why their pet
was acting how it is. Among the revelations I got
from our thirty minute zoom session. Oh fantastic. This psychic
doesn't even need to be in the same room as
(03:50):
you and your pet. They can do it over zoom.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh yeah, pets can send brain waves over zoom.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Everybody knows that you're always so happy in trying to
stay so positive. He really loves you for that, said
the pet psychic as she acted as a conduit between
Buddy's thoughts and feelings and my innumerable questions about his
health and mental well being. You also don't let people
(04:16):
take advantage of you. You're a tough cookie, is what
Buddy said to the owner, and the owner said that
was so great to hear it, because it proved that
he had been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh my goodness, see I was okay, my dog seems
sad and depressed. Well, do you take him for walks?
Do you throw a ball to him? Not anymore? Not really? Well,
that's why he said and depressed. I pictured more of that.
Not your dog is congratulating you for being such a
tough cookie.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, no, And.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Then you feel like you've caught on to the kind
of person I am. I have disciplined you properly that
you realize, Boy, there's no getting one over on me.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You have been paying it to Buddy, good dog.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I really wanted to better understand my relationship with Buddy
and how he thought his life could be improved. During
the video call, Buddy had some wild requests, like I
want to ride on a big boat. We're not boat people.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have I been?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So? How did I get so off on that one?
Your dog is thinking he wants to ride on a
big boat unless your dog has been near a boat
or on a boat.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And comprehended what one is and understood that one could
ride on a different one at a different time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, but if your dog is you have to do
all of those things. But if your dog has never
been on a boat or like other than walked in
your like the Upper West Side, if I find it
hard to believe your dog has come up with the
concept of riding on a boat.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Last breath, he told me I never made it to Paris.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So your dog is aware of the existence of something
called boating and thinks he would enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
At some point in the future. Yes, yes, oh that
is funny. Full money parted.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There were also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like
a bully stick is that a treat because as I
read it, because okay, I'm unfamiliar with that term.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, Jack, it's more than a treat. It's a chee
like raw hide. It is beef wang. Is it really
a bullystick? Is a beef pennis?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's what I call mine, buddy, little circle. There were
also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like a bully
stick by the fireplace before I die. This tracks completely
in his early days.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Before I die.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Wait a minute, The dog's aware of its own mortality,
Sheese Louise.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He is stealing people's money.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Aware of mortality and voting right. Dog is really on
top of it. This tracks completely in his early days
with us. He would resource guard high value treats like
bully sticks and hoods, so we stopped giving them to him.
Oh really, your dog would kind of like hide and
like try to protect his treats. Nobody else's dog does that,
So that's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Good lord, Wow, buddy, old buddy the boater. He is
a unique and your money is well invested with his pet.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What communicator?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And you as a columnist for the New York Times,
which means you got to be pretty well educated and smart.
Are writing this without a without a single hint of boy,
people are gonna be nationally heard. Radio shows are gonna
mock me for this. It's so freaking ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Every word of it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Although picture the upscalish female New York Times reader, I
could see a significant chunk of those, and generally childless
or whatever. Manhattan Nights lap up every no pun intended,
every you know, delicious morsel of this.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
God, What would I do if I met a woman
and she seemed otherwise nice, but she started going on
about the pet psychic and all the insights she.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Got run the other direction.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I suppose I'd have.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
To gently sagure her bank account.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'd have to gently say you're fucking crazy and walk
out of the restaurant. The pet communicator sent me a
video recording of our time together, and I reviewed it
to make a list of Buddy's most attainable wants and needs.
Then to ensure that my plan for fulfilling my big
guy's biggest wishes was sound, I consulted with a different
pet expert, dog behaviors or something like that. It's just,
(08:46):
it's just it's absolutely amazing, and it goes on and
on like that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Wow, so he wants to learn how to paint. How
do you? How do you?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Even if you I'm a dog lover, I don't think
dogs know about boating, just inherently.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And again, knowing about it is only it's merely the
first step in the cognitive chain towards you know what,
I would like to do something. I mean, if we
can make our schedules work, I would love to ride
along on the surface of one of those things.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh right, with the wind blowing through my ears. Oh
to be on a boat indeterminate, but soon, because I
know I'm gonna die like all living creatures do. And
see what breed am I? We aged about eight years
compared to humans. I probably got a couple years left.
So if I want to boat and enjoy a bully
stick in front of the fireplace, we better get on it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah. Yeah, an ocean voyage and some bullcock. That's what
I long for. Oh my god, her believe that that
was coarse.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And again they're the smart, sophisticated ones that read the
New York Times.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh right, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What you do if you call up a Pecan psychic
and say I have a goldfish and he's trying to
drown himself and see if he still takes your money.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, I guess that's it.
Oh, you're the smart, sophisticated one. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
I'm strong andy, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
If that's going to work up a big belch to
follow that.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
But that's too much even for me.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
If New York Times readers are the ones that are
smart and sophisticated compared to the rest of us, and
I guarantee you they feel like they are, then why
are there so many articles about psychics and even pet
psychics and so many people who believe in that crap?
How do you put those together? I'm not sure that
(00:40):
there are more people that believe in pet psychics among
the New York Times reader crowds in the general population,
but they do think they're smarter and more sophisticated than
the rest of us.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, you know, it's funny. I just got hoodwinked into
starting an incredibly long article by Nate Silver about the
canceling of Stephen Colbert Show. And there's a fair amount
that was interesting in there, but one sentence just stuck
in my craw. I said progressives who are generally the
side that values evidence based decisions.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Really And I'm like, wait, what, Wow, that's something that
he feels at Yeah, so he thinks the people on
the right, because they're religious more, don't believe in evidence.
That's that's the practically, the entire definition of being a
conservative is recognizing what is based on facts and figures
(01:36):
and your emotions.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Cold realism.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Yeah, that's wild now, although you know, in his weird defense,
I suppose if you just advocate as loud as you
can anything Trump tells you to advocate, okay, for instance,
in the same way that people just completely reversed their
field and sung the praises of Obama no matter what
they said in the past.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
But yeah, I thought that was so.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, progressives have very carefully assessed the evidence and decided
on thumbs up for pet psychics call.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Him in the New York Times. I took my dog
to a psychic, and I think it worked. When I
look into my dog's soulful brown eyes, it's hard to
know what he's thinking about me. Buddy is a near
constant presence in my life, following me from room to room,
lingering under foot in the kitchen, and cuddling on the
couch as I watch TV. In other words, a.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Dog a dog.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Yeah, I think Buddy is the perfect name for a dog.
I've come to this conclusion recently. My neighbor has a
dog named Buddy, and I have a dog named Baxter,
and I constantly.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Call him Buddy.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Yeah, Buddy's a good name, so you might as well
just give him that name, says this writer in the
New York Times, which is like the coolest job you
can have as a writer in the world. Practically who
uses pet psychics? I often wonder if he's not so
silently judging me when he saw and tosses me side eye?
Is he actually oh he is? Is he actually happy here?
(03:04):
Does he even like me?
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh? No?
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Thanks to Nina unpronounceable, a vet turned pet communicator, Oh
good idea calling yourself a pet communicator instead of a psychic,
because psychics has a bit of baggage as a term.
You're a pet communicator while you're a vet. So she
went to vet school and still thought in all, but
there's more money and ripping off these morons who don't
(03:29):
have kids and put too much emphasis on their pets.
Or you saw over and over and over again people's
inability to come to obvious conclusions about why their pet
was acting how it is. Among the revelations I got
from our thirty minute zoom session. Oh fantastic. This psychic
doesn't even need to be in the same room as
(03:50):
you and your pet. They can do it over zoom.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Oh yeah, pets can send brain waves over zoom.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Everybody knows that you're always so happy in trying to
stay so positive. He really loves you for that, said
the pet psychic as she acted as a conduit between
Buddy's thoughts and feelings and my innumerable questions about his
health and mental well being. You also don't let people
(04:16):
take advantage of you. You're a tough cookie, is what
Buddy said to the owner, and the owner said that
was so great to hear it, because it proved that
he had been paying attention.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Oh my goodness, see I was okay, my dog seems
sad and depressed. Well, do you take him for walks?
Do you throw a ball to him? Not anymore? Not really? Well,
that's why he said and depressed. I pictured more of that.
Not your dog is congratulating you for being such a
tough cookie.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
No, no, And.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Then you feel like you've caught on to the kind
of person I am. I have disciplined you properly that
you realize, Boy, there's no getting one over on me.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You have been paying it to Buddy, good dog.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I really wanted to better understand my relationship with Buddy
and how he thought his life could be improved. During
the video call, Buddy had some wild requests, like I
want to ride on a big boat. We're not boat people.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Have I been?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So? How did I get so off on that one?
Your dog is thinking he wants to ride on a
big boat unless your dog has been near a boat
or on a boat.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And comprehended what one is and understood that one could
ride on a different one at a different time.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Yes, but if your dog is you have to do
all of those things. But if your dog has never
been on a boat or like other than walked in
your like the Upper West Side, if I find it
hard to believe your dog has come up with the
concept of riding on a boat.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Last breath, he told me I never made it to Paris.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
So your dog is aware of the existence of something
called boating and thinks he would enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
At some point in the future. Yes, yes, oh that
is funny. Full money parted.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
There were also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like
a bully stick is that a treat because as I
read it, because okay, I'm unfamiliar with that term.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, Jack, it's more than a treat. It's a chee
like raw hide. It is beef wang. Is it really
a bullystick? Is a beef pennis?
Speaker 1 (06:38):
That's what I call mine, buddy, little circle. There were
also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like a bully
stick by the fireplace before I die. This tracks completely
in his early days.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Before I die.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Wait a minute, The dog's aware of its own mortality,
Sheese Louise.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He is stealing people's money.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Aware of mortality and voting right. Dog is really on
top of it. This tracks completely in his early days
with us. He would resource guard high value treats like
bully sticks and hoods, so we stopped giving them to him.
Oh really, your dog would kind of like hide and
like try to protect his treats. Nobody else's dog does that,
So that's very interesting.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Good lord, Wow, buddy, old buddy the boater. He is
a unique and your money is well invested with his pet.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
What communicator?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And you as a columnist for the New York Times,
which means you got to be pretty well educated and smart.
Are writing this without a without a single hint of boy,
people are gonna be nationally heard. Radio shows are gonna
mock me for this. It's so freaking ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Every word of it.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Although picture the upscalish female New York Times reader, I
could see a significant chunk of those, and generally childless
or whatever. Manhattan Nights lap up every no pun intended,
every you know, delicious morsel of this.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
God, What would I do if I met a woman
and she seemed otherwise nice, but she started going on
about the pet psychic and all the insights she.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Got run the other direction.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
I suppose I'd have.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
To gently sagure her bank account.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
I'd have to gently say you're fucking crazy and walk
out of the restaurant. The pet communicator sent me a
video recording of our time together, and I reviewed it
to make a list of Buddy's most attainable wants and needs.
Then to ensure that my plan for fulfilling my big
guy's biggest wishes was sound, I consulted with a different
pet expert, dog behaviors or something like that. It's just,
(08:46):
it's just it's absolutely amazing, and it goes on and
on like that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Wow, so he wants to learn how to paint. How
do you? How do you?
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Even if you I'm a dog lover, I don't think
dogs know about boating, just inherently.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And again, knowing about it is only it's merely the
first step in the cognitive chain towards you know what,
I would like to do something. I mean, if we
can make our schedules work, I would love to ride
along on the surface of one of those things.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Oh right, with the wind blowing through my ears. Oh
to be on a boat indeterminate, but soon, because I
know I'm gonna die like all living creatures do. And
see what breed am I? We aged about eight years
compared to humans. I probably got a couple years left.
So if I want to boat and enjoy a bully
stick in front of the fireplace, we better get on it.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Yeah. Yeah, an ocean voyage and some bullcock. That's what
I long for. Oh my god, her believe that that
was coarse.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
And again they're the smart, sophisticated ones that read the
New York Times.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Oh right, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
What you do if you call up a Pecan psychic
and say I have a goldfish and he's trying to
drown himself and see if he still takes your money.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Well, I guess that's it.
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