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 and 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 once 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. But yeah, I thought that
(01:59):
was so Yeah, progressives, I very carefully assessed the evidence
and decided on thumbs up for pet psychics.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Call 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 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 call him Buddy. 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
(02:50):
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?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is he actually oh he is?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Is he actually happy here? 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 3 (03:53):
Oh yeah, pets can send brain waves over zoom.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
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 take advantage of you.
You're a tough cookie, is what Buddy said to the owner,
(04:23):
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?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Not really? Well, that's why he said and depressed. I
pictured more of that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
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? So?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
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 2 (05:36):
Yes, but if your.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
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.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
On a boat.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yes, yes, oh that is funny.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
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 bully stick? 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 3 (06:52):
Before I die. Wait a minute, The dog's aware of
its own mortality, Sheese Louise.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He is stealing people's.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Money, 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've 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 4 (08:17):
Got run the other direction.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I suppose I'd have to gently sayre 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 3 (08:50):
Wow, so he wants to learn how to paint. How
do you?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
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 someday? 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.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh, to be on a bait indeterminate, but soon, because
I know I'm gonna die like all living creatures do.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, an ocean voyage and some bullcock.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's what I long for.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
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 4 (10:08):
Oh you know 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 and 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 once 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. But yeah, I thought that
(01:59):
was so Yeah, progressives, I very carefully assessed the evidence
and decided on thumbs up for pet psychics.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Call 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 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 call him Buddy. 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
(02:50):
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?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Is he actually oh he is?
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Is he actually happy here? 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 3 (03:53):
Oh yeah, pets can send brain waves over zoom.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Everybody knows that.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
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 take advantage of you.
You're a tough cookie, is what Buddy said to the owner,
(04:23):
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?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Not really? Well, that's why he said and depressed. I
pictured more of that.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
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? So?
Speaker 1 (05:15):
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 2 (05:36):
Yes, but if your.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
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.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
On a boat.
Speaker 3 (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.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Yes, yes, oh that is funny.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
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 bully stick? 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 3 (06:52):
Before I die. Wait a minute, The dog's aware of
its own mortality, Sheese Louise.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
He is stealing people's.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Money, 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've 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 4 (08:17):
Got run the other direction.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
I suppose I'd have to gently sayre 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 3 (08:50):
Wow, so he wants to learn how to paint. How
do you?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
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 someday? 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.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Oh, to be on a bait indeterminate, but soon, because
I know I'm gonna die like all living creatures do.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
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.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, an ocean voyage and some bullcock.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
That's what I long for.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
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 4 (10:08):
Oh you know 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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