1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:03,360 Speaker 1: Oh, you're the smart sophisticated one. It's one more thing. 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 2: I'm strong and one more thing. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,480 Speaker 3: If that's going to work up a big belch to 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:15,120 Speaker 3: follow that. 5 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:16,759 Speaker 2: But that's too much even for me. 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: If New York Times readers are the ones that are 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,279 Speaker 1: smart and sophisticated compared to the rest of us, and 8 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: I guarantee you they feel like they are, then why 9 00:00:26,280 --> 00:00:30,360 Speaker 1: are there so many articles about psychics and even pet 10 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 1: psychics and so many people who believe in that crap? 11 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:40,800 Speaker 1: How do you put those together? I'm not sure that 12 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: there are more people that believe in pet psychics among 13 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,279 Speaker 1: the New York Times reader crowds in the general population, 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:48,599 Speaker 1: but they do think they're smarter and more sophisticated than 15 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 1: the rest of us. 16 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny. I just got hoodwinked into 17 00:00:53,560 --> 00:00:58,080 Speaker 3: starting an incredibly long article by Nate Silver about the 18 00:00:58,160 --> 00:01:02,560 Speaker 3: canceling of Stephen Colbert Show. And there's a fair amount 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,839 Speaker 3: that was interesting in there, but once sentence just stuck 20 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,360 Speaker 3: in my craw. I said progressives who are generally the 21 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:12,240 Speaker 3: side that values evidence based decisions. 22 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:18,200 Speaker 1: Really And I'm like, wait, what, Wow, that's something that 23 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: he feels at Yeah, so he thinks the people on 24 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:27,480 Speaker 1: the right, because they're religious more, don't believe in evidence. 25 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: That's that's the practically, the entire definition of being a 26 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:36,400 Speaker 1: conservative is recognizing what is based on facts and figures 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,240 Speaker 1: and your emotions. 28 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 2: Cold realism. 29 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:44,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's wild now, although you know, in his weird defense, 30 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:46,720 Speaker 3: I suppose if you just advocate as loud as you 31 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 3: can anything Trump tells you to advocate, okay, for instance, 32 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:53,560 Speaker 3: in the same way that people just completely reversed their 33 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 3: field and sung the praises of Obama no matter what 34 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 3: they said in the past. But yeah, I thought that 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:05,680 Speaker 3: was so Yeah, progressives, I very carefully assessed the evidence 36 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 3: and decided on thumbs up for pet psychics. 37 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 1: Call him in the New York Times. I took my 38 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:15,519 Speaker 1: dog to a psychic, and I think it worked. When 39 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: I look into my dog's soulful brown eyes, it's hard 40 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: to know what he's thinking about me. Buddy is a 41 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 1: near constant presence in my life, following me from room 42 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:25,960 Speaker 1: to room, lingering under foot in the kitchen, and cuddling 43 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: on the couch as I watch TV. In other words, 44 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: a dog a dog. 45 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Buddy is the perfect name for a dog. 46 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,880 Speaker 3: I've come to this conclusion recently. My neighbor has a 47 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 3: dog named Buddy, and I have a dog named Baxter, 48 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,960 Speaker 3: and I constantly call him Buddy. Yeah, Buddy's a good name, 49 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:45,880 Speaker 3: so you might as well just give him that name, 50 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 3: says this writer in the New York Times, which is 51 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 3: like the coolest job you can have as a writer 52 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 3: in the world. Practically who uses pet psychics? I often 53 00:02:56,680 --> 00:02:59,639 Speaker 3: wonder if he's not so silently judging me when he 54 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: saw and tosses me side eye? 55 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,120 Speaker 2: Is he actually oh he is? 56 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: Is he actually happy here? Does he even like me? 57 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 3: Oh? No? 58 00:03:08,400 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: Thanks to Nina unpronounceable, a vet turned pet communicator, Oh 59 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:17,200 Speaker 1: good idea calling yourself a pet communicator instead of a psychic, 60 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 1: because psychics has a bit of baggage as a term. 61 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:23,000 Speaker 1: You're a pet communicator while you're a vet. So she 62 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 1: went to vet school and still thought in all, but 63 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,679 Speaker 1: there's more money and ripping off these morons who don't 64 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,079 Speaker 1: have kids and put too much emphasis on their pets. 65 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Or you saw over and over and over again people's 66 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: inability to come to obvious conclusions about why their pet 67 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: was acting how it is. Among the revelations I got 68 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: from our thirty minute zoom session. Oh fantastic. This psychic 69 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 1: doesn't even need to be in the same room as 70 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: you and your pet. They can do it over zoom. 71 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, pets can send brain waves over zoom. 72 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 2: Everybody knows that. 73 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,119 Speaker 1: You're always so happy in trying to stay so positive. 74 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 1: He really loves you for that, said the pet psychic 75 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:10,640 Speaker 1: as she acted as a conduit between Buddy's thoughts and 76 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: feelings and my innumerable questions about his health and mental 77 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:17,720 Speaker 1: well being. You also don't let people take advantage of you. 78 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:22,920 Speaker 1: You're a tough cookie, is what Buddy said to the owner, 79 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: and the owner said that was so great to hear it, 80 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:28,760 Speaker 1: because it proved that he had been paying attention. 81 00:04:30,360 --> 00:04:35,159 Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, see I was okay, my dog seems 82 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:37,280 Speaker 3: sad and depressed. Well, do you take him for walks? 83 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 3: Do you throw a ball to him? Not anymore? 84 00:04:39,240 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 2: Not really? Well, that's why he said and depressed. I 85 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 2: pictured more of that. 86 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 3: Not your dog is congratulating you for being such a 87 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 3: tough cookie. 88 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: No, no, And. 89 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 1: Then you feel like you've caught on to the kind 90 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,479 Speaker 1: of person I am. I have disciplined you properly that 91 00:04:55,560 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: you realize, Boy, there's no getting one over on me. 92 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: You have been paying it to Buddy, good dog. 93 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:05,080 Speaker 1: I really wanted to better understand my relationship with Buddy 94 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: and how he thought his life could be improved. During 95 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,520 Speaker 1: the video call, Buddy had some wild requests, like I 96 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: want to ride on a big boat. We're not boat people. 97 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:15,840 Speaker 2: Have I been? So? 98 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,440 Speaker 1: How did I get so off on that one? Your 99 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: dog is thinking he wants to ride on a big 100 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: boat unless your dog has been near a boat or 101 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: on a boat. 102 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:32,200 Speaker 3: And comprehended what one is and understood that one could 103 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 3: ride on a different one at a different time. 104 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 2: Yes, but if your. 105 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: Dog is you have to do all of those things. 106 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: But if your dog has never been on a boat 107 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,599 Speaker 1: or like other than walked in your like the Upper 108 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: West Side, if I find it hard to believe your 109 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 1: dog has come up with the concept of riding. 110 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 2: On a boat. 111 00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 3: Last breath, he told me I never made it to Paris. 112 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,480 Speaker 1: So your dog is aware of the existence of something 113 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,160 Speaker 1: called boating and thinks he would enjoy it. 114 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:09,120 Speaker 2: At some point in the future. 115 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, oh that is funny. 116 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 2: Full money parted. 117 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:19,599 Speaker 1: There were also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like 118 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,240 Speaker 1: a bully stick is that a treat because as I 119 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:24,560 Speaker 1: read it, because okay, I'm unfamiliar with that term. 120 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 3: Well, Jack, it's more than a treat. It's a chee 121 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,359 Speaker 3: like raw hide. It is beef wang. Is it really 122 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,360 Speaker 3: a bully stick? Is a beef pennis? 123 00:06:38,400 --> 00:06:43,920 Speaker 1: That's what I call mine, buddy, little circle. There were 124 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: also more modest suggestions, such as, I'd like a bully 125 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:50,560 Speaker 1: stick by the fireplace before I die. This tracks completely 126 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: in his early days. 127 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 3: Before I die. Wait a minute, The dog's aware of 128 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,080 Speaker 3: its own mortality, Sheese Louise. 129 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 2: He is stealing people's. 130 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: Money, aware of mortality and voting right. Dog is really 131 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 1: on top of it. This tracks completely in his early 132 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:12,640 Speaker 1: days with us. He would resource guard high value treats 133 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,000 Speaker 1: like bully sticks and hoods, so we stopped giving them 134 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:16,880 Speaker 1: to him. Oh really, your dog would kind of like 135 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:20,000 Speaker 1: hide and like try to protect his treats. Nobody else's 136 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:22,680 Speaker 1: dog does that, So that's very interesting. 137 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:27,880 Speaker 3: Good lord, Wow, buddy, old buddy the boater. He is 138 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 3: a unique and your money is well invested with his pet. 139 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 2: What communicator? 140 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:36,600 Speaker 1: And you as a columnist for the New York Times, 141 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 1: which means you've got to be pretty well educated and smart. 142 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 1: Are writing this without a without a single hint of boy, 143 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:47,640 Speaker 1: people are gonna be nationally heard. Radio shows are gonna 144 00:07:47,640 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 1: mock me for this. It's so freaking ridiculous. 145 00:07:50,560 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 2: Every word of it. 146 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 3: Although picture the upscalish female New York Times reader, I 147 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,640 Speaker 3: could see a significant chunk of those, and generally childless 148 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 3: or whatever. Manhattan Nights lap up every no pun intended, 149 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 3: every you know, delicious morsel of this. 150 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,000 Speaker 1: God, What would I do if I met a woman 151 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: and she seemed otherwise nice, but she started going on 152 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,800 Speaker 1: about the pet psychic and all the insights she. 153 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 4: Got run the other direction. 154 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 2: I suppose I'd have to gently sayre her bank account. 155 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: I'd have to gently say you're fucking crazy and walk 156 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: out of the restaurant. The pet communicator sent me a 157 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,720 Speaker 1: video recording of our time together, and I reviewed it 158 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,079 Speaker 1: to make a list of Buddy's most attainable wants and needs. 159 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: Then to ensure that my plan for fulfilling my big 160 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: guy's biggest wishes was sound, I consulted with a different 161 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 1: pet expert, dog behaviors or something like that. It's just, 162 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:48,840 Speaker 1: it's just it's absolutely amazing, and it goes on and 163 00:08:48,880 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: on like that. 164 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:59,080 Speaker 3: Wow, so he wants to learn how to paint. How 165 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 3: do you? 166 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:01,120 Speaker 2: How do you? 167 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,920 Speaker 1: Even if you I'm a dog lover, I don't think 168 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,160 Speaker 1: dogs know about boating, just inherently. 169 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:16,319 Speaker 3: And again, knowing about it is only it's merely the 170 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 3: first step in the cognitive chain towards you know what 171 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 3: I would like to do someday? I mean, if we 172 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: can make our schedules work, I would love to ride 173 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:32,080 Speaker 3: along on the surface of one of those things. 174 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: Oh right, with the wind blowing through my ears. 175 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:42,120 Speaker 3: Oh, to be on a bait indeterminate, but soon, because 176 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:44,120 Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna die like all living creatures do. 177 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: And see what breed am I? We aged about eight 178 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,959 Speaker 1: years compared to humans. I probably got a couple years left. 179 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,480 Speaker 1: So if I want to boat and enjoy a bully 180 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: stick in front of the fireplace, we better get on it. 181 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:55,560 Speaker 2: Yeah. 182 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:58,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, an ocean voyage and some bullcock. 183 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,319 Speaker 2: That's what I long for. 184 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 3: Oh my god, her believe that that was coarse. 185 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,280 Speaker 1: And again they're the smart, sophisticated ones that read the 186 00:10:07,320 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: New York Times. 187 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 4: Oh you know what you do if you call up 188 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 4: a Pecan psychic and say I have a goldfish and 189 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 4: he's trying to drown himself and see if he still 190 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:18,439 Speaker 4: takes your money. 191 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 3: Well, I guess that's it.