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August 6, 2025 13 mins
Just how did we go from talking about Denver not being ranked a top place to raise a pet, to Dom Hasselhoff the pet lifeguard? No one knows for sure but this is one topic you aren't going to want to miss. Wanna stay connected to the show and follow along with all our stories? Follow us at the Dom with Melissa Facebook page here: Dom With Melissa Facebook Page  
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Dumb in the Morning with Melissa Moore, the podcast on
Cool one O five. Once pets come up, we are
dialed in. Love our pets, love them dearly.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I just can't get over how often in all the
different places I see people with their pets. I mean,
I was at Home Goods shopping and somebody had a
cart with their dog in the front of the cart.
I was like, to go to Home Goods, just surprise me.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
You're being very kind.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
It was surprising.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, you're being kind. I like that. I'll say it's
too much. A lot of times it's too much. It's good,
it's cute in some cases, and it's fine outdoors and
stuff like that, but it's kind of getting a little
overdone with bringing all dogs, not just service animals everywhere,
all dogs everywhere. I'm like, okay, I've had about enough

(00:53):
of this. But I will say I would have thought
that Denver would rank as the number one or number
two at most furthes down number three pet friendly cities
in America, And you say they came in where.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Out of one hundred, we are just cities. We are
not one, not two, not in the top ten. We
are number thirty eight. Okay, almost in the middle number
thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
So is this based on the cost of owning a pet.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's a lot of different factors. The cost is one
of them, and we know Denver's expensive, so the cost
is one. But there were like twenty three different metrics
that wallet hub measured and it went from cost to walkability.
I mean it wasn't just money, but money was a
factor of how much because they were saying, we're gonna
spend not just here in Denver, but all of us

(01:47):
pet owners will spend collectively one hundred and fifty seven
billion dollars on our pets this year.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, okay, I believe that.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
So a ton of money, and certain cities are more
expensive to own a pet than others. But they put
together the cost plus the pet friendliness and devers thirty eight.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So who was number one?

Speaker 2 (02:04):
Scottsdale, Arizona.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Oh yeah, if you want your dog to cook, I
was gonna seventeen degrees.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And I was like, how did they And especially when
you hear something like walkability.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Forget it. It burned the little pads on their feet right.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Probably six months out of a year, you can't take
your dog out to walk, even at midnight.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Ah, you know what this list is bogus?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Yeah, I just check this. Yeah, Honolulu, by the way,
was the least pet friendly city.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, I don't. I mean here in Denver, I
think we are forced into meeting pet friendly will whether
we want to or not. It's like, if you don't
want to accept pets at stores, you will lose business.
People will just not come. Oh you know, it's true.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
I do. I'm just trying to be the voice of reason,
but it's there's too much emotion involved with pets. Speaking
of which, I was reading something. I was reading something
not long ago that they threw this hypothetical out of
people because you know how pet crazy we all are.
And it was something along the lines of, and I'm

(03:09):
sorry this is morbid, but it's a it's a hypothetical.
It's just, you know, thought starter. If your pet is drowning. Oh,
hold on it, it's hypothetical. Your pet is drowning, and
so is I think they said a random stranger.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Okay, so not family random stranger.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Yeah, Like it vacillated between that and like a distant
family member, like a second cousin that you barely know
and you can only save one you're going to show.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I don't know what the answer is going to be.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
The majority of people chose their pet. Absolutely they did,
so they're choosing saving their pet over another human being.
And it was like not even I want to say
I said it's more than half, but I want to
say it was like eighty two percent or so. It
was huge, And I'm like, wow, I'm gonna okay, I'm
going to pose that question until Melissa Moore.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, I'm going to pose it back to you with
Nile's the weirdo.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Oh Niles all day long?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Right, I was gonna say, you've got a little piece
of wood like Rose and Jack off the Titanic, and
there's only room for one more on that piece of wood. Niles,
Niles all day long. Huh.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Plus he's only six pounds, so he's easy to save. Yeah,
some one hundred and fifty pound human. You're like, I
can't save that.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
Now you're gonna take me down with you, buddy, I'm
gonna have to take the cat.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
So what about you?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
I here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (04:28):
What I should say, is the other human life. That's
the answer I should get.

Speaker 1 (04:31):
That's what the radio professional would say. Right, Yes, And
I would call BS all day long on you. I
know you and your pets.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
You know I love my pets. Yeah, just like for
so many of us, they're family members.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Here's let me flip it around. So everyone who's listening
right now, everyone's thinking of it the same way. All right.
Everyone's thinking of it is I'm standing on the shore
and I can save one of them. Yeah. What I
want you to do for a moment is imagine you're
the random stranger, okay, and there's somebody that comes up
to the shore and their dog is beside you and drowning,

(05:07):
and you watch them swim out and you know they're
saving the dog.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Okay. So here's what I've done. I am now picturing
you as David Hasselhoff in Baywatch, and you're running.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Out I get mistaken for him. Yeah, let's not.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Say today's version.

Speaker 1 (05:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
So let's say you're running out there with your red
buoye in your red shorts, and you're you're trucking along
and you see me and Niles, and I feel so
much hope as I see you coming with the red
buoy until you turn towards the cat and you throw
Niles on your shoulder, and.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
On the way way back over my shoulder, I go.
We let's say you had a good long life.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Niles days are more valuable. There's not as many of them.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
How many of our listeners are going to say the
same thing. How many are going to say, oh, this
is horrific, you have to save a human life. How
many would do that?

Speaker 2 (06:05):
I want you to be honest.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Out of ten, how many people, Yeah, don't say what
sounds noble.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
Right, Because what sounds noble is, of course, I'm going
to save a human life all day long, right, that's
what sounds noble. But as you and your red shorts
or your red Pamela Anderson swimsuit, or grabbing your red.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Booie, somehow a booy got in on this and I
don't because you're a lifeguard.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You always grabbed the bowie.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
Is it a booy or a floaty? A booe is
the thing that's out there that like, what do you
call it? Then you come up with a better life preserver.
You think those are around circle?

Speaker 2 (06:37):
No, those look like life savers. Those little candies.

Speaker 1 (06:40):
What are you bringing?

Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'm bringing the red booye with a handle on it.
Did you not watch me watch, I feel like, oh jeez, okay,
red bathing suit bends over to pick up red booie
or red thingy that floats with a handle.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
One of these have to be red. You've got me
so confused with it.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Because that's what color they were on Baywatch. As you
don't know because you didn't watch, they're all red and
you're running out there in your red trunks.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
I'm saving Niles, right, of course you are.

Speaker 2 (07:06):
And then what do you do? Do you wave to
me as you swim back? Do you acknowledge or do
you not make eye contact?

Speaker 1 (07:11):
Eye contact? Act like I didn't see you or hear you?

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Floundering Niles makes no sound at all, But I'm like ways.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Kristin denversus hell, no, save the animal.

Speaker 2 (07:24):
Yeah, that's I think that's the more honest answer, even
though I know it sounds a floating Madeline says it's
called a floaty floaty. I don't think that's ready either.
I think it's a booie.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Uh. Kathy goes now, say it's Niles and a little
three year old. Oh no see uh huh m hm, No, Kathy,
is you know, Kathy? I am saving that little three.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Year old Christine's until the human come on, you can
do it. Kick a little hard.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
That thank you for playing along with us this morning.
Only only a handful of people took this way too, seriously.
Everyone else is like playing along, showing our infatuation with
our pets, and it's the whole You could save your
pet or a random stranger, you know, from death or whatever.
We use drowning as an example, which probably should have

(08:20):
come up with some other example, because Melissa got completely
off on this whole thing about a red booi or something.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Right now, all the text are coming in. It's it's
a red torpedo booy it's a lifesaver booey, and it's yeah, anyway,
I went.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
With it, waiting for somebody to write in and say
it's a David Bowie.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Somebody did. Actually, it's called the Hasselhoff life Saver because
the whole, my whole thing is obviously we know that
Baywatch was very factually correct when it comes to lifeguards,
and so when you're running in the water and you
have your red shorts on a red t you know, swimsuit,
and you're holding the red booye and that's that's how
I had to picture this whole thing. Like I'm out

(08:59):
at Cherry State Park, I'm not doing well. I see
Dom running in the red shorts with the red buoye,
and Niles is right next to me. Who's he gonna grabok.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I'm changing it to a burning building. Okay, So I
don't want I don't want any more red shorts, booze anything.
You can only save your pet or another human being,
And overwhelmingly the response from people is I'm saving my pet. Now.
My question is what does that say about us? Because

(09:29):
we don't value the life of someone that we don't
know over them. Do you think it's deep or do
you think it's just because I think it's because we
don't have a connection, and we have the connection even
though it's an animal, we have a connection. And I'll
just be the one to be a horrible person and

(09:52):
say it. I think some pets are way better than
some people. I mean, they are no people who are
horrible human beings. And yes, all day long, I'd save
the sweet little pet right right. But I think we
have a better soul.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I think when push comes to shove or swim comes
to save, I don't know what any of us would do.
I think we may think we would save our pet.
I don't know what the reality would be. And it's
just one of those things. This is like you're playing
a game and you're drinking at a party and it's
like this is this is I'm hypothetical, right, because I
think if we were being very honest, we would all

(10:28):
try to do both. I would try to do both
in real life, I would try to do both and
probably take myself down with it.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
I would get Niles out and then I'd run real
fast back to try and get the human. Yeah, you
just tell me to kick harder until you get back.
Just Kristen in Denver keeps doubling down. She started with hell, no,
save the animals. Then she wrote tell the human come on,
you can get out. Then she wrote back to say
people are overrated. Wow, Kristin, you may be needing some

(10:57):
counseling here pretty soon. I think we've been doing a
lot of mind candy this morning. These hypotheticals you can
only save your pet or a random stranger from death.
Overwhelmingly people are choosing their pets. I think it's also
because people can remain mostly anonymous when they answer.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
This, Well, yeah, I find what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yeah. A guy named Thomas called in. He was talking
to Dixon. Dixon says, Thomas is an ex firefighter who
says no, I would say. He said I would save
the human right, so well, he has to say that.
I mean he has to.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
Somebody's trained for though. Right in all fairness of course.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
When you say I'm a firefighter, you know we would
not allow you to be a firefighter if you said
something else. But in his heart, he fooling me one sex.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
I'll go back for the pets. I mean, our firefighters
are amazing. You see how they put the oxygen mask
on pets and everything. It really is incredible what they do.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
If he's in his if he's on duty and he's
a firefighter, yeah, he'll save the human absolutely. If he's off,
he's now an X firefighter. He's just Thomas, the civilian
driving along somewhere in his pet versus some random stranger.
Thomas is saving the pet. You don't fool me, Thomas,

(12:11):
Oh my gosh, I know.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
I know the text continue to roll in on this one.
But if it was a hamster or something, you gotta
say no.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
See that's a great point. Some people might love their
hamster as much as I love Niles or easy love
you know, Dash Dash and Toothless. Yes, would you save Toothless?
Of course? Okay, of course I love my pets. I
note with Cisco, your last pet, there would be no
questions like you might save Cisco over Tim.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
Tim would probably tell you. My husband would tell you
that because they're like, could you just maybe be as
excited to see us when you come home as you
are Cisco? And I'm like, I could try.

Speaker 1 (12:53):
That's the question your pet or your spouse.

Speaker 2 (12:55):
Well, now come on, you're still thinking more. Gretchen, gretch
would probably be like, forget it, just I know what's
gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Oh, she would save Niles before me all day long.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
You know what, if you ran out with the red booy,
you could have thrown me the boo boo.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
I'm about to hit you over the head of the
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