Dennis Quaidhas a pet podcast.
The podcast launched July 14 and is hosted by Quaid and writer Jimmy Jellinek.
Here, Quaid along with his miniature bulldog, Peaches!
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What made you want to venture into podcasts?
It was the No.
2 music podcast of last year.
We want to be the YouTube of podcasts.
It’s a very exciting time for podcasts right now.
So why specifically did you want to do a pet show, and why now?
And Jimmy [Jellinek], he does a really good job with it.
We just wanted to offer a place to go for pets, from advice to stories to veterinary things.
It’s just a place for people to go, and it’s entertainment at the same time.
We can’t talk aboutThe Pet Showwithout talking about pets.
Is Peaches your only pet?
[Speaking to the dog] Right, Peaches?
How does Peaches feel about the podcast?
Well, she has ears but I don’t think she quite gets the concept.
[Laughs] We’re working on that.
She does watch TV, though.
What is it about pets that just makes them so special to us, do you think?
Pets have emotions and pets know a lot more than we give them credit for, I think.
They’re intuitive to our emotional state, and they always seem to be there.
They don’t judge.
[To the dog] Do you Peaches?
[Peaches barks] And they’re always there for us.
They’re our companions.
It’s a very ancient relationship.
It goes back to the time that man came out of the caves.
And I think it’s actually dogs who probably taught us to hunt, not the other way around.
You’d hunt for dinner, right Peaches?
How do you choose the subject of the episodes?
Well, it’s basically all our stories from our lives about our pets, other people’s pets.
And then our own stories.
We want to come out with a show that’s in dog language, so they can understand themselves.
And their understanding of things also very much reflects that of a 2-year-old.
Yeah, just like a 2-year-old.
[Laughs]
The podcast teases having celebrity pet owners on the show.
Who are the celebrities with pets that you really want to talk to?
Oh, well, just about every celebrity I know has a pet.
That’s for sure.
And there’s a whole bunch of pets out there, including horses.
I’d love to have her on the show.
In the future, what are some pet topics you want to dive into more?
I’d like to get into animal training more.
When you’re a kid, you want to train your dogs to do tricks and stuff like that.
And I think you’re able to do that over a podcast as well.
The world could use more pet-related content right now.
Yeah we don’t want to talk about COVID.
We were able to raise $5 million during the month of April.
I don’t know if anybody in the United States was able to do that for anything.
What other kinds of podcasts are in the works?
We have great partners: Primary Wave, Warner Bros. Records, and MGM Studios, which is wonderful.
It was either a serial or a script.
And we came up with an idea calledScripts From the Drawer.
And we’re going to cast [the scripts] and do them as like movies for your ears.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
