''SModcast'' is a

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featuring filmmaker

Kevin Smith Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He came to prominence with the low-budget buddy comedy film ''Clerks (film), Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted i ...

. The show was initially co-hosted with Smith's long-time producing partner

Scott Mosier Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is an American-Canadian film producer, director and editor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, ''SModcast''. Early life Mosier was born ...

, although over the years, Mosier's appearances have been sporadic with a series of guest hosts taking his place. New episodes were initially released each Sunday night/Monday morning, with more recent episodes being released on a much more infrequent schedule. The episodes are generally one hour in length and feature Smith and Mosier, or a guest co-host, discussing current events and other non-sequitur topics. The name was derived from taking the first letters of "Smith" and "Mosier" and replacing the "P" in ''

''. The podcast was originally distributed through Smith's entertainment website

Quick Stop Entertainment Fred Entertainment (formerly Movie Poop Shoot and later Quick Stop Entertainment) is a pop-culture website. The site was founded as Movie Poop Shoot by director Kevin Smith to promote the 2001 movie '' Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back''. The site se ...

. New episodes were made available for download each Sunday night or Monday morning, and are then released through the RSS feed the following Friday in order to ease bandwidth strains on the Quickstop Entertainment. On January 1, 2010, the host site was sold, the SModcasts were removed and a dedicated site was started. In addition, the one-week delay for iTunes subscribers was dropped starting with SModcast 101. In September 2009, a book of Smith's favorite SModcasts called ''Shootin' the Sh*t with Kevin Smith'' was released.

SMoffee

In partnership with the ''Just Coffee Cooperative'', SModcast launched its official coffee called SMoffee. This coffee is a blend of Mexican, Colombian and Ethiopian coffees with one dollar of every purchase going to The Wayne foundation.

SMeaker

For Kevin Smith's second collaboration with Etnies they created the first sneakers based on a podcast, SMeaker. They were launched at the 2011

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Yoga Hosers

The title of the film '' Yoga Hosers'' came from a remark

made during an early 2014 segment of ''SModcast''. Smith brought up fanciful quotes attributed to Simon Metke, an

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instructor whose home had recently been raided by the

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(RCMP), who recovered an artwork stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2011 there. Mosier imagined the RCMP saying "Open up, yoga hoser!" as they knocked on the door. After it became a

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among the podcast's listeners, Smith announced it would be the title of his next film. The character of Yogi Bayer in the film is also based on descriptions of Metke in the media.

Awards and recognition

In 2007, it was named one of the best new podcasts by

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. In 2010, several of the podcasts were placed upon iTunes' Best Podcasts of 2010 list which included: '' Jay & Silent Bob Get Old'', '' Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!'', '' Hollywood Babble-On'', and ''Highlands: A Peephole History''.

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