SModcast 60
SModcast is the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on the radio (and, hence, aren’t). Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are SModcast.The best thing about SModcast? It don’t cost nothing.
SModcast 60: The Clone War -
In which our heroes marvel over Pillow Babies, thwart an attack by Stalin’s man-apes, and face off over the love of a human Xerox.
[CONTENT WARNING] SModcast features harsh language and even harsher notions of propriety. Listener discretion is advised.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Earlier than usual, that’s a good thing. Smod for breakfast at work tomorrow.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Its early tonight!!!
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
SWEET!
Can’t wait. Downloading now. =D
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Can’t wait to hear this. I can’t believe you guys are up to 60 now. Right on, good sirs.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
loving the smod
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Sweet first time commenting ever you make my day brighter after a shitty day of serving food to people raving over ma mia
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm
RAWR
NEW SMOD!
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Been waiting all day for this. Thanks guys.
August 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Sweet! early smod. Sounds like a shitty day tim.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:07 am
WOW this ones up early. THANK YOU. Loved the last one. Walts the best. Cant wait to see what you and Walt do with Batman. Scott i still you love also
August 4th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Early Smodcast is the greatest thing ever.
August 4th, 2008 at 12:16 am
FFS! barely missed first..dammit
August 4th, 2008 at 12:38 am
Why are the download speeds so slow?
August 4th, 2008 at 12:57 am
best episode ever
August 4th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Wow..very slow download tonight. If I had balls, I would imagine that this is what it feels like to be kicked in them. It’s like being a little kid and having my candy taken away to not be able to download!
August 4th, 2008 at 1:45 am
can’t wait to listen to this, but unfortunately will have to wait. OH internet, when will you be super high speed?
August 4th, 2008 at 1:58 am
the shining point of my weekend so far
August 4th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Great as usual… I’m surprised that no one’s brought up “The Island” or “Godsend” during all the cloning talk…
August 4th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Great! This saved my day.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:34 am
I’ve heard of a case where parents wanted their severely handicapped daughter to be given a mastectomy. Their logic being that their daughter’s breasts wouldn’t grow, and thus it would lower the chances that she would be sexually assaulted in the future. Which is a ridiculous and drastic assumption to make.
August 4th, 2008 at 2:55 am
Seems like a huge flaw in your logic to take on this entire argument assuming that organs can’t be harvested without a sentient brain. This isn’t the matrix, guys. If we can’t do it yet, then it’ll come eventually.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:16 am
earlier than usual is great can’t wait will listen tonight over a few beers, even though KS wouldn’t like it. Thanx guys
August 4th, 2008 at 3:24 am
i love you guys
August 4th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Actually, working organs can be created NOW without a host body. They grow hearts, kidneys, bladders, even blood vessels.
They take cells and create what is called a matrix, which is basically like ivy growing up a lattice, and they grow them artificially.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:02 am
bro, i like these guys better, use these guys more please, really good stuff here, bring em in next week.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Haven’t begun the smod yet, but to hear Kevin even say “I can has cheeseburger…” just made my fluckin’ day. I digress…back to smod…
August 4th, 2008 at 4:45 am
i searched all over the internet and i couldn’t find anything about “pillow babies.” has anyone else heard of it?
August 4th, 2008 at 4:59 am
Another great Smod, Walt and Brian are fucking great as always. Walt seriously needs to watch Godsend so he can rearrange his opinions on cloning. Great flick but seriously fucked up plot.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:14 am
I think Walt’s clone friend idea is based on: when the clone is made, he is an exact physical copy and has all your memories up until when you are cloned (think The Prestige). So if you wanted an extra you to hang out with, when the clone emerges from the cloning machine he’ll have the memories of you/him wanting a clone to hang out with. He would have your feelings towards cloning and not be all upset that he wasn’t born, because that’s how you felt at the time. Because he has all your old memories he would like the same stuff as you (ie food, sports, movies) that you liked before you were cloned. After that point the clone would become an individual as his new experiences would be unique to him. Eventually it’s possible the clone may not like you because after the cloning point you essentially become two different people with the same past.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:18 am
ME WANT DEBBIE!
August 4th, 2008 at 5:55 am
The discussion of “Pillow Babies” has shed a new and interesting light on “Pillow Pants”.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:05 am
Hey kevin i think brian o halloran may have an evil twin!
saw this dude on the news over the weekend!
see what you think
August 4th, 2008 at 10:09 am
Me and two friends of mine had a conversation alot like this once ….
It started because we heard scientists were working on a way of making people live forever ,which in turn raised the question of overpopulation.
If you could only die through an accident like getting hit by a bus, then no-one would be allowed to have kids unless some-one else died first.
wouldn’t couples, desperate for a kid just start pushing people into buses at will …
and would that be okay if say; you live next door to ol’ paddy who’s lived for 3000 years , has done nothing useful and you really want a child??
August 4th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Your seem to have a quite thorough understanding of fucking, but almost no understanding of reproduction. Or biology in general. Identical twins are clones of one another. This is biological fact. They ARE clones. If you view all your questions in that light, they are easier to answer. Clones have souls? yes. Clones are retarded? No more often than anyone else. Clone a person in order to harvest organs? Of course not. Far more likely would be to clone the required part alone (heart, etc, with no person around it or in the body of a different species). Clone of a 37 year old also being 37 years old? No. If i’m 37, and decided to clone myself, that clone will be an infant. It would be like raising my own twin.
August 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
What if you could have spare clones stored away in a dormant state that could be used for spare parts? They wouldn’t be self aware, just like suits hanging in a closet. The only catch is that you can’t accelerate the clone’s growth, so your parents would had to have the clones made when you were born so the clones would always be exact physical replicas of you now.
Then, what if they mastered a way to upload/download the information on a human brain like in “The Matrix”? Your last “download” could be uploaded into one of your clones if you died. If your kid died in a car accident, just stop by nine lives and pick up a clone of your kid with all the memories and personality intact. You’d just have to make sure you went in to have you back up files updated often to avoid memory gaps.
And, I guess if the 18 year old Walt decides that he wants to cash in all of his clones so he can have a 5 on 5 hockey game whenever he wants, so be it.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
This had to be the funniest SMod in a long time! Bryan and Walt are awesome! The whole Cloning bit had me laughing maniacally throughout the bus terminal this morning! Great episode, guys!
“…5000 Years.” -Walt <—-KILLED ME, LOL!!!
August 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
This was an excellent Smod. Walt and Brian are funny as hell. It’s always great to hear Scott but the Jersey boys definitely do a fine job as “guest hosts.”
August 4th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Loving the Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol reference at the end…too funny.
Fantastic SMod as always!
August 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
You have to see ‘THE GOD THAT NEVER WAS’. great doc about evangelicals. it will make you think.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I am adopted. I found out when I was about 10 years old, raised to be well adjusted and I am 25 now and I have no drive to find out who my birth parents are. It annoys a few people that I have not sought them out or even to find out genetic information. So, Kevin, it does happen.
Loves the cock, I mean Smod.
August 4th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
May I suggest picking up the novel “House of the Scorpian”? Very good, we had to read it for school. It pretty much explains how I feel about cloning.
This Smod wasn’t as interesting because all you three did was talk about the same things over and over for an hour. Maybe change the subject ever ten to fifteen minutes? I still say the best Walt cast is the “Gnome Alone”. Fucking classic, balls out my second favortie.
August 4th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
Great SMod guys!
If you jerked off your clone, wouldn’t that pretty much be masturbation? Well…kind of. Haha
August 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Walt wants some clone shenanigans!
August 5th, 2008 at 1:19 am
They did the episode of the TV show SOAP where Burt Campbell got cloned and then got the chance to live for 5,000 years.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:13 am
haha. when the hell is another jay and silent bob coming out?
August 5th, 2008 at 4:43 am
I am a clone annd know how it feels….tiring. I have a full time job stealing the poon from my counterpart. whew, better get back to it.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:57 am
you guys are ahead of the curve!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/05/genetics.korea
August 5th, 2008 at 10:48 am
SMOD = cure for case of mondays
August 5th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Kevin,
Will your Fletch Won script ever be available to the public? Just curious.
August 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
ks: “scott”
sm: “kevin”
ks: “scott”
sm: “kevin!”
ks: “scott!”
sm: “kevvvvin?”
Where’s the fuck’s Harry Scotter…i miss you guyses Oscar Wilde-like word play.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
With Walt’s sunny view he may need to see Bryan’s shrink.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Ryan beat me to the punch on that article - that dog looks like Kevin’s prediction of clones… Me. Dog.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I think when they said “pillow babies” they were meant “pillow angels” for anybody that wants to look it up.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I think when they said “pillow babies” they meant “pillow angels” for anybody that wants to look it up.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Good Smodcast too be sure but I will be happy when Scott comes back.
August 5th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
Good Smodcast to be sure but I will be happy when Scott comes back.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:24 am
This may or may not be the place for it, but congrats on winning the appeal boys!
Zack and Miri is officially rated “R!”
August 6th, 2008 at 4:07 am
What’s going on with itunes? Smodcast 60 showed up a few hours ago then disappeared when I tried to download it. I know us itunes users get shafted, but that’s just cruel!
August 6th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I can’t belive that Walt can remember Mutiplicity but not the plot for The Island. Also good call Kevin, on not wanting a clone. I mean the conversation remindes me of this old movie where this guy makes a clone of himself (but doesn’t tell anyone) and by the end of the movie the clone was jealous that he killed his counterpart (the “real” person), and just took over his life. Another great smodcast!!!
August 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
not only is this and #59 not downloading through Zune, but I cant even get it to download all the way from this page. i tried yesterday to download it, and all i got was 1/3rd of the episode. anyone else?
August 6th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
I haven’t been able to get it to download either–from iTunes or the site. D:
August 6th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
The idea for using body parts is from the island. Also I think it would be great to have an army of Kevin Smiths.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Love the show guys, but I can’t download the show anymore on itunes! Last week it took about half a hour to download and with the new one, all I get as is an “err=.3259 message” after it tries to download a few times. Anyone have any ideas??
August 6th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
Great show, gentlemen.
And the conversation about clones got almost creepy for me. I went to a small Christian college w/ two twin sisters who not only looked the same (let’s say, a bit homely), but also lived in the same dorm room together, went everywhere together, talked privately w/ one another and wrote weird scifi stories in writing classes I was in. I swear to God. They once walked into class w/ matching George W. Bush t-shirts. They would also practice flag-signaling to each other: one would stand at the dorm and the other at the cafeteria over 100 yards away and send flag signals to each other.
That’s what we’re in for if Walt’s dream comes true. Sweet.
August 6th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Where is it? The mp3 is only the first 8 seconds. PLEASE HELP!
August 6th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
sorry, but as far as smodcasts go, this one was pretty lame…obviously recorded at the same time as the other one..(Hell, you can even hear Kevin yawning during this one !!!!)
AS for cloning…clone Scott so you can pull him in whenever the topics start to lull.
still lovin the smod!!!
August 7th, 2008 at 12:42 am
It’s be great to fuck with three Marilyn Monroe clones. It would take a good *muffle muffle* years to raise them and train them in gymnastics.
But after *muffle***muffle* years . . . BINGO. There’s me, in the midst of a hot and sticky game of naked Twister.
AHHHHH . . . JA, DAS IST GUT.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:41 am
haha, today show just mentioned thinkgeek.com, very cool.
August 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
I have to admit, I’ve had a similar fantasy to Walt’s, that there could be two or three Xeroxes of me (but they would be like Multiplicity clones, sharing all my memories up to the point of cloning). What a great band we could be…we’d always be on the same page, musically, and there’d be nothing we couldn’t say to each other! I get that, totally.
Then I realize that there are way too many mouths to feed, and the fantasy grows to allow the clones to merge back into one when we wanted. Now we’re in magic land, I guess…lol. But we could all subsist on one job, or all work different jobs, then recombine so one person gets all the combined cash. hahaha!
August 8th, 2008 at 10:27 am
“ME WANT DEBBY!” Goddammit, that was the funniest thing I’ve heard in a long, long time.
August 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Two things for you guys here. 1) You come up with some cool contests - but how about a contest where the prize is a talk-a-bout with you guys. I figured with the journey your conversation takes that is was much akin to walk-a-bouts in austrailia. So we could win an opportuniy to be on a smodcast with Kev and mo playing what if. 2)The what if’s that Kevin comes up with are HI-larious. How about if the holocost happened in Norhtern Ireland - the home of the NRA. Instead of jews hitler tries to take out the Irish. Anyway awesome series - and maybe you should consider a professional tv animated series where your what-ifs play out in visula form. I would pay to see demon mo vs the Giant Jesus.
Big C
August 8th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Is the “silentbob” discount still available at thinkgeek.com
I tried to place an order and it rejected it.
August 9th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Hi
I heard you talking about the pillow babies and although it does sound pretty heinous, it would have been helpful for one of my family members.
This young man was born severely disabled and was never able to verbally communicate, walk or perform the most basic mental or physical tasks. For his entire life (40 plus years) he was the equivalent of a 4 to 6 month old baby, but his body grew to full size and he did go through puberty. He did have some awareness of the people around him, could feel pain and love, but was not able to do much else.
If this technology were available to him, caring for him may have been easier as he matured and the atrophy that set in later in life may have been better avoided since his muscles would not have required the adult level of exercise.
I don’t think the procedure should be done on anyone with a lessor disability.
Love Smodcast = take care.
August 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Ah yes! Finally, the full-length 60MB file is now downloading. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU, and now with Smod 61 up I get to listen to two in a row. Happy Days! (go easy, its a rough one at work today, these’ll help me through it, look out anyone who interrupts me though–hehe)
August 15th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Gotta say it another way. You all don’t know what a clone is; you got your ideas from garbage movies that have been referencing each other for “science”. This would be funny, except it’s affecting science policy.
A clone is not a you that was pressed out of a 3-D printer. A clone is, as another poster indicates, an identical twin. Same main DNA, same mitochondrial DNA. You take the genetic material of something, put it into a fertilized egg, replacing the genes there, and it grows like any other baby. Plants have been cloned for thousands of years, and cows and such for decades now. They aren’t soulless automatons. They’re just new individuals. They grow up like anything else, and have their own thoughts, their own lives, just like any identical twin or triplet or quad. I think we get mixed up with 1) bad “science fiction” with no science in it 2) ideas of soul and spirit and mind that have a lot to say about us rather than reality. Listen, if I cloned you, Kevin, today, and put that zygote into your wife to grow, in nine months you have a baby. It’s your twin, but it AIN’T YOU. There are no laws that make it property, you can’t “harvest” it, you can’t do anything to it that you couldn’t do to a baby, ’cause it’s a baby. It’s gonna grow up, and while weird to see occasionally, you’d get used to it. Twins always do. It’d just be 37 years younger than you. The idea that it would have your thoughts or desires is a magical one; societies have always believed that twins are really the same person.They ain’t.
Also, if we force-grew a clone to adulthood - which no one possibly can do — the process that would grow a functioning mind would be bypassed. Brains grow by connecting neural nets. A force-grown clone would be a lump of hamburger, an autistic nothing that would never be able to sit up, probably, much less give you a hand job…
But it was fun to listen to.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
“I just wanted to play hockey!!!”
“Well now you’re playing cockey, Other. Cockey!!!”
Too funny!!! I love Smodcast so much!