SmodCast with Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier

A sold out Granada Theater greeted screenwriter, author and director, Kevin Smith last night, Wednesday July 28th in Dallas, Texas.

Kevin Smith is most widely known for the Jay and Silent Bob characters he created. They've appeared in comic books and in several of his films (Clerks, Mall Rats, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II and more).

While the success of most of these films rely on the immaturity of the audience, Smith’s more sensitive side is subtly present. Smith's screenwriting style tends to attract mostly a mostly younger, male audience. Several other films demonstrate a more grown up perspective on life, love and story telling. In Chasing Amy, for example Smith tells the story of best friends and new love. In a way that is very uniquely his own, he engages raunchy humor with genuine laugh out loud moments before wrapping the whole thing together with the nakedness of unnatural and unrequited love, leaving you teary eyed for Ben Affleck’s character, Holden and equally conflicted for his love interest, Alyssa, played by Joey Lauren Adams.

Smith’s films are smart. When you watch them, you don’t feel like you’re being told a story or watching a movie. You feel like the characters are real people, probably people you’ve known at some point in your life. And as they live out their day, or week or year on the screen, you snuggle in and listen, as if they were on the other end of a long distance telephone call telling you the whole thing themselves, in their very own words.

Smith’s films are smart. When you watch them, you don’t feel like you’re being told a story or watching a movie. You feel like the characters are real people, probably people you’ve known at some point in your life. And as they live out their day, or week or year on the screen, you snuggle in and listen, as if they were on the other end of a long distance telephone call telling you the whole thing themselves, in their very own words.

Each week, Smith and Mosier host a one hour podcast that they’ve coined, SModcast. (S for Smith and M for Mosier replacing the P from Podcast). The tour and the event in Dallas on Wednesday was a live SModcast, or Live Nude SModcast, as the advertisements would have it.

Although the event was sponsored by Fleshlight (an adult product), the show did not contain any nudity. However, the ratings agencies would have surely restricted access to the content based on the subject matter.

Smith shared a local story about being hit with a couple of eggs during a visit to Dallas last year. After leaving a Chili’s restaurant with his mom and some friends, some Dallasites drove up on the group tossing a few eggs at Smith. Several months later, a video surfaced of the attackers planning the egging. They claimed to be seeking retaliation against Smith for “selling out”. Smith mimicked the Seinfeld television show reenactment of the Kennedy assassination as he relayed the egging story, remarking that during the attack a certain meatier part of his body had gone back and to the left.

He also managed to get in a Southwest Airlines jab during the bit as he explained that his size had protected him from being harmed in the egging. (See: Kevin Smith at Southwest Airlines)

Smith also reminisced about his childhood and watching the television show Dallas with his mother. He remembered that his mother had suggested that maybe one day he "could have a ranch like Southfork". He recalled that the show seemed to have a lot of sexual encounters on it and remarked that made him belived that "Dallas [chicks] like to f**ck."

SModcasts routinely involve discussions about news events and Wednesday’s was no exception. Smith relayed a local story about a WT White High School student who was arrested for masturbating in class. Mosier and Smith spent the better part of half an hour on this subject which led into the most awkward and worst places the two of them had done it, along with a dare for Mosier to use the Granada’s stage in front of the crowd to top his most awkward place. The two finished up their set after about an hour and a half, by giving away five fleshlights to random fans.

Following Smith and Mosier’s performance, the Tell ‘em Live team (Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson) took the stage with Brian Quinn. The Tell ‘em Live team had a similar presence with a conversational vibe, sharing stories and interacting with the audience.