Kevin Smith

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Smith, the acclaimed film director whose comedic films and franchises include Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Jay & Silent Bob, swings by the pod to talk about the freedom of his (mostly) unsupervised childhood, his near-religious experience watching Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time with his father, and his iconic cult-classic film Dogma, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary re-release.

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0:00.0	Lemonado.
0:05.9	Kevin has turned to bright red and it's so endearing.
0:08.6	It's still thinking about it.
0:09.7	It's like, true.
0:10.8	This will be the next thing I discuss with my therapist, kids.
0:15.1	Welcome to Pod Crushed.
0:16.8	We're hosts.
0:17.5	I'm Penn.
0:18.4	I'm Nava.
0:19.2	And I'm Sophie.
0:20.2	And I think we would have been your middle school besties.
0:22.3	Never drinking water, always eating too much sugar and generally ignoring the signals from our bodies.
0:25.8	But anyway, let's have a sleep offer.
0:28.3	Earth to Penn.
0:30.7	Are you going to welcome us?
0:31.8	Are you ready?
0:32.4	Yeah, I'm here.
0:33.2	Oh, oh, you guys said you're ready. Sorry, I was still waiting for you because I've been waiting for you for a while.
0:40.0	Please keep this at the beginning of this episode.
0:41.5	Yes, we should have it.
0:43.4	Welcome to Pod Crush.
0:45.4	Welcome, don't talk over me.
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