the name was derived from taking the first letters of "smith" and "mosier" and replacing the "p" in "podcast". the podcast was originally distributed through smith's entertainment website quick stop entertainment. 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.