Kevin Smith’s 2014 film “Tusk” has a rather strange origin story.
On a 2013 episode of his long-running podcast “SModcast” — the episode titled “The Walrus and the Carpenter” — Smith and his co-host Scott Mosier came across a real-life British want ad from a man seeking a roommate.
The want ad described a strange scenario wherein the lodger would be allowed to stay with the man rent-free, provided the lodger dress and behave like a walrus.
The man who posted the ad evidently recalled a wonderful time in his past when he had bonded with a real-life walrus and wanted to recreate the feeling.Smith and Mosier spend 60 full minutes discussing the veracity of the ad and laughing as they imagine this walrus-like scenario as it might appear in a feature film.
The two of them become so enamored by their conversation that, by the end of the hour, they
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