Brown March
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard have some concerns about a popular singer. Also in this episode, accidentally starting a strimmer, sensational new information about Jason Plato’s purple leather jacket, some troublingly powerful trousers, becoming a stuntman for gangly men, a listener’s album cover mystery solved, getting Yacht Rock wrong, sad bangers (songs, not cars), a Golf filler flap problem, and another fine pick from the Car & Classics auctions.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Johnny Smith. |
| 0:02.4 | I'm Richard Porter. |
| 0:03.6 | And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. |
| 0:14.2 | I accidentally started by Strimmer late last night. |
| 0:19.4 | It was a true accidental start. |
| 0:24.0 | Was it in your sitting room at the time? |
| 0:27.0 | It wasn't in the house, but it was in the garage, albeit with the door open, but... |
| 0:32.5 | Well, it was dark, so no one in their right mind was ever going to do any streaming, |
| 0:36.6 | unless they had night vision goggles, which is just very odd. And I know that my next-door neighbour's got young |
| 0:43.9 | children, so I fear that I've become a bit of a bastard. Petrol strimmer. Very two-stroke. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah, very too-stroke. So So look, let me rewind slightly and |
| 0:58.2 | explain how I accidentally did this. I haven't started that strimmer in four years. I put some |
| 1:06.1 | fresh fuel in it last week and I tried to fire it up and it utterly refused. Not a massive surprise. |
| 1:14.8 | These things don't like starting after a long sleep, especially with modern fuels, etc., etc. |
| 1:21.0 | So I was like, okay, well, I haven't got the time or the inclination at a moment. I'll put that |
| 1:26.0 | back into the garage and come |
| 1:27.9 | back to it another day. Well, I was out there last night. It was really, really relaxing. |
| 1:37.3 | Still night and I went in the garage to get something else and I saw the streamer on the floor and |
| 1:42.2 | went, now then, |
| 1:47.7 | I wonder if that little slut's going to start up now. |
| 1:50.5 | And I just pulled the cord thinking it won't, |
| 1:55.1 | but at least I've tried again and I'll, |
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