Bum-faced airship incident
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Richard has put a deposit on a new family car, sight unseen. Also in this episode, Bruce Springsteen's cold hands, KFC translation mishaps, American car advert small print, trying to drive a ridiculously big truck, Ford's fake overhangs, ZF and Zeppelins, a bum-faced airship incident, enjoying spoken German, dressing like you listen to The Levellers, an unwanted waltzer sofa, and what's the deal with wicker furniture? Plus, Jonny needs some help with static caravans and an amazing Technics jacket.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two |
| 0:05.7 | friends talk about cars and this week I bought a car. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm wearing a Levi's sheepskin lined jacket and the sort of jacket you can imagine Bruce |
| 0:20.2 | Springsteen wearing walking along the side of a road thumbing a lift in the early 80s. |
| 0:26.0 | You know that you know the jacket, don't you? |
| 0:27.6 | He's in a cold state. He's in a very cold state. |
| 0:31.1 | New jersey, Michigan, that kind of thing. |
| 0:34.6 | Bad way. |
| 0:35.1 | I watched that Jeep advert that Springsteen did for the Super Bowl. |
| 0:39.8 | A couple of weeks ago, whatever it was. |
| 0:41.4 | And if you've seen it, it's been withdrawn now because then he got a drink driving |
| 0:48.1 | conviction. Well, it all seems a bit dodgy. |
| 0:50.8 | What? Bruce Springsteen got done for a trade of it. |
| 0:53.5 | Where have I been? |
| 0:56.3 | So, well, I don't know, I wonder sometimes. |
| 0:59.6 | But I saw the ad and then he went out during the Super Bowl and then the following week, |
| 1:07.1 | which was whenever that was, week before last, Jeep pulled it because, yeah, |
| 1:12.3 | Springsteen, it was revealed that Springsteen had just a couple of weeks before that. |
| 1:17.5 | I think had a DWI driving while intoxicated charge against him. |
| 1:23.3 | But it turns out he'd been out, seen the story as he was out of this family. |
| 1:28.6 | He stopped some fans, so him came over and were like, Hey, how you doing? |
| 1:34.5 | Hey, and they gave him a shot of vodka or tequila, I think. |
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