But it's never bothered me
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard discuss a used car ad trope. Also in this episode, Magic Trees and adult dancers, an unusual necklace, Bassie & Adriaan and their Prelude, a shout out for merch designers, an AI-altered car advert, the podcast Saab going for an MOT, rumours that Jaguar Land Rover is to assembly cars for a Chinese company, and the imminent death of the Tesla Model S.
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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. |
| 0:12.8 | Magic trees. |
| 0:13.9 | You know about magic trees? |
| 0:15.7 | Yes. |
| 0:16.8 | So when I say that, you're going to assume I mean the hanging fragrance that you put in your car that's the silhouette of a tree. |
| 0:27.5 | I see. |
| 0:28.4 | That smells of, I don't know, cherries or fake vanilla or, I don't know, a well-known car wash or whatever. |
| 0:36.4 | They often misused because you're meant to open the little sachet that they're in? |
| 0:41.7 | Yes. |
| 0:42.3 | But then you leave it on. |
| 0:44.8 | You leave it sheathed. |
| 0:45.8 | And you just de-sheath. |
| 0:47.8 | You gradually de-sheath, don't you? |
| 0:50.0 | If you de-sheath, the only time I've ever bought and used a magic tree was I had a Seat-Leon long-term test car from Evo, and I foolishly lent it to a colleague at Top Gear who used it on a shoot and ferried crew around in it. |
| 1:07.3 | And somehow TV crews can effortlessly make cars smell weird. |
| 1:13.6 | Oh no. |
| 1:15.0 | And when I got the car bag, it smelled weird. |
| 1:18.2 | It sort of smelt of wet dog and mud and crisps and I didn't like it. |
| 1:23.9 | And it was so offensive to me that I, on the the way home went to a petrol station and bought a |
| 1:28.6 | magic tree but then not being familiar with the magic tree system I unsheathed it all the way |
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