Captain Jonny

Smith and Sniff

Jonny Smith and Richard Porter

Top Gear, Road Trips, 5th Gear, The Grand Tour, Leisure, Cars, Automotive, Improv, Comedy

5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Guess who’s bought a boat off eBay. Also in this episode, James May’s geographically illiterate tour, crashing your famous brother’s Ferrari, getting the Prelude wrong, a podcast title embarrassment, a suggestion for communicating with other motorists, unwelcome info about local hotspots, some thoughts on the popular game of padel, and another look at a couple of PistonHeads auction cars.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith
0:02.0	I'm Richard Porter
0:03.2	and this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things
0:12.5	I had to fly with Ryanair recently
0:14.9	now I'm not going to go on about it
0:16.6	but you know how I feel about Brianair
0:20.1	yes flight flight was delayed great um but you know how I feel about Brianair? Yes.
0:21.5	Flight was delayed.
0:23.1	Great.
0:25.1	I think three hours delayed in a very small Maltese airport because I went to Malta.
0:30.9	I talk about that in a sec.
0:32.4	But I hadn't downloaded, I'm not modern.
0:37.3	I hadn't downloaded any films, I had one
0:40.0	free game on my phone and I, and I, because I moved house recently, I don't know where any of
0:46.0	my books are, so I didn't take a book on holiday, which really annoyed me. There was one I wanted
0:51.7	to finish, but, um, so do you know, I did?
0:56.4	Did you just go into a sort of zen-like state of...
1:00.3	I did two things.
1:01.5	One, walked around all three of the shops that were there, and I bought two pairs of socks, one with puffer fish on, one with a box of matches on.
1:09.9	Don't ask me why. Second.
1:16.1	Who wants a pair of socks with a box of matches on it? I don't know. It was sort of artistic
1:22.4	and I think the company is called Happy Sox or something, and they just made jolly looking socks.
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