Fall Guy and Autuman

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

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has become a superhero who loves this time of year. Also in this episode, AMC Eagles, Audi Allroads, spending time with some confusing Polestars, the gentle act of giving a car park ticket to a stranger, throwing a Honda step through over a tall fence, Andy Wilman’s book, a disagreement about why the Grand Tour killed off its star guests, and Tina Turner in a Lynx Eventer.

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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	I've turned into Americans would call this the fall guy.
0:17.6	I've turned into the fall guy very, very quickly in the last few weeks, I'm going to say.
0:24.0	Colt Siever's Fall Guy, or as in someone who's taking the blame.
0:27.5	As in someone who's embracing autumn. So I thought, I'd rather call myself the Fall Guy than Autumn Man because Automan sounds a bit crap, but the fall guy sounds better.
0:44.2	If you run it all together, Automan.
0:46.5	Oh, Automan.
0:47.5	I think that's a reasonable.
0:48.6	That's like a 1970s.
0:50.2	Automan was a thing.
0:52.6	Was it?
0:53.6	I think Automan was a series in the 80s, probably around the time of the actual fall guy.
1:00.2	I want to, I think I remember Automan.
1:04.6	Yes, yes, it was.
1:05.7	It was.
1:06.5	It was a, he had a car, which I think was a, like a kit car Lamborghini or something like that.
1:13.2	Wow.
1:13.7	Yeah, you, you, I don't remember this.
1:15.8	This was, this was Glenn A. Larson, the, uh, yeah, one of the kings of 80s action.
1:22.3	And hair.
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