Festival of Sleeves

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

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

On a balmy evening during the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Jonny and Richard sit outside to discuss middle aged man backflips, a robot in a leather jacket, Jenson Button’s 24 hour trousers, massive wasps, Facel Vegas, Carl Cox’s excellent Alpina, a return to Dunsfold, pit stop urinal use, and why Richard wore long sleeves at FoS even though it was boiling hot.

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0:00.0	Tom Grennan, live.
0:07.0	Tom Grennan is bringing his UK tour to London, Cardiff and Nottingham this September, with special guest Tom Walker.
0:16.0	A little bit of love. A little bit of love. It's taking me high.
0:23.7	Tickets on sale now at metropolismusic.com.
0:33.1	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:34.7	I'm Richard Porter.
0:35.9	And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:45.1	There's two things I always fancy doing.
0:47.5	If I've had a few to drink and I think, I reckon I could pull that off.
0:51.7	One of them is I'd love to be able to pull off a backflip.
0:55.2	But I wouldn't do it.
0:56.1	If I was in the right state of mind and I wasn't on a...
1:00.9	What is it the right state of mind?
1:03.4	And I wasn't on a flagstone floor.
1:05.4	Yeah, okay.
1:06.0	I'd give it a whirl.
1:07.9	I think I'd give it a well.
1:10.0	I'd probably have had some cider.
1:11.9	Have you ever done a backflip?
1:14.0	I've never done a backflip. Have you ever tried a backflip?
1:16.8	I went in for one once on the trampoline and I bottled it and it ended up just being this really odd.
1:23.0	And I actually heard my back crunch.
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