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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Richard’s time with a troublesome Fiat has come to an end. Also in this episode, Jonny behaves like a buzznuzzman on the Eurostar, Lego lost at sea, novelty phones washing up in Brittany, Garfield v Snoopy, unexpected custody of the European Car of the Year trophy, time in the latest Traaaaansit, the modern Ford that sounds like a Granada 2.8i, hotel staffing explained, love for the Mustang Mach E, new George Clarke spin-off shows, three-row Kiwi car joy, how German car companies screwed up EVs, the decline in TV car ads, and the new Porsche 911 hybrid.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm Richard Porter and this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. |
| 0:09.0 | Hey, I was a proper European businessman yesterday, guys. |
| 0:17.0 | Because I went very early to the railway station and then got a train to Kings Cross and then walked |
| 0:27.8 | across the road and then went to St Pancras and then went straight through Buzznus class to get on the Eurostar to Paris and it was so |
| 0:38.4 | effortless and great and I remember even when my eyes were itching because they were so tired the |
| 0:44.8 | jingles in the railway station in foreign railway station is so jovial. |
| 0:49.6 | Oh yes and and also I noticed the quasant in the business class lounge. |
| 0:56.7 | I know this is sounding wanky, hear me out. |
| 0:58.6 | The quasons were so bloated, they were massive, They were almost the size of an American rugby, American football. |
| 1:06.4 | Oh, they were so huge. |
| 1:09.4 | Sometimes when they're like that, I get the urge to pick one up and pretend it's a phone. |
| 1:14.6 | Oh do you? That's a very bad thing to do. I've never done it. I just have an urge. |
| 1:20.8 | Like, because they do look like an 80s novelty phone. |
| 1:24.0 | Do you remember in the 80s where the novelty phone business boomed and you get like Garfield |
| 1:28.6 | phones and shoe phones and phones that look like the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and all sorts and it was like I don't know where that I suppose because no one has landline phones anymore that market sort of gone. |
| 1:40.0 | Argos met catalogue used to have loads of amazing ones and I always wanted the there was a |
| 1:46.9 | Thunderbird 2 one on its plinth about to blast off yeah and I think it used to sing the theme tune to Thunderbirds. I always wanted that one. |
| 1:55.2 | But the Garfield one, funny you should mention Garfield because in Cornwall they keep |
| 2:00.6 | washing up on the beach and have done for years you know about this yes a very weird story |
| 2:05.7 | so well basically did it's a container come off a boat yes and got washed into a |
| 2:11.5 | I was going to say a cleft, I don't mean, it got washed into a crevice. |
| 2:18.4 | Okay, a crevice, yeah, maybe a crevice. |
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