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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

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Live on stage at the excellent Festival of the Unexceptional, Jonny and Richard discuss the Raleigh canteen, car names as explorers, swearing on a rollercoaster, some new facts about Marillion, podcast pies, bad wheeltrims, dogs doing drag racing bumps, single make and model garages, stoners and the pudding shop, ordinary cars getting attention, Renault velour, excellent Tonys, thoughtful touches deleted from cars, why Michelin makes tyres and reviews restaurants, and Pirelli’s Italian Bibendum.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things live at Festival of the Unexceptional.
0:12.8	That was good. It was shouted transit. Thank you. I had to rush that one because there were too many words to fit in the gap before the music comes up.
0:21.0	Sorry.
0:21.4	Yeah, no, that was good. It sounded like a local radio. Yeah. Warning, the value of your husband goes down as well. Hi, everyone. I was going to say thanks for coming, but you've not come to see us. So sorry, everyone. You can get back to looking at a really immaculate Nissan stanza in an hour. I was just looking at that before I ran over here.
0:19.3	Amazing.
0:20.2	Yeah.
0:20.8	Love the stanzer. get back to looking at a really immaculate Nissan stanza in an hour. I was just looking at that
0:38.1	before I ran over here. Amazing. Yeah. I love the stanza rear clusters. How are we all doing?
0:44.6	All good? You know, I want everyone to answer individually. We're going to be here for a few hours.
0:48.7	Yeah. I'm going to hold something up if you'd like to respond.
0:55.6	That's... Someone put a long tail on that.
0:59.1	Yeah, they did.
1:00.3	That was really good.
1:01.6	I don't know.
1:02.3	The chap gave us a transit badge.
1:05.8	Which I'm holding up to the audience.
1:07.6	And a Leyland badge that matches my new tattoo.
1:14.1	Oh, here it is.
1:14.6	You brought it out of the car.
1:15.3	I brought it on stage for the purposes of audio.
1:19.0	He suggested that perhaps I'd like to glue it to my forehead,
1:22.6	like Rimmer out of Red Dwarf.
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