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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

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Smith and Sniff question-answering spin-off show, Jonny and Richard tackle cars that smell bad, getting into car writing for a living, favourite rakish hatchbacks, and casting another F1 movie.

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0:00.0	I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith.
0:04.1	And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.
0:12.9	Hello, here we are again.
0:14.9	Hi.
0:15.4	But unusually, we're in the same room.
0:18.0	Slightly echoey, but I hope that's not too annoying.
0:20.7	Answering some questions.
0:21.8	I'm going to start with this one, which is from a listener called Eddie.
0:26.2	God, no small chat with you, straight into a question.
0:28.3	I'm all business.
0:29.1	Well, you were, aren't you?
0:30.1	Because we are in a conference room.
0:31.4	That's what it is, isn't it?
0:32.4	Because I'm just, I'm feeling all Bosnoss like.
0:35.8	Eddie says, just listen to springtime, which was Monday's episode. Thrilled to hear you've got a spring, Richard, and joined the Datcher fold. I'm a fellow Datcher enthusiast, bracket, jogger. And I think they're knocking it out of the park at the moment along with their barren company. It's almost like a rank. Jogger. Jogger. So I'm very much like a sort of... You're a rookie. Yeah, rookie. Yeah. But Jogger, he's like a lieutenant on saying. Rookie spring. Yeah. Lieutenant Jogger. Well, what is that? That's someone drilling next door.
1:12.0	It is, isn't it?
1:13.0	No, it's a coffee machine.
1:14.3	There's a coffee machine.
1:15.2	There's a grinder.
1:15.9	Yeah.
1:17.1	Spoiler alert.
1:20.2	We're not at either of our homes.
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