I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer your questions.

Do you know, the thing about Ottersottis is I thought that nobody listened to it. I thought everyone just listened to the the hour-long talking of

bullocks. But it turns out that it's getting as popular as the main one, Rich. So I thought

I'd just mention that quickly. Kids? Yes. It's worse. Okay. Well, I'm going to start with a

question that's just come in from a listener called Michael, who's in Finland.

He says, guys, I'm that strange type of man who buys something, usually expensive, usually technical, and reads the manual before I use it.

This includes cars.

The night I buy a car, I'm found reading the manual cover to cover. It's fun, interesting,

and I then know how to use the thing I just paid my hard-earned Dosh for.

Whenever I read reviews of cars or watch video reviews, I'm always struck by how the car

journalists are always complaining about how difficult they find it to use modern cars.

They generally seem to be inept at finding basic functions on a touch screen, but should be quite easily understood upon reading the manual. Is this because cars are now stupidly complicated? Journalists are challenged by newfangled techno-gubbins, or is it because they simply refuse to read the Blumen Manual? Do you read manuals before reviewing a car or do you just wing it?

If not, is it a time issue or simply the assumption that as a journalist and supreme expert in

the craft, you don't need some manual telling you how to drive a car?

CMT&B, Michael.

It's totally because of time.

If I compare the pace of my job now to what it was in the early 2000s, let's say,

it's so much faster now and you have less time with the car typically.

So you have to hit the ground running, which means in theory you

should prep more, but you don't get the time or I don't find the time to prep more because I'm

coming straight off other jobs. And so unfortunately, I'd love to read the manual because I am a bit

of a manual reader for things. And I totally see the, I see the joy and the thrill and the real

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