OTOSOT 95
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about being cruel to cars out of spite, strange gauges and the worst special edition options, plus a Belgian listener explains what the name of this spin-off sounds like in Flemish.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter. |
| 0:02.7 | 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. |
| 0:12.8 | We know how this works by now. |
| 0:14.9 | You send us questions to hello at Smithand-Sniff.com, and we try and answer some of them in a timely manner. |
| 0:20.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:21.8 | Well... Asterisk. Timely means manner. Yeah. Well, asterisk. |
| 0:22.5 | Timely means within two years. |
| 0:23.9 | Well, do you know, as you said, said this, I've just dredged out a lovely sweet email from a foreign country that was sent to us in January 2025. |
| 0:36.4 | From a manual. |
| 0:37.6 | Go on then. |
| 0:38.7 | Sweet SSGs, this is my second attempt as I erroneously sent this insanely crucial fact |
| 0:45.3 | via the contact form on the website, which apparently wasn't the right way to do it. |
| 0:49.1 | Sorry, if you had to receive this twice then. |
| 0:52.2 | As this is a matter of utmost importance for the petrol or |
| 0:55.4 | vault-driven community, I will grace it with my infinite wisdom. This might be right up, Richard's |
| 1:01.0 | alley. In the Flemish language, yes, the other language spoken in off of Belgium, Otisot actually |
| 1:09.1 | means something. Coincidentally, in the very relevant atmosphere, |
| 1:13.6 | we use the word auto for car. Phonetically, this often becomes a sound like Otto. Zot is our word |
| 1:22.4 | for crazy or someone who is crazy about something. Same thing applies here. |
| 1:27.6 | Phonetically, this is often becoming Zot. |
| 1:31.9 | Put these two things together and you get autosot, pronounced autosot, meaning a car crazy person or a car nut or a car pervert if you really want. |
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