OTOSOT 98
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about accidentally folding a head gasket, cars you dislike for irrational reasons, buying an American classic, and who got to wear the white lab coat on Top Gear.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith. And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff |
| 0:06.4 | spin-off in which we answer your questions. We probably know how this works by now, don't we? |
| 0:15.0 | So we answer questions that you've sent us to hello at smith-and-sniff.com. Is that how it works? |
| 0:20.4 | That's all there is to it really. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay. |
| 0:22.4 | Well, yeah, and because you write Ottersot in the title, we know that it's a question, |
| 0:27.8 | unless someone's playing a trick on us, and that's cruel. |
| 0:31.3 | But I've got one right here by a chap called Keith, Keith McRale. |
| 0:37.5 | Hello, your pair of Jethro Tull fans. I am actually, Keith McRale. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, your pair of Jethro Tull fans. |
| 0:41.8 | I am actually, Keith, but thanks. |
| 0:45.5 | Back in the 90s, I was working in a local motor factors. |
| 0:48.4 | We had a lady come in to collect a head gasket. |
| 0:51.3 | Her husband had ordered earlier that day. |
| 0:56.8 | Later on, a man came in asking for exactly the same head gasket. |
| 1:03.4 | When we said it was the second one that we'd sold today, he told us, yeah, as my wife was taking the bus home, she folded it up and put it in her handbag and thus ruined the head |
| 1:08.0 | gasket. |
| 1:12.7 | He, and thus ruined the head gasket. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 1:19.7 | His question is, is, have either of you ever heard of anything similar? |
| 1:21.3 | And P.S. |
| 1:24.1 | He's added a bit of extra as a P.S. |
| 1:29.4 | We usually found out lady customers had a lot more sense than the men off of the street. And when I started in another motor factors back in the 80s, our counter staff were |
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