PB FOMO

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

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jonny and Richard discuss Car Week envy, the new Gordon Murray specials, McLaren F1 wheels, the Porsche 968 Club Tropicana, listeners’ messages about incongruous student cars, a surprising shelf in a motorway service area, sighting a Ford Probe, a confusion involving David Attenborough, and why the Welsh buy so many Dacias.

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by DuraMatt Interlocking Floor tiles.
0:04.5	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:06.1	I'm Richard Porter.
0:07.3	And this is Smith & Sniff, a podcast on which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:16.4	Did you have, as I did, enormous fomo about the Pebble Beach slash Car Week stuff that was going on a week before last that we forgot to mention?
0:28.6	Bloody enormous, just like a tidal wave over, over, over Pebble Beach, which just engulfed all the cars. A Pebble Beach tidal wave
0:40.2	just swallowed all the cars up and swept them out to sea. I was so annoyed and I don't like
0:47.1	to be jealous because it's not a good trait, is it? But I was, I just kept looking at all these
0:53.5	amazing photos. And normally it's because you was, I just kept looking at all these amazing photos. And, and normally it's because
0:57.6	you go, I want to go to California because the weather's good. But actually the weather was
1:01.9	amazing over here. So it was like, I didn't have that excuse. It was just the, the quality of
1:06.1	vehicles, the calibre was so high. Also, we've mentioned this a few times,
1:11.6	but for people who aren't aware,
1:14.4	the Pebble Beach concourse and surrounding events
1:17.3	is sort of where Smith and Sniff was born.
1:20.8	Yeah.
1:21.6	So it holds a special place in our hearts, mate.
1:25.7	It does, but yet we have only been once. Exactly. Well, that's all you need to know. It's all you need to do, isn't it? We went once. It was great. In a way, that's the thing. I don't think I've had terrible FOMO slash jealousy about it since. When was that 2011 that we went? Yeah. And I sort of thought, well, we had our time. It was great. It wouldn't be as good second time around. So I'm not going to lose sleep over it. But this year, just seeing lots of people on the socials talking about it, I thought, I kind of wish I was there. But I wish I was there with you because we could have a good time knobbing around. I agree.
2:01.3	I've just got this vision of us, you know, windmills of your mind playing in the background with seagulls scattering as you're going flat out in a Chrysler, La Barron, convertible.
2:14.1	But with one door inexplicably missing.
2:17.1	Oh, yes. And I'm... is it white, by the way?
2:19.1	Yes. Yes. And you're, you're chasing me. And again, not explained. It's like a fever dream.
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