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Smith and Sniff

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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

51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has been learning about how a large Ford was involved in the kidnap of a famous race horse. Also in this episode, people in 1970s and ‘80s TV shows clinging to roll bars, untrustworthy clutch control, Richard being a silly boy in London, sitting very still listening to Sting, bump starting a car in the middle of the night, Puff Daddy’s inexplicable motorbike accident, the demise of the OAP travel sweet, cars with three abreast seating in the front, the Honda FR-V and a bizarre publicity photo, empty threats from Photobucket, a time limit on being able to say ‘back in the day’, the Volvo EX30, and news of the next Smith and Sniff live show. 

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.

0:16.5

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0:27.0

I'm Richard Porter. I'm Johnny Smith and this is Smith and Smith and this is Smith and Smith a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.

0:37.0

Do you know what I want to talk about? I want to talk about the fact that over the last couple of evenings I've watched a few things on television and both of them

0:48.3

have spiked my interest in the fact that it's mostly 70s and 80s movies and TV shows in anything involving the military

0:58.8

there's always there's always people holding on to the to the back of open-to-to-toped jeeps and things

1:07.1

stood up with a assault rifle and there's so much trust in the brake and the clutch control so that you don't just ragdol off it.

1:16.3

And it really troubles me every time I watch it because I think, oh, they're going to just like

1:20.0

stamp on the clutch or they'll do something bad really jerky and you'll end up clanging.

1:27.2

I say this because I've really badly hurt my hip once on a roll cage.

1:32.0

Oh! I was stood up on a car that was running and someone forgot who was sitting in,

1:38.0

they were posing for a photo and they forgot that the engine was running and they put their I don't know what they did they selected first and had the clutch down and then took all the pictures were chatting and then just jumped off the clutch and I was stood up not holding onto the roll bar and it lurched forward and it smacked me so hard in the kidneys that my kidneys my kidney went purple. It hurts so much. It was like someone had swung like a church bell

2:06.2

or an anvilin. Yeah. It was horrible. Do you ever do that though when you're getting out

2:10.0

of the passenger seat of a car? It's sort of contingent on the driver and how good a driver I think they are.

2:17.3

But if it's somebody who I'm not entirely confident in their skills, I always have a little look to make sure that they've put the car in neutral or park

2:28.0

before I get out because it is a sort of low-level fear of mine to be

2:32.8

clouded by a car door as you're trying to get out of the car.

2:36.5

There's a level of mistruster.

2:39.9

Well, I don't know.

2:41.7

I suppose it is. I would, that's the the thing if it was you I would assume that you know you're not a fuck quit in a car and you can you can perfectly well just keep it under control but I don't know I think it may be is because years ago do you remember that

2:55.2

program driving school yes that um infamously gave us Maureen that Welsh lady who was extremely terrible at driving.

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