The Gaylord Gladiator

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

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Jonny has been learning about an obscure American car. Also in this episode, the Flintstones theme, being haunted by a Renault Estafette, an abandoned Allegro Vanden Plas and fly tipped Volvo, getting ambushed by Morris dancers, two-speed gearboxes, The Jonny Smith Automobilia Collection, a car called the Playboy, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the great Northern tradition of going out without a coat, being unable to whisper, and a Dodge Caravan for sale.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnny Smith.
0:02.3	I'm Richard Porter.
0:03.6	And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:12.8	Hi guys.
0:14.4	Welcome to a another Smith and Sniff.
0:17.3	Yeah.
0:17.5	Coming to you, coming to you live from a hotel room. Coming out your ears in a small B&B. Uh-huh. Yeah. We've just got up here this evening and since we're in the same room, you thought we'd record. But we've also just opened a bottle of Moldbeck. Just a cheeky little one. Just on the side. So that's all lovely. Yeah.
0:43.4	We've been singing just before we turn the microphone on for some reason.
0:44.5	I don't know why.
0:47.6	Maybe it was the Malbec started singing.
0:48.9	I haven't even opened it at that point. It's the theme tune to the Flintstone.
0:51.6	The Flintstones, yeah.
0:52.5	Which I haven't watched for ages.
0:56.5	I think I've got it lodged in my head because a couple of weekends ago I watched that
1:02.4	documentary that's on one of the streaming platforms about John Candy.
1:06.4	Oh, you saw that?
1:08.0	I haven't seen it yet.
1:09.5	It's worth watching it, though. I think it's a little bit fluffy.
1:13.5	Is it?
1:14.3	I think there was a darker edge to John Candy that he didn't fully explore.
1:18.6	I think he was probably, he seems like a very nice guy, and everyone spoke very highly of him.
1:23.0	But he had a lot, you know, they allude to the fact that he had a difficult childhood
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