The over-serviced XJ-S

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

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Jonny and Richard start to worry that Brian May is doing too much to his Jag. Also in this episode, new rules for the London to Brian, the Gamage Astor, wet belt updates, wondering if sales reps still exist, people in public places using very thick laptops, Jonny’s day at the Goodwood Revival. more algal car sightings, and Richard’s continuing noisy motorcycle torment.

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0:00.0	I'm Johnnie Smith, I'm Richard Porter, and this is Smith and Sniff a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things.
0:12.0	Brian Update, you know, you know, well-known Queen Guitarist with Comeat Bunz and Hair, Brian May,
0:22.0	Yes. A couple of weeks ago, I don't know if you know but he he had a stroke. I saw this and I was thinking oh no because that's pretty serious for somebody that uses their hands for their living like playing the guitar.
0:36.4	He's 77 didn't know that, older than I realized.
0:40.4	And anyway, read a bit of blump, but I can I can say that he's okay, the little quote that says,
0:50.0	so the good news is, I'm okay, I'm just doing what I'm told which is basically nothing
0:57.2	He said he had he said he'd been grounded adding I'm not allowed to go out. Well, I'm not allowed to drive. I'm not allowed to go out well I'm not allowed to drive I'm not allowed to get on a plane and I'm not allowed to raise the heart rate too high
1:09.8	What he didn't say in that BBC interview was, I can't drive and to be honest with you, I'm getting a bit worried because the London to Brian could be sacked off because it's only in November.
1:21.6	But isn't your whole concept of the London
1:25.0	Sir Brian which you mentioned a long time ago? A long time ago. On video on the
1:30.1	podcast I can't remember. Cast was the contested. the contestants have to go to Brian was that's the contestants have to go to Brian was
1:38.8	that not the point yeah that is the point they a, just like a, a wheel of fortune with different
1:46.1	Brian's names, or a hat, probably a Victorian hat.
1:50.3	Yeah, folded up, they're stalkeralker, huge deep hat.
1:55.0	Scrolls in it, yeah.
1:56.0	And you pick out which Brian, ultimately the event drives to.
2:01.0	Okay, so I think if you've been a previous Brian, you maybe you'll get
2:06.8	on board and you'll take part perhaps. I'm making these rules up so I go along as you might
2:12.1	are you. I think I had no. I'm making these rules up as I go as long as you might have well a
2:13.0	I had simply no sense of that at all.
2:16.0	Oh well well I'm really glad that it wasn't noticeable.
2:20.0	But the thing is...
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