Woodpeckers and Kardashians
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Jonny has learnt two new things. Also in this episode, the resurgence of the crooklock, a Silverstone steam engine, the Julio Iglesias car mystery is solved, goodbye Nissan GT-R, more unusual student cars and catch and release car buying.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Johnny Smith. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Richard Porter. |
| 0:03.5 | And this is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two friends talk about cars and many other things. |
| 0:12.9 | Listen, look, guys, I start sentences like this a lot these days. |
| 0:19.2 | I've almost become a caricature of myself, but I was out |
| 0:23.1 | for a run this morning because it was a beautiful morning and I forced myself to. Yes. I won't go into |
| 0:29.7 | the details, but I had to run less than normal because there was a potential Paula Radcliffe situation. |
| 0:35.7 | However, that's not the reason why I'm bringing this up, Richard. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank God. |
| 0:40.1 | Yes. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm bringing this up because I've noticed a renaissance in the crooklock and the disclock. |
| 0:50.6 | Yes. |
| 0:51.5 | A real renaissance. |
| 0:52.6 | I was driving. |
| 0:53.7 | I was running. That's a great way. I went out for a run this morning in a car. No, I went, I went, right. |
| 0:59.7 | Didn't that happen a few years ago that someone was disqualified from some big marathon or Ironman or something because, then this was sort of for pros or semi-prose she had to admit that she'd done |
| 1:13.2 | part of it in a car. Hang on. This sounds like that sort of part of her defense was oh shit I'm sorry I didn't |
| 1:24.1 | completely forgot that I got into someone's car and they drove me a couple of miles down the course. And did she go, well, hang on a minute, is that a car? I've heard about these things, but I didn't realize that was what you called a car. Yeah, because they've always been described to me, but I thought they sort of looked like brown and had four legs, but now I think I'm really I'm thinking of a horse yes I thought it was a shoe |
| 1:45.6 | just one big shoe and it was classed as walking um here we go the headline says leading ultramarathon |
| 1:52.2 | runner banned for using car I didn't know this but it's just a leading this is from uh 2023 a leading british ultramarathon runner has been banned for 12 months |
| 2:04.6 | by a UK athletics disciplinary panel for using a car during a 50 mile race what the |
| 2:10.3 | then accepting the trophy for third place what yeah so um josiah zakrovsky zakrovowski. I'm so sorry, Polish listeners, I don't know, but I assume that is Polish and I can't pronounce it. Anyway, Josiah, oh God, I don't know. Anyway, she admitted she jumped into her friend's vehicle during the 2023 G.B. Ultras, Manchester and Liverpool race, |
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