Ye olde Ford fayre
Smith and Sniff
Jonny Smith and Richard Porter
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jonny and Richard wonder why Lionel Richie keeps turning up to a medieval Ford festival, even though they've asked him not to.
Also in this croaky and hungover episode, meeting Meat Loaf, describing The One Show, making synthesised handclaps, doing bad boxing and drinking a Baldwin of whiskey.
Plus, sports people with accidental interview VTEC, Jonny's daughter in a Berlingo sliding door disaster, a listener has a nightmare with a Chrysler Voyager and some monkeys, the surprising wealth of the MG owners' club, and remembering the Ford Explorer North Face edition.
Finally, Jonny has an update on his Late Brake Show cardening adventure with the old Porsches and Richard spills the beans on what really happened when he took part in a rallycross race for the most recent episode of The Grand Tour.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Richard Porter and I'm Johnny Smith. This is Smith and Sniff, a podcast in which two |
| 0:06.2 | friends talk about cars and many other things. In actual person. Hello. Hi everybody, I'm |
| 0:15.0 | going to start this by saying I'm going to hit the highway like a battering ram on a silver |
| 0:19.8 | black phantom bike. Well, because I woke up this morning, as you know, with a hangover, |
| 0:28.0 | to the news that meatloaf has died. What? Meatloaf has just died. I didn't know that. |
| 0:34.3 | Yeah, I know it's really sad. Yeah, I know. So 74. Oh, and of course, it's on the BBC news. I don't |
| 0:41.4 | normally watch the news, but I was so hungover and I needed to distract myself from feeling |
| 0:46.2 | ropey. All right, so that I put the news on. Yeah, go with us. What a way to find out for me. |
| 0:51.5 | Yeah. Maybe I presume that people listening to this may have heard the news. It's for |
| 0:54.8 | context. It's Friday morning. It's the morning after the glittering walk car awards. What car? |
| 1:00.3 | What car? With a question mark. And Johnny and I are in a hotel room in swinging central London. |
| 1:06.7 | And I didn't know about meatloaf. I met meatloaf once. What? Well, in car. What? What? |
| 1:15.7 | What? Yeah, well, when I was working on top gear, our office was above the one show office |
| 1:24.7 | that was also their studio. And sometimes if all the dressing rooms next to their studio, |
| 1:33.1 | since office were being used, they would put celebrity guests into this meeting room. |
| 1:41.6 | Hang on, you can't say meeting room when you talk about meatloaf. Yeah, it's too when you use |
| 1:45.2 | the meat room. There was this room that could be used as a dressing room. But to get to the lifts |
| 1:54.0 | from this room, you had to walk to the top gear office because it was on our floor. |
| 1:58.0 | And I was working late. I was the last person in the office. The one show was on. And |
| 2:05.2 | foreign people need to know that the one show is the most sort of like mild vanilla flavor. |
| 2:09.8 | Oh my gosh, television show. It's just like a gentle breeze blowing across the television. |
| 2:14.3 | Oh, it sort of isn't, because it's sort of, and they they always have a watery comma of a |
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