Smith and Sniff

Glasgow: The return

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In 2024 we put on a live show in Glasgow and it was one of our favourites to date. Great venue, great audience, only one slightly offensive impersonation of Jackie Stewart in front o...

OTLOT goes back to the 90s

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Before we tell the rest of the world we wanted to let you, our excellent Patrons, know about our next live show. And it's a return to Britain's most 90s city, Bristol.

We ha...

Our next live show

After a summer of fun at Goodwood, Festival of the Unexceptional and PistonHeads' Annual Service, we're lurching towards winter with more On That Live Of Things shows, starting next month at Great ...

Podcast 344 - OTOSOT 67

In their Friday Q&A spin-off, Jonny and Richard answer questions about confusing other road users, phrases you can’t help saying while driving, albums that suit certain cars, a car project di...

Flute solo

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We're hoping to announce some new Smith and Sniff live show dates very soon but in the meantime if you'd like to hear just one of us talking bobbins on stage, I'm doing a on...

We're back in leeeafy London

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We come bearing news of our next live show (after the Morgan event this coming Wednesday). Yes, we're returning to leafy, leafy London and the splendid London Concours at the Honoura...

Our next live show

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As mentioned last week, we're going back to the scene of our very first On That Live Of Things; the Morgan Experience Centre in Malvern, Worcestershire, for a live show on Wednesday ...

(Not) show notes 277

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There didn’t seem to be much to illustrate this week since we were too useless to take pics of the cars we saw on the street, and there was nothing much to link to unless you reall...

Show notes 270

Hello again. In pictures this week, we start with a book cover depicting Compton Pauncefoot, the place not the made-up person. Then we have some Dacia Springs, Richard’s experiment with Spring tr...

Guys, guys, guys, we're LIVE, LIVE, LIVE

EDIT: Sorry everyone, minor glitch, all tickets should be on sale now. 

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Well, it’s been a while since we’ve recorded a podcast or two in front of ...

Show notes 222

This week in pics, we lead with C63 shenanigans at a Le Mans campsite and how that ended. Pics courtesy of listener (and pit lane heckler) James Proudfoot. Then we have Freddie Mercury making his l...

Where are this week's podcast and show notes?

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If you were expecting the latest podcast and accompanying show notes last night and nothing has shown up that’s probably because you’re still on the old Spowahtaaaaaah tier whi...

Show notes 209

Hello and welcome to the late-running show notes for the latest podcast. Let’s not get bogged down in why they’re late when frankly it’s just a load of pics of the Eagle limo and then a brief...

Podcast 209 - Live from the limo

Jonny and Richard have collected the Eagle and are sitting in it as they speak. Also in this episode, washing horses, the campaign to get rid of beards, doing work experience with the Red Arrows, m...

Show notes 208

Right then, what’s going on in the show notes this week? Well, in pictures we start with a slightly sweaty and over-excited Richard (and a Blue Steel-faced Jason Barlow) posing with Pet Shop Boys...

Podcast 208 - Talking cars with Pet Shop Boys

Richard has met his musical heroes and learnt some surprising things. Also in this episode, Jonny’s JDM nail care kit, Kate Beckinsale’s barn finds, the world’s most ridiculous man, a listene...

Show notes 207

Hello again. And what do we have in the show notes this week? Well, in pictures we start with the VW California borrowed by Jonny followed by the man himself cooking inside it and the small window ...

Podcast 207 - The Eagle has Quested

As Patrons already know, Jonny and Richard have finally bought an official podcast car. Also in this episode, parts gloating, a few nights in a California, wanting an ‘80s motorhome, annoying cha...

Some news about Smith and Sniff

Guys, hey, guys, look. Here’s the deal;

There are changes coming to Smith and Sniff. The first is that, from 1 May, the minimum donation to this Patreon is going up to £2.49 a month. Blame...

Show notes 206

In pics this week we start with three flutes and a chaotic hotel room recording set-up followed by proof that Greg had his shoes on Richard’s bed. Then we have a very Smith and Sniff car spotted ...

Podcast 206 - Smith and Sniff and Greg

In a late night and quite boozy recording, Jonny and Richard are in a hotel room near Goodwood and joined by Greg James out of the Radio 1 breakfast show. Topics covered including driving to the Me...

Show notes 205

Hello again and welcome to the show notes, on time again this week. Phew. In pics for this show we start, for no real reason, with just some of the Suzuki X90s spotted by Jonny while doing the Land...

Podcast 205 - Mustang country

Jonny and Richard invent a new sub-genre of music. Also in this episode, Beyonce and a self-parking Lexus, topics only covered in country songs, annoying bings and beeps, more about touch screens f...

Show notes 204

Hello again, and welcome to the late-running show notes for the latest podcast. In pictures this week, we start of course with a Bova Futura coach. Small child balled up like a hedgehog, not pictur...

Podcast 204 - Massive turbos, terrible screens, and falling out of a moving coach

Jonny and Richard canter through some excellent messages from listeners. Also in this episode, comedy tyre names, collapsed Discovery spotting with Chris Harris, more fixation about an Eagle Quest ...

Show notes 203

We start this week with a Porsche 944 Cargo by DP Motorsport, as not owned by Jonny apart from in his dreams. That’s followed by a rival 944 shooting brake but the company Richard was thinking of...

Podcast 203 - The Malbec mechanic

Jonny and Richard come up with a new idea for a late night YouTube channel. Also in this episode, Jonny is annoyed to find his Porsche 944 shooting break is just a dream, a Boxster estate from the ...

Show notes 202

Guys, guys, guys. Welcome to this week’s show notes. In pics, we start of course with a lorry from Bumble Hole Foods. Then we have Jonny’s Lemsip and loo roll recording set-up, the picture from...

Podcast 202 - Liquid egg

A sighting of a funny company name on a lorry sends Jonny and Richard down a food industry rabbit hole. Also in this episode, stage 3 Lemsip, a dull story about a broken train, short journeys kill ...

Patreon preview - new ending music

Hello gang. Richard here with a bit of Friday nonsense. I thought we needed some new ending music for the podcast and that, for no real reason, it should be a sort of medium-paced ballad-style song...