OTOSOT 23

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

🗓️ 18 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In another round of On The Other Side Of Things, Jonny and Richard answer listeners’ questions about old Jags, mk4 Fiestas, cars that got away, Robbie Williams’s mystery motorcycle and driving unusual vehicles on public roads.

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0:00.0	Yes, I just can't believe it.
0:02.6	This time tomorrow, you could be a millionaire.
0:05.2	Get your Lotto ticket for tonight's draw.
0:07.0	The national lottery.
0:07.8	Rules and procedures apply.
0:08.8	Players must be 18 or over. I'm Richard Porter, I'm Johnny Smith.
0:15.0	And this is on the other side of things, the Smith and Sniff spin-off in which we answer
0:20.0	your questions.
0:30.0	It's Friday, if you listen to this the day it comes out and it's Otter's on the other side of things, our half hour spin-off show in which we answer listeners questions. What should we start with this
0:36.4	week? We had loads. There's one here. Yeah go on then. Go on. There's one here from James Anderson who is in Bristol. So obviously he sent me this
0:46.5	message via Pager. Yes of course. The 90s where he lives. Permanent 90s. He says we have a new shape Volvo X C 60 as a family car and as nice as it is it
0:56.7	just doesn't float my petrol headboat at all I've therefore bitten the bullet
1:02.0	and bought a 2001 Jaguar XJR off car and classic.
1:07.0	Ooh! It's a low owner car with 90,000 miles on it.
1:11.0	The previous owner spent 10,000 pounds on the engine alone in the past 12 months and I
1:16.2	bought it off him for 3,000 pounds. Result? Oh gosh, is a result. My heart full of sorrow for for the previous owner I couldn't sell a car after
1:26.6	spending that kind of money on it is it got into that sort of concord fallacy where they're just a bit like
1:30.0	I just keep spending money on this rather just bailing out and eventually they
1:32.8	snapped out of it and just cut their losses but yeah that's quite a loss
1:36.8	James goes on to say trouble is my wife who initially said a hobby car would be good for me
1:42.0	is disgusted that we now have a behemoth of a quote unquote
1:46.1	granddad car on our drive.
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