Career

Smeets also has a weekly radio show, Foreign the Record, on 2, two hours of rarely played music Smeets has received a fair amount of criticism from viewers, especially through social media. People watching the 2012 Tour de France shows, for instance, marked off Smeets-cliches on a Smeets Bingo card, and an anti-Smeets Facebook page ("Mart Auf Wiedersehen Smeets") was joined by 40,000 people.

Also popular was an online Smeets cliche generator.