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It's the Harry Hill Show. The guest is here Daddy Gary Yes, Dadady? Have you been looking into those Giant eggs in the basement No daddy Right, well, we better welcome our guest Joel Domit. Hi, Joel,. How are you I'm so well, man to see you. It's a pleasure to be. You're aware of Oh Mascot previously had a job at Mascot. Yeah. It's Licky they had a mascot. You're right. Yeahah. H. I know he's yeah, he'll be. So yeah, all right. Okaykay. Thank you Oh Whoa. Nicky, you might want to call HR There is no HR Joel, good to see you. So good to see you, man. Now the last time I saw you Perhaps you'd like to explain You were you were inside Red panda. I was inside a giant furry outfit. Yeah. Slightly on your advice, if I might say, Jo. It was, wasn't it? Yeah. It was We did a gig together ' a small little warm up gig and you had I've been u been offered. Is there any pressure rageous. Dicey, thirty seconds in Nothing like you, Derdies. Nothing like you. I've been Garry on I've been offered I've been've been off I've been offered the your show Yeah And the carrot was dangled. Yeah. the carrot was dangled. and you said, oh, I said no to it th. Yeah. And I said you should you should do it And you said actually what you said, but it's so much fun. I said, It's so much fun. I said You should do. Is it a good check Yes. And you said, I wouldn't do it for that. I'd do it for the fun. Have I right Well actually then I said to James Gill who runs that gig, ABC in Kennington. Hi, James if you're watching. I'm trying to crowbar him in every week And I said, Oh yeah, I was talking to Joel about that mas thinging. I said, you know, they've offered me this amount of money. And he sort of almost fell over and said, What are you doing? Of course you it's like crazy. so anyway, but I did it and Its a it was a very old experience, I've got to say. You're so good Because also what I jjoyed about it was the fact that you you might be the first person we've had on the show who didn't even try to sing. Do you not me, sorry Hello, Mum, ye, no, he started. Yeah, he did an impression. He did an impression on me and then you not What do you mean didn That's the best singing. I had like coaching. they've got this guy Mark there going He's on his keyboard and he's going, yeah, we'll change the key and he's going down and down in the key. What do you mean by that? How dare you? I love the idea that you have it Yeah Someone said, I think M Maya Jama said she thought I was a professional singer. Obviously a professional singer. Yeah at one point And I had the idea that Mark would be doing a full singing session. be waring up. Okay going single like this, Th it like this. Okay. Red Panda Hry Harry, if you could give it a go. idot Okay we'll try up the king. We'll try up the king. No, you were great. You were genuinely brilliant. It was a mad so far. I mean it was a mad it is a mad experience because the team are lovely. completely mad because they really believe in the whole secrecy thing. Yeah. I mean, you're probably not aware of the I mean, the level of the kind of you know, that you have to wear this sort of hoodie and they give you a visor and gloves, you know, like anyone's going to recognize you from your hands. Yeah. You get in the you know they send a calf you and then you you know, ten minutes from the studio you have to put all this stuff on and you're wearing this thing saying no one talk to me. But then what they don't sort of address is the fact that basically the driver knows who it is because you get in the car and all the audience No becausecause inevitably you're unmasked. You're unmasked. And's it's very You have these the hoodies and the helmets that you have to wear. Yeah And and no one talks you, you're hitting in this caravan. Yeah. because you don't know the others. You're not allowed to mix with slooth and conquerers and U, you know, Is that how you pronounce sloth I say slow Well's the trust Yeah. Iiss slow. that it Is that how it Well, I don't know. Practice that scone. Hmm. How did you pronounce it on the Mas singer? We pronounced it Sloth And I'll be honest, didnidn't get many complaints. rightight Okay, but but I'm fully willing to go with sloth now. Yeah. because I it. sllo. Be they are slow. Are they slow? They're slow I think you're m I think what you're doing. because you're confusing What it is with how it sounds. I think you're putting it in. You're doing. is confusing slow with both. where it's more like moth There was a moth. How did you pronounce moth on the moth? That's true because I pronounce moth moth And then, you know, you put the outfit on, so I'm going to carry on with this. So I would put the outfit on and it's like really claustrophbe, you know, you really can't it's like looking down a toilet roll and it's really hot and heavy. And they're saying to me, mark the vocal. So I did the first one, right? And he goes he said, I know how this works. he goes, you know he said, the outfit's really cute. He said, That's a big plus. He said, it's between you and sloth Slooth, I don't know what to say now. It is between you and Slooth? he said. He said, But you've got to move around more Be slhe is wiping the floor with you.ight.. The second time I go in and I'm doing was it bad out of fail? was it something like? out Right and about U twenty seconds in completely exhausted, right? And I'm standing there in this outfit. And I'm thinking to myself, I'm sixty one. I'm an ex doctor dressed as a as a red panda and I'm about to have a heart attack. I'm going to be taken to hospital in this outfit. And that's going be, you know, the final shot is me being sort of stretch it out. And yeah, they'll still keep the secrecy when you're in the hospital. No no, you can take take the bottom up. Don't take the hat off Don't say the hock You, we can't ruin it. Yeah. It can't be an open coffin. He's got to be a closed coffin. clos coffin. They could No one must know. We've got to operate on his heart. We've got to take his clothes off. Take it. Take it. Take it Take it off. Now Joe, we have how do you feel about AI Im enough ' coming it isn't it It's com it's it's happening And you know what? I think u I think it can't replicate this Bant Genuine connection. Oh I see human ye Christistry. you know, This is what we're having right now got now. we we're experiencing right now It can't it can't be replicated. A lot of people say that it uses a lot of water, but Uses a lot of water. Apparently. Yes. Yeah, I heard that. I'm not sure that. Yeah I heard that Thurirstday Yeah, I don't know how that works. Yeah, I don't understand the sort of sm. also also so does, um So to fit the fish? No, rice. Anyway Sarah, come on out. She's going to tell us a little bit. about you Coming out Sarah donon't be shy. say hello to Joel. She's a big fan of the M singer. Hello Yeah. Hi Sarah. I think someone else has been staring into the eggs in the basement U Say hello to Joel Hey Joel, great to meet you. Really enjoy your work, especially hosting of the National TV Awards, following in the proud tradition of Philip Schofield. Well all right, it's now That's a nice gig, isn't it? It's a great gig. Yeah. It's a great gig. It'ss it's a hard gig, you know, you're at the O two in front of, you know, I'd say about four hundred people who could do it better than me Be you've got you look down, you see all the ITV family and all the big stars from the soaps. All the big stars are there.. Have you ever been to the NTAs O dare you Once. I didn't mean it like that. I didn't. I you know, but In the old days, in my heyday, before all this Yeah. Yeah, I went once and it was at the Albert Hall. Yes And it was like the last days of Rome, right? Because on the ground floor in the stalls, you've got all the ITB fam, as I call them, all the soap stars and ye Trevor McDonald. I think Trevor MacDonald hosted it Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he hosted it for thirty years. Yeah, but he can't he kills a joke stoned dead guy He's got no comedy, He hasn't got a funny bone in his body, that guy. good That's what you want. Which is what you don't want a guy to be able to sell a joke whose does the news at t. Do you know what I mean? funny thing happened to me on the way to the National TV Awards.. TB Burp actually, I wanted to do a whole all of those used to do like one or two jokes. he only did it for a few years, didn't he, Burp I wanted to put all these jokes together and do this fake advert for Trevor McDonald The stand up Y, right My TV wouldn't let me use it because he was like a precious he' a precious thing a bit l David Edbur. No, u I went once And like I say, so they're all down in the stalls, but all the public around, right So you know, you know, Sharon Osborne comes out and I was going. But then, you know, I know someone else who they didn't like they're all going Sim M G. Yeah. Yeah. you know, it's like Coliseseum. Yeah. And then I thought, well, I'll leave and I'll just go home So they had these barriers, metal barriers that funneled you to the after show party that you couldn't actually escape. It was like cattle. You know, when you see cattle going to you're madeade to go to the abb And actually by the I jumped over one of the barriers And I was tasered Sted by the head of ITV Anyway. So you want to tell us a little bit about Jo? Here goes. Joel Patrick Domett is an English comedian, television presenter and actor. Early life. Domt was born in Rockhampton, Gloucestershherart as a teenager, he was a member of a new metal band called Cirus, which played five shows. New Metal is an alternative metal sub genenre that emerged in the nineteen nineties, blending heavy metal with hip hop Grunge, fununk, and industrial music, it is characterized by downtun guitars, a focus on rhythm over solos, syncopated rhiffbs, and often rap style vocals. Popularularized by bands like Corn, Limp Biscuit, and Lincoln Park, it addresses angsty, emotional and societal themes He moved to London at the age of nineteen about right Thatis of yeah, absolutely. I could see you was a front man. Yeah. Yeah, you don't put this face on drums. No. Well actually, you know, Angela Barnes says that you're too good looking to be a comedian We had this discussion that on the whole, comedians are not Yeah As good looking as you. she's got this thing about she you know, Andrew's got this sort of complex about being considered ugly R which is actually, you know, very sad, but she manages to own it. And I was saying, well, you know, I look, you know Odd or different We were saying that you were kind of How you how do you do that? Well, the hs Here's the problem is I find you incredibly good looking. And so you I think what's happened here is that you find me incredibly good looking I then because it's all about taste. Yeah. And o I see I find yes I'm attracted to you. Yeah, and I am incredibly attracted to you. What you're saying is there's someone for everyone. There is someone for everyone and this This is This is what I want Okay W now Did Sarah just laugh insside the box? I think Sarah just laugh. So what boxed? Sorry So were you playing an instrument or writing the songs or what were you? I was sort of writing the lyrics I think. We were called Cyrus with a silent P. Andar clearly we didn't know psoriasis was a thing Yeah, Okay. did we did Variety is a good name for a bab. It's a good name. Yeah It's a good name. They would unfortunately would never turn up to their gigs because they're too flaky. It's no's no. Is that a joke? I' got more of a response than I thought it was gonna. Yeah. Yes I'm so sorryes it's the sorry, it's the Dermatology Society on the I don't know. So and what can you remember any of the songs We covered a lot of songs as well. there was a lot of cororn Deaf tones U, that sort of stuff U and we I remember crowd surfing once at a gig where there was only U I think there was seven people there Right. Ts out when you crowd surf with seven people. Yeah. feels quite a lot like your own funeral. What is the minimum? Yeah, what is the minimum? It's I'd say seven, I'd say seven is the minimum really. There must be a gag there. someomeone must do that gag about crowds surfing at a funeral in a coffin It's a good gag, Write that down Sarah, have you got anything else to say about? Career? Before stand up comedy, Domt did some acting such as the roles of Josh and teeenenage ps, Jonathan Hansel in Casualty and Dale in The Golden Hour. Who can view in those characters? Me. That's who. Domt is a member of National Youth Theatre. bit weird, his first stand upp game when you'ng Los Angeational Youth and he has yests per forformed in locations including Reykjavvk. No Rosend and the Netherlands. right. Sounds like the sort of places you only go if you're on the run from prison In two thousand eight He won Best Newcomer Award and was a finalist in stand upp Comedian of the Year. Dometed a recurring role in E four Skins as DC Sweeney and appeared in all six episodes of Popatron. Again, you've lost me. Domet hosted Live in Chelsea, a live discussion show revolving around the events of the popular reality show M in Chelsea. Domet took part in the sixteenth series of I'm a Celebrity. Get me outut of here and finished in second place Losing up to Moffat. On the back of that, Domet released his first book of memoirs. It's not me, it's them. Confessions of a hopeless modern romantic. The book details his romantic encounters with forty women before meeting his wife. Domt Co presented I'm a celebrity. Extra camp on ITV too. The after showhow was axed in January twenty twenty, due to it becoming too expensive to film C be right? Is it too sweaty? Was it too expensive to film? was it still on I'm a celebrity extra camp. Yeah Yeah, it stopped. It us to ac it's a family. Yeah. And then weirdly this just it's just it's a ticket, isn't it? It's just a, you know, business class ticket to Australia Yeah, loved it. It was so fun and then stopped it for three years and then You gotro back because we found out a way of making it cheaper. this is a This is what we all have to do now, isn't it? We've got to find cheaper ways of making stuff. Yeah, yeah. ye. So you did a lot of acting. D stop of acting a bits and bobs. What was the Jonathan Hanseling casualties And that rings a bell with me now I was u I was eighteen when a filmer because I was from Bristol, so you got a chance to audition because you' from when you're a child in Bristol. youll automatically an audition for casualty. Yes O Holby, I suppose. Or Holby. And so I got the part of a boy who crashes a carve with his dad in it Bristolian boy. and so I passed my test and then the first time out crashed a car with my dad and so it's a lot of that joined me to do. It's what my dad. Yeah Let's into the. My dad's in there Game out. My dad's in there. Fike that's in a car. I just passed my test. My dad's in there V's very very convincing. Yeahah.. Would you say better or worse than L Harry Hill and Brresson? I think it's on a par with that. The I always wanted to be on that. You know, I kept saying in interviews that I wanted to be on actually on Holby, but I wanted to be, you know, you know how they would do like an occasional visiting specialist You know it' come down from London or something. And I thought, well, you know, I sort of know the lingo I could just come on and You know, do a bit of, I don't know, have we come we able to look at the x rays cl when they put the Yeah the x rays up and yeah there's some shadowing over the lower lobe. We're going to have to do a bronchoscopy, something like that. butother stuff. They never bit They they never bit like Do you think when you were a doctor and you were saying these things Is that comforting for a patient you know when I was saying it? you feel like if you're like ' you're working on a you know, on a patient. I'm imagining that it's like a meal liver. Yeah with a nice quante and some favour beans. You're messing that up with her collectater. I didn't have that sort of responsibility, Joe, when I was a doctor. I wasn't going like that We're going to have to do a bronchoscopy. I was being told to go and get the x ray or you know go and get the blood test. Where's the blood test results, you know boy I like that. so I was very low down. I once had a job when I was doing Lcans, I had a job at a private hospital Right. So private hospitals there's no accident emergency, so it's all there's nothing much to do at the weekend. And I was at this private hospel just wandering around having tea and biscuits and you know, just like anyway, I walked past a O One of the sort of private rooms in? Oh doctor, the patient said doctor. I said, Yes, I thinkinking' great. I've got something to do. He goes Yes, he said, G I have another pillow I'll get the nurse She's never going to take this. Hello yid? Oh hi, mum. Yeahah You what? You run over on a zepper crossing But they said they didn't see you. a driver. I see you were on your way to a fancy dress party, dressed as a keyboard. Oh I see so I can understand you on the Zebra crossing. They wouldn't. Yeah. But you were knocked down, yes. and you kept it going, right? You kept it going when the paramedic turned up, right press your stomach, you made the sound of a bee bee flat You stayed in character. All right, man'm well a bit Bet it going I've got Joel Domt here. Sarah, have you got anything further to add about Joel? Personal life In twenty twenty, Domet was announced as the presenter of the masked singer, Ha. Dumdums went on that. Didn't you, daddy? Where an you fatbird? The character fatbird? Y remember we all sat aroundound chanting Turn it off, Turn it off, Turn it off, turnurn it off That's it, you're up to date with Jonathan Hanssel. Sorry, I mean Joel Domit It wasn't Oh o, that's for you. Is's that for me? It's a twix, yeah. Thank you so much. Pick it up now. Sarah. You know what? the like a lot of people are scared of Ale And AO. A I sorry, that was my bristol com it out. AR? You are A you are. He's in there How can I my dad. Did it catch fire? said Yeah. Yeah. It was great, man L lot of people with scared of AI. and you know what? it's this show and meeting Sarah has made me feel I'm more excited for the future and less scared of AI because now I can picture AI wearing kickers Well then we've done something good Regency teelevision are proud to present Trevor McDonald live from the Albert Hall. Trevor McDonald. Thank you very much ladies. All are Trevor's greatest gags. A I bered available for the first time on VHS? Watch as Trevor has them rolling in the aisles with fat jokes? The size of this building is absolutely incredible Apparently it was designed originally as a hanger for Bernard Manning. Gdw. incredibly uplifting to see bright young hopefuls struggling to achieve their dreams. E though for some, the best bit is when the judges tell them they're rubbish. And Zeitgeists busting slamd downowns. Oh yeah, sounds like Jonathan Ross has been asked to take a paycup. Ouch. that birts, as well as razesar political saturn. Fish shows have always been very popular especially among politicians Their favorite seems to be the game from Takeour Pig. where they aren't allowed to answer a question with a straight yes or no. And classics like Trevis Shakespeare routine. Iew that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be writing for the soaps. But would even the Bard survive in this most competitive of worlds bit Phil, J not worth it. And verily we've all had a drink. This one off special was filmed in front of a specially invited audience of people who have now been cancelling. With support from Fergy Mountbatten, Windsor, Mountbatten, Windsor. The Duchess of York. Thank you very much, Trevor. It's National Wandnderbra Wek. and she's got a lot to pack in. Jiki, S a McDonned now from the Albert Hall out now. Thank you Thank you very much. Warning. Ple alienate people. Good night Egency television, Princely television in an uncaring world It's time for our theme of the week Venus And we're joined by Professor Chris Lintot, who is the prorofessor astrophysics at Oxford University. Hi Oh yes. Hi, Chris. Yeah. Have you been looking into those giant eggs in the basement? No Okay. So takeake it off Take it off. Sorry. Take it off. It's great! I keep bringing my work home, sorry. It's awful. He. Hello. Helloo Joel Domage. I would just met. pleasant to me, isn' that? Yeah you too. I can see you now, which is howful. Yeah. Vy excitited. Do you watch the mas sing The Mars thing. Masked M I do Yes.'s great. you know probably might be more into the Mars thinginger. The Mars Singer would be great. Sounds really good on Mars. It's really good for bass So because of the different atmosphere. So it's like a heavy rock planet Basically. I know about heavy rock. There you go. really It used to be a heavy rock band there you go. But not on Mars. Not on Mars, I'd love that. I've got so many questions for you. Good. It's so nice to see you two bonding so quick. So were talkking about venus. Yes Chris. So I'm going to start with the usual What is Venus? So Venus is a planet, the next one in towards the suun and us F us second planet in the solar system. And it's sort of Earth sized. so for most of human history, people thought it was Earth like. you know, they thought it was a world that might have rivers and life and so on. We couldn't see the surface because it's got this thick atmosphere that's always cloudy Actually, when we sent space probbes there, it turns out it's a hell hole. It's about four hundred and fifty degrees on the surface. It's got an acidic atmosphere that would dissolve you and pressure that would squash you instantly. So it's basically the worst place for a holiday in the solar system. Right. Yeah. Harry, can I just predict what's about to happen U we then come to you. And you thought we were going to talk about Venus Williams? Let see yeah. That's a better joke. Damn it I'm a terrible booking for that. You should be doing this. No I really You should be sitting here, Joe. Yeah. So it's because you can see it It's one of the ones you can see quite regularly. Yeah. you can see it at the minute in the evening sky in the west and I love telling people to go and look at Venus because it's incredibly easy. it's the bright thing that's in the west at sunset for the next few months. Sometimes it's in the evening skies, sometimes it's the morning skies, so it took a while to work out they were the same thing as it travels around the sun. But from Earth, it's a frustrating planet to study because of this atmosphere. You only ever see the top of the clouds, basically. Right, right. Wow. Are you someone who looks at the planets at all? you Do likes looking at the planets actually. I find's quite nice andm actually like I grew up in a countryside so you could see the planets And you know on all the stars and things now I live close to the London. I missed. Well, Venus is still there. So I like lazy astronomy from the middle of a city. You could still see the bright planets and Venus and nice. If you've got binocolulars as well, you see the phases. So like the moon goes through crescent phase and half phase. Venus does that as well. and that was one of the things that told astronomers that the sun was at the center of the solar system. So that was a really important observation. Does Venus have moons? It doesn't. It's moonless and we don't know why that is. we don't know why the Earth has a moon and Venus doesn't. It has volcanoes. That's its main feature. so it's got a volcanic surface.. And we've recently discovered that the volcanoes are active And we found them because there was a researcher who was bored at work. and every time he was on a Zoom meeting, he pulled up radar images of Venus's surface and compared them. and he found the one place in Venus that had changed between the two images. that theseres are lava flow. I think that we' will do that when we're a little bit bored on the Zoom Yeah comparing pictures. So this guy was able to see the surf. How was he able to He was we've sent probes that have orbited Venus and used radar So we have a sort of map of the surface, but no pictures. The only pictures we've got are from a couple of Russian probes that landed in the seventies, and they each sent out one picture before they melted So they lasted about ten minutes on the surface. I think I saw that on Instagram Is it like that picture and the planet's really like it's got a black surface? Yeah, and they said that rock basicallyple pictures of rocks was all they managed. But we've got radar images now. so we've got a map and we can see these volcanoes. And then the real interest is the atmosphere which is this thick sulfuric acid atmosphere, but a fulfuric acid. Yeah Yeah, so it's not a nice place to live, but a friend of mine, Jane Greves looked at put the atmosphere and found a chemical called phosphene, which on earth is produced by life. in fact, it's produced by penguins And so Jane reckons there might be life in the upper atmosphere of venous bacteria not penguins. Well, it'd nice if there were pengus penguins, wouldn't they there? I think pengins flying around the atmosphere of Venus is a nice thought that penguins can't fly and Sulfuric acid's bad for penuins. So where's all this stuff? So the Is it like was Earth like that? I mean, what I'm getting at is If we wait long enough will Venus then cool down, Sulfuric acid go and just like you know develop? Yeah. we actually think it's the other way aroundound. So we think Venus would have started off Reasonably temperate and a fairly lovely place and then for some reason, the greenhouse effect got out of control and it developed this thick atmosphere. So this could be our future if we really screw up the planet. It's really not mean if? Yeah. Well, we'd have to really screw it up to get to Venus levels. But we know something happened there. so on Earth, we have plate tectonics thing the continents move around on Venus that doesn't happen and we think that maybe the whole thing sort of solidified and then got this runaway atmosphere Maybe four billion years ago, something like that Wow So are you saying that the people on Venus didn't recycle their straws? That's right. Yeah. And this is what happens to you. W if you don't reuse your coffee cup. And how long would it take for a probe to get to? Well, it's just next door, so you can get there in a month or so. We've got sub probes planning to get to Venus. It's quite easy to fall into the inner soul system actually A lot of probes go to Venus on the way to somewhere else. They go in and slingshot around Venus and then head off to wherever you want in the sooul system it's also a sort of service station for the sooul system. It's annoying, isn't it that Venus, the closest one only a month away It's not really worth Well, you certainly wouldn't want to go and stand there. mean, it's interesting scientifically. So people like me are interested in it, but no, it's not a holiday destination. No. So you would so the next one that's worth visiting really is Mars, right? For people. Yeah, Mars is the most eararth like. I mean, it's nowhere near as nice as Antarctica. it's still a horrible place to be But each of these worlds tells us a different story. So the other weird thing about Venus is that it spins really slowly So if you're on Venus, the day is longer than the year In other words, it goes round the sun once little faster than it rotates. Yeah, I thought that might break you. So yeah, I've got a two and a half year old and sometimes it feels like that. Yeah, yeah. ye. I could Surely this day's been a year. It's Unbelievable. Wow, fantastic. I could still see that thought going into your head. It' still sinking in. You're gonna be telling people this in the pub later. it big Be it's so big. No is it going to say slow? We don't know. One We've got a mad idea, which is that maybe something hit it. and slowed it down. But to be honest, that's the kind of thing that planetary scientists say whenever they don't know what's going on How did the mooon form? something hit Earth? How Why is Mars the way it something hit it? So that's guessing, really. So But was it formed before Earth or it was all part of the same? Probably around the same time. So the planets formed just when the suun's young about four and a half billion years ago But we think that early solar system was a bit chaotic. There may have been about twenty things the size of Mars knocking around and a few of them survive to be the planets that we've got today Wow Is that the only one without moons? Mercury doesn't have with moons either. So the two innermost ones don't have moons, so maybe that's a clue. And then there was this nice pattern Earth's got one. Mars has got two They found Galileo found Jupiter had four. So this is pattern, one, twenty, four, but Jupiter turns out to have hundreds of the things. so that ruins that idea. Right. The other fun thing about Venus is the naming system So because it's the planet of love in traditional mythology, the Why is that? just because it's I think' sort of bright and shiny and only there sometimes, maybe. I think the fact it appears and disappears in the evening and morning, you know you can extrapolate from that, but lots of cultures associate it with love U but yeah, I didn't know where that joke was going. Because it's the plabate of love All the features on Venus are named after women except for one big mountain which is named after the physicist James Clark Maxwell So there's Maxwell's Mountain and then it's a planet named for women Like Aphrodite, they're mostly fictional women are these like craters or Yeah well, it's got a few craters, but mostly mountains of volcanoes and highlands. I like there's Ishtar Planatus, which sounds like a disease, but's actually the big highlands in the north of Venus. That's named for a Babylonian love goddess. You were thinking of plantar fasciitis. There you go. Yeah. What And you say it's like a black the two photographs we've got of it,' like a black sort of Yeahort lenser. Partly it was used ago. So it's actually got very much that vibe but at the cheaper rent. So you've got some rocks on a beach. And we don't really know much about the surface because we haven't managed to land there Apart from these two Russian probes which melt pretty quickly. So it's an unexplored planet that we've only been able to see from above. Do you think we will be able to land it, we'll be able to make something that doesn't melt? My favourite idea is there's a French idea for a balloon that surfs around in the atmosphere of Venus and would touch down at various points and then take off again. so to use the atmosphere to explore it, which It's very Belgian though It's got sort of Juleles Ver vibes, I think it' be fun Well plastic, I mean, what do you keep sulfuric acid in I think you can keep it in I don't know. I'm thinking like school labs have it in glass for playing around with it. Maybe it's a glass You can havey. You can have F yeah.. So if you can't get there How do you know about all this sulfuric acid the details of it? Yeah, we can use telescopes from Earth to look at the chemistry of the atmosphere, so mainly radio telescopes, but we also sent a couple of probes that went through the atmosphere and sent back information as they were melting as they went down. So the final scream of these things was to tell us that the atmosphere was acidic So it's the kind of thing. You spend planetary physicists like to spend twenty years building a spacecraft and then have it dissolve quickly in the atmosphere. But while giving us information as it goes. It's kind of like when I do a really bad gig And like I never No, John. don I don't care what they say. I appreciate. Don't believe what they say online You know, I really like it's awful, awful stuff And you you say a joke And for maybe the first time, and when people don't laugh at it And you're like, oh, now no that doesn't work Yeah, yeah. didid that make sense as a matter of? Yeah? Yeah, I mean, have you got a If you got a joke a lot of us have got a joke that we that we have that we thought was really funny, but never got a laugh It's I'd realized recently that I'm not one of those comedians that makes it look easy So do you know what I mean? Because you know there' those comedians that make it look so just easy and like, you know, you like you Kevin Bridges and you like power people, you know And I've realized that when I do a gig Usually about half of the people leave and I can imagine them all going like I might give that a gar ye. I had a joke. Yeah I had a joke, which I keep returning to it never gets a laugh but I think he's really funny. I don't really understand why it doesn't get a laugh. I say, I've got good news and bad news. I said, good news is, my sister had a baby. And they will go, yeay. And I say, But the bad news is, she ate it It doesn't everyveryone' just d What do he saying? sisters it. Yeah. Never mind. All right, well, u Thanks so much for telling us all about Venus go look at it in the night sky. I think everyone should look up, evenven if you live in the middle of London, go look upest in the west at sunset and you'll see Venus sh. Yeah. And actually like you say, all you need is a good pair of binoculars. Ideally. Okay, thanks so much, Chris Thank you great thanks th. Ar see It's time to play, nameame the celebrity seed Celebrity I'm sure you're familiar with the game named the Siege, Joel,? Very familiar. Yes, everyveryone's playing it at home. We've got a celebrity version. Oh You know how they have a celebrity version of, I don't know, a catchphrase or the chase or weakest link. We're following in that line. I have a sealed ziploc bag used to contain a child's poncho That is the most. It contains how many seeds O eight thousand If I'm being rather cursory with these instructions is because I am bored of them In there we have a sealed envelope. And what does he say on that? It says Joel This is Joe Don with one te at the end Actually, there's an eye in there as well. is Domininette. There's a lot going. Let me just going on correct that because that's rather rather unprofessional. Joel Dom with two. No it's all right it's all right. Now what I'm going to do ism in here is a seed Okay, and I just have to be a bit careful. And on that seed is a photograph of a celebrity Well known person, that you have got to name the celebrity.ust get it up there right here, that's right here. You've got to name the celebrity and the c you haven't got to, but I mean, ideally you'd have a go at it Okay, you're happy with those instructions. You' ready. If you're struggling, we do have the magnifying grasp but that will reduce the number of points you'reable to. That's fair, isn't it? I think, it's really fair. Yeah. Okay. let's play nameless celebrity C. Oh. Sorry about that I can't do this one We're on very much on a shoeestring here. Name of the se. there we go. Bom bom Bom bom. We should have done a new metal version of this really Okay. You should be looking at it. Oh my God How tall are you, Joolie we'll go back down Yeah, ye yeah that's Oh There's a couple of points it catches, I'm not quite sure. Name the se you name this it's really tough Look at that gonna. Oh good. We do have this option th Oh I don't want it. I don't want it Is Britney Spears? Is it Britney Spears? Is it Spears on a cheer? Final answer. Spears on a chair. S pretty chears That That is more clever. than we deserve. That's clerer than we deserve. I think it's Britney Spears on a cheer. You're saying Britney Spears on a cheer seed Oh No! It's not can I? Yes. Can I? Yes. You can try to upgrade It the whole thing g up. It's not b. It is a woman, a blonde haired woman, you're quite right s up passasses So competitive, isn't it? so competitive is' it want to be L this blonde haired lady And she's kind of got dark roots Well, that would that's a for you to say, not for me to say. Dark roots. And it feels like Dark rooted blonde haired lady I on uh on a What's bigger than a cheer Yeah It's bigger than it's here. Seed. I I mean a probably' smaller, isn't it? I don't you know, I don't this stuff is, you know, we buy this stuff in I don't know anything about We buy the premade cassetes. Every all know who that is though. Well, of course, everyone does byy now. It really good. Yeah We've never had it built up so much. F a pitch. It is Oh, it's my wife. It's my wife. It's my why On an onion seed? On an onion seed. Oh. And there was layers to both. Yes. What is your wife's name Is Hanakper? Hannahooper. Hanna Cper Domit. Wow, that is amazing. I thought it was Brittney Spears. That is amazing. That was nameame the celebrity seed Dart roots you say Celebrities. Dark roots though. Dark roots It's that dark Res. Gary's Joke Corner.imive for Gary's Joke Corner. Now Gary is taking over from me in twenty thirty. I'm retiring. and of course he needs Jokes Joel Yes Do you have a joke for My my friend Gary, my son Gary This's my favorite joke. When I was young. Oh. And it's quite simple actually. It's quite simple. Great, great. Yes. Simple's good What is What is blue and smells of red paint. What's sm of the smells of red paint? yeah a whale that is head is In remove. Of course not. I don't know. I don't know. what is blue but smell as of red paint. Blue paint Mots of red paint, yeah I just think it's great. It's clever. It's subversive. It's clever and it's subversive, subverse the form. Yeah Exactly. And for a children's joke, It sort of quite picks apart the form. Yeah M know, it's clever.. But I'm not sure it'. Gary, have you've got a joke for us? Yes I have that don me that noise Gary limits your appeal Hey Daddy, I saw an news night presenter in the pub. Really G? Yes. Last night as a matter of fact. Yes she was all on her own and no one was talking to her. Mateless? No Kotsberurg. ' good Well, that's the sound that tells me we've come to the end of our podScuff. So all the remains is to thank our expert Chris Lints and of course our special guest Joel Dumit Butterfly in blue jeans, Hmster in a chiffont top, Puppy in a poncho Fluffy duckling with a ball. Butterfly in blue jeans. These are the things of our dreams dreams ourream These are the things. Good night everyone. Thankks for watching. See you next time of our dreams I believe Deb Breda wouldn't wear this. I can't believe it either. yeah. Yeah G Gy! Gary, what's what's Kry? Wh Swy It's the H Hill show

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