Why Would You Tell Me That?

Neuroscientist by day, TV quizzer by night, this week’s episode sees Daragh ’The Menace’ Ennis from ITV’s the Chase drops some quality Nobel prize knowledge. The study of one animal has led to more Nobel prizes than any other apparently. Rathcoole’s finest explains all. And as a little trivia aperitif Neil fills Dave in on the oldest company in the world and the most macabre ant in the world. &nbs...

Did we always sleep the way we do now? Is Dave’s ability to sleep anywhere a talent or the sign of a man addled by life? On this week’s pod Jill Zwarensteyn, Editor for Sleep Advisor and a Certified Sleep Science Coach explains the history of sleep and how that most fundamental aspect of our daily cycle has changed. Part 1 sees Dave’s whistle-stop tour of the nocturnal habits of certain animals. *...

On this weeks episode, comedian Nic Sampson joins the lads to delve into the topic of his award winning show, Marathon 1904. May we present the Olympic marathon when only 14 people finished and some had be poisoned? Sure, where else would you get it? And we know you’ve waited long enough. Did Neil and Dave get the new word into Irish? We have an update!     Presented and Produced by Neil...

In this week's episode, Dave wants to tell us about the world's greatest ever heist, how one man pulled it off and moved an entire industry to the other side of the world! Along the way, we'll also learn how Formula 1 is helping to make the planet greener and we'll do that with the help of the effortlessly brilliant, Dr. Kit Chapman. Kit has written an incredible book, linked below, called Racing...

How does a word get into a language? We don't mean English, where it seems to just get absorbed like booze into your bloodstream (see last week's podcast). What about French, or Scots Gallic or Irish?  On this week's episode the lads are joined by Donncha Ó Cróinín, Chief Terminologist at Foras Na Gaeilge ,to explain the process by which a word gets into Irish. Who decides? How...

Welcome back! This is Season 4 of Why Would You Tell Me That?! If you're new to the show, you can go back and check out all the previous episodes. There are 39 to choose from! In this week's Season Opener, Dave has brought a celebrity to us from the other side of the world. Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki is an Australian doctor, physicist, engineer, radio host, TikTok star and, most importantly, an amazing...

It's time for our bonus live episode with Diarmuid Gavin from April 2023! Before the launch of season 4, we present a bonus live episode! Recorded in the lovely surrounds of Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin, the lads chat to everyone’s favourite plant botherer, Diarmuid Gavin. Of course, because it’s WWYTMT, Diarmuid doesn’t expound on his favourite plant but details the story of the Irishman who cha...

Sick of being sad at the departure of a loved one? Ever want to get married at a funeral? Feel like manipulating a corpse like a marionette? Join the lads this week as they chat to Margaret Bonass Madden to find out about the games that Irish people played, and in some places still play, during wakes. Think Weekend At Bernie's meets Angela's Ashes. And as a bonus in part 1 Neil explains the s...

This week, you'll need to wrap up to listen to the tales that YouTuber, Kiun B, tells us! She's from Yakutsk in Sakha, the largest AND COLDEST republic in Russia. Temperatures regularly reach -70 degrees and that leads to a whole different way of life. Buildings on stilts, cars running all winter long and an Italian on a bicycle! Her stories are incredible. In Part 1, Dave tells us all about place...

Dan Schreiber is what is known as a "QI Elf". He is one of the people who researches and comes up with the facts for this incredible BBC Quiz Show. He's also part of one of our favourite podcasts, No Such Thing As A Fish. This man has facts for days but the one he wants us to learn about today is that those very smart people who win Nobel Prizes sometimes become very not nice people at all! As if...

This episode is WILD! Literally. Dave wants to tell us all about a wild bear who joined the Polish Army and rose up the ranks tp become a corporal! He drank beer, caught a spy in the showers and even fought on the front line! You have to hear this story and Dave has managed to source an incredible expert in Summer O'Brien, the Collections and Engagement Manager of Eden Camp Modern History Museum i...

It doesn't matter if you're the car, the top hat or the dog, Monopoly told you porkies! I know, right?!? This week the lads chat to Mary Pilon, journalist with The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and author of "The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favourite Board Game". It turns out we need to know about who really invented Monopoly and why her contr...

In this week's episode, Dave enlists the help of some TikTok royalty to explain why James Bond ended up designing car license plates with a cat on them! Ethan the License Plate Guy joins the lads to explain all about the world of collectible and valuable license plates! We also learn about the $100,000,000 Volvo (this is not a typo) and why horse have got a blood feud against Dave and his family!...

Arise, Sir Dave and Sir Neil! This week, with the help of their best named expert so far, historian Turtle Bunbury, the lads look at the toughest, wealthiest warrior monks of all time, the Knights Templar. Polish that armour, sharpen that lance and see why the Templars basically operated a 900-year-old ATM. If that's not enough, part one sees Neil explain why your great granny might have dres...

In this week's episode, Dave wants to tell Neil about The Oscars. Not The Oscars in 2023 but The Oscars in general and how an irishman is key to it all. With the help of the Historian in Residence at EPIC, Catherine Healy, we learn about Cedric Gibbons, the man with 39 Oscar nominations, 11 wins and the fact that he designed the Oscars statuette. We also encounter a man twice as tall as the Statue...

magine your front door. Can you see it in your mind’s eye? Well some people can’t visualize in this way. The medical term for this is ‘aphantasia” and this week Neil and Dave talk to cognitive neurologist Professor Adam Zeman who not only studies the condition but also coined the term. Combine this part 2 with a part 1 in which you learn why you’d paint a cow to look like a zebra and why you might...

It’s Season 3, baaaaby! It turns out a man both Neil and Dave worked with on the radio is not only a rock star but he also voiced the members of a paramilitary organisation, namely the Irish Republican Army. Find out who, when and how all this came to pass by listening to this episode. While we are on all things audio, in part 1 Dave explains which animal the Netflix “tadum” sound now sadly lacks...

SEASON 3, HERE WE COME! We have so many new amazing stories to share with you. How would a 900-year-old ATM work? Did you know that a rockstar voiced the IRA? Why did a bear end up a corporal in the Polish army?!? These and so many more stories for you to digest in Season 3 of Why Would You Tell Me That?! with Neil Delamere and Dave Moore. PLUS - SUPER BONUS EXTRA GOODNESS! We have a massive annou...

The final episode of Season 2 is here and it's a festive feast! Dave takes us through Christmas traditions around the world including the man who missed the birth of Christ cos he needed a poo. There's also rollerblading. And more poo. Anyway, in Part 2, Dave has brought back Evolutionary Biologist, Simon Watt (he of Myers Suriname Toad fame) to discuss that most Christmas of miracles, the virgin...

Well, they said it would never happen. and by "they" we mean "Dave Moore". But "they" were wrong. Queen of Dictionary Corner on Countdown, Susie Dent, is the guest on this week's podcast and she is brilliant. Susie explains the rules of English that we know but we don't even know we know, the origin of the word "syphilis", why we say Zig Zag and not Zag Zig and why Shakespeare couldn't even spell...

We've learned that Dave can get quite obsessed. Sneakers, guitars, Coco Pops, things get added almost weekly. We can now include height on the list and that is why he has secured the talents of Dr. Eirini Marouli, the Associate Professor in Computational Biology at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London to tell us whether we're as tall now as we're ever gonna be. He...

Live Episode Alert!!! WHY WE GET HUNGRY Neil and Dave are delighted, not only to be recording a podcast in the same room for the first time, but also to be joined by an audience of enthusiastic Why Would You Tell Me That!? listeners in the Viking Theatre, Dublin. To celebrate Science Week, the lads have done their first live podcast and who better to invite along than the brilliant Dr Lara Dungan,...

When Neil heard someone say that selective cattle breeding in the 18th Century affected Argentinian football, he just knew this was an episode waiting to happen. The fact that the person who uttered those words was one of the best sports journalists around made it even more important to pursue. Enter Jonathan Wilson, Guardian journalist, author and football expert. He explains to the lads how sele...

In this week's episode, Dave explains how Richard Branson did everything right with Virgin Cola but still failed to break into a market worth FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! Strategy Director at Eximo Marketing, Andi Jarvis, details the incredible lengths Coca Cola went to to make sure Branson experienced his biggest commercial failure ever. A massive shout out to Ernie Smith, whose article inspired...

Remember the map of the world on the wall at school? Well, it was wrong. In fact, probably every map you've ever seen is wrong. In this episode, BBC presenter, geographer and author, Nicholas Crane, gives the lads the lowdown on the map that changed the world. Neil also tells Dave about the statue that has more 1000 outfits and reveals the things you might see when you're out walkin...