Why Would You Tell Me That?

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 strangest last will and testament ever uncovered and the lengths some people will go to to avoid being buried alive.

Also, that's a wrap for Season 3! Thank you all so much for listening and getting touch. Back in June with Season 4 and that special live episode between now and then!

For more info on Neil's gigs see

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio it's

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Sources

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/people-feared-being-buried-alive-so-much-they-invented-these-special-safety-coffins-180970627/

https://books.google.ie/books?id=iTpa6IH3XHMC&pg=PR5&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Stork_Derby

Presented and produced by Dave Moore and Neil Delamere

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

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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 places you probably don't want to live, including the most densely populated place on earth ever with more than 1,000,000 people per square kilometre! Squidgy!

Kiun's Channel:

https://www.youtube.com/@KiunB

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Presented and produced by Dave Moore and Neil Delamere

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

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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 that wasn't enough, we also uncover why Veronica Broderick's Balkan Donkey makes the world's most expensive cheese!

Buy Dan's amazing book, The Theory Of Everything Else, here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Theory-Everything-Else-Dan-Schreiber/dp/0008518971

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Presented and produced by Dave Moore and Neil Delamere

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 in the UK. As if that wasn't enough, Dave does a King Julien, the fat-tailed Lemur impersonation! Enjoy!

https://edencamp.co.uk/

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Presented and produced by Dave Moore and Neil Delamere

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 contribution was airbrushed out of the story!

As they're in the realms of games, Neil has arranged a special bonus guest to fire out fact bombs for Part 1. That's right, the host of the most iconic UK gameshow of all time, Countdown, joins them. It's the one and only Colin Murray!

Don't forget our live show tickets are going fast! Pick them up here:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Presented and produced by Dave Moore and Neil Delamere

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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!

Follow Ethan here: https://www.tiktok.com/@licenseplatetok or here: https://www.instagram.com/licenseplatetok/

Don't forget our live show tickets are going fast! Pick them up here:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 dressed up like a couch every so often.

For the live podcast recording tickets:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio:

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Sources

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/05/victorian-mothers-hidden-photos-their-babies/611347/

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/dec/02/hidden-mothers-victorian-photography

Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 of Liberty and a woman from Scotland who swam, cycled and ran her way into the Academy Awards!

Don't forget to buy tickets to our live gig on April 3rd in Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin with the inimitable Diarmuid Gavin:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

And read about Cedric Gibbons here:

https://epicchq.com/story/cedric-gibbons-the-irish-american-who-designed-the-oscar/

Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

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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 not want to be named Kevin iif you live n France! Don’t tell us we aren’t spoiling you.

Tickets for the live podcast show are at:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

For more info on Neil's gigs see

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

To listen to Dave on the radio it's

https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808

Sources

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/if-the-shoo-fits-cows-painted-with-zebra-stripes-keep-flies-in-line

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2021/09/30/wilhelm-scream-attack-hollywood-cliches-netflix/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/how-kevins-got-a-bad-rap-in-france

Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 and gets to the bottom of the most famous of all ringtones, that Nokia banger.

If that’s not enough, there's also a

****SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT*****

THEY LADS ARE DOING A LIVE PODCAST RECORDING AT SMOCK ALLEY, DUBLIN APRIL 4th WITH A VERY SPECIAL GUEST

Tickets at:

https://smockalley.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/873634000

Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave Moore

Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.