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:

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For more info on Neil's gigs:

www.neildelamere.com/gigs

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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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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

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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

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Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

Artwork by Ray McDonnell

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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/

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Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

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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

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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:

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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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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 announcement coming next week. Tune in to Episode 1 to find out what it's all about.

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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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 birth. Is it real? Does it happen? And what exactly are Lesbian Lizards?

We'll be back in February 2023 with Season 3 and a MASSIVE ANNOUNCEMENT too! Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals!

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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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 his own name! If that's not enough, in part 1, Neil tells Dave about the 750-year-old Korean national treasure that war, insects and humidity couldn't destroy. Plus, it still works today! Did we mention Susie Dent is on the show?

Sources:

https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/silk-road-themes/documentary-heritage/printing-woodblocks-tripitaka-koreana-and-miscellaneous

https://whynow.co.uk/read/susie-dents-top-tens-ten-words-to-make-you-smile

https://www.livescience.com/40885-syphilis-origin-mystery.html

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Edited by Cathal Minogue

Music by Dave Moore

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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. Her title is almost as impressive as her knowledge on the subject! Amongst the facts Dave brings us is the tale of the tallest man who ever lived and his absolutely enormous shoes!

We must pause at this point to apologise to any giraffes who listen to the podcast. It seems Neil has been waiting to "go off on one" about you and he does.

Enjoy!

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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