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 MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork 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/873634000For more info on Neil's gigs:www.neildelamere.com/gigsTo listen to Dave on the radio:https://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808Sourceshttps://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-photographyPresented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork 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/873634000And 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 MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 seewww.neildelamere.com/gigs To listen to Dave on the radio it'shttps://www.todayfm.com/shows/dermot-dave-234808  Sourceshttps://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 MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork 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/873634000Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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-miscellaneoushttps://whynow.co.uk/read/susie-dents-top-tens-ten-words-to-make-you-smilehttps://www.livescience.com/40885-syphilis-origin-mystery.htmlPresented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Live Episode Alert!!!WHY WE GET HUNGRYNeil 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, who gently walks the lads through ghrelin, the “hunger hormone”.Why do we get hungry? When? Is ‘hanger’ real? Why does Dave get unnaturally excited by Coco Pops? Is white chocolate real chocolate? *All will be revealed.In association with Science Foundation Ireland *Clearly not, you utter lunatics!  Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 selective cattle breeding and a bull named Tarquin created Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi!Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-18925633https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/detour-antarctica-the-white-continents-secret-baby-race/UGTNMCVNIBTN7YU7QKDD7PNUB4/Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 this episode:https://shortformernie.medium.com/virgin-cola-richard-branson-marketing-failure-8a470ced7815Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 walking your weasel.**This is not a euphemism Sources:https://www.mannekenpis.brussels/en/https://www.wired.com/2009/03/ff-diamonds-2/Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is gory! In fact, the lads are joined by Erika Engelhaupt, the author of an amazing book called Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science. She has been drafted in by Dave to explain the science behind the mystery of why feet have been washing ashore in Vancouver for decades! She'll also answer the question, "Would your dog eat you if you died?" And Dave will explain why it rains fish, frogs and, once, some creamy white goo in 1969.Get Erika's book here:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gory-Details-Adventures-Dark-Science/dp/1426220979Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What would you do if you saw that happen? Well, that might depend on what group you're in. You see, you're in groups, some you know about and some you don't!To decipher all of this, the lads chat to behavioural economist, Professor Pete Lunn, a man with more degrees than you can shake a stick at (Philosophy & Psychology, Neuroscience and Economics) about how we end up in the groups we do and how that identity might affect your actions.Neil also tells Dave about the man who had to perform surgery on himself. It went better that you probably expect.Sources:https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32481442.ampPresented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

in this week's episode, Dave employs Sarah McAnulty, Ph. D, to answer the age-old question, why would you get a squid drunk? The lads compete to see who has the best swimming with sharks story and just what is the difference between tentacles and arms. Answer: you wear your watch on your left tentacle!Presented & Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yeah, sure, lots of us go to the beach to get a tan but what if the tan was less "St. Tropez" and more "Readybrek glow"?Neil has persuaded Dr Jamie Gallagher, a brilliant science communicator and expert in the Periodic Table to tell us the story of the UK's only radioactive beach.If that wasn't enough the lads then delve into exactly which element was used as a "family laxative" and and ask the question "is that as bad as it sounds?"SPOILER ALERT: IT IS. Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/21/stonehenge-under-the-hammer-stones-sold-100-years-ago-for-6600https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2016/07/31/jfk-scrimshaw/Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Dave explores on-set disasters from the movies you know and love, including tyrannical directors and wild animal attacks. Neil tells a tale of a Japanese toilet in Thailand and you'll never be the same again. In Part 2, Hollywood casting agent, Aly Horn, backs up Dave's claim that a weird, 2004 indie comedy broke Netflix.Movie Clips sourced from:Napoleon Dynamite (2004 Fox Searchlight Pictures)Roar (1981 Film Consortium)Presented & Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A podcast of two halves this week. Part 1 sees Neil explain to Dave just how the blood of a crab saved him from the effects of Covid 19! It's not even in as roundabout a way as you'd think.In part 2, the lads meet barrister and Indigenous Rights activist, Maui Solomon. Maui was the chief negotiator for the Moriori Treaty Settlement and he explains how the Moriori people's pacifist society of the Chatham Islands was almost wiped out forever in the 19th century and how history had to be corrected to reflect what really happened.  Sources:https://www.businessinsider.com/why-horseshoe-crab-blood-expensive-2018-8?r=US&IR=T Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week's episode, Dave tells Neil about the ultimate and unusual business success stories, including that time 40,000 people were sacked and were probably happy about it! In Part 2, the lads are joined by Sports Business guru, Joe Pompliano, to discuss the iconic brand that was 5 weeks from ruin before a man called Tinker saved the day. Enjoy!Presented & Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are back! Season 2 starts with a bang! Neil reckons there's an animal that can defy ageing. It's the only mammal that can truly fly and it also doesn't get cancer. The lads chat to zoologist and geneticist, Emma Teeling, about the remarkable world of bats; how they make tequila and, more importantly, why they don't get old. In a terrifying discovery, Dave reveals the outsized body part he shares with some of these creatures of the night.Presented and Produced Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate House of the Dragon streaming on NOW, the lads are bringing you a special one-off episode. They chat to economist and author Peter Antonioni, from University College London, to see just what Westeros gets right economically and just what it might lack. Spoiler alert! More banks, less knowledge-hoarding, Maesters!Neil also explains what Matt Smith (Damon Targaryen) might be doing now if he wasn’t acting and they spend waaaaay too long answering that age old question - can dragons really fly?Enjoy! Sources:http://www.edgeofexistence.org/species/chinese-alligator/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-myth-of-the-komodo-dragons-dirty-mouthhttps://thewire.in/science/could-dragons-on-westeros-fly-aeronautical-engineering-and-math-say-they-could Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've reached the end of Season 1 (or Series 1, as Neil likes to call it) and we are so grateful to you all for listening. Season/Series 2 will be with you in the autumn and we are so excited about the incredible stories we're going to share with you then.This week, Dave is trying to terrify us all by asking Dr. Amy Mainzer, the science advisor on Netflix's Don't Look Up and one of the world's leading scientists in asteroid detection and planetary defense, what in space will kill us and when! The good news is that we should survive long enough to see Neil's appearance on Celebrity Mastermind so PHEW!We'll also learn why Neil will never be a fighter pilot, the fastest thing humans have ever created and what exactly space smells like.Enjoy, thanks for listening and we'll be back soon!Neil & DavePresented & Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the lads meet Professor Siobhan Matteson, who works with the Mosuo people of Yunnan Province, China.In their matrilineal society, the resources are passed down the maternal line and they traditionally had no institutionalized form of marriage.Turns out this might be a whole lot better for everyone's health.There's also the small matter of Dave having meltdown and calling out a physicist for a fight in a car park.Enjoy!Sources:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/nov/03/the-future-of-the-kilo-a-weighty-matter-international-prototyp-kilogram-paris-kibble-balancehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-made-materials-now-weigh-more-all-life-earth-combined-180976522/ Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave is bringing his A Game this week. He reckons this topic is the reason we have this podcast at all! He'd better deliver...Aaaand, annoyingly, he does. Well, not him but his expert, Gillen Darcy Wood, a hugely qualified man who has literally written the book on Mount Tambora and its huge effects on our planet and its people. Neil does get rather worried about humanity's imminent doom from a volcanic event but is also mildly distracted by a new space movie franchise and Elton John's Mexican food truck. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's Tulipmania baby! "What's that?", we hear you ask. The Bloom Festival-Wrestlemania crossover we were all hoping for? Unfortunately, nope. But it's probably even more interesting! Neil has persuaded economist, broadcaster and author David McWilliams into talking us through the tulip bulb mania that swept across 17th century Holland, a time when one bulb could cost 20 times the wage of a skilled worker!If that's not enough we also get an update on Dave's World Record and Neil explains how your dog's face is manipulating you.Don't say we don't spoilt you.Episode Source:https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51311368 Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's episode, Dave talks pollution. Air, light, noise and some unusual complaints about Dublin Airport! The lads also discover a moth who drinks tears. Sleep well now, everybody! Kamala Thiagarajan is a New York Times, Guardian and BBC journalist who explains how New Delhi, the most polluted capital city on earth, is improving its air quality with the innovative use of fungi.Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil is talking all things cheating this week, covering everything from the musketeer electrician who tried to cheat his way to Olympic gold to how Rudolph gets the shift, the sneaky f**ker! The lads are joined by immunologist and doctor of medicine, Dr Lara Dungan, to talk them the through the ins and outs of the most performance-enhancing drug of them all, CONFIDENCE!No, sorry. Not, confidence. EPO. Or Erythropoietin, If you're a doctor. Which Lara is. And the lads are not. Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Nasdaq for sneakers (shouldn't that be Foot-SE?) is the topic of this episode. The lads reveal your next investment opportunity and Neil is back on UK TV with an appearance on Celebrity Pointless! It does not go as planned! This week, Dave's finally gets to immerse us in the world of sneakers and what a world it is! Just how many pairs of shoes does one man need?!? The lads are joined by Sneaker culture royalty! Josh Luber is the co-founder of Stock X, the Stock Exchange for Sneakers, and chief vision officer of Fanatics Playing Cards. How did he turn his love for data and sneakers into a billion dollar company, why did he leave it and just which piece of cardboard with someone's face on it did he recently buy for $55,000?!?Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnellPart of the Acast Creator Network Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s Neil’s turn to bring the facts, assuming he calms down after being on Countdown this week. The lads are joined by Dr Andrew Mackillop. Senior Lecturer in Scottish History from the University of Glasgow, to talk through the Darien Scheme, Scotland’s attempted colony in Panama that went as well as you might guess. Oh, and Dictator Dave tells us just how he’d run “Daveland”, his own fantasy nation!Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dave's got some questions for Neil and for us all: How tall is a trillion dollars? Who invested in Leonardo the Musical? How do you become the richest nation on earth? You know, pretty basic Dave stuff. Chief Economist with DNB, Kjersti Haugland, is here to reveal Norway's secrets to financial success!Presented & Produced by Neil Delamere & Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Neil is back in the hot seat and he has frog facts to share. Frozen ones, see-through ones and pregnancy test ones too! Evolutionary biologist Simon Watt is here to tell us all about a toad that out-weirds all of Neil's favourites. Also, you may not sleep again after you hear about Wolverine Frog.Presented and Produced by Neil Delamere and Dave MooreEdited by Cathal MinogueMusic by Dave MooreArtwork by Ray McDonnell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.