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Why Would You Tell Me That?

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Why Would You Tell Me That?

A weekly Comedy, Science and Society podcast featuring Dave Moore and Neil Delamere
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Why Would You Tell Me That?

DZM Media Services

Why Would You Tell Me That?

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Why Would You Tell Me That?

DZM Media Services

Why Would You Tell Me That?

A weekly Comedy, Science and Society podcast featuring Dave Moore and Neil Delamere
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What a way to end the season! This week the lads catch up with the head elf from the BBC's brilliant QI TV show, James Harkin. Here is a man who brings the trivia in a ridiculously impressive way. He's got facts and he knows how to use them. In
Why would you travel to the other side of the world to play football in a rainy toad habitat? This is what Paul Watson, journalist, author and football enthusiast, found himself having to answer when he ended up in Pohnpei, a Micronesian island
Menswear writer Derek Guy joins the lads on this week’s episode to explain why a monarch across the water might just have effected what you wear.Can his tips ensure the Neil and Dave are invited to the next Met Gala? One can only hope.Part 1 se
The fact that sharks have no bones is mind blowing. The fact that this fact is merely one of about 20 mind-blowing shark facts on this week’s podcast is even more mind blowing! All of these facts (and something terrible about shark reproduction
Ohh this one is a cracker. Professor of Biochemistry Luke O’Neill walks the lads through the history of the brain. He covers everything from electrocuting dead frogs to accidentally firing a rod through your noggin and all the discoveries these
In this week’s episode, Dave has recruited actor, writer, space nerd and author of the brilliant Spaced Out - A Casual Approach to the Cosmos, Kalpana Pot, to frighten all of us! So many things in space want to kill us that it’s a wonder we’re
This week the lads are joined by the magnificent Dr. Kit Chapman to explain the weird and wonderful ways animals were used during WW2.In part 1 Neil walks Dave through the story of the Texan town that changed its name to get free TV. But both o
In this week’s episode, we are in the world of noises. Certain noises can be so annoying that some people feel the need to harm the noise maker! Maybe, though, it’s not your fault. Maybe you suffer from something called Misophonia. Author of “S
This week the lads are joined by historian and comedian (not necessarily in that order) Dr Ciaran Barlett to talk about Roman triumphs. Not every podcast covering history will cover which historian was, as Ciaran puts it, “a rat bastard” but th
And just like that, we’re back! Season 6 is here!Kicking things off with a very WWYTMT?! subject is Dave’s episode on Dan Donnelly’s Arm! History nut, Jane Casey, tells the phenomenal tale of Dan Donnelly, a Dublin man who made a name for himse
Well this episode does exactly what is says on the tin.Financial Times journalist and bona fide Italian Marianna Giusti enlightens the lads about how many of the seemingly set-in-stone and ancient culinary traditions of Italy are very recent in
In this week’s episode, we learn about the man who went from slave to senator in the fledgling, revolutionary United States. Author Cate Linnebery joins the lads to explore the incredible life of Robert Smalls. Also, Dave unleashes all the fact
It’s a dog-eat-dog world, right? The alpha male of a pack uses aggression and dominance to stay as the leader of the pack? Well not so much. The lads are joined by Kira Cassidy an associate research scientist with the National Park Service rese
Have you ever borrowed a car to nip off for a few hours? Well, that's what Bertha Benz did except it was the only car in the world and nobody had ever nipped anywhere in one before! Ever! She was the wife of Carl Benz of Mercedes Benz fame, sur
This week we meet David Gluckman, the man (amongst others) who invented everyone’s favourite Christmas tipple, Baileys. He must be Irish, right? Wrong. Well, he must be a food scientist? Wrong. Surely it’s his biggest impact of Irish exports? W
Imagine working your whole life on something and, when you finally get the chance to make the dream a reality, you just go, “Naaaah. You’re grand.” Well, that’s what somebody did when offered the chance to land on the moon! Who was that man? We
We finally have the episode when Dave says "Time is a just a construct". That may well be the case, but you still have to have major cajones to want to change the entire calendar. Enter badboy of Europe, France. This week the lads meet Dr Matth
In this episode, Dave has uncovered an incredible tale of age-defying physical prowess and downright stubbornness! Meet Gustaf Håkansson, an elderly Swedish gentleman who cycled the length of Sweden. Twice. To prove a point. Sarah Mulkerrins, a
The internet’s version of Liam Neeson, Jose Monkey joins the lads to explain how just how easy it is to figure out where you shot that video you posted.Jose has amassed 1.4 million followers online by establishing the locations of videos that p
It’s SEASON FIVE! We are so grateful so many of you listen to us and we can’t believe we’re back for a fifth season!Dave is really easing us into this one with a simple question: what’s the worst pain the natural world has to offer? In this epi
In this week's episode, the final one of Season 4, Neil asks a question we've all asked ourselves a thousand times:Did General Franco rig the Eurovision Song Contest?This led to other questions being asked, such as:What?How?AndNeil, are you ok?
This week Dave excels himself for sheer WWYTMTness by explaining just why der Fuhrer had the details of your local Maxol. He has enlisted the help of Dr Joseph Quinn of Oxford University to explain Operation Green, the Nazi invasion plan of Ire
Yeah, you heard right.This week with the help of ophthalmic surgeon Arthur Cummings the lads explore just why you’d want one of your gnashers inserted into your own eye.To counteract such gore, in part one, Neil explains which man might be the
Maybe, to you, Death Metal sounds like an animal enduring some kind of torture alongside an explosion in a giant metal fabrication factory. Well, guess what, those of us who listen to that music are happier and nicer people than everyone else!
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. Rathco
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