Gaps In Knowledge
By Gaps In Knowledge
Gaps In KnowledgeOct 01, 2023
S3E2 - A little magic chess machine
Today Rhys get all atmospherically gassy, parks in a solar powered car park and goes to Mecca to see how it is. Will chucks up the vomitorium, plays magic mechanical chess then runs naked in The Games.
Rhys talks about:
The most abundant Green House Gas
Solar Panel being build on Car Parks / Parking Lots
The Masjid al-haram, Mecca - Reviews
Will talks about:
Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk
Time Stamps
1:58 - Most Abundant Greenhouse Gas
11:40 - Vomitorium
19:40 - Solar Panel Parking Lots
33:57 - Magical Chess Machine
57:51 - Mecca's Google Reviews
1:08:48 - The Ancient Games
1:20:43 - Outro
S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin
Today Rhys gets all docky, shippy and ropey while Will goes Raving with Rasputin, fleeing the French Revolution, and getting spooky in the States with the Winchester mystery house!
Rhys talks about:
Oklahoma - The Tulsa Port of Catoosa
Malcolm McClean and Containerisation
The Chatham Dockyard Ropery
Will talks about:
Rasputin
Louis XVI attempt to flee France
The Winchester Mystery House
S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles
Today Rhys sorts out the relationship between Greenland and Denmark, Look at the phosphate mining in Nauru and the dives into the unfathomable depth of the Mariana Trench. Will goes all normal for the first King of England, parties hard in Glastonbury then sorts out his solstice stones in Stonehenge.
Rhys Links:
- "Epistemic geographies of climate change" by Martin Mahony and Mike Hulme.
- "Introduction: Postimperial sovereignty games in the Nordic region" by Rebecca Adler-Nissen and Ulrik Pram Gad.
- Greenland unveils draft constitution in push for complete independence from Danish control
- Mining, land restoration and sustainable development in isolated islands: An industrial ecology perspective on extractive transitions on Nauru
- Phosphate Mining on Nauru
- The Story of Nauru: The "Country that Ate itself"
- Mariana Trench
Will's Links:
S2E6 - The Geography Quiz
Today, join Rhys for traffic congestion myths, a wildfire crash-course and naming lizards that have opinions on desertification. Will suprises Rhys for his three-part Geography quiz! Border, flags and countries!
Rhys links:
- Critical factors for mitigating car traffic in cities
- 7 Burning Questions: Wildfires & Public Lands
- Land management practices for combating desertification cause species replacement of desert lizards
Will links:
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Timestamps
Intro 00:00
Misconception Corner: Traffic Congestion 01:46
Misconception Corner: Venn Bahn 11:57
Main Event: Wildfire Crash-Course 18:05
Main Event: Flag Quiz 40:01
Number Time: Lizards and Desertification 01:04:46
Number Time: All the countries of the world 01:25:04
Outro: 01:33:00
S2E5 - Sipping and Shipwrecks
Today, join Rhys for Georgian wine adventures, and a deep dive into Georgetown and we play 'Georgia or Georgia?'. Then, Will unpacks Shakespeare's relevance, reflects on Gallipoli, and analyses the Titanic's failures.
Rhys links:
- Drinking Wine in Georgia
- Guyana hits back after 'watery wilderness' NYT article
- Georgia or Georgia?
Will links:
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Timestamps
Intro 00:00
Misconception Corner: Drinking Wine in Georgia 01:50
Misconception Corner: Titanic failures 10:37
Main Event: The True Georgetown 17:23
Main Event: Gallipoli 29:19
Number Time: Georgia or Georgia? 46:38
Number Time: Shakespeare’s actually not that bad 52:04
Outro: 01:05:47
S2E4 - Rattlesnake Milking
This week, Rhys investigates the algorithms behind weather apps, examines the sustainability of festivals, and explores the remarkable biodiversity of Venezuela's Orinoco Wetlands. Will discusses Christopher Columbus's legacy, the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the incredible achievement of the moon landings.
Rhys links:
- How the % works on weather apps
- Sex, Drugs and Sustainability? - How green are festivals?
- Swamp Biodiversity Orinoco Wetlands in Venezuela
Will links:
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Timestamps
Intro: 00:00
Misconception corner: Christopher Columbus 02:07
Misconception corner: Weather Apping 10:42
Main Event: Lewis and Clark 17:29
Main Event: Green Festivals 40:07
Number Time: Moon Landings 55:51
Number Time: Swamps 1:46:48
Outro: 1:14:49
S2E3 - Out with a Bang
In this week's episode:
Rhys discusses:
- How rich Norway really is.
- VindØ - The world's first energy island in Denmark
- Abundant Swedish Lakes - Three-Country Cairn, Scandinavia
Will discusses:
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Timestamps
Intro: 00:00
Misconception corner: Rhys slams Norway 00:55
Misconception corner: Tickling Trotsky 09:02
Main Event: Vindøvision 14:42
Main Event: The Explosive Liu Bang 28:00
Number Time: Swimming in Sweden 39:48
Number Time: Beetroot Colander 47:45
Outro: 54:45
S2E2 - Yawn
In this week's episode Will and Rhys go back to their original subjects.
Rhys discusses:
- The longest river in the USA, The Missouri.
- How the small Kazakhstan villages Kalachi and Krasnogorsk endured a sleeping epidemic.
- The impact of ice melt on sea level rise.
Will discusses:
- The Kentucky meat shower on March 3, 1876
- The Erfurt latrine disaster in 1184
- The Defenestrations of Prague
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Timestamps:
Intro: 00:00
Misconception Corner: Raining Meat?: 01:35
Misconception Corner: USA's Longest River: 09:56
Poo Pool: 17:36
Sleepy Kazakhs: 28:29
Number Time: Czech Defenestration: 41:22
Number Time: Scary Sea Level Rise 51:34
Outro: 01:01:56
S1E7 - Misconduct Motel (Bonus Episode)
In this bonus episode we look back at some of the edits that didn't make the final cut. Not that we didn't think they were good or anything!
Voyeur's Motel by Gay Talese can be perused through this link - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434763-the-voyeur-s-motel
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S2E1 - Opposite Day
In this week's episode Will and Rhys take opposite day to its limits. Rhys does History and Will does Geography! It will surely only end in disaster...
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Timestamps:
Music: 00:31
Intro: 00:51
Misconception Corner: African Alps? 04:25
MIsconception Corner: Neolithic gnashers 11:31
Psychogeography in Paris: 18:41
The World’s Hardest History Quiz: 34:40
Number Time: All Aboard the Terror: 01:06:59
Number Time: Rampaging rabbits 01:15:34
Outro: 01:22:00
S1E14 - Reasons not to watch the Qatar World Cup 2022
In this week's episode we invite our good friend Andrew onto the podcast to convince us not to watch the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup.
Andrew draws on his own experience of living and working in Qatar to explain why he will be boycotting the FIFA World Cup 2022. We discuss:
- Live as a migrant in Qatar
- Human Rights issues
- Environmental impacts and sustainability
- Boycotting and Protests in German football
- The Qatar World Cup Legacy
- LGBTQ+ and equality
- Will boycotting actually make a difference?
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:30] - Part 1 - Life as a migrant in Qatar
[21:52] - Part 2 - Human rights , Environmental impacts and sustainability
[36:39] - Part 3 - The Qatar World Cup Legacy and will boycotting make a difference?
[54:41] - Outro
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S1E13 - Smashing Pumpkins
NOTE - This episode is very gruesome and quite disturbing; not for kids. Viewer discretion is advised.
In this week's episode we go all spooky with Rhys discovering how The Isle of Man celebrates Halloween and discusses how to save the planet by smashing pumpkins. Will tricks us into using a ouija board, describes Gilles de Rais’s harrowing fall from grace and goes extremely dark with the story of Carl Tanzler.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:22] - Misconception Corner: Happy hop-tu-naa!
[10:02] - Misconception Corner: Yes yes no no
[15:44] - Pumpkin Theory i
[29:36] - Gilles de Rais’s fall from grace
[44:01] - Number Time!: Pumpkin Theory ii
[56:21] - Number Time!: Would you like to dance?
[1:13:05] - Outro
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S1E12 - Where are numbers?
In this week's episode we celebrate Germany's Unification Day with Rhys getting lost looking around Heligoland, discovering German dialects and discoversing the volcanos and tectonics of Germany. Will tell us everything he knows about the Wizard that is Pythagoras!
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:30] - Misconception Corner: What came up with Pythagoras' Theory?
[06:27] - Misconception Corner: How many distant island territories does Germany have?
[13:18] - Understanding Pythagoras The Wizard
[41:15] - German Dialects
[1:03:50] - Number Time!: Pythagoras' Beans
[1:09:42] - Number Time!: Volcanos in Germany?
[1:19:03] - Outro
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S1E11 - A Very Sombre, Dignified, and Respectful Royal Special
In this week's episode, Rhys and Will have a dignified reflection on the passing of our Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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S1E10 - NUTS!
This week Will’s on location from a Belgian chateau, talking about lieux de mémoire, the Battle of Bastogne, and why killing Hitler wouldn’t necessarily have been the best idea.
We will be back to our normal format next episode!
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This is the chateau on AirBnB - La magie d'un chateau médiéval
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S1E9 - Susty Parties feat. Jennifer Uchendu
In this week's episode, we go ALL GEOGRAPHY with Rhys planning an Eco-Holiday, talking with the founder of TEAP and SustyVibes Jennifer Uchendu about eco-anxiety, then find way to stop vampires sucking our power.
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A huge thanks to Jennifer and the people at TEAP and SustyVibes for being part of our episode today. If you would like to find out more information, please head over to their Twitter for updates.
Jennifer Uchendo
TEAP (The Eco-Anxiety Project)
SustyVibes
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:17] - Misconception Corner: Eco-Tourism
[10:19] - TEAP and Susty Vibes - Interview with Jennifer Uchendu
[47:47] - Number Time!: Vampire Power
[54:19] - Outro
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S1E8 - Too much poo; too many chickens
In this week's episode, Will goes flying far away with Larry Walters, cruelly kills off some English kings and then strips off to his underpants with Humphrey Howarth and the Irish Earl of Barrymore! Rhys flaps about animal poaching, causes an arachnopocalypse on Guam and then goes walkies with junkyard dogs.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:14] - Misconception Corner: Larry's Balloons
[08:44] - Misconception Corner: Animal Poaching
[18:13] - What killed the King? - The Quiz
[39:24] - Guam's Arachnopocalypse
[53:52] - Number Time!: Pistol Underpants
[59:06] - Number Time!: Junkyard Dogs
[1:19:07] - Outro
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S1E6 - World War Wonder
In this week's episode, Rhys falls down felling the forest, plays the 'Well that's a weird place to live' quiz and spends the rest of eternity measuring the coastline! Will get gas, has bad times in the Balkans and then insults the British Monarchy.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[01:03] - Misconception Corner: Felling the Rainforest
[12:13] - Misconception Corner: WWI Weapons
[18:17] - Well that's a weird place to live - The Quiz
[38:55] - Franz Ferdinand in the Balkans
[1:02:08] - Number Time!: Measuring the Coastline
[1:13:04] - Number Time!: British Monarchy Insults
[1:22:55] - Outro
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S1E5 - Splitting Heads and Cups
In this week's episode, Rhys grimaces over globalisation, commentates on 'The Other Final' and never runs out of steam in Costa Rica! Will shrinks some heads, runs around like a headless chicken and blasts a hole in his brain.
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The Other Final Documentary - Johan Kramer of Dutch communications agency KesselsKramer
Timestamps and links to further reading
[1:03] - Misconception Corner: Grimacing over globalisation
[10:43] - Misconception Corner: Shrinking some heads
[19:29] - Mike the headless chicken
[35:19] - 'The Other Final' - Montserrat vs Bhutan (2002)
[1:01:12] - Number Time!: Brain blast - Phineas Gage
[1:12:10] - Number Time!: Costa Rica's renewable energy
[1:18:12] - Outro
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S1E4 - Mad About Makati
In this week's slightly longer episode, Rhys gets mad about Makati, somersaults around the circus, and cashes in his Kashmir. Will battles with Battle, burns down the Reichstag, and gives an ancient one-star review.
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Timestamps
[0:50] - Misconception Corner: Mad about Makati
[10:03] - Misconception Corner: Battle of Battle of Battle of Battle
[19:34] - Backflipping your way out of poverty
[36:00] - Burn Baby Burn
[56:10] - Number Time!: Messing about with goats
[1:11:19] - Number Time!: Don’t buy copper from Ea-Nasir
[1:19:45] - Outro
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S1E3 - Dude! Where's my rickshaw?
On this week’s show Rhys tells us about odd orbits, misgivings over the metaverse, and asks Dude, Where’s My Rickshaw? Will takes us back to Ancient Rome by getting silly over the Caesars and barmy about bathrooms, and tells the tale of Bootikins and Swifthoof.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] - Intro
[00:54] - Misconception Corner: Caesars
[10:04] - Misconception Corner: Odd orbits
[15:55] - Bootikins and Swifthoof
[33:59] - Dude, Where’s My Rickshaw?
[51:13] - Number Time! Roman bathrooms
[59:32] - Number Time! The metaverse
[1:15:11] - Outro
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S1E2 - Strictly Come Trancing
This week Rhys tells of tornadoes, visits the (seed) bank, then dries up in Saudi Arabia, whilst Will visits the Victorians, bangs on about Beethoven, and things gets silly in Strasbourg.
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Timestamps:
[00:43] - Intro
[03:05] - Misconception Corner: Tornadoes
[10:24] - Misconception Corner: Victorians
[15:55] - A Seedy Dungeon
[33:36] - Strictly Come Trancing
[58:30] - Number Time! Saudi Arabia
[1:04:36] - Number Time! Beethoven
[1:11:10] - Outro
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S1E1 - This little piggy went to court
This week on Gaps in Knowledge, Rhys tells of Tuvalu, describes deserts, and gives everyone a new phobia of rivers, whilst Will gets all colourful over Homer, vexed about Vikings, and hams it up with the French.
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Pilot Episode - Lava Banana
A new podcast to add to the never ending list.
Welcome to Gaps in Knowledge. Rhys is a Geographer and Will is a Historian but we know nothing about each other's subject. We go on an educational adventure to learn our opposite subjects in the quest to fill our knowledge gaps.
In the pilot episode Rhys teaches Will about lava bananas and unusual oceans, and Will enlightens Rhys about Louis XVI's diplomatic problems and The Umbrella Man.
Please note, tangents are common but that's part of the learning journey...isn't it?
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We hope you enjoy our pilot episode!
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