Episodes

  • S3E2 - A little magic chess machine
    Oct 1 2023

    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:


    Vomitoriums

    Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk

    The Ancient Olympic Games


    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

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • S3E1 - Ropey Rasputin
    Sep 19 2023

    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

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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • S2E7 - The Glastonbury Chronicles
    Jun 25 2023

    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:


    • Alfred The Great
    • Glastonbury
    • Stonehenge

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • S2E6 - The Geography Quiz
    Jun 3 2023

    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:

    • Belgium's Venn Bahn
    • ⁠⁠⁠⁠World Flags
    • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠193 countries in the world - United Nations


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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

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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • S2E5 - Sipping and Shipwrecks
    May 14 2023

    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:

    • ⁠Titanic failures
    • ⁠Gallipoli
    • ⁠⁠Shakespeare’s actually not that bad

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    Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them!


    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

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • S2E4 - Rattlesnake Milking
    Apr 6 2023

    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:

    • Christopher Columbus
    • Lewis and Clark Expedition - Corps of Discovery Expedition
    • ⁠Moon Landings

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    You can contact us on ⁠Twitter @gapspodcast⁠, or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com

    Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them!


    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

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • S2E3 - Out with a Bang
    Mar 12 2023

    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:

    • Leon Trotsky and the Ice Axe
    • Liu Bang - The Emperor of China
    • The Death of Julius Caesar

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    Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them!


    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

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    56 mins
  • S2E2 - Yawn
    Feb 21 2023

    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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    Please send us your questions for us to answer! We would love to hear them!

    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

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    1 hr and 3 mins