Gaps In Knowledge

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...

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

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. &...

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 desertificatio...

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 ⁠ Gall...

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?...

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 Want to leave us a voice message? Follow this link . You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at g...

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 Want to...

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 You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Our new website https://gaps...

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... Want to leave us a voice message? Follow this link . 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: Music: 00:31 Intro:...

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...

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 st...

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!  You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Please send us your questions for us to...

In this week's episode, Rhys and Will have a dignified reflection on the passing of our Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.  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!  You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Check us out on Yo...

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! You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com This is the chateau on AirBnB - La magie d'un chateau médiéval You can contact...

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.   You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com A huge thanks to Jennifer and the people at TEAP and SustyVibes for being part of our episod...

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

 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.   You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Please send us your questions for us to...

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.   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 hea...

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.  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 [...

 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. You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com Timestamps: [00:00] - Intro [00:54] - Misconcepti...

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. You can contact us on Twitter @gapspodcast , or email us at gapsinknowledge@outlook.com. Timestamps: [00:43] - Intro [03:05] - Misconception Corner: Tornadoes [10:24] - Misconception Corner: Victorians [15:55] -...

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

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&...