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The Uncanny County Museum
by Xan Peters and Joe Cimino
Join Xan and Joe as they take you on a tour of a museum that contains anything and everything.
Episodes
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Episode 139: 9 to 5 Chads: Teaching Art in Higher Ed.
On today's rather unconventional tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, return to the Uncanny County Museum to lead a drawing workshop, where they discuss their experiences teaching Drawing in higher education, along with the joys and difficulties attached to teaching art. Meanwhile, they also give...
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Episode 138: Assassins Cuisine
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the museum's hall of Middle World history where Joe recounts the history of the infamous group known as the Assassins. They both discuss the impact this group had from the 11th to 13th century on middle world history, their downfall,...
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Episode 137: Chicxulub Asteroid City
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in the Museum's voided exhibition hall where Xan recounts the events of the devastating KPG extinction event that destroyed the Dinosaurs, and most life on Earth, while also discussing just how long our planet has been around, and all it has...
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Episode 136: Poor Things in Margaritaville
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the Museum's gift shop where they discuss the impact, reasons, and purpose of why we enjoy fiction. Pulling from numerous examples such as Stoner by John Williams, the recent film Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos, East of Eden by John...
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Episode 135: Parthenogenesis Evangelion
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe inside the Museum Chapel of the Holy Stingray, where Xan discusses the hot gossip behind the pregnancy of Charlotte the lone stingray and breaks down the science as to how and why this is possible without her having a mate. Meanwhile, Joe…
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Episode 134: Soccer Punch
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the Museum's replica 16th-century Florentine arena, where Joe discusses the history, rules, and story that makes up the Florentine sport, Calcio Storico Fiorentino. All the while, they discuss the role of sports in society and their...
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Episode 133: Scuba Certified Fresh
On today's tour, we join Xan and Joe for a relaxed tour as they re-visit the infamous Tampa Triangle Dead Zone, where Xan recounts the perplexing story surrounding the lost wreckage of German submarine U-166, and a boat-load of mercury.
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Episode 132: Pyramid Scheme to Divinity
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in the Museum's hall of ancient Egypt where Joe recounts the history surrounding an important figure in the ancient Egyptian world, Imhotep, along with describing some of the evidence for his existence, and some of the speculative conspiracy...
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Episode 131: Wolf Dispensary
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the Museum's hall of Predator Animals where Xan discusses the recent news concerning the reintroduction of wolves into the state of Colorado by conservationists, while also discussing the environmental impacts wolves have in their…
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Episode 130: Hallmark or Ballpark?
Happy holidays from all of us at the Uncanny County Museum! On today's tour, we join our tour guides in the Hall of Hallmark at the Museum where they discuss the purpose and cultural impact of Christmas movies. All the while, Xan talks about his recent experiences in liminal Florida.
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Episode 129: Overfished and Under Surveillance: The Tampa Triangle
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe in the dark as Xan brings to light the mysteries and misinformation surrounding the infamous Tampa Bay Triangle Dead Zone regarding missing persons, UFO sightings, and bizarre conspiracy theories. All the while, providing insight into why...
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Episode 128: Languages in Languish
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the Museums hall of extinct and endangered languages where they discuss the ongoing event of language death throughout the world, while Joe emphasizes why it is essential that endangered languages be preserved so we may gain insight…
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Episode 127: New Philadelphia: Post Truth
On today’s tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, for an in-depth discussion concerning realism/illusionistic representation within two-dimensional art, both in contemporary trends and throughout art history, while using Hanneke Grootenboer, The Rhetoric of Perspective, which is primarily...
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Episode 126: Oil Royalties: a Brief History of the Osage Nation Oil Boom
*DISCLAIMER* Please visit the Osage Nations website for more information about their history and culture. Osageculture.com On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they go over a brief history of the Osage nation, covering their discovery of petroleum on their reservation, as…
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Episode 125: Aztecs vs Spaniards: All Mexed Up
In advance of Indigenous Peoples Day this Monday, for today's tour we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in an exhibit focused on the clash between the Aztecs / Mexica people and the Spanish Conquistadors, while clearing up some of the often misrepresented history about Moctezuma II, and the...
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Episode 124: Phantom Time: Coming Soon
On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe, inside the hall of Tartaria where they return to the Museum's roadside roots as they discuss conspiracy theories surrounding missing historical time periods. All the while, poking logic holes in them while discussing the arbitrary nature of...
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Episode 123: Big Whale if True
On today's tour, after a month-long hiatus our tour guides, Xan and Joe, return to the Uncanny County Museum and join us in the museum’s Big Hall, where Xan takes us through the history of Earth's largest animals, both living and extinct, while also bringing some insight into the recent news...
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Episode 122: Step by Step: A Brief History of the Aztec Empire
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as Xan leads a tour focused on the history of the Aztec empire and how they rose to prominence. Meanwhile, they briefly discuss the ways human civilizations have developed through kin-based relationships and the role rituals play in bonding...
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Episode 121: Parking Spaces and Non-places
On today’s tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the museum's parking garage where Joe leads a discussion focusing on the 2020 book, Unofficial Britain: Journeys through Unexpected Places by Gareth E. Rees, with a focus on the overlooked histories embedded within mundane spaces and...
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Episode 120: Prehistoric Panel 2
On today's tour, Xan and Joe once again bring in esteemed science communicators to discuss the newest season of the groundbreaking docu-series, Prehistoric Planet. @CrikeyitsChristian, @ThePaintPaddock, and @DinosaurComics bring their knowledge (and opinions) to dissect where the show has been…
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Episode 119: Get to the Point: Armor and Armaments Throughout History
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the UCM’s armory where they explore the different types of weapons and armor used throughout history, their purpose and uses, and why they were made to be so artistically appealing.
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Episode 118: An Hour for a Minute: Waiting in Line for Fine Art
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they wait in line to enter the museum. Joe recounts his recent experience at the recent Yayoi Kusama exhibition at David Zwerner, I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers, and both him and Xan bring up critical points regarding spectacle vs art,...
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Episode 117: Cider? I Hardly Know Her
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe at the Uncanny Valley Orchard where Xan recounts the origins of apples in America, the science behind producing them, and the history that they are attached to that has had major impacts on our world today. Our source and recommended reading…
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Episode 116: Mammoth Steppe Escalator
On today's tour, we join Xan and Joe as they transverse the North American continent to investigate the untold origins of paleontology and its roots in Native American traditions of fossil collection. Our sources and recommended reading include: “Otherlands” by Thomas Halliday and “Fossil Legends...
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Episode 115: From Mjölner to Monasteries
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside an exhibit that focuses on deconstructing some of the myths behind the Scandinavian people's transition from Norse paganism to Christianity in the early middle ages through archeological and art historical evidence.
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Episode 114: Partridge Run: The Mystery of Flight
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they focus on the mystery surrounding how birds achieved flight. Xan gives us a broad evolutionary overview of this history and later explains the science and creative strategies behind the more recent theories surrounding flight evolution.
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Episode 113: The Last of Us: Useless in the Apocalypse
On today’s tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, next to a diorama of cordyceps infecting ants for a conversation surrounding the science of HBO and Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us, while also discussing the show/games role in current popular culture.
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Episode 112: Croc of Ages Feat. @crikeyitschristian
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as well as special guest expert Christian Flores, aka @crikeyitschristian, in the “Croc of Ages” exhibit hall for a part 2 exploration of crocodilians through time; focusing on the prehistoric ancestors of modern-day crocodilians.
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Episode 111: Crocs are Back
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on an exhibit focused on the Saltwater Crocodiles' return to their natural habitats, and consequently the conflicts that have been reignited between them and Humans. Meanwhile, Xan provides a brief history of Crocodilians and how old they...
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Episode 110: Biennale Bouncer: Can Fanart Get in?
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they navigate how fanart fits in with the contemporary art world and within the context of the history of art.
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Episode 109: Hot Geologists Feat. @geoknowledgy
On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, are joined by special guest expert Dr. Daniel Babin aka @geoknowledgy who talks to us about his research, what geologists are like in academia, as well as in the field, and pitches us some interesting branding strategies to save the earth.
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Episode 108: Waterhouse's Dinosaurs are Down
For our first tour of 2023, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the paleo art wing of the museum where Xan recounts the story of Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and his paleo art career, along with the drama that unfolded during his commission in 19th century New York City.
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Episode 107: Our Moon Will Go On
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the UCM’s planetarium where they discuss the geological origins of Earth's Moon and its similarities and differences. Again, we apologize for the episode delay, but we hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and we hope to see you...
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Episode 106: Chicken Noodle Synth for the Soul
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in a room filled with vintage synthesizers ranging from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s where Joe takes the lead on describing the history and concepts behind the most popular synths of the late 20th century.
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Episode 105: Xan and Joe Go Over the Top
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they discuss the new Netflix Film, All Quiet On The Western Front, alongside its previous versions, while also investigating the cultural impact World War 1 had on Art, Literature, and Fashion.
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Episode 104: White Whale Redemption
On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, take us through an exhibit focused on the history of whaling, and humanity's connection to whales that is curated through the lens of Herman Melville's Magnum Opus, Moby Dick. They quickly summarize the plot of the novel and discuss the impact the...
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Episode 103: Dinosaur Cancel Culture
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the hall of invalid dinosaurs where Xan discusses the origins of classifying species, its usage, and which species are no longer considered valid due to new discoveries, and accidental duplicates.
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Episode 102: Clairvoyant Annoyance: The Future of AI Art
On today’s tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside an exhibition of paintings created by AI and they discuss the potential consequences as well as possible benefits that artificial intelligence will have on the art world.
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Episode 101: Weapons of Mammoth Destruction
On today's tour at the museum, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, back from a short sabbatical, discuss the recent news regarding the attempted Thylacine and Wooly Mammoth being cloned and what its consequences could bring. **Episodes will be coming out bi-weekly for now
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Episode 100: Battle to the Dylan
On today's special 100th tour and a celebration of two years of the Uncanny County Museum, Xan and Joe are joined by returning special guest, Allison Dempsey, who is residing as judge while our tour guides defend bands/musicians of their choosing in the Uncanny County Courtroom.
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Episode 99: Reelin’ In the Fears: Lost in the Arctic
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on a recreated 19th-century arctic voyage vessel where Joe recounts the story of Sir John Franklins' lost expedition to discover the Northwest passage.
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Episode 98: Quantum Leap: The Occult and Modern Science
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the center of the universe where Xan leads us on a journey through time focusing on science's strange and intricate relationship with hermetic teachings and philosophies.
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Episode 97: Meta for You
On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, discuss Nathan Fielder’s new HBO show, The Rehearsal, and focus the conversation on the topic of metafiction in our modern-day media.
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Episode 96: Rosetta-Mancing the Stone
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in front of two crucial linguistic artifacts to history. That being, the Rosetta Stone and the Linen Book of Zagreb. While sharing the stories behind these relics, they discuss how one can decode an ancient language when there are no native...
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Episode 95: You Otta-Know
On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe back inside the museum's ocean voyage simulator, where they focus on the infamous Piri Reis map. Through recounting historical evidence tied in with practices of the time, they slowly unravel the mystery of the map to reveal its true nature.
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Episode 94: Phoenicia and Ferb
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on a replica Phoenician merchant vessel from 600 B.C.E where Joe recounts the story of the infamous journey of the Phoenicia across the Atlantic ocean. Meanwhile, they discuss the impact of replicas on our contemporary world.
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Episode 93: Searching for Leatherman
On today's tour, we Join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in a recreated cave-like shelter, also known as a Leatherman Cave, where they talk about Upstate New York and Connecticut's favorite vagabond legend, the Leatherman.
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Episode 92: A Psalm for the Wild Martha
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the Uncanny County Museums' first-ever book club where they will be leading a discussion around the 2021 sci-fi novella, a Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers.
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Episode 91: Low-Res Mammals
On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in an exhibit hall dedicated to the history of cats. From the origins of cats to later their relationship with humans, Xan describes their evolution over thousands of years and how they obtained some of their very unique features.
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Episode 90: Jurassic Worldwide: Cretaceous Critics
On today's special tour, our tour guides Xan and Joe are joined by special guest experts @crikeyitschristian (Christian Flores), @dinosaurcomics (Andy Cruz), and @paintpaddock (Charles Nye) for a round table discussion regarding the science, plot, and overall cultural reverberations present in…
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Join Xan and Joe as they take you on a tour of a museum that contains anything and everything.
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