Podcasts by The Uncanny County Museum

Episode 1: A Whole Land Bridge Full of Lemurs from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.637880

For today's tour, we will be headed to a remote jungle to take a look at some leftover dinosaur bones and an ancient Olmec sculpture. All the while, discussing Creationist and Ancient Alien ...

Episode 2: Show Me The Cursed Facts! from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.594717

On this spooky tour, we will be visiting the Uncanny County Museum's haunted auction! Where we have a very peculiar and haunted artifact on display for one day only. While leading the auctio...

Episode 3: Jesus Chrysler! An Exploration Into Coding from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.590287

On today's tour, we will be visiting an exhibit on the musical, Starlight Express! Featuring guest curator Allison Dempsey, we take a closer look at coding in musical theater, science fictio...

Episode 4: Xan and Joe Get Baked from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.585598

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County museum’s bakery for a chilled out, pastry filled discussion regarding the creation of bread. We look at how bagels became the ultima...

Episode 5: Dead Parrots Society from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.580365

On today's tour, we will be heading to one of the Uncanny County Museum’s underground cellars to take a look at some rare and preserved taxidermied animals. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe will...

Episode 6: Get Me an Imagine Dragons! from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.575976

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museum’s music archives, a crowded space filled with filing cabinets that contain any and all music storing devices, such as vinyl, ...

Episode 7: Who Is It For? Art in the Public Sphere from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.571903

On today's tour, we will be visiting a one day only exhibit, featuring an installation based on Roman Ondaks work titled Loop. Taking the museum's outdoor landscape and placing ...

Episode 8: Spooky Soup: A Halloween Special from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.567443

On this very special Halloween tour, the Uncanny County Museum is hosting its first ever Horror Film Festival! Featuring our guest curator David Neal, we take a look into some of the most famous...

Episode 9: Xan and Joe Journey Through The Ball Pit from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.562920

On today's tour, we pass by our tour guides Xan and Joe preparing and installing a new exhibition on internet culture. Amidst the construction and installation, they take a moment to reflect...

Episode 10: Farm to Table Twitter from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.558108

On Today’s tour, we will be heading to the opening reception of the Uncanny County Museums exhibition on Internet culture. Curated by our returning guest curator Allison Dempsey, we take a look ...

Episode 11: Knowledge as a Flex from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.552609

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museum's life sized recreation of the library of Alexandria. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe each give a lecture regarding the ques...

Episode 12: Born in the U.S.A from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.549354

On today's tour, we will be heading to one of the museum’s grand halls which has an installation depicting numerous thanksgiving day dinner tables from across the years. Here, our tour guide...

Episode 13: Liminal Target Space from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.543942

On this rather unusual tour, we venture into uncanny counties' infinite local Target to take care of some errands. Here, we run into our tour guides Xan and Joe who do an impromptu tour rega...

Episode 14: They Came From the Sea... from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.541012

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on board a life size reconstruction of a warship that is theorized to have been used by the mysterious Sea Peoples. While on board this...

Episode 15: Bird Wars from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.538286

On today's tour we head to the Uncanny County Museum’s petting zoo where a recent memorial has been placed. We join our tour guides, Xan and Joe at this specific site in order to pay homage ...

Episode 16: Xan and Joe Save Christmas from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.533847

Happy Holidays from your favorite audio fabricated museum! On this rather strange tour, we tune into the Uncanny County Museums holiday special, via virtual streaming. Our tour guides, Xan and J...

Episode 17: Same as It Ever Was from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.502070

Welcome back to the Uncanny County Museum in this new year! On today's tour, we run into our tour guides, Xan and Joe as they are in the middle of transporting holiday/party decorations to ...

Episode 18: Apocalypse, How? from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.498351

Continuing from our previous tour trapped in the fallout shelter, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they continue a discussion regarding the apocalypse. Specifically, bringing up a multitud...

Episode 19: The Yarn Prince from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.494513

On this tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe as well as our special guest, Kolbe White from the podcast Forced Football Facts in the museum's infamous Gossip Lounge. They lead a series...

Episode 20: Mega Morphin Morgans from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.489701

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums Wax hall, filled with all types of famous and life-like uncanny figures. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion focusing on the...

Episode 21: Wilderness as a Concept from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.485781

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe, in one of the (famous) Uncanny County Museum’s landscape wings. After inspecting the dioramas on display, they lead a discussion regardi...

Episode 22: Pete Best of the Beatles from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.476513

On today's tour, we head to a rather unusual exhibit within a small room at the UCM, which contains a recreation of a stereotypical fans shrine to the Beatles. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe j...

Episode 23: Yoko, Oh No! from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.471902

On today's tour, we take a closer look into the life, career, and importance of the artist/musician, Yoko Ono. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion about the history and significan...

Episode 24: It's a Documentary Now from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.469002

On today's tour, we head to one of the Uncanny County Museums lecture halls where Joe is presenting a lecture regarding questioning the narratives presented in documentary films. From the Ed...

Episode 25: Old Three Toes... from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.466377

On today's tour, we are returning to our roots as a roadside museum here at the UCM and we will be heading to our newly installed cryptid exhibit. Here, we listen in as our tour guides Xan a...

Episode 26: Octopus Shell Collection: The Half Year Special from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.463498

On this special tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums Aviary where we will be joining our tour Guides, Xan and Joe as well as our special guest Michelle Cimino, for an in depth discussion ...

Episode 27: Xan and Joe Go Down With the Ship from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.460008

Have you heard about the legend of the Titanic? On this rather strange tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museums planetarium (virtually and in person) for another one of our (in)famous watch a...

Episode 28: Art in the 20th Century, Part 1 from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.456503

Welcome to the Uncanny Museums first ever exhibit of art in the 20th century! This exhibition will take place over the course of three weeks and each of our tours will be led by your trusty cura...

Episode 29: Art in the 20th Century, Part 2 from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.452796

Continuing on our three-week long exhibition of art in the 20th century, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they take us through the different artistic movements that occur post World War 2....

Episode 30: Art in the 20th Century, Part 3 from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.449111

Bringing our 3 week long exhibition of Art in the 20-th Century to a close, we Join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they finalize our journey by bringing us into a recreation of a subway station....

Episode 31: Bare Bear Bones from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.445215

On today's tour, we will be heading to the Uncanny County Museums' recreation of a realistic cave complex. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe lead a discussion regarding early humans and their...

Episode 32: Close Encounters of the Kitsch Kind from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.440035

On today's tour, we head back to the infamous Gossip Lounge at the UCM to join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they talk about “Kitsch”. Ranging from a $12,000 painting of Goofy surfing to ...

Episode 33: Prime Time Slime: Art on TV from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.437505

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they take us through a curated exhibition of art from TV and movies. Ranging from shows such as the Office, ICarly, How I Met Your Mot...

Episode 34: That Skunk Ape Show from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.433964

On today’s tour, we return to the infamous Cryptid hall where our tour guides, Xan and Joe, discuss the origins of Florida's beloved cryptid, the Skunk ape. Through exploring how it came to ...

Episode 35: Biblical Kaiju from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.414826

On today's tour, we journey to the depths of the sea, the tallest peaks of the realm, and the lush valleys of the land to explore the monsters from Judaic/christian mythology. We join our to...

Episode 36: A Rebar Angel's Thesis from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.412050

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, talk under a model of a rebar angel from Chernoybl and discuss recent events in which people have returned to live on the abandoned land. They ...

Episode 37: Sensual Censorship: Exploring Erotic Art With Florizel from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.409875

On todays tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, are joined by guest curator Florizel to discuss erotic art and the censorship that often looms over it. Through discussing Florizels artistic practi...

Episode 38: True Gritty from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.407445

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museum’s old saloon where our tour guides, Xan and Joe, while dressed in their cowboy cosplays, investigate the depiction of the American West ...

Episode 39: B-Side Dinosaurs from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.404339

On today's tour, we head to the Uncanny County Museum's Dinosaur Hall where we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as Xan leads a discussion regarding the representation and illustration ...

Episode 40: Grapes and Beards: Vikings in North America from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.400711

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe in the museum's interactive exhibit on Vinland from the old Norse sagas. In presenting the story of “Vikings'' in North Ameri...

Episode 41: The Inka: An Empires New Groove from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.397283

On today's tour, we head above sea level to the Andes mountains to join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, where they will be discussing the formation and rise of the Inkan empire, pre 1492. Xan ...

Episode 42: The Vikings Part 1: The Vibe-Kings from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.389137

Welcome to the Uncanny County Museums special exhibition on the Viking age, skål! This exhibition will take place over the course of 3 weeks and led by your co curators and tour guides, Xan and ...

Episode 43: The Vikings Part 2: Vikings World Tour from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.386812

Continuing on our three week long exhibition on the Vikings, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe as they discuss the Viking age and the exploration that takes place during the late 8th to 9th ce...

Episode 44: The Vikings Part 3: Normal Norman Business from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.384156

In bringing our three week long exhibition on the Vikings to a close, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe as they wrap up the Viking age. Joe finishes up presenting his research by ending with ...

Episode 45: The World's Fair: Crushed Pennies and Crushed Dreams from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.380186

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe at the Uncanny County Fair where Joe thought they would be displaying their artworks…Instead it is actually them, who are on display. The...

Episode 46: Bad Art: The Greatest Hits from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.378155

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe as they lead us through the Uncanny County Museums’ hall of “bad art”. They talk about famous unpopular artworks from popular artists, s...

Episode 47: Going Off the Rails: NFTs in the Art World from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.375046

On today's tour we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they take us into one of the UCM’s auction halls where they will be selling NFTs. In taking the opportunity to talk about the recent ...

Episode 48: Old Time Croc and Roll from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.371078

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in what seems to be a room filled to the brim with artifacts from the past. Ranging from Dorthys Ruby slippers to Dustin's hat from...

Episode 49: Broken Clock Theorem from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.361717

On today's tour, we journey underneath the museum to explore the catacombs that were found during the construction of the Uncanny County Museum and left intact. Our tour guides, Xan and Joe,...

Episode 50: T. rex is Overrated Feat. Hillary McLean from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.356327

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe sit down with fossil preparatore extraordinaire, Hillary McLean to talk about the complicated issue of collecting dinosaur fossils and the role ...

Episode 51: There's Dinosaurs in Them Hills Feat. Bradley Strock from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.352802

On today's tour, Xan and Joe are joined by special guest Bradley Strock, who recounts his journey from inside the Glendive Dinosaur and Fossil Museum, a throwback to our first ever exhibit! ...

Episode 52: Xan and Joe Recognize Their Mortality from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.349718

It's been one full year that the Uncanny County Museum has been open! As a special exhibit, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, celebrate this occasion by interviewing each other about their art p...

Episode 53: Make it Make Cents from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.345423

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in front of a large bank vault where they will be leading an exhibit about medieval and contemporary currency. Xan goes into detail abo...

Episode 54: Xan’s Labyrinth from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.342555

On today's tour, we get lost inside the museum's labyrinth joined by our tour guides, Xan and Joe, who use this opportunity to explore the connection between the story of Atlantis and it...

Episode 55: Sharks With Chainsaws: A History of Teeth from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.338392

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside a realistic recreation of a sand worm's mouth where they will be leading an exhibit on the history of teeth. They talk about...

Episode 56: Panic! At Pablo Beach from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.316403

On today’s tour, we are joined by our tour guides, Xan and Joe inside the Cabin of Curiosities where they take us through a series of strange rooms that focus on legendary cryptids and conspirac...

Episode 57: Doctor of Vampirology from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.311194

Continuing with our spooky themed exhibits, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the abandoned castle on the hill, located on the museum grounds, where they will be leading an exhibit fo...

Episode 58: Mission impossible: Dybbuk Protocol from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.305917

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, back in the Cabin of Curiosities where they will be continuing their series of eerie exhibitions by focusing on specific folklore from ...

Episode 59: Immortal Meat loaf: A history of Halloween from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.298874

Happy Halloween from your favorite audio fabricated museum! 

Today we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the Uncanny County Halloween/October festival to discuss the origins of Hallowee...

Episode 60: The Violent Act of Painting from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.284021

On today’s tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe in an exhibition space curated by Xan that is filled with objects that were placed as “Modern art” in museums to trick tourists. Stemming fro...

Episode 61: Godzilla vs Khan from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.278420

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe,  in line for the Museum's new boat ride attraction, which focuses on the Mongol invasion of Tsushima and Iki Island. During the rid...

Episode 62: Dinosaur OC’s Feat. @Dinosaurcomics from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.273085

On today's tour, Xan and Joe are joined by special guest @Dinosaurcomics, who talks about his origin story as a paleo-illustrator.

Episode 63: Creative Warfare from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.268703

On today's tour, we join our tour guides Xan and Joe outside the museums’ double feature screening of Dune (2021) directed by Denis Villeneuve and Come and See (1985) directed by Elem Klemov...

Episode 64: Ya Like Jazz? Sounds of Modernity from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.263303

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in a featured exhibition of artworks by the sound artist Steve Reich, and use it as an opportunity to talk about sound art. Xan explore...

Episode 65: Trolly Problems from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.257251

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the neutral void space within the museum where they will be talking about the concept of utopias. Realizing the difficulty of di...

Episode 66: Italian State of Mind from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.250830

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, discuss the topic of memory by recalling their own memories from childhood, pondering if memory was ever considered to be important by our anci...

Episode 67: Twenty-Twenty Fun: Best of the Year from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.244997

Happy holidays from all of us at the Uncanny County Museum! As a last minute gift and ode to the end of the year, Xan and Joe go through some of the best moments from their tours in 2021.

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Episode 68: The Uncanny Cabinet Part 1: The Yassification of Mermaids from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.239539

In kicking off the start of 2022, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in the Uncanny Cabinet where they will be launching a new series of tours focusing on mythological creatures through histo...

Episode 69: The Uncanny Cabinet Part 2: Attack on Bunyan from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.234239

In continuing with our series of exhibitions regarding mythological creatures on exhibit in the museum's Uncanny Cabinet, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, turn our attention to the history of g...

Episode 70: The Uncanny Cabinet Part 3: A Dragon Named Hozier from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.229230

In our final exhibition covering the mythological creatures held in the Uncanny Cabinet, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, focus on the history of Dragons. In covering their historical origins to th...

Episode 71: Ethically Sourced Dad Rock from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.224102

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they navigate the aesthetics, values, and contradictions inherent within Conservitave art. Ranging from oil paintings to flag design...

Episode 72: Hock of Ages: David Hockneys Secret from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.218353

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside a rather large camera obscura where they talk about the documentary, David Hockneys Secret Knowledge, regarding the use...

Episode 73: Crikey! It's the AZA Feat. @crikeyitschristian from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.212566

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe, are joined by special guest expert Christian Flores (@crikeyitschristian) who takes this opportunity to discuss a brief history of conservation...

Episode 74: Ich bin der Lorax from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.207209

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on the outskirts of an eerie forest inside the museum where they take this opportunity to talk about natural borders. Joe talks about t...

Episode 75: Debriefing Debris: Historical Collecting from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.202590

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, inside the museum's hall of Rococo paintings, where they will be talking about the history of museum display and collecting. Upon d...

Episode 76: Jon Alba Has an Emmy from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.198032

On today's tour, our tour guides Xan and Joe are joined by special guest expert Jon Alba (@jon_alba) who gives us a closer look into the world of wrestling and the entertainment side of prof...

Episode 77: Sundog Millionaire from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.193205

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in the museums' hall of maps depicting the different regions of Italy and Joe takes this opportunity to explore the history of dial...

Episode 78: Dungeons Drive-Ins and Dives from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.188182

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the UCM’s Dungeons, Drive-ins, and Dives D&D festival and they take this opportunity, in full cosplay, to explore the intricacie...

Episode 79: Midwest Eno from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.182937

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, back in the Museum's music archives where they discuss how people found out about music historically and how we learn about contemp...

Episode 80: Pontoons and Lagoons: Archeology in Polynesia from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.178292

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, on a raft in the middle of the open ocean where Xan discusses the complex maritime navigation of the Lapita people in ancient Polynesia...

Episode 81: It Takes Guts to Make Music from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.173659

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, in an exhibition room featuring a series of obscure musical instruments from throughout history.. Starting from 43,000 years ago to the...

Episode 82: Bible 2: Double Cross Feat. Rayce Peters. from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.168729

Happy Easter, Passover, and Ramadan from all of us at the Uncanny County Museum!

On this very special tour, we catch our tour guides Xan and Joe, joined by special guest Rayce Peters, outs...

Episode 83: Mullet at the Dawn of Time from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.164099

On this tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, at the center of the universe…just kidding it's one of our museum halls. They discuss how creation myths from different cultures connect t...

Episode 84: Protestants and Catholics Part 1: The Origin Of The Theses from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.158949

Welcome to the Uncanny County Museums’ special exhibition on the history of Catholicism and Protestantism! For part 1 of our exhibition, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, next to one of Gute...

Episode 85: Protestants and Catholics Part 2: Hugue-Knows? from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.153858

Continuing on with our extended exhibition focused on Protestants and Catholics, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they pick right back up from part 1 by discussing the creation of Calvin...

Episode 86: Protestants and Catholics Part 3: A Cross-Road from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.148386

Continuing on with our extended exhibition focused on the history of Protestants and Catholics, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they pick back up from part 2 by discussing the iconoclas...

Episode 87: Protestants and Catholics Part 4: Buckle Up! from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.143850

In wrapping up our exhibition on Protestants and Catholics, Xan and Joe pick right back up from part 3 by focusing on the reasons why the Puritans left England and later the Netherlands for the ...

Episode 88: Avant Gardner from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.138645

On today's tour, we join our tour guides, Xan and Joe, as they describe their experience exploring the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum together in Boston, and they recount the history of the...

Episode 89: 2 Prehistoric 2 Planet Feat. Hillary McLean from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.116128

On today's tour, our tour guides, Xan and Joe are reunited with special guest expert, paleontologist, and UCM legend, Hillary McLean, in discussing the science, research, and accuracy behind...

Episode 90: Jurassic Worldwide: Cretaceous Critics from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.112515

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) ...

Episode 91: Low-Res Mammals from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.108672

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 th...

Episode 92: A Psalm for the Wild Martha from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.102555

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...

Episode 93: Searching for Leatherman from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.098042

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 favorit...

Episode 94: Phoenicia and Ferb from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.093597

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...

Episode 95: You Otta-Know from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.089

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 eviden...

Episode 96: Rosetta-Mancing the Stone from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.083376

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 ...

Episode 97: Meta for You from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.078587

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.

Episode 98: Quantum Leap: The Occult and Modern Science from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.073262

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...

Episode 99: Reelin’ In the Fears: Lost in the Arctic from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.068286

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 th...

Episode 100: Battle to the Dylan from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.063152

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 ...

Episode 101: Weapons of Mammoth Destruction from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.056825

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 i...

Episode 102: Clairvoyant Annoyance: The Future of AI Art from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.050689

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 in...

Episode 103: Dinosaur Cancel Culture from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.043436

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...

Episode 104: White Whale Redemption from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.036804

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 Herma...

Episode 105: Xan and Joe Go Over the Top from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.030087

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 cul...

Episode 106: Chicken Noodle Synth for the Soul from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.026400

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 hist...

Episode 107: Our Moon Will Go On from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.022160

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.

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Episode 108: Waterhouse's Dinosaurs are Down from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.017237

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, al...

Episode 109: Hot Geologists Feat. @geoknowledgy from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.011978

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,...

Episode 110: Biennale Bouncer: Can Fanart Get in? from 2023-12-13T16:02:23.005611

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.

Episode 111: Crocs are Back from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.998414

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 ...

Episode 112: Croc of Ages Feat. @crikeyitschristian from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.993500

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 ...

Episode 113: The Last of Us: Useless in the Apocalypse from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.984005

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...

Episode 114: Partridge Run: The Mystery of Flight from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.976233

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 late...

Episode 115: From Mjölner to Monasteries from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.970498

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 ...

Episode 116: Mammoth Steppe Escalator from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.964571

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 c...

Episode 117: Cider? I Hardly Know Her from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.959601

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 th...

Episode 118: An Hour for a Minute: Waiting in Line for Fine Art from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.954396

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, Listen

Episode 119: Get to the Point: Armor and Armaments Throughout History from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.949486

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, an...

Episode 120: Prehistoric Panel 2 from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.943809

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. @CrikeyitsChristi...

Episode 121: Parking Spaces and Non-places from 2023-12-13T16:02:22.938149

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 Une...