The Uncanny County Museum

The Uncanny County Museum

By Xan Peters and Joe CiminoComedyScienceArtsHistoryImprov
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The Uncanny County Museum episodes

  • 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.

    1 hr 35 min
  • 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 speakers left.

    1 hr 13 min
  • 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. 

    1 hr 17 min
  • 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. 


    1 hr 29 min
  • 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.


    1 hr 29 min
  • 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.

    1 hr 29 min
  • 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.

    1 hr 40 min
  • 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 the recent entry to the Jurassic Park saga, Jurassic World Dominion.

    2 hr 14 min

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Join Xan and Joe as they take you on a tour of a museum that contains anything and everything.