The Uncanny County Museum

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.

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.

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.

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 really are.

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.

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.

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.

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 in the new year!

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.

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.

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 novel has had on our world, along with thoughts concerning the industrialization of the whali...

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.