The Uncanny County Museum

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

  1. Episode 139: 9 to 5 Chads: Teaching Art in Higher Ed.

    05/25/2024

    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 insight into the unexpected slow down of their tours at the UCM and hint at their new Podcast project.

    1h 33m
  2. Episode 138: Assassins Cuisine

    04/27/2024

    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, along with wondering what kind of food they may have eaten.

    1h 5m
  3. Episode 137: Chicxulub Asteroid City

    04/13/2024

    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 endured.

    1h 11m
  4. Episode 136: Poor Things in Margaritaville

    03/30/2024

    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 Steinbeck, and even the AMC series Breaking Bad, they deep dive into how we can identify with fictional characters, and take away powerful messages from reading/consuming fiction.

    1h 29m
  5. Episode 135: Parthenogenesis Evangelion

    03/16/2024

    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 opens with his thoughts regarding Dune 2.

    1 hr
  6. Episode 134: Soccer Punch

    02/24/2024

    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 greater physical and psychological impact.

    1h 15m
  7. Episode 133: Scuba Certified Fresh

    02/10/2024

    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.

    1h 15m
  8. Episode 132: Pyramid Scheme to Divinity

    01/27/2024

    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 theories surrounding his existence.

    1h 20m
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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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  • Creator
    Xan Peters and Joe Cimino
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2024
  • Episodes
    139
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    The Uncanny County Museum