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All Episodes

Something Offbeat — 84 episodes

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A $40M Ferrari, US literary history in Mississippi, a Green Day movie, angry beavers and angry bears

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Talking with your hips, a capybara gender reveal party, the savior of Route 66 and Gen Z gets tipsy

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BONUS: Nudity, beer vodka trains and banjos! Yes! And have you ever met an attractive Bertha?!

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OFFBITES: Viral 'death' pants and Play-Doh for adults

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OFFBITES: Streetcar ghosts and AI ghosts

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Century old streetcar tracks found, AI ghosts, 'death' pants and Play-Doh for adults

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Breaking down the Empire State stunt, Rocket City, why AI is ruining video games and exploding fidget toys

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Fireman poops in a box, secret US history on display, the nation’s biggest truck stop and tales from animal control

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Brits in cowboy hats, saving an eaglet, termites take over vampire estate and a cross-country air race

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Letting AI plan a trip, dolphins at war, the Jazz Fest triathlon and mushroom hunting

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Other Side of the News: A scandal at the stone skimming competition

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Other Side of the News: Could you try a different sport every week?

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How to avoid being a holiday jerk, finding ancient canoes, drinking at 23-hour bars and more

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Other Side of the News: A visit to the Croc Cave, a collection of 3,800 Crocs

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The truth about genetic engineering, society getting meaner (?) and a 1,000-member rock band

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Comets, moon water, rats and robots

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Halloween crimes, ugly pumpkins, mind reading and adult-o-ween

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Licking toads, shucking oysters, saving roller coasters and more

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Gross smells and the spooky side of AI

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Other Side of the News: How long can your fridge really last?

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The Great Lakes' last shipwreck, feral hogs rampage and killer bear attacks campground

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Other Side of the News: Mobile bathroom trucks are changing lives

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A kitten fed to a snake, a man pretends to be a high schooler and we've all got road rage

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Other Side of the News: Texas chainsaw... orchestra?

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Poop spray mayhem, the rapture that never came and a history of failed predictions

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Other Side of the News: What it takes to be the ultimate Donkey Kong champ

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Deep sea aliens, babies switched at birth and a peek behind Alice Cooper's curtain

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Other Side of the News: Bringing 'dead zones' to life with vintage pay phones

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A mysterious comet in our solar system: Could a blind date with extraterrestrial life crash the stock market?

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ALIEN WEEK DISPATCH: Ancient life on Mars? Here's what NASA says its rover uncovered

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Other Side of the News: Is it a comet or something more?

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Naked volleyball, robotic lions and living funerals

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Other Side of the News: Piano playing rhino

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Other Side of the News: Crash a wedding, for a fee

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Cracker Barrel, missing Texas woman joins African tribe in Scotland and radioactive shrimp

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Other Side of the News: Can you delete yourself from the internet?

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Back-to-school special: The Gen Z stare and beyond

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Other Side of the News: Hopelessly devoted to Chick-fil-A

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Zoo asks for pet donations to feed its animals, gambler wins 400 jackpots and weirdos throw adult toys at WNBA

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Other Side of the News: A donkey sings the blues

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Unpacking the Coldplay couple scandal

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Other Side of the News: Taking on the UK in a teeny tiny car

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Remembering the Prince of Darkness, MRI horror and a firefly resurgence

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Other Side of the News: Record-breaking bananas

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Unhealthiest fast food, dangerous e-scooters and drugs in space

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Other Side of the News: A cheesesteak odyssey

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Bald guys, rich guys and stinging ants

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Stepping into the halls of psychedelic academia

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Pro-doping sports, a rejection disorder and water-gunning tourists

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Hiking with burgers n' beers, surprise danger linked to golf and keeping up with robots

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Orphaned time, the selfie museum and psychedelic college degrees

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Other Side of the News: Tasting the Six Flags diet, digging Dig World and finding the darkest night sky

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Other Side of the News: Extreme dogs, a daylong pub crawl and magic asparagus

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She's giving mother: How 97-year-old tortoise Mommy finally became a mom

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Why do GenZers spend so freaking much on breakups?

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We can't stop talking about Gen Z or unusual zoo births

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That poisonous tree from 'The White Lotus' is real: What you need to know

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Why the Yankees amended a decades-old ban on beards

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Vintage Offbeat: The real life fungus featured in 'The Last of Us'

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Offbites: Talkin' about animals and outer space

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Offbites: Soothing robot fears with emergency ice cream

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As schools try to ban Crocs, we're pulling back the layers on dress codes

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The case of Saturn's disappearing rings

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Offbites: From kayaking in a whale to the crime car wash

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Vintage Offbeat: A bear on Mars

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Not quite ‘Jurassic Park’: Scientists want to ‘resurrect’ the woolly mammoth soon

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Offbites: Adventures in déjà vu

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$2M Roman coin makes us wonder: What's the future of change?

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Did Google just get closer to proving the multiverse? It's complicated.

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Visiting the abandoned military base buried under hundreds of feet of ice in Greenland

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What new 'evidence' tells us (or doesn't) about DB Cooper

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'Most Offbeat' of the year: From Stonehenge to brain chips

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Offbites: Where the good gifts are

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Where are all these giant Christmas trees from anyway?

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Researchers unlock new Stonehenge mystery level

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Ages 5 & up: How to spot dangerous toys

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When your bad bear costume gets you arrested

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Offbites: Pythons on yogis, volcanoes on the moon, and podcasters on Google

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A star tries to take his dog to the grave: What you don't know about pet cemeteries

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Pizza party dread: Why you deserve more than two slices at work

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Something Offbeat’s Spooky Tales: Ghosts, vampires and zombies

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Offbites: Baseball snakes and pyramid dogs

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Pumpkin spice everything: Is it too much?

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Vintage Offbeat: An expensive office party