Something Offbeat

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What’s the deeper story behind that weird headline you forwarded to your friends or shared at the watercooler? We ask questions to gain grounded insight into the stranger news of the week.

Episodes

OFFBITES: Unruly passengers disrupt flights and a dog helps find the cause of narcolepsy

OFFBITES: How much ball bouncing is too much? Can AI make you the perfect perfume? Let's find out

Ball bouncing controversy, AI perfume, unruly passengers and a dog helps find cause of narcolepsy

OFFBITES: How Target carts are tracking shoppers and the mysteries of dark matter

OFFBITES: Ancient teeth, Nic Cage's Malibu sinkhole and 'Paul is Dead' revisited

Mastodon teeth, Nic Cage's sinkhole, the 'Paul is Dead' rumor, Target surveillance and dark matter mysteries

OFFBITES: Secret worlds under the marina and in Charlotte's web, a kangaroo on the loose and llama costume contest

OFFBITES: Cops allegedly kill a baby donkey and all you need to know about the spotted lanternfly invasion

A baby donkey murdered, the spotted lanternfly invasion, a hidden world under the dock, Charlotte's web, kangaroo on the loose and llamas in costumes

OFFBITES: A serial pooper and a blood moon

OFFBITES: FBI finds missing Egyptian artifacts, plus rescue stories about a pig, snake and nearly 150 cats

The case of a serial pooper, plus Egyptian artifacts, pigs, cats, snakes and blood moons

OFFBITES: An offbeat Green Day adventure, angry beavers and angry bears

OFFBITES: A $40M electric Ferrari and US literary history at Square Books in Mississippi

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

OFFBITES: A brain-eating infection linked to oysters and 'popcorn brain' syndrome linked to technology

OFFBITES: Thunder, lightning, an eclipse, a planet parade, a meteor shower and a man in a billboard

A brain-eating infection, 'popcorn brain' syndrome and wild stuff happening in the sky

OFFBITES: A defense of mosquitoes and the perils of public WiFi

OFFBITES: The Premonitions Bureau and an ancient dog fossil