Location:
United States
Description:
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.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.audacy.com/krld
Episodes
Other Side of the News: Bringing 'dead zones' to life with vintage pay phones
9/17/2025
Mike Rogers speaks to a man who is helping to connect telecommunication "dead zones" with pay phones on this "Other Side of the News" clip.
Duración:00:03:12
SPECIAL: Could a blind date with extraterrestrial life crash the stock market?
9/13/2025
What would really happen if we made contact with alien life? How would our lives change? Would we even still BE alive? And most importantly… what would happen to the stock market? Dr. Avi Loeb joined host Mike Rogers on "Something Offbeat" to discuss what's different about the 3I ATLAS comet currently making its way through our solar system, and the implications it could have for us here on Earth.
Duración:00:18:08
ALIEN WEEK DISPATCH: Ancient life on Mars? Here's what NASA says its rover uncovered
9/11/2025
In a potential landmark discovery, NASA says its Mars rover has found potential signs of ancient microscopic life on the Red Planet. For details, WWJ's Tracey McCaskill was joined live by Mike Narlock, Head of Astronomy at Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills. (Photo: Getty Images)
Duración:00:12:18
Other Side of the News Special: Is it a comet or something more?
9/10/2025
Here's a preview of Mike Rogers' longer interview with Harvard Dr. Avi Loeb, out this Friday from the "Something Offbeat" podcast. Loeb thinks there are some things about a comet moving through our solar system that indicate it could be intelligently directed (an alien spacecraft?).
Duración:00:02:57
BONUS: Naked volleyball, robotic lions and living funerals
9/6/2025
Catch up on weird news from this week with a roundup from the "Something Offbeat" podcast, featuring stories from KMOX's The Dave Glover Show, KMBZ's the Dana & Parks Show and KDKA's the Big K Morning Show.
Duración:00:11:58
Other Side of the News: Piano playing rhino
9/3/2025
Mike Rogers learns about a rhinoceros who learned how to play piano on this "Other Side of the News" segment.
Duración:00:02:35
BONUS: A butt sniffer arrested, explosions and the cow of Stonehenge
8/30/2025
"Something Offbeat" is back with a roundup of weird news. This week, we've got stories from Los Angeles to Stonehenge from The Dave Glover show on KMOX, the Dana and Parks show on KMBZ and KNX News' LA Local.
Duración:00:15:49
Other Side of the News: Crash a wedding, for a fee
8/27/2025
Host Mike Rogers speaks with a woman about attending strangers' weddings for a fee.
Duración:00:02:45
Cracker Barrel, missing Texas woman joins African tribe in Scotland and radioactive shrimp
8/22/2025
This week, we go on another tour of weird news from Audacy stations across the country.
Duración:00:14:38
Other Side of the News: Can you delete yourself from the internet?
8/20/2025
"Something Offbeat" host Mike Rogers interviews a man working on deleting much of his digital footprint.
Duración:00:03:38
Back-to-school special: The Gen Z stare and beyond
8/15/2025
As back-to-school season gets into gear, "Something Offbeat" rounds up news about Gen Z from KMOX's The Dave Glover Show, WCCO's Adam & Jordana and KMBX's Dana & Parks.
Duración:00:14:31
Other Side of the News: Hopelessly devoted to Chick-fil-A
8/13/2025
"Something Offbeat" host Mike Rogers talks to a man who loves Chick-fil-A more than you do. Probably.
Duración:00:02:37
Zoo asks for pet donations to feed its animals, gambler wins 400 jackpots and weirdos throw adult toys at WNBA
8/9/2025
This week "Something Offbeat" checks out news from Audacy's WCCO, KMBZ and WWL.
Duración:00:15:31
Other Side of the News: A donkey sings the blues
8/6/2025
In this "Other Side of the News" dispatch, Mike Rogers learns about Monty, the blues-singing donkey.
Duración:00:03:09
Unpacking the Coldplay couple scandal
8/1/2025
"Something Offbeat" host Mike Rogers unpacks the Coldplay kiss cam scandal with Paul Keable, Chief Strategy Officer at Ashely Madison.
Duración:00:18:28
Other Side of the News: Taking on the UK in a teeny tiny car
7/30/2025
In this "Other Side of the News" dispatch, Mike Rogers talks to a man taking a tiny car across the U.K.
Duración:00:02:46
Remembering the Prince of Darkness, MRI horror and a firefly resurgence
7/25/2025
"Something Offbeat" goes on a tour of strange news out of Audacy stations in New Orleans, La., Kansas City, Mo., and Detroit, Mich.
Duración:00:22:37
Other Side of the News: Record-breaking bananas
7/23/2025
On this dispatch from Mike Rogers' "Other Side of the News", he covers Mt. Everest of bananas in Westmont, IL.
Duración:00:02:46
Other Side of the News: A cheesesteak odyssey
7/16/2025
Mike Rogers speaks with Jim Pappas, a man who has been on a cheesesteak adventure.
Duración:00:03:14