Episodios

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

    Other Side of the News: Mobile bathroom trucks are changing lives
    Oct 8 2025
    In this "Other Side of the News feature from "Something Offbeat" host Mike Rogers, he talks to a woman offering dignity in an unusual place to wash up for those experiencing homelessness.
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    3 m
  • A kitten fed to a snake, a man pretends to be a high schooler and we've all got road rage

    A kitten fed to a snake, a man pretends to be a high schooler and we've all got road rage
    Oct 3 2025
    On this "Something Offbeat" weird news roundup, you'll hear about cat fed to a snake from WWL’s Scoot, a man pretending to be a higher schooler from the Dana and Parks Show out of KMBZ and new road rage data from WCCO’s Adam and Jordana.
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    19 m
  • Other Side of the News: Texas chainsaw... orchestra?

    Other Side of the News: Texas chainsaw... orchestra?
    Oct 1 2025
    On this "Other Side of the News" report, Mike Rogers interviews an orchestra of chainsaws.
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    3 m
  • BONUS: Poop spray mayhem, the rapture that never came and a history of failed predictions

    BONUS: Poop spray mayhem, the rapture that never came and a history of failed predictions
    Sep 27 2025
    This week's "Something Offbeat" news roundup covers a teaching assistant arrested for fart spray from the Dana & Parks Show, The Dave Glover Show's take on this week's non-rapture, and a history of prediction failures from Scoot.
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    14 m
  • Other Side of the News: What it takes to be the ultimate Donkey Kong champ

    Other Side of the News: What it takes to be the ultimate Donkey Kong champ
    Sep 24 2025
    In this "Other Side of the News" dispatch, host Mike Rogers interviews a man who beat the top Donkey Kong score -- twice.
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    3 m
  • BONUS: Deep sea aliens, babies switched at birth and a peek behind Alice Cooper's curtain

    BONUS: Deep sea aliens, babies switched at birth and a peek behind Alice Cooper's curtain
    Sep 20 2025
    Here's another "Something Offbeat" roundup of weird news. This week, we've got more alien headlines from The Dave Glover Show, a nurse who was fired for reporting babies switched at birth from the Dana & Parks Show and and the offbeat origins of shock rock with Alice Cooper and WWL's Scoot.
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    17 m
  • Other Side of the News: Bringing 'dead zones' to life with vintage pay phones

    Other Side of the News: Bringing 'dead zones' to life with vintage pay phones
    Sep 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.
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    3 m
  • A mysterious comet in our solar system: Could a blind date with extraterrestrial life crash the stock market?

    A mysterious comet in our solar system: Could a blind date with extraterrestrial life crash the stock market?
    Sep 12 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.
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    18 m