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: Exploring the backrooms and the psychology of fear

OFFBITES: Disc Golf World Championships and disappearing theaters

Exploring the backrooms, empty theaters, the psychology of fear and… professional disc golf

BONUS: One Florida cop refuses to give a female driver...a hand!

OFFBITES: Killer umbrellas and the dying Dead Sea

OFFBITES: Fanny pack with $30K in Pokémon money saved and tall ships arrive for America's 250th anniversary

Bizarre beach tales, from fanny pack cash and tall ships to killer umbrellas and the dying Dead Sea

OFFBITES: A cemetery city and Americans real showering habits

OFFBITES: Mysterious piggy banks and the magic of wind phones

Piggy banks wash up on beaches, wind phones connect to the other side, a cemetery city and shower habits revealed

BONUS: Does anyone really know anything about the FIFA World Cup???

BONUS: The cars are taking over and won't go! A gang of Waymos!

OFFBITES: Can excessive work lead to obesity? Plus, a diet from the Bible

OFFBITES: 'Senior Assassins' and UFO files

'Senior Assassins' on the loose, UFO reports, work potentially causing obesity and the Bible diet

BONUS: Robbers with a bear of a weapon...terrorizing California residents!

BONUS: A man gets chopped up by a plane...and passengers are taking selfies of it!

OFFBITES: AI vacation planning and kamikaze dolphins

OFFBITES: A bayou triathlon and morel mushroom hunting

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