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: 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

A 30-million-year-old dog fossil, learning to love mosquitos, public Wi-Fi peril and the Premonitions Bureau

OFFBITES: Sports jersey controversy and a VIP tour of the Pittock Mansion

OFFBITES: Critters that glow in the dark and a bowling prodigy smashes records

Glow-in-the-dark critters, a bowling prodigy, sports jersey emotions and the Pittock Mansion

BONUS: Surprise! You are related to Charles Manson!

OFFBITES: A capybara gender reveal party and the savior of Route 66

OFFBITES: The language of our hips and Gen Z finally hits happy hour

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

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