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  • Halloween crimes, ugly pumpkins, mind reading and more

    Halloween crimes, ugly pumpkins, mind reading and more
    2025/10/31
    Happy Halloween Offbesties, and welcome to a spooky edition of Something Offbeat’s weird news roundups. Today, we’re focused on, you guessed it, Halloween headlines, from adult-o-ween to the changing face of Satanic Panic to pumpkin mishaps and freaky magicians.
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    20 分
  • Licking toads, shucking oysters, saving roller coasters and more

    Licking toads, shucking oysters, saving roller coasters and more
    2025/10/24
    This week, our stories have a bit of a theme. They’re all about feeling a rush – from that stomach-dropping sensation you get while riding a roller coaster to the joy of perfectly shucking an oyster to… some more questionable ways to live on the edge. With audio from Scoot and Tommy Tucker from WWL in New Orleans, the Dana & Parks Show from KMBZ in Kansas City and the Dave Glover Show from KMOX in St. Louis.
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    31 分
  • Gross smells and the spooky side of AI

    Gross smells and the spooky side of AI
    2025/10/17
    This week, we’re taking a deep dive into the spooky side of artificial intelligence as we gear up for Halloween. We’ll hear about the news that people will soon be able to use ChatGPT to order from Walmart from KCBS Radio’s Bloomberg Tech and Business report out of the Bay Area and about the dangers of getting in too deep with an AI companion from WBBM Newsradio’s the Noon Business Hour in Chicago. We’ll also check out a discussion about legislation that would make it illegal to marry AI from the Dave Glover show out of KMOX in St. Louis and about an AI-themed haunted house from WWJ in Detroit. Finally, we’ll check in with the Dana and Parks Show from KMBZ in Kansas City on the results of a scary, smelly survey that might reveal why some of us are turning to the embrace of AI.
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    21 分
  • Other Side of the News: How long can your fridge really last?

    Other Side of the News: How long can your fridge really last?
    2025/10/15
    "Something Offbeat" host Mike Rogers interviews a woman who has kept her fridge running for decades on this "Other Side of the News" dispatch.
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    3 分
  • The Great Lakes' last shipwreck, feral hogs rampage and killer bear attacks campground

    The Great Lakes' last shipwreck, feral hogs rampage and killer bear attacks campground
    2025/10/10
    We’re travelling to the bottom of the Great Lakes to explore a notorious shipwreck on this episode with an interview from WWJ Newsradio in Detroit, then heading south to Louisiana where WWL’s Tommy Tucker digs into the dangerous and sometimes deadly feral hog infestation and finally to the bear-filled forests of the Ozarks, where the Dana & Parks Show out of Kansas City said multiple attacks have recently been reported.
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    22 分
  • Other Side of the News: Mobile bathroom trucks are changing lives

    Other Side of the News: Mobile bathroom trucks are changing lives
    2025/10/08
    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 分
  • 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
    2025/10/03
    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 分
  • Other Side of the News: Texas chainsaw... orchestra?

    Other Side of the News: Texas chainsaw... orchestra?
    2025/10/01
    On this "Other Side of the News" report, Mike Rogers interviews an orchestra of chainsaws.
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    3 分