Something Offbeat

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WEIRDEST NEWS OF 2025: Not quite 'Jurassic Park' and more Dec 19, 2025

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We're rounding up the weirdest stories of 2025. In this episode, the top of the top -- Colossal Biosciences' work to bring back extinct animals, the rapture that never came and a possible break in the D.B. Cooper case.

Other Side of the News: A scandal at the stone skimming competition Dec 18, 2025

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Something Offbeat host Mike Rogers interviews a man from Kentucky about becoming the world's stone skimming champion and about a scandal at the competition in Scotland.

Potty problems, random graves, shrimp opinions and bigfoot Dec 12, 2025

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This week, we’ve got a conversation about cemeteries where you wouldn’t expect them from KMBZ's Dan & Parks in Kansas City, opinions about the little-known delicacy that is soft shell shrimp from Scoot at WWL in New Orleans, and a surprise sighting of a mythical creature from The Dave Glover Show out of KMOX in St. Louis. But first, we’re headed to WCCO News Talk Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they’ve got potty problems.

Other Side of the News: Could you try a different sport every week? Dec 11, 2025

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Mike Rogers interviews a grad student from Scotland who has been trying a different sport every week.