UPI Odd News Minute

About UPI Odd News Minute

The Odd News Minute podcast from United Press International is a weekday roundup of hilarious and awe-inspiring stories. New world records, critter misadventures, freaky discoveries, serendipitous lottery wins -- it's the best news you'll hear all day.

Publisher

Ben Hooper

Category

news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Apr 2023

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

876 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   Odds and Ends: 639-pound hip thrust, Maryland highway cow

   The UPI Odd News Minute presidents Weekend Odds and Ends, our weekly roundup of the missed odd-portunities that didn't quite make this week's podcasts. Today's stories include a Florida woman breaking the Guinness World Record for the heaviest weighted hip thrust, a cow wandering onto a Baltimore County highway, the world's longest freight train and a moose that had "beef with some wire."

2. 

   22 Oct 2026

   Oklahoma caiman, pelicans fly the coop

   A caiman on the loose for months is captured in an Oklahoma creek and two pelicans escape from he Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

3. 

   21 Oct 2026

   Lime e-bikes 'not for jousting,' Minnesota 'space object'

   E-bike rental company Lime responds to a viral video by specifying its bikes are "not for jousting" and a mysterious metal object found in a Minnesota cornfield is suspected to have fallen from space on today's UPI Odd News Minute. For these stories and more, visit UPI.com/Odd_News. Follow the UPI Odd News Minute on YouTube and TikTok.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

116,733

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

68

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.