Bananas - Funny news from around the world with Scotty Landes and Kurt Braunohler
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Each week on Bananas, Kurt Braunohler and Scotty Landes discuss the strange, fascinating and just plain bananas news from around the world. The headlines and weird news are lighthearted, unexpected and always fun. Like the time the delivery robot ran through a crime scene or the lady who took in a stray cat only to find out it was a mountain lion. Or the time Kurt and Scotty drove a butt across the country.
Check your local listings because this feel-good comedy podcast often goes on the road for live shows and may be in a city near you. Fun fact: We also hear the banana boys are a favorite amongst listeners while at the dentist, getting surgery and even giving birth!
Bananas is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, I Said No Gifts! and more.
Check your local listings because this feel-good comedy podcast often goes on the road for live shows and may be in a city near you. Fun fact: We also hear the banana boys are a favorite amongst listeners while at the dentist, getting surgery and even giving birth!
Bananas is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, I Said No Gifts! and more.
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Jul 11, 2023 • 58min
Welcome to Time with Roz Hernandez
Roz Hernandez joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a Harvard professor of truth who was accused of falsifying data, how people's ages are changing in South Korea, a new record set for the fastest trip on entirety of NYC subway system and an Illinois funeral home that has a miniature golf course under it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 4, 2023 • 53min
TLC Presents Yeastie the Yogurt Mascot
Kurt and Scotty talk about Felicia the diaper wearing ferret who was sent into a particle accelerator for science, a Florida man who lost his arm to an alligator while peeing behind a bar, the truth behind the viral video of a person breaking through a bathroom wall and yogurt being named the official snack of New York! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 27, 2023 • 58min
Mugs and Monsters
Kurt and Scotty talk about a company that will turn loved ones remains into a coffee mug, a loch ness monster hunter that thought his job would be easier, a lost language that was saved by a parrot, how one in eight men have brought a condom to a funeral just in case, and the SFO airport welcoming a therapy cat to it’s therapy animal team! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 20, 2023 • 59min
Lucifer’s Terrible Parents with Megan Gailey and Chris Garcia
Megan Gailey and Chris Garcia join Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who didn’t sleep for 29 hours and then raced a horse and won, British parents who won fight to name their son Lucifer, if men are going extinct and a Titanic superfan who is trying to collect 1 million Titanic VHS tapes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2023 • 49min
Bananas Bonusode #1: Enter the Bonusode
Kurt and Scotty talk about a kid’s stressful restaurant game, a man who will pick you up instead of Uber, losing virginities, mustaches, and weird Nextdoor posts! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 13, 2023 • 56min
Push Every Button with Novena Carmel
Novena Carmel joins Kurt and Scotty to about Norway warning citizens to stay away from Russian spy whale, a Taylor Swift fan who ate 9 hotdogs at her concert, Orcas attacking boats and a man’s hiccups who were cured by a digital rectal massage! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 6, 2023 • 59min
Chocolate Cave Party with Ellie Kemper and Scott Eckert
Ellie Kemper and Scott Eckert join Kurt and Scotty to talk about a woman who lived in a cave for 65 days straight, an ad for party actors needed in LA, a phantom cat shaver and a woman who is desperately trying to get rid of 130k chocolate bars! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 30, 2023 • 57min
It’s Not a Baby Unless I See a Diaper
Kurt and Scotty talk about a bouncy house king who was jailed for burning down rival business, swimmers who found pair of teeth in the ocean and tried to find owner, woman who dressed cat as a baby to sneak drugs into resort and a man who found a ticket for using his cell phone while driving! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 23, 2023 • 58min
Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes Potatoes
Kurt and Scotty talk about a Disney ride shut down after a man farted on it, a woman who found snakes in the wall of her dream home, an update on the pet alligator Rambo, a cashier who used his photographic memory to steal credit card numbers and a potato monument in Boston! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 16, 2023 • 1h 2min
Microdosing with Rye Bread
Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who stole thousands of dollars worth of rare coins and cashed them in at Coinstar, how Chuck-E-Cheese still uses floppy disks to run, a man who stole a school bus and put a dead deer in the back, an April Fools Joke Sarah Polley's daughter played on her and an Italian town that hallucinated for years because of bread! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
