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.
Episodes
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Jan 3, 2023 • 1h 20min
Live from Minneapolis
It's Bananas live from Minneapolis! Kurt and Scotty talk about a goat that loves punk rock, a woman charged $8k after rental car company claimed she drove 3x the circumference of the earth, an ice age bison and a man surviving at sea by holding on to soccer ball! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 27, 2022 • 1h 23min
Bananas After Dark with Lauren Cook #2
It's another Bananas After Dark with Lauren Cook! Lauren joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who took 40,000 ecstasy pills over 9 years, a husband’s strange reaction to his sister in law’s pregnancy announcement, a man catfishing a police officer and convincing him to hand over his patrol car, a Mickey Mouse statue with lobster claws and man who had to have his testicles removed after they were making a hissing noise! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 22, 2022 • 22min
Short Tongue Surprise Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener confessions about making out with a guy with a short tongue, pretending to be a secret admirer to get back at a friend and breaking a friend’s ceramics projects in class! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 20, 2022 • 56min
The Bee That Loved Rotisserie Chicken with Allison Miller
Allison Miller (A Million Little Things) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who ate 40 chickens in 40 days, a Blockbuster themed bar, a school bus driver who took kids to Connecticut instead of Rhode Island, the young scientist award, a man who figured out how many cans of Spaghetti-o’s is needed to write Lord of the Rings! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 13, 2022 • 57min
All Roads Lead to Busted Toilets with Danielle Henderson
Danielle Henderson returns to Bananas! She chats with Kurt and Scotty about a 33 mile road being stolen, armpit sex at BYU, a man driving into Japan’s oldest toilet and a bag-gate scandal in cornhole! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 8, 2022 • 22min
Car Camp Martyr Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener confessions about making a friend sleep outside when there wasn’t enough room in car and buying a puzzle from charity shop that didn’t have enough pieces and still gifting it! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 6, 2022 • 57min
Speed Cheese with Atsuko Okatsuka
Atsuko Okatsuka returns to the Bananas podcast to talk with Kurt and Scotty about history’s original Florida man, a woman suing Velveeta, a man who was fired for not being fun at work and brothers running for mayor against each other! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 29, 2022 • 54min
Hot Tamale!
Kurt and Scotty talk about a lyrebird that mimics the evacuation sound at zoo, the Texas couple who thinks house is haunted by sexual ghosts, a water slide catching on fire, the first Filipino to visit every country in the world and an attorney who fought helmet laws dies in motorcycle crash while not wearing helmet! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 24, 2022 • 25min
Confession Yard Sale Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener confessions about not knowing the Pacific Ocean has salt in it, copying a friend's art project and winning an award, throwing a dead turtle out the car window, scamming neighbors into giving money for Model UN and being a below average taster! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 22, 2022 • 57min
Tongue Paint The Beaver with Chloe Radcliffe
Chloe Radcliffe (comedian) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man painting a beaver with his tongue, Wendy’s workers messing with railroad tracks to slow down business, scientists trying to teach robots to laugh at the right time and a person throwing a steak out the window at a dinner party! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
