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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Apr 4, 2023 • 59min
Downward Iguanas
Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who found an Egyptian sarcophagus abandoned on the sidewalk, the museum of failure in Brooklyn, an Olympics disaster that allowed one skater to make history and a Florida man injured by a falling iguana while doing yoga! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 28, 2023 • 60min
The Balcony Vomiter with Ivy Le
Ivy Le (FOGO: Fear Of Going Outside podcast) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about ranch dressing ice cream and Sunny D vodka, a cat who alerted rescuers to a man who fell down a waterfall, a hotel shaped like a butthole, and an apartment complex plagued by a serial balcony vomiter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 21, 2023 • 55min
Deliver Us From Uber
Kurt and Scotty talk about the government saying there is an alien mothership sending mini probes to Earth, mystery Uber Eats deliveries, a cemetery taking out personal ad to find local goose a mate, Sony owning a patent to yell at your TV to skip commercials, self driving cars that can re-possess themselves and an influencer who married themself and now wants a divorce! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 14, 2023 • 59min
Meet Charlie Fromage's Sister! with Eden Dranger
Eden Dranger joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a Canadian super pig, Ezekiel the pancake eating pig who stole 2 kilos of tortillas, a micro nation inside desert with a dictator and walrus ban and a priest who temporarily died, went to hell and said Rihanna was playing in hell! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 7, 2023 • 57min
Breast Fed Groom
Kurt and Scotty talk about fossilized bones of a monster bird found in New Zealand, a New York alligator captured in Prospect Park, A.I. being as smart as pigeons and a bride who found her groom being breast fed by his mother before their wedding! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 28, 2023 • 56min
The Great Sea Cat Egg Heist of Twin City Laundry
Kurt and Scotty talk about whether sea cats had passports, a man who stole 200k Cadbury eggs, baseball twins who aren’t related and a man who lives in old laundry mat! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 21, 2023 • 59min
Laugh and a Tail Wag with Ophira Eisenberg
Ophira Eisenberg (comedian, author, podcaster) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the first nude ever sent, Montreal’s number one restaurant on Trip Advisor and how female dogs judge their owners when they make mistakes! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 14, 2023 • 1h 2min
Drugs, Death and Condom Bananas
Kurt and Scotty talk about a pigeon caught in a prison yard wearing a tiny backpack of meth, a 14 year old who has been sleeping outside for over 1000 days, a woman who wanted a giant penis on her grave, surgeons extracting condom wrapped banana from inside a man and dancers flash mobbing a funeral with Another One Bites The Dust! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 7, 2023 • 54min
Polaroid Bear
Kurt and Scotty talk about a bear that took hundreds of selfies on trail cam, a woman who avoided paying for groceries for 2 years, when Cleveland released 1.5 million balloons and 2 men died and two 100 year old pen pals who still writing to each other! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 31, 2023 • 58min
Man-Dog Walks into a Strip Club with a Suitcase Full of Meat with Nina Tarr
Nina Tarr joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who spent $15k to become a dog, a man arrested after stealing a suitcase full of meat, the Indiana DMV rejecting license plates and a man who used his company credit card to spend $300k at a strip club. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
