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 24, 2023 • 58min
Carrot Boy 4eva with Monica Barbaro
Monica Barbaro (Top Gun) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a husband who forgot his wife after a toilet break on a road trip, a Dutch supermarket with a slow lane for lonely seniors and a Reddit post about holding a grudge over being called carrot boy in grade school! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 17, 2023 • 57min
Phineas Taylor Cruiser
Kurt and Scotty talk about a Space X engineer quitting to make a pizza robot, a drunk man who pooped on his own car during a sobriety test, a robotic mouth that chants A.I. prayers, aman who has eaten mac and cheese for lunch and dinner for 17 years! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 10, 2023 • 57min
Thor’s Touching Himself
Kurt and Scotty talk about a British town that canceled fireworks for a walrus, German police that chased a Tesla on autopilot, the Chilean protest dog, a couple that has been camping only 11 minutes from their home for years and the Anchorage parking fairies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 5, 2023 • 20min
Bad Friend Confessions Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read your confessions about how John Mulaney made someone realize they are bi, hooking up with a friend’s ex-boyfriends, scratching a boss’s car, reporting a friend for copyright infringement and putting hot sauce in a roommates lotion! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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.
