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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May 31, 2022 • 1h 23min
Live from Vancouver
It's Bananas live from Vancouver, Canada! Kurt and Scotty talk about a woman that brought a wild bobcat into her house, how a falling meatball caused a student to fail a test, a Spanish driver that ate hash cakes and a woman who had a drinking glass in her bladder for 4 years! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 26, 2022 • 22min
Vacations from Heck Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener confessions about peeing in sibling's beds while they slept, hanging up the phone while dad was trying to book a hotel and a man that fell off a cruise ship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 24, 2022 • 1h
Crypto Toilet
Kurt and Scotty talk about a toilet that turns human feces into crypto, the 13 most fascinating festivals, a senior citizen that stole a jacket from an art museum, a McDonalds customer that was fined for eating his food at Starbucks and how Walden Pond is being killed by urine! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 17, 2022 • 58min
Yard Sale!
Kurt and Scotty talk about how Nebraska got it’s own Navy, a soccer player fired after farting too much, fish causing the ocean to move when they have sex, holy water spiked seltzer, a flamingo on the loose in Texas, the speed texting record, Nissan creating it’s new car smell and the Harry Potter broomstick toy that might be a vibrator! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 12, 2022 • 24min
I Got Away With It Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener stories and confessions about a store clerk who didn’t know what a banana was, stealing money from mom for sweets, being a secret alcoholic and getting sober and pretending to have pinkeye to get out of work! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 10, 2022 • 1h 9min
Live from the Aladdin Theater
It's Bananas live from the Aladdin Theater in Portland! Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who almost lost his penis after pubic hair cut off circulation, a man who snorkeled into a music festival, an Australian paraglider who landed and was immediately punched by kangaroo and how Jeff Koons is sending sculptures to the moon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 3, 2022 • 54min
Paraglidin' Lions with Katie Notopoulos
Katie Notopoulos (technology reporter for Buzzfeed) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about Dallas getting Rick-Rolled by a massive QR code, pizza shop workers that took down a robber only to realize it was their former boss, giving lions oxytocin and a man who got his nose broken when a paraglider crashed into him! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 28, 2022 • 22min
Lock Your Doors Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read your confessions about bad neighbors! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 26, 2022 • 53min
Granny Pepsi Pancake
Kurt and Scotty talk about a college student who demanded an airplane from Pepsi, how most people can't name all their grandparents, a vasectomy doctor named Dick Chopp, a man who offered free pancakes to make friends and an elderly woman who got arrested for a slow speed chase! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 19, 2022 • 52min
Illegal Pickles with Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo (comedian, actress, writer) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a Denver man who faces felony charges over making a pickle ball court, a man who delivered his resume to companies by dressing up as a donut delivery person and a woman who allowed a baby bird to nest in her hair! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
