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 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.
Apr 14, 2022 • 23min
Lots of F Bombs! Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener confessions about tampon stealing revenge and releasing groundhogs into someone else’s garden! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 12, 2022 • 53min
The Charlize Theron Episode with Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the wild world of experimental surgery, multiple people who fell out of a building after man fell off a nearby roof, a foul mouthed crow that befriended a school class and a woman who discovered a naked man who had been living in her trunk for 3 days! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 5, 2022 • 55min
Welcome to Muff Fest with Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher
Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher (The Endless Honeymoon podcast) join Kurt and Scotty to talk about a vulva shaped spaceship, including wax figures of celebrities in your wedding, volunteers needed for the muff festival and a goat that helped with a police chase! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 5, 2022 • 1h 21min
Live From Tacoma with Jessica Dobson
It's Bananas live from Tacoma, Washington! Jessica Dobson returns to the podcast to chat with Kurt and Scotty about a man who tried to cash a 368 billion dollar check, a woman who hired Miss Bigfoot for a kids birthday party, a model school pupil who turned out to be a 30 year old imposter and a hero dog that faked rescuing children for treats! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 31, 2022 • 21min
Rent Free Romance Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell listener stories about person who lived with their partner and cheated with their roommate and lying about dating Chad Kroeger! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 29, 2022 • 53min
Comfort Turkey with Zainab Johnson
Zainab Johnson (comedian, Upload) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about certain emotional support animals not being allowed to fly anymore, a church clock that was fixed with two cans of WD40, a man rescued twice in two days while hiking in Arizona, ranch dressing diamonds and how vegetables might not actually help your help! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
