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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Nov 2, 2021 • 1h 17min
Bananas Live in Hamden!
It's Bananas live in Hamden, Connecticut! Danielle Henderson (I Saw What You Did podcast) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about Pablo Escobar’s hippos being declared people, a man who made his date pay for $100 tacos at Taco Bell, a human zookeeper that fathered chicks with a murderous crane and the cigarette smoking, beer chugging bear that helped fight Nazis! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 28, 2021 • 23min
Blue Moon, Wet Dog Minisode
Kurt and Scotty get a call on the Banana phone and the listener tells a story about accidentally stealing a seeing-eye dog and they tell a story about a listener’s friend named Ricky! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 28, 2021 • 23min
Pope Pops Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell listener stories about an interesting friend from law school, and a very strange pizza delivery! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 26, 2021 • 59min
Remote Controlled Dancing Grannies
Kurt and Scotty talk about a remote that repels dancing grannies, a woman who beat off robbers with a Rock Band guitar, a meteorite landing on a woman’s pillow and cats being annoyed that their owners are home more! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 21, 2021 • 22min
Boiling Points Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell a listener story about how hot dogs caused a divorce! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 19, 2021 • 57min
Who Forked the Cheese? with SuChin Pak
SuChin Pak joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a drunk pilot who landed a a plane on New York City streets twice, a forklift driver who was buried under 50 tons of cheese, a family who’s dog turned out to be a bear and a suspicious package outside a library in Oregon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 12, 2021 • 58min
Clown Shortage with Kendra Cole
Kendra Cole (writer on The Wonder Years) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a clown shortage in Ireland, wild boars attacking Shakira, two kids who got locked in a super market overnight, a missing drunk man that joined a search party looking for him and the new Amazon robot that throws itself down stairs! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 5, 2021 • 53min
Stay Puft, Crypto Hamster! with Mary Roach
Mary Roach (new book Fuzz out now!) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a crypto-currency trading hamster, how many s’mores you could make out of the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, a miracle shark baby and lab grown woolly mammoths! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2021 • 22min
Smooth Sailing Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell a listener story about going on a cruise and accidentally breaking the law! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sep 30, 2021 • 24min
Pizza Pizza Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tells listener stories about working at the geriatric ward in a hospital and a very crazy pizza delivery! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
