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.
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Jul 1, 2025 • 52min
Stolen Sausage Submarine
Kurt and Scotty talk about how the Chinese police corgi stole sausage from a child, a man flees police using submarine and noisy hungry frogs ruin farmer's life! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 24, 2025 • 1h 7min
Mummy Sniffin Monkey F*ckin Beats with Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal joins Kurt and Scotty talk about how scientists taught monkeys to use money and first they stole and then sold sex, why mummies still smell nice and Steve Harvey gifted TV every year to teacher who said he would never get on TV! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 17, 2025 • 54min
Gone in 16 Seconds with Lili Trifilio
Lili Trifilio is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about the time Andre the Giant let out a 16 second fart on The Princess Bride set, a toddler thinks John Wilkes Booth is hiding under her bed, China hosts first race of humans vs robots and a man steals 8 dump trucks! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 10, 2025 • 54min
From Mouth to Butt in Japan
Kurt and Scotty talk about a museum in Japan where you can sniff animals butts, a Boston homeowner discovers his house is cut in half, food delivery driver tricks people into thinking he delivered a pizza to Mt. Fuji and snake falls in woman’s margarita! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 3, 2025 • 48min
Blowing it Up and Blowing it Out with Charlotte Dobre
Charlotte Dobre joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a school forced to evacuate after kid brings grenade for show and tell, a TV anchor goes into labor on air and finishes entire morning broadcast, a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail to nudist colony and a postal worker arrested for DUI while on route! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2025 • 53min
Men are Psychopaths, Women Fall in Crevices
Kurt and Scotty talk about how psychopaths are more attractive, a woman falls into crevice trying to retrieve her cell phone, and a woman files for divorce after Chat GPT reads husbands affair in coffee grounds! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 20, 2025 • 54min
Oh God My Phone
Kurt and Scotty talk about how in Finland mobile phone throwing is a national sport, a new MMA Jesus movie and a naked race! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2025 • 53min
Kindly Style Sea Steak with Mary Holland
Mary Holland joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man with brain implant asks for beer as first words, using the dishwasher to make a steak and a sea serpent chases vessel in kindly style! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 6, 2025 • 50min
Big Gord and the Stranded Man
Kurt and Scotty talk about a stranded man lifted from Mt Fuji and then rescued again when he returned to get his phone, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant has 500 cat figurines stolen, fart spray causes chaos at carnival and Japan invents chilled drinkable mayo! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 29, 2025 • 58min
Stuffed Cheese and Small Turds
Kurt and Scotty talk about did the government invent stuffed crust pizza, how a random text ended up in happily ever after, Burger King has the right to use it’s name except in one town in Illinois and Mark Wahlberg’s clothing store vandalized! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
