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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Aug 5, 2021 • 24min
Employee of the Month Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell listener stories about a grandfather’s unique jobs and finding a coworker doing something strange with a vacuum! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 3, 2021 • 54min
Greatest Fan in the World with Aparna Nancherla
Aparna Nancherla (comedian, Corporate, The Greath North) talks to Kurt and Scotty about a baby born on 7/11, cocaine users getting banned from football matches, a missing tortoise found after 30 years, land lobsters in Big Bend and a woman that won a toy Yoda! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 27, 2021 • 59min
Radioactive Cocky Piggies with Maria Bamford
Maria Bamford joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about fish sex and noise, Peppa Pig causing American kids to have British accents, cocky and aggressive radioactive pigs in Japan, a wood satellite and the Australian Prime Minister insisting he didn’t shit his pants at a McDonalds! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 22, 2021 • 24min
Kick in the Head Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell a story about a listener who tried to kick herself in the head repeatedly and almost ruptured her appendix and a story about a listener who got a nose bleed while driving and gets pulled over! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 20, 2021 • 57min
Tuna Blobs and the Most Special Mango
Kurt and Scotty talk about a newspaper that congratulated a man for pleasing 15 women, the blobs that fell from the sky, Subway’s “tuna”, the world’s most expensive mango and an Alzheimer’s patient marrying his wife for a second time! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 13, 2021 • 1h
Blow It Out Your Nose with Alyssa Limperis
Alyssa Limperis (comedy, new movie Too Late) talks with Kurt and Scotty about an update on Buddy the Beefalo, a woman who chased her daughter down the street while wearing a fox costume, a runner who collapsed during a race, a woman who had a toy stuck up her nose for 37 years, the blue people of Kentucky and French robbers that tried to rob a McDonalds! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 8, 2021 • 22min
Combing It Out Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell a listener story about a woman who met a man who just wanted to comb her hair and a listener story about a woman who listed her house as a restaurant! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jul 6, 2021 • 56min
Escape from Escaping with Ever Mainard
Ever Mainard (comedy, Paddleton) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a Baltimore man who stole an ambulance to drive himself to the hospital, a man who did not sleep for 40 years, a man who broke the world record stacking M&Ms, an accidental Dad-Fest and two women who escaped prison and were arrested in an escape room! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 29, 2021 • 1h 2min
Moon Bone
Kurt and Scotty tell stories about DNA on NYC subways, a guy who stole $21 million worth of lunar rocks so he could have sex on them, strange insurance policies and a petition for Jeff Bezos to buy and eat the Mona Lisa! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 24, 2021 • 21min
Pigeon Foot Minisode
Kurt and Scotty discuss a listener story about accidentally eating acid candy and a listener story about a Viking metal band and a pigeon! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
