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 24, 2021 • 55min
Satan Is My Co-Pilot
Kurt and Scotty talk about a naked high speed chase involving Satan, a house cat that shut down a school, football sized goldfish, a woman being hit by a plane while kayaking, the kayak court of Salt Lake City and a fudge recipe on a headstone! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 19, 2021 • 25min
You're So Fake Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell listener stories about waking up and finding a drunk man in your hotel room and a clown traumatizing a kid at a birthday party See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 19, 2021 • 27min
Pants Party Minisode
In this minisode Kurt and Scotty talk about Scotty's infamous pants parties, a strange passenger on a plane and a 3 year old who loves an Austrian concert violinist! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 17, 2021 • 60min
Human Suction Cup with Shonali Bhowmik
Shonali Bhowmik (musician/filmmaker/actor, Tigers and Monkeys) chats with Kurt and Scotty about the human suction cup, visitors getting injured at the Titanic museum, a man who woke up with amnesia, a man who brought his mother’s ashes on a date and how the Matrix code came from a sushi recipe! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Aug 10, 2021 • 58min
Cocaine Cactus
Kurt and Scotty talk about a kids toy that sings a Polish rap about cocaine, a group of boys shipwrecked on an island for 15 months, an exorcism of dead trees at Home Depot, static electricity in a jacket that sparked fires and evacuations, and how if spiders worked together they could eat all humans in one year! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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 5, 2021 • 25min
Have You Heard Of This Chicken Taco? Minisode
Kurt and Scotty tell listener stories about stumbling on an Elvis impersonation contest and a family and confusion over chicken tacos! 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.
