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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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.
Jun 22, 2021 • 58min
Hellavator with Megan Gailey
Megan Gailey (comedian/writer, I Love A Lifetime Movie podcast) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a worm with a hundred butts, a man who was stuck on amusement park ride for 48 hours, a man who found a locked safe buried in his yard, a woman arrested for masturbating in front of chicken shop twice in a month and a man who drunk texted an aquarium! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 15, 2021 • 59min
Blonsky Baby Birther with Avital Ash
Avital Ash (Anti Social Distance, He's Right Behind You podcast) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a man searching for his dog who went missing near a river, conversation lengths, diet noodles that wreaked havoc on a woman’s digestive system and a device invented to assist childbirth! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 10, 2021 • 28min
Jocko's Revenge Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read listener stories about an interesting hotel stay at a band director convention, the time a mom rode a horse into a bar for a bet and Scotty talks about being recognized as people he’s not! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jun 8, 2021 • 57min
The Ballad of Crystal Metheny with Yeardley Smith
Yeardley Smith (The Simpsons, Small Town Dicks podcast) chats with Kurt and Scotty about Russia trying to clone a 3,000 year old army, an Australian woman who came out surgery with an Irish accent, a Sister who collects skulls, a 29 year old who posed as a high schooler to promote her Instagram and a woman named Crystal Metheny who was arrested for firing a missile into a car! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
