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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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.
Jun 1, 2021 • 59min
Oops My Butt Fell Off with Starlee Kine
Starlee Kine (Mystery Show podcast, Search Party) talks to Kurt and Scotty about psychedelic fungus and cicadas, a marijuana strapped arrow shot towards a prison, Jesus’s foreskin and how 6% of Americans thinking they can win a fight against a grizzly bear! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 27, 2021 • 25min
Worlds Greatest Step-Dad Minisode
Kurt and Scotty read a listener story about two cousins who had never met and ended up living together, Scotty talks about his experience dating a dancer and they read a listener story about family trip to a drive through safari park! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 25, 2021 • 58min
Scootin' After Midnight
Kurt and Scotty tell a story about a 6th grade science project involving cat butts, coyotes who attacked a man on an electric scooter, thousands of employees stuck on a reply-all email nightmare, a bride and groom who crashed a house for their wedding and a turkey sex experiment! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 18, 2021 • 59min
Prancer & Sparkles with Shalewa Sharpe
Shalewa Sharpe (The War Report Podcast) chats with Kurt and Scotty about Prancer the chihuahua who is haunted by a Victorian child, Sparkles the Unicorn, an elderly couple who used morse code to escape an assisted living facility, a teen who accidentally moved into a retirement community and herring farts being mistaken for a submarine! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 13, 2021 • 27min
Rutting Season Minisode
Kurt and Scotty talk about a visit to Graceland Too, a weird AirBnb experience, a moose stealing a kid and hearing weird noises at a wedding! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
May 11, 2021 • 59min
Heimlich Doesn't Choke with Carolina Groppa
Carolina Groppa (Angle on Producers podcast) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a Russian man who got trapped in a boy band on a Chinese TV show, the inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, two 5 year olds who tunneled their way out of pre-school to try to buy a sports car, a woman’s swimsuit that helped her survive a shark attack, 5 people who lived in a sunless cave to study time and a 77 year old substitute teacher who received a gift from a former student! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
