
Bananas - Funny news from around the world with Scotty Landes and Kurt Braunohler
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.
Latest episodes

Sep 3, 2024 • 54min
Dads Do Duds
Kurt and Scotty talk about over 40 dads who got pranked and show up to graduation wearing the same shirt, submarine crossing Germany by road, scientists made list of lost birds and they want us to find them and man buys billboard to find a girlfriend!Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 27, 2024 • 48min
We Support the Girls! with Dana Marlowe
Dana Marlowe joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about self driving cars honking at each other all night long, a woman who took 27 years to finish a cross stitch kit, player of claw game surprised to find live groundhog in prizes and an ancient sarcophagus used as table at beach bar for years! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 20, 2024 • 54min
Cruisin’ for a Moosin’
Kurt and Scotty talk about how the Wienermobile has crashed, an ambulance collides with moose while responding to other moose related crash, how the FBI arrested 120 fugitives by offering them free football tickets and no charges for second grade teacher arrested after teaching drunk!Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 15, 2024 • 52min
Bonusode: Listener Advice and Confessions #17
Kurt and Scotty read some confessions and give listener advice about getting into the arts, funny things to say as a train operator, what to visit in NY before leaving and choosing a new birthday! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 13, 2024 • 54min
Sad Bear Needs a Butt Marg
Kurt and Scotty talk about how a small Georgia town goes viral from video of man drinking margarita out of a butt, $1m worth of cocaine washes up on Florida beach due to Hurricane, police urge people to stop taking selfies with depressed black bear, a woman arrested for a DUI after police 160 beer cans in her car and a woman with red and blue lights on her car not sure why other drivers are pulling over!Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Aug 6, 2024 • 56min
Husband of MI6 Agent Graduates with Kenice Mobley
Kenice Mobley joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how a study reveals people’s faces evolve to match their names, a man coughed and sneezed at breakfast and then his colon fell out, German zoo frees tiny lynx that kept trying to escape and a man graduates 41 years after being denied ceremony because of a parrot problem!Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 30, 2024 • 53min
Ridin' Gators! with Einat Admony
Einat Admony joins Kurt and Scotty talk about how CBP officers seize drugs from same person at the same airport one week later, nearly half airplane noise complaints in Australia came from one person, the LA park that let children ride alligators and one restaurant that is operating under 70 different names!Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 25, 2024 • 45min
Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #16
Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice about reducing stress after work, play some Would You Rathers and listen to some confessions! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 23, 2024 • 52min
Pickles, Picassos, and a Donkey
Kurt and Scotty talk about a museum hangs a Picasso painting in the toilet, a New Zealand woman sues partner for not taking her to airport, British spies used semen as invisible ink during WWI, missing pet donkey found living with wild elk and Portland Pickles are the first sports team to sell weed products! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 16, 2024 • 52min
Nectarine Hand Grenades with Tess Barker
Tess Barker joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a French woman who learned to fly a helicopter then broke her husband out of prison, Canadian walking her dog finds 40 rotisserie chickens in woods and how the 1904 marathon became the weirdest sports event! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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