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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Mar 9, 2021 • 56min
Fire Dog with Jackie Kashian
Jackie Kashian joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man on LSD who saved a dog from an imagined house fire, South Africa’s winning lottery numbers, the most bizarre things people have seen on public transport, a massage therapist accused of sexual misconduct who was really playing games on cell phone and a postcard that arrived 100 years after it was mailed! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mar 2, 2021 • 56min
Hot Pants with Akilah Hughes
Akilah Hughes joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about whether or not China is building a time machine, a lawyer who’s pants caught on fire who, Amelia Earheart’s disappearance, Portland’s therapy llama, the astronaut who snuck a sandwich into space and how the Times Square Margaritaville will soon contain a synagogue! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 23, 2021 • 1h 14min
Bananas After Dark with Lauren Cook
Lauren Cook joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who was bit by a shark, spider and alligator, a maid of honor who almost ran over the best man, a teen who reported their stolen fake ID and then got arrested, a teen who was reunited with lost pet rooster after a Civil War reenactment and a movie based on the Uno card game! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 16, 2021 • 59min
Smuggling Bologna with Rhea Butcher
Rhea Butcher joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how there are probably dinosaurs on the moon, baloney being confiscated at customs, a scientist who pumped hydrogen gas into his butthole, an 8 year who called out NPR for lack of dinosaur stories, the monster of Clearwater and how a prosthetic leg was mistaken for a pedophile! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 9, 2021 • 55min
Laws Off My Paws! with Sherry Cola
Sherry Cola joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about one of the world’s dullest men, a maraschino cherry factory in New York, a guy who pretended to not know what a potato was, the weirdest animal laws in America and a woman who chugged a bottle of cognac because she couldn’t take it through airport security! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Feb 2, 2021 • 1h 2min
Twinsies!
Kurt and Scotty talk about penguins who were kicked out a sushi restaurant twice, twins separated at birth, a man who installed 11 speed bumps on his street, a man who was being fired and brought a clown for emotional support, a wife who stabbed her husband after finding old sex photos and Idaho’s rejected personalized license plates! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 26, 2021 • 58min
Livin’ in O’Hare with Raiza Licea
Raiza Licea joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a directory on which animals fart and which don’t, a man who lived at O’Hare airport for months, the religion behind Sleepytime Tea, a thief who stole a car with a kid in it and a girl who used a toy unicorn passport to travel! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 19, 2021 • 1h 4min
Zero Gravity Lizard Orgy with Jessica Chaffin
Jessica Chaffin joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a rogue satellite full of geckos, turning a Peloton into a sex toy, a 6 ton potato AirBnb, a man who runs cold water over pizza to cool it down and a woman who was hit by the infamous Dave Matthews tour bus shitwave! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 12, 2021 • 60min
Ding Dongs, Hoo-ha, and Celine Dions with Jessica Dobson
Jessica Dobson of Deep Sea Diver joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a Danish children’s show about a man with a huge penis, a man who got locked in a 24 Hour Fitness overnight, two stories about giant vagina sculptures, how an avocado was used in bank heists, a man who is tattooing himself turquoise and a man who got drunk and changed his name to Celine Dion! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jan 5, 2021 • 52min
Heavenly Bottom
On this week's Bananas Kurt and Scotty talk about a log that poops Christmas gifts, a son who is suing his parents for throwing away his porn, why you’ve probably kissed a drowning victim from the 1800's, the Pope’s Instagram account liking a risqué photo, a man who found closure after losing his leg and the story of a brother and sister who try to get a made up word into the dictionary! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
