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.
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Dec 29, 2020 • 60min
Jet Ski Romeo
It's just Kurt and Scotty this week and they talk about Garfield phones washing ashore in France, a deer named Carrot, a mysterious booming sound in New Jersey, a lovesick man jet skiing to see his girlfriend and a man who impersonated a property owner to get a Cookie Monster mural painted! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 22, 2020 • 1h 4min
Packin' Clay with Natalie Palamides
Natalie Palamides (new special Nate on Netflix) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a fight over ceramic dildos in New Zealand, a plane that had to turn around after the mom left baby at airport, the eruption of Mt Edgecumbe, a man allergic to the cold and how seagulls and pepperoni got a man banned from a hotel! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 15, 2020 • 1h 7min
Nightmares for Garfield with Kara Klenk and Liza Treyger
Kara Klenk and Liza Treyger (new podcast That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast) chat with Kurt and Scotty about a woman who realizes she is her own twin, a man who tries to have sex with a pile of leaves, Garfield’s Nightmare theme park, long lines at an In & Out sparking a fight, a suspect trying to escape via underwater sea scooter and the time a Dave Matthews band bus dumped humane waste on a tour boat! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 8, 2020 • 59min
Moon Roof Man with Michelle Buteau
Michelle Buteau (new book Survival of the Thickest!) chats with Kurt and Scotty about a man who impersonates trees, Four Loko shots, fried chicken scented fire logs, a missing Irish dolphin, a pants-less driver who was ejected through his moon roof, firefighters rescuing 3 men from a dryer and Amazon not translating Swedish correctly! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dec 1, 2020 • 58min
Bottoms Up! with Lauren Lapkus
Lauren Lapkus joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who “died” after drinking too much and then returns to the party, a co-pilot who was sucked out of a plane during flight, John Waters donating his art collection, sending an attractive lookalike to a high school reunion, cheese wheel thieves and a man who finds a strange drink in a landfill! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 24, 2020 • 57min
Finger Lickin Bad with Albertina Rizzo
Albertina Rizzo is back on Bananas to talk about a man cooking chicken in a Yellowstone hot spring, a drunk man who got into a shouting match with a dog, a farm containing crumbling statues and busts, a man selling discontinued Taco Bell tacos, an update on Canuck the crow, a black leopard who mauled a man and the story of a WWII veteran who was reunited with his dog tags! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 17, 2020 • 53min
Mushroom Orgasm with Laurel Bristow
Infectious Disease Researcher Laurel Bristow joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a mushroom that makes woman orgasm just by smelling it, a man who started an inferno trying to forge a sword, a robot hand you can take on walks, the world’s worst Airbnb, a woman who claims she’s an FBI agent to get free Chick-Fil-A and a teen who woke from a coma after hearing someone say his favorite food! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 10, 2020 • 52min
Talking Turkeys with Sue Bird
WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist Sue Bird joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the butthole version of Cats, a person who turned their shed into a restaurant, a student who caused chaos testing engagement rings, the aggressive wild turkey in Oakland who was finally captured, an automatic camera mistaking a ref’s head for the ball and a woman who gave cops an unusual fake name! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 3, 2020 • 60min
Taint Misbehavin’ with Cara Santa Maria
Scientist Cara Santa Maria chats with Kurt and Scotty about a man calling 911 on a restaurant for too small clams, butthole sunning, creating a violent A.I. by making it read Reddit, a woman who brought 23 relatives to a blind date and a story about a lonely fish who has eaten all his friends! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 27, 2020 • 57min
Robuttics Laboratory with Fortune Feimster
Comedian Fortune Feimster joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who made a robot he controls with his butthole, a fifth grader who loves his Hooters face mask, a man who loves to drive NY buses and trains despite not working for MTA, a man who denies turning his house into a restaurant, losing 10 years of memory after bad constipation and a teen who covered himself in ranch dressing, destroyed a store and crashed his car! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
