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.
Episodes
Kurt and Scotty talk about how scientists genetically altered fruit flies to make them crave cocaine, a mother wins 100k ultramarathon while stopping to breastfeed and a NJ man wins $315m jackpot because wife made him go to the store to return orange juice!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how the CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan site and a man walked 15,504 miles to find out if world is terrible place!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how the Chinese police corgi stole sausage from a child, a man flees police using submarine and noisy hungry frogs ruin farmer's life!
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Kristen Schaal joins Kurt and Scotty talk about how scientists taught monkeys to use money and first they stole and then sold sex, why mummies still smell nice and Steve Harvey gifted TV every year to teacher who said he would never get on TV!
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Lili Trifilio is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about the time Andre the Giant let out a 16 second fart on The Princess Bride set, a toddler thinks John Wilkes Booth is hiding under her bed, China hosts first race of humans vs robots and a man steals 8 dump trucks!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a museum in Japan where you can sniff animals butts, a Boston homeowner discovers his house is cut in half, food delivery driver tricks people into thinking he delivered a pizza to Mt. Fuji and snake falls in woman’s margarita!
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Charlotte Dobre joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a school forced to evacuate after kid brings grenade for show and tell, a TV anchor goes into labor on air and finishes entire morning broadcast, a postal carrier refuses to deliver mail to nudist colony and a postal worker arrested for DUI while on route!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how psychopaths are more attractive, a woman falls into crevice trying to retrieve her cell phone, and a woman files for divorce after Chat GPT reads husbands affair in coffee grounds!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how in Finland mobile phone throwing is a national sport, a new MMA Jesus movie and a naked race!
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Mary Holland joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man with brain implant asks for beer as first words, using the dishwasher to make a steak and a sea serpent chases vessel in kindly style!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a stranded man lifted from Mt Fuji and then rescued again when he returned to get his phone, Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant has 500 cat figurines stolen, fart spray causes chaos at carnival and Japan invents chilled drinkable mayo!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about did the government invent stuffed crust pizza, how a random text ended up in happily ever after, Burger King has the right to use it’s name except in one town in Illinois and Mark Wahlberg’s clothing store vandalized!
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Liza Treyger joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how purple is a fake color, Jessica Simpson vows to keep drinking snake sperm, pub emus back after being banned and Danish couple flees eco retreat and leaves behind 150 barrels of human waste!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a snake found in Ireland for first time ever, a 58 hour kiss, the CIA found the arch of the covenant using psychics and scientists invent a sensor that can mend bones in weeks!
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Abby Govindan (How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents) joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a reckless driver who was fined for failing to stop at crosswalk for his own children, a fake captain steals fishing vessel and Walgreens says that locking everything up is actually bad for business!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how big our wings would be if humans could fly, TSA found a surprising amount of prohibited items in a woman’s bag, Florida man dressed in Dalmatian onesie outruns the police, power outage caused by mayor because he crashed into pole while reaching for a sausage biscuit, a golden toilet is stolen again, a flood museum closed because of flooding and a Chinese influencer gets surgery to look like an a...
Kurt and Scotty talk to Jane Borden (author, new book Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America) about wallabies being blamed for crop circles in opium fields, missing Oklahoma teen slept in toilet paper fort inside Walmart for days and a 13 year old boy arrested after impersonating a doctor!
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Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers!
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Rebecca Delgado Smith joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how Mozzarella the cat becomes obsessed with roast chicken after brain surgery, a woman is given a goodie bag after one night stand, the secret of blue zones is fake data and a plump beaver is Chicago’s newest sensation!
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Part time Bananas employee/full time human Lisa Magid joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about the Japanese astronaut who hated space, jump rope pro saves neighbor and dog from drowning with jump rope and scientists are trying to figure out why all hockey players sound Canadian!
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