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

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

Exactly Right

Comedy

4.8 • 7.6K Ratings

Overview

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.

344 Episodes

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #22

Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 January 2025

All Creatures Great and Small and Weird

Kurt and Scotty talk about how people got snowed in at The Tan Hill Inn again, what happened to the coyote from the Chicago Aldi and the South American fox wolf with stilt legs and urine that smells like marijuana! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 January 2025

Peeled Bananas

Kurt and Scotty talk about Tokyo’s Crush Christmas March getting cancelled, plates of peeled bananas left on a residential street, missing dog rings doorbell to let owner know it’s home and thieves return stolen rug to Madonna Inn! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 January 2025

Pub Buds

Kurt and Scotty talk about a retired couple trying to visit every pub in Australia, the world’s strongest coffee and Miller High Life’s new perfume! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 January 2025

Vodka Powered Goblin Pizza

Kurt and Scotty talk about vodka powered robots, how Will Smith let out a fart so bad on Men in Black the set had to be evacuated for 3 hours, and Pizza Hut in China releases pizza topped with whole frog! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 31 December 2024

1000 Ways to Invade a Home

Kurt and Scotty talk about a man arrested for over 1000 home intrusions says it’s his hobby, man proposes to girlfriend with a piece of cheese next to a dumpster, the most mysterious song on the internet identified after 17 years and doctors warn to not sit on the toilet for more than 10 minutes! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 December 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #21

Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 December 2024

Fish Hats and Punching Pastors

Kurt and Scotty talk about orcas wearing dead salmon hats again, Navy officer demoted after sneaking satellite on warship to get internet, Swedish man survives in snowed in car for two months and US pastor uses his MMA skills to save church from break in! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 December 2024

The Juice from Pork Shoes Tastes the Sweetest

Kurt and Scotty talk about an inventor who creates tear gun to shoot tears back at person who hurt her, pub sued after patron taped pork chops to their feet, robot tells AI coworkers to quit their jobs and come home and farmers rally to save world’s loneliest sheep! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 December 2024

Extreme Chores Switcheroo! with Ophira Eisenberg

Ophira Eisenberg is back on Bananas! She talks with Kurt and Scotty about the sport of extreme ironing, a man wonders if he’s the asshole for spraying a teenage boy with hose after he keeps walking on his lawn and a bridesmaid surprised to find out the bride had last minute change of groom on her wedding day! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 December 2024

Extreme Middling

Kurt and Scotty talk about why ghosts float and shimmer, a bag of Cheetos that created a huge impact on a National Park and hackers demand France electric pay ransom in baguettes! Get tickets for Bananas Live at Bob Baker Marionette Theater in Los Angeles! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 26 November 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #20

Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 November 2024

Kurt and Helen’s Heaviest Pets with Chloe Radcliffe

Chloe Radcliffe is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about discontinued Guinness world records, how Helen Mirren thinks it's sad Kurt Cobain died before GPS was invented, how one man sold an airport that didn’t exist, and a man discovers he's been paying someone else’s power bill for over two decades! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 November 2024

Chugging Hooters Chokes on Rocks

Kurt and Scotty talk about how two men hooted at each other thinking each other was an owl, a man chugs 24 ounces of ranch dressing in 10 seconds, a Japanese woman subdues thief with headlock and credits anime for technique and a rock used as doorstop for decades worth over one million dollars! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 12 November 2024

Dog Trust Funds for Dummies with Alexis Nikole Nelson

Alexis Nikole Nelson (@blackforager) joins Kurt and Scotty talk about how potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks, woman won the lottery then dumped her boyfriend who insisted his dog needed a trust fund and scientists achieve first ever communication by two people in their sleep! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 5 November 2024

Whoopie in Choo Choo Town with Mamrie Hart

Mamrie Hart is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about a fire that burned down a brand new fire station in Germany, an amorous couple blamed for flooding train station and a paraglider spots a dog on top of a pyramid!  Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 29 October 2024

Tres Conkers

Kurt and Scotty talk about a woman who sued company for not getting her a farewell card finds out they did get her one but no one signed it, a man may have died without knowing he had three penises, steel nut scandal rocks World Conker Championship and hackers take over robot vacuums to chase pets around! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 22 October 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #19

Kurt and Scotty play some Would You Rathers and answer advice about how to make a backyard party more bananas and mindless hobbies to take your mind off work! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 October 2024

Rigorous Raccoons

Kurt and Scott talk about Googles AI podcast hosts that have an existential crisis, a woman’s home overrun by 100 raccoons after 3 decades of feeding them, scientific rigor proponents retract paper on benefits of scientific rigor and a robber breaks into home and cooks meal for his victim! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 October 2024

Long Boi’s Long Hike

Kurt and Scotty talk about a bulldog puppy who chewed owner’s toe to the bone may have saved his life, a woman beats the Appalachian Trail record, Britain’s tallest duck has gone missing and world’s oldest cheese found on 3600 year old mummies! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 8 October 2024

Sneezing for Pesto with Blair Socci

Blair Socci returns to Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about how someone bought a Temu croissant lamp that ended up being a real croissant, a soccer player injured after a hefty sneeze, Pesto the massive penguin chick and a man receives a $1.4 million speeding ticket! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 1 October 2024

Underwater Butt Breathin’ Undies

Kurt and Scotty talk about how the scientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their butts receive Ig Nobel prize, a man buys $395k dream home knowing it will get swallowed by ocean, a Florida man arrested after throwing pasta with sauce during road rage incident and Delta is reminding flight prospective attendants that they must wear underwear to interviews! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 24 September 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #18

Kurt and Scotty play some Would You Rathers and answer your advice about a career change and what to do when stuck on bedrest! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 19 September 2024

Reading, Rolling, No Arithmetic

Kurt and Scotty talk about a robber caught after sitting down to finish a book, start up alarmed when AI starts RickRolling clients, teacher fired after phone reveals how much Candy Crush was played during class! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 17 September 2024

Rand McNally, What a Bunch of Assholes with Kathy Griffin

Kathy Griffin joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a jokes phone on a quiet street in DC, Macklemore brought a fan on stage during show and she totally forgot the police were looking for her and an imaginary town becomes real then not then real again! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 10 September 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 3 September 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 27 August 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 20 August 2024

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 15 August 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 13 August 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 6 August 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 30 July 2024

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! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 July 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 July 2024

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 16 July 2024

Prison Fishin’

Kurt and Scotty talk about Parisians threatening to poop in the Seine to protest sewage in river, missing hiker found alive after spending 10 days in Santa Cruz mountains, how a fish became prison currency, and how an Only Fans model saved a customer's life! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 9 July 2024

Adult Dinners with Clare O'Kane

Clare O’Kane joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about an AI photo contest winner disqualified because the photo was real, a woman fell into quicksand at a beach, a diner bans customers under 30 and the big nude boat! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 2 July 2024

BANANASFEST IS HAPPENING!

Kurt and Scotty talk about how Chicago news aired anatomically correct Cubs mascot image, couples who have cheap weddings have happier marriages, dozens gather watch to sharpening of giant number 2 pencil and a real estate agent accidentally burns down 2 million dollar property right before the open house! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 25 June 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #15

Kurt and Scotty play some Would You Rathers and answer listener advice about coming up with a lie about America and how to respond to being recognized in public! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 20 June 2024

Magnet Fishing for Gold Toilets with Avital Ash

Avital Ash is back on Bananas! She joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a NYC couple finding a safe with $100k inside while magnet fishing, remote Amazon tribe hooked on porn thanks to Starlink, cockroach causes woman to crash car and four charged after solid gold toilet is stolen from Winston Churchill’s birthplace! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 June 2024

Sting Ray Sex Secrets with Sona Movsesian

Sona Movsesian joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about what is going on with Charlotte the sting ray, drones dropping sex toys on traffic lights in an Oklahoma town and Australians have accidentally been eating a fish unknown to science! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 11 June 2024

The Many Facets of Buc-ee's

Kurt and Scotty talk about AI telling pregnant women to eat rocks and drink alcohol, a woman who thought the rapture was about to happen and left huge tip then tried to get it back, the porn chancellor speaks and a service duck kicked out of Buc-ee's for life! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 June 2024

I Will Not Hide My Boat

Kurt and Scotty talk about an Only Fans model who flashed the Dublin to NYC portal and got it shut down, a postal worker drives 100 mph racing a Mustang, a dog too friendly for police steals hearts during Taiwan earthquake rescue, free wine hidden in small print claimed after three months, and a man gets painting of boat on fence after being told to hide the boat! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 28 May 2024

Cousin Husband and The Bear with Megan Gailey

Megan Gailey returns to Bananas! She joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a woman who caused car crashes all around Boston and tried to drive into Fenway, a woman contemplated divorce after finding out her husband was her cousin, Hertz charges Tesla renter for gas and won’t back down, and a tourist mauled by a brown bear after rolling down window to take selfie with it! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 21 May 2024

Bonusode: More Would You Rathers and Advice #14

Kurt and Scotty play more Would You Rather and give advice about having time off of work and a sign off name for emails and letters! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 16 May 2024

Cat Ship and Sign Life

Kurt and Scotty talk about a missing cat found thousands of miles away from home in an Amazon return box, a California home with meth lab goes on sale for $1.5 million, man buys Cartier earrings for $14 after glitch, someone keeps pooping on headstones at Dearborn cemetery, a woman found living in a Family Fair sign and French bakers claim world’s longest baguette! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 14 May 2024

400 Catfishin Cheeseballs with Rachel Feinstein

Rachel Feinstein joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a mom who accidentally invited over 400 guests to her daughter's birthday party, a woman who got catfished by a restaurant and a cheeseball man who drew a massive New York City crowd! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 7 May 2024

The Mystery of the Georgian Sex Dominoes with Kate Willett

Kate Willett joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a grandma that held plank pose for 4.5 hours to break world record, unmarried brothers looking for an heir to inherit their cuckoo clocks, an ex-Cal Trans employee charged with building homes in train tunnels, a Georgia couple who says moving company stole all their sex dominos, and an Ohio man who says he lost 3.1 pounds eating only Skyline chili for a week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 30 April 2024

Relentless Moisture with Jess McHugh

Jess McHugh joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about Czechia banning music that is too fast or too slow, Lala the penguin who loves to shop, how Pavarotti used to keep secret caches of pasta on sides of stage, a TV news station that accidentally aired man’s testicles during eclipse coverage, and how billions of cicadas are about to invade America! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 23 April 2024

Would You Rather Bonusode with Lisa Magid

Bananas full human intern Lisa Magid joins Kurt and Scotty for a few rounds of Would You Rather and then some advice about a trash pick-up event and an outfit for Kentucky Derby party! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 18 April 2024

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