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

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 8 July 2025

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!  Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 1 July 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 24 June 2025

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!  Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 17 June 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 10 June 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 3 June 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 27 May 2025

Kurt and Scotty talk about how in Finland mobile phone throwing is a national sport, a new MMA Jesus movie and a naked race! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 20 May 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 13 May 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 6 May 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 29 April 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 22 April 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 15 April 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 8 April 2025

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 android! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 1 April 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 25 March 2025

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/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 20 March 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 18 March 2025

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! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 11 March 2025

Kurt and Scotty talk about the crazy life of the man who invented the saxophone, Wisconsin kayaker charged for faking his own death and fleeing to eastern Europe, a child tired of waiting for mom crashes into daycare and an Iowa man eats pork tenderloin in all 99 Iowa counties! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 4 March 2025

Karen Kilgariff is back on Bananas! She talks to Kurt and Scotty about a doctor who faces inquiry after giving his cat a cat scan at the hospital, a mom gives birth in a Krispy Kreme parking lot and names kid Glaze, what happened to Elvis’ teddy bear and cars that keep hitting the same house! Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/4a61tMkSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 25 February 2025

Kurt and Scotty answer listener advice and play some Would You Rathers!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 20 February 2025

Sasheer Zamata is back on Bananas! She joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about whether Dakota Johnson locked people in a Blue Bottle coffee shop, a man who is allergic to his own orgasms and a passenger clings to outside of train while going 175mph!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 18 February 2025

Kelsey Cook joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about crocodiles that impersonate drowning humans to lure people into water, a woman’s fake social media wedding turned out to be real and the viral women only artwork returns to view after supreme court win!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcribed - Published: 11 February 2025

Kurt and Scotty talk about how China’s first corgi police dog loses bonus over misconduct, a woman taken to court for aggressively farting at boyfriend’s ex, and a man in Ohio accidentally buys an entire street! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcribed - Published: 4 February 2025

Scarlet Estelle joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how sober rats like silence but rats on cocaine prefer jazz, two inmates conceive baby despite never having met and an extinct bird re-evolved itself back into existence! 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 January 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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