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 a strongman that pulled truck with his penis while on fire, PizzaHut is brining back their summer reading program, suckerfish are hiding in manta ray’s buttholes and a French sailor gave away location of nuclear warship but logging onto Strava!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how children are drawing mustaches on their faces to trick online age tests, 132 hamsters broke loose on a passenger plane forcing it out of service for days, a woman is driven to insanity by a taunting bird and a woman delivered her own baby in car traveling 60 mph!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about the Bovine Baron’s Denver milk-off, half a million dollar corporate retreat goes horribly wrong, Gertie the world’s oldest chicken, and the world’s largest t-rex statue needs a new home
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Kurt and Scotty talk about the true story behind Sky King, California man arrested for swapping pasta for Lego pieces and returning them and what are Scientology runs and why is Gen Z obsessed with them!
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Xyla Foxlin joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who built a submarine for his parrot, cat lost during a hurricane is reunited with family 443 days later, the Chernobyl fungus seems to have evolved an incredible ability and afatberg weighing 100 tons found in London sewer!
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Pooja Mehta joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how octopuses get extra cuddly on ecstasy, paragliders narrowly avoid landing in polar bear enclosure and people who can mentally time travel!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a dog that helped solve a murder, man wanted to eat his passport so plane had to make emergency landing and a student discovers second new planet in one year!
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Megan Gailey joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about how an artist stole the top of a England’s highest peak, what is Dyngus Day and New York and the radium craze!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how Morrissey canceled a show because he was sleepy, a Texas cruise ship sets margarita world record, pioneering method uses plastic water bottles into a drug to treat Parkinson’s and runners discover they can churn butter while running!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who was rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in phone booth trying to order a kabob, mayor urges public not to eat toilet seats, travelers trapped on runway for hours, drunk mandolin thief has second thoughts and returns mandolin and the wildest collab of the year includes bear poop!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who accidentally gained control of 7,000 robot vacuums, Little Caesar's ex-employee arrested after breaking into restaurant and selling pizzas, the time Bob Dylan was accidentally arrested in New Jersey, a man sets his house on fire while trying to kill spider and a dog that refuses to go near a 100 year old painting!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about fully grown sea lions that won’t stop nursing, a Massachusetts man using blow torch on roof to melt ice burns house down, an LA man who gave alcohol to a hawk is charged and a lollipop man is told to stop giving kids high fives!
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It’s Bananas live from Austin! Blair Socci joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a dating website just for people who work with dead bodies, woman sentenced for accusing her ex of illegally accessing her bank accounts from outer space, restaurant promises to rescue female diners on bad dates and a person who swallowed a six inch spoon!
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Debra DiGiovanni joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a woman who breaks into a house, cleans it and leaves an invoice, cannibalistic jellyfish with vanishing anuses are invading Venice and the museum of personal failure!
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Kenice Mobley joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a man who went into a hospital with live a WWII bomb up his butt, an iconic Hells Kitchen watering hole re-opens, what did dinosaurs feel like and mormon women are going crazy over new sacred underwear!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how cats think you’re a big baby and they’re your mom, crotch enlarging scandal already hit winter Olympics and Ohio true crime restaurant serves criminals’ last meals!
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Albertina Rizzo joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about an American dad who wakes up speaking Spanish after every surgery, a man swam around Manhattan wearing handcuffs and the first Costco apartment complex is coming to Los Angeles!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a woman who passed her drivers test after 950 tries, a British endurance swimmer becomes the first to swim all the way around Iceland, Seattle health officials tell people to flush rats back down the toilet if one comes up and a grandfather accidentally takes home the wrong child from daycare!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about the top things pulled out of people’s butts in 2025, a radio station goes viral after playing looping harmonica for hours, Toronto sex shop asked to stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain and a random dog wins a downhill ski race!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a mushroom that makes you see tiny cartoon people, a bear breaks into a nursing home and nurses fight it off with walkers and Rice Krispies, raccoons are on their way to becoming America's next pet and Kansas child says monster was hiding under their bed and babysitter found a man hiding there!
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