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 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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Kurt and Scotty talk about a man who survived Niagara Falls plunge but died slipping on an orange peel, cat cafe closed after cat turns on water and floods cafe and a Swedish musician teaches an octopus to play piano!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about the influence of hallucinogenic mushrooms on Christmas, woman accuses man she’s dating of ruining Christmas because he won’t dress up as Santa, church accidentally prints Tupac’s lyrics of Hail Mary on pamphlets and a real life grinch broke in, unwrapped gifts and took a nap on the couch!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about how a missing driveway mystery turns out to be a scam, thieves steal thousands of escargot snails and In-N-Out removes number 67 from ticket orders!
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Chloe Radcliffe joins Kurt and Scotty to talk about a 75 year old man who got 2000 strangers to smoke a cigarette with him, a drug dealer jailed after sharing photo of him holding cheese, police use a capybara costume to arrest criminal and a man gets stuck in a vagina sculpture!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a report on which cars are most likely to get pooped on by birds and Kelly the sassy dolphin!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a NYC weed store that will deliver via carrier pigeon, a man stole a bus for a joyride and continued to stop at all stops and did a great job and an AI became crypto millionaire and is now fighting to become a person!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about a cyclist that fell down a 135 foot ravine and survived 3 days only drinking wine, the world's biggest spider web and a man’s garden gnomes were stolen and returned in better condition!
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Kurt and Scotty talk about why witches look the way they do, man convicted of posing as flight attendant to get free flights, clinicians test butt breathing, and an Australian darter barred from using nickname The Magnet!
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Jenny Zigrino joins the ladies to talk about Cormac McCarthy’s ex-wife pulled a gun out of her vagina during an argument about aliens, a pizza place accidentally serves pizza laced with THC and the secret Wikipedia prank on the Pringles man’s first name!
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Scotty Landes