The Petri Dish

The Petri Dish is a comedy podcast hosted by Bobby Benedict, and hosted is a real loose term here.

Does Goody's Headache Powder Cause Autism 09/09/2025

Does Goody's Headache Powder Cause Autism Jonathan is my Kramer, the dream of working in Reno's premier dildo factory, I premier the new gameshow "What do Republicans think causes Autism this week?", we create a new medical product for the horse dewormer lovers, we do a Sad Giants' album recording update, Jonathan talks about some plans for TBI survivor advocacy and then also tells me about a potato cannon that he fired a burrito out of one time. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38142385

Which one of us was hit by a garbage truck? 09/02/2025

Which one of us was hit by a garbage truck? This week Jonathan and I look back at an eventful August after I took a long break from the pod to focus on other creative ventures. We talk about birthdays, getting hit by a garbage truck, synthesizers, dead people from our local scene, our bitter comedy takes, and then I run out of words. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38058315

Is it weird to like your parents? 07/22/2025

Is it weird to like your parents? I talk about a Don't Tell I went to, Jonathan talk about liking his parents, and then we make fun of 3 increasingly insane dudes for their Reddit stories. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37500240

Heatwave couldn't stop me 07/15/2025

Heatwave couldn't stop me This weekend I regale Jonathan with my tales of performing comedy, watching a punk festival, and trying to keep cool in the heat wave that Reno is experiencing this week. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37408015

Getting in a malt liquor situation 07/08/2025

Getting in a malt liquor situation This week Jonathan and I explore what it means to be in a malt liquor situation with HARD Mountain Dew, we talk about American culture, connecting with other cultures through food, and Jonathan says some inappropriate things about a wide variety of races and ethnicities. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37330430

Mollman was confronted by angry teens 07/01/2025

Mollman was confronted by angry teens We have a GUEST THIS WEEK, and it's one of my favorite Reno comics, Stephen Mollman who is the showrunner over at Coffee n Comics and Prost Biergarten. We do a Man or Bear, I run everyone through some AITAH stories and we talk amongst ourselves about things. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37239465

I ate one mile of donuts 06/24/2025

I ate one mile of donuts Jonathan is really excited about his synth and his existential improvements, I discuss the amount of donuts I ate before going to the gym, being ID'd as a child, and Jonathan hits us with a sneaky poop update. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37135320

No winners on The Poop Cruise 06/17/2025

No winners on The Poop Cruise This week Jonathan and I study some AITAH stories where everyone is pretty much an asshole and then Jonathan talks his poop, other people's poop, so much poop. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/37036195

Trauma dumping in the workplace 06/10/2025

Trauma dumping in the workplace This week me and Jonathan tackle some AITAH stories, Jonathan learns about the uncanny valley, and Jonthan finally gets the money for his new synth, and I talk about the Don't Tell Comedy show that I hung out at. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36937245

Prom Dad with a gun 06/03/2025

Prom Dad with a gun This week we talk about some AITAH stories after I rebuke my algorithm and Jonathan get extra introspective about his busy schedule. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36841025

Why Blink-182 is better than The Beatles 05/27/2025

Why Blink-182 is better than The Beatles This week me and Jonathan talk about why blink-182 is better than The Beatles, and we play some Man or Bear! /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36723880

We Read Reddit Stories 05/20/2025

We Read Reddit Stories That's right, we're giving into the millenial content machine and reading r/AITAH stories. First, though, Jonathan shows you his bonsai tree and tells us about a friend's remembrance he went to, and then I make a mockery of American racism in all its forms. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36643895

I finally got to headline in my own town 05/13/2025

I finally got to headline in my own town It only took several years and several out-of-town headline sets to finally get booked to headline in my own town, but it was a great time. We talk about a bunch of other goings-on: Jonathan wants you to be less sad, I want people on the internet to shut up, and Jonathan gives us more stories from the chicken club. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36555225

Jonathan finally moved! 05/06/2025

Jonathan finally moved! This episode we talk about Jonathan's big move from the group home to an AFL which I find out doesn't stand for American Football League. We play Man or Bear, talk about being rebellious little bastards, and just try to make sense of it all. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36453940

Home repair makes for awful podcasts 04/30/2025

Home repair makes for awful podcasts I'm back this week with a brief one because we had to get emergency roof surgery. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36374225

A Short One About Nothing 04/22/2025

A Short One About Nothing It's a bad week for everyone, let's just call this one a wash? The Pope died, democracy has been dead for while, and I've got a few other things on my mind. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36264230

The Cleveland Steamer Deconstruction 04/15/2025

The Cleveland Steamer Deconstruction I sit down with Jonathan Allgood to show him more videos of my chickens, talk about a dope Don't Tell Comedy show I attended in Reno, and discuss records I hunted for Record Store Day. Jonathan finds his old comedy notebook from 2016 and I advocate for various types of violence against America's undesirables. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36159485

The Celery Exploit of Western Civilization 04/08/2025

The Celery Exploit of Western Civilization This week Jonathan and I tackle our slow weeks with chicken updates and pooping updates, we play Mad Libs for the first time in FOREVER and then we commit to a hot boy summer. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/36052800

Jonathan did WHAT with a Llama? 04/01/2025

Jonathan did WHAT with a Llama? Sorry Jonathan is so quiet, I tried a cloud thing for recording and it went terribly. Me and Jonathan are still on our old man shit talking about oatmeal, Jonathan's pooping update, and how our beautiful art will age. I talked about reviewing music and the album "My Apologies to the Chef" by Winona Fighter, then we get to more drunken stories and strange goings-on before dipping HARD. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35960870

Two Men Age 100 Years Over a 30 Minute Podcast 03/25/2025

Two Men Age 100 Years Over a 30 Minute Podcast Jonathan and I (your host Bobby Benedict) sit down to talk about his constipation, chickens, the Costco hot dog, and what types of vegetables we like. If you thought two men could age gracefully then you were wrong! We talk about what nightmares we were when we were drinking and then talk about food for way too long. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35855465

Chicks dig this podcast 03/18/2025

Chicks dig this podcast I got baby chickens so we talk about that a lot, I talk about being bad with doors, I find out Jonathan was in poultry science before we talk about his pooping habits, we play Man or Bear again! /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35747540

Keep Ronin, Ronin, Ronin, Ronin 03/11/2025

Keep Ronin, Ronin, Ronin, Ronin We talk about Creed for way too long, I go over my top pickles, Consumer Watchdog Jonathan Allgood presents a deviled egg recipe, and we wax philosophic about all sorts of things. Come hang. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35638465

3 grown men are completely befuddled by the concept of hanging chads 03/04/2025

3 grown men are completely befuddled by the concept of hanging chads This week we've got good ol' Jonathan Allgood and Austin Baca back on the show ready to talk about Austin's birthday, hanging chads, and mochinut again. We talk about Consumer Watchdog Jonathan Allgood's Food Reviews and we play Man or Bear! /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35519620

$9,000,000 of Mochinut 02/27/2025

$9,000,000 of Mochinut I hop on the horn this week to talk about my week, being on crazy meds, locking up my guns, and then some local news! /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35463055

My dog died but I wanted to argue about soup 02/18/2025

My dog died but I wanted to argue about soup I sit down with Jonathan Allgood this week for an extremely brief podcast. We verify that Marilyn Manson definitely removed his ribs, I eulogize my dog Phat Boi with some AI Minecraft parkour brainrot, we finally take the Soup vs. Sauce debate into 2025 after some proper studying, and then we cap it all off with the people's favorite new game Man or Bear. Then we get cut off by the free Zoom call because I'm doing broke boy activities. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35335350

The Soup vs Sauce debate 2025 02/04/2025

The Soup vs Sauce debate 2025 Where do you draw the line on soups vs sauces? We don't know, and we've never known. I'm burnt out and you're getting a clip show, there's a bit of new commentary though so that's cool. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35148890

Jonathan HATES Seinfeld and also I got married 01/28/2025

Jonathan HATES Seinfeld and also I got married I got married, a self-driving car yelled at me, most importantly Jonathan HATES Jerry Seinfeld and if Jerry ever sees that you should make sure Jonathan knows that you hate him too. Also I debut my new game show "MAN OR BEAR" where I make guests guess whether a news story was perpetuated by a man or a bear. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/35042520

My Cringiest Choices of 2024 01/21/2025

My Cringiest Choices of 2024 That's right, the podcast is back! I talk about what I did in 2024, including a cringy millennial music parody YouTube show. I completely forgot to talk about getting married; maybe next time. What we do get to is Costco monkey slavery, Jonathan's bible verses, wrestling, and all our classic Petri Dish banter. My WiFi didn't like this podcast, and because of the weird app I used for editing, I can't fix how out of sync my voice is from the video. Sorry! /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/34932495

See Ya Later, Fart Brains 01/23/2024

See Ya Later, Fart Brains THE PODCAST IS DEAD, LONG LIVE THE PODCAST. That's right, the podcast as we've known and loved it since November 2016 is finally coming to a close. When I first fired up this feed as "Post-Nuclear Reno" I never thought it would become and almost 8-year-long obsession over the dumbest jokes possible that I would then try to call a "content strategy". The first 100 episodes were a labor of love for a comedy scene that I was way too active in. The next 100 episodes were a deep dive into myself and the people I surrounded myself with. I think the energy expended could be better utilized in some new creative ventures. So I will say goodbye to this beautiful podcast feed. Youtube will still have a few of these newer hybrid video episodes up, I may keep releasing long-form podcast-type videos on that same feed but right now I'm going to focus on edited things. EDIT: None of the projects I was working on worked out and I miss having a podcast. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/29613158

Getting Yoinked 01/09/2024

Getting Yoinked I've got Jonathan Allgood here to ring in the new year, we have almost nothing to talk about other than dick sweat. So strap in, it's just a straight-up hour of dick jokes and broader scientific dick concepts. While that's not entirely a lie we also get into In-n-Outs french fry secrets, the rise and fall of Huy Fong Sriracha, apocalyptic Taco Bell Plans, anger issues, and getting back into the standup mood. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/29406108

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