The Petri Dish

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

Give Me CPAP or Give Me Death 11/13/2025

Give Me CPAP or Give Me Death I get way too caffienated and start going off about medical professionals trying to kill me, we talk about comedy, there's another MAN OR BEAR, and then we talk about more comedy. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/39023340

Creatively analyzing this artistic goo boy 11/04/2025

Creatively analyzing this artistic goo boy I'm unmedicated and on a roll with Jonathan in the hot seat as we talk about the slow death of the American middle class, how to edit together a comedy special, and why. Just, why? /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38911200

Applying a Corrective 10/28/2025

Applying a Corrective I've got a cold this week so you're just gonna have to listen to this episode to figure out what was even happening, okay? I know Johnathan talked about whacking it at least once. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38809950

What an awful last 10 years it's been 10/21/2025

What an awful last 10 years it's been I'm celebrating 10 years doing stand-up comedy! To celebrate that milestone, I yell at Jonathan about the 2025 Savage Henry Comedy Festival, another infamous festival, I have several opinions on different pop-punk singers, and we make some media suggestions. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38730185

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Camp and Punk Fests 09/30/2025

Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Camp and Punk Fests This week Jonathan tells all about his time at TBI camp and the various arts and craft he got into, I talk about my weekend at Punkrocktober Fest in Carson City, Theo Von has a full meltdown at his Netflix taping, and then we find out why Jonathan was fired from Domino's. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38409995

America stole Jonathan's teeth 09/23/2025

America stole Jonathan's teeth Jonathan and I discuss our various teeth problems, we list Jonathan's top head wounds, we talk various Scouts activities, I vow to take an unlimited amount of Tylenol, we exchange failing jokes, and then we make sure our advertisers know that we are a podcast that want you to buy stuff. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38327590

Word Karate and Fart Science 09/16/2025

Word Karate and Fart Science Wouldn't you know it? Some crazy white boys did what some crazy white boys are always doin'. We discuss that and Jonathan's fart science while doing word karate. /episode/index/show/postnuclearreno/id/38238855

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

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