The Petri Dish

The Petri Dish

By Bobby BenedictComedySociety & Culture
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The Petri Dish episodes

  • 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.

    30 min
  • 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.

    28 min
  • 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.

    38 min
  • 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.

    32 min
  • 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.

    27 min
  • 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.

    40 min
  • 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.

    31 min
  • 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.

    30 min
  • 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.

    34 min

About The Petri Dish

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The Petri Dish is a comedy podcast hosted by Bobby Benedict where he sits down with other idiots and dumb little germs of laughter into disgusting contagions of comedy.