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The Buddy System with Chris & Matty

by The Buddy System · English · Comedy

A humble podcast with Chicago comedians Chris Higgins and Matty Ryan.

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 1 min
Latest: 13 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

13 Oct 2026 · 50 minNew

42. Medulla Oblongata

Latin vs sandwiches, people will hate redheads forever, spooky season is upon us, Chris’s gf would’ve been a famous & ruthless madam 150 years ago, Chris and Matty don’t like horror movies, Matty is never not sad and scared, Human Centipede guy belongs in a special jail for insane perverts, Fall is objectively the best season, Christianity stole tons of pagan stuff, the Irish invented Jack o lanterns but way scarier, cops are allowed to do drugs actually, being a teenage stoner in the aughts made you a secret agent, charming uplifting budtenders, Chris and Matty love Shaunak in a huge way,…

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Earlier episodes 29 most recent

6 Oct 2026 · 50 min
41. Dan Docimo! Our Buddy!
Growing up Catholic and going to catholic college after you’re kinda down, Pittsburgh accents, the Flint Michigan rap scene, living in a comedian brothel with six people, day jobs in comedy, Chris and Matty are afraid to scare smart people, crowds on the road, first standup sets/first jokes, getting good at comedy and not quitting , everything’s gonna be fine right?, there’s a difference between weird and dumb, check out Dan on the road and in Europe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
29 Sep 2026 · 50 min
40. Janet McNamara! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Janet Mac! Moving to NYC from Boston for comedy, Chris loves the bus more than his own car, Janet has a famous cat that ran for mayor and the real mayor wanted in, Matty and Janet know a ton about sports and Janet learns that Peyton Manning is actually bad at football, someone in Boston gets punched in the face every single day for disrespecting Tom Brady, Janet is a self-taught accountant and genius, Chris and Matty try to answer tax questions, Chris explores the concept of business cats, Matty and Chris annoy Janet with their accents and tomfoolery, the irs is now paying ppl to…
22 Sep 2026 · 42 min
39. The Manosphere
We picked the manosphere as this week's topic and joined it by accident about four minutes in. Somewhere in here Chris explains why he thought Clavicular was an AI company, Matty makes a strong case for sleeping in a bed of goo, and we learn that some whales grow barnacles on purpose so they can punch harder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15 Sep 2026 · 53 min
38. Mexican Independence Day
Chris gets to float a Tennessee river, friends in comedy and also not in comedy, weird side jobs in standup, getting a uhaul stuck under an overpass does not mean crashing it, Matty had to kill a mouse but like a wild west gentleman, Chris owns a squirrel ghost now, Matty found a tooth as a boy which is chill, toenail underpants, blow darts are no joke fr, Mexican Independence Day book report, Napoleon’s brother Joe literally moved to New Jersey, animals of the week, Chris’s cat might have a demon Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
8 Sep 2026 · 53 min
37. David Drake! Our Buddy!
Kids are mean to poor David, Matty is always bleeding, David had a way of simply appearing into your life and he also loves frisbee more than most things in the world, David’s comedy journey! and his insanely prolific style of writing standup, inside baseball comedy talk with the fellas, Montreal New Faces, Canadian Border Patrol (matty got deported), Dave’s first big acting role had a ton of goats, commercial auditions, and maybe best quote of the century: “Stand-up is hard to do the right way.” - David Drake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
1 Sep 2026 · 52 min
36. Bears vs Broncos
Sporting, Matty pretends to know what sports are through a series of white knuckle lies, Bears are gonna have the best season in the history of the world, Bears/Broncos Super Bowl, comedians trying to cook, beige goo, horrendous food photos, the boys talk cooking, butchers, farm stands, late night food in the UK vs US, Irish comedy boom, Dublin comedy festival, Chris and Matty’s fake accents, underage fake IDs with bad accents, Gaelic football, hurling, Mayo vs Kerry, we love you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
25 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
35. Happy Birthday, National Parks!
AI sucks, it's summer forever now, Hunger Stones - just as uncool as they sound, Chris loves weddings especially super sweaty ones, Happy Birthday National Parks!, eff data centers hugely, can we try to drain volcanoes or nah, Chris is a man of feasting not dancing, quick obligatory LOTR lesson for Matty, JK Rowling maybe a lil racist or a lot, vote against data centers please! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
18 Aug 2026 · 58 min
34. Horny Moose
Chris continues to get stronger every day, insane gym guy, Matty’s fancy gym vs. Chris’s toilet facility, Matty repeats yet another story (he’s so sorry this is me and him), pervasive anxiety, 90s kids, beat cops, disorderly conduct, horny killer moose are everywhere, big big horribles, Chris’s weird butt doctor, drinking at Costco, Polish submarines and karate, turns out Chris was a snake kid, wildfires, we love you Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
11 Aug 2026 · 52 min
33. Malls & Prisons
Chris tells tales of the road, Matty makes a weird friend in the sauna, Chris and Matty are basically fitness gurus and also mean hangry boys, Chris'll be a good post-apocalyptic leader, public executions, Alcatraz, other prisons, malls, a mall that’s now a prison, hunting Chomsky, breeding and selling a line of Jimothy’s Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
4 Aug 2026 · 1 hr 12 min
32. Concrete Campaign
Lucia Whalen (@luciawhalen) is back with a wall nine inches from her bedroom window and a New York Times byline about a tuna melt. We pass the pod's first tuna policy, propose mandatory tap shoes for men, and make her watch some videos she has never seen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
28 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 3 min
31. Our Buddy! Chris' Dad!
We finally land the #1 best guest, getting arrested in high school, Matty got to pretend he was a Higgins on a father/son trip to Oregon, Elliot’s childhood cannon, rail torpedoes, normal boyhood stuff like exploding train tracks, Chris’s arch nemesis: the seagull, playing tug of war with and eel and then also an octopus, cryptid of the week: the PNW Apecat Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
21 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
30. Beans with the Boys
Frog tongue cheeseburger, reading fantasy books vs. animal tracking, rat pocket tailor, Luke and Matty roast Chris’s outfit for six hours, doing a S&P 500 in your pants for hotel dominance, Luke’s extremely dope wolf shirt/the wolves inside us all, Nimrods, posses, hell yeah city New Episodes every Tuesday! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
14 Jul 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
29. Bastille Day
Bastille day, march on Versailles, eagle or vulture, profesh executioners, coy wolves, British swan laws, where the christ are all the baby Garys Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
E28 · 13 Jul 2026 · 59 min
28. World Cup Twins
Matty's a bit of a doctor himself, George Washington coulda been a nobody, 4th of July fireworks and fungi, World Cup fans, professional perverts, open wounds in flood water, Frozen is a phenomenal film. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
E27 · 30 Jun 2026 · 55 min
27. Party Animals
Matty has spider bones, a man called Grover, Colorado suckholes, White Sox mascot, beautiful brave sons, hogs both small and mangled, Proboscis monkey, Chris doesn’t trust his own ass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
23 Jun 2026 · 59 min
26. Move it, Move it
90s Jock Jams, the World Cup song situation (why Jelly Roll?), the show Alone, a Naked and Afraid snakebite story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
16 Jun 2026 · 56 min
25. It's Sauna Time, Dudes
No guest this week, just Chris and Matty hanging out for a summer episode of the Buddy System Podcast. The boys try to figure out if they could draw the United States from memory, get deep into sauna and steam room culture, talk through whether Matty wants kids and how protective he already is of his nieces and nephews, break down why soccer beats lacrosse on pure accessibility, and close out with another Cryptid of the Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
E23 · 10 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
24. Scoochie Boochie Returns!
Scoochie Boochie (https://www.instagram.com/scoochie_boochie) is back on the Buddy System Podcast, and Chris and Matty barely make it through hello before the three of them are swapping tour bus stories, including the act that got left sleeping under a bridge in Milwaukee. From there it is a full hour of comedy podcast tangents: why nerds keep pairing Magic the Gathering with cocaine, a Christian unicycle family dribbling basketballs for Christ, the fact that every crow sounds like Ron White, whether you could train a dog for the biathlon, and the universal truth that your male cat has…
E23 · 2 Jun 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
23. Whistle Blowers for Aliens
Chris and Matty finally do the alien episode, which according to Chris is the moment they officially became a real comedy podcast. They dig into the Age of Disclosure documentary, UAP whistleblowers, the little guys at Area 51, and the global race to reverse-engineer alien tech, before getting sidetracked onto flying cars we never got, AI quietly making everyone dumber, and a dragon cover-up theory that may get them detained. Then Chicago comedian and environmentalist Lucia Whalen (@luciawhalen) joins for her third visit to tell the full story of the car that was definitely stolen until it…
E22 · 26 May 2026 · 1 hr 1 min
22. Sam Biru! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Sam Biru (@morkatabiru) finally pulls up to the Buddy System for the first time, and he earned it: Chicago comic by way of Philadelphia, 2025 JFL New Faces, and one of the best of the new class. Chris and Matty get into the laughing tap to JFL pipeline, the time two grown men with their luggage finished a kids' bingo card at the Milwaukee Bobblehead Museum, and why it is basically impossible to doomscroll the news and then go do standup. From there it is whitewashed history class and the ongoing case that Paul Revere is not real, the Penn State professor who taught nothing, and…
19 May 2026 · 1 hr 2 min
21. Adam Gilbert! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Adam Gilbert (@adamgilbert__) is back in Chicago for a sold-out weekend and we got him in the studio. We arm him with a hatchet because and he tells the story of the night someone stole his suitcase out of his car outside the Hideout while he was on Molly, how Old Navy in Indianapolis got him through the rest of the road run, and the absolute farce that is trying to file a police report at the Logan Square station. Chris and Adam reconnect on meeting at Cream City Comedy Fest in 2016, comedy festivals as summer camp, and the brutal Tuesday-night logic of clubs putting headliners on…
12 May 2026 · 54 min
20. Will Matty Read This?
Our buddy Luke Null (SNL, "Pretty Songs Dirty Words" ft. Wayne Brady) is back at the studio and he and Chris have a new segment to debut: Will Matty Read It, where they pitch Matty a book and find out whether he'll actually read the thing. Luke goes first with Joe Abercrombie's Best Served Cold, a Kill Bill revenge novel set in the First Law universe with a numbers-obsessed sociopath named Friendly. Chris counters with Stephen King's Gerald's Game, the one about the woman handcuffed to the bed in a Maine cabin with a dead husband on the floor and a very tall man watching her from the corner,…
5 May 2026 · 1 hr
19. Cinco De Mayo
It's a spring double-holiday episode and Israel and Rob made sure Chris and Matty actually learned what the Battle of Puebla was about before they ran their mouths. From there: Mattie's iPhone alarm has ruined Bob Marley for him, he found a pile of dead flickers in Michigan and called the DNR, ramps are out, Chris recaps the Dallas / Tulsa / Portland / Eugene tour run, Texas writes everyone's textbooks, Homo sapiens vs Neanderthals (we won because we threw stuff), three new Favorite Animals including a monkey that looks like it got napalmed, Maeve buying a Costco pear tree that needs a buddy…
1 May 2026 · 1 hr 16 min
18. Sam Rocha! Our Buddy!
Comedian Sam Rocha (@samhandleyrocha) joins us and the conversation goes everywhere. Sam moved from Santa Barbara to Chicago to study comedy at Columbia, AOC followed her after her political campaign manager sketch, and her commitment to Mariah Carey is unmatched on this earth. We get into the airline that genuinely forgot to book a pilot, the time Matty got chewed out by a pilot for trying to smoke a cigarette on the runway as a teenager, Chris's new Cat Bird ring, Matty's potentially 10,000-year-old arrowhead, picking your daemon if you lived in The Golden Compass, a 103-acre wallaby…
E17 · 21 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
17. 4/20
Chris and Matty celebrate the most sacred of stoner holidays with an hour of weed stories, childhood chaos, and brand new cryptid content. From Chris kayaking to school in Boulder to Matty dodging undercover cops on the South Side of Chicago, the guys trade their wildly different paths to becoming functioning adult stoners. Plus, the debut of Cryptid of the Month featuring the Not Deer and Champy, a detour into Nepal's time zone situation, and the discovery that dwarf metal is a real genre of music. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
15 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 5 min
16. Lucia Bums Us Out
Our good pal Loosh comes by the studio to bum us tf out. She's got facts, she's got figures, and she wants to know if she should've brought her hat. Lucia Whalen is the first two time guest of the Buddy System and will be back a plenty with her new segment, "Lucia Bums Us Out" Check it out! Its very fun and also informative! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
E15 · 7 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
15. Swiss Slap Fights
Chris and Matty are back with an episode that covers Mormon missionaries, battle horse PTSD, fake IDs, the world's dirtiest man, and the Swiss military strategy of just slapping people. Chris tells a story about herding cattle in Montana and riding horses in the wild, Matty nearly dies horseback riding in Nicaragua, and both guys agree that bike cops are the least threatening form of law enforcement. They get into WWII history, defend Portland and Fargo, pitch a friendship kidnapping service called Napper, and Chris recounts taking acid at LCD Soundsystem and briefly wanting to run for…
E14 · 1 Apr 2026 · 1 hr 8 min
14. Slimy Stinkys
Chris opened a tin of sardines at the studio and Matty is not having it. That somehow leads to the accidental invention of bread, T-Mobile charging ten dollars to talk to a human, Batman being a billionaire cop, their Batman villain names, and asking the warehouse ghosts to please keep things platonic. Two new segments debut this week — Things I Wrote Down and Treasure of the Week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
E13 · 24 Mar 2026 · 1 hr 22 min
13. Scoochie Boochie! Our Buddy!
The self-proclaimed best rapper in the United States and the guy born from a volcano -- Scoochie Boochie joins Chris and Matty at Iconoclast Studios for a conversation that covers improv burnout, comedy rap as an actual genre, pandemic hair disasters, and the hard truth about the improv industry (there isn't one). Plus a brand new segment drops: Notes from Our Phone, where everyone reads their most unhinged half-baked comedy premises. Things get educational — did you know toilet paper wasn't invented until 1857? Or that Romans shared a communal butt rag on a stick? Neither did we, and we're…

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A humble podcast with Chicago comedians Chris Higgins and Matty Ryan.

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Publisher: The Buddy System
Language: English
Category: Comedy
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 1 hr 1 min
Latest episode: 13 Oct 2026
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