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The Buddy System with Chris & Matty

The Buddy System

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

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Tuesday · 49 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
September 29 · 49 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 snitch and is about to be weaponized, diamonds are intrinsically worthless, maple syrup mafias, comedians can be terrible houseguests Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 22 · 41 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
September 15 · 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
September 8 · 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
September 1 · 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
August 25 · 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
August 18 · 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
August 11 · 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
August 4 · 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
July 28 · 1 hr 2 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
July 21 · 1 hr 1 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
July 14 · 1 hr
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
#28
July 13 · 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
#27
June 30 · 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
June 23 · 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
June 16 · 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
#23
June 10 · 1 hr 15 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 nipples. Scoochie shouts out his friend Alex Wannell as Treasure of the Week for talking him through a brown recluse bite, the guys invent a pistol with a single tooth, and somewhere in there katana otters, a fridge full of kimchi, and a plan to dodge the draft all come up before the whole thing lands on the green team. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#23
June 2 · 1 hr
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 wasn't, and to bum everyone out (lovingly) about Roundup, Monsanto, and the Supreme Court before talking everyone back off the ledge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
#22
May 26 · 1 hr
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 Sam's acting past, including a play where his only job was to die of a seizure and the time he got booted a week before opening night for bringing beer and hash to rehearsal. Sam runs a live voiceover bit as a 75 year old conspiracy theorist school bus driver, the guys pitch a songless Lord of the Rings, and it all ends with a full Chet Hanks appreciation hour. Comedy, Chicago stand up, and a whole lot of tangents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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