PODCAST · comedy
The Buddy System with Chris & Matty
by The Buddy System
A humble podcast with Chicago comedians Chris Higgins and Matty Ryan.
Episodes
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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…
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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,...
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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12. St. Patrick's Day
It's Matty's birthday, it's St. Patrick's Day, and someone gifted him a whale penis sculpture. Chris and Matty get into the origin story of Chicago dyeing the river green, hotel horror stories, the NA beer and mocktail price scam, body proportion facts discovered in the shower, a love letter to…
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11. Kristen Toomey! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Kristen Toomey pops by for a swell chat about stand-up, being on the road, and other notable points of intellect (rodents, wizards, etc) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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10. Overalls vs. Vest
We had every intention of being mature this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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9. Link In, Dudes
Its the semis. Time to link. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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8. Devon Walker! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Devon Walker (SNL, Big Mouth, "My Favorite Lyrics" podcast) is in Chicago and we had to get him on the pod. Devon talks about coming up in the Austin comedy scene, getting Comedy Central's Comics to Watch just two years in, moving to New York City with $7,000, and surviving nightmare...
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7. Palentine's Day
Happy Palentine's Day! This week on the Buddy System Podcast, we're celebrating friendship with our pal, Chicago comedian Lucia Hollis (@luciaismyname). We talk about everything from Pluto's planet status to Monsanto conspiracies, exchange the weirdest Palentine's Day gifts ever, debate whether...
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6. Luke Null! Our Buddy!
Our buddy Luke Null (SNL, "Pretty Songs Dirty Words" ft. Wayne Brady) is back in Chicago and we had to get him on the pod. We talk comedy, SNL stories, the legendary Chicago scene, and then completely derail into golf course crimes, gas station madness, and the funniest childhood stories you've...
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5. 26 Thousand Riffs
Things get weird fast. High-tech bird feeders and Russian Blue cats, to our worst road rage moments and the creativity of medieval torture, why we need be be drinking pig milk, and 26,000 riffs more. Later, we dive down some important questions: Why is pig cheese $300 a kilo? Why aren't we…
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3. Whale Science
It took the boys three episodes to regress to first graders. We discuss niche sciences, pants dorsils, and the empire. It's very dumb, and also kinda smart, but mostly dumb. Just like all the stuff. Thanks for stopping by! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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4. Joyelle Johnson! Our Buddy!
Our pal Joyelle Johnson stopped by the pod to talk about all kinds of stuff! Ungulates, touring, and more. Joyelle is a regular panelist on NPR's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me." She has multiple specials out, she's been on TV a buncha, and she's appeared on late-night shows several times! She's the...
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2. Kyle Kinane! Our Buddy!
Whoa! Two extremely tender episodes for our first week? You bet your bazingos, big guy. Count on it! Our dearest buddy Kyle Kinane stopped by for a lovely long chat about things, stuff, and prescription crocs. Kyle is a legend in the Chicago comedy scene and a true comedian's comedian. There's…
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1. Hello! Hello there!
The humblest of beginnings. hosts Chris Higgins Matty Ryan executive producer Israel Fernandez III directed by Israel Fernandez III producer Sean Nielsen co-producers Chris Higgins & Matty Ryan director of photography Rob Gaona edited by Rob Gaona & Israel Fernandez III assistant editor Jess…
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A humble podcast with Chicago comedians Chris Higgins and Matty Ryan.
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The Buddy System
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