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The Buddy System with Chris & Matty

by The Buddy System

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

Latest episodes

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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 crashin

Sep 15
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, Da

Sep 8
53 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 S

Sep 1
52 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 da

Aug 25
1 h 03 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 hi

Aug 18
58 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-apo

Aug 11
52 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, pr

Aug 4
1 h 12 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

Jul 28
1 h 02 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 f

Jul 21
1 h 01 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 a

Jul 14
1 h 00 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 wa

Jul 13
59 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 trus

Jun 30
55 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/adc

Jun 23
59 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 fro

Jun 16
56 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 th

Jun 10
1 h 15 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 doc

Jun 2
1 h 00 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

May 26
1 h 00 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 o

May 19
1 h 01 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 p

May 12
54 min

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

May 5
1 h 00 min

Chart trend

Position in the Stand-Up chart (US), last 90 days.

#31
all-time peak
85
days in the top 50 since Jan 2026

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#55 ▼ 23 Stand-Up US

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