The Buddy System with Chris & Matty

Our buddy Cliff Cash (@cliffcashcomedy) is in the studio, mid-tour, to talk about sleeping in a $4,900 station wagon for five years, how he'd run the Democratic Party, and exactly what he thinks of the Austin comedy scene. (Joe Rogan did the acid wrong) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Greg Kennedy (@_gregkennedy) is back, and yes, he's the goo guy. Greg talks about his new national goo fame as he grapples with changing the internet forever, it’s Space Month and Greg loves aliens & horror movies and Chris and Matty do not like spooky scaries, Greg and Chris used to live in the male brothel together, Greg got diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer which stinks bad, luckily they were...

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 lante...

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 bet...

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 ac...

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

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, Nap...

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 goat...

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, unde...

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 yo...

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, wi...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 theor...

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 imposs...

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...