Just Buy Less Coffee, Answering the Deeper Questions of American Politics
Two social media misfits: Troy Matthews, Senior Writer for MeidasTouch, and Cathy Cannon, a political educator, bring years of political campaign experience, with a full helping of latent millennial rage, to offer a unique and seasoned, 30-40 something contextual take on the most important political stories of the day, with frequent guest hosts from politics and media. All for less than the price of a cup of coffee, you broke bastards. New episodes Mondays.
Episodes
159 episodes
Episode 152: #ClaimDenied #FAFO #SyrianFreedom
Cathy and Troy discuss the stunning events in Syria over the weekend, with the brutal Assad regime falling after 13 years of civil war, and the Syrian people finally liberated in a sequence of events tied to other geopolitical earthquakes, like...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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1:03:22
Special Episode: Cathy Thanksgiving Message
Cathy hammers home the realities that we all must face as children of the United States of America following the election of Donald Trump, and especially those of us in the millennial generation whose lives continue to be defined by the events ...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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15:22
Episode 151: #Catastrophe #WhatHappened #Kakistocracy
Cathy and Troy react to the news that Donald Trump, convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and noted fraud and probable traitor, will once again be President of the United States. The reason? An uneducated electorate finally swallowed our democra...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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1:00:04
Episode 150: #ElectionDay #Kamala #OctoberSurprise #PuertoRico #IowaShock
Cathy and Troy LIST the roughly 8 or 9 October surprises that rocked the Trump campaign just over the last week, with possibly the most significant being losing Puerto Ricans and other Latino voters after an offensive comment made at a Trump ra...
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Season 6
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Episode 7
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1:32:12
Special Episode: #GenZ #DylanHellebrand #MaxwellFrost #Florida
Cathy interviews Dylan Hellebrand, a former student, and a delegate to the DNC and staffer in the office of Congressman Maxwell Frost, about how young people can get involved in politics and make an impact quickly, the state of the race in Flor...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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39:35
Episode 149: #CognitiveDecline #OutFoxed #BaierDown #Kamalot
Cathy and Troy discuss Kamala Harris' brutal takedown of Bret Baier during an obviously set up ambush interview on Fox News. Despite being designed to make her look bad, Kamala came away looking stronger than ever. Donald Trump has comp...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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59:39
Episode 148: #CoupPart2 #HurricaneOfLies #Asheville
Cathy and Troy break down the fire hose of lies on the internet surrounding the federal government's response to hurricane Helene. MAGA has successfully weaponized messaging around disaster relief to play on anger and frustration for votes, and...
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Season 6
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Episode 4
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1:12:18
Episode 147: #ONEMONTHTOGO #ElectoralDysfunction #BigBoard
Cathy is joined by friend of the show Ryan, the Just Buy Less Coffee version of Steve Kornacki, our electoral big board correspondent, to discuss the math on getting Kamala Harris to 270 electoral votes in what will be one of the closest electi...
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Season 6
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Episode 3
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1:07:45
Episode 146: #Terrorism #NoAccountability #FedUp
Cathy and Troy break down the second assassination attempt of Donald Trump. Do the words of the man and party create an atmosphere of ongoing political violence and terrorism? Especially when the Haitian community in Springfield is curr...
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Season 6
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Episode 2
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51:41
Episode 145: #MasterDebater #SwiftWork #Kamalot
Cathy and Troy are back and Troy is broadcasting from Spain, as Kamala Harris makes Swift work of Donald Trump in the 2nd presidential debate. We break down the highlights and lowlights and breathe a sigh of relief to once again have a candidat...
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Season 6
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Episode 1
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52:35
Episode 144: #DNC #Kamala #Obamas #TheDemocracy
Cathy flies solo for this brief interlude episode, while Troy moves to Europe, and discusses the Democratic National Convention, the acceptance speech of Kamala Harris to be the Democratic nominee, the legendary oratory of the Obamas, and four ...
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Season 5
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Episode 25
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17:11
Episode 143: #SlurredLines #TrumpedUpPersonality #BallzToTheWalz #PaulCox
Cathy and Troy break down Trump's complete collapse since the ascension of Kamala Harris to Democratic nominee. Trump's handlers have officially lost control as they beg him to stay on message. Trump gives bizarre press conferences, racist cons...
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Season 5
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Episode 24
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1:10:42
Episode 142: #ProsecutorAndCoach #VsFelonAndCouch #HarrisWalz
Cathy and Troy discuss the dark horse pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be Kamala Harris' running mate. As usual, Cathy called it. Walz is a midwestern governor so charming he even got AOC and Joe Manchin to agree he was a great pick. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 23
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1:26:21
Episode 141: #BidenFarewell #Kamalot #NotGoingBack #OneLastTime
Cathy and Troy break down the historic news that President Joe Biden will not be seeking re-election, passing the torch to the next generation by endorsing Kamala Harris for President. Biden will now go down in history as one of the gre...
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Season 5
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Episode 22
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1:26:36
Episode 140: #AssassinationPolitics #TrumpVeep #ConspiracyofDunces
Cathy and Troy discuss the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the politics of violence and conspiracy. Trump pledges unity, then defines unity as American loyalty to Trumpism, and his own absolute immunity. Then he choo...
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Season 5
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Episode 21
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1:22:38
Episode 139: #Trump'sProject2025Problem #RidinWithBiden? #EuroEuphoria
Cathy and Troy continue our discussion of Biden potentially stepping down from the nomination and handing it off to Kamala Harris. Many more donors and key players have chimed in, including Nancy Pelosi and George Clooney, the latter signifying...
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Season 5
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Episode 20
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1:13:48
Episode 138: #PresidentialSwap #KamalaAndACracker #ImmunityResponse
Cathy and Troy break down the disastrous debate performance from Joe Biden last week, and discuss the growing calls for him to step into elder statesman mode and back another candidate. Biden has accomplished so much in four years. How will the...
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Season 5
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Episode 19
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1:08:11
Episode 137: #PresidentialThreeWay #MasterDebater #TheSWord
Cathy and Troy break down the consequences of Trump's proposed economic plan: cut taxes for the rich, deport immigrant workers, and skyrocket the costs of consumer goods by spiking import tariffs, which economists say would lead to a recession ...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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1:10:36
Episode 136: #Trump'sWhiteBoySummer #Groyper #Tariffying
Cathy and Troy break down the recent Supreme Court decisions: to lift the ban on bump stocks, a device that turns a semi-automatic rifle into a machine gun, and to allow the continued use of the abortion pill.The Trump presidential immu...
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Season 5
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Episode 18
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1:05:16
Episode 135: #MAGAInHeat #LetThemEatCake #SettlingTheSenate
Cathy and Troy discuss Trump's "let them eat cake" moment as he tells his supporters standing in triple digit heat to see him speak that he doesn't care about their safety, only their votes. Speaking of let them eat cake, the Europ...
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Season 5
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Episode 17
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1:21:02
Episode 134: #ConvictedFelonTrump #Bibi'sBidenBurn #GenerationTrauma
Cathy and Troy break down the developing ceasefire proposal put forth by President Biden to end the conflict in Gaza. The deal includes a withdrawal of Israeli forces and the rebuild of Gaza, along with a return of displaced Palestinians to the...
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Season 5
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Episode 16
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1:04:43
Episode 133: #MasterDebater #ButkerBlowsIt #BadBuiltButchBody #SaudiSaviors
Cathy and Troy break down the verbal melee in Congress in the middle of the House Oversight Committee meeting, when Marjorie Taylor Greene decided to talk trash...then Jasmine Crockett made her eat it. But really isn't this what the House...
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Season 5
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Episode 15
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1:16:23
Episode 132: #FederalPregnancyRegistry #WhatComesNext? #AnyoneButHamas #WomensRights
Cathy and Troy analyze Biden's decision to withhold offensive weapons from Israel after Benjamin Netanyahu crosses Biden's red line and attacks Rafah, and an investigation reveals U.S. weapons have been used to commit war crimes. Now all eyes o...
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Season 5
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Episode 14
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1:10:10
Episode 131: #Ceasefire #Legacy #NoemMoreLies
Cathy and Troy break down the looming attack from the Israeli Defense Forces on the city of Rafah, the last vestige of security for the people of Gaza, what the choices are for Biden now, and how this moment more than any other will define his ...
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Season 5
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Episode 13
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1:14:56
Episode 130: #SupremeCoercion #TheGreatestGas #NoemMorePuppies
Cathy and Troy break down Donald Trump's recent court cases, where the disgraced former president faces fraud charges for secretly paying off a porn star to keep quiet about their affair while his wife was pregnant, calling it a campaign expens...
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Season 5
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Episode 12
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1:00:29