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
167 episodes
Episode 160: #SAVEYourselves #CampElSalvador #NoDollaDollaBillsYa'll
Cathy and Troy break down the passage of the SAVE Act in the U.S. House, a bill designed to disenfranchise millions of legal voters by requiring proof of citizenship presented in person to register to vote in federal elections. The ...
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Season 7
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Episode 2
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1:01:21
Episode 159: #Tarriffying #1929 #BookerBoom
Cathy and Troy break down a disastrous week for the U.S. economy after Trump's Liberation Day unveiling of tariffs on the entire world. The U.S. has declared economic warfare, and countries are responding in kind. In response, the m...
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Season 7
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Episode 1
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1:03:01
Episode 158: #Optimism #TaxCutToDeath #KathrynAnneEdwards
Cathy interviews Bloomberg Economist Kathryn Anne Edwards about the coming, completely avoidable, recession. In no universe should the U.S. go from under 4% unemployment to staring down a recession in less than 100 days.Kathryn describes...
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Season 6
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Episode 16
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1:11:50
Episode 157: #OverpoweringMusk #CondomBomb #BagofDicks
Cathy and Troy break down the horrifying prospect of Donald Trump using U.S. troops to expel Palestinians from Gaza in order to make way for hotels. He hinted at it on the campaign trail. Could Trump Tower Gaza be coming? And with it WW3 and ar...
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Season 6
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Episode 15
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57:00
Episode 156: #Musk #Coup #TariffTreason
Cathy and Troy react to the stunning developments in D.C. as an unknown cadre of Elon Musk cronies sieze control of the U.S. Treasury, take over payment servers controlling trillions of dollars of U.S. assets, and shut down global aid fund USAI...
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Season 6
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Episode 14
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1:03:37
Episode 155: #DeportationDistraction #MuskHeilFive #KnowYourRights
The Trump presidency is officially here and less than one week in we are already seeing the exact effects that were forecast of a fascist government coming home to the United States. Immigrant communities brace for the effects of Trump'...
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Season 6
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Episode 13
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1:01:08
Episode 154: #FireStorm #Lies #California #FuneralForDemocracy
Cathy and Troy debunk the firestorm of lies surrounding the horrendous and heartbreaking wildfires in Los Angeles. Never missing an opportunity to spread division, Donald Trump and his army of miserable right-wing influencers push dangerous lie...
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Season 6
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Episode 12
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49:47
Episode 153: #Eulogy #Legacy #Luigi #Empire
Cathy and Troy remember the legacy of Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, who is often tarnished by Republicans because he was defeated by Ronald Reagan, but it was Carter who restored dignity to the White House and attempted to ...
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Season 6
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Episode 11
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47:52
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