West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays! Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media. Bon Appétit! First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals. A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade. Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.
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Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's delusional “broken election system” speech was a bunch of explosive diarrhea.Then, on the rest of the menu, Mississippi teachers say the new state-mandated process for buying classroom supplies has been made more difficult; Trump is taking longer to approve disaster aid and denying Democratic states more frequently; and, in what surely must be ICE job requirements, the ICE officer who murdered an innocent man in Maine, has a history of domestic violence and serious mental health issues since childhood.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where ICE arrested a human rights lawyer who fled the China crackdown on human rights lawyers, for deportation back to Beijing; and, Japan's parliament ruled only paternal-lineage men can become emperor, sparking concern that the measure could doom the already shrinking imperial family.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, you can't have a three-ring MAGA clown show without a couple of MAGA clowns up for Senate confirmation and another MAGA clown complaining about Low-T.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ignored Congress as he poured concrete for a black granite helipad over the White House lawn without permits; MAGA AG Ken Paxton meddled in an explosive college football betting scandal one day after a big donation from the school's Board of Regents Chair; and, Secret Service agents are now in Kash Patel's crosshairs into how security vulnerabilities of Trump's Qatar-grifted Air Force One jet leaked to The New York Times.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned Trump against interfering in German elections after a scheme to fund Maga-aligned causes in Europe was announced; and, Hong Kong authorities raided two independent bookstores and arrested five people on suspicion of selling seditious publications that threatened China's national security.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, all evidence points to Trump trying to steal the 2026 midterms.Then, on the rest of the menu, Signal Pete Hegseth has made sure for the first time in more than a decade, no active-duty women Navy officers are likely to be promoted to admiral this year; law firms that cut deals with Trump to stop executive orders to shut down their businesses, are now fighting a secret courtroom battle against the Department of MAGA Justice; and, a GOP election rigging scheme was thwarted when a Democratic governor selected a new judge to a key state court.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Hungary's parliament voted to remove Orban puppet Tamas Sulyok from his Presidential post; and, the reason so many are rooting against the Land of Messi is because Argentina soccer fans, players and sports journalists, have a racist problem.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Justice PutnamBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump consigliere Todd Blanche sweats as one judge finds he's a fraudster, another wants to hold him in contempt and his advocate to shepherd his nomination hearing died of a heart attack after a phone call with Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, senior ICE officials are blaming Trump for the recent wave of deadly shootings by ICE death squads; as its lawyers flee in droves, Trump's embattled Department of Justice has imposed new quotas on its prosecutors; and, Louden County, Virginia officials found almost one hundred health violations at the restaurant for the Trump National Golf Club Washington, DC, in Potomac Falls, Virginia.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where two suspects have been arrested in connection with setting fire to the Fontainebleau forest near Paris that forced the evacuation of one thousand people; and, European troops, warplanes and around thirty leaders joined the Paris Bastille Day parade in a show of unity for Ukraine.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots Radio Beaming 24/7/365“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's own judge dressed him down for supporting white nationalist, paramilitary groups.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Illinois teacher targeted by vicious right-wing hate over critical posts about Charlie Kirk, is now hailed for ‘saving lives'; Trump justified all the grift, graft and insider trade fraud as president with a slew of inaccurate claims; and, with the resurgence of polio under MAHA, Martha Lillard, the last US polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Nicaragua's husband-and-wife co-presidents stripped masses of lawyers of their licenses to practice in an ongoing crackdown on dissent; and, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russian military intelligence officers, hackers and private companies, denouncing a years-long cyberespionage campaign to undermine the bloc.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump suddenly and suspiciously canceled all his events for the next three days after his disastrous NATO summit meeting.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is trying to imprison Americans for joining internet chats he doesn't like; Steve Bannon was a secret operative helping Trump extort nearly $1 billion from the nation's top law firms; and, Trump's continuing attempts to squirm out of paying writer E Jean Carroll the $5 million plus interest he owes her, has set off a civil war at the law firm representing him in the case.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Poland sentenced a Russian exile to seven years in prison for spying for Moscow; and, Mexico will request criminal charges over seventeen Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, did Trump order Blanche to hide key documents?Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump suffered another humiliating courtroom defeat after a federal appeals court affirmed he illegally added his name to the Kennedy Center; Trump's plan for his triumphal arch is getting another review from another Trump-packed federal commission; and, Wyoming officials traced a rare wastewater bacteria back to a massive Meta data center under construction.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where South Korea's Supreme Court upheld a seven-year prison sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol; and, the Italian region of Calabria defies US pressure to end its Cuban doctors program.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 Justice PutnamBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a Trump judge ruled in a twenty-eight page opinion that the DOJ had no right to obtain the identity, email address and phone numbers for all the Fulton County Georgia election workers who worked the 2020 election.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's latest ‘vengeful spectacle' alarms experts as his war on America's doctors intensifies; an appellate court struck down parts of a Florida law that restricted the teaching of race, sexism and unconscious bias in college classrooms; and, a lawsuit alleges that the Trump administration has been illegally sharing confidential information about Iranian asylum seekers with the Iranian government.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she'll run for the French presidency next year despite promising not to if forced to wear a court-ordered electronic monitor; and, EU lawmakers call for an investigation of FIFA boss Infantino over Trump's phone call before the US-Belgium match.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, after losing in the Supreme Court, Trump appointed his E Jean Carroll attorney to the federal bench, so now his new E Jean Carroll attorney needs some time to get up to speed delaying E Jean Carroll her court-ordered money.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Texas Observer revealed four businesses with ties the Neo-Nazi Patriot Front operating in North Texas; three Colorado election deniers' lower court win is overturned by the Tenth Circuit who ordered a new trial for armed voter intimidation; and, the DOJ was caught redacting bank fraud alerts from its Epstein files about a Jeffrey Epstein-owned company that kept moving millions after his death.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where French prosecutors are investigating racist insults against midfielder Mbappé by a Paraguay senator after her nation lost to France in the World Cup: and, the woman suspected of the bomb attack on a businessman and his family in Monaco last week, has been found shot dead in Ukraine.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots Radio Beaming 24/7/365“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Justice PutnamBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Patriot Front and Trump tried to ruin the Fourth of July weekend.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Neo Confederate MAGA White House branded the leadership of the Smithsonian Institution as radical leftists who cannot be trusted; Trump will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool but will “use the same company, because they did a fantastic job;” and, a decline in PH.D. admissions could imperil “a generation of new talent.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief, gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring that would be illegal in any other administration; and, Australia and Fiji signed a new bilateral defense alliance against Chinese influence in the South Pacific.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia Child Justice PutnamBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, indictments coming out of the weaponized Boxed Wine DOJ, are “monumentally flawed.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has been indicted on sixteen criminal charges by a grand jury in New Orleans; the blistering heat wave forced Trump goons to change his National Mall July 4th plans at the last minute; and, the top FBI agent in Chicago is abruptly leaving his post after being pushed by Patel to retire.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Gisèle Pelicot case might be the tip of the iceberg as a ‘truly international' network of drug-facilitated rape is uncovered by the UK National Crime Agency; and, Dallas police tried to rough up some Egyptian World Cup players and coaches at their hotel who were taking photos with fans.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the dissenting MAGA justices to the birthright citizen case brought “a political and racial ideology in search of a history that's not there.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's National Park Service has recommended that people wear N95 masks when outdoors and “remain indoors as much as possible during and after” the massive fireworks show at the National Mall on July 4th; Trump secretly ordered a surge in immigration arrests that has seen more than 10,000 people detained in just five days; and, twenty-five states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over its onerous Medicaid work requirements.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where an explosion in Monaco wounded a Ukrainian tycoon with ties to Russia; and, a Federal audit found Puerto Rico is still awaiting billions of dollars nearly a decade after the deadly Hurricane Maria razed the US island territory.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Stephen Miller and Trump's argument against birthright citizenship is “unhinged and racist.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the East Wing has been demolished, so the ominous new scaffolding erected at the north portico of the Trump White House is raising questions about what his next demo job is; the deaths of three US government firefighters in the Colorado wildfire over the weekend are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration's revival of a previously discredited policy; and, a federal judge ordered the Defense Department to temporarily halt its requirement that New York Times journalists be accompanied by an official escort.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where self-exiled Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui was sentenced to thirty years in a US prison for a massive worldwide financial fraud; and, hospitals in Europe are gearing up for the next heat wave armed with lessons from this one.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's first briefing on the Iran MOU immediately went sideways as Rubio and Witkoff refused to answer questions and started screaming at congress members.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Catholic nun was released from immigration custody after she was arrested walking to Mass in her habit in South Texas; newspaper publishers across the country are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their websites to train their flagship artificial intelligence models; and, giving Trump access to a secret list of Russians being targeted for recruitment or tracked by US intelligence would be a colossal mistake and a threat to US security, but that's what he wants.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a MAGA-curious ex-UK lawmaker plead guilty to cheating in an election betting scandal; and, Albania's ‘Flamingo Revolution' is trying to torpedo the Kushner coastal resort development on the Narta Lagoon Wildlife Reserve and in the process, may bring down the corrupt government.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Netroots Radio Beaming 24/7/365“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Justice PutnamBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the walls are closing in on corrupt Judge Aileen Cannon in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.Then, on the rest of the menu, Fox News was forced to make a rare on-air apology after a Shark Tank panelist mouthed off; Trump stole the public golf course in DC so he can make beaucoup bucks turning it into an exclusive resort for the rich; and, NASA is racing to save the aging Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with a daring rescue mission.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australia will double potential fines for Facebook over child social media accounts; and, after claiming to have taken a chainsaw to woke Argentinian corruption, Milei's top aide and Cabinet chief has resigned over a spiraling corruption scandal.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson just shut down Congress and canceled all votes as Trump is prohibiting all discussions on his MOU with Iran.Then, on the rest of the menu, former National Park rangers are organizing a national pushback against Trump's order that stripped dozens of historical exhibits from federal land; California will vote on a “one-time” Billionaire's Tax this November and the Billionaires are not happy; and, a federal judge blocked part of a Trump plan that would limit loans for students pursuing graduate degrees in nursing, physical therapy, public health and other professional fields.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Venezuelans in the US rush to send aid to earthquake victims, but Caracas airport is closed; and, those dreamy Paris zinc rooftops have become a heat-trapping nightmare.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a MAGA DOJ nominee was caught by the Senate deleting over three hundred offensive social media posts.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's DHS is accused of retaliating against ICE observers by stripping away their domestic and international travel rights; a federal judge is demanding an explanation for the tarp covering where Trump's name once stood on the Kennedy Center's façade; and, a Republican New York City Council candidate has been charged with forgery over AI-generated fake endorsements and news articles.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Iranian agents lived in Australia before directing attacks on Jewish targets in Sydney and Melbourne; and, Brazil detained a Spanish citizen in the latest detention of a foreigner for racism.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Four Star General Chris Donahue suddenly resigned as Hegseth and Trump continue to destroy the military.Then, on the rest of the menu, the USPS cancelled appearing just hours before a hearing with a Washington state House panel on Trump's onerous mail-in voter rules; Surrender Monkey Pete Hegseth was forced into a humiliating u-turn after his recent military anti-vax rules caused a flu outbreak at an Air Force base that has sickened hundreds, hospitalized scores and caused the deaths of several recruits; and, the billionaire MAGA-friendly owner of the LA Times is struggling to pay his bills.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where German authorities carried out raids in a probe investigating Russian sabotage to disrupt the country's gas supply; and, the Lithuanian government stepped down after a coalition reshuffle that has pledged to pursue a more pragmatic relationship with China after years of strained ties.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had his regular 12:01am meltdown that lasted for several hours.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump DOJ's plot to imprison ICE protesters for life was hit by a last-minute blow; Stephen Miller is in peril as uncovered FBI docs put his secret deeds in a judge's crosshairs; and, the Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas that forced reporters from the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post to appear before a federal grand jury in Virginia. After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Romania's political crisis deepened as lawmakers rejected a new government; and, Guinness crowned the Canberra, Australia town crier as the world's loudest person at 122.4 decibels. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam. Bon Appétit! The Netroots Radio Live Player Keep Your Netroots Radio Beaming 24/7/365 “As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump turned the Reflecting Pool into a toxic sludge that is killing wildlife and pet dogs, so he's arresting members of Algaetifa for vandalizing the monument.Then, on the rest of the menu, a secretive MAGA PAC finally comes clean after getting busted ‘meddling' in Democratic primary elections in several states; the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center says it isn't required to reschedule shows after a federal judge blocked its two-year closure; and, Utah marks a year of battling measles, with no clear end in sight.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a former South Korean justice minister was sentenced to 25 years in prison after a court found him guilty of helping carry out the brief declaration of martial law in 2024; and, Australia and Canada signed a $1.75 billion export agreement to build an Australian-designed long-range radar system in Canada.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, three federal judges, in three separate cases, are evaluating evidentiary filings to appoint a special prosecutor against Todd Blanche and the MAGA DOJ for prosecutorial misconduct and defrauding the court.Then, on the rest of the menu, a fourth postal worker since 2024 has died at the flagship Georgia USPS facility that has no phones; a South Dakota man whose life sentence was commuted by Kristi Noem is now implicated in his niece's death; and, a MAGA appeals court ruled Trump can disappear the George Washington House slavery exhibit in Philadelphia because it “inappropriately disparaged” white slave owners, “past or living.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Pete Hegseth's insulting and critical “job” review is out of step with what NATO allies are already doing; and, diplomatic hell is unleashed as Italy's Prime Minister Meloni went ballistic over a “completely fabricated” Trump story at the G7.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!tarting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a 12:15am meltdown on Air Force One after partying at Versailles like it was 1919.Then, on the rest of the menu, Tommy Tuberville's own words could get him disqualified from the Alabama governor's race; the Florida Attorneys General celebrated an appeals court panel lifting the forty-year ban on concealed carry for eighteen to twenty-year-olds; and, a bipartisan group of state lawmakers said the Trump administration removal of ocean observatories is a ‘direct threat' to the Oregon coast.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Brazil's top court convicted son of ousted President Bolsonaro for coercion; and, a British yacht owner who was fired on by a Russian warship in the English Channel, criticized the UK government for downplaying the incident.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the MAGA feds charged fifteen Minnesotans for being part of an Antifa conspiracy to impede ICE officers from violating constitutional protections.Then, on the rest of the menu, evidence buried deep in the Epstein files named Trump Tower as a sex recruiter hunting ground for the guy in the penthouse; a federal judge ruled that transgender people won't face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms that match their gender identities; and, MAGA senators blocked a War Powers Resolution, again.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Polish Prime Minister Tusk said the killing of a Russian artist who was critical of Vladimir Putin, has the hallmarks of a political assassination; and, a chilling Romanian exhibition replays videotaped secret police interrogations from 1989.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Trump DOJ was very chatty when putting the spin on killing US citizens in the street, but clammed up when confronted on the Newsom prosecution.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Supreme Court declined to revive the Carter Page lawsuit against James Comey; Trump is now blaming Obama for the massive algae bloom that erupted days after refilling his $14 million dollar American Flag Blue paint job; and, in far West Texas, the continuing threat of land seizures for Trump's border wall has families on edge.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the man who set fire to homes linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is in jail, but his Russian-speaking handler slipped away; and, the online portal used to send US deliveries to Cuba's most vulnerable has stopped taking orders, as Trump turns the screws tighter on the Cuban government.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ghost of Pam Bondi continues to scar the proud reputation of the US Attorney Office's around the the US.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction that halts the Trump administration's effort to erase historical and scientific facts on signs in national parks; Eric Trump faced withering criticism after he fiercely denied accusations he had contacted an Ultimate Fighting Championship commentator about whether any of the fights at the White House event were “rigged;” and, a group of bipartisan lawmakers fight to stop Trump dismantling a $386M ocean observatory project.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Haitian aslyum seeker's hypothermia death in Pittsburgh after her release from ICE custody is ruled a homicide; and, Swiss voters rejected the right-wing's bid to cap the nation's population at ten million.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, MAGA Mike Johnson shut down the House of Representatives for two weeks as nineteen MAGA Members revolted.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge smacked MAGA Jeanine Pirro with a second beat down over one of Trump's vindictive criminal cases; a MAGA DOJ agency claims it has no records of Trump's shady IRS settlement; and, an Arizona MAGA county attorney, who endorsed Trump for president, begged the court to stop Stephen Miller's group from an election ‘power grab.'After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where in a gift for Vlad, Trump wants to pull a third of the fighter jets and war ships the US provides to NATO; and, Italian prosecutors are investigating charges foreign workers were paid less than two dollars an hour by an Alabama construction firm to build a new US Consulate in Milan.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, if Biden was the cause of all the inflation, why does Trump suddenly “love the inflation?”Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pentagon's deputy secretary of defense worked closely with the CIA agent found with $40 million worth of gold bars; the Southern Baptist Convention moved to strengthen its prohibition on women as preachers; and, one day after filling Trump's dark blue reflecting pool, large swaths of algae blooms appeared along the water's edge, just as they were warned.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the MAGA administration ordered two women who fled execution in Iran be deported to a Central African country; and, Haiti is still being punished for its 1803 slave revolt, so FIFA ordered their national flag and a badge honoring the Battle of Vertières removed from their jerseys before their World Cup matches begin.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is likely waiving his immunity by traps he set for himself in cases he filed.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's $10 Billion dollar BBC lawsuit is about to backfire spectacularly; mismanagement at a massive ICE facility in Texas contributed to detainee deaths even as millions of wasted tax dollars enriched contractors; and, police are investigating a large burning cross at a Chicago park.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where after the troubled lead-in to the World Cup, the UN human rights chief urges a ‘rethink' of US immigration policy; and, adding more turmoil to a chaotic World Cup buildup for Iran, FIFA is accused of revoking the ticket allocation for fans at the team's three group-stage games in the United States.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Arizona attorney general is filing criminal charges against Trump's lawyers over his 2020 election fraud scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, plantation coach and Alabama governor candidate Tommy Tuberville has threatened to sue a publication after it revealed details of his tax returns, which he had sent to them by mistake; the Trump Justice Department will not seek the death penalty for the man who assassinated Minnesota state legislator Melissa Hortman; and, a high-risk pregnancy doctor is suing Idaho, saying the state's abortion ban is unconstitutional.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a crackdown by Afghan authorities on a protest against the arrest and detention of more than a dozen women over dress code violations, left at least three people injured; and, China's exports jumped almost twenty percent in May from a year earlier, boosted by demand for tariff-free autos and tech goods.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the New York Knicks watch party outside Madison Square Garden has been cancelled for Trump's staged assassination attempt, but you can watch it at home.Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA DOJ has quietly wiped out election security safeguards in a ‘scary' move to steal elections; the CIA employee who was caught with $40 million of gold bars in his house had created a secret intelligence program to funnel millions of dollars from the federal government to himself; and, Trump has been ordered to remove his name from the Kennedy Center and abandon plans to close it for two years, but critics are concerned he may try to sabotage the iconic arts institution in retaliation.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Armenians voted in a general election Sunday under Russian pressure aimed at preventing a drift toward the West; and, Iran's World Cup players, banned from staying in the US while competing in the World Cup, arrived in Mexico wearing pins honoring the school girls and teachers blown to bits on the first day of Trump's war.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's California election denialism makes as much sense as his claim of a giant California water valve.Then, on the rest of the menu, a New Jersey police sergeant was charged with stealing a journalist's camera bag at the Delaney Hall protests; secret donors pumped millions of dollars into the MAGA groups behind the gutting of Black voting rights; and, no bank in the United States is willing to lend money to the Trump family, so how did a startup in North Carolina, financially backed by Junior, obtain a $620 million loan from the Department of Defense and a $50 million investment from the Department of Commerce?After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Russia is flooding Armenia with disinformation ahead of the EU-leaning nation's parliamentary election; and, the brutal killing of a 14-year-old girl gives new energy to Argentina's massive femicide protests.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Senator Van Hollen trapped Markwayne Mullin into agreeing to release Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, exactly what Trump does not want his DOJ to do.Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho health officials are investigating how nearly sixty people got sick after drinking raw milk in the past two weeks; Texas braces for a ‘full-blown disaster' as flesh-eating ‘flying piranha' arrives, after DOGE cut the monitoring program last year for being ‘woke;' and,Todd Blanche's DOJ rewrote its Southern Poverty Law Center indictment to fix a problem, and exposed an even bigger one.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a British lawmaker is suing Elon Musk for invasion of privacy after fake Grok bikini images of her were posted online; and, acclaimed Iranian-French artist, graphic novelist and filmmaker Marjane Satrapi, a prominent advocate for women's rights, has died at age fifty-six.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, corrupt Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche crumbled under cross-examination at yesterday's House hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's budget would eliminate the agency investigating the Longview, Washington paper mill chemical disaster that killed nine workers; the artist whose mural in Dallas of whales was painted over last month ahead of the World Cup, filed a lawsuit against FIFA that seeks $25 million in damages; and, the Justice Department's number three official briefly admitted on social media that the agency was moving to revive the controversial “slush fund” to compensate January 6 defendants, then deleted the post today.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a performance artist sought to display a thin red thread in downtown Hong Kong to remember the victims of Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, but he was quickly stopped by police; and, fear shadows Peru's runoff vote as extortion and killings surge nationwide.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kash Patel's girlfriend filed an “insane” defamation suit against two MSNOW reporters.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA world revolts as Trump's ex-national security adviser Mike Flynn is exposed as an agent for a close Putin ally; DUI hire Hegseth is breaking Pentagon rules and lying about purging women and Black soldiers from the military; and, the Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that was put in place a decade ago because it monitors the climate.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where protests exploded after Jared Kushner's luxury coastal resort project in Albania came under investigation by the country's anti-corruption prosecutors; and, Mette Frederiksen starts her third term as Danish prime minister thanks to her firm position on Greenland.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Supreme Court and the Treasury Department are both working overtime to cover up for the fact that Justice Sam Alito's lawyer son is secretly working as a senior attorney in the Treasury Department.Then, on the rest of the menu, America's most powerful TV networks have been handing out coveted congressional press credentials to people Congress has strictly barred from eligibility; Trump ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every American child by half; and, Trump branded the federal judge who blocked his renovation of the Kennedy Center as “an anti Trump Hater” and predicted that the nation's premier performing arts center will “soon be closed, probably never to open again.”After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the Iran war has forced farmers to seek organic alternatives away from chemical fertilizers; and, South Africa's mostly Black World Cup squad will leave for the tournament today after problems with US travel visas delayed their departure.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump refiled his $10 billion lawsuit against the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal and wants Ghislaine Maxwell to help cover up his dark past.Then, on the rest of the menu, Memphis residents are the latest to sue over MAGA federal agents' arrest tactics; California sued genetic testing company 23andMe, alleging it failed to protect user data in a 2023 breach; and, local TV stations owned by ABC across the United States blasted the MAGA Federal Communications Commission for launching an “unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional” early review of their broadcast licenses.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a criminal court in Thailand acquitted the popular leader of a progressive political movement on charges of defaming the king; and, a Greek national appears in a British court today on charges that he helped the Iranian intelligence service target a journalist working in London.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge ordered Trump to immediately turn over government documents about his plan to intimidate voters with ICE and other armed federal agents in Blue States.Then, on the rest of the menu, Samuel Alito is hit by a new scandal as his son is found secretly working for Trump's Treasury; a MAGA federal judge declined to halt Trump's executive order creating a federal voter list and limiting mail-in voting; and, Musk's SpaceX Starship launches are grounded pending an investigation into last week's test flight where a first stage booster crashed and narrowly missed several ranch houses in the Texas farmland.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where reversing the decision by the previous administration of Orban, Hungary's parliament voted to remain a member of the International Criminal Court; and, with no help from the United States, aid supplies have finally reached the heart of Congo's Ebola outbreak.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Nazi and Klan-hunting Southern Poverty Law Center, seeks dismissal of the ‘vindictive' MAGA Justice Department indictment.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal three-judge panel in Alabama told the MAGA SCOTUS to ‘do your dirty work yourself;' the Trump administration wants federal workers to sign NDAs because running government like a business is not a democracy, it's a dictatorship; and, billionaire Tom Steyer's record-breaking California governor's race ad spending hopes to get Californians to forget who Tom Steyer is.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a Roman Catholic Philippine bishop and an ex-ICC judge lead a new inquiry into thousands of Duterte-era killings; and, the director of the British communications intelligence agency, warned that Moscow is “relentlessly targeting critical infrastructure, democratic processes, supply chains and public trust” in Britain and Europe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump delivered a disaster of a Memorial Day speech in Arlington, Virginia, where he disrespected fallen troops, made jokes and stumbled over his words.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump demanded action on Iran's “nuclear dust” from an agency that ceased to exist more than 50 years ago; the MAGA federal government is moving ahead with plans to spray the controversial herbicide glyphosate on thousands of acres in the Lake Tahoe Basin; and, a homesteading Montana mother of six is taking on Big Tech.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she has “no issue” with her country hosting Iran's World Cup team after its training base was moved from the United States to Mexico; and, the head of an inquiry into antisemitism in Australia issued a condemnation after Jewish witnesses who appeared before it are facing online harassment and bigotry.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge dismissed the charges against the “Broadview 6” protestors in Chicago after discovering perverse DOJ misconduct, leading her to signal that she will sanction the office and refer the lawyers for bar discipline.Then, on the rest of the menu, a key government agency is dismantling efforts to regulate online betting markets and crypto while Trump and his family make big bucks from the booming industries; Trump's MAGA Justice Department scrubbed its website of news releases about his January 6 goons; and, after evacuating over 50,000 people, Southern California officials scramble to prevent a massive chemical tank explosion that could endanger a few million folks in the neighborhood.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Lithuania suspects Russian involvement in a data leak of over 600,000 national register entries; and, Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology for the role the Holy See played in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Republicans called Trump's almost $8 billion dollar slush fund a “Payout Pot for Punks,” then they shut down the Senate.Then, on the rest of the menu, one of the San Diego mosque shooter's obsession with mass killings and Nazism so alarmed authorities in 2025, police confiscated dozens of his father's guns; a rat invasion in Boise is testing the limit of Idaho's small government rules; and, reality show villain Spencer Pratt's Los Angeles mayoral merch may be ‘straight-up' trademark infringement.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where NATO allies are bewildered by Trump's announcement that he would send 5,000 US troops to Poland, just weeks after he ordered 5,000 US troops pulled out of Poland; and, after the Supreme Court chief justice called them “cockroaches,” millions of Indian youth are flocking to the Cockroach political party.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit! The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, rogue Republicans, along with lame duck legislators who ran afoul of Trump and lost primaries because of him, now have the rest of their term to exact payback as members of the “Yolo Caucus.”Then, on the rest of the menu, a former Department of Justice prosecutor faces twenty-five years in a MAGA prison for emailing Jack Smith's Vol II report to herself; after shooting a Black man multiple times, some see a white livestreamer's freedom of speech claims as cover for race-baiting; and, a lawsuit charges an Arkansas real estate development group rejected a woman's land purchase due to her Jewish ancestry, Black husband and biracial children.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where an Australian judge fined Musk's social media platform $465,000 for online safety breaches after a 3-year court battle; and, Taiwan's president says he'd tell Trump he hopes to continue arms purchases from the US, if given a chance.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jamie Raskin explained plans on blocking Trump's $1.7 billion dollar slush fund.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Tuberville/Jones rematch is set for the Alabama governor race; a former Tennessee police officer who was jailed over his anti-Charlie Kirk posts won an $835,000 court settlement; and, Democratic-led states challenge the Trump administration's new caps on federal student loans.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where South Korean Samsung faces a strike after pay talks with its union fell apart; and, Argentine investigators hunting for the source of the hantavirus outbreak trap rats in the country's southernmost city.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is causing an Arctic Cold War as he initiates credible threats against the sovereignty of Greenland and Canada following his failed trip to China.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's own handpicked lawyer quit his Treasury Department general counsel position in disgust at the mad man's massive $1.776 billion dollar grift; a federal judge banned most arrests by federal agents in immigration courts in New York; and, the New York Times sued the Pentagon a second time over Hegseth's media restrictions.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Australia banned a neo-Nazi network under a new law that criminalizes hate groups; and, a Spanish court is investigating former Prime Minister Zapatero for influence peddling and other crimes tied to a government airline bailout.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel has failed to take the sobriety test he promised under oath.Then, on the rest of the menu, former reality TV star and now the MAGA-favorite Los Angeles mayoral candidate, Spencer Pratt, vowed to leave LA if he loses the election; Trump cashed in big time one day after handing AI tech firm CoreWeave a major government deal; and, the Texas Supreme Court refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers who briefly fled the state in 2025 to block a vote on new congressional maps pushed by Trump had, vacated their office.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Trump's Pentagon quietly shut down the legally required program to prevent civilian deaths by military; and, Trump's Pentagon has halted deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe to make it easier for Vlad to be Vlad.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, world leaders set a fatal trap that Trump walked right into while he was in China.Then, on the rest of the menu, Jackson County welcomes Oregon's first floating solar project; a man who livestreams himself saying racially derogatory statements to Black people in public settings was arrested and charged with attempted murder after a shooting outside a Tennessee courthouse; and, Todd Blanche accused the DC Bar of acting as a “blatantly partisan arm of leftist causes” for sanctions against Jeff Clark and “Eagle” Ed Martin.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Chinese security officials refused to allow a US Secret Service agent into an historic Beijing temple compound in a tense Trump showdown, because he was carrying a gun; and, an EU commissioner warned of long term jet fuel shortages because of Trump's “little excursion.”All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Ka$h Patel committed a federal crime at the televised committee hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, while Melania is slumbering elsewhere, Trump is not alone during his sleepless, social media rage-fueled nights; the DHS inspector general has launched an investigation of former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem over the controversial $38 billion program that converted commercial warehouses into immigration detention centers; and, in an overnight ‘power grab,' the Louisiana MAGA voted at 4 AM to nix the next to last Dem seat in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where the European Union imposed sanctions on sixteen Russian officials accused of helping Vlad abduct tens of thousands of children from Ukraine; and, Japanese snack packages are turning black-and-white as the Iran war depletes the worldwide ink supply.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families' (1845)Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, it doesn't matter if the cameras are rolling, Trump always blinks first.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Eugene, Oregon police officer was forced to resign in the wake of his bodycam footage full of racist remarks during the January anti-ICE protests; the Trump administration was hit with a federal lawsuit after diverting $100 Million dollars in taxpayer funds without approval for his 250th anniversary “celebration of America like no other;” and, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, slammed the Pentagon for refusing to “follow the law” when it comes to briefing members of Congress.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Venezuela's acting president rejected Trump's 51st state demands; and, an Alberta Pro-Trump separatist group illegally seized voter data in the Canadian province the Mad King has targeted as the next 51st state.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.” – Ernest Hemingway “A Moveable Feast”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, River City Hash Mondays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, gut the VRA, get Jim Crow 2.0.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump unveiled an ominous midterm plot he wants to use in ‘every single state;' the general counsel for the Oregon State Bar said fabricated cases and citations have become more common among lawyers and people representing themselves; and, a Georgia data center drained 30 million gallons of water unnoticed until residents complained about low water pressure.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Starmer pledges to bring Britain closer to the EU as he faces calls to step down; and, Venezuela warns of ‘serious' environmental impact from an oil spill in Trinidad and Tobago.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, John Roberts is a lying, whiny baby.Then, on the rest of the menu, Sam Alito used deceptive DOJ data to gut voting rights; a federal judge ruled Trump administration's DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional; and, the Trump-appointed FEMA Review Council proposes sweeping changes to federal disaster support.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where a UK border official and a former Hong Kong police officer were convicted of spying for China in Britain; and, French prosecutors seek criminal charges against Elon Musk for child sexual abuse images on his social media platform, deepfakes, disinformation and complicity in denying crimes against humanity by his artificial intelligence system, Grok.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.” ― Douglas Adams “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
Today's West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump ran away from the cameras as his claim he ended the war on Iran was exposed as yet another lie.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's wild ‘Unite the Right' claim collides with legal fact-checks; a former MAGA insider confirmed that rumors of secret GOP payments to MAGA influencers is true; and, a California immigration judge sued the Trump Department of Justice, alleging she was fired because of her political beliefs and fluency in Spanish.After the break, we move to the Chef's Table where Sweden detained a sanctioned oil tanker linked to Russia's shadow fleet; and, three Australian women returning from Syria have been arrested on suspicion of slavery and terrorism offenses.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live PlayerKeep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
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