West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 09 May 25
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 Ponzi scheme presidency continues to be the least popular in American and World history.Then, on the rest of the menu, a famed New York law firm’s $100-million pro bono deal with Trump is backfiring as employees jump ship in anger; the Washington State Supreme Court upheld a ban on large ammo magazines; and, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, David H Souter, died peacefully yesterday at home in New Hampshire at age eighty-five.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where prosecutors say Romanian treasures stolen from a Dutch museum could still be intact; and, the Stockholm, Sweden City Council rejected the US Embassy’s demands that it comply with the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion policies.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.
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 08 May 25
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, MAGA Republican Jefferson Griffin’s long effort to steal the North Carolina Supreme Court race has finally failed.Then, on the rest of the menu, more older Americans worry Social Security won’t be there for them after the massive Trump/Musk sabotage of the agency; GOP centrists revolt against steep cuts to Medicaid and other programs in Trump’s tax breaks bill; and, the guy who granted Trump ‘absolute immunity,’ now says judicial independence is key to checking Congress and the president.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Denmark says it will summon the top US diplomat in the country for an explanation about intelligence gathering on Greenland; and, the EU published a US product hit list as it prepares for World Trade Organization action against Trump’s tariffs.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 his 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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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 07 May 25
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, Democratic Congress members brutally cross-examined Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oklahoma schools have been ordered to teach Trump's 2020 election lies in the state’s new MAGA curriculum; the Black vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board is unexpectedly removed from his position because of DEI; and, a federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former MAGA Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist in a $60 million bribery scandal.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the top two US trade officials will meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks since Trump sparked his impertinent trade war; and, Friedrich Merz won lawmakers’ approval to become the next German chancellor in a second vote in parliament, hours after an embarrassing and unprecedented defeat in the first round.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.
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 06 May 25
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, a federal court has blocked GOP efforts to overturn the North Carolina supreme court election and ordered the state to certify Democratic Justice Allison Riggs’ victory.Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice plans to investigate the prosecutor’s office in Minnesota’s most populous county for using racial disparities in plea deals; a coalition of seventeen state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against Trump’s attempt to stop approved wind energy development around the country; and, Trump’s federal government is targeting its disabled workers for mass firings.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain’s government approved a bill that reduces the workweek from forty to thirty-seven and half hours; and, most of the one hundred rhinos killed in South Africa this year were poached from national parks.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.
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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 05 May 25
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, MAGA Nazi courtier Stephen Miller sued Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a bid to control the courts.Then, on the rest of the menu, the MAGA Nazis ruling MAGA Nazi Shasta County, California have caused an uproar after appointing an out of state election denier as the county’s top election official; Texas MAGA want to ‘financially handcuff’ cities that don’t play by their rules; and, Stephen Miller rolled out the MAGA plan to indoctrinate your kids.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump blasted Mexico’s Sheinbaum for rejecting his offer to send US troops into Mexico to fight the cartels; and, Europe launched a drive to attract scientists and researchers after Trump summarily dismissed them.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.
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.Archives of West Coast Cook Book & Speakeasy can be found in the Netroots Radio Archives on the Internet Archive:https://archive.org/details/@netroots_radioBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
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