West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 knows he’s losing the midterms, his war on Iran, and his new war with the pope.Then, on the rest of the menu, police will pay $3.15M for tasing a San Anselmo, California man as he was suffering a grad mal seizure; Clarence Thomas went on an unhinged, televised rant against “intellectuals;” and, California MAGA attorney John Eastman, who aided Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, has lost his license to practice in the state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where after criticizing the pope, Trump turned his ire on Italy’s Meloni over her lack of support for his illegal Iran war; and, Sweden blamed a pro-Russian group for cyberattacks on its energy infrastructure.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appét

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 British Parliament Member called Trump ‘a dangerous and corrupt gangster.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon ruled that a state law requiring insurance plans to cover abortions and contraception violates the Constitutional rights of the virulent anti abortion group, Oregon Right to Life; the Trump-packed DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Judge Boasberg must end his “intrusive” contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador; and, an Austin district Judge temporarily allows women and minority-owned businesses to qualify for the Texas Historically Underutilized Business program again.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an 86-year-old French woman who moved to the US last year after reki

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, world leaders are forming new global alliances and banning Trump from joining them. Then, on the rest of the menu, a worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale, Oregon warehouse last week, employees were told to look away and keep working; a Georgia Republican running for Congress is facing explosive allegations he forged a Major League Baseball star's signature to lure investors into a land deal and sent a trove of racist and antisemitic text messages; and, one of the largest stakeholders in the Trump family's crypto venture accused the company of bilking investors.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations for US MAGA; and, a Brazilian senator said that the country’s former intelligence agency chief has been arrested by ICE in Florida. A

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 lot of people are thirsting for what Hungary is having.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family deal spree could open the door for future presidents to profit from office; commercial salmon fishing is set to open in California for the first time since 2022 as the population rebounds; and, “diversity, equity and inclusion are not foreign values, they’re American values.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Peruvian election results are delayed after thousands get a one-day voting extension; and, Hungary’s new prime minister wants to take over as early as May 5.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a n

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, hours after getting the keys to the sex jet, Melania went out and put the Epstein Files back in the news.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the Pentagon to rewrite a report that labeled China a 'security threat'; a federal judge ordered the Trump DOJ to fork over the records on the ICE officer who killed Renee Goode; and, the White House was forced to warn staff not to bet on the war hours after suspicious, lucrative trades.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Britain and Norway conducted a weekslong military operation to deter Russian spy submarines near undersea cables in the North Atlantic; and, after JD’s endorsement resulted in a double-digit deficit, Hungary’s election could end Orbán’s journey from liberal firebrand to far-right leader and Putin suck up.All that and more, on West Coast Co

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, furious world leaders are ghosting Trump and want nothing to do with him as his fraudulent ceasefire quickly unravels.Then, on the rest of the menu, immigration arrests in the Northwest have dropped significantly, but people without criminal records are still vulnerable; Keystone Ka$h and Whiskey Pete are gloating over the arrest of a US Army veteran who exposed drug trafficking, corruption and murder in the elite Delta Force; and, the Trump Era of political violence means higher costs for candidate security.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where North Korea says its latest weapons tests included missiles with cluster-bomb warheads; and, Australia moves to shore up fuel supplies as it prepares for extended disruptions caused by Trump’s imperialist war.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook &

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, did JD Vance betray Trump with his own 25th Amendment plan?Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE is forcing the newlywed wife of a US soldier they apprehended on base, to wear an ankle bracelet on her release; the board of Wisconsin’s public university system voted to fire President Jay O Rothman for capitulating to MAGA; and, a US judge ruled a customs officer cancelling the visa of a Harvard scholar charged with frog embryo smuggling, was arbitrary and capricious.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Donnie Junior criticized the European Union during a visit to boost Bosnia’s extreme right wing separatist movement; and, Australia’s most decorated living veteran will remain behind bars on Afghan war crime charges.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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 was sundowning while divulging secret military operations at last night’s press conference alongside his partners in war crimes.Then, on the rest of the menu, without Elon Musk skipping around in a foam cheesehead hat, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race goes quiet; the MAGA Supreme Court pulled a Roland Freisler by clearing the way to dismiss Steve Bannon’s Jan 6 contempt of congress conviction; and, Trump threatened to jail journalists who first reported that a second US airman was missing after Iran shot down a fighter jet last week.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Bangladesh is conducting emergency measles-rubella vaccinations to contain an outbreak that has killed more than 100 children in less than a month; and, the UN is set to vote on a resolution to open the Strait of Hormuz that has been wat

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 Vichy Press revels in sane washing Easter Sunday F Bombs and Blasphemy for fun and profit.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves higher education institutions are not considering race in admissions; the DOJ lied to a judge about how it’s using voter roll data; and, the congregants of the tiny Methodist church on the cover of JD Vance’s new book say they don’t know him.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as the Iran war drives a massive price surge; and, outspoken Iranians overseas say their loved ones are being detained back home.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Ke

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 top aides are finally confessing to him that the United States is losing the war and the economy is taking a massive hit as a result of his catastrophic invasion.Then, on the rest of the menu, a racist MAGA hopeful for Florida governor is threatened with the 'wrath of the court' as he's ordered to fork over financial documents; Hegseth wants more mass killings of US soldiers on US military bases by disgruntled US military recruits; and, Amazon is slapping a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge on third-party sellers because of Trump’s illegal war driving up costs.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Moscow court sentenced a German artist in abstentia to over eight years in a Siberian gulag for his Düsseldorf Carnival parade floats mocking Putin; and, Sweden’s Coast Guard boarded a sanctioned “Shado

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 failed to explain his “little journey to Iran.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the death of the nearly blind refugee from Myanmar, whose body was found on a Buffalo street five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop during a blizzard, has been ruled a homicide; Amazon will pay a $20.5 million settlement over northeast Oregon groundwater nitrate pollution; and RFK, Jr ordered his CDC to Make America Healthy Again by halting its diagnostic testing for rabies, monkeypox, Epstein-Barr virus, the varicella zoster virus behind chickenpox and shingles, and over two dozen other infectious diseases.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK accepted Trump’s surrender and gathers more than forty countries to plot ways of reopening the Strait of Hormuz; and, a Danish warship

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 in a full-blown panic as his war in Iran continues to escalate despite his attempt to leave and falsely pretend the war was won.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump plans to move the Forest Service headquarters from DC to Utah and shutter research sites in thirty-one states; an appeals court panel suspended the federal court order for Voice of America employees to return to work; and, the National Football League dared the Florida MAGA attorney general to sue the league over its diversity hiring policy.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Danish intelligence services accused members of Trump’s inner circle of running a “covert” operation in Greenland; and, thieves brazenly stole paintings by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse from a private museum in Italy.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook

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 preparing to leave Iran with Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz and the United States facing the most humiliating military defeat in the US history.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety uncovered rare KKK artifacts in one of its offices; a Democratic electrician with no Nazi tattoos nabbed a state senate seat in MAGA Red Florida; and, the MAGA California sheriff running for governor and who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots, has paused the probe into election fraud allegations, citing mounting legal challenges.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia expelled a British diplomat over spying allegations; and, international observers at a local election in European Union candidate Serbia, said they witnessed violence and irregularities du

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 blockade against Cuba collapsed after he permitted Putin to send a Russian oil tanker to Havana.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump issued another crazed early Monday morning war threat designed to juice the markets, again; Trump melted down at “dumb judges” ahead of Supreme Court arguments on the MAGA birthright citizenship policy critics have branded as outright racism; and, Trump is such a master businessman and military planner, the rising price of war oil is making at least one nation rich, and they speak Farsi.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Spain has closed its airspace to US planes involved in the Iran war; and, French authorities are investigating after thwarting an Iranian bomb attack outside a Bank of America in Paris over the weekend.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & S

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, the Iranian regime saw a wartime president fixated on cognitive tests, presidential pens and Sharpies, while nodding off during a Cabinet meeting about the war.Then, on the rest of the menu, “all white men all the time”-Pete Hegseth pulled some racism and misogyny out of his Christo-Fascist pocket and ordered two Black and two women officers removed from the one-star promotion list; the MAGA sheriff running for California governor ignored the state’s Attorney General and illegally seized even more ballots from the 2025 special election; and, nine more people have been sickened by raw milk from a MAGA raw milk dairy, and the MAGA FDA refuses to recall the product.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK banned crypto donations to political parties in a bid to curb foreign influence; and, a Gulf of Mexic

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’s DOJ smear tactic backfired and revealed Smith caught Trump red-handed selling top secrets out of Mar a Lago.Then, on the rest of the menu, Plantation Coach Tommy Tuberville was sued as the heated Alabama governor race gets ugly; Balls and Strikes Chief Justice John Roberts is cracking down on the Court’s three liberal justices for not letting the men speak enough; and, Whiskey Pete loves his enemies to death so much, he hosted the first Pentagon Christian worship service since the Iran war began and prayed for “overwhelming violence.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Europeans vowed to get tougher on Russia’s shadow fleet as a Euro sea drone hit one of its oil tankers approaching the Black Sea entrance to the Bosporus Strait; and, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum defied Trump and

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, after the fall of princes, prime ministers and captains of industry, the UK government has demanded the full un-redacted Epstein files from Pam Bondi.Then, on the rest of the menu, three weeks after Trump fired her, ICE Barbie Noem has a new boss and she is not going to like it; a federal prosecutor privately conceded under questioning by a skeptical judge that the Justice Department’s investigation of a $2.5 billion renovation project at the Federal Reserve didn’t find any evidence of a crime; and, the FDA flagged misleading claims for a cancer drug by biotech billionaire and Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!“It may be safely

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 described his “imagined negotiations with Iran” to reporters with “the goofy insecurity of the man who knows he stands accused of always chickening out.”Then, on the rest of the menu, Texas MAGA have moved to ensure that a Democratic lawmaker elected in a shock special election upset earlier this year will effectively have no power; after raging that voting by mail is cheating, Trump voted by mail at Mar a Lago for a Florida special election; and, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s top enforcement official, who left abruptly last week, clashed with agency leaders over investigating Trump and his family for market manipulation and insider trading.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Orbán’s top opponent says Hungary’s Russian backchannel ‘treason’ will be investigated; and, Italian voters reject

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, two Florida public universities, two Republican student organizations, two racism and antisemitism scandals in the same month.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s EPA is paving the way for the return of smog to national parks; an Oath Keeper MAGA sheriff running for California Governor seized 650,000 Riverside County ballots from the recent redistricting election; and, it’s not just vaccines, MAGA parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Prime Minister Tusk says Poland has long suspected Orban’s Hungary shared EU Council details with Russia; and, tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Prague against the new government of Czech prime minister and Putin-puppet Babiš.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine J

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, furious Vets unloaded on Trump over his scheme to profit off the bodies of fallen troops.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration has launched investigations into thirteen states that require state-regulated health insurance plans to cover abortion; two dozen  states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the EPA over the repeal of the ‘endangerment’ finding central to the climate fight; and, two former FBI agents are suing bureau director Ka$h Patel and AG Pam Bondi, claiming they were fired for having investigated Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the French navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea linked to Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet; and, Israel blasted Tehran with airstrikes on the Persian Ne