West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 is blasted for floating a pardon for the Proud Boys.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Black Alabama high school band director was tased and then arrested after Birmingham police ordered him to end the performance; an Oregon judge will decide whether the gun control law approved by voters last November violates the state’s constitution; and, the Mississippi River is running so low barge companies are limiting their loads, just as farmers want to move their crops downriver.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a newly discovered letter in the Vatican archives suggests Pope Pius XII may have known about the Holocaust well before previously thought; and, tens of thousands of South Korean teachers rallied for new laws to protect them from abusive parents.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakea

Friday’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, maybe the reason Romney didn’t get a response when he warned McConnell about the dangers to all their lives on Jan 6 is because Mitch froze.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s New York fraud trial is in limbo after an appellate judge took the remarkable step of granting his last minute gambit in a surprise hearing that was closed off to the public; uber-conservative propaganda shop PragerU has officially infiltrated another state’s classrooms; and, all that Berkeley landlords wanted to do was celebrate kicking people out on the street again, then protestors showed up and spoiled the party.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian pilot deliberately fired missiles at a British Royal Air Force surveillance plane in international airspace over the Black Sea last year; and, Britain, Fra

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, ‘this is a GOP run by Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene.’Then, on the rest of the menu, the Biden administration is recommending an overhaul of a 151-year-old mining law that will make companies pay royalties for the first time for copper, gold and other hard rock minerals; facing a one and a half billion dollar deficit, the California State University system will hike tuition six percent annually for the next five years; and, two leading conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management for rangeland degradation.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French regulators ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards; and, the Russian spaceport visited by North Korea’s Kim has a history of corruption and constr

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, there are ways to salvage US democracy from the 'tyranny of the minority.'Then, on the rest of the menu, a controversial Penn Carey Law professor has invited a white nationalist, who was cited in race murderer Dylan Roof’s manifesto, to lecture on campus for the second time; the five NYC pension funds accused Fox of neglecting its responsibility to shareholders by airing election lies; and, a star football reporter for the NFL filed a racial discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against the league and its media arm.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Guatemala President-elect has suspended the transition after agents raided election facilities and illegally opened vote boxes; and, the Israeli Supreme Court hears the first challenge to Netanyahu’s divisive judicial overhaul.All that and mo

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, three military service secretaries urged Tuberville to stop blocking senior officer confirmations, but he only takes his orders in Cyrillic.Then, on the rest of the menu, the US government is eager to restore its powers to keep dangerous chemicals out of extremists’ hands after Rand Paul objected to renewing the bill authorizing it; after nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers; and, a Georgia trial arguing that redistricting harmed Black voters, could decide control of a US House seat.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Northern Ireland’s top police officer resigned following a series of controversies, including an “industrial scale” data breach; and, Russian authorities arrested a mathematician on terrorism charges, minutes after his release from four y

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, thirteen presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover have released a statement calling for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, just as we learn more about a plot hatched by Trump allies to destroy the federal government as we know it.Then, on the rest of the menu, DeSantis’ immigration law is worsening labor shortages in Florida, just as the planting season begins; an obscure Trump lawyer stands out as a key witness in the election tampering cases; and, a Minnesota meat processing plant that is accused of hiring child laborers, agreed to pay $300K in penalties.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a foreign student has been arrested in Norway on suspicion of espionage, including illegal eavesdropping; and, Egypt’s annual inflation rate hit a new record high of 39.7% in August.All that

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 DC grand jury that indicted Donald Trump for his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss met again for the first time in four weeks.Then, on the rest of the menu, Republicans are freaking out over imaginary COVID mandates; Brett Kavanaugh said that he is “hopeful” the Supreme Court soon will take specific steps to deal with ethics issues at the court; and, California lawmakers approved a new tax for guns and ammunition to pay for school safety improvements.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three round-the-world sailors reached land safely after sharks nearly sank their catamaran in the Coral Sea; and, an ailing American researcher trapped 3,000 feet deep in a Turkish cave awaits a difficult and long rescue.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justi

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, how long does it take to put an election theft conspiracy on trial?Then, on the rest of the menu, a US federal judge ordered that Texas must remove Abbott’s illegal floating buzz saw border barriers in the Rio Grande; Wisconsin’s gerrymandering rides to the rescue of its gerrymandering; and, the former Orange-Osceola state attorney filed a lawsuit against Ron DeSantis, and asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse his order removing her from office.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the European Union will target Apple, Amazon, Meta and other Big Tech companies in the next phase of its digital crackdown; and, Japan launched a rocket carrying a lunar lander and an X-ray telescope to explore the origins of universe.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Ju

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in emulating Trump, the Republican Party is also “committing fraud” against small donors.Then, on the rest of the menu, OAN and its star correspondent Chanel Rion, settled a defamation lawsuit over their wacko claims about a Dominion Systems executive; a civil rights lawsuit in North Dakota accuses a white supremacist group of racial intimidation; and; four million people have enrolled in Biden’s new student loan repayment plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swiss parliamentary commission voted to systematically expel Russian and other spies who threaten Switzerland’s security; and, the United Kingdom will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The N

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, three military service secretaries urged Tuberville to stop blocking senior officer confirmations, but he only takes his orders in Cyrillic.Then, on the rest of the menu, the US government is eager to restore its powers to keep dangerous chemicals out of extremists’ hands after Rand Paul objected to renewing the bill authorizing it; after nearly 30 years, Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers; and, a Georgia trial arguing that redistricting harmed Black voters, could decide control of a US House seat.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Northern Ireland’s top police officer resigned following a series of controversies, including an “industrial scale” data breach; and, Russian authorities arrested a mathematician on terrorism charges, minutes after his release from four y

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, Democratic members on the House Oversight Committee, want to subpoena Jared Kushner over his business dealings with Saudi Arabia after leaving the White House.Then, on the rest of the menu, prominent right-wing online influencers claim neo-Nazi groups demonstrating across the state of Florida are part of a “false flag” operation staged by the federal government to smear their otherwise righteous conservative movements; a crackdown on ‘woke’ coverage is tearing Atlanta magazine apart; and, a Minnesota prison reached a resolution with inmates who refused to return to their cells during the heat wave over the weekend.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where scientists finally know why Germany’s wild boar are surprisingly radioactive; and, less than two weeks after a successful uncrewed landing near the south pole o

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, Clarence Thomas had to eat more Crow disclosures.Then, on the rest of the menu, the police chief of Tillamook, Oregon was arrested for stealing drugs and cash from the evidence locker; late last year, DeSantis signed revisions to an existing law that will now increase the suffering of Hurricane Idalia victims; and, heat-related deaths are up, and not just because it’s getting hotter.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four Finnish men were charged with plotting racially motivated attacks using 3D printed weapons; and, a German court convicted a Russian man of plotting the murder of an exiled Chechen dissident.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!“St

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 Houston school libraries have been turned into 'discipline centers' in a 'hostile takeover' by the state and Greg Abbott.Then, on the rest of the menu, public defenders sued an Oregon county over systemic courthouse racism; a Trump supporter in court for sentencing, faced the election official he violently threatened; and, the Los Angeles City Council wants to sue Texas and its governor for sending over a dozen busloads of asylum seekers to the city since June 14, and to investigate whether Abbott’s actions violated any criminal laws.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Cyprus police arrested 21 people wearing hoods and brandishing bats who tried to attack Syrian refugees; and, Guatemalan prosecutors arrested the former representative of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission that

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, in less than a year, DeSantis’ “war on woke” at New College has driven out forty faculty and over half the student body.Then, on the rest of the menu, Raw Story filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Defense and the Department of the Navy over their refusal to release records related to a former US Marine and avowed neo-Nazi; Montgomery, Alabama police have opened a hate crime investigation over Nazi symbols and racial slurs spray painted all over cars and houses in a majority Black community; and, a judge ruled companies that did business with the Trump Organization, cannot magically hide documents showing their ties to Trump.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of the German state of Bavaria said that his deputy had not done enough to prove he wasn’t responsible for a

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the courtroom calendar for the “client from hell” is filling up ahead of the election.Then, on the rest of the menu, twice convicted con man, “Wall Street Whiz Kid” David Bloom, has been arrested in Los Angeles for bilking dozens of victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars; Republican lawmakers temporarily silenced one of the ‘Tennessee Three’ from debate on the House floor, using a hastily enacted ‘out of order’ rule; and, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer will call on Democrats to codify ‘Obamacare’ into state law.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland is investigating disruptions to train traffic from unauthorized radio signals; and, all assembly lines at Toyota’s auto plants in Japan have been shut down by computer problems.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Ch

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 is entering a forum he cannot control.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a racial discrimination suit against a Fort Worth, Texas company for subjecting Black workers to displays of nooses and, white supremacy symbols; a last-minute legal maneuver keeps San Francisco Bay Area cops from testifying about racism within their department, for now; and, workers exposed to extreme heat have no consistent worker protections in the United States.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where London’s Metropolitan Police force has stepped up security after a company that holds details of its officers and staff was hacked; and, Norway will spend $6 million a year until the end of the decade stock-piling grain, citing the pandemic, war and climate change.All that and more, on We

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, Marjorie Taylor Greene was dragged mercilessly for posting a photoshopped "MAGA mug shot" after Trump was booked and released at a Georgia jail.Then, on the rest of the menu, actual SEALs are not happy with DeSantis’ claims of being a Navy Seal; Jewish organizations in Arizona are being terrorized in "swatting" attacks; and, the Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a US Department of Justice investigation for racial discrimination.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Belarusian authorities declared the country’s oldest and most prominent human rights group is an extremist organization; and, a top science publisher has withdrawn a peer-reviewed study cited by climate skeptics, that presented misleading conclusions from manipulated data on the impacts of climate change.All that and

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 Secret Service had such a blind spot for the Oath Keepers ahead of January 6, they deleted all their texts with them from during the insurrection.Then, on the rest of the menu, wildfires raging near the California-Oregon border killed at least one person and destroyed over a dozen homes; the superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools in Oklahoma is stepping aside in an attempt to avert a takeover of the district by the state superintendent who accused the schools of taking funding from “Communist China;” and, the Justice Department announced charges against hundreds of COVID-19 fraudsters of the theft of more than $830 million in emergency aid.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Taliban is preventing scores of Afghan women from studying abroad; and Nicaragua’s government declared the Jesuit

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Elon Musk has Ukraine and the US government 'at gunpoint.'Then, on the rest of the menu, the grieving parents of children who were massacred at The Covenant School last March, were booted out of a Tennessee subcommittee meeting about a new law that would allow for more guns on school campuses; Georgia’s second-largest school district removed two highly awarded books from twenty school libraries, days after firing a teacher for reading them; and, the DC attorney general is investigating Federalist Society co-chair and ex-Trump judicial adviser Leonard Leo and his cabal of dark money non-profits.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Fukushima nuclear plant will start releasing treated radioactive water to sea as early as Thursday; and, a rice shortage is sending prices soaring across the world

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the ‘J6 honchos got to sit around for 3½ years' without facing legal action.Then, on the rest of the menu, cops in a Virginia town are facing blowback for allowing members of a far-right extremist group to march on school grounds openly toting military-style rifles; a Kansas state agency says the initial online search of a public state website that led a central Kansas police chief to raid the Marion County Record newspaper was legal; and, women soldiers face rampant sexism, harassment and other gender-related challenges in the male dominated Army special operations units.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where King Felipe VI began consultations with leaders of Spain’s political parties to see which one has the best chance to form a government; and, Indian police stopped a conference of over four hundred act