West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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

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 blocked RFK Jr’s anti-vax policies, allowing children and babies to go without Hepatitis, meningitis, COVID19, influenza, and Rotavirus vaccines based on the policy set by a band of anti-vaxxers RFK Jr. brought in.Then, on the rest of the menu, national parks employees say SFGATE/SFChronicle has been blacklisted by the Interior Department; Pam Bondi defied the courts and gave an ousted interim US attorney a new title to allow him to keep his job in Wisconsin; and, rapper Afroman won his lawsuit against police over mocking their 2022 raid in viral music videos using home security video showing the deputies thirsting over his lemon pound cake.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two men appeared in a London court accused of carrying out “hostile” surveillance of the UK’s Jewish commu

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 “Coalition of the Unwilling” is expanding because the ‘Psychopath in Chief’ just won’t shut up.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge struck down the Arkansas law mandating schools display the Ten Commandments; Sam Alito was shamed as an 'absolute embarrassment' for not recusing from a case involving his close billionaire pal; and, the Canadian billionaire just given $314 million of taxpayers’ money to build and operate a new ICE mega-jail, was accused of making death threats against his employees and their families.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a military live fire demonstration for Vance and Hegseth meant to intimidate California during the ICE invasion there, did rain shrapnel onto Interstate-5 from a premature artillery shell explosion; and, former Germany coach Joachim Löw said C

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 fundraising off the deaths of fallen troops.Then, on the rest of the menu, California launched a probe after video showed petition gatherers offering money for signatures for tech backed ballot measures; the Energy Secretary ordered a Texas firm facing criminal charges for the worst oil spill off the California coast, to restore oil drilling at the same site; and, an offshore wind project targeted by the Trump administration has begun sending power to New England’s electric grid.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Brazil revoked the visa of a US diplomat who sought to visit Bolsonaro in prison; and, a bomb blast at a Jewish School in Amsterdam was the second antisemitic attack in two days.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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump had a 12:30am meltdown as the nightmare of war scares the living shi* out of him.Then, on the rest of the menu, Live Nation employees pulled an Enron by mocking customers as ‘so stupid’ in internal messages released in the multi-state antitrust court case; the Trump administration sued California over the state’s nation-leading vehicle-emission rules; and, Montana halted permitting on all weekend rallies at the Capitol in a brazen move to thwart the massive upcoming ‘No Kings’ event.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Dutch police are investigating an arson attack after a fire broke out at a Rotterdam synagogue; and, an Australian jury convicted a Sydney business consultant over deals with Chinese spies.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bo

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 is furious Republicans are killing his election-grabbing scheme.Then, on the rest of the menu, YouTube banned Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings’ podcast after the AI monitor flagged his debunking of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was hate speech; the Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog is investigating a whistleblower complaint into the misuse of data by an ex-DOGE employee; and, a coalition of 17 Democratic state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that requires higher education institutions to collect data showing they are following the government’s racist orders to be racist as MAGA is.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Africa summoned new ambassador Brent Bozell to explain his demand the nation reverse its anti-Apartheid law

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, Alina Habba is mean and stupid, so of course MAGA will go to the mats for her.Then, on the rest of the menu, judges across the nation are losing it over ICE's brazen and 'unremorseful' defiance of court orders; Energy Secretary Chris Wright's ”accidental” post about Navy tanker escorts in the Strait of Hormuz cost petroleum traders $84 million in mere minutes; and, the Democratic candidate came out on top in the race for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s seat in a shocking election twist.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Tokyo and Berlin said they planned to release oil from their strategic reserves to address supply disruptions from Trump’s Middle East war; and, Italy stunned the US, beating the Dream Team 8-6 in the World Baseball Classic.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef d

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 War Criminal in Chief is learning war increases gas prices.Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge in Oregon limited federal officers’ use of tear gas at Portland ICE building protests; a federal jury awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men in Missouri who were pepper-sprayed by state correctional officers while praying; and, the Pentagon was busted for purchasing over $2 million dollars on Alaskan King Crab, a $98 thousand dollar Steinway piano and over $6 billion dollars from foreign governments in its record-breaking spending binge.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Japan is preparing to deploy its first batch of domestically developed long-range missiles; and, Australia granted asylum to five members of the Iranian women’s soccer team after Trump thrust the world into war.All

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 refusing to acknowledge the rising death toll of US troops in his Iran war or the severity he has done to the United States economy and to the economies of countries across the world.Then, on the rest of the menu, Ford has recalled 1.74 million of its cars over rearview display issues; a second NTSB member was fired without explanation by the Trump administration; and, California US Rep Darrell Issa retiring raises the stakes for the GOP holding House control.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Trump said to fuhgeddaboudit it when asked whether Russia was sharing intel with Iran to kill US soldiers; and, European countries are on high alert after bomb blasts near a Belgian synagogue and outside the US Embassy in Oslo over the weekend.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Ch

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, twenty states have rushed to court to put a stop to Trump's nasty habit of stealing American's money through a new illegal tax scheme on international goods.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon lawmakers approved a measure to prohibit ICE agents from wearing masks; US Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether Gregory Bovino made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith of the US attorney for Minnesota; and, House Republicans have formally asked for criminal charges against key Jan 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson, in another attempt to gaslight what the whole world saw live on television.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Gulf allies complain the US did not notify them of the Iran attacks and ignored their warnings; and, Sri Lanka began transferring more than 200 sa

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 Trump family's flawless record of avoiding military service would be unremarkable if Donald Trump never started a war”Then, on the rest of the menu, as other Americans stuck in the Middle East were told they’re on their own, Trump leapt into action to help a group of well-connected MAGA influencers flee the war he started; a federal judge ruled Florida’s move to declare one of the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy and civil rights groups, a foreign terrorist organization was unconstitutional; and, families are turning to the states for civil rights support as Trump dismantles the Department of Education.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Iranian warship sunk by the US was sailing home in international waters after taking part in an exhibition hosted by India; and, millions are left witho

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 has engulfed the entire world in war from Ecuador to Iran and from Venezuela to Bahrain.Then, on the rest of the menu, over seventy Democratic lawmakers demanded a probe into DHS warrantless location tracking; California peach farmers are expected to take a multimillion-dollar financial hit and lose vast quantities of crops after 139-year-old Del Monte Foods’ plan to permanently close two massive state plants; and, prosecutors began presenting never-before-seen video depositions of Meta executives at a trial in New Mexico.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian businessman was conveniently found dead after being named in the Epstein Files; and, with 100 days to go until the World Cup, the Iran war has added a new layer of complexity to the tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico a