West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 watching an interview with former Attorney General Eric Holder, Trump went off on social media with four hundred bizarre and deranged posts right at midnight and over the course of an hour.Then, on the rest of the menu, a MAGA senator's proposal to overhaul US citizenship could force Trump's alien wife and youngest son into a tight spot; at least eleven Indiana Republicans were targeted with threats or swatting attacks after Trump’s gerrymander order; and, donating $6.25 Billion to jump start the dubious “Trump Account” scam is just further proof Michael and Susan Dell will do anything to keep from paying more in taxes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the world’s biggest weapons-producing companies saw a 5.9% increase in revenue from sales of arms and military services last year; and, Canada has

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, Ice Barbie Kristi Noem has landed in legal jeopardy after admitting on live TV of brazenly defying a judge’s order.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Portland, Oregon man with previous stalking convictions has been arraigned for harassing the parent of a Sandy Hook victim; in nearly all of the examples Judge Ellis cited in her 200-plus page opinion, “the Department of Homeland Security narrative contradicts the reality of what can be seen on agents' body-worn cameras;” and, Northwestern is the latest institution to go Vichy after agreeing to pay $75 million in a Faustian deal with Trump to restore federal funding.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Wall Street is poised to give back some of last week’s gains with oil prices surging and anything related to cryptocurrency tanking; and, the president of the Inte

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’s personal lawyer and now an appellate judge, Emil Bove, could be hauled into court for criminal contempt and somebody could go to jail for lying to the judge back in March.Then, on the rest of the menu, it sure looks like Karoline Leavett’s brother set up his ex-wife and mother of his child to be apprehended by ICE for deportation; in the latest sign that a suspected effort to build an immigrant detention center in Newport, Oregon has not gone away, a federal defense contractor has been inquiring about reserving hundreds of hotel rooms on the Oregon coast for a year; and, a federal appeals court upheld a $1 million penalty against Trump and Alina Habba for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where France’s top court upheld Ni

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, Bondi ran away after being confronted over the collapse of the criminal indictments against Comey and Leticia James.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump fumed after Pam Bondi was hit with a lawsuit from a senior DOJ official fired over an O’Keefe-led honeypot sting; Oregon’s governor declared a state of emergency to ensure the state gets enough fuel ahead of Thanksgiving holiday travel because of the Olympic Pipeline leak; and, imagine a world without nurses, Trump does.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a hard-right British politician was sentenced to ten and a half years in prison for accepting bribes to make favorable statements about Russia in the European Parliament; and, after claiming over the weekend he would see him soon, Trump was shocked and hurt Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld former

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, Pam Bondi’s secret Epstein scheme is revealed.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump family fortune has plummeted by over a billion dollars in just a few months due to losses in the volatile cryptocurrency market tied to the King’s approval numbers;  a Texas A&M committee ruled a professor’s firing over gender identity lessons was unjustified; and, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine now regrets signing the law that legalized sports betting in his state.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where authorities arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico; and, Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died at age 81.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, MAGA Mike Johnson paces around the halls of the Capitol Building as the Republican Party loses all support from the American people.Then, on the rest of the menu, Bovino’s jackboots in Rhode Island threatened to smash a judge’s car window to illegally apprehend a high school intern they misidentified; citing due process violations, a federal judge ordered the release of sixteen people detained by Bovino’s jackboots during a raid at a rural Idaho racetrack last month; and, Bovino’s jackboots are monitoring US drivers and detaining US citizens with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Hungarian service of Radio Free Europe ceased operations after Trump capriciously cut off funds for the pro-democracy news outlet; and, a Russian hacking suspect wanted by the FBI was arrested

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 was left reeling this morning as Judge Boesberg announced he will reopen the criminal contempt charges against the self-appointed King and his courtiers.Then, on the rest of the menu, Bobby at the Wheel blindsided experts at the CDC with an update to the language linking vaccinations to autism; details of “a shocking and disturbing” phone call emerged after Trump defended the Bone Saw crown prince over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi; and, Trump has been sued over his ‘big white blob’ Eisenhower Building renovation that would ‘irreversibly damage’ the 137-year-old building.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples that may contain evidence of life to bring home, now Trump wants to cancel the return portion of the endeavor; and, Fren

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 after another Miller bizarre on-air meltdown this time revealed more Epstein secrets.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ordered the removal of a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered native Americans, calling it DEI content; a twice-convicted fraudster who had his lengthy sentence commuted by Trump, was ordered to serve thirty-seven years in prison for a new fraud conviction; and, US Senators from Oregon and California called on a top federal election official who falsely claimed Democrats need “illegal citizens” to vote to win elections and publicly mused about committing voter fraud herself, to rescind those statements or resign immediately.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the British defense secretary warned Russia that it was ready to deal with

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 Judge Cannon scheme gets blown wide open.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's choice to lead federal prosecutions in the Southern District of Florida flunked out of an entry-level job in that same office several years ago; Kash Patel was accused of 'clear abuse' as an elite FBI swat team is assigned to protect his middling country music star girlfriend; and, there’s so many good people on both sides, Charlotte, North Carolina went from Dapper Nazis surrounding a synagogue to a full blown Nazi blitzkrieg.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the UK Twitter hacker who breached Obama's account has been ordered by Britain's Crown Prosecution Service to repay $5.4 million in Bitcoin; and, a special tribunal sentenced Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on charges of crimes against h

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, a furious federal judge tore into the Trump DOJ over hours of missing grand jury transcript.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Bay Area nature writer’s book has been banned from Yosemite following Trump’s order to remove and revise “negative” information relating to American history; Trump’s Border Patrol Gestapo goon vowed retaliation after a judge suggested over six hundred wrongly held detainees be released; and, Newport, Oregon residents expressed outrage about the relocation of a US Coast Guard rescue helicopter facility, and the federal immigration enforcement gulag that could take its place.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where in retaliation for Charlie Kirk’s killing, Trump designated four left-wing European networks that had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk’s killing, as terrorist organizations ; an

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 abruptly ended his press conference on the Continuing Resolution being signed into law over questions about the Epstein emails that were released.Then, on the rest of the menu, a former speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives was charged with felony theft in connection with a missing thirteen hundred year old piece of historic cypress that had been on display at the State Capitol; Trump did not move the thirteen hundred pound Resolute Desk to Mar a Lago, but he does have a lightweight replica on display there; and, an obscure new Montana law lead to the trashing of tens of thousands of votes.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK economic growth slowed to a near standstill after a cyberattack halted production at the country’s biggest automaker; and, the G7 diplomats publicly show

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 spiraled out of control on live television during an Oval Office press conference where he kissed merry widow Erika Kirk and attacked Marjorie Taylor Greene for her recent comments on affordability.Then, on the rest of the menu, Fullerton, California police let a woman go who was held at gunpoint in her car by an ICE agent because “no crime had occurred;” Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice has lost thousands of experienced staff and attorneys, and it has been unable to bring in enough new talent to make up for its losses; and, Trump has withdrawn more nominees since his return to office than any other president in a single year over the last four decades.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where deadly air pollution levels surged in India’s capital of New Delhi; and, Dutch officials vowed to erect a perman

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 was booed mercilessly at the Washington Commanders/Detroit Lions matchup, which means ‘centrist’ Democratic Senators will cross the aisle and vote to name the stadium after the convicted felon.Then, on the rest of the menu, after massive election wins across the country repudiating Trump’s MAGA America, eight Democratic Senators picked a weird time to capitulate and go full Vichy on the shutdown; Ghislaine Maxwell has been pampered so much her prison warden has been accused of corruption in anticipation of Trump commuting the sentence for the convicted pedophile; and, to make matters worse, Trump pardoned dozens of his allies, fake GOP electors and insurrection co-conspirators involved in overthrowing the 2020 election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United Kingdom is outraged the BBC went Vic

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 Eleventh Circuit smacked down Judge Aileen Cannon for her coverup of the Trump espionage report.Then, on the rest of the menu, OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide even when they had no prior mental health issues; Dozy Don and Crash Duffy have cancelled hundreds of air flights nationwide, leaving travelers scrambling for last second, alternate travel plans; and, Trump pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda’s profit slips as Trump’s tariffs take their toll on Japanese automakers; and, Serbian lawmakers passed a special law clearing the way for a real estate project financed by Trump’s son-in-law J

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 Supreme Court’s decision about whether Trump's trillion dollar Tariff scheme is unconstitutional or illegal, all comes down to which way Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett flip.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Senate committee hearing devolved into a “stalking” shouting match after a Republican member admitted to tracking Democratic Senator’s cars and spying on them; a Republican-appointed federal judge blasted ICE’s “fictional” attempt to jail an innocent man to twenty years over their own goon’s self-inflicted injury; and, eleven states sued the Trump administration over “unlawful terms” placed on FEMA grants.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States arrested five men in California at Germany's request in an international probe of online fraud involving German payment providers; 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, Fox State Regime Media lost it on live television over the massive election rejection of Trump and MAGA.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump ousted the Inspector General of the US housing regulator involved in the Pulte-led mortgage probes of his foes; Trump’s top immigration goon has been accused of inventing a rock attack to justify the use of tear gas, then lying about it in court; and, Oregon is suing the Trump administration over $17.9 million in grant funding the state uses for emergency preparations and domestic security.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has pressed charges against a drunk man who harassed her in the street near Mexico’s seat of government, saying it was an assault on all women; and, Pope Leo called for ‘deep reflection’ about the treatment o

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, Lindsey Halligan is accused of destroying documents, as a Federal Judge demands to see just what exactly Lindsey did in the Grand Jury rooms to get those indictments against Trump's critics.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Trump administration is making unprecedented admission demands of colleges in the Northwest and across the country; MAGA lawyers flipped an anti-KKK law and used it to rip scholarships from Black students; and, Spelman College received a $38 million ‘unrestricted’ gift from Bezos-ex, MacKenzie Scott.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out changes to security policies after the assassination of a mayor in the violent state of Michoacan; and, an Australian spy chief accused Chinese security services of widespread intellectual property theft and

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 Justice Department admitted to lying to a federal appeals court about deploying US troops on American soil in Portland.Then, on the rest of the menu, the top Trump-appointed drug regulator at the FDA resigned after federal officials probe ‘serious concerns’ about his conduct; somebody should sue CBS and 60 Minutes for deceptively editing Trump losing his cool over his cryptocurrency pardon he claims he knows nothing about; and, Trump’s classified docs scandal was 'far worse' than reported.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where NATO member Romania signed an agreement with German defense company Rheinmetall to build a gunpowder factory in central Romania; and, Trump’s efforts to help the US coal industry at home are being undermined by falling sales abroad amid his trade war with China.All that and more,

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 is spiraling out of control and calling for the nuclear option to deal with his Big Beautiful government shutdown.Then, on the rest of the menu, Whisky Pete Hegseth ordered the military to detail dozens of JAG attorneys to the Justice Department to act as special assistant US attorneys; a judge ripped apart the Trump administration’s argument against her ruling this week by quoting their top goon’s own words directly from a Fox News interview; and, drugmakers recalled a blood pressure medicine tainted with a cancer-causing chemical over a month ago, but Trump’s FDA is only letting us know now.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Radio Free Asia says it is halting its news operations due to funding troubles caused by Trump’s shutdown; and, Trump is limiting refugee admissions to the worst Boers in th

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 got a very rude awakening at the end of his meeting with Xi Jinping as Russian bombs rained down on Ukraine.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s pick for a top post at the US Export-Import Bank withdrew his nomination after facing scrutiny over his ties to Russian companies and the Kremlin; patients are going without needed treatment after the government shutdown disrupted an important telehealth program; and, after whining about Black sports figures caught in the sports betting scandal, Trump announced an online betting platform that allows bettors to place wagers on the outcomes of elections, sports games, and other events he’s involved in or controls.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders’ far-right party and the centrist D66 are tied in the Dutch general