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, analysts break down the Jack Smith resignation.Then, on the rest of the menu, Daimler Truck North America halted diesel truck sales in Oregon over new rules even though the rules are the same in twelve other states including Washington and California, the company sells trucks in; an ex-cop fired from his job as an investigator at the US Center for SafeSport for stealing money seized at a drug bust has been arrested again; and, the Biden administration proposed new rules on exporting AI chips that has provoked an industry pushback.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Turkey’s Erdogan launched the ‘Year of the Family’ with an attack on the families in the LGBTQ+ community; and, tens of thousands of students protested in Serbia against violations of civil rights and a crackdown by the nation’s spy agency.Bon Ap

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 political stunts over the Southern California urban wildfire exposes to the world once again what a self-centered, disgusting liar he is.Then, on the rest of the menu, MAGA Josephine County commissioners terminated the lease with the  Grants Pass, Oregon Library that has been in place since 1959; the American Civil Liberties Union sued Ron DeSantis of failing to fulfill his constitutional obligation to call special elections for two seats in the Florida state House and Senate; and, Border Patrol arrested a Russian mercenary when he illegally crossed the Rio Grande carrying two passports and four thousand dollars.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where South Korean impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol threatened civil war if he is detained; and, a prominent Vietnamese lawyer goes on trial for criticizing

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, evacuees of the SoCal wildfire say Trump’s attacks on the region should be criminal.Then, on the rest of the menu, tribes and environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan; the New Orleans Police Superintendent hired former New York Police Commissioner William J. Bratton as a consultant in the aftermath of the terror attack on Bourbon Street; and, Alito says he spoke with Trump about a former law clerk getting a low level position in the new administration the day before Trump went to the high court in a push to delay the sentencing in his New York hush-money case.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an imprisoned Belarus activist has resurfaced after being held incommunicado for over seven hundred days; and, an Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks was free

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict New Year’s Day Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, former Republican Member of Congress and January 6 Intelligence Committee advisor Denver Riggleman has the receipts Trump wants to hide.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department accused six major landlords of colluding to keep rents high; a lawsuit alleges racial and gender discrimination led to an Air Force contractor’s death; and, Virginia Democrats kept control of the Statehouse in the first elections after Trump’s win.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the now pro-Putin Austrian far right has a mandate to try to lead a government for the first time since World War II; and, self-exiled Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo González, who defeated Maduro in last year’s presidential election, said his son-in-law was kidnapped in Caracas.All that and more, on West Coast Cookb

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Kamala Harris was the personification of the return of the peaceful transfer of power.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon health officials are preparing for change under Trump; the Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India and then laughed that her life had “limited value,” has been fired; and, DeSantis appointed five new right wing members to the board overseeing the University of West Florida in Pensacola, including two from the extremist think tank behind Project 2025.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man has been charged with assisting a former British soldier later convicted of spying for Iran in his escape from a London prison; and, Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the French neo-Nazi party the National Front, has died at age ninety-six.All that and more, on West Coast Co

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 and his allies in the GOP have flip-flopped, downplayed, and whitewashed the events of January 6, and it's all by strategic design.Then, on the rest of the menu, in an 11th hour action, President Biden banned new offshore oil and gas drilling in most federal waters; higher Social Security payments are coming for millions of people from a bill that Biden signed; and, Vice President Kamala Harris will preside over the certification of her defeat to Trump four years after he tried to violently overthrow the United States and steal the 2020 election from Joe Biden.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where former French President Sarkozy ‘s trial has started over illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign by the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi; and, South Korea’s anti-corruption agency

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, ‘Ship Builders for Trump’ are finding out the leopards are eating their faces as the industry is slated to sink during the MAGA administration.Then, on the rest of the menu, citing last year's Supreme Court decision that stripped federal agencies of their regulatory powers, an all-Republican panel on the US Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled that the Federal Communications Commission lacks the authority to reinstate net neutrality rules; Oregon anti-vaxxers have caused the highest number of whooping cough cases in over seventy years; and Apple has agreed to pay ninety-five million dollars to settle a lawsuit accusing Siri of eavesdropping for the past decade.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Jenniffer González Colón was sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor amid widespread anger over another m

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, even Fox News had to fact-check Trump for lying about the terror attack in New Orleans.Then, on the rest of the menu, New York City jail staff blocked medics from treating a 23-year-old Black woman who later died of scarlet fever; Giuliani is whining he has to give up his Yankees World Series rings for his $148 million defamation verdict; and, a federal judge granted bond to a Virginia man who used pictures of Biden for target practice, called for “the return of political assassinations,” and was arrested after the “largest seizure of homemade explosives in FBI history.”After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands marched in Bangladesh calling for the ousted prime minister’s prosecution and extradition from India; and, German prosecutors charged three men with spying on US military bases

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict New Year’s Day Wednesday, is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jack Smith pulled a surprising move by transferring Trump's Mar-a-Lago espionage case to the US Attorney’s office.Then, on the rest of the menu, C-SPAN is set to return to filming Congress this Friday; legal experts slammed Chief Justice John Roberts’ yearly whine fest report as ‘chilling and 'disingenuous;' and, the Texas Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit by the Bar Association against the Assistant Attorney General to take away his law license for “dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” by joining Paxton’s challenge of the 2020 election results that Biden won in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Montenegro extradited a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to the United States; and, the foreign ministers of Germa

Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Holiday Special, Tarrytown Chowder New Year’s Eve Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the utter hypocrisy of a MAGA Senator who called on Vlad to release more manufactured kompromat on Hunter Biden, was exposed after his own son was just sentenced to thirty-five years in prison for killing a cop while high on bath salts and meth.Then, on the rest of the menu, following a series of home invasions, the FBI issued warnings to sports leagues about organized crime groups targeting pro athletes; California will soon require insurers to increase home coverage in wildfire-prone areas, or stop doing business in the state; and, the Biden administration moved to bar oil, gas and geothermal development in a Nevada mountain range for the next twenty years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Chinese hackers remotely accessed several US Treasury Department workstations and unclassified d

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 made a public show of throwing MAGA Mike under the bus.Then, on the rest of the menu, An Arizona Republican lawmaker's 'racist' anti-Kwanzaa post was slammed by his own Republican constituents; Utah authorities pleaded with the public for help finding who damaged a petroglyph panel with illegally installed climbing bolts; and, tens of thousands of abandoned Texan newborns are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man arrested for running a travel agency for gay customers was found dead while in custody in Moscow; and, the opinion editor of a major German newspaper resigned in protest after Musk penned an OpEd over the weekend backing the German neo-Nazi party ahead

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, looks like Hunter Biden will get the last laugh over Trump’s nominee for Attorney General exposed as the real drug-addled, nepo creep, sex-fiend we’ve all known he is.Then, on the rest of the menu, the number of registered lobbyists jumped to a record high in California; Florida condo owners face higher costs as new regulations take effect in the new year; and, a Nebraska man who lost his home over a $588 tax debt is getting it back.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finland detained a Russia-linked vessel over the recently damaged undersea power cable in the Baltic Sea; and, a judge reinstated Ecuador’s vice president after deeming her suspension unconstitutional.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep

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, Democratic legislative members have no more F’s to give and are on the offensive.Then, on the rest of the menu, an Oregon house cat died after eating pet food that tested positive for bird flu, prompting a recall of raw frozen pet food that was sold nationwide; a circuit judge struck down part of the Missouri law restricting access to court records; and, a symbol of the power and strength of the United States for more than 240 years, President Biden signed a bill officially making the bald eagle the national bird of America.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian sabotage is suspected in the severing of a power cable linking Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea; and, Russia’s air defense system is suspected in the downing of an Azerbaijani jetliner in Kazakhstan, killing thirty-eight, wit

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 New York Firefighters Union found out what happens when you endorse a 9/11 Truther arsonist.Then, on the rest of the menu,  Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen was hospitalized after being thrown from a horse; already a longtime opponent of the deal, Biden will decide on the US Steel acquisition by Nippon Steel after an influential panel failed to reach a consensus on the national security risks; and, New Jersey gambling regulators handed out fines to two sportsbooks and a tech company for sports betting violations.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where cleanup continued in the Kerch Strait near Russian-occupied Crimea, a week after at least 3,700 tons of low-grade fuel oil spilled out of two storm-stricken Russian tankers; and, Romanian lawmakers voted narrowly in favor of a new pro-European coalition governm

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, GOP Representative Don Bacon pushed back on Bannon and Musk.Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk accused Mackenzie Scott of "destroying western civilization" by donating billions to charities for women, minorities, and marginalized groups, and she just keeps doing it; an Oregon sheriff has contacted the FBI about letters telling people to track possible immigrants; and, the Department of Justice alleged in a lawsuit that Louisiana’s prison system routinely holds people weeks and months after they have completed their sentences.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over a hundred thousand people streamed into a central square in Serbia’s capital for a rally against far right populist President Aleksandar Vucic; and, German authorities received tipoffs last year about the AfD-affiliated suspect in the deadly Chr

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, President Musk threw MAGA Mike under the bus for the bipartisan resolution to avoid a government shutdown.Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump's border czar doesn't believe birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution and that’s why he’s starting early building the gulags; a MAGA county commissioner in MAGA County Oregon has been recalled two years into his four year term; and, a Wisconsin judge temporarily put on hold his recent ruling that restored collective bargaining rights to teachers and most other public workers that were lost under a controversial 2011 state law.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a lawyer accused of being a Chinese spy and interfering in British politics, lost her legal case against UK intelligence agency MI5;  and, a Manhattan man pled guilty to helping esta

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, a bipartisan lineup of Canada’s leaders blasted Trump as his tactics backfire.Then, on the rest of the menu, Grubhub will pay $25 million dollars in a deceptive practices settlement with the Illinois attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission; Jasmine Blackwater-Nygren is the first Navajo woman to be named top prosecutor in Arizona’s Apache County; and, federal agencies have opened at least three reviews of Musk and SpaceX for repeatedly failing to comply with federal reporting protocols aimed at protecting state secrets, by not providing details of his meetings with foreign leaders.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Mexico’s anti-monopoly regulators imposed special conditions for a period of ten years on Walmart’s Mexico subsidiary; and, prominent anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was releas

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, Trump will no doubt be taking credit for Biden’s economic policies.Then, on the rest of the menu, New Orleans insists its police department is ready to end federal oversight, but not all are convinced; Connecticut has become the latest state to begin notifying its eligible citizens that some or all of their medical debt will soon be paid off; and, growing oil industry support for the federal methane reduction rule could help it survive Trump’s return.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote, setting up an early election in February for the collapsing government; and, Ukraine took responsibility for an explosion that killed the head of Russia’s nuclear defense forces and his assistant in Moscow.All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with C