West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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, Speaker of the House, MAGA Mike Johnson, admitted to being an “accessory after the fact.”Then, on the rest of the menu, the second-ranking Democrat in the House is the latest member to become entangled in an epidemic of big money thefts affecting public officials; New Mexico wants to underwrite development of a strategic new source of water by buying treated fracking water; and, Frontier Airlines has settled a lawsuit filed by female pilots who accused the airline of discriminating against pregnant or breastfeeding employees.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Israeli regulators are looking into claims investors earned millions of dollars by short-selling Israeli stocks days ahead of Hamas’s October 7 attack; and, the US made an offer to bring home jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershko