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, a new book exposes the lies behind the myth of Trump's business acumen.Then, on the rest of the menu, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election; two former New York City Fire Department chiefs were arrested on charges of soliciting tens of thousands of dollars in bribes for preferential treatment to some individuals and companies; and, new archaeology at an abandoned Oregon town reveals the hidden lives of segregated Black logging families in the 1920’s.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the Vatican opened a new investigation into leaks surrounding its ‘trial of the century’ London property investment probe; and, Australian police infiltrated the encrypted global