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 cannot keep from violating the court orders in his criminal case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a day after storms spawned multiple tornadoes that caused widespread damage, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor criticized a new Republican-backed policy that would tie his hands in responding to any future disasters; even though New York City’s AI Chatbot was caught telling businesses to break the law, there are no plans to take it down; and, the Texas emergency management chief recommended that the state needs its own firefighting aircraft.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where two bomb threats led to a brief lockdown of the Norwegian parliament; and, a prominent German far-right extremist has been charged with a second count of using an illegal Nazi slogan.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!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune,New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: <a...

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially Special Daily Specials; River City Hash Mondays, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays & Blue Moon Spirits Fridays!Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam serves up a cornucopia of abundance in The Bistro Cafe with "All The News That's Fit To Read" and "In This Reporter's Opinion," a lively, humorous and astute analyses on the issues of the day, along with spirited discussions at the "Chef's Table" with politicians, pundits, celebrities, musicians, authors, filmmakers, academics and leaders of the New Media. Bon Appétit!First a road manager and occasional back-up singer for the rock group, Cottonmouth in the mid-70's, Justice Putnam then re-emerged with the Laguna Beach Free Poets briefly, part of the Los Angeles Art/ Performance/ Poetry/ Dance/ Punk movement during the early 80's. He then performed solo shows, as a member of Meta-4 and later with Chris Watkins of Hoi Poloi and also Preacher Boy & The Natural Blues, as well as with Jimmy McAllister of Rabbit Choir at such venues as Gorky's in Los Angeles, Beyond Baroque in Santa Monica, Cafe du Nord and Biscuits and Blues in San Francisco, Freight and Salvage and The Bison Brewing Company in Berkeley, The Sweetwater in Mill Valley, and also at music festivals in France, Belgium, Germany, California and Oregon. His poetry and prose has been published in Elektrum Magazine, Vol. No. Magazine, American Poetry Anthology, Literatus World Review, Berkeley Daily Planet and other academic, small press, print and online journals.A scholar-athlete in his youth, Justice Putnam worked as an orderly, an emergency room technician, a Roustabout and a Production Operator at an oil refinery. He taught History and English in private schools briefly, while coaching football and track. He was a fruit and vegetable inspector for the California State Department of Agriculture and a stone mason building free standing moss stone walls in Marin and Sonoma Counties. He has been a theater light designer, an actor, a surfer, deep-sea fisherman and a Grinder on a racing yacht. He was the co-host with the chanson francaise impresario, Simon Dray, on his "Fm/French Connection Bistro Radio" broadcast from KUSF 90.3 in San Francisco for over a decade.Justice has also traveled around the world, living for short times in France, Italy, Japan and Mexico.Archives of West Coast Cook Book & Speakeasy can be found in the Netroots Radio Archives on the Internet Archive:https://archive.org/details/@netroots_radioBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

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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, Jack Smith wants to dance, but you don’t put Baby Aileen in a corner.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin judge will hear arguments in a union lawsuit against collective bargaining restrictions; after a deadly heat wave killed over four hundred people last summer, Phoenix, Arizona officials are working to better protect people amid temperatures already hitting triple digits this spring; and, a Chicago man wrongfully convicted of murder, based in part on testimony from a legally blind eyewitness, is suing the city and the police department.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Hungary’s five-time Prime Minister Orbán is facing a new serious contender in the upcoming EU elections; and, Poland rolled out plans for fortifications along its border with Russia and Belarus.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!“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans.”-- Ernest Hemingway"A Moveable Feast"Become a supporter of this podcast: <a...

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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 a total lunatic on social media over the weekend as he made posts that could constitute criminal admissions and made statements about the jury that are highly inappropriate and likely gag order violations.Then, on the rest of the menu, Oregon officials have warned against drinking raw milk as a bird flu outbreak spreads among dairy farms; a Virginia tech company was hit with a DOJ fine after it sent up a job posting seeking only white candidates; and, a Riverside, California woman who bombarded the former executive director of Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue with phone calls and threatening voicemails, has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where British police say four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi; and, a Paris court sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes.Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player​Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365!"I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help."-- Julia ChildBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 27 May 24

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 shared the stage in the Bronx and accepted the endorsement of two gang members currently on bond after a one hundred-forty count criminal indictment that includes murder and at least twelve shootings.Then, on the rest of the menu, North Carolina residents filed suit to remove a Confederate monument dedicated to “our faithful slaves;” Arizona doctors can temporarily come to California to perform abortions for their patients under a new law; and, New York is offering up to $90 million in tax credits for news outlets to hire and retain journalists in an effort to help keep the shrinking local news industry afloat.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Putin signed a decree allowing the seizure of Americans’ assets if the US confiscates Russian holdings; and, work on the new Rome subway line under the Colosseum and Forum has entered a crucial phase.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!“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”― Douglas Adams"The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

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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, Marjorie Taylor Greene is purposely conducting a dangerous disinformation campaign.Then, on the rest of the menu, the bank accounts of tens of thousands of US businesses and consumers have been frozen in the aftermath of the abrupt shutdown and bankruptcy of financial technology company Synapse; the “buy now, pay later” companies must adhere to credit card standards; and, wind towers crumpled after an Iowa wind farm suffered a rare direct hit from a powerful twister.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region; and, the British prime minister unexpectedly set a July 4 snap election as his Conservatives face their biggest challenge in a decade.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!“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”-- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851Become a supporter of this podcast: <a...

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 23 May 24

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, the Trump criminal plan was revealed in a major unsealing in the Mar a Lago espionage case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Hawaii court ordered drug companies to pay the state a combined $916 million in the Plavix blood thinner lawsuit; a Texas petrochemical company has pleaded guilty to a violation of the Clean Air Act and agreed to pay more than thirty million dollars in connection with two explosions near Houston; and, the Massachusetts Senate is weighing a tuition-free community college plan.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a man charged with helping the Hong Kong intelligence service in the UK has been found dead; and, politically motivated crimes in Germany reached their highest level in 2023, since tracking began more than twenty years ago.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!"To those of us who believe that all of life is sacred every crumb of bread and sip of wine is a Eucharist, a remembrance, a call to awareness of holiness right where we are. I want all of the holiness of the Eucharist to spill out beyond church walls, out of the hands of priests and into the regular streets and sidewalks, into the hands of regular, grubby people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”-- Shauna Niequist<br...

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 04 April 24

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