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 DC Appeals Court used a surprise tactic to cut Trump’s legs off in seeking to delay the order.Then, on the rest of the menu, Montgomery County, Maryland school board members apologized for the district’s failures in the handling of employee misconduct complaints and vowed to heal the school system; the mother of a 16-year-old who died in a workplace accident at a Mississippi poultry factory is suing the companies that hired and employed him; and, New Hampshire’s attorney general announced a criminal investigation into a Texas-based company behind thousands of AI-generated calls impersonating President Biden.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Russian man who defected from a high-ranking position in the Wagner Group has been given permission to stay in Norway, but was refused permanent asylum; and, the Netherlands is having trouble forming a new far-right government around neo-Nazi Geert Wilders.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...

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 07 Feb 24

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, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!​​​​​Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, chaos erupted in the House of Representatives as MAGA Republicans returned from their visit at Trump’s criminal trial.Then, on the rest of the menu, Merrick Garland punched back at House Republicans over their “unfounded attacks” on the US Justice Department; the Nevada Supreme Court denied an appeal of a conservative election fraud activist who sought to oust county election officials; and, Google wants a judge, rather than a jury, to decide whether it violated US antitrust laws.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a Swedish court rejected Tesla’s appeal in its dispute over labor unions in the Nordic country; and, Italy's neo-fascist League wants to change the law and remove the European Union flag from public offices.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.

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 17 May 24

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 Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.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 16 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 Manhattan prosecutors dropped some stunning news on Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, a judge blocked a proposed measure introduced by the Portland, Oregon police union from landing on the November ballot; a MAGA insurgent from West Virginia who stormed the Capitol on January 6, lost his bid for the US Congress: and, the CDC says “it is highly concerning” that drownings have risen among young children after decades of decline.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where over a hundred thousand protesters filled the streets of Georgia’s capital after parliament passed the so-called ‘Russian law;’ and, orcas sank their first ship of the year off the coast of Morocco.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"Bread and Wine: A Love Letter to Life Around the Table with...

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 15 May 24

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, ‘Michael Cohen on the witness stand is like Donald Trump in AA.’Then, on the rest of the menu, a Florida man was sentenced to three years in prison for firebombing a California Planned Parenthood clinic; a large group of Republican attorneys general took legal action against the Biden administration and California over new emissions limits for trucks; and, the MAGA-controlled Nebraska GOP is rejecting all Republican congressional incumbents in today’s primary election.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three men were charged in the United Kingdom with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service; and, President Biden blocked a Chinese-backed crypto mining firm from land ownership near a Wyoming missile base.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: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays May 24

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 panicked overnight about going to prison.Then, on the rest of the menu, the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments to expand the use of absentee ballot drop boxes; the Office of Congressional Ethics found probable cause that MAGA representative from Texas, Troy Nehls, misused campaign funds; and, Lake Tahoe is expected to fill for first time in five years.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Poland’s prime minister vowed to strengthen security at the EU border with Belarus; and, Lithuanians voted Sunday in a presidential election as anxieties rise over Russia and the war in Ukraine.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 - Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 07 Feb 24

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