West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy episodes

August 07 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 Aug 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the nation’s top generals and admirals are working to get Hegseth fired and block Trump from further escalating his catastrophic war.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-backed MAGA candidate has been caught living a luxury out-of-state lifestyle despite his ‘farmer’ image; an ICE policy says the agency will only release body camera footage that depicts its officers in the best possible light; and, Lake Tahoe’s exclusive Incline Village is aghast after another stand of mature trees were “criminally poisoned” for the third time this year.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania rushed to sink four barges in the record-low Danube to keep a nuclear power plant’s second reactor running; and, a Spanish-led police raid smashed a vast Mediterranean smuggling network, arresting seventy-eight suspects.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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1 hr 4 min
August 06 West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 06 Aug 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump is trying to avoid turning over two years of every scrap of financial and tax data held by his 400 companies to justify what he now admits is a phony ten billion dollar damage claim against the BBC, for defaming him by using his own words.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Trump-appointed judge’s ‘weird’ corporate side-hustle stuns insiders; Zuckerberg’s AI went rogue and hacked another company; and, a probe of ICE agents criminally charged reveals a pattern of domestic violence, sex offenses against children, abuses of authority and corruption while carrying out the administration’s mass deportation campaign.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where ousted Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Hasina says she will return from exile in December; and, two members of the Iranian women’s soccer team who claimed asylum in Australia in March, have been granted citizenship.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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1 hr 4 min
July 31 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 31 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a federal judge has gained access to the full, un-redacted Epstein files.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a decorated US Army veteran is taking legal action against the Idaho National Guard and the Defense Department after troops detained her without a warrant on her front patio in a violent confrontation; the Kennedy Center scrapped public tours after a New York Times report on Trump’s ‘”gutting of the iconic cultural institution;” and, Oregon Governor Tina Kotek announced she is cancelling the sale of a state-owned property in Salem where developers have plans to build a data center.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the MAGA State Department used a map of Africa in a presentation that failed to place a single country in the correct part of the continent; and, ancient mummy DNA recovered in Chile has yielded the firmest evidence yet that European colonization brought smallpox to the Americas.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“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”

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1 hr 4 min
July 30 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 30 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump missed a critical court deadline, so the judge ordered all of Trump’s private tax and business records from “January 1, 2023 to present,” to be immediately turned over to the BBC.Then, on the rest of the menu, the legality of Trump’s ballroom is still being contested; Elon Musk sued Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning his artificial intelligence ‘nudification’ technology; and, an Urban League report reveals the Trump administration is harming Black Americans’ chances at the American Dream.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Courts in Myanmar have sentenced nine activists up to thirty-seven years in prison for a protest calling to boycott the elections last December; and, a French student plead guilty and was fined for a straw-licking stunt in Singapore.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851

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1 hr 4 min
July 29 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 29 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “don’t just burn your MAGA hats, torch them.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge threw out a defamation suit filed by Ka$h Patel because he really is a “googly-eyed Kremlin Bit*h”; the Arizona Department of Education wants answers to why the Arizona State Schools for the Deaf and the Blind violated federal disability law when it restricted placement options for students and predetermined where they should attend; and, a labor union and two women prison employees filed a lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for unlawfully halting their sexual harassment cases as part of wider order to suspend proceedings in all federal-sector class claims.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where gunmen killed a high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in a rare targeted attack; and, France served pro-Russian propagandist Xenia Fedorova, with an order to leave the country, after accusations that she was churning out Kremlin propaganda on French television and radio.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845)

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1 hr 4 min
July 28 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 28 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Barron is now suffering a “world of hell” because of Big Daddy.

Then, on the rest of the menu, contracted armed MAGA goons descend on USPS facilities as Trump’s war on mail-in voting ratchets up; butt-crack plumber Mark Wayne Mullin sure loves his “gas station heroin” investments; and, Elena Kagan’s dissent of the 6-3 Temporary Protected Status case ruling, shocks with a blistering attack on Trump lawyers.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where US diplomats walked out of a UN meeting as ally France criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record; and, as surely as Stephan Miller pulled the trigger himself, a Missouri couple deported to Guatemala have been found shot dead in a sugar cane field with their 14-month old daughter crying and dehydrated beside their mutilated bodies.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“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”

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1 hr 3 min
July 27 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy River City Hash Mondays 27 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the international Epstein investigation is catching up with Blanche, Trump and several major corporations.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the guy who said the Continental Army “took over the airports” during the American Revolutionary War, now wants to put up warning signs about the Smithsonian’s “fake history” exhibits; as Trump boosts nuclear power, the MAGA Nuclear Regulatory Commission seeks to eliminate a fifty year foundational radiation safety practice; and, a US appeals court upheld an injunction that blocks Trump’s order to create a federal voter list.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania scrambled its F-16 jets on Sunday and downed the third Russian drone in three days; and, Brazil’s Foreign Ministry denied visas to two US State Department officials who wanted to cast doubt on the South American nation’s upcoming October elections.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.” — Julia Child

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1 hr 4 min
July 24 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 24 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Gym Jordan needs a shower after going to the mats seeking a criminal referral for Jack Smith.

Then, on the rest of the menu, FBI agents scrambled to draw up a list of the most “salacious” Jeffrey Epstein-related allegations against Trump, just days after it announced the pedophile had left no client list; nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state’s June primary because the USPS erroneously postmarked them after election day; and, two North Carolina women who were arrested by federal immigration agents for honking their car horn to alert others to the officers’ presence are suing the government for $2.5 million.

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the BBC wants Trump to explain his “executive privilege” response to every request in Jack Smith’s January 6 report in their ongoing defamation case; and, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled his government’s top posts in a bid to counter advances made by the Neo-Nazi far right.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

Bon Appétit!

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“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”

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1 hr 6 min
July 24 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 22 July 26
Smothered Benedict Wednesdays!

Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, “if you can’t be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Shasta County, California MAGA father and son held two women biologists studying frogs in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in 15-hour hostage ordeal; the Oregon Secretary of State slammed Trump’s new election threats and urged Oregonians to turn their ballots in at dropboxes if they live more than fifty miles from the Portland area; and, the MAGA White House admitted it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants.

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51 min
July 21 West Coast Cookbook & Speakesy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 21 July 26
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Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a new stockholder lawsuit is filed in Delaware to try to block the Ellison’s acquisition of CNN and other Warner assets based on charges of fraud and bribery involving Trump.Then, on the rest of the menu, with a history of of getting paid to promote Russian propaganda as part of a years-long crusade to dismiss the Kremlin’s meddling in the 2016 US election as a “hoax,” Kash Patel’s planned secret trip to Moscow was just leaked; Trump’s IRS chief snooped on colleagues’ and rivals’ emails while working at JPMorgan; and, the MAGA federal government took a major step toward opening more than 2,800 acres of Ohio’s only national forest to “fracking.”

After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where disturbing details were revealed in the UK charges against Barron Trump’s rapey pals; and, LIV Golf suffers another major setback with the Asian Tour joining a new alliance with the European and PGA tours.

All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.

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“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”

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1 hr 4 min

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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.

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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.

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