Episodes

  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 May 25
    May 23 2025
    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, the Supreme Court blocked the nation’s first religious charter school in a surprise rebuke, with Amy Coney Barrett recusing.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, American refugees are fleeing across state lines to escape hostile forces under Trump; Kentucky’s bitcoin boom has gone bust; and, a just-passed Louisiana law threatens residents with one million dollar fines for sharing warnings about bad air quality.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian hackers are targeting Western firms shipping aid to Ukraine; and, Trump’s early morning rage tweet tariff threats on the European Union and Apple, have sent US futures and global markets on a sharp death spiral.

    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 and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 22 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 22 May 25
    May 22 2025
    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, a fed up Supreme Court schooled the Trump administration on the basics of Constitutional law.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is 'deeply underwater' on his Wall Street skyscraper as a massive debt deadline looms; a fire at the historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set; and, the two Israeli Embassy staffers murdered near the White House by a “Free Palestine” activist, had just left the Young Diplomats Reception for multinational aid to Gaza.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Romania’s Constitutional Court unanimously validated the results of Romania’s presidential election rerun, shortly after rejecting a request to annul the results by the hard-right Moscow-backed candidate; and, Thailand’s ex-Prime Minister Yingluck has been ordered to pay for losses from a money-losing rice subsidy program.







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

    Bon Appétit!


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    “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, 1851





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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 May 25
    May 21 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump's budget bill has created a 'legislative suicide pact' for the MAGA House.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the Pacific Northwest braces for a tsunami and typhoon monitoring blackout from Trump’s agency shutdown; a bombshell email leak has exposed a Gabbard goon secretly ordering intel changes so it couldn’t be ‘used against’ Trump; and, the hacker who breached the Signal chats used by Waltz and Hegseth, intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where German police broke up a right-wing extremist group that aimed to destabilize the country’s democratic system by carrying out attacks on migrants and political opponents; and, the mother of the arrested Salvadoran lawyer who represented Trump’

    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 and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 20 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 20 May 25
    May 20 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, and Trump gave up in a humiliating surrender before the world.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge just struck down DOGE’s attempt to seize the $500 million dollar building owned by the US Institute of Peace; a Black neighborhood fights back as an Elon Musk supercomputer factory belches toxic pollutants into the air; and, Pacific Northwest hydroelectric power risks a major shutdown as agencies lose hundreds of on-the-ground employees because of Trump’s cutbacks.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Honda pulls back on its EV strategy and will now push hybrid sales; and, at a South Africa agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff at Trump’s allegations of white genocide.

    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 and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 19 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 19 May 25
    May 19 2025
    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, the Supreme court ripped Trump and his cabinet to shreds.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, nearly three-quarters of the attorneys working for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division have resigned in protest of Trump's “perversion” of the department’s mission; libraries across the country are cutting back on staff and services after Trump’s order to dismantle the small Institute of Museum and Library Services; and, Trump set up a tip line for federal employees to snitch on colleagues working on DEI initiatives, and not one of the fifteen thousand employees at the EPA used it.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a pro-European Union centrist pulled off an upset in Romania’s presidential election; and, Putin outlawed Amnesty International in his latest crackdown on dissent and activists.

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

    Bon Appétit!

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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 and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 16 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 16 May 25
    May 16 2025
    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, the Democratic Party hit record recruitment numbers for 2026.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, Multnomah County health officials have confirmed one case of active tuberculosis at a middle school in Southeast Portland, Oregon; Trump has suspended the asylum system, leaving immigrants to face an uncertain future; and, the US lost a major percentage of business travelers in April as economic anxiety and border detentions have cooled demand.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Estonia warned that Russia is using military force to defend its shadow fleet of aging tankers violating international sanctions; and, Vietnam approved the Trump Organization’s $1.5 billion golf and real estate project to avoid Donnie Two Doll’s 46% tariff.

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

    Bon Appétit!

    The Netroots Radio Live Player



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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 and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 15 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 15 May 25
    May 15 2025
    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, a major update on arrested judge Dugan is discussed.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a new law bans Oregon employers from asking for an applicants’ age; a federal judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for West Virginia coal miners; and, a Texas prosecutor sued to compel Border Patrol testimony in the criminal trial of the Uvalde school police chief.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where three Russian-backed Ukrainian nationals have been arrested in Germany and Switzerland for plans to send explosive parcels to Kyiv; and, the Mexican security chief confirmed seventeen Chapo cartel family members entered the US in a green card deal with the Trump administration, and nobody cares.

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

    Bon Appétit!


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    “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, 1851




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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 May 25

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 13 May 25
    May 13 2025
    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special daily special, Tarrytown Chowder Tuesday is now available on the Spreaker Player!

    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the “most corrupt president,” has been telling Americans to live in austerity because of his tariffs, while he wants “the most expensive private plane in the world” as a gift.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, White House correspondents protested the lack of wire reporters on Air Force One traveling to the Middle East; staff rebuffed two Trump appointees from entering the Copyright office; and, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission moved to fire a judge who is fighting Trump directives.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where four men arrested in West Africa for an extortion scheme are linked to a California teen’s suicide; and, in a development sure to anger Trump and MAGA, Germany banned the largest anti-Democracy ‘Reich citizen’ group in the country and arrested four of its leaders.

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

    Bon Appétit!

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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 and 4 mins