In this episode, Jon Decker breaks down the latest developments in the ongoing federal government shutdown and its growing economic fallout. Vice President J.D. Vance holds congressional Democrats accountable for the funding impasse, warning of serious consequences for small businesses and federal workers. Decker also covers the Trump administration’s controversial move to resume U.S. nuclear weapons testing—its political motivations, global implications, and historical roots in American defense policy.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Friday, October
thirty first on John Decker. It's day thirty one of
the federal government shutdown, and Vice President JD. Vance puts
the blame squarely on congressional Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Any Democrat in the United States Senate. We are happy
to talk about any policy issue. We're happy to talk
about healthcare policy. We're happy to talk about tax policy.
We're happy to talk about regulatory policy. But not at
the point of a gun.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Vice President says, the pain of the shutdown will
only increase.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going
to get a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And the Vice President explains the president's decision to resume
the testing of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
President's truth speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We have a big arsenal, obviously, the Russians have a
large nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Chinese have a large nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sometimes you've got a test it to make sure that
it's functioning and working properly.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But we begin this Friday with the government show that
shows few signs of ending anytime soon. The federal government
has been shut down since October the first, since the
beginning of the month, when federal funding ran out and
Congress failed to approve a new funding extension. Republican and
(01:18):
Democratic lawmakers blame each other for the extended shutdown. Democratic
lawmakers have demanded extensions on expiring subsidies on Affordable Care
Act health insurance plans before they will agree to reopen
the government. Premiums for people on ACA healthcare plans are
(01:38):
expected to go up by an average of thirty percent
during the open enrollment period, which begins in just a
few days. That's in part because those subsidies are going away.
Republicans have refused to negotiate on healthcare until Congress passes
new government funding bills they pass a cr On Thursday,
(02:01):
Vice President JD. Vance came out of the West Wing
with aviation officials and spoke to reporters. He explained why
he is concerned about the extended government shutdown on the
airline industry.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He worries me a great deal because I think that
as much as delays have gotten worse over the last
couple of weeks, everybody here is very worried that we're
going to see more delays, more stresses on the people
who are actually making the aviation system run and more
problems for both the consumers but also the great workers
who actually make this incredible, shining jewel of the American
(02:37):
economy actually work and work on time and work safely.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Vice President says he's not concerned about the safety
of aviation during the shutdown, nor is Secretary of Transportation
Sean Duffy. He too participated in that Q and A
with reporters, but he is concerned about the impact of
the prolonged government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Here are the things that I worry about.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I worry about the people who are scanning our bags
and making us get through the security line.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I worry they're not getting paychecks.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
They're starting to get worried about how to feed their
families and how to pay school tuition and everything else.
I worry about the pilots who haven't gotten paid in
a long time. I worry about the air traffic controllers, who,
of course make this entire system extra safe.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I worry about them, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
More worried about their credit card bill than they should be,
because they're not getting a paycheck because Democrats refuse to
open the.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Government, the Vice President implored lawmakers during his twenty minute
Q and A with reporters to find a compromise to
end this government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I understand that a lot of Americans are sick of
partisanship in Washington, d C. Trust me, I've been here
for nine months in this job. I am sick of
partisanship in Washington, d C. But this is very, very simple.
Every part is in dispute, every policy disagreement. All of
these things we can talk about, we can reason through,
we can disagree, we can shake hands and compromise on
some of those issues, hopefully, But this is something that
(03:58):
every single American DEMOC, a Republican or independent should be
able to agree on. Open the government. Stop this craziness
and open the government. It's causing way too many problems.
And some of the folks behind me are the people
who are dealing with the problem.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The message from Vice President Vance during that Q and
A with reporters is that the onus is solely on
Democrats to end the shutdown. Let's listen to the Vice
president right here.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We have had now multiple votes to reopen the United
States government.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Thanksgiving is in just a few weeks, and of course
that's one of the busiest travel days for the year.
Airports are just crowded with travelers trying to get home
to their families, and the Vice President, when asked, said
the public should not be afraid to fly.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't think Americans should be afraid to fly because
we've got great airline professionals who are keeping the safest
aviation industry in the world afloat.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
But they're doing it with incredible struss.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Vice President Vance was the point person for the administration
as far as the talking points for the administration concerning
the prolonged government shutdown, and he says that he is
concerned about the prolonged impact of this shutdown on the
aviation industry.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I worry more about is that if you have, let's say,
a pilot who's now missed two paychecks, who's now telling
his kids that they can't do things that they'd like
to do, who's now worried about feeding his family, maybe
that guy doesn't show up to work, maybe goes and
gets a different job.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That means greater delays for the American people.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I worry about the air traffic controller who now has
missed two paychecks, who's got to pay his credit card
bill or his mortgage, but can't pay both in society.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know what this industry is not for me.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Vice President Van several times during his Q and A
with reporters, said that pilots during this thirty one day
government shutdown are not getting paid. That is not correct.
Pilots are indeed getting paid. They are not impacted by
this shutdown. All of the airlines are paying their respective pilots.
But during that Q and A with reporters, Vance perhaps
(05:58):
made some news he did not rule out meeting with
Congressional Democrats. Let's listen to the Vice president right here.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I've never said we're not going to talk to Congressional
Democrats until they reopen the government. What I've said is
we are not going to give in on policy demands
under the threat of hostage taking.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Republicans have not deviated from their strategy as it relates
to negotiations concerning this prolonged government shutdown, and neither have Democrats.
They have both dug in their heels. That's the reason
why this shutdown has lasted already thirty one days. During
his Q and A with reporters, Vance spelled out that
(06:38):
Republican strategy now.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Here is our very simple proposals to the Democrats, Let's
sit down and come to a compromise and work it out.
And you know what the Democrats' response to that is
give us everything we want or we're going to shut
down the government and keep it shut down. That is
not reasonable behavior. That's not how you do compromise in
this town. That is the way that the Democrats have operated.
They are trying to take a hostage, and we can't
(07:00):
reward that behavior.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The Vice President spoke to reporters for approximately twenty minutes
or so, and before leaving to go back into the
West wing, he made one final pitch to Senate Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I actually I've been a little bit unfair, and I
want to correct this because when I say that Democrats
have shut down the government, it's actually the far left
side of the Democratic Party, because, to their great credit,
three moderate Democrats joined fifty two Senate Republicans to vote
to reopen the government. We need five more reasonable Democrats
(07:35):
to put the American people first and reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's all that we're asking.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
There is, of course, a political aspect to this government shutdown,
and the question I am often asked is who is
hurt more by this prolonged shutdown, Republicans in Congress or
Democrats in Congress. After all, this time next year, we'll
be talking about the midterm elections. Well, we have one
answer to that with one poll which came out over
(08:02):
the past twenty four hours. It's a Washington Post ABC
News IPSOS poll, and that poll indicates that more Americans
are blaming President Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats
for the nearly month long government shutdown. More than four
and ten US adults forty five percent say the President
(08:25):
and the GOP are mainly responsible for the shutdown that
could lead to the government cutting off food stamps, it's
already caused air traffic delays, and it's also led to
hundreds of thousands of federal workers being furloughed. Yet the
share saying Democrats are at fault for this shutdown has
(08:47):
grown slightly from thirty percent in a Post poll that
was done just a few weeks ago when the shutdown began,
to thirty three percent in the latest poll. And as
it relates to the breakdown in poll numbers, it falls
largely along partisan lines. That being said, the same poll
(09:08):
finds that independents hold the President and Republicans responsible by
a two to one margin. Forty six percent of people
who identify as independents blame Republicans and twenty three percent
blame Democrats. That's just one poll. Different polls show different things,
but that is one thing that lawmakers should consider as
(09:30):
this government shutdown continues. There is some movement, it seems,
on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, on the Senate
side of the capital. Some Democratic senators are privately speculating
that if their party does well in the gubernatorial elections
in New Jersey and Virginia, which are scheduled for Tuesday
of next week, they can declare a political victory and
(09:53):
begin to finalize the endgame for reopening the federal government. Virginia,
by the way, which will be a Senate battleground in
twenty twenty six, is home to approximately one hundred forty
thousand federal employees, and there is a toll. As it
relates to the economy, the extended shutdown, which would be
(10:14):
the longest in American history if it lasts until November fifth,
next week, that's next Wednesday, is expected to shave billions
of dollars off America's annual economic output. As the President
was flying back to Washington on Thursday. A lot of
attention focused on a social media post that he put
(10:37):
out while he was in Asia. The President vowed to
resume testing of nuclear weapons in that social media post
on truth Social Very few people were answering questions about
the details concerning what he meant, but Vice President jd Vance,
when he came out to speak to reporters primarily about
(10:58):
the government shutdown, was also asked about what the President
put out on social media concerning the resumption of nuclear tests,
and the Vice president said, the President is focused on
protecting the American public.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We've been working very closely, even with nations that we
don't have the best relations with, to try to limit
nuclear proliferation.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The President's going to keep on working on that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But it's an important part of American national security to
make sure that this nuclear arsenal we have actually functions properly.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
This is a change in US policy. The US last
conducted a nuclear weapons test in nineteen ninety two, and
the US has joined Russia and China in observing moratoriums
on underground nuclear blasts. China's last test was in nineteen
ninety six and Russia's last known nuclear test was in
(11:50):
nineteen ninety. The Vice president said, the change in policy
by the Trump administration is all about making certain that
America's nuclear deterrence works.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Clear.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We know that it does work properly, but you got
to keep on top of it over time, and the
President just wants to make sure that we do that now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
In terms of what the President meant, it could be
that the President wasn't referring to testing nuclear devices at all.
It could be that he wanted to simply step up
flight tests of missiles that carry nuclear warheads. The President
said in his social media post while in Asia that
the US has the largest number of nuclear weapons and
(12:30):
is the most capable deterrent because of a modernization program
the president claims to have completed during his first term.
But the upgrading of US land and submarine based missiles
and long range bombers, which is costing well over a
trillion dollars, was actually set in motion during the Obama administration,
(12:52):
and it will not be completed for well over the
next decade. Russia, by the way, has more than forty
three hundred weapons in its nuclear stockpile, compared with some
thirty seven hundred on the part of the US and
as it relates to this return to nuclear testing, if
ordered by the White House and funded by Congress, it
(13:16):
would not be immediate. It could take two years to
prepare a major nuclear test in order to design the
underground detonation, including the placement of instruments to measure its effects.
As for Friday, no items on the President's schedule. In fact,
the President in the morning is leaving for Mara a Lago.
(13:38):
He's going down to Palm Beach for the weekend, and
he deserves that. That was a lot of flying over
to Asia over the course of the past week. That's
it for the White House Briefing Room for Friday, October thirty. First,
I'm John Decker. Have a great weekend.
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Friday, October
thirty first on John Decker. It's day thirty one of
the federal government shutdown, and Vice President JD. Vance puts
the blame squarely on congressional Democrats.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Any Democrat in the United States Senate. We are happy
to talk about any policy issue. We're happy to talk
about healthcare policy. We're happy to talk about tax policy.
We're happy to talk about regulatory policy. But not at
the point of a gun.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
The Vice President says, the pain of the shutdown will
only increase.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
American people are already suffering, and the suffering is going
to get a lot worse.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And the Vice President explains the president's decision to resume
the testing of nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
President's truth speaks for itself.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
We have a big arsenal, obviously, the Russians have a
large nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The Chinese have a large nuclear arsenal.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Sometimes you've got a test it to make sure that
it's functioning and working properly.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
But we begin this Friday with the government show that
shows few signs of ending anytime soon. The federal government
has been shut down since October the first, since the
beginning of the month, when federal funding ran out and
Congress failed to approve a new funding extension. Republican and
(01:18):
Democratic lawmakers blame each other for the extended shutdown. Democratic
lawmakers have demanded extensions on expiring subsidies on Affordable Care
Act health insurance plans before they will agree to reopen
the government. Premiums for people on ACA healthcare plans are
(01:38):
expected to go up by an average of thirty percent
during the open enrollment period, which begins in just a
few days. That's in part because those subsidies are going away.
Republicans have refused to negotiate on healthcare until Congress passes
new government funding bills they pass a cr On Thursday,
(02:01):
Vice President JD. Vance came out of the West Wing
with aviation officials and spoke to reporters. He explained why
he is concerned about the extended government shutdown on the
airline industry.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He worries me a great deal because I think that
as much as delays have gotten worse over the last
couple of weeks, everybody here is very worried that we're
going to see more delays, more stresses on the people
who are actually making the aviation system run and more
problems for both the consumers but also the great workers
who actually make this incredible, shining jewel of the American
(02:37):
economy actually work and work on time and work safely.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The Vice President says he's not concerned about the safety
of aviation during the shutdown, nor is Secretary of Transportation
Sean Duffy. He too participated in that Q and A
with reporters, but he is concerned about the impact of
the prolonged government shutdown.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Here are the things that I worry about.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
I worry about the people who are scanning our bags
and making us get through the security line.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
I worry they're not getting paychecks.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
They're starting to get worried about how to feed their
families and how to pay school tuition and everything else.
I worry about the pilots who haven't gotten paid in
a long time. I worry about the air traffic controllers, who,
of course make this entire system extra safe.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I worry about them, you know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
More worried about their credit card bill than they should be,
because they're not getting a paycheck because Democrats refuse to
open the.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Government, the Vice President implored lawmakers during his twenty minute
Q and A with reporters to find a compromise to
end this government shutdown.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
I understand that a lot of Americans are sick of
partisanship in Washington, d C. Trust me, I've been here
for nine months in this job. I am sick of
partisanship in Washington, d C. But this is very, very simple.
Every part is in dispute, every policy disagreement. All of
these things we can talk about, we can reason through,
we can disagree, we can shake hands and compromise on
some of those issues, hopefully, But this is something that
(03:58):
every single American DEMOC, a Republican or independent should be
able to agree on. Open the government. Stop this craziness
and open the government. It's causing way too many problems.
And some of the folks behind me are the people
who are dealing with the problem.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
The message from Vice President Vance during that Q and
A with reporters is that the onus is solely on
Democrats to end the shutdown. Let's listen to the Vice
president right here.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We have had now multiple votes to reopen the United
States government.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Thanksgiving is in just a few weeks, and of course
that's one of the busiest travel days for the year.
Airports are just crowded with travelers trying to get home
to their families, and the Vice President, when asked, said
the public should not be afraid to fly.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I don't think Americans should be afraid to fly because
we've got great airline professionals who are keeping the safest
aviation industry in the world afloat.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
But they're doing it with incredible struss.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Vice President Vance was the point person for the administration
as far as the talking points for the administration concerning
the prolonged government shutdown, and he says that he is
concerned about the prolonged impact of this shutdown on the
aviation industry.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I worry more about is that if you have, let's say,
a pilot who's now missed two paychecks, who's now telling
his kids that they can't do things that they'd like
to do, who's now worried about feeding his family, maybe
that guy doesn't show up to work, maybe goes and
gets a different job.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
That means greater delays for the American people.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
I worry about the air traffic controller who now has
missed two paychecks, who's got to pay his credit card
bill or his mortgage, but can't pay both in society.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You know what this industry is not for me.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Vice President Van several times during his Q and A
with reporters, said that pilots during this thirty one day
government shutdown are not getting paid. That is not correct.
Pilots are indeed getting paid. They are not impacted by
this shutdown. All of the airlines are paying their respective pilots.
But during that Q and A with reporters, Vance perhaps
(05:58):
made some news he did not rule out meeting with
Congressional Democrats. Let's listen to the Vice president right here.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
I've never said we're not going to talk to Congressional
Democrats until they reopen the government. What I've said is
we are not going to give in on policy demands
under the threat of hostage taking.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Republicans have not deviated from their strategy as it relates
to negotiations concerning this prolonged government shutdown, and neither have Democrats.
They have both dug in their heels. That's the reason
why this shutdown has lasted already thirty one days. During
his Q and A with reporters, Vance spelled out that
(06:38):
Republican strategy now.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Here is our very simple proposals to the Democrats, Let's
sit down and come to a compromise and work it out.
And you know what the Democrats' response to that is
give us everything we want or we're going to shut
down the government and keep it shut down. That is
not reasonable behavior. That's not how you do compromise in
this town. That is the way that the Democrats have operated.
They are trying to take a hostage, and we can't
(07:00):
reward that behavior.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
The Vice President spoke to reporters for approximately twenty minutes
or so, and before leaving to go back into the
West wing, he made one final pitch to Senate Democrats.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
I actually I've been a little bit unfair, and I
want to correct this because when I say that Democrats
have shut down the government, it's actually the far left
side of the Democratic Party, because, to their great credit,
three moderate Democrats joined fifty two Senate Republicans to vote
to reopen the government. We need five more reasonable Democrats
(07:35):
to put the American people first and reopen the government.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
That's all that we're asking.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
There is, of course, a political aspect to this government shutdown,
and the question I am often asked is who is
hurt more by this prolonged shutdown, Republicans in Congress or
Democrats in Congress. After all, this time next year, we'll
be talking about the midterm elections. Well, we have one
answer to that with one poll which came out over
(08:02):
the past twenty four hours. It's a Washington Post ABC
News IPSOS poll, and that poll indicates that more Americans
are blaming President Trump and Republicans in Congress than Democrats
for the nearly month long government shutdown. More than four
and ten US adults forty five percent say the President
(08:25):
and the GOP are mainly responsible for the shutdown that
could lead to the government cutting off food stamps, it's
already caused air traffic delays, and it's also led to
hundreds of thousands of federal workers being furloughed. Yet the
share saying Democrats are at fault for this shutdown has
(08:47):
grown slightly from thirty percent in a Post poll that
was done just a few weeks ago when the shutdown began,
to thirty three percent in the latest poll. And as
it relates to the breakdown in poll numbers, it falls
largely along partisan lines. That being said, the same poll
(09:08):
finds that independents hold the President and Republicans responsible by
a two to one margin. Forty six percent of people
who identify as independents blame Republicans and twenty three percent
blame Democrats. That's just one poll. Different polls show different things,
but that is one thing that lawmakers should consider as
(09:30):
this government shutdown continues. There is some movement, it seems,
on the other side of Pennsylvania Avenue, on the Senate
side of the capital. Some Democratic senators are privately speculating
that if their party does well in the gubernatorial elections
in New Jersey and Virginia, which are scheduled for Tuesday
of next week, they can declare a political victory and
(09:53):
begin to finalize the endgame for reopening the federal government. Virginia,
by the way, which will be a Senate battleground in
twenty twenty six, is home to approximately one hundred forty
thousand federal employees, and there is a toll. As it
relates to the economy, the extended shutdown, which would be
(10:14):
the longest in American history if it lasts until November fifth,
next week, that's next Wednesday, is expected to shave billions
of dollars off America's annual economic output. As the President
was flying back to Washington on Thursday. A lot of
attention focused on a social media post that he put
(10:37):
out while he was in Asia. The President vowed to
resume testing of nuclear weapons in that social media post
on truth Social Very few people were answering questions about
the details concerning what he meant, but Vice President jd Vance,
when he came out to speak to reporters primarily about
(10:58):
the government shutdown, was also asked about what the President
put out on social media concerning the resumption of nuclear tests,
and the Vice president said, the President is focused on
protecting the American public.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
We've been working very closely, even with nations that we
don't have the best relations with, to try to limit
nuclear proliferation.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
The President's going to keep on working on that.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
But it's an important part of American national security to
make sure that this nuclear arsenal we have actually functions properly.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
This is a change in US policy. The US last
conducted a nuclear weapons test in nineteen ninety two, and
the US has joined Russia and China in observing moratoriums
on underground nuclear blasts. China's last test was in nineteen
ninety six and Russia's last known nuclear test was in
(11:50):
nineteen ninety. The Vice president said, the change in policy
by the Trump administration is all about making certain that
America's nuclear deterrence works.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Clear.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
We know that it does work properly, but you got
to keep on top of it over time, and the
President just wants to make sure that we do that now.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
In terms of what the President meant, it could be
that the President wasn't referring to testing nuclear devices at all.
It could be that he wanted to simply step up
flight tests of missiles that carry nuclear warheads. The President
said in his social media post while in Asia that
the US has the largest number of nuclear weapons and
(12:30):
is the most capable deterrent because of a modernization program
the president claims to have completed during his first term.
But the upgrading of US land and submarine based missiles
and long range bombers, which is costing well over a
trillion dollars, was actually set in motion during the Obama administration,
(12:52):
and it will not be completed for well over the
next decade. Russia, by the way, has more than forty
three hundred weapons in its nuclear stockpile, compared with some
thirty seven hundred on the part of the US and
as it relates to this return to nuclear testing, if
ordered by the White House and funded by Congress, it
(13:16):
would not be immediate. It could take two years to
prepare a major nuclear test in order to design the
underground detonation, including the placement of instruments to measure its effects.
As for Friday, no items on the President's schedule. In fact,
the President in the morning is leaving for Mara a Lago.
(13:38):
He's going down to Palm Beach for the weekend, and
he deserves that. That was a lot of flying over
to Asia over the course of the past week. That's
it for the White House Briefing Room for Friday, October thirty. First,
I'm John Decker. Have a great weekend.
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.