West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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_radio Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.

Episodes

July 1, 2025 64 mins
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, Trump rushed off to the Florida Everglades concentration camp for alligator feeding time.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump is appealing the judicial order striking down his EO that targeted law firm Perkins Coie; Texas data shows after Abb...
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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, a Trump lawyer just got some brutal disbarment news.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the suspected gunman who fatally ambushed firefighters in MAGA Land Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, has been found dead; a second intelligence leak has undermined Trump’s ...
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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, Republicans have lost so much control at their hearings, even Melania got roasted by witnesses on live television.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Big Balls never left, he’s now embedded in the biggest agency Musk wants to break; Oregon’s only...
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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, well-known draft dodger Bone Spurs Krasnov says he’s a warrior for watching bombs drop, and he’ll disappear any reporter who reports he’s not more of a warrior than Eisenhower, that guy on PT-109 and all the those dead losers on batt...
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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, an exploding “F*** You!” Trump whistleblower bomb has exposed a lawless DOJ plot.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Stephen Miller’s push to have the FBI assist in the Trump administration’s ethnic cleansing has been put on ice; in response to...
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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, a key provision of the MAGA budget bill that sought to limit judicial power is dead.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s lawyers are trying to claim in court he doesn’t use a computer; home sales just posted their slowest May in sixteen year...
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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 dealt a stinging rebuke by the judge in the latest Garcia hearing.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE detained a Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; oil prices flip-flop and US stocks drift as Wall Stree...
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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, New Jersey governor candidate and former Navy lieutenant Mikie Sherrill, critiqued Trump’s military deployments to US cities.

Then, on the rest of the menu, first the states cut civics classes, now the Mississippi education board has axed the...
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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, Hegseth insists on “Peace Through Strength,” but several strong women senators tore him to pieces.

Then, on the rest of the menu, tech companies don’t want you to know how much energy AI uses; the MAGA Justice Department says the Harv...
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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, Senator Tina Smith confronted Christo-Nationalist MAGA Mike Lee for mocking the Minnesota assassination victims, who were also her personal friends.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Colorado shut down a state campaign finance site after the Minn...
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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, Trump’s cognitive issues continue being exposed as he is bullied into submission for his failures.

Then, on the rest of the menu, voters rebuked the MAGA-led Huntington Beach City Council effort to ban books; Noem’s not-so-secret boyfriend Le...
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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, the rightwing Georgia Supreme Court ruled against MAGA Republicans.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the former head of the Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs filed a federal lawsuit accusing Governor Kay Ivey of wrongful terminatio...
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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, Pam Bondi's brother was dealt a stunning defeat in the DC Bar election.

Then, on the rest of the menu, a Wisconsin lawsuit seeks to ban Elon Musk from ever again offering $1 million checks to voters for their votes; Louisiana lawmakers pass...
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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, over three hundred National Institute of Health employees have published the ‘Bethesda Declaration’ in dissent of Trump administration health policies.

Then, on the rest of the menu, RFK Jr’s top aide attacks the US health system while running...
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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, Gavin Newsom criticized Trump as “a stone-cold liar” after his call about the ICE invasion.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Washington state farmworkers fear retaliation and deportation for reporting sexual harassment to a key federal agency unde...
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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, Trump lost four court cases within hours of each other.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump’s surgeon general pick criticizes others’ conflicts but profits from wellness product sales that puts money in her own pocket; a jury awarded a Calif...
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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, a legal scholar schooled Josh Hawley during a Senate hearing on all these “commie judges ruling against Trump.”

Then, on the rest of the menu, instead of being gone in one hundred and thirty days, ‘Big Balls’ and other core DOGE brown...
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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, MAGA Mike was torn to shreds by his own party.

Then, on the rest of the menu, Musk’s DOGE goons left the US Institute of Peace they illegally tried to take over, full of cockroaches and pot; a Tennessee appeals court upheld the law from Rep...
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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 New York Bar Council is addressing a complaint about top Trump official Emil Bove by kicking it back to Trump’s DOJ.

Then, on the rest of the menu, ex-Homeland Security official Miles Taylor is fighting back against Trump’s ‘unprecedented’...
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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, Representative Daniel Goldman confronted plainclothes ICE agents who stormed his district office.

Then, on the rest of the menu, the New England Patriots were threatened with a MAGA boycott for a Pride flag display during Pride Month; Tulsa’s ne...
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