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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.

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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

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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 14 June 24

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 14 June 24

    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, striking back at Trump, Fulton County DA Fani Willis filed a Motion to Dismiss his appeal to remove her as prosecutor, that could lead to the case being sent back to the trial judge in time for setting a trial before November.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, educational material from propaganda chop shop PragerU is now taught in public schools in six states; top executives of a California-based online mental health company were arrested in a $100 million dollar scheme to improperly prescribe Adderall during the pandemic; and, a MAGA attorney charged in connection with an effort to illegally access and tamper with voting machines in Michigan after the 2020 election, said that he’s running for the state’s high court.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leader of Armenia declared his intention to pull out of a Russia-dominated security alliance as tensions rise between the two allies; and, unseasonably extreme heat forced Greek authorities to shut down the Acropolis during the afternoon hours for a second day in a row.


    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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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Mertro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 13 June 24

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Mertro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 13 June 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!​

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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner’s dark past resurfaces and MAGA is working hard to cover it up, again.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the leaders of Oregon’s two Planned Parenthood affiliates have temporarily delayed their effort to dissolve the organization’s political arm; the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled unanimously the MAGA Superintendent of Public Instruction and the state Department of Education overstepped their authority to force schools to ban books; and, intelligence officials say the presidential election is a prime target for foreign disinformation.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Slovakia plans to boost protection for politicians after the assassination attempt on its populist premier; and, a Russian woman has been detained and questioned in Denmark for helping a foreign intelligence agency operate in the country.








    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 his own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.”

    -- The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851










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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 12 June 24fa

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 12 June 24fa

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

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    Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Cannon’s latest efforts to aid Trump and avoid any Mar a Lago espionage act trial this year accidentally exposed her own errors.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal appeals court upheld the California law banning gun shows at county fairs; the Virginia NAACP sued a county school board over its reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools; and, the lead singer of the Four Tops sued a Detroit-area hospital for restraining him and ordering a psychological exam after refusing to believe that he was one of the Four Tops.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where French opposition parties on the left and right are seeking alliances ahead of the snap elections called by President Macron; and, the government of the Central African Republic suspended a Chinese mining company’s operations in the country, accusing it of cooperating with armed militias.


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

    Bon Appétit!

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    "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...

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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 11 June 24

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 11 June 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, the decision by the right wing Georgia appellate court to stop the continued prosecution of Trump until they issue their appellate ruling raises serious questions.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, voting technology company Smartmatic subpoenaed four Fox Corporation board members as part of its $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News; a Federalist Society judge in Texas halted a federal disaster aid program for minority farmers because it discriminated against white farmers; and, the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission unanimously chose a Democratic member as chair for the next two years.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Czech authorities suspect that Russia may have been behind last week’s attempt to set Prague public transportation buses on fire; and, Hungary Prime Minister Orbán’s party showed its weakest performance in European Union elections since joining the bloc twenty years ago.


    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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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 10 June 24

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 10 June 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 allies, Kenneth Chesebro, James Troupis and Michael Roman, were charged with felony forgery in the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors scheme.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, a Georgia congressional candidate convicted for his participation in the January 6 insurrection, walked out of a televised debate on Sunday ahead of a June 18 primary runoff; an Indiana Christian group teaching Bible instruction to public school students during classroom hours, says it will triple its programs in the state this fall after new legislation forced school districts to comply; and, New Haven, Connecticut dedicated an immigrant monument in the square where Christopher Columbus statue was removed.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Norway’s sovereign wealth fund said it will vote against Elon Musk’s hefty CEO compensation package during Tesla’s annual meeting on Thursday; and, the assault on the Danish prime minister over the weekend is the latest in a recent spate of attacks on European politicians.















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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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    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 June 24

    West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 07 June 24

    Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Blue Moon Spirits Fridays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!


    S​​​​​tarting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump’s train wreck of a speech in 118 degree heat in Arizona sent over fifty people to the hospital.

    Then, on the rest of the menu, the only Black head team doctor in the NFL has filed suit alleging racial discrimination; an appeals court ruled eight books dealing with racism and transgender issues must be returned to library shelves in a rural Texas county that had removed them; and, Eugene Meyer, the longtime president of the Federalist Society, announced his retirement.

    After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the United States imposed sanctions on dozens of Georgian officials in response to the enactment of a law that will curb media freedom; and, a French citizen was arrested in Moscow on charges of collecting military data.


    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"




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