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West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Netroots Radio Team Shows
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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:
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West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 25 April 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!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, a court filing in Cannon’s court by Trump’s lawyer Chris Kise, now claims he is no longer free for two weeks, so she has to delay the trial a lot.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge ordered an anonymous jury for the trial of Steve Bannon associate Guo Wengui, citing his past acts; the “dumbest man on the internet,” Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft, will file for bankruptcy amid a slew of election conspiracy lawsuits; and, the first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the US is up and running at the Port of Oakland, California.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russia vetoed a UN resolution calling for the prevention of a dangerous nuclear arms race in space; and, a Peruvian judge ordered the preventative detention for an Iranian and two Peruvians in a thwarted plot to kill Israelis living 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 and Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 24 April 24fa
Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Smothered Benedict Wednesdays, is now available on the Spreaker Player!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Trump attorney Todd Blanche had a disastrous show cause hearing with Judge Merchan over Trump's gag order.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Justice Sotomayor sliced through the spin in the Grants Pass ‘make homelessness a crime’ case; Alabama lawmakers passed a bill that blocks state incentives to companies that voluntarily recognize unions; and, just in time for the election, Postmaster General DeJoy is committed to rerouting mail for processing so that letter delivery takes seven to ten days when it used to take two.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a far-right German EU lawmaker’s aide has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China; and, Japan’s moon lander wasn’t built to survive a weekslong lunar night, but it’s still going after three.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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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 people like you and me, onto our tables, in our kitchens and dining rooms and backyards.”
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West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 23 April 24fa
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, a key twist in Trump's 'catch and kill' scheme will be hard for him to explain away.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Minnesota and other Democratic-led states are marshaling the pushback on censorship by banning the book ban; Seattle Children’s Hospital won’t turn over gender-affirming care records in a lawsuit settlement with Texas; and, the Baltimore mayor and city council filed suit that the owner and manager of the massive container ship that took down the Francis Scott Key Bridge should be held fully liable for the deadly collapse.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where UK prosecutors charged two men with spying for China, including a parliamentary researcher; and, Elon Musk accused Australia of censorship after a Sydney court banned the violent video of a Bishop being stabbed.
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 and Speakeasy River City Hash Mondays 22 April 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 will face the witness he fears the most in his criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, legal action to ‘hollow out’ Brown v. Kansas Board of Education is moving at deliberate speed; the Los Angeles Police Department arrested a suspect for the break-in at the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass; and, after a recent exodus has left only a little more than a hundred obstetricians left in the state, an Idaho group is exploring a ballot initiative for abortion rights and reproductive care.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the public portion of the Panama Papers trial has come to an unexpectedly speedy end; and, two more mayoral candidates in Mexico were found dead late Friday night, bringing to seventeen the number of contenders slain in the lead-up to the June 2 election.
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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 and Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 19 April 24fa
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 filed a motion to exclude evidence of his own behavior at the Manhattan criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a top leader of Charlie Kirk’s national conservative group Turning Point Action, resigned after being accused of forging voter signatures on official paperwork so that he could run for reelection in the Arizona House; Alabama lawmakers advanced a bill to strengthen the state’s weak open records law; and, a hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow, has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group sabotaging small town infrastructure across the United States.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic warned their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections; and, a Tunisian journalist was sentenced to six months in prison for insulting an official.
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 and Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 18 April 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!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, Jared Kushner has made forty million dollars a year from the Gulf Arab States and their billions of investments in him, while zero of those dollars are going into American businesses or to help everyday Americans.
Then, on the rest of the menu, twenty-three Republican attorneys general attacked the Biden administration’s stated goal of pursuing environmental justice, calling it a form of “racial engineering;‘’ New Mexico voters for the first time can now sign up to receive absentee ballots permanently; and, a California lawmaker wants to require business owners and landlords to disclose their identities under legislation aimed at cracking down on questionable LLC’s.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Switzerland’s lower house moved to ban use of Nazi and extremist symbols that could stir violence; and, Australia prime minister Anthony Albanese said the French construction worker who stopped a man who stabbed six people to death from killing more shoppers in a Sydney shopping mall, is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes.
All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam.
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Customer Reviews
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Justice Putnam is an excellent host. Glad to have this new show to follow the other great Netroots Radio show ‘Kagro In The Morning’.
I miss the old show ‘The Aftershow’ with Wink and Justice but this will do for now;)
Keep up the great work