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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 Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 10 May 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, Trump’s lawyers crashed and burned with repeated failures during the trial yesterday.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the California Attorney General plans to stymie Trump with targeted lawsuits if he wins another term; Jackson and Josephine counties in Oregon will vote on measures to restructure local government in an attempt to thwart MAGA rule; and, severe solar storms are expected to trigger northern lights unusually far south, from California to Alabama, late Friday night.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where tens of thousands of protesters demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister over his unilateral decision to hand over control of border villages to Armenia’s long-time rival Azerbaijan; and, Vietnam’s arrest of a reformist labor official could disturb the ongoing bid for better trade terms with the US.
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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West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays 09 May 24
West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy is Now Open! 8am-9am PT/ 11am-Noon ET for our especially special Daily Specials, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays!
Starting off in the Bistro Cafe, the Georgia Court of Appeals granted review of the decision to leave Fani Willis as a prosecutor on the case.
Then, on the rest of the menu, a Michigan man has been charged for making explosives to target the Satanic Temple in Massachusetts; responding to a disturbance call, Florida deputies burst into the wrong apartment and fatally shot a Black US airman; and, a federal judge ruled Arkansas cannot prevent two teachers from discussing critical race theory in the classroom.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where another German politician was violently attacked by a right wing extremist that required treatment at a Berlin hospital; and, Mexico was hit by hours of rolling blackouts due to high temperatures and low power generation.
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 08 May 24
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, Judge Cannon’s luxury gift scandal grows.
Then, on the rest of the menu, Idaho prosecutors have declined to bring charges against a Coeur d’Alene eighteen year old for using the N word and threatening sexual violence against the University of Utah women’s basketball team earlier this year; the nation’s largest public utility ignored warnings its environmental review does not comply with federal law, and is moving forward with a new Tennessee natural gas plant, anyway; and, two professors are challenging an Indiana law that creates new regulations on faculty tenure at public colleges and universities.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where the governor of the Italian region surrounding the port city of Genoa, was placed under house arrest as part of a corruption investigation; and, the Poland Prime Minister called for a special meeting of the secret services to discuss Russian and Belarusian infiltration, after a Polish judge who had access to sensitive state information defected to Belarus.
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... -
West Coast Cookbook and Speakeasy Tarrytown Chowder Tuesdays 07 May 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, Cannon pulled a last-minute stunt to yet again delay Trump’s espionage trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, New York filed suit against a dozen anti-abortion groups for promoting false treatments to reverse medication abortions; the federal government fined a Tennessee-based sanitation company $650,000 for illegally hiring children to clean meat processing plants on the graveyard shift; and, after massive downpours flooded the state’s rivers and packed mountains with snow, California reported the first increase in groundwater supplies in four years.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where an American soldier was arrested in Russia and accused of stealing from his honey-pot girlfriend; and, Jordan stationed two firefighting helicopters in Cyprus to help as the summer fire season arrives.
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 06 May 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, while ruminating over the weekend of possibly being a key witness against Trump, Karen McDougal hinted at some major plans for his criminal trial.
Then, on the rest of the menu, the Justice Department warned it plans to sue Iowa over a new state immigration law; Boeing locked out its private firefighters around Seattle over a pay dispute; and, a federal lawsuit against Meta asks if Facebook users have the right to control their feeds using external tools.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where a candidate for Germany’s key party was beaten up by right wing thugs while campaigning for the European elections; and, the German foreign minister says Russia will face consequences for its monthslong cyber espionage campaign.
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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 03 May 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, Trump’s lawyer introduced into the court record something that Donald Trump never wanted to be made public.
Then, on the rest of the menu, southwest Washington state farmers called on Congress to keep conservation funding in the farm bill; some anti-vaxxer somewhere is going to complain that jackboot Long Beach, California officials declared a public health emergency after one person died and nine others were hospitalized due to a tuberculosis outbreak in the city; and, the former Republican Michigan House leader and his wife plead not guilty to misusing political funds.
After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where thousands rallied in Slovakia to protest a controversial overhaul of public broadcasting; and, the head of Greece’s extreme far-right Golden Dawn party was granted conditional early release from prison.
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"
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support.
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