West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

About 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 (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

Publisher

Roy Justice Putnam

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2022

Latest episode

23 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1,151 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Oct 2026

   West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Blue Moon Spirits Fridays 23 Oct 26

   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, the “poster child” of the Trump DOJ’s big voter fraud bust (https://youtu.be/V4dX6g3djMU?si=hCKOQiwEBsLhY96M) in California is a registered Republican. Then, on the rest of the menu, SpaceX has a “CoreWeave problem” (https://www.inc.com/bethany-mclean/spacex-earnings-coreweave-problem-elon-musk-ai-stocks/91423907) and no one is talking about it; Jared Kushner’s Russian phone hacking scandal (https://www.rawstory.com/jared-kushner-2678132691/) denial backfired spectacularly as Dems demand answers ‘under oath”; and, the MAGA SCOTUS did MAGA a large by banning Student ID’s (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/politics/supreme-court-new-hampshire-election-student-id.html) at the polls in New Hampshire. After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table) where the Trump-allied Colombian president (https://apnews.com/article/colombia-de-la-espriella-museums-protests-donald-trump-8714ccf59770ca2e60e39d8568a50dde) has sparked massive protests by spearheading a cultural “counterrevolution” that removed dozens of “communist” art exhibits from the National Museum; and, the Philippines (https://apnews.com/article/philippines-senator-ronald-dela-rosa-rodrigo-duterte-international-criminal-court-f749df2a99be0bfb6dd2876cb2ac19ec) announced a bounty on a senator wanted by the ICC for crimes against humanity. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook) with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam (https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio). Bon Appétit! The Netroots Radio Live Player (https://www.netrootsradio.com/) Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365! (http://patreon.com/netrootsradio) “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 (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

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   23 Oct 2026

   West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Metro Shrimp and Grits Thursdays 22 Oct 26

   Today’s West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Podcast for our especially special Daily Special, Metro Shrimp & Grits Thursdays is now available on the Spreaker Player! Then, on the rest of the menu, a federal judge (https://www.washingtonsun.com/legal/judge-restricts-dhs-question-noncitizens-voting-history) restricted federal agents’ time tunnel to 1930’s Nazi Germany to question suspected noncitizen voters at their homes; the MAGA State Department (https://www.washingtonsun.com/administration/state-foreign-service-officers-voting-history-interview-promotion) illegally asked Foreign Service officers up for promotion whether they voted for Trump; and, the DOJ’s new fraud whistleblower scheme (https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-dojs-fraud-snitch-scheme-instantly-backfires?utm_source=twitter_owned_snd&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=owned_social) has instantly backfired, with Americans bombarding it with demands to investigate Donald Trump. After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table) where governments and businesses in Kenya, the Netherlands, Germany (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/world/php-vulnerability-websites-cybersecurity-ai.html), and elsewhere, scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in the still widely-used PHP programing language; and, angry Finland (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre) government officials called it ‘pure arrogance’ that Google illegally chopped down over a quarter million trees and scraped all the top soil away for a thousand acre datacenter. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook) with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam (https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio). Bon Appétit! The Netroots Radio Live Player (https://www.netrootsradio.com/) Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7/365! (http://patreon.com/netrootsradio) “Everyone in this good city enjoys the full right to pursue their own inclinations in all reasonable and, unreasonable ways.” — The Daily Picayune, New Orleans, March 5, 1851 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

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   21 Oct 2026

   West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 21 Oct 26

   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, a prosecutor drops some bad news (https://youtu.be/QzGx6uOBAFI?si=OtbmDP3QiEVwZRXc) on Vivek amid his dirty ad scandal. Then, on the rest of the menu, Trump takes another swing at California’s Medicaid (https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/california-medicaid-payments-freeze) program by freezing $1.2 billion in federal Medicaid payments to the state; the shocking scale of the Trump DOJ Goon Squad’s desperate judge purge (https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheat-sheet#shocking-scale-of-trump-goons-desperate-minnesota-judge-purge-exposed) has been exposed; and, federal and state investigators are probing the Bend, Oregon’s gunman’s connection to violent right wing extremist groups (https://www.opb.org/article/2026/10/20/investigators-probe-bend-gunmans-connection-to-violent-extremist-groups/), including one tied to Russian intelligence. After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chef%27s_table) where a vocal critic of the Rwandan government (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/world/africa/rwandan-beheaded-uganda-kabera.html) has been found beheaded in Uganda; and, Albanian police (https://apnews.com/article/albania-protests-riots-rama-kushner-tirana-76658d03cf1d00656c27ceabb7151b0a) clash with anti-government protesters for an eighth day. All that and more, on West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy (https://www.tumblr.com/blog/westcoastcookbook) with Chef de Cuisine Justice Putnam (https://www.facebook.com/justice.putnam/about?lst=100000976927347%3A100000976927347%3A1522681460&section=bio). Bon Appétit!The Netroots Radio Live Player (https://www.netrootsradio.com/) Keep Your Resistance Radio Beaming 24/7 (https://patreon.com/netrootsradio?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink)/365! “It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.” – Eliza Acton ‘Modern Cookery for Private Families’ (1845) Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support (https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/west-coast-cookbook-speakeasy--2802999/support?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss).

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7 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 63 / 100

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