West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy Smothered Benedict Wednesdays 31 Dec 25

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, Trump is having a psychotic meltdown at Perv-A-Lago after going radio silent on social media for forty-eight hours.Then, on the rest of the menu, Pam Bondi shared and then deleted a graph showing a steep drop in drug overdose deaths after she was busted trying to give the Trump administration credit for progress made under Joe Biden; California has delayed revoking seventeen thousand commercial driver’s licenses until March after legal immigrants sued; and a judge has ordered a new trial for an Alabama woman who was sentenced to eighteen years in prison following a stillbirth.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Finnish authorities seized a vessel from the Russian Shadow Fleet after damage to an undersea telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland; and, Pakistan’s polio cases fell by half in 2025 despite death squad attacks on vaccination teams.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!“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.