West Coast Cookbook & Speakeasy

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 was dealt a stinging rebuke by the judge in the latest Garcia hearing.Then, on the rest of the menu, ICE detained a Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby; oil prices flip-flop and US stocks drift as Wall Street waits for Iran’s reaction to Trump’s ‘Good Vibrations’ bombing attacks; and, Elon Musk announced plans to completely rewrite human knowledge itself after his AI chatbot Grok keeps clashing with his far-right worldview.After the break, we move to the Chef’s Table where Russian prosecutors asked for a 14.5-year prison sentence for a former deputy defense minister jailed on bribery charges; and, 639 employees of Voice of America, including employees at VOA’s Persian-language service, were issued layoff notices just before Trump’s Big Beautiful Bombing of Iran.All that and more, on We