Off-Ramp with John Rabe

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Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed... more

Meet Milton Love, the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Sea

Off-Ramp commentator Milton Love, an eminent marine biologist at UC Santa Barbara, is also a great storyteller. And this time,... more

31 Jan 2023 · 6 minutes

Flu v Covid ... The eerie parallels between LA's responses to the 1919 and 2020 pandemics

In 2015 Michael Holland, the LA City Archivist, dug into his files to explore how the city reacted to the... more

21 Jan 2023 · 5 minutes

Larry Davis: tears in his beer led to singing career - at 74!

"My whole approach is to have a conversation with the listeners. The words have to mean something to me." ... more

28 Dec 2022 · 7 minutes

A Christmas Carol ... the old time radio version, and some new takes on the Dickens classic

Off-Ramp's Chistmas present to you is our annual holiday special, A Christmas Carol Redux, which combines the old time radio... more

23 Dec 2022 · 40 minutes

Happy 100th Maila Nurmi. Listen to a full-length radio documentary celebrating one of the most remarkable women in TV -- "Vampira"

In 1954, Maila Nurmi shocked the world as sexy horror host Vampira on KABC. She rocketed to national, then worldwide... more

13 Dec 2022 · 49 minutes

David Dean Bottrell is a charming warning to little kids: Don't be greedy little Christmas pigs!

"I would run my sticky fingers across images that seemed to be beamed from some magical, alternative universe where... more

09 Dec 2022 · 8 minutes

One late King of Food helps us remember another: Jonathan Gold on the legacy of King Taco

Sure, there had been tacos al pastor before he did them, but after the popularity of King Taco, everybody had tacos... more

01 Dec 2022 · 7 minutes

A rite of passage for LA journos: Rabe recounts his angry phone call from Harlan Elllison

In 2013, I visited an utterly charming and impish Harlan Ellison at his remarkable home and talked at length with... more

25 Nov 2022 · 19 minutes

How Leonard Nimoy found peace with Spock, himself, and his son Adam

From 2016, let's listen back to my interview with Adam Nimoy, who had just released "For the Love of Spock,"... more

18 Nov 2022 · 12 minutes

"My grandpa survived the USS Indianapolis," says Kevin Ferguson ... California's last WW1 vet ... and Rabe rides a B-24

For Veteran's Day 2022, we're listening back to three pieces from the Off-Ramp archive. Tamara Keith, now with NPR, talks... more

10 Nov 2022 · 20 minutes

Meet Milton Love, the Neil deGrasse Tyson of the Sea

Off-Ramp with John Rabe