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Garcetti's F-bomb: Off-Ramp's imagined mayoral interview
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Jun 17, 2014
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Garcetti's F-bomb: Off-Ramp's imagined mayoral interview
Off-Ramp's John Rabe, who sometimes makes things up, imagines what it might be like to talk with Mayor Eric Garcetti about dropping his first public obscenity.
Raising a beer to toast the team, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti used the F-bomb at the LA Kings victory rally
Raising a beer to toast the team, LA Mayor Eric Garcetti used the F-bomb at the LA Kings victory rally
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Off-Ramp's John Rabe, who sometimes makes things up, imagines what it might be like to talk with Mayor Eric Garcetti about dropping his first public obscenity.

On Monday, the mayor of our major world city dropped the F-bomb at a rally celebrating the L.A. Kings' Stanley Cup win, and since it wasn't Rob Ford, everyone took notice ... from KPCC's AirTalk to the L.A. Times to any 10-year-old who will learn quickly that just because the mayor did it, they can't do it.

Some said it was spontaneous. Some believed it was calculated to make him seem a man of the people. Some loved it. Some hated it.

RELATED: Garcetti drops F-bomb at Kings rally, becomes 'coolest mayor'

In an exclusive* interview, Off-Ramp's John Rabe imagines a talk with Mayor Eric Garcetti about dropping his first public F-bomb and whether he plans to use it in the future (click on the audio button on the left).

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