Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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If you live in or around Los Feliz and send your little person to daycare with a sack of organic carrots and a yoga mat, you might want to skip this segment. You're going to be disappointed in public radio.
If not, welcome to
, a hit Twitter feed run by comedy writer Jason Shapiro. It has 16,600 followers as of Thursday, and here's why:
Emmet was sent off on a meditation opportunity after telling Saha where the hidden cuts in Birdman are. It's all one take if you believe!
— Los Feliz Day Care (@LosFelizDayCare)
SILENT DROP OFF/PICK UP TODAY. New episode of
was released and silence is the only way to ensure that everyone feels spoiler safe.
— Los Feliz Day Care (@LosFelizDayCare)
SILENT DROP OFF/PICK UP TODAY. New episode of @serial was released and silence is the only way to ensure that everyone feels spoiler safe.
— Los Feliz Daycare (@LosFelizDaycare) October 23, 2014
Los Feliz Day Care (humanely) captures the neighborhood's helicopter parent zeitgeist, then skewers and roasts it like a tofu shish kebab — and in a way, the feed has a kind of echo of "Welcome to Nightvale."
Someone left the shed open and now we have skunks living in our cider press. Please explain that we can't name them. That's not for us to do
— Los Feliz Day Care (@LosFelizDayCare)
The kids' names are one of the best parts of the feed: Beckett, Tallulah, Ranger — but you'll have to listen to our interview to discover if little Kai is named for the handsomest man in public radio.