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Off-Ramp for February 2, 2008
Off-Ramp with John Rabe Hero Image
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Dan Carino
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Episode 3598
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Off-Ramp for February 2, 2008

Former Daily Show Correspondent on Super Tuesday; Fast Food Dude on the State of the Union; Buy America; How To Get Around Saving; In the Spin Room; Young American; McCain's New Theme Song; Rally Maverick; Latino Vote; Bill Can't Stop Thinking About Yesterday; Ch-Ch-Changes; D.I.Y. T.V.; Super Bowl Past; Doo Dah; JPL Marks 50th Anniversary of the First U.S. Mission Into Space

Former Daily Show Correspondent on Super Tuesday; Fast Food Dude on the State of the Union; Buy America; How To Get Around Saving; In the Spin Room; Young American; McCain's New Theme Song; Rally Maverick; Latino Vote; Bill Can't Stop Thinking About Yesterday; Ch-Ch-Changes; D.I.Y. T.V.; Super Bowl Past; Doo Dah; JPL Marks 50th Anniversary of the First U.S. Mission Into Space

Dan Bakkedahl, formerly of the Daily Show, gives John his take on Super Tuesday.
Jeff Girod, who pens the Fast-Food Dude column in the Press-Enterprise, says you'll never learn anything about the nation from listening to the State of the Union.
Off-Ramp interns Jackson Musker and Christina Huh ask folks: What are you doing with your tax rebate?
John asks "President Bush" how do you make sure people spend their tax rebates? Three words: gift cards.
KPCC's Frank Stoltze gets dizzy in the spin room after the Republican debates in Simi Valley.
Barret Cone, friend of Bush (literally) and member of the Pepperdine University College Republicans, says the debates teach us to vote for a winner and not our conscience.
Off-Ramp airs a new McCain song that's not been endorsed by the candidate.
The Governator endorsed McCain for president at a solar panel factory in downtown. Attendee Jerome Ware was there but is voting for Hillary.
In the days before the Super Tuesday, Queena and Off-Ramp intern Grissel Espinoza take an informal poll of Latinos in Lincoln Park.
Off-Ramp intercepts a campaign call from the former "President."
Hugh Atkin made the original "Ch-Ch- Changes" video mash-up of the candidates
With Super Bowl Sunday upon us, KPCC's Senior News Editor Nick Roman remembers building his own antenna to watch the first big game.
Green Bay Packers' Paul Hornung and Max McGee are congratulated on their super championship by Bob Hope Desert Classic glamour court (from left) Janis Coble, Florence Del Gado and Diana Turner.
Off-Ramp host John Rabe with cult icon Count Smokula, in a back alley after the 31st Occasional Doo Dah Parade. Off-Ramp commentator Mimi Pond is at left, possibly putting $5 on Gallant Fox in the fifth at Santa Anita.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday honored the team that sent the first U.S. satellite into space 50 years ago. KPCC's Brooke Binkowski was there for the commemoration.