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The Last Hurrah of Tom LaBonge - Off-Ramp for June 20, 2015
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Episode 11658
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The Last Hurrah of Tom LaBonge - Off-Ramp for June 20, 2015

We tour the district with outgoing City Councilman Tom LaBonge; we get a preview of an exciting new podcast; we get a distaff view of "Inside Out;" and hear what it was like to be a kid on the set of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

The LaBonge family dog wasn't impressed with us.
The LaBonge family dog wasn't impressed with us.
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Maybe this dog will get more scritching when LaBonge is out of office
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We tour the district with outgoing City Councilman Tom LaBonge; we get a preview of an exciting new podcast; we get a distaff view of "Inside Out;" and hear what it was like to be a kid on the set of "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

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Lake fire forces evacuation of Camp de Benneville Pines, a retreat and conference center run by the Unitarian-Universalist Association for more than half a century.
This week's song is “I Wanna Lose Control” by Gary Wilson.
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To mark his final days in office, City Councilman Tom LaBonge gives Off-Ramp a tour of his district, and many LaBongian things happen.
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Madeline Stuart, daughter of Mel Stuart, the director of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, on inspiring the movie, acting in the picture, and how nasty kids can be.
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Everybody loves Pixar movies. Everybody loves 'Inside Out,' its newest movie. Everybody except Off-Ramp contributor R.H. Greene.
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We celebrate the new Eames Anthology with an interview with the editor and an Eames grandchild ... inside the Eames House in the Palisades.
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UC Riverside researcher Rick Vetter has spent decades studying the much-maligned brown recluse spider.