Luke Burbank (Kaitlin Parker)

Originally broadcast on KIRO out of Seattle, TBTL proved true to its name. 

The station cancelled the show exactly one year ago, September 9, 2009.  Believing in their show and buoyed by their fans, Burbank and his team, producer Jen Andrews and sound engineer Sean DeTore, began broadcasting TBTL show out of Burbank’s living room. 

A year later, the crew’s quirky podcast, which they refer to as "imaginary radio," averages 1.5 million downloads a month.

Thursday night’s show was testament to their perseverence and resulting success. 

Topics on a typical episode of TBTL vary, but the trio frequently discusses funny or confusing aspects of everyday life in addition to offering a unique take on top news stories. 

The trend continued for the live show as Andrews shared the outrageous plots of romance novels she found in laundromats, and DeTore enlightened the audience on how to make a grilled cheese in a hotel room (hint: it involves an iron and a hair dryer).

A wide range of special guests added to the usual banter among the trio. 

Garfunkel and Oates sang with their trademark lyrical cleverness, Marc Maron of the WTF podcast waxed poetic on dental work, and Dana Gould discussed how Twitter has changed his joke-writing process. Santa Monica band, Princeton, provided another musical break, the hosts of the Dinner Party Download shared their favorite icebreakers, Jesse Thorn from the Voice of Young America suggested fashion tips for the questionably dressed, and Rob Corddry mused on the tricky intricacies of doctor-patient confidentiality. 

For fans of the podcast, known as “tens” (from back when the show numbered their listeners not in thousands or hundreds, but in tens), favorite regular segment AwesomeNotAwesome appeared as well. 

One fan, Pamela O’Riley, lives in Seattle and works for Southwest Airlines.  She flew down just for the event.

“I don’t know why I like these guys so much,” Riley said.  “They’re just so charming.”

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