Live Wire with Luke Burbank

Live Wire Radio is an independently produced radio show that artfully blends unpredictable conversation, live music, and original comedy featuring all types of cultural talent and creative minds, from emerging artists to established acts. Join host Luke Burbank and announcer Elena Passarello for a live recording of this popular radio show, heard nationwide by thousands of listeners every weekend. 

Featured Guests:

Sam Sanders is an award-winning reporter, radio host and podcaster. He hosted the hit show Into It from Vulture. He was also a founding creator and host of NPR’s It’s Been a Minute and NPR Politics. He currently co-hosts the beloved show Vibe Check from SiriusXMs. He has interviewed luminaries ranging from JLo to Maya Rudolph to Beto O’Rourke to Malcolm Gladwell. His writing has appeared in New York Magazine, Politico Magazine, and The Washington Post.

Sam Miller is a nationally touring comedian from Olympia, Washington. At 6’6” and 360 pounds, he’s hard to miss—just like his comedy. A recovering addict with 15 years of sobriety, Sam’s stand-up dives into fatherhood, addiction, and what jails are like in Yakima. His debut album Round Trip hit #1 on iTunes and was produced by Grammy-winner Dan Schlissel under Stand Up! Records. He’s been heard by millions on The Bob & Tom Show, written for Newsweek, and performed nationwide, including The Laugh Factory Chicago and NA/AA conventions. He was runner-up in the 2021 Seattle International Comedy Competition.

Kuinka “laces modern folk and Americana with an electronic jolt, waltzing along the grooved edges of dream-pop, synth-pop, and Brooklyn’s mid-aughts guitar-rock revival” (Vanyaland). Their genre-defying music features several different lead singers, four-part harmony, and eclectic instrumentation. For all of their sonic experimentation, the Seattle group’s songs and live shows are linked by an infectious energy that remains present in everything they do. 

Gabe Henry is the author of ENOUGH IS ENUF, a “smart, lighthearted chronicle of the simplified spelling movement” (The Wall Street Journal) and its many failed attempts to change laugh to laf, though to tho, and love to luv (tu naim a few). Henry’s work has appeared in TIME, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, US News & World Report, and more. He has spent more than a decade exploring the strange history of simplified spelling, which, by his own admission, has only made him a worse speller.

 

$5 Arts For All – Oregon Trail or SNAP Benefit Card required for admission with Arts for All Tickets. For more details about the Arts for All program, visit: https://racc.org/artsforall/ 

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Doors open at 6:30

Guests subject to change.