1. Luke Burbank was born on May 8,1976 and is an American radio host and podcaster who hosts the Portland, Oregon-based syndicated variety show Live Wire Radio and the Seattle-based former radio program and current podcast Too Beautiful to Live.
12 Facts About Luke Burbank
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Luke Burbank was most recently co-host of "The Ross and Burbank Show" and host of "The Luke Burbank Show" on Seattle's KIRO-FM radio station.
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Luke Burbank graduated with a communications degree from the University of Washington in 1998, with an emphasis on editorial journalism.
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Early in his radio career, Luke Burbank worked in Seattle as a producer for the conservative talk show host Kirby Wilbur as well as the public radio station's KUOW 94.9 FM local talk show The Conversation and the public radio show "Rewind".
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Later, Luke Burbank moved to Los Angeles, California, where he began booking appearances for the NPR program Day to Day and worked as an assignment reporter on shows All Things Considered and Morning Edition.
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Luke Burbank substituted as host for Peter Sagal for some weeks while Sagal finished his book, and has since guest-hosted when Sagal is on vacation.
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Luke Burbank spent two months as host of NPR's short-lived morning show The Bryant Park Project, an experiment in alternate programming by the network that aired on 13 public radio stations.
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Luke Burbank left the show in mid-December 2007 in order to spend more time with his daughter in Seattle.
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On October 26,2010, after one year off the KIRO airwaves, Luke Burbank joined The Dave Ross Show as co-host.
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On March 11,2013, Luke Burbank became the interim host for the syndicated public radio variety show Live Wire Radio.
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Luke Burbank previously appeared in a regular weekly segment titled "Awesome, Not Awesome" on the Madeleine Brand show on KPCC until its cancellation in September 2012.
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In September 2013, he starred in a Microsoft online video advertisement with his wife Carey Luke Burbank, which made headlines after it was pulled by the company less than 24 hours later following viewer backlash.