Low Budget FM

Every Episode

Here’s every episode of Low Budget FM that we’ve got, era by era.

Mid-Life Crisis

July 2026 – present · 9 episodes

Seven years later, the mics are back on. New episodes, as they happen.

The Longest Dark July 2019 – July 2026
The Diamond Celebration: 10 Years of Excellence, over the San Diego skyline at night
The Diamond Celebration, 2017.

The Revival Season

January 2017 – July 2019 · 48 episodes

Marc and Tod return, carrying on as if the show had been on FM radio all along — until it gets thrown off the airwaves and has to be a podcast again. Nobody told the FCC about any of this.

2019 2

2018 11

2017 35

The Long Dark November 2013 – January 2017

The LBPR Run

August – November 2013 · 13 episodes

A short 2013 run in which the show declared war on public radio and lost. Includes the Sixteen Day Empire.

The Second Hiatus September 2012 – August 2013
Two hosts at the microphones, one holding up a championship belt
Back in the studio, 2012. Note the belt.

The Comeback

April – September 2012 · 17 episodes

Four months later they were back with This Is The Next Show. Marc, Cioffi and Salwin carried on like nothing had happened.

The First Hiatus December 2011 – April 2012
The Laxdude Memorial Studio: high-top table with mic booms, chairs, mixing gear, and a red boxing glove hanging by the window
The Laxdude Memorial Studio in Pico-Robertson.

The Pico-Robertson Era

January – December 2011 · 74 episodes

Displaced from their temporary accommodation in a loft above a living room, a new era begins in the show's Pico-Robertson adjacent studio, aka The Laxdude Memorial Studio, named as part of the crowdfunding campaign that paid for it.

December 2011 2

November 2011 2

October 2011 4

September 2011 6

August 2011 6

July 2011 6

June 2011 9

May 2011 9

April 2011 8

March 2011 11

February 2011 8

January 2011 3

Marc and Cioffi broadcasting live at BlogWorld 2010
On the air at BlogWorld, Las Vegas, 2010.

The Rotating Chair

June 2010 – January 2011 · 79 episodes

After Britt, the third chair kept rotating. Seena took her turns, John Salwin came back to ride the News Monster, and the show left the Barn for a temporary loft above the living room.

January 2011 2

December 2010 2

November 2010 10

October 2010 13

September 2010 12

August 2010 12

July 2010 13

June 2010 15

Marc at the mic in a bare-walled studio
The undisclosed location.

The Britt Season

April – June 2010 · 33 episodes

Britt held the third chair for a couple of months, and her run ended the way it had to: with an episode called Britt Out.

Marc & Cioffi

March – April 2010 · 20 episodes

Tod left and Cioffi moved into the co-host chair. A short stretch of the two of them figuring it out.

The Low Budget Barn: a bar table with microphones, mixers, a foosball table and a Raiders stool
The Low Budget Barn.

The Early Podcast: Marc & Tod

March 2009 – March 2010 · 239 episodes

KLSX went under in early 2009 and the show came back as a daily podcast. Marc and Tod hosted, John Salwin announced, and Mike Cioffi turned up more and more. Episode 263 was John Salwin's Last Show Ever. It turned out to be Tod's last show too.

March 2010 20

February 2010 19

January 2010 17

December 2009 16

November 2009 19

October 2009 18

September 2009 23

Marc and Tod on a red sectional couch beneath a large 'The Adam Carolla Podcast' logo on a white brick wall
Marc and Tod at the Adam Carolla Podcast studio.

August 2009 20

Salwin, Cioffi and Seena around a small table crowded with beer cans and bottles, mics in hand
Salwin, Cioffi and Seena at the 100th Showtacular recording.

July 2009 23

June 2009 22

May 2009 21

April 2009 17

March 2009 4

Marc and Tod at the mics in the 103.7 Free FM studio
Marc and Tod in the Free FM studio.

The Free FM Era

February – June 2007 · 18 episodes

An actual FM radio show on 103.7 FREE FM in San Diego. Marc and Tod had a real studio and a Saturday night slot, wedged in around the big FM Talk shows.