Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 01/07/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Hosted by: 
dickenbock
Produced by: 
KBOO
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Self Help Radio is not a self-help radio show. It might be something worse.

Each week host Gary explores a different theme with music & with talk. Guests are silly. The music is eclectic. It's kind of a mess.

Shows are archived here & also at the Self Help Radio website. There's a blog. There's Bluesky. There's Facebook.

Upcoming themes are on the website. Send ideas for those shows or themes to explore at gary at self help radio dot net or by text 971-319-4847.

Topic tags: 
Music
Genre(s): 
Eclectic
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Self Help Radio 12/7/21: Echoes

Airs at: Tue, 12/07/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Radio depends on sound. Sound is reproduced from a source & emanates from your radio. An echo is a copy of a sound bounced back from something like a wall or a mountain. Is a radio wave therefore an echo? No, but radio waves echo. Echo is a function of sound. I see I've los... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/30/21: Magda's Birthday Show 2021

Airs at: Tue, 11/30/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Who is this Magda? Why does she get a birthday show? She's the love of Self Help Radio host Gary's life, & every year Self Help Radio has existed, he has devoted a show to her on her birthday full of birthday songs. He doesn't repeat recordings - he may play covers of songs... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/23/21: Airports

Airs at: Tue, 11/23/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Airports are dreary places. A kind of purgatory between leaving & arriving. With often inexplicable art & commerce. & people in various states of anxiety. Doesn't that sound perfect for a radio show? This week's Self Help Radio delves into airport culture with music & inte... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/16/21: Socks

Airs at: Tue, 11/16/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
They're a popular gift.  They're a way to show support for things you love.  They absorb your foot sweat.  You may be wearing a pair right now.  They are socks.  & it's about damn time they got a radio show. Self Help Radio this week highlight & even celebrates socks.  In a... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/9/21: A Previously Aired Show

Airs at: Tue, 11/09/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Because of an emergency, Gary could not be here for tonight's show, so we are replaying the episode of Self Help Radio from May 25, 2021.  The theme was "IDM: The Early Years."  More information is available on the original show page. Many apologies, there will be a new ep... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/2/21: Vacations

Airs at: Tue, 11/02/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Operating under the misapprehension that most people take vacations in November, Self Help Radio this week is a show about vacations.  Or perhaps the show needs a vacation?  Are vacations a thing anymore? Certainly host Gary seemed a bit on vacation, as the show only had tw... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/26/21: Halloween 2021 - Pumpkins!

Airs at: Tue, 10/26/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
What is more essential to not just Halloween but the fall season than the magnificent pumpkin? This venerable fruit - first cultivated perhaps nine thousand years ago (!) - replaced potatoes & turnips as the vessel of choice for making jack o'lanterns when those stories fo... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/19/21: Radar

Airs at: Tue, 10/19/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
The show that is hardly ever on anyone's radar, &, when it is, quite quickly falls off their radar, had a show this week about radar. In addition to a history of radar, the host spoke with an archaeologist who uses Ground Penetrating Radar, as well as an inventor who develo... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/12/21: Eggs

Airs at: Tue, 10/12/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
The picture next to this paragraph is a painted easter egg collection owned by a neighbor of Self Help Radio's host Gary. They were painted on real eggs, perhaps decades ago, when the neighbor's kids were young.  Being store-bought, the eggs were unfertilized, & over time w... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/5/21: Sunlight (19th Anniversary Show)

Airs at: Tue, 10/05/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Self Help Radio may have rudely appeared, unkempt & unannounced, at KBOO late last year, but it has spent time on many radio stations in many places.  On October 9, 2002, it premiered on a station called KOOP in Austin, Texas.  Since then, it has been on stations in West Vi... Read more