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Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2026 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 on 2/1/22: Tambourines

Airs at: Tue, 02/01/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Yes, indeed, a radio show about tambourines.  It will not surprise you that you will hear a few tambourines on the show as well.  Singing about tambourines might make one want to play the tambourine, for emphasis. & so, lots of songs about tambourines.  Plus, interviews -... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/25/22: Darkness

Airs at: Tue, 01/25/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It was dark out, let's have a show about darkness! If it were only that simple.  While it's true that tonight Self Help Radio celebrates darkness, it's not for something so glib.  Instead, it's a celebration of the realization that the darkness in Portland - by virture of... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/18/22: 1969

Airs at: Tue, 01/18/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Every year around his birthday, Self Help Radio's host plays a selection of his favorite music from a certain year.  The first time there was a Self Help Radio on his birthday week - in 2003 (the show began in October 2002 in Austin, Texas) - he chose to play music from ... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/11/22: Logs

Airs at: Tue, 01/11/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Yes, a radio show about logs.  Not something you were expecting, was it?  Outside of a few lumberjacks - maybe some loggers - & a few of those folks who drive those giant trucks that deliver the logs - who wants to hear a radio show about logs? We can't answer that, but... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/4/22: A Handsome Show

Airs at: Tue, 01/04/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
While it's quite normal for a theme-based radio show to focus on subjects that are nouns, which is to say, persons, places, or things, Self Help Radio often decides to focus on the often-ignored adjective.  In this spirit, we present to you a handsome show. Why not just... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/28/21: Indiepop A To Z # 67

Airs at: Tue, 12/28/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's another installment of the probably never-ending series!  Lots of delightful indiepop bands played in alphabetical order with only brief interruptions!  If you're not familiar with the genre (read the Wikipedia definition here) this may be a good introduction! & if... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/21/21: A Very Self Help Radio Christmas 2021

Airs at: Tue, 12/21/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Christmas! Radio! Christmas radio show! The folks at Self Help Radio (well, there's only one, that Gary guy) believe every deejay is allowed one Christmas show a year.  No more!  & so one should make it count. With that in mind, in addition to many new Christmas & holiday... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/14/21: Gary's Favorite Music 2021

Airs at: Tue, 12/14/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This one's pretty self-explanatory.  Host Gary plays a selection of some of his favorite music of the year.  It's one of those "end of the year" things. Please note: it's not a "best of" list.  Gary doesn't believe anyone has the authority to decide what's best in subject... Read more

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 ... 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 so... Read more