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 7/20/21: 1985 Continued

Airs at: Tue, 07/20/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
In a previous show - why, it's this one here! - Self Help Radio featured my favorite music from 1985.  The reasons are explained on the page linked, but perhaps we can also explain it here: On shows around the time of its host's birthday, Self Help Radio explores its favor... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/13/21: Volcanoes

Airs at: Tue, 07/13/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Hot on the heels of a show about disaster, in which Self Help Radio refused to get specific about any one particular disaster, is a program about one particular disaster: volcanoes. To be fair, volcanoes are only a disaster to humans & other life that might be near them wh... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/6/21: Disaster!

Airs at: Tue, 07/06/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Is it courting disaster to make a radio show about disaster?  Asking for a radio friend. While we certainly do not believe that a radio show can call damage down to itself or to its listeners, we still have a vague, uncertain feeling that coincidence isn't quite what it se... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/29/21: It's Cool

Airs at: Tue, 06/29/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It was hot.  So very hot.  Record-breaking hot.  Like, you go outside & it's so hot you die.  Some people actually died it got so hot!  & this is Portland, not Phoenix! Self Help Radio knew what it had to do.  The power of broadcasting had to be utilized for good, not heat... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/22/21: Mania

Airs at: Tue, 06/22/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This week Self Help Radio looks at mania - both as a condition & in the sense of "craze" or "fad" - plus we specifically examine some manias - like pyromania & megalomania - & we also the use of the hyperbolic "maniac" for several songs. It's at this point that it may need ... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/8/21: On The Moon + Mommyheads Interview

Airs at: Tue, 06/08/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's like two radio shows in one! The first hour is an interview with Adam Elk of the Mommyheads along with many Mommyheads tunes & four recordings he made just for the show. The last two hours finds Self Help Radio as the first radio show on the moon.  It was cold & lonel... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/1/21: An Important Show

Airs at: Tue, 06/01/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Yes, I know, it's a little pathetic to watch me pretend my show is important. I can't even pretend! Most everything I do is unimportant so naturally I wanted to call this "the unimportant show" though that would also be redundant. No, this show was important because I play... Read more

Self Help Radio 5/25/21: IDM - The Early Years

Airs at: Tue, 05/25/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
While I am a big fan of pretty electronica, this show was something of a cheat - I was out of town for the weekend & didn't have the time to be able to put together the regular Self Help Radio experience. IDM stands for "intelligent dance music" & the Wikipedia defines it a... Read more

Self Help Radio 5/18/21: Stones

Airs at: Tue, 05/18/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
  Is it fair to consider a radio show to be "stoned"?  But the show was entirely about stones!  & there wasn't a geologist or petrologist to help!     Lots of songs about stones, chosen from an impossible list - seriously, there were hundreds - so you may not hear your f... Read more

Self Help Radio 5/11/21: Mom

Airs at: Tue, 05/11/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Hot on the heels of Mother's Day comes a show more informally for Mom. As explained in the show, host Gary lost his mother last year (that's her in the wedding photo there, lightly desecrated with the SHR logo), & a memorial hasn't been possible thanks to the pandemic. But ... Read more