Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 05/07/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Hosted by: 
dickenbock
Produced by: 
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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 Twitter. 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 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

Self Help Radio 9/28/21: Doors

Airs at: Tue, 09/28/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
In anticipation of this show, the host (Gary) counted all the doors in his home.  He decided against counting the refrigerator door, cabinet doors, closet doors, appliance doors, or other small doors that may exist - because there are lots of doors.  Instead, he focused on ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/21/21: Borders

Airs at: Tue, 09/21/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
When the host of Self Help Radio was a child, he somehow came to believe that railroad tracks were the borders of cities.  It seemed logical to him that a city would be encircled with railroad tracks.  As such, whenever he was in a car, & the car went over railroad tracks, ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/14/21: Dare

Airs at: Tue, 09/14/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Can you make radio on a dare?  Should you?  How daring is it to play three hours of songs that feature one kind of dare or another?  Does who dares, win?  How dare you!  Do you dare?  I daresay you do! In addition to all the songs you see listed below, the show features an ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/7/21: One Night Only

Airs at: Tue, 09/07/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
For one night only!  Songs about one night & only one night on Self Help Radio! A brief correction: this is not the one night that Self Help Radio is on KBOO.  We apologize for getting the hopes up of many listeners.  Rather, this is the only night the theme "one night onl... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/31/21: Indiepop A To Z # 66

Airs at: Tue, 08/31/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Every four months Self Help Radio returns to a series started quite long ago somewhat far away at a different radio station.  The whats & whys are discussed on the show.  Suffice it to say, it's a strange obsession but we sure like the music! The show's 66th installment co... Read more