Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 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 2/21/23: Wrecks

Airs at: Tue, 02/21/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Greetings from the Self Help Radio Wrecking Yard. You always knew the show was a wreck, you didn't know it always has been! Please enjoy a self-reflective Membership Drive show about wrecks, featuring lots of music plus interviews with an unlucky Portland couple that's alwa... Read more

Self Help Radio 2/14/23: Valentine's Day 2023 - True Love

Airs at: Tue, 02/14/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's Valentine's Day! Enjoy a show all about true love! Plus! A conversation with librarian Carole about books about true love! As well as with cinephile Chuck about films featuring true love! Also! I talk to several friends - all more romantic than I - about true love! Ha... Read more

Self Help Radio 2/7/23: Speech

Airs at: Tue, 02/07/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Originally conceived as a show full of speeches, this episode of Self Help Radio decided to examine all kinds of speech - including speeches but also things like figures of speech & parts of speech. There's a lot of music of course but there are guests too: I speak with mem... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/31/23: Greed

Airs at: Tue, 01/31/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A radio show about greed! But not a greedy show - it didn't go beyond its alloted time. What it did do is play lots of songs about greed, talked to several people - the daughter of the greediest man in America, an ethicist who studies greed, & a writer who writes of the "g... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/24/23: Examples

Airs at: Tue, 01/24/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This is an example of a radio show - a show called Self Help Radio. In case you needed an example. There are many examples within the example - for example, the show has an example of something that never happens on the show. Perhaps you learn by example. Perhaps you need t... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/17/23: 1987

Airs at: Tue, 01/17/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's a tradition as old as Self Help Radio - every year around the time of my birthday, I, Gary (the hose of the show), play music from a year in my life. The first Self Help Radio that happened around my birthday was in 2003, & I played some of my favorite music from 1968,... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/10/23: Napping

Airs at: Tue, 01/10/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Midnight to 3am on a Tuesday morning may seem like an odd time to take a nap but remember: any time is a good time to take a nap. Even in the middle of the night. What else are you going to do? Sleep? This week's show features lots of songs about naps plus some conversation... Read more

Self Help Radio 1/3/23: The Dawn

Airs at: Tue, 01/03/2023 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's the dawn of a new year, so Self Help Radio's first theme of 2023 is "the dawn." Because of the recent power outage at the station, I had to scramble to put this together at home & record it, so it's mainly lots of music. It also does not appear to be archived here, so... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/27/22: Indiepop A To Z # 70

Airs at: Tue, 12/27/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Many years ago, many miles away, at a community radio station in Austin, Texas, using a basic outline from the website twee.net, I undertook to play in alphabetical order bands & musicians that fit the genre of "indiepop."  (See the Wikipedia definition.)  Being too ambitio... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/20/22: One Last Very Self Help Radio Christmas

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Though Self Help Radio has been on KBOO for only a couple of years, it has been around since 2002.  Every year starting then, there's been a Self Help Radio Christmas show called A Very Self Help Radio Christmas.  This is the twentieth installment. It's also the last one. ... Read more