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Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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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.

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Self Help Radio 11/22/22: Bananas

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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It's time to go bananas!  Or go to someplace where it's okay to listen to a radio show about bananas, anyway. Too many songs about bananas plus we talk to a person named Bananas & to a person who's a fanatic about bananas, & also we talk about books about bananas & movies ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/15/22: Chains

Airs at: Tue, 11/15/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Chains bind, but they also protect. Chains enable machinery to work. Metaphorical chains keep us in places we don't want to be. & chains is the theme of this week's Self Help Radio. In addition to lots of songs about chains (including, as you can see below, sets about chain... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/8/22: Alice's Show

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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While we failed to find an Alice worth interviewing for this show, which is about all kinds of Alices, we hope we more than made up for it by presenting a plethora of songs about all kinds of Alices.  Please recommend to an Alice you know, unless you yourself are an Alice, ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/1/22: Infinity

Airs at: Tue, 11/01/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Sometimes it feels like Self Help Radio goes on way into infinity. This week that was the theme. Lots of songs about infinity.  Conversations with folks about various aspects of infinity.  If it seems like it might stretch off into forever, just remember: it's only three h... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/25/22: Halloween 2022 - Spiders!

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Self Help Radio kicks off Halloween week 2022 with a spooky show about spiders!  Those creepy crawly sometimes deadly eight-legged not-insects that people say we should keep in our houses because they eat insects.  But we know better!  The webs they weave are to catch you &... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/18/22: Paralyzed

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Noticing, as a deejay might, there were lots of songs called "Paralyzed," I decided that might be an interesting theme to cover.  The songs of course usually use the word metaphorically, so any actual damage to one's nervous system is not discussed or covered in this show. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/11/22: Trampolines

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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A radio show about trampolines?  That seems silly. Maybe it is, but here's three hours of groovy tunes about trampolines plus! An interview with something who checks the safety of trampolines.  With a trampoline enthusiast.  With a concerned protestor of trampolines.  & wit... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/4/22: 1970 Revisited - The 20th Anniversary Show!

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Though it has only been on KBOO for a couple of years, Self Help Radio began in October 2002 in Austin, Texas, on a station called KOOP.  A community radio station like KBOO, it also had in its call letters one K & two Os. Twenty years later, Self Help Radio celebrates its ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/27/22: Sizes

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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It wasn't a large episode of Self Help Radio.  It wasn't a small episode of Self Help Radio.  It wasn't a medium episode of Self Help Radio.  It was all sizes of Self Help Radio! Music about sizes plus interview with: the tallest person in America; the owner of a shop for ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/20/22: Fixes

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Radio probably can't fix anything, but Self Help Radio had a show about fixes.  Look at all the music below!  Plus interviews with a former fixer, the owner of the new restaurant Fixings, the TikTok star who makes How To Fix Your Life videos, & the political commentator who... Read more