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Airs at: Tue, 12/31/2024 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 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.

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Self Help Radio 12/24/24: Gary's Favorite Music Of 2024

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Please don't think of this as a "best of." I think whatever music you like best is what's best for you. This is just a lot of my favorite music of the year. The only criteria I have is that I seemed to listen to these records a lot. It indicates to me that I liked them a lo... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/17/24: Howard Gently Year Three, Concluded

Airs at: Tue, 12/17/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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On this week's show, I continued to pay tribute to an old friend & collaborator who appeared on Self Help Radio in improvised bits as The Rev Dr Howard Gently. These are the 67th-78th appearances of Howard Gently, from 2016 & 2017. It's not quite the end of his third year -... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/10/24: Hobos

Airs at: Tue, 12/10/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Perhaps you don't see as many hobos as one used to but for some reason there were a lot of them on KBOO on Tuesday morning. Yes, Self Help Radio had a show about hobos with probably too many hobo songs, plus guests - a sociologist looking for the king of the hobos, a local ... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/3/24: A Steady Show

Airs at: Tue, 12/03/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Yes. It's one of those episodes of Self Help Radio where I play lots of songs with a particular word in them. The word this time is steady. I do write about why I pick these themes, altho it's really not all that exciting. So there were lots of steady tunes plus I talked to ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/26/24: Magda's Birthday Show 2024

Airs at: Tue, 11/26/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Magda is my wife. Every year around the time of her birthday, I dedicate an entire show to her by playing birthday songs. I do my best not to repeat recordings so there are lots of new birthday songs on the show today. But do you have a birthday this year? Have you had a bir... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/19/24: Parasites

Airs at: Tue, 11/19/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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A caller during the show asked me if the theme was parasites because all of the parasites descending on our nation's capital at the moment. Sadly, these shabby shows of mine are planned somewhat far in advance. But if it helps the enjoyment, you can think that! It's a show ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/12/24: Shotgun

Airs at: Tue, 11/12/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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When a listener asked me if I had ever done a Self Help Radio episode about guns, I said nope. I said it was too general a topic. (I didn't say I wasn't particularly interested in it.) But this listener persisted & I asked if they had a favorite gun. Apparently they did - a... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/5/24: A Mental Health Day

Airs at: Tue, 11/05/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Hey I've been pretty anxious about the election so instead of making a regular dumb Self Help Radio episode I just played a lot of music - music I might not normally play on Self Help Radio. & all of it's new! Hopefully the news tonight won't be so terrible & I'll have the ... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/29/24: Halloween 2024 - Scarecrows!

Airs at: Tue, 10/29/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
You don't have to be a crow to be scared of scarecrows. Those creepy mock humans in cast-off clothing just sitting out there in the fields day in & day out - they must cause farmers nightmares! They are therefore a perfect subject for this year's Halloween show! In addition... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/22/24: Kaleidoscopes

Airs at: Tue, 10/22/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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As a kid I loved kaleidoscopes. & of course I took them apart. In the 1960s & later, when certain kinds of drugs made you see the world like a kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopes started appearing in songs. This week's Self Help Radio features lots of songs about kaleidoscopes plus ... Read more