Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 07/09/2024 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 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

Self Help Radio 5/4/21: Blankets

Airs at: Tue, 05/04/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Finally! A radio program you can wrapped yourself in to keep warm! Or is that fair? Are radio waves - or sound waves coming from your computer - enough to blanket you in the same way your favorite cover might? Yes, we're overselling a bit. But there's a comfort, surely, in ... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/27/21: Indiepop A To Z # 65

Airs at: Tue, 04/27/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Every four months of so, Self Help Radio returns to a series begun way back in 2005, when it was a young show on a station in Austin.  It was an attempt to play in alphabetical order artists & bands who fit the genre definition of "indiepop" (the Wikipedia gets it right) pl... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/20/21: Paris

Airs at: Tue, 04/20/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This was a fun episode. Lots of songs about Paris, a city I have only visited once, but boy did I like it there. I hope to go again. Plus I reconnected with an old friend who married a Frenchman & now lives in Paris.  & I talked with an old friend who's Belgian who loves Pa... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/13/21: A Calm Show

Airs at: Tue, 04/13/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Could it be, after a year of pandemic, everything is now calm?  No, that's just this radio show.  It's mainly still chaos everywhere. This week on Self Help Radio we calmed the heck down & played tunes about things that are calm.  Sometimes we included things that are cool.... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/6/21: Sunflower

Airs at: Tue, 04/06/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
What? It's not sunflower season yet? Can I start planting them though? You bet I can! Self Help Radio planted three hours' worth of sunflowers on this show.  They're gonna grow big! Also, there were interviews & stuff - with artist Henry O'Rourke & with television host Dam... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/30/21: Cinnamon

Airs at: Tue, 03/30/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
The Self Help Radio Cinnamon Challenge - which is not the same as the "cinnamon challenge" you know about - is simply to listen to three hours of songs about cinnamon.  Can you?  Will you?  Do you dare? But wait!  It's not just songs.  We also speak with the host's spiritua... Read more