Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 01/21/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Hosted by:

dickenbock

Produced by:

KBOO

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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.

Topic tags:

Music

Genre(s):

Eclectic

Streams:

KBOO Stream 1

Program status:

Current

Self Help Radio 5/18/21: Stones

Airs at: Tue, 05/18/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: Self Help Radio

KBOO

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Self Help Radio 3/23/21: Tourism

Airs at: Tue, 03/23/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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"I have traveled a good deal in Concord," said Thoreau, who wasn't much of a tourist. In fact, I am not sure why I thought of that quote in relation to this episode of Self Help Radio, which was about tourism. Hm. The fate of tourism should we emerge from under the curren... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/16/21: Daggers

Airs at: Tue, 03/16/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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Be careful, this show has some sharp edges! Yes, this week's episode of Self Help Radio is about daggers. Which aren't quite knives. I suppose a dagger is a kind of knife, but all knives are not daggers. I think daggers are fancier. They have two sharp edges. If it's ... Read more