Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 05/07/2024 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.

Topic tags: 
Music
Genre(s): 
Eclectic
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Self Help Radio 8/24/21: Catenary Wires Interview/Holograms

Airs at: Tue, 08/24/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
On this very special episode of Self Help Radio - Self Help Radio doesn't begin until about ninety minutes in. You see, I had the opportunity to talk with Amelia Fletcher & Rob Pursey of the Catenary Wires - & Swansea Sound - & a lot of bands they've been in.  That's what ... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/17/21: Lunch

Airs at: Tue, 08/17/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
The image on this page was taken by Self Help Radio's host Gary.  It's a view from his room to the front yard of his home in Fort Worth, Texas.  Obviously he doesn't live there now.  But when he lived there, he could look out to a giant oak in his front yard.  Occasionally ... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/10/21: Waterfalls

Airs at: Tue, 08/10/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Waterfalls are so lovely. & there are so many of them nearby! This week Self Help Radio thought they deserved a show. & what a show they got!  There are twenty (20!) songs called "Waterfall" on this show!  & also, no guests.  For some reason, no guests were booked for the ... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/3/21: The Kids

Airs at: Tue, 08/03/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This week, Self Help Radio played songs & talked about "the kids."  The kids that were both all right & (it turns out) all shite.  The kids that just wanted to have fun, & would never been divided if they were just united.  All kindsa kids.  Dumb ass kids, skinny indie kids... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/27/21: A Flat Show

Airs at: Tue, 07/27/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It is a tradition of Self Help Radio to occasionally explore a word as a theme.  Some words have many, many meanings.  The word "flat" is one of them.  By the count of one dictionary, the word has fifty-three (53!) different definitions, as an adjective, noun, & adverb.  By... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/20/21: 1985 Continued

Airs at: Tue, 07/20/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
In a previous show - why, it's this one here! - Self Help Radio featured my favorite music from 1985.  The reasons are explained on the page linked, but perhaps we can also explain it here: On shows around the time of its host's birthday, Self Help Radio explores its favor... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/13/21: Volcanoes

Airs at: Tue, 07/13/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Hot on the heels of a show about disaster, in which Self Help Radio refused to get specific about any one particular disaster, is a program about one particular disaster: volcanoes. To be fair, volcanoes are only a disaster to humans & other life that might be near them wh... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/6/21: Disaster!

Airs at: Tue, 07/06/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Is it courting disaster to make a radio show about disaster?  Asking for a radio friend. While we certainly do not believe that a radio show can call damage down to itself or to its listeners, we still have a vague, uncertain feeling that coincidence isn't quite what it se... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/29/21: It's Cool

Airs at: Tue, 06/29/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It was hot.  So very hot.  Record-breaking hot.  Like, you go outside & it's so hot you die.  Some people actually died it got so hot!  & this is Portland, not Phoenix! Self Help Radio knew what it had to do.  The power of broadcasting had to be utilized for good, not heat... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/22/21: Mania

Airs at: Tue, 06/22/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This week Self Help Radio looks at mania - both as a condition & in the sense of "craze" or "fad" - plus we specifically examine some manias - like pyromania & megalomania - & we also the use of the hyperbolic "maniac" for several songs. It's at this point that it may need ... Read more