Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 04/08/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2026 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Hosted by:

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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 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 8/10/21: Waterfalls

Airs at: Tue, 08/10/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

Produced for: Self Help Radio

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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 t... 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

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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 k... Read more

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

Airs at: Tue, 07/27/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/20/21: 1985 Continued

Airs at: Tue, 07/20/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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 fa... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/13/21: Volcanoes

Airs at: Tue, 07/13/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/6/21: Disaster!

Airs at: Tue, 07/06/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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... Read more

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

Airs at: Tue, 06/29/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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 h... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/22/21: Mania

Airs at: Tue, 06/22/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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 ne... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/8/21: On The Moon + Mommyheads Interview

Airs at: Tue, 06/08/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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It's like two radio shows in one! The first hour is an interview with Adam Elk of the Mommyheads along with many Mommyheads tunes & four recordings he made just for the show. The last two hours finds Self Help Radio as the first radio show on the moon. It was cold & lon... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/1/21: An Important Show

Airs at: Tue, 06/01/2021 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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 p... Read more