Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 05/07/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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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 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 10/18/22: Paralyzed

Airs at: Tue, 10/18/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Noticing, as a deejay might, there were lots of songs called "Paralyzed," I decided that might be an interesting theme to cover.  The songs of course usually use the word metaphorically, so any actual damage to one's nervous system is not discussed or covered in this show. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/11/22: Trampolines

Airs at: Tue, 10/11/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A radio show about trampolines?  That seems silly. Maybe it is, but here's three hours of groovy tunes about trampolines plus! An interview with something who checks the safety of trampolines.  With a trampoline enthusiast.  With a concerned protestor of trampolines.  & wit... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/4/22: 1970 Revisited - The 20th Anniversary Show!

Airs at: Tue, 10/04/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Though it has only been on KBOO for a couple of years, Self Help Radio began in October 2002 in Austin, Texas, on a station called KOOP.  A community radio station like KBOO, it also had in its call letters one K & two Os. Twenty years later, Self Help Radio celebrates its ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/27/22: Sizes

Airs at: Tue, 09/27/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It wasn't a large episode of Self Help Radio.  It wasn't a small episode of Self Help Radio.  It wasn't a medium episode of Self Help Radio.  It was all sizes of Self Help Radio! Music about sizes plus interview with: the tallest person in America; the owner of a shop for ... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/20/22: Fixes

Airs at: Tue, 09/20/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Radio probably can't fix anything, but Self Help Radio had a show about fixes.  Look at all the music below!  Plus interviews with a former fixer, the owner of the new restaurant Fixings, the TikTok star who makes How To Fix Your Life videos, & the political commentator who... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/13/22: Satisfaction

Airs at: Tue, 09/13/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Can a normally unsatisfying radio show cover a topic like satisfaction? Might it need to play several different versions of a famous Rolling Stones song? & have lots of interviews with people about the idea of satisfaction? Your curiosity might not be satisfied until you list... Read more

Self Help Radio on 9/06/22: Excitement!

Airs at: Tue, 09/06/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Here's a perhaps interesting question: is a radio show about excitement itself exciting?  Self Help Radio put that to the test on this show! In addition to lots of songs about excitement - being excited - things that are exciting - we talked to four guests who told us what ... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/30/22: Indiepop A To Z # 69

Airs at: Tue, 08/30/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Many years ago, many miles away, I decided to start a radio series about the genre of indiepop.  This may not be what you think it is.  Using the band list at twee.net - but adding bands I thought they neglected, & also bands & musicians I thought were influential to the ge... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/23/22: Turquoise

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Turquoise is a mineral which is used as a gem which gives its name to a color.  All three of these aspects of turquoise inform this radio program about turquoise.  There are quite a few songs here about turquoise & turquoise things. In addition to those songs, the show als... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/16/22: Wasting Time

Airs at: Tue, 08/16/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Waste time with a show that's quite a waste of time!  Lots of songs about wasting time (look at that playlist below!) plus conversations with: our resident cinephile, Chuck, who talks about time travel movies; a performace artist, Jay Arvis, who tours with an art show called ... Read more