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Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2024 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 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.

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Self Help Radio 10/8/24: 1971 Revisited - The 22nd Anniversary Show

Airs at: Tue, 10/08/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Self Help Radio premiered on 91.7fm KOOP in Austin, Texas, on October 9, 2002. Since then it's appeared on something like eight stations in four different states. On Self Help Radio anniversary shows, I revisit an old theme. This theme is my favorite music from 1971. The or... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/1/24: Oysters

Airs at: Tue, 10/01/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Aw shucks! It's an episode of Self Help Radio about oysters! Featuring lots of oyster songs, a discussion of movies featuring oysters, a humorist whose new book mentions oysters, & a religious fellow who wants to make non-aphrodisiac oysters! I'm hoping you don't have to en... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/24/24:Spiral

Airs at: Tue, 09/24/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Spirals are found everywhere in nature. & now they're found on the radio! Featuring lots of songs about spirals (as you can see below) plus I talk to an artist who has been filling spiral notebooks since he was a kid. & a scientist who's written a book of poetry called The B... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/17/24: Howard Gently Year Three, Continued

Airs at: Tue, 09/17/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Starting in 2014, my friend Russell improvised bits for Self Help Radio as the Rev Dr Howard Gently, a spiritual huckster. Russell died unexpectedly last year, & I have decided to share all the bits in chronological order every three months or so. This is the sixth installme... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/10/24: Brooms

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Hey look wow! A radio show about brooms! Please never suggest that Self Help Radio is not in touch with the times. It is indeed a radio show about brooms & there are many songs about brooms & what's more I talk to lots of broom-related guests - the Broom Family here, Portl... Read more

Self Help Radio 9/3/24: Sunglasses

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Oh dear me no Self Help Radio doesn't think it's cool. Far from it! But maybe - you can be honest with the show - maybe it looks cooler in sunglasses? You think? Lots of music about sunglasses, interview with a fashion consultant & a Youtube influencer, plus our resident c... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/27/24: Indiepop A To Z # 75

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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In this episode of Self Help Radio I continue a series I started many years, many miles, & a few radio stations ago - an alphabetical list of indiepop artists & sample songs by them. A definition of indiepop can be found here. Earlier editions of this series (most of them)... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/20/24: Rotten

Airs at: Tue, 08/20/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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What a rotten radio show this is. In content, I mean. It might actually be rotten but all the time I was doing it, it felt all right. But I was in the middle of it. There are lots of songs about rotten things. I talked to a person who spoils folks rotten on Only Fans, a sel... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/13/24: Chaos

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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It's true, I have been feeling the world is a bit chaotic these days. Certainly I am anticipating chaos no matter what the result of the election in November. It's not uncommon for a deejay to work out their anxieties on the air, therefore, a radio show about chaos. In add... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/6/24: Loneliness

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2024 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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It sure is lonely being a late-night disc jockey. It seems appropriate for me, therefore, to explore the theme of loneliness. There are lots of songs meditating on loneliness, plus our resident cinephile talks about films featuring loneliness, & I talk to three lonely liste... Read more