Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 04/30/2024 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 12/20/22: One Last Very Self Help Radio Christmas

Airs at: Tue, 12/20/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Though Self Help Radio has been on KBOO for only a couple of years, it has been around since 2002.  Every year starting then, there's been a Self Help Radio Christmas show called A Very Self Help Radio Christmas.  This is the twentieth installment. It's also the last one. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/13/22: Gary's Favorite Music 2022

Airs at: Tue, 12/13/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Please be aware this isn't a "best of" list.  Even though I listen to lots of music (I'm Gary), I haven't listened to all the music that came out in 2022.  Also, I don't really believe you can use the word "best" about something that's subjective, like an opinion.  What I l... Read more

Self Help Radio 12/6/22: Parallels

Airs at: Tue, 12/06/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's a radio show about parallel things - parallel lives, universes, lines, you know. Also we talk to someone from a parallel universe. & to a fellow who feels he's lived his live in parallel with a martial arts superstar.  & a former Olympian who was great on the parallel... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/29/22: Magda's Birthday Show 2022

Airs at: Tue, 11/29/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Happy birthday! Who's Magda? She's my wife! Who am I? I am Gary, the person who hosts Self Help Radio! I've made a birthday show for her almost every year of the show! Don't see your favorite birthday song here?  It's because I don't play the same recording twice!  That ma... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/22/22: Bananas

Airs at: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's time to go bananas!  Or go to someplace where it's okay to listen to a radio show about bananas, anyway. Too many songs about bananas plus we talk to a person named Bananas & to a person who's a fanatic about bananas, & also we talk about books about bananas & movies ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/15/22: Chains

Airs at: Tue, 11/15/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Chains bind, but they also protect. Chains enable machinery to work. Metaphorical chains keep us in places we don't want to be. & chains is the theme of this week's Self Help Radio. In addition to lots of songs about chains (including, as you can see below, sets about chain... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/8/22: Alice's Show

Airs at: Tue, 11/08/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
While we failed to find an Alice worth interviewing for this show, which is about all kinds of Alices, we hope we more than made up for it by presenting a plethora of songs about all kinds of Alices.  Please recommend to an Alice you know, unless you yourself are an Alice, ... Read more

Self Help Radio 11/1/22: Infinity

Airs at: Tue, 11/01/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
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Sometimes it feels like Self Help Radio goes on way into infinity. This week that was the theme. Lots of songs about infinity.  Conversations with folks about various aspects of infinity.  If it seems like it might stretch off into forever, just remember: it's only three h... Read more

Self Help Radio 10/25/22: Halloween 2022 - Spiders!

Airs at: Tue, 10/25/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Self Help Radio kicks off Halloween week 2022 with a spooky show about spiders!  Those creepy crawly sometimes deadly eight-legged not-insects that people say we should keep in our houses because they eat insects.  But we know better!  The webs they weave are to catch you &... Read more

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