Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 05/21/2024 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 8/23/22: Turquoise

Airs at: Tue, 08/23/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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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

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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

Self Help Radio 8/9/22: Attics

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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A program about attics. With discussions with: A person who cleans attics for a living. A "phrogger" who prefers attics. A promoter who puts on shows in attics. A friend who lives in an attic. & a realtor who sells attics. Plus three hours of music about attics (see below). S... Read more

Self Help Radio 8/2/22: The Middle

Airs at: Tue, 08/02/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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The Middle Way, in Buddhism, is, according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica, the "complement of general & specific ethical practices & philosophical views that are said to facilitate enlightenment by avoiding the extremes of self-gratification on one hand & self-mortification... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/26/22: Ponies

Airs at: Tue, 07/26/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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When I was a kid, I wanted a pony. As an adult, I have to settle for a show about ponies. Luckily it's full of lots of songs about ponies. You can't ride them, but still. Also there are many conversations: with my friend Jarvis, who has a pony; with a fellow who wants t... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/19/22: 1986 (Continued)

Airs at: Tue, 07/19/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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In a previous show, six months ago - you can listen here! - Self Help Radio played lots of music from 1986. Host Gary turned 18 that year, graduated high school, went off to college, & somewhere in-between got his first kiss. & while many folks might be a bit perplexed wh... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/12/22: A Fancy Show

Airs at: Tue, 07/12/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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Please be warned: no one involved with this show, which purports to be, or rather, attempts to be, a fancy show, has any real experience with fanciness. It may be not terribly fancy. What you'll find are many songs about fancy things (& fancy itself) plus interviews with ... Read more

Self Help Radio 7/5/22: Kindness

Airs at: Tue, 07/05/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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Airing the night of the fourth of July, when grown-up children with their explody toys are deeply unkind to people with PTSD & to pets everywhere, this week's Self Help Radio sought to explore kindness with music & talk. You can see the music played on the playlist below. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/28/22: Apartments

Airs at: Tue, 06/28/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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For the small amount of research done for today's show, the host of Self Help Radio discoverd that 1 in 8 Americans live in apartments. He also found out that there were no apartments in the United States for its first one hundred years. & he read a lot more but he's forg... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/21/22: Sighs

Airs at: Tue, 06/21/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am

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*Sigh.* A show about sighing. Mainly music, a little poetry, way too many sighs. But what did you expect? During the show, a wonderful article about sighing is excerpted. It's this one: "Why We Sigh" by Shayla Love on vice.com. It's a lovely read. The creator of the orig... Read more