Self Help Radio

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Airs at: Tue, 04/23/2024 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 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

Self Help Radio 8/9/22: Attics

Airs at: Tue, 08/09/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
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
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
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