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Airs at: Tue, 05/06/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Airs at: Tue, 03/03/2026 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.

Topic tags: 
Music
Genre(s): 
Eclectic
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
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Self Help Radio 4/29/25: Indiepop A To Z # 77

Airs at: Tue, 04/29/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
  This is a continuation of my long-running series "Indiepop A To Z." On this, the seventy-seventh installment, we travel from Sharky Favorite to the Shrinking Violets. What is indiepop? It might not be what you think it is. Here's a definition from the Wikipedia. Previ... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/22/25: Earth Day

Airs at: Tue, 04/22/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
On this Earth Day 2025, Self Help Radio plays lots of songs about our dear Mother Earth. Three hours worth! Plus some interviews which will be silly & not at all helpful. Make sure you check out all the Earth Day programming on KBOO at kboo.fm/earthday Original image used ... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/15/25: Bomb

Airs at: Tue, 04/15/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A note: It seems to me pretty obvious that the interviews on this show are totally made-up & ridiculous, but a caller to this show seemed a little upset that I had "fooled" him. Just to be clear, any interview you hear on this show with an "expert" on the theme is almost... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/8/25: Gentlemen

Airs at: Tue, 04/08/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A show about - but not necessarily for - gentlemen. Featuring interviews with: the editor of Kentucky Gentlemen magazine; the headmistress of a gentlemen's school for boys; & the director of a gentlemen's gentlemen school (for butlers). Plus lots of songs about gentlemen. ... Read more

Self Help Radio 4/1/25: April Fools' Day

Airs at: Tue, 04/01/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
Happy day of April Fools. On Self Help Radio today, we spent an hour with April Fools songs, then we spent two more hours with songs entitled either "Fool" or "The Fool" - which is short set with songs entitled "Ship Of Fools." What? Is this not foolish enough for you? W... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/25/25: Silhouettes

Airs at: Tue, 03/25/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A radio show about silhouettes. Featuring an author, a director, an interruption, lots of songs, & even a story about the silhouette of a cat that accompanies this text. The last hour of the program is an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming featuring all new re... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/18/25: Howard Gently Year Four

Airs at: Tue, 03/18/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
This show continues the celebration of my friend Russell, whom we lost almost two years ago. He appeared on Self Help Radio from 2014 to 2022 as "The Rev Dr Howard Gently" in improvised comedic interviews. Clips from the show from 2017 are featured here, paired with songs ... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/11/25: Telepathy

Airs at: Tue, 03/11/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
If you felt that Self Help Radio was reading your mind this morning, well. It wasn't. It's a radio show. It cannot read minds. What it can do is be a radio show about telepathy, which is what it was this morning. Lots of songs about telepathy plus guests: a telepath, a per... Read more

Self Help Radio 3/4/25: Snails

Airs at: Tue, 03/04/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
A radio show for the humble snail. Featuring too many songs about snails. Plus interviews with snail-related folks. Don't call them slugs! For they have shells. A radio show for the humble snail. P.S. The last hour is an episode of Corporate Standardized Programming featuring ... Read more

Self Help Radio 2/25/25: Get Better

Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2025 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for:  Self Help Radio
It's plain to most of us that things aren't getting better. It seems quite the opposite. Here's an attempt through a silly radio show to urge the universe - or at the very least the country I live in - to try to get better. There are lots of songs & ridiculous interviews. ... Read more