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Airs at: Tue, 11/26/2024 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.

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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

Self Help Radio 6/14/22: The Golden Show

Airs at: Tue, 06/14/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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"Golden" may feel like a color but it's an adjective describing something that resembles a color - & much more!  It actually began life meaning "made of gold" - but there's so much more to the word these days.  You can live your golden years peacefully or you can take a gol... Read more

Self Help Radio 6/7/22: Knees

Airs at: Tue, 06/07/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Please be aware the person responsible for Self Help Radio is not an anatomist nor has ever received any training about the human body.  Which is an admonition that perhaps some of the things you'll hear on this show are going to be wrong. That being said, there sure were ... Read more

Self Help Radio 5/31/22: Yards

Airs at: Tue, 05/31/2022 at 12:00am - 3:00am
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Yards? What kinda yards? Backyards, barnyards, beeyards? Boatyards, brickyards, churchyards? Courtyards, deeryards, dockyards? Dooryards, foreyards, frontyards? Junkyards, rail yards, schoolyards? Scrapyards, shipyards, steelyards? Stockyards, stableyards, switchyards? Tilt... Read more