Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: International Mud Day

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June 29 is International Mud Day. Mud being one subject almost all nations can agree on. Yes, there's mud. Sometimes lots of mud. Sometimes not so much. But there is in fact mud.

We report on mud tomorrow, Sunday, June 29, on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. From noon to 1pm on 91.1 & 107.1fm in Portland, online at xray dot fm.

Apologies if we track muddy radio all through your house.

This Week In Self Help: June 20 22 + 24

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It may come as a surprise that I make radio shows since no one has ever listened to the ones I've made but I present evidence that supports my assertion that I actually do. This is what I did the previous seven days:

Friday the 20th on The Songcircle on KBOO, I played lots of new releases.

Here it is on the KBOO website. Here it is on the Self Help Radio website.

Sunday the 22nd on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY, I celebrated Kris Kristofferson's birthday.

Here it is on the XRAY website. Here it is on the Self Help Radio website.

Tuesday the 24th on Self Help Radio on KBOO, I played songs & talked about black holes.

Here it is on the KBOO website. Here it is on the Self Help Radio website.

Also Tuesday the 24th but on Corporate Standardized Programming, I played lots of new releases.
It's on the KBOO file above. If you'd like to listen to it alone, here it is on the Self Help Radio website.

If needed, to access files on the Self Help Radio website, the username is SHR & the password is selfhelp.

To answer a question you probably didn't ask, no, I didn't watch The Black Hole before I made this show. I saw it I believe in the theaters back when I was 11. I fell asleep during the film.

Self Help Radio 062425: Black Holes

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We made it into outer space! Or at least our radio waves did. & probably they'll be sucked into a black hole eventually.

Lots of songs & lots of silly interviews & maybe even some knowledge dropped although I wouldn't hold my breath. The regular sort of Self Help Radio nonsense, you understand.

You can listen now at the KBOO web page or at the Self Help Radio web page. At the latter you may need a username & password - try SHR & selfhelp. Almost everything that happened on the show is below - some of it almost certainly disappeared into a black hole.

Self Help Radio Black Holes Show

"Ghosts Of The Black Hole" Bearsuit _The Phantom Forest_

"Black Hole" Bishop Allen _Lights Out_

"The Black Hole Understands" Cloud Nothings _The Black Hole Understands_

introduction & definitions

"Black Hole" The Gun Club _In Exile_

"Black Hole" Be Your Own Pet _Get Damaged_

"Black Hole Love" Urusei Yatsura _We Are Urusei Yatsura_

"Blackholes & Brokenhearts" Drugstore _Anatomy_

"Black Hole" James _Stutter_

interview with physicist Dr Phil Scolly

"Black Hole Sun" Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme _Lounge-A-Palooza_

"Black Hole Baby" Superorganism _World Wide Pop_

"That Old Black Hole" Dr. Dog _Be The Void_

"Black Hole, Weirdo Shrine" La Luz _Weirdo Shrine_

"The Black Hole Tube" Negativland _Happy Heroes_

interview with astronaut Major Josh Hendricks

"Big Black Hole" The Oblivians _Soul Food_

"Big Bangs, Black Holes, Meteorites" Love Is All _A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night_

"Black Holes" Dirty Sidewalks _Bring Down The House Lights_

"Black Hole" The Rosebuds _Life Like_

"Little Black Holes" Elf Power _Elf Power_

interview with musician Bret Oster

"Black Hole Era" Kisskadee _Black Hole Era_

"Black Holes In Stereo" King Tuff _Black Moon Spell_

"Black Holes" Bob & Doug McKenzie _Great White North_

"Black Hole" Love Tractor _Black Hole_

"Black Hole, Son" Field Mouse _Meaning_

conclusion & goodbye

"Big Black Hole" Malcolm Middleton _Summer Of '13_

"Black Holes Of Negativity Part 3 (Saying No)" The Get Right Band _iTopia_

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Whither Black Holes?

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If it isn't already obvious, I'm a science fiction nerd. Not all science fiction nerds are Star Trek nerds, but my Venn diagram shows definite overlap there. I am not a big enough Star Trek nerd that I watch Star Trek all the time - it's been a while since I've watched an entire episode I've seen before - but I do occasionally, usually when I am cooking, watch fellow nerds on YouTube review Star Trek episodes. & recently after one ended, there was a video about Deep Space Nine that showed its introduction.

If you haven't seen Deep Space Nine, well, I recommend it - it's my favorite Star Trek series. It's about a space station near a stable wormhole. & I know what you're thinking Gary! A black hole isn't a wormhole! I understand that. But I got to looking for songs about black holes anyway & then... tonight's show started to take shape.

There were far more songs about black holes - some of them about literal holes, not astronomical ones - than about wormholes.

That's what's happening tonight on Self Help Radio on KBOO. Midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland & online at kboo dot fm. I'll try to keep the nerdiness to a minimum but seriously no promises.

Preface To Black Holes: Carl Sagan

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Click here to see an excerpt from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series where he talks about black holes. I'll excerpt this for tomorrow's show but won't be able to use the visuals, you know, because radio. I have no idea how the science has changed in the - gosh almost fifty years since he made the series - but it's always a joy to listen to him talk. Sigh.

Can I just play a couple hours of Cosmos instead of my dumb show this week? No? Too bad.