It's time for me to tell you, at the end of 2022, how many radio shows I did this year.
It's not important that you know this. It's not important at all.
Nonetheless, here's the total - & you know what, let me just say that it's approximate because my record-keeping skills are poor. It could be plus minus one or two. But I'll just say that, to the best of my knowledge, here's the total:
In 2022, I put together 134 radio shows.
How did that break down? Like this:
52 episodes of Self Help Radio (that's right - I did not miss a week!)
(This does not include the seven extra episodes of Self Help Radio that aired on XRAY - though those episodes do add to the total.)
50 episodes of the Dickenbock Report. I missed only two weeks of that show.
In addition, I managed to make:
Twelve KBOO Sub Shows - usually two & a half hours long, sometimes after my show.
Nine episodes of "KBOO Funnies" - me playing sixty minutes of comedy & stand-up & stuff Monday nights before my show.
In addition, I subbed on XRAY twice, & made two Freeform Portland shows as subs.
One last thing: early in the year, in an attempt to play more new music on XRAY (way before I had a show), I made six weekly mixes of two hours each. It became a bit too much work for me, so I stopped doing it - but since I didn't talk on the shows, I don't consider them radio shows per se. They were not added to the total.
Last year I tabulated the number of shows I did & that number was 111. I am astonished I did more this year.
Since I did this last year, I feel obligated to do it again this year, re: Self Help Radio.
Of the 52 shows:
Forty (40) of them explored unique themes - that is, for the first time,
Six (6) of them explored themes I regularly explore - three for my indiepop nonsense, one for my wife's birthday show, one for my favorite music of the year, & one for a Christmas show.
Unusually, I repeated six themes this year. One for my anniversary show. One for my birthday show - I liked so much music from 1986, I needed two shows to play it. For my Halloween show, I revisited a theme - spiders - which I hadn't previously used as a Halloween theme. The other three - bees, buzz, & flowers - I repeated for the sake of KBOO's Spring Membership Drive. & the amount of dollars I raised for KBOO for that effort - zero. No one donated to my show this year. Sorry, KBOO.
My estimate is that I was on the radio for more than three hundred hours this past year - the equivalent of almost two weeks of radio featuring me! - & I cannot apologize more. I wish I could promise that I'll do less.
As always, feel lucky I'm mostly on late at night or early in the morning, when no one is listening. That's the silver lining in this unpleasant data dump!
