Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Fudge Day

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June 16 is National Fudge Day because of course it is. But what do we really know about this delicious treat, this chocolatey, creamy delight? Tune in to the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM on the National Day Of Fudge as we explore the fudge you know - & the fudge you don't know.

Oh, & we'll announce the winner of the Dickenbock Report National Fudge Day slogan which is "Fudge around & find out." Except we announced it just now. So I guess we don't have to.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 16, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm. Do tune in. There'll be vegan fudge too!

This Week In Self Help (June 9 + 11 2024)

(from Liz Climo's Tumblr)

Though it's pretty obvious I am terrible at promoting this show, I do try to share when I have a new show here on the blog & also on Twitter & Facebook. In fact, I just share the blog posts, because I am relatively lazy. I had an image this week which was a chalk drawing of guts that my wife helped me with, but Facebook wouldn't let me share it because their AI thought it was a picture of someone nude. Which is sort of was - like nude without skin. I hope that the image above isn't too racy for Facebook.

This week the Dickenbock Report celebrated Cole Porter's birthday. You can listen on the Self Help Radio webpage directly by clicking this here link. Remember you'll need a username (SHR) & password (selfhelp) to listen. Or you can listen on the Dickenbock Report XRAY page here.

& of course Self Help Radio was a show about guts. Here's a direct link to that show. Sadly there's an issue with the KBOO website at the moment that prevented me from uploading there so you can only listen on the show's website. The same username/password combo above works here.

Finally, I had another morbid episode of Corporate Standardized Programming where I played lots of music by artists we lost in early April. You can listen to that show here.

That was the week that was.

Gutsy Films

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Our resident cinephile Chuck stopped by this week to talk about films featuring guts. Because "guts" was the theme. You should listen to the show at the Self Help Radio website. When you get to Chuck's segment, follow along with these helpful links he has provided:

Letterboxd list
YouTube playlist of films & trailers
IMDb list of films available to stream for free elsewhere

Letterboxed reviews

IMDb 'keyword' list

Chuck posted* about some of the films here

Chuck tweeted* about some of the films here

*Chuck's note: Right now it's just all the links seen here, but go ahead & give me a follow - I usually follow back.

Self Help Radio 061124: Guts

Wow. That's some gutsy sidewalk art!

Okay, I'm done with the guts puns. I'm not going to talk about spilling my guts or hating someone's guts or having a gut feeling or feeling gutted or anything like that anymore. The guts show is done. It was luckily not gut-wrenching. Frankly I've had a gutful of it.

But maybe you've got the guts to listen - or listen again? It's available now at the Self Help Radio website. Make sure you use the username/password combo SHR/selfhelp to listen. Normally it's also available at the KBOO website, but the site is having some issues. When I'm able to upload it there, I'll add that information here.

Lots of songs about guts + interviews + other stuff. Details below.

No time for a gut check! Listen to the show!

Self Help Radio Guts Show

"It's A Gut Thing" The Bevis Frond _Hit Squad_

"I Love Your Guts" Blanketarms _Yay 4 Cuteness_

"Gut Pageant" Kristin Hersh _Strange Angels_

introduction & definitions

"Guts" John Cale _Slow Dazzle_

"Guts" Alex Winston _King Con_

"Guts" Ricked Wicky _I Sell The Circus_

"Gut Bucket" James Brown _James Brown's Funky Summer_

interview with self-defense expert Laura Ross

"Gutache" Close Lobsters _Headache Rhetoric_

"Gut Feeling" Devo _Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!_

"Gut Symmetries" Parenthetical Girls _Entanglements_

"Great Green Gobs" Tom Glazer _Kooky Songs_

interview with nutritionist Louis Rich

"Gut Guidance" Gogol Bordello _Solidaritine_

"From The Gut" Hüsker Dü _Everything Falls Apart_

"Gutted" The C.I.A. _The C.I.A._

"Gut Of The Quantifier" The Fall _This Nation's Saving Grace_

our resident cinephile Chuck stops by

"Guts & Teeth" Old Man Markley _Mild In The Streets: Fat Music Unplugged_

"Gut Feeling" Peter Bjorn & John _Darker Days_

"Get Her Gut Her" Warren Dunes _Aquamarine_

"Hollow Gut" Lowlife _Eternity Road (Reflections Of Lowlife 85-95)_

interview with proctologist Dr. Leonard Rogers

"Guts/Glory" Mise En Scene _Still Life On Fire_

"Trust Your Gut" Worriers _Trust Your Gut_

"Guts" The Weaklings _Remarkably Good_

"Gut Feeling" Malcolm Middleton _Bananas_

conclusion & goodbye

"You Guys Talk, We'll Spill Our Guts" To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie _The Patron_

Whither Guts?

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Though that image above is focused on the stomach, & the stomach is part of the guts, I hope you'll accept the picture in toto. Because the show is not about the stomach alone. But the guts. All the guts!

Oh how I hope you have the guts to listen to this show. I mean that figuratively, of course - you obviously have the guts or how else would you digest your food? & how gross is digestion, really? Could it be that at some point I had a stomach issue - because of eating fermented food at a local restaurant that specialized in fermented food - & it made me think, "What is this doing to my ill-prepared gut flora?" & that that led to me wondering about whether I would have the guts to eat there again? & which led to me wondering if I should do a radio show about guts?

That all is true! & now there's a guts show & my guts recovered eventually.

Tonight! I spill my guts! From midnight to 2am on 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm every darn where.

& it's fine to hate my guts. I'm not that fond of them either.

Preface To Guts: Oh No Another Body Parts Episode!

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It is a time-honored tradition of theme-based shows to rely upon body parts every now & then. Hair, eyes, hands, feet, skin, mouths, ears, knees - since so many songs are about people & those people are made up of many different parts, it's only natural to sometimes focus on the parts instead of the whole. A song about a part that represents a whole might even be an interesting departure.

Self Help Radio this week has decided to focus on a body part - guts. Like other body parts, guts have a figurative meaning that is used as often if not more often than the literal one. Perhaps the songwriter is not generally inclined to pen a ditty about intestines. & yet of course some do. There's always someone writing a song about the thing you didn't imagine anyone would write a song about.

In fact, one might even say... Sorry, that's an awkward sentence. Should it be There's always someone writing a song about the thing about which you didn't imagine anyone would write a song? Is the second about superfluous? The sentence There's always someone writing a song about the thing you didn't imagine anyone would write a song feels incomplete to me. Oh no. Am I going to have to diagram that sentence?

Well I've lost my train of thought. I guess I wanted to point out it's another show about a body part. Which is something that happens on shows based on themes. Just usually it's not something as icky as guts.