Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Corvette Day

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June 30 is National Corvette Day. Lovers of sports cars rejoice! Tune in to the Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM as we explore these American icons, featuring lots of musical reports, a movie review, & more. More means me talking.

Tomorrow! Sunday, June 30, noon to 1pm, on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm & online at xray dot fm.

As an aside: do not loan your Corvette to Dick Dickenbock for the day. Previous Corvette Days have been a bit heartbreaking for such generous souls.

This Week In Self Help (June 23 25 + 26 2024)

(Pete is done for the night)

Another busy week making radio almost literally no one listens to! Let's start on Sunday!

The Dickenbock Report had a show for National Typewriter Day. Lots of songs with lots of typewriter sounds. Here is it on the XRAY page. You can also listen to it (& download it) on the Self Help Radio home page by clicking here. Use the username/password SHR/selfhelp to access - anything from the SHR website will need those, but I think only once per session.

Self Help Radio has a show about mangos. You can listen to that show by clicking here. Sadly, the KBOO website is still being wonky so you'll have to listen to it on the SHR page. I thought it was a fun show, & I can say with all honestly that I very much loved finding mango songs - & typewriter songs too!

Corporate Standardized Programming had another show featuring artists we've lost. Listen to that show by clicking here. It's a cheery one. I confess to liking the song "Ramblin' Man," tho, so it's got something for everyone. What?

Finally, I subbed Dr. Zomb's Stereo Obscura on Wednesday. I have not put that show's playlist on the Self Help Radio website yet - I like Self Help Radio episodes to be at the top & so I'll put the playlist up next Tuesday. But if you wanna see the playlist anyway, you will find it at the Spinitron site. & if you'd like to listen, I have uploaded it the SHR website & you can click here to hear.

& that's how I made six hours of radio this past week. Or not how. It's the six hours I made. "How" is "shabbily."

Self Help Radio 062524: Mangos

At last! A radio show about mangos. Someone texted me, "I can't bear how good a ripe mango is. I could eat way too much." If only a radio show could make someone feel the same way! It might have to be a show about mangos.

Please enjoy two hours of mango songs + silly guests & an even sillier live performance by a pair of "musicians." The show is at the Self Help Radio website. To access you will need a username - SHR - & a password. Most everything that happens on the show is noted below.

So yeah. It's mango time!

Self Help Radio Mango Show

"Mangos" Rosemary Clooney _The Essence Of Rosemary Clooney_

"Mango Vendor" Nina & Frederik _Nina & Frederik_

"Mango Song" Marty Robbins _Island Woman_

introduction & definitions

"Mango Time" Tony Bird _Sorry Africa_

"Mango Walk" The In-Crowd _Darker Than Blue: Soul From Jamdown 1973-1980_

"Mango Talk" Hari Kondabolu _Warn Your Relatives_

"Mango" Lindsey Mills with Handmade, Amigo _Stonefruit_

interview with fruit inspector Dr. Ian Waterson

"Mango Tree" Angus & Julia Stone _Memories Of An Old Friend_

"Underneath The Mango Tree" Calypso Rose _Calypso Rose_

"Mango Meat" Mandrill _Just Outside Of Town_

"Mango" Mawaan _Mango_

interview with Self Help Radio's favorite chef Ingrid West

"El Mango" Calibre 50 _Desde El Rancho_

"Hairy Mango" Jackie Opel _The Best Of Jackie Opel_

"Mango" Coupé Cloué _Maximum Compas From Haiti_

"Djeli Mango" Kante Manfila Vs Sorry Bamba _Clash Mandique_

interview with mango booster Ivan Wickersham

"Mangos & Rice" Hanni El Khatib _Savage Times_

"Mango Terrarium" Psychedelic Porn Crumpets _Shyga! The Sunlight Mound_

"Embrace The Sloppy Chaos Of The Mango" John Oliver _Last Week Tonight S11 E13_

"Mango Juice" Shonen Knife _Heavy Songs_

a mango taste test a performance by Ned Dry & Captain McCheese

"The Mango Song" Danny Carnahan & Robin Petrie _Cut & Run_

"Mango" The Orielles _Silver Dollar Moment_

"Julie Mangos" Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes _What Kinda Music_

"Mango Tree" Hugh Masekela _Siparia To Soweto_

conclusion & goodbye

"Orange & Mango" The Phoenix Foundation _Buffalo_

"Mango Tree" Aden _Topsiders_

"Mango" Highs _Highs_

Whither Mangos?

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Yesterday I confessed that I (unlike most of the world) am not the biggest fan of the mango. I don't hate them - just don't enjoy the difficult process of eating them, & don't seek out mango in treats & entrees.

You may well ask then "Why do a show about mangos?" The answer is, because I live with a mango fiend. This fiend, my wife, prefers a specific kind of mango. They need to be dried. & they need to have some kind of sugar chili coating. She frickin loves dried mango. & I am often tasked to find the dried mango. There's none at Costco? Have you tried Trader Joe's? What about Natural Grocers? Okay, just get the stuff at Safeway that'll be fine.

When a person spends as much time as I have looking for mango, it naturally occurs to a person (if that person has a radio show) to perhaps maybe why not do a radio show about mangos? It is a beloved fruit the world over. & in my house, where my wife's love of mangos is enough for all of us.

Also, she said to me recently, "It's summer, make me more food with mango in it." I might've heard that as "make me a radio show about mangos."

It's happening tonight. Midnight to 2am. On 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm everywhere.

Preface To Mangos: A Confession

(Poem by Amir Khusrow, found on Twitter)

It is with a kind of shame that I make this confession: I'm not all that fond of mangos.

It's true, I didn't grow up eating mangos. I barely grew up eating fresh fruit at all, as my family was very poor. But the first mango I had was probably in my twenties. & I was completely unprepared.

Oh I tried to be cool. But I made a mess. & it didn't seem to worth it.

Later on, I found I enjoyed it in meals I've made - from recipes of course - there's a black bean mango quinoa salad I enjoy as well as a Thai golden curry which uses mangos - but even then I use frozen mangos which I thaw because I have been repeatedly traumatized by the embarrassing attempts to properly peel a mango.

& yet here I am, making a radio show about mangos - why is that? I'll tell ya tomorrow.