Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: National Delaware Day

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Wow, is that the state flag of Delaware? Growing up in Texas, whose flag is simple & dynamic & has no writing on it at all, I am struck by the inclusion of the date/year. Who puts dates on a flag?

It turns out ten other states do! Illinois, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, & Missouri all have some date or year on their flags - with the latter (Missouri) having the year in Roman numerals.

Yeah, yeah, I've lived in Oregon for six years & didn't know it had a year on it. I am just used to the elegant simplicity of the Texas flag. Although have you seen Alaska's flag? That's a beauty!

What is this post about? Oh yeah, tomorrow, Sunday, July 13, is National Delaware Day. We'll talk about & play musical reports about that state on The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. That's 12-1pm on 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, online at xray dot fm.

It will be difficult but we'll try not to disrespect their awful flag.

This Week In Self Help: July 6 8 + 9

(found here)

This was the week I had:

July 6 on The Dickenbock Report it was Build A Scarecrow Day.
Listen at XRAY. Listen at Self Help Radio.

July 8 on Self Help Radio it was a show about Emergency!
Listen at KBOO. Listen at Self Help Radio.

July 8 on Corporate Standardized Programming I played artists who died in January 2025.

Listen at KBOO (it's with Self Help Radio). Listen at Self Help Radio.

July 9 I subbed a show on KBOO playing interesting sounds late at night.

KBOO doesn't archive its sub show but. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Username is SHR & password is selfhelp if you need it.
I'll put the playlist for the sub show up on the website next week.

Self Help Radio 070825: Emergency!

Boy this episode was almost a real emergency! I came into the KBOO studios to find an unannounced mini-rave happening, & at some point there was a skipping song, & the whole thing felt fraught & unstable. There had also been issues before - a recording with a collaborator had such terrible sound quality I couldn't use it - that suggested that the theme might come to life & eat the show whole, & thankfully I'm not too superstitious or else I would decide never to do themes like this again!

Hopefully it doesn't sound too much like a disaster. We know at this point no one's coming to help, so it's best we be careful. I just don't remember things going this badly when I did the accident show!

You can listen now or when you feel safe at both the KBOO web page & the Self Help Radio web page. At the latter you might need a username & password, I would use SHR & selfhelp. Everything that happened is below. Be careful out there!

Self Help Radio Emergency Show

"Emergency!" Nelson Riddle _Television's Greatest Hits Volume 5: In Living Color_

"Emergency 999" The Alan Bown Set _Ain't Nothing But A House Party (60s & Early 70s Club Soul Classics)_

"Emergency" Ed Wahonka _Wahonka_

"The Emergency" Gileah & The Ghost Train _Gileah & The Ghost Train_

introduction & definitions

"Emergency" The Sweet Inspirations _Estelle, Myrna, & Sylvia_

"Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Basic Supplies)" Unknown _Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security_

"Emergency" 999 _999_

"State Of Emergency" Stiff Little Fingers _Inflammable Material_

"Emergency Cases" The Undertones _True Confessions (Singles=A's+B's)_

our favorite librarian Carole stops by

"Emergency" Shack _Zilch_ (Ghetto, 1988)

"Emergency" The Go-Betweens _G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology Volume 3_

"Emergency" The Pooh Sticks _Tonight - Single_

"Emergency" Edith Frost _It's A Game_

"Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Brilliant Nuclear Flash)" Unknown _Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security_

"Occident & Emergency" DJ DisOrientalist _Peace Not War_

interview with Emergency! Fan Club founder Todd Mantooth

"This Is Our Emergency" Pretty Girls Make Graves _The New Romance_

"Emergency" Summer Cannibals _No Makeup_

"Emergency & Me" Speedy Ortiz _Rabbit Rabbit_

"Emergency" Deep Sea Diver _Billboard Heart_

"Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Not Contagious)" Unknown _Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security_

"Accident & Emergency" Lucy Wainwright Roche _Lucy_

interview with ER worker Natalie Dunlap

"Emergency" Oblivians _Popular Favorites_

"Emergency" Dirt Bike Annie _Show Us Your Demons_

"This Is An Emergency" The Pigeon Detectives _Emergency_

"Civil Defense Spot: In Time Of Emergency (Take Notice Of Fallout Shelter Signs)" Unknown _Atomic Platters: Cold War Music From The Golden Age Of Homeland Security_

"Slow Emergency" Gold Motel _Gold Motel_

"Emergency Telephone" Billy Nomates _Emergency Telephone EP_

conclusion & goodbye

"Emergency Call" Judy Mowatt _Tighten Up! Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-1974_

"Emergency Exit" Tig Notaro _Boyish Girl Interrupted_

"The Emergency Exit Man" Spray _Ambiguous Poems About Death_

"The Emergency Kisses" Stereolab _Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night_

Whither Emergency?

One might ask, why would one do a radio show at this time with the theme "emergency"? & one might respond to the one asking, "Are you perchance living outside of the United States Of America in the year 2025?" & probably the one asking would respond, "Why yes! How did you know?" & one would almost certainly say, "Because were you living in the United States Of America in the year 2025, you would say with all honesty, that every day feels like an emergency."

Although that might make one think that a show about emergency in the middle of an emergency could be seen as masochistic or just dully redundant. & the one making the radio show might say in response, "Oh. I didn't think about that." & it would be too late to think of something else.

Self Help Radio's show with the theme "Emergency" airs tonight on KBOO from midnight to 2am. That's on the air in Portland at 90.7fm & online everywhere at KBOO dot fm.

Preface To Emergency: That 1970s Television Show

(image from the IMDb)

Being a child of the 1970s, & growing up poor with a working mother, I watched a lot of television. I watched pretty much anything, although I preferred cartoon, sitcoms, sci-fi/fantasy shows, & cop shows. But I had a soft spot for the show Emergency!, which aired from 1972 - when I was four - till 1979, when I was eleven. Almost certainly I saw the bulk of it in reruns. I only just now discovered they made several television movies of the show, & will seek them out. But if you had to ask me my most indelible memory about the show - it was this one:

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It's not that I didn't love the character of John Gage - I totally did - but I really, really, really loved the name "Randolph Mantooth." I have forgotten most of the plot lines & most of the characters (except Julie London as Nurse Dixie McCall) but I will never not be fascinated by the name Randolph Mantooth. It sounds like an exclamation, like something Perry White should say instead of "Great Caesar's Ghost!"

It holds a special meaning for me now because it was the sort of name that would crack my friend Russell up. He'd tell me he saw a movie on television the other night, & I would say, with excitement, "Did it star Randolph Mantooth?" It would always make him laugh.

Dang I wish I had time to watch some of these shows before the Self Help Radio Emergency show. At least you know I'll play the theme.