Coming Up Tomorrow On The Dickenbock Report: X-Rays

(x-ray of a radio found here)

On January 18, 1896, a professor in North Carolina, HL Smith, displayed the x-ray machine for the first time. He didn't invent it. He didn't discover x-rays. He didn't have much to do at all with the science. But he showed it to the world for the first time.

We will therefore use this opportunity to talk about & play musical reports about x-rays on The Dickenbock Report. Which is on a station called XRAY FM. Is the news allowed to be this meta?

Listen tomorrow, Sunday, January 18, from noon to 1pm on XRAY FM - 91.1+107.1fm in Portland, xray dot fm everywhere.

Fun fact: Dick Dickenbock continually proposes that XRAY change its slogan to "We can see right through you." He is continually told to sit down & shut up.

This Week In Self Help January 11 + 13

Though lemonade is technically a juice, I didn't play songs about lemonade on my juice show. So I couldn't use this awesome pic I took at some KNON Blues Fest thing a decade or so ago. Until now!

This week I did this radio here:

Sunday January 11. The Dickenbock Report on XRAY FM. It was Step In A Puddle & Splash Your Friends Day. So I played songs about puddles. Of course. Listen at XRAY FM. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Tuesday January 13. Self Help Radio on KBOO. The theme was juice. Listen at KBOO. Listen at Self Help Radio.

Tuesday January 13. Corporate Standardized Programming on KBOO. An hour of songs by artists we lost in late July/early August of last year. Listen at KBOO (after Self Help Radio). Listen at Self Help Radio.

In case you need: username SHR, password selfhelp.

Damn it, now I'm craving juice again. & maybe some hot & zesty nachos as well.

Self Help Radio 011326: Juice

(image manipulated see note*)

Yikes the juice show was fraught with error! The internet seemed to go out at some point during the show & tho I record my show from home as a back-up to the station's recording, there was a portion of an airbreak missing, which I had to recreate this morning. It's pretty awkward. I'm sure you'll know which one.

But otherwise the show was delicious I thought. Lots of songs, mostly about fruit juices, plus the requisite silly interviews of a juicy nature. I have fun putting together all my shows but I had a lot of fun with this one.

You can listen to the show now & whenever (maybe while sipping juice?) at either the KBOO website or the Self Help Radio website. The latter may ask you for the username SHR & the password selfhelp. Now you know. Everything that happened on the show is noted below.

Enjoy responsibly.

Self Help Radio Juice Show

"White Port & Lemon Juice" The Bel-Aires _The Best Of Flip Records Vol. 2 Death Of An Angel_

"Juice, Juice, Juice" Amos Milburn _Vicious Vicious Vodka_

"Tomato Juice" The Cardinals _Tomato Juice_

introduction & definitions - featuring the Definition-O-Tron 3000

"The Juice Of The Barley" The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem _In Person At Carnegie Hall_

"Frozen Orange Juice" Peter Sarstedt _The Very Best Of Peter Sarstedt_

"Pulp" National Lampoon _That's Not Funny, That's Sick_

"Red Apple Juice" Ralph McTell _Streets_

"Grapefruit Juice Blues" Michael Hurley _Snockgrass_

interview with juiceterian Jules Francis

"Grape Juice Plus" The Cupid Car Club _Join Our Club..._

"Carrot Juice Is Murder" The Arrogant Worms _Russell's Shorts_

"Chocolate, Lime Juice" Lata Mangeshkar _Hum Aapke Hain Koun..!_

"Gin & Juice" Sissy Bar _Statutory Grape_

"Grapefruit Juice" Love Love Straw _Dream All Day_

interview with reporter/historian Ted Charles

"Orange Juice" Stanley Brinks & The Wave Pictures _Orange Juice_

"Apple Juice" Penelope Isles _Comfortably Swell_

"Orange Juice" Rose Kemp _A Hand Full Of Hurricanes_

"Orange Juice & Velvet Underwear" Intersystems _Number One_

"Juicebox Baby" The Regrettes _Feel Your Feelings Fool!_

interview with exposé writer Clint Speck

"Carrot Juice" Vegetable Spectacle _Frog Lady_

"Orange Juice" Martha _Love Keeps Kicking_

"Fruit Flavored Teas" George Carlin _When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?_

"Orange Juice" Pop Crimes _Gathered Together_

"Lemon Juice" Dear Misses _Cool Down Under_

conclusion & goodbye

"Skunk Juice" The Panzant Brothers _SuperFunk_

"Apple Juice" Hannibal Buress _Animal Furnace_

"Drinking Carrot Juice" Cowboy Jack Clement _Guess Things Happen That Way_

"Orange Juice Star" Raggedy Ann _Periscope: Another Yoyo Compilation_

"Orange Juice" Bellows _Fist & Palm_

* I took a photo of the label of a bottle of Lakewood Organic Lemon Juice & manipulated it in my clumsy way for this week's image. I hope they don't mind. Here is their website.

Whither Juice?

(image from here)

To explain why the theme of this week's show is fruit, I need to tell you a bit about how awkward I can be when it comes to entertaining guests at my home. A couple of Thanksgivings ago, my wife invited a colleague & her husband to our house for Thanksgiving. I think we had also invited our favorite neighbor couple. I was all right with the menu, I knew what I wanted to cook, but when the time came for drinks, I was at a loss. We asked them what they wanted to drink & they seemed cool with whatever. But what whatever? I drink soda, my wife drinks water. What do other people drink?

Pondering this, I found myself at Costco looking at juices. As you know, you can't buy anything small at Costco, & so I ended up buying two giant containers each of two different kinds of juices. My wife was a bit irritated. "Who is going to drink that?" she asked. Neither of us really drinks juice, you see. I said, "Our Thanksgiving guests." She said, "They won't drink that."

We had the juice out for Thanksgiving but no one wanted any. I think I drank some of the apple juice but that left three giant containers. Which we kept in the garage. They were giant. We don't have a huge refrigerator.

This last Thanksgiving I noticed them. I can't remember if they were expired or not. I should probably check. I knew no one in the house wanted them. But it occurred to me that juice would be a really good theme for a show. & after many weeks, the juice will be freshly squeezed tonight.

That was a long dumb story but it's really how I came up with the theme. I should've probably just said I was having some juice & been done with it.

In any event, that's what's happening on Self Help Radio tonight, midnight to 2am, on KBOO - 90.7fm in Portland, kboo dot fm everywhere. If some of the juice in the garage is still good, I'll take it up to the station with me & drink it all during the show. It'll be a like a cleanse!

Preface To Juice: A Photo I Took

Taken in my neighborhood sometime last year. Nothing to do with juice. Just seemed appropriate for the right now.