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About the Show


SOS—Spokane is a staunchly progressive hour-long news and public affairs program airing weekly. The show addresses critical issues facing the Inland Northwest via research, in-depth news, information, analysis, and reasoned opinion. Its format includes conversations, interviews, debates, and presentations. Invited guests might be topical experts, activists, advocates, civic leaders, public servants, journalists and authors, newsmakers, whistleblowers, muckrakers, artists, academics, or simply informed citizens.

The aim of SOS—Spokane is to illuminate and dialogue the pressing local and regional, and occasionally specific national and/or international concerns of our KYRS listeners.

Show Playlists


Paul talked about a range of current local, state-wide, national, and international news stories […]
Today’s guests were Kim Schmidt, Nicholette Ocheltree, and Tom Robinson, founders of the facebook group Stronger Together Spokane. […]
Chris Armitage, challenger for the 5th Congressional District seat currently held by Cathy McMorris-Rogers, was today’s guest  for the entire hour. […]
James and Paul did a year end wrap-up of important stories and issues–local, regional, state-wide, national, and international, all. […]
In our first segment Joe Sheehan talked about the twenty years since the Community Block, soon to be rebranded, was established. Joe manages the Magic Lantern Theater.  His father, Jim, purchased and remodeled five buildings on each side of the block. The remainder of the hour was spent debating reasons why Donald J. Trump should […] […]
Don Hamilton from Hamilton Studio chatted with us about his long career as a commercial photographer/videographer, and his most recent host/narrator performer on a KSPS documentary entitled Capturing History about three historically important Eastern Washington photographers, Charles A. Libby, Frank Palmer, and Frank Matsura. […]
Spokane recording and performing artist Eshoo Back was today’s guest. We talked about his childhood in Iraq, particularly in the aftermath of the second Gulf War. Also discussed was his interaction with G.I.s in Iraq, how he came to immigrate to the U.S., what challenges he’s faced since arriving, and  about his recent music videos. […]
Todays show was a rebroadcast of live coverage of this year’s climate strike as well as cuts from our following in-studio show on climate change. […]
James announced the launch of our new KYRS Warm Stuff Drive for Jewel’s Helping Hands. Paul and James had a discussion about the impeachment proceedings and the history of Ukraine. […]