March 9, 2025
Below you will find 185 broadcasts of "Your Opinion, Please," from the early 2000s, as they were aired on radio station KEMC in Billings, Montana. The show was hosted by Marvin Granger and Ken Siebert and features callers from across the state.
While I usually listened to the broadcasts live, I didn't always record them but you will find a fair sampling of them below. I recorded either on reel-to-reel tape or directly to the computer using a timer recorder. They were all digitized as some point and while the quality might vary a bit they are all listenable. I did take some notes regarding the topics covered in a few of the shows and those appear in the list below. I plan to work my way back through the programs and add more of those notes.
Call-in shows have existed in Billings for many years. While the current trend leans toward outrage-baiting and ranting, "Your Opinion, Please" was a pleasant divergence from that with a calm tone and a caring approach to the issues.
These programs are now the subject of a documentary film. Find out more about the film here: Your Opinion Film
If you are interested in some older call-in shows from Billings, I unearthed quite a few more some years ago and have those posted in the 600 Reels Page. There is a search box there and by entering "call-in" you will find some from the mid-1960s to 1970. One of the shows was called "Beef or Bouquet."
| Date | Notes | Link |
| March 1, 2001 | pepper spray at Pine Hills, racism, Matt Hale, Native American culture | Play |
| August 17, 2001 | referendum on energy and Montana Power, intelligence of listeners, homeschooling, creationism, stem cells | Play |
| August 23, 2001 | fake story about NPR,Montana Power, Michelle Lee, religious broadcasters, law against releasing secrets, Gary Condit, power deregulation | Play |
| August 30, 2001 | snopes, rude drivers, Governor Martz and the+traffic death, Burn the Point, Missouri Breaks, people from Butte | Play |
| September 6, 2001 | Thermopolis losing translator, history of slavery, illegals, indentured workers | Play |
| September 13, 2001 | First show after 911 90 minutes Ivon cohosts | Play |
| September 21, 2001 | the nimda worm, HB474, protecting pilots | Play |
| September 27, 2001 | After 911 90 minutes with Dan Zirker | Play |
| November 8, 2001 | president's speech, diviseness, Central America election, Flight 93, oil | Play |
| November 30, 2001 | joined in progress, the Patriot Bill with Dan Zirker, military trials for 911, this recording is incomplete | Play |
| December 14, 2001 | priming the pump, complementing Susan DeCamp, coal bed methane, journalism, passenger trains, the draft, Bin Laden tape | Play |
| December 27, 2001 | India Pakistan and president Bush, Argentina, Rudy Giuliani, Paul Whiting on 911, poetry | Play |
| December 28, 2001 | reaction to Paul Whiting's call on previous show, the French, call about Scott Simon, Afghanistan, Enron, conspiracy theories | Play |
| January 11, 2002 | timber harvesting after fires, satellite radio, Warren Olney show feedback | Play |
| January 17, 2002 | the reporting from Afghanistan, Enron, call from Brian Kahn on democracy | Play |
| January 25, 2002 | reaction to speech by Governor Martz, Enron, feedback on station programming, Conrad Burns and money from Enron, coverup of 911 | Play |
| February 13, 2002 | drunk driving, station programming, college athlete stipends, game farming, term limits, pruritans | Play |
| February 14, 2002 | the Olympics, campaign financing, senior Olympics, coal bed methane and water | Play |
| February 20, 2002 | censorship of libraries wth Alice Meister, Susan DeCamp, Bill Cochrane, internet filtering, user privacy, Patriot Act, item selection procedures | Play |
| April 19, 2002 | coal bed methane, the cost of insurance, discussions by scientists, the cost of extraction | Play |
| May 2, 2002 | Mary Fitzpatric in for Marvin, suicide in Islam, opinion on Palestinians, water quality, Billings Skypoint, Frontier House TV show, world demographics | Play |
| May 3, 2002 | Frontier House TV show, Rolling Stones, Buy Back the Dams, coal bed methane, school board election, Skypoint, cold fusion | Play |
| May 10, 2002 | reflecting on recent economic forum, Montana voters, snowmobiles in YNP, corporations, Forest Service property on the Stillwater | Play |
| May 30, 2002 | Marvin's recent trip, sales tax and property tax relief, motorized vehicles in YNP | Play |
| May 31, 2002 | cotton bolls, vote for the arts, motorized vehicles in YNP, playing the blues, top heavy higher education, support for zoo, support for arts from Jennifer Hawke | Play |
| June 7, 2002 | profiling by law enforcement, giving up rights for security, about regular callers, travel+plan for Gallatin, men and women solving problems, hate groups and churches | Play |
| June 27, 2002 | 100 degrees in Billings, The Pledge ruled unconstitutional, note it was reversed in 2010, Missouri River Drug Taskforce | Play |
| June 28, 2002 | more calls on The Pledge, call about repeated shows, bias in the news, Lutheran thoughts, cultural education, comments on To The Point | Play |
| August 1, 2002 | Guy Moody in for Ken, laws limiting personal behavior, smoking, Montana Power and Touch America, high cost of medical care, land swap for mining | Play |
| August 9, 2002 | includes end of ATC with 90 Second Naturalist, changes to initiative process, Texas and energy, Palestine, oil companies, Utah Philips, limiting smoking | Play |
| November 7, 2002 | joined in progress, high cost of healthcare, teacher strike, how times are changing, who accounts for where taxes go, sales tax | Play |
| November 15, 2002 | teacher salaries, how teachers are teated, teacher accreditations, teachers only work 9 months, purpose of edcuation academic or vocational, semantics of professional, strike causing pain, accountability | Play |
| November 22, 2002 | includes end of ATC with 90 Second Naturalist, Bin Laden tape, the election, Middle East war, foreign policy, the ongoing teacher strike, idle students, show followed by 6 minutes of Utah Phillips | Play |
| December 5, 2002 | teacher strike being voted tonight, education in other countries, quality and content and methods in education, radiation from coal burning, educating for an unknown future, tracking in schools, Gov Martz | Play |
| December 19, 2002 | what Senator Lott said, partisan racism, the recent election, words that offend, revenue neutral, being civilized, political correctness, tourist tax, Governor Martz promoting sales tax | Play |
| December 20, 2002 | Ken hosts with Ivon White, drunk driving, use of the military, US wars of conquest, Iraq, American misunderstanding events | Play |
| January 2, 2003 | Ken hosts solo, caller to run for presidency, medical malpractice insurance, vigil by Montana Peaceseekers, insurance premiums, pet peeves, plutocracy, malpractice costs from surgeon, Google Zeitgeist | Play |
| January 3, 2003 | tax proposal, driving and bad weather, wages, sales tax, complaining about a caller, food poisoning, Middle East, Napolean, the economy, Saddam Hussein | Play |
| January 24, 2003 | Dan Eichlin for Ken, military service for presidents, Howard Dean, caller diversity, foreign policy, Postal Service issue, war, Hemingway poem, post teacher strike, protests | Play |
| February 27, 2003 | legislature overturning will of people, sales tax, XM radio, candidate personalities vs issues, lack of media coverage | Play |
| February 28, 2003 | Dan in for Ken, Mark Twain, Taliban Saddam Jusy Martz, initiatives, Bush debating Saddam, insurance rates climate change, books | Play |
| March 20, 2003 | the war in Iraq has begun, hypocrisy in protests, war coverage, restricting the initiative process, giving the finger, is the war an extension of 1991 | Play |
| March 27, 2003 | depleted uranium, war coverage, music programming, gambling, coal, Butte like Branson, book recommendations | Play |
| March 28, 2003 | money spent on war, deregulation and Montana Power, gambling, justification for war, term limits, war for oil | Play |
| April 4, 2003 | computers as brains, smoking law, overturning the will of the people, offensive symbols, immigration and jobs, initiative proces, horrors of war, the Atlantic | Play |
| April 17, 2003 | book recommendations, Stephen Ambrose, book about Soviets,, more books, too many bills in leg, school board districting, drilling in Arctic, patriotism, more books | Play |
| April 18, 2003 | Play | |
| April 24, 2003 | Play | |
| May 9, 2003 | Play | |
| May 15, 2003 | Play | |
| May 22, 2003 | Play | |
| May 29, 2003 | Play | |
| May 30, 2003 | Play | |
| June 5, 2003 | Play | |
| June 6, 2003 | Play | |
| June 13, 2003 | Play | |
| June 20, 2003 | Play | |
| June 26, 2003 | Play | |
| June 27, 2003 | Play | |
| July 10, 2003 | Play | |
| July 11, 2003 | Play | |
| July 18, 2003 | Play | |
| August 8, 2003 | Play | |
| August 22, 2003 | Play | |
| September 11, 2003 | Play | |
| September 25, 2003 | Play | |
| October 3, 2003 | Play | |
| October 9, 2003 | Play | |
| October 10, 2003 | Play | |
| October 30, 2003 | Play | |
| November 7, 2003 | Play | |
| November 21, 2003 | Play | |
| December 18, 2003 | Play | |
| December 19, 2003 | Play | |
| January 9, 2004 | Play | |
| January 23, 2004 | Play | |
| January 28, 2004 | Play | |
| January 29, 2004 | Play | |
| January 30, 2004 | Play | |
| February 6, 2004 | Play | |
| February 13, 2004 | Play | |
| February 27, 2004 | Play | |
| March 5, 2004 | Play | |
| March 12, 2004 | Play | |
| March 26, 2004 | Play | |
| April 15, 2004 | Play | |
| April 16, 2004 | Play | |
| April 30, 2004 | Play | |
| May 6, 2004 | incomplete | Play |
| May 13, 2004 | Play | |
| May 21, 2004 | Play | |
| May 28, 2004 | Play | |
| June 11, 2004 | Play | |
| June 18, 2004 | Play | |
| July 1, 2004 | Play | |
| July 2, 2004 | Play | |
| July 8, 2004 | Play | |
| July 15, 2004 | Play | |
| July 16, 2004 | Play | |
| August 0, 2004 | Play | |
| August 5, 2004 | Play | |
| August 12, 2004 | Play | |
| August 13, 2004 | Play | |
| August 19, 2004 | Play | |
| August 20, 2004 | replacement hosts | Play |
| August 27, 2004 | Play | |
| September 9, 2004 | Play | |
| October 28, 2004 | Play | |
| November 0, 2004 | Play | |
| November 4, 2004 | Play | |
| November 18, 2004 | Play | |
| November 19, 2004 | Play | |
| November 26, 2004 | Play | |
| December 0, 2004 | Play | |
| December 9, 2004 | Play | |
| December 10, 2004 | Play | |
| December 17, 2004 | Play | |
| January 7, 2005 | Play | |
| January 14, 2005 | Play | |
| February 2, 2005 | Play | |
| February 3, 2005 | Play | |
| February 4, 2005 | Play | |
| February 18, 2005 | Play | |
| February 24, 2005 | Play | |
| February 25, 2005 | Play | |
| March 3, 2005 | some audio distorion | Play |
| March 4, 2005 | Play | |
| March 10, 2005 | Play | |
| March 11, 2005 | Play | |
| March 17, 2005 | Play | |
| March 18, 2005 | Play | |
| March 31, 2005 | Play | |
| April 1, 2005 | Play | |
| April 14, 2005 | Play | |
| April 21, 2005 | Play | |
| April 29, 2005 | Play | |
| May 12, 2005 | Play | |
| May 19, 2005 | Play | |
| May 20, 2005 | Play | |
| June 3, 2005 | Play | |
| June 9, 2005 | Play | |
| June 17, 2005 | Play | |
| June 23, 2005 | Play | |
| June 24, 2005 | Play | |
| July 1, 2005 | missing 1st few minutes | Play |
| July 7, 2005 | Play | |
| July 9, 2005 | fuel cells | Play |
| July 28, 2005 | Play | |
| July 29, 2005 | Play | |
| August 4, 2005 | missing 1st 5 minutes | Play |
| August 18, 2005 | Play | |
| September 11, 2005 | Play | |
| September 30, 2005 | Play | |
| October 13, 2005 | Play | |
| October 14, 2005 | Play | |
| March 3, 2006 | Play | |
| March 9, 2006 | Play | |
| March 10, 2006 | Play | |
| March 24, 2006 | Play | |
| March 31, 2006 | Play | |
| May 5, 2006 | Play | |
| May 11, 2006 | Play | |
| May 12, 2006 | Play | |
| May 18, 2006 | Play | |
| May 28, 2006 | Play | |
| April 6, 2007 | Play | |
| April 6, 2007 | Play | |
| May 3, 2007 | Play | |
| May 3, 2007 | Play | |
| May 10, 2007 | Play | |
| May 11, 2007 | Play | |
| May 17, 2007 | Play | |
| May 18, 2007 | Play | |
| May 25, 2007 | Play | |
| May 31, 2007 | Play | |
| June 1, 2007 | Play | |
| June 7, 2007 | Play | |
| June 8, 2007 | Play | |
| January 17, 2008 | Play | |
| January 23, 2008 | Play | |
| January 30, 2008 | Play | |
| June 1, 2009 | Play |
As a bonus, here is a compilation of various calls from Ivon: Click here