I love your podcast. You ask great probing questions of your guests. I also have a great deal of respect for Dr Hassan, but as an Oregon pediatrician who specializes in caring for children with autism, the thoroughly debunked association between vaccines and autism is still very much alive. As you know, a Democratic Presidential candidate RFK Jr is STILL spreading that disinformation. And a recent survey of dog owners showed 50% believed rabies vaccine causes doggie autism! The anti-vaccine, anti-science, “do your own research and believe your own facts” mentality is VERY much alive in Oregon.

We’re so lucky to have Dave Miller at OPB. His way of speaking to the guests, the choice of topics, the depth, the variety- it’s all top notch. No part of the state is ignored; so many communities are included. Thanks Dave and team!

This is a stellar program and I promote it every time I get a chance. Having local Oregon journalism is important and Dave Miller and the “think out load” team do an incredible job. My only complaint is there aren’t more oregon news podcasts.

Having a daily , in-depth radio program is such a great resource. I’m really appreciating the one-on-one interviews with candidates, and the street reporting. Hearing directly from unsheltered folks makes it clear that there are no simple solutions. Thanks Dave Miller.

I listen to a fair bit of NPR including think out loud. It is an excellent source of current news and information. My concern is that although Dave does a good job with time management and directing guests, you will often feel a Dave leaning different directions on topics. It is my preference that news such as NPR remain as unbiased as possible.

The host asks poignant questions but rarely challenges the guests unless the guest is not NPR friendly. Biased reporting from a seemingly reasonable host.

The hosts of this show is everything that is wrong with journalism in 2020. He’s got an agenda he doesn’t even attempt to hide. He leads the interviewees with questions that work toward the point he has already determined he wants to make. He’s smug and completely ignorant. Please replace him with something credible.

Excellent program, informative interviews.. Is it just me, or have no new episodes been uploaded since July 31st? I’m posting on August 7th and can’t see any available episodes since the end of July.

Excellent interviews and excellent choice of topics and guests.

Interviewer

Thanks for podcasting the news. Host asks the questions we would ask to key leaders and guests, and the sound and formatting is excellent.

Love hearing about Portland.

The show covers pressing issues of the day and more off-beat topics. Dave Miller is a great host and asks thoughtful, informed questions. I sometimes worry he'll be stolen from OPB by NPR in DC.

Great local news, politics, & culture show for western Oregon & the Portland Metro. The format is pretty standard local coverage. Heavily focused on Oregon - which is a great counter to the national news scene. Suffers from "NPR disorder" - hard driving questions for progressives & center-left political types, especially non-politicians. Totally softball to conservatives & those on the hard-right - no backbone whatsoever.

Several years ago I found this program to be fairly trite and uninteresting. But Dave Miller is doing a great job – asking the tough, important interview questions (and respectfully calling on guests if they are evasive), summarizing news in a meaningful way, and addressing topics that are important to Portlanders. Thanks for a great show!

Think Out Loud is my new favorite show. I like to stay informed about state politics and this podcast helps me to that. Thanks!

I listen to opb radio a lot. I'm glad there is a local news discussion show in Oregon. I'll give them an A for effort. I know it's got to be hard to come up with topics and produce enough material to fill 5 hours a week. Sometimes (maybe once a month) I find myself saying "great show". For instance, there's few other places where you'll hear a somewhat balanced discussion of timber payments to rural communities, or police shootings in Portland. That said, most of the time the discussion can be very 'provincial' and will include points of view that aren't especially insightful or newsworthy, particularly the online comments that are read. The interviewers seem unprepared and almost winging it at times. The biggest downside to this show though, imo, is the near constant use of the verbal tic "umm" in use by both the guests and the hosts. If you pay attention, sometimes Emily Harris will say "um" a few times per minute. I may be uptight about this - I normally don't notice things like this in everyday conversation, and I'm not a grammar police. However, on the radio, hearing somebody say "um" more than a few times becomes very grating and I begin to feel like I'm listening to a teenager's uncomfortable book report. Ummmmmmm, there are professionals who can help you eliminate such verbal tics from your speech - if you're given a daily show on public radio, it might be worth looking into. Also, the theme song is terrible - 90's muted trumpet acid jazz.

Decent show but half the time I change the channel because of all the stuttering. If you stopped stutttttering all the time during a question you'd have more time for talking.

I enjoy Think Out Loud--it's good to hear discussion on topics relevant to Portland & Oregon. I listen to Here & Now, which often discusses topics relevant to their city and region specifically, so proud our local affiliation has thrones wherewithal to make a show with NW perspective. I agree with an earlier reviewer that the show sometimes has mediocre guests, but we're not a huge metropolis and lining up talented, informed and engaging people isn't easy to do on a daily basis. It might be a little better quality if they were a weekly show, but then we would lose out on so many topics! If you're a Portlander, I'd recommend it.

I was amazed to find that public radio could play a show like Think Out Loud when I moved to PDX from Salt Lake. If OPB ever drops this show I will start supporting OPB. there are plenty of wonderful nationwide shows that could fill this time slot. At the very least they should find a new host.

Generally a great show, I enjoy the fact that some of the comments that are posted to the website during the broadcast are read during the broadcast. You don't get that with your average call-in show, especially not if you are a listener to commercial (ugh!) radio. I especially like that they focus on a single issue for the whole show, rather than breaking the hour into two or three segments that may not be related, other than by date. As for the restraint that the hosts show with their language, that is in part due to FCC micromanagement, lest they find themselves exiled to late-night, or worse -- on satellite radio like Howard Stern. As for the "but -- " in my headline, it would be nice to find more than just the current week's shows in the iTunes Store. Why not the full archive, as with some other shows from public radio? Speaking of Faith, for example, has 300 episodes available on iTunes; at one a week that is 6 years worth, if I'm not mistaken.

I like it sporadically and then I find myself not listening for weeks. They get different kinds of people as guests, but then I hear clichéd answers to predictable questions. I think of the homeless show and one of the guests is asked how she became homeless. Her answer was like 3 sentences long of not much specifics. Emily Harris moves on to the next question and doesn't probe, or ask follow ups. Non-confrontational to a fault. Why have the person on if the goal isn't to get real answers? Why ask that person that question if their vague answer isn't going to lead to anything that you are interested in asking more about. It's like having various people there filling up the hour is the goal - rather then actually getting the people to say something new on the topic. I agree - I know they can do better....I wonder if they being held back by management?

Um ok its a fine show gets old

Sometimes this is just too dry and other days it's like the hosts want to cut loose but can't. Hands tied. Words censored. This could be so much better. If you people are thinking out loud then why do your thoughts sound so filtered and so devoid of emotion? Ask hard questions and people might just surprise you. Ask the same old questions and you'll be lost among all of the other podcasts out there. You deserve better and I know you are both capable of it.

Think Out Loud is a great way to get acquainted with issues in Oregon. The hosts Emily Harris and Dave Miller are really good at providing an environment for public discourse outside the typical morning radio show format. The "As We Are" series are especially poignant and really good for those who enjoy people's stories.

Think Out Loud is an excellent, intelligent program. I am thrilled it is available to download. I normally listen to parts of it during my commute and invariably feel sad when i get to my destination and have to leave the conversation.