Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Hosted by Alec Baldwin · iHeartPodcasts
4.2from 8,560 ratings
- 488
- Episodes
- 60
- Transcribed
- 8,560
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2011
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers. Alec sidesteps the predictable by going inside the dressing rooms, apartments, and offices of people we want to understand better: Ira Glass, Lena Dunham, David Letterman, Barbara Streisand, Tom Yorke, Chris Rock and others. Hear what happens when an inveterate guest becomes a host.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- arts · music · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Oct 2011
- Latest episode
- 22 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
60 of 488 episodes have a transcript.
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Inside a recent episode
From the Archives: Edie Falco
Published 22 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But my mom was an actress. She did stuff at Arena Players and Farmingdale and Broad Hollow Theater and Huntington all around Long Island. But she had a job and she would do her plays in the weekends and at night. And I sort of thought, oh, your job. Many different jobs, but she was a DJ at WGLI, was a station on Long Island. She was a copywriter and she did a million different things. She decided she wanted a job and she would get it. But then at night she'd do her plays and I thought that's what you do when you want to be an actor. How many siblings do you have? I've got an older brother, younger brother, and a younger sister. […]
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- Edie Falco
- Daniel Immerwahr
- Josh Fox
- Justine Bateman
- Kurt Andersen
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 8,002 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.2 / 5
- 558 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Questions about Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Who hosts Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin?
Alec Baldwin host the show. Published by iHeartPodcasts.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin take guests?
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