Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
Hosted by Alec Baldwin · iHeartPodcasts
4.2from 8,571 ratings
- 494
- Episodes
- 66
- Transcribed
- 8,571
- Ratings
- Weekly
- 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
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
66 of 494 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
From the Archives: Todd Rundgren
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Hitmakers: Foreigner’s Lou Gramm and Yes’ Jon Anderson
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
From the Archives: Michael Douglas
Inside a recent episode
From the Archives: Todd Rundgren
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] You turned it on and it was ready to take commands from you. It had ways, easy ways to load software programs into it. So I learned to program the computer and eventually I developed a program that Apple marketed in like the early 80s because they had a piece of hardware called a graphic tablet. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
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- Todd Rundgren
- Lou Gramm
- Jon Anderson
- Michael Douglas
- Patricia Bosworth
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.3 / 5
- 8,009 ratings
- Spotify
- 3.2 / 5
- 562 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 87 / 100
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- Quality
- 97
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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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 weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin take guests?
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