Hey, everybody, welcome to Malton on Movies.

I am Leonard Malton, and I'm joined today to the magic of electronics and airwaves and things I don't begin to understand by Alec Baldwin.

Hi, Alec.

Hello, Leonard. How are you?

I am fine. I'm better now that I'm

talking to you. That makes it a better day. And I want to give you full credit for having jumped

into this medium that I have only recently, you know, become attached to podcasting when you started doing, here's the thing.

And if you folks out there listening have not heard Alex podcast, which originates from

WNYC in New York, it is just wonderful.

You get great people and have wonderful conversations.

Well, I had originally out of a desire to stay home in New York as much as possible

with my wife and my kids, I had flirted with a couple of different formats, you know,

like a Howard Stern type of bullpen of comedians and commentators and so forth. And in the conversations I had and in the meetings I

had, it kind of distilled down to what I'm doing now, which is me just doing these long-form

interviews with people. But for me, the joy, as I'm sure it is for you, is that when it works well, it's a learning experience.

I learn a lot from the people that I talk to.

Oh, sure.

Especially early on, the ones I've enjoyed everyone that I've listened to, but the ones that stick in my head are the early ones you did with David Letterman, which was just extraordinary, with Billy Joel,

a couple of guys from Long Island sitting there.

Yeah.

He was, I think, the only one we did that was unedited.

We played it just as we recorded it.

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