Here’s the Thing: Trailer
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 8.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Join award-winning actor Alec Baldwin in conversation with some of the most dynamic artists, policymakers, and performers working today. This season, Alec speaks with musician, and photographer Julian Lennon on his work, and his philanthropic causes, the founding members of Blue Man Group on the recent closing of their famed New York City show after 30 years, celebrated actor Victor Garber, SNL writer Steve Higgins on SNL’s 50th anniversary, and Christopher Rothko, son of artist Mark Rothko, just to name a few. If you like listening as much as Alec likes talking with interesting people, subscribe now and never miss an episode.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:05.8 | Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. |
| 0:08.0 | The new season of my podcast, Here's the Thing, is returning January 28th on IHeart Radio. |
| 0:15.2 | This past season, I spoke with more artists, policymakers, and performers, like writer and actor, Dan Aykroyd. |
| 0:24.4 | I love writing more than anything. You're left alone. You know, you do three hours in the |
| 0:28.2 | morning, you write three hours in the afternoon, go pick up a kid from school, and write at night, |
| 0:32.7 | and after nine hours, you come out with seven pages, and then you're moving on. It's just |
| 0:37.1 | your own devices, the air around you and your mind and a blank screen or a blank |
| 0:41.2 | piece of paper. |
| 0:42.3 | And the sex pistols, Steve Jones. |
| 0:45.1 | I was pretty simple. |
| 0:46.2 | I just wanted to do what most teenagers want to do, to get laid, have a laugh, and get drunk. |
| 0:51.7 | I'm not taking away what we concocted. You know, it's four guys who |
| 0:56.1 | just got together. It just happened to be the four guys. It was just magic for two years. |
| 1:01.7 | And actor and comedian Jack McBrayer. The most important aspect is the collaboration with people |
| 1:08.0 | that I like, I trust, are talented. That has been the most amazing gift to me about this crazy business that we've chosen. |
| 1:15.7 | Meeting these people who have such diverse talents and you're able to create something together. |
| 1:22.1 | That is so special to me and that is very meaningful to me. |
| 1:25.5 | I like working with other people and I want to keep creating |
| 1:28.7 | things that people enjoy, |
| 1:30.7 | enjoy with comfort, laugh at, |
| 1:32.7 | can have kids watch. |
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