Moby - Summer Staff Picks

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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Tv & Film, Music, Music Interviews, Arts, Performing Arts, Film Interviews

4.4 • 8.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Our summer tradition at Here’s the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer Staff Pick series. This week, we revisit Alec’s interview with Moby, who reflects on the unexpected success of his 1999 album Play—a record that transformed him from playing gigs in record stores to international stardom. Moby shares the chaotic aftermath of fame, from drug-fueled highs to moments of deep despair, and how he eventually found his way to sobriety. He also speaks with Alec about his unconventional childhood, his memoir Then It Fell Apart, and what he’s learned in the decade since leaving drugs and alcohol behind.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:04.4	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from IHeart Radio.
0:10.7	It's summer, and that means it's time for our tradition at Here's the Thing where the staff share their favorite episodes from our archives in our summer staff picks series.
0:22.4	Our last pick is from Engineer Frank Imperial.
0:26.7	Thanks, Alec.
0:28.0	When I think back to the late 90s and early 2000s, it's impossible not to hear Moby's music.
0:34.3	His album play was everywhere in films, commercials the radio and yet it never felt manufactured it felt
0:42.9	intimate like he had cracked open his own world and invited everyone in what makes this conversation so
0:49.6	compelling is that moby doesn't just talk about the music. He opens up about the struggles that fueled it,
0:55.7	the questions of identity and faith that have followed him,
0:58.7	and his passion for activism from animal rights to environmental issues.
1:04.0	You get a sense of an artist who always has tried to connect the personal with the political.
1:09.8	The beats with the bigger picture.
1:11.6	Listening back, I was struck by how candid he is,
1:14.6	about fame, sobriety,
1:16.6	what it means to try to live authentically in a world
1:19.6	that doesn't always make it that easy.
1:22.6	And of course, you hear the humor and self-awareness
1:25.6	that makes him such a singular voice.
1:28.9	Here's Alex's 2019 conversation with Moby.
1:33.2	I'm Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.
1:36.6	Oh, Lord and my trouble so hard.
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