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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...
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Richard Kind - Summer Staff Picks
Our summer tradition at Here’s the Thing continues, as staff members choose their favorite conversations from the archives for our Summer Staff Pick s...
Jon Tenney Creates His Next TV Hit
Jon Tenney is a Juilliard-trained actor and director whose work spans film, television, and theater. Best known for portraying FBI Agent Fritz Howard...
From the Archives: Peter Frampton
This week on Here’s the Thing, Alec talks with Grammy-winning guitarist Peter Frampton. “Sound is very inspirational to me,” explains Frampton – and i...
Andres Veiel and Sandra Maischberger Document the Life of Leni Riefenstahl
Andres Veiel is an award-winning German filmmaker, writer, and director renowned for his incisive examinations of history, politics, memory, and moral...
From the Archives: Jon Robin Baitz
Jon Robin Baitz is a playwright who admits that writing plays is tricky. He’s a snob for Broadway, where the cachet and laughs are bigger. But deep do...
Movie Exec Jason Fisher on the Next Phase of the Film & TV Industry
Jason Fisher is an award-winning producer, former studio executive, and founder of StageRunner. As former Head of Production at Disney+, Paramount, AM...
From the Archives: Jacques Pépin
He’s worked as the personal chef for French President Charles de Gaulle, co-hosted a television series with Julia Child and has authored over 30 cookb...
Melissa Errico: From Sondheim to Legrand and the Great American Songbook
Melissa Errico is a Tony-nominated actress, singer, recording artist, and writer. She is known for her iconic Broadway musical roles such as Eliza Doo...
From the Archives: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are the New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story. For five months -- perpetually in danger of losing...
Amanda Litman on Next Gen Leadership
Amanda Litman is an author, digital strategist, and the co-founder and president of “Run For Something” - an organization which recruits and supports...
Academy Award Winner Morgan Neville Captures Lorne Michaels
Morgan Neville is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker whose work has captured some of the most iconic figures in American music, film, and television....
The Many Lives of Eric Roberts
Eric Roberts is a prolific actor whom you may recognize from one of his 800 plus film and TV credits. Roberts reflects on his storied career in his re...
From the Archives: Paavo Järvi
Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi is one of the most in-demand maestros in the world, and one of Alec’s favorite conductors. Järvi is currently the chief...
Neal Shapiro: A Career Shaping Public Broadcasting
Neal Shapiro is an award-winning producer and media executive whose 30-year career spans print, broadcast, cable, and online media. Currently the CEO...
From the Archives: Susan Lucci
TV Guide called her “the most famous soap opera character in the history of daytime TV.” Actor Susan Lucci inhabited the role of bad girl Erica Kane...
How Allia Mohamed Built Openigloo
Allia Mohamed is the co-founder and CEO of Openigloo, a platform that connects renters with highly-rated landlords and enables renters to review and r...
From the Archives: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Gyllenhaal's in a good place right now, at least as far as work and family go. Her latest starring role is as a troubled teacher named Lisa Spi...
The Musical Mind of Hrishikesh Hirway
Hrishikesh Hirway is an acclaimed musician, composer, podcast creator, producer, and television host. Hirway is best known as the creator and host of...
From the Archives: Micky Dolenz
Micky Dolenz was a successful child-actor, but he became a full-fledged star at 20 in 1966 as the exuberant singer and drummer of The Monkees -- or ra...
Karina Canellakis - from Violinist to Conductor
Karina Canellakis is an American conductor and former violinist internationally acclaimed for her expressive symphonic and operatic leadership. She is...
From the Archives: Anjelica Huston on Modeling, Movie-Making, and a Life in the Spotlight
Anjelica Huston has lived many lives, all with grace and charisma. As the daughter of John Huston (director of The African Queen, The Maltese Falcon,...
The Fearless Robbie Kaplan
Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan is a renowned civil litigator and trial lawyer with decades of experience in commercial, higher education, government regulati...
From The Archives: Don Lemon Writes About God
One need not look very far to see that the television landscape has rapidly changed in the last few years, with an influx of new streaming platforms a...
Chris Whipple is Still Covering the White House
Chris Whipple is an Emmy award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, and political analyst. A former CBS 60 Minutes producer, Whipple is...
From the Archives: John Dean
When John Dean found his conscience, America found its backbone and impeached a president. The Nixon Administration tried to undermine American democr...
The Phonographic Memory of Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman is a renowned composer, lyricist, arranger, and music producer known for his prolific work across film, television, and theater. In this...
Here's The Thing: Trailer
Join award-winning actor Alec Baldwin in conversation with some of the most dynamic artists, policymakers, and performers working today. This season,...
E Jean Carroll on Writing and Resilience
E Jean Carroll was once described by one of her editors as being “institutionally incapable of being uninteresting” - and Carroll is exactly that. Eli...
Kat Owens Raises Environmental Awareness Through Art
Kat Owens is a plastic pollution researcher, artist, and activist. She merges science, policy, and the arts to address plastic pollution in her ongoin...
Jonathan Mahler and Alec Agree, “New York or Nowhere”
Jonathan Mahler is a longtime staff writer for the New York Times Magazine and the author of the best-selling book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is...
Inside the States Project with Daniel Squadron and Melissa Walker
Daniel Squadron and Melissa Walker are an unexpected duo. Formerly a New York State Senator, Daniel Squadron represented New York’s 25th and 26th dist...
A Life of Music with Tommy James
Tommy James started making music when he was 4 years old and he hasn’t stopped. Tommy is a musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and the fron...
From the Archives: Paavo Järvi Conducts Beautiful Music
Estonian conductor Paavo Järvi is one of the most in-demand maestros in the world, and one of Alec’s favorite conductors. Järvi is currently the chief...
Mallory McMorrow Wants Your Vote
Mallory McMorrow is a state senator representing Michigan’s 8th district and also a candidate for the United States Senate in the 2026 election. Mallo...
From the Archives: Steve Jones: From Sex Pistol to Lonely Boy
Coming from a challenging, working class upbringing in the United Kingdom, Steve Jones discovered his outlet in music - as founding guitarist of the g...
Journalist Zoë Schlanger Describes What Happens When a Plastic City Burns
Zoë Schlanger is an author, journalist, and current staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers the newsletter “The Weekly Planet”. Schlanger has w...
From the Archives: Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone was only four years old when she realized she belonged on stage, and she started by entertaining family members in her Long Island living...
Department of Social Services Commissioner Andrea Barton Reeves on Connecticut’s Future
Andrea Barton Reeves is a former ad litem lawyer, CEO of Harc. Inc - a nonprofit organization supporting people with intellectual disabilities and the...
From the Archives: Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an author, screenwriter, playwright, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his 2006 book Th...
Why Is Anyone Still Smoking?
It’s the leading cause of preventable death across much of Europe and North America, responsible for the loss of 41 million lives in the US, UK and Ca...