Skip to content
Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin artwork

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin Podcast Transcripts

iHeartPodcasts · 501 episodes with transcripts

Award-winning actor Alec Baldwin takes listeners into the lives of artists, policy makers and performers.

Spoken has transcripts of 501 Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin episodes, with the speakers named. The newest listed here is from October 6, 2026.

Every Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin transcript in one script

501 episodes of Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin have transcripts. Fetch them all as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script — 1 credit each, and re-fetching one you already have is free:

archive.sh
curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/472939437/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -sf -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id || rm -f "${id}-${slug}.md"
      sleep 0.34
    done

Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.

501 credits. Credits never expire. Excludes VAT, added at checkout for EU customers.

Latest Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin transcripts

From the Archives: Lang Lang

October 6, 2026

Alec Baldwin (0:02)

This is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's The Thing. Rock star is the wrong word by definition, but classical star doesn't quite get at Lang Lang's place in the pantheon. He's a serious pianist playing serious repertoire with a flare. Here, it's a Schubert fantasy in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie…

One's tempted to say he's one part Glenn Gould, one part Van Clyburn, but the truth is he's Lang Lang. He and his signature Buffon were the obvious choice to open the Beijing Olympics, watched by four billion people. And for President Obama to invite to play at the intimate White House dinner for the President of…

Lang Lang (2:02)

We're very close.

Alec Baldwin (2:04)

Our conversation was taped in front of a live audience at WNYC's GreenSpace.

Keep reading this transcript

These are examples, not the full list — see everything available from this show via the API, get started.

Looking for a different show? Search for it to see whether it has transcripts you can fetch.

Thousands of transcripts fetched by people building searchable podcast archives

Any Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin episode comes back as Markdown with the speakers named, one credit each.

request
curl -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/1000793364517

No subscription. Credits never expire. Prices exclude VAT, added at checkout for EU customers. Try free with pt_demo.