Ira Glass and Alex Gibney - 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

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Our Here’s the Thing Summer Staff Picks series continues, featuring our favorite episodes from the archives. This week, we revisit Alec’s interviews with two great American storytellers, Ira Glass and Alex Gibney. Ira Glass has been the host and creative force of WBEZ’s This American Life since 1995. The public radio personality revolutionized nonfiction storytelling by using a voice that's personable, modest, and emotionally engaged. Alec sat down with Ira Glass in 2014 to compare notes on interviewing, the afterlife, and finding one’s vocal style. Alex Gibney is one of the most respected and prolific documentary filmmakers in history. His stories feature strong characters and propulsive narratives that often expose malfeasance or incompetency. In this 2021 conversation, Alex Gibney speaks with Alec about going up against powerful organizations, shifting from Japanese literature to film and the collaborators that have helped him grow.

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0:00.0	Yellowstone, television's number one show is back on Paramount Network.
0:03.6	I John Dutton, who solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution of the State of Montana,
0:08.4	against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
0:10.8	Featuring an all-star cast led by Academy Award winner Kevin Costner,
0:13.9	the invasion is over. They will fight you dirty.
0:16.0	Is there any other way?
0:17.2	As the Dutton family fights to protect their legacy, they'll learn power has a price.
0:21.1	Signed as a declaration of war.
0:23.2	We're already at war.
0:24.2	Yellowstone, new episodes Sundays at 8 p.m. Eastern, exclusively on Paramount Network.
0:31.3	Hi, I'm Maureen Hobern, one of the producers with Here's the Thing.
0:35.6	We're in the middle of our summer staff picks, where those of us
0:38.4	adheres the thing present some of our favorite episodes from the Archives.
0:43.1	This week I want to share with you two interviews from incredible American storytellers,
0:47.6	host and producer Ira Glass and director producer Alex Gibney.
0:51.5	As someone who's worked in media and documentary for some time now,
0:55.3	I've always been bold over by the unmatched abilities of Ira Glass.
0:59.6	Before everyone in their brother had a podcast, and even before Alec,
1:03.7	Ira Glass has been weaving incredible stories on public radio as producer and host
1:08.9	of this American life since 1995.
1:11.7	With his unmistakable voice and natural win some delivery,
1:15.3	Ira Glass makes it look easy, as he presents tales that can make you giggle
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