Alec Baldwin, Billy Baldwin 'battling' with brothers over political differences

"We live in a new age," Billy told Arroyo in the podcast episode posted on Wednesday. "This isn't like 'Let's fight over, you know, Reagan and Iran-Contra.' You know, we live in a different world where - when I worked on the Hill, Bob Dole was the Senate Majority Leader and Tip O'Neal was the House Speaker, and everyone talked about gridlock and how nothing got done back then when I was working on the Hill. Well, those were the good old days."

Billy told Arroyo, "Forget brothers and sisters. I mean, members of opposite parties, members of the same party aren't even talking to each other. We need a healing. We need a healing."

He said that Robert Marbut, President Donald Trump's former homelessness czar, was brought on as a producer and consultant for his upcoming film about the homelessness crisis, "No Address." 

"And we've all been working very closely with him, and we've been going around the country with the film, with the documentary, doing panels, discussions, talking to think tanks, and they marvel at the fact that he's a [former] Trump Cabinet member, and I'm a Hollywood lefty, and we're finding commonsense. We're finding consensus, and we're totally respectful, and we're treating each other with dignity," Billy said.

He said that sometimes his family doesn't get together over the holidays because of their political differences. 

"That's happened in my family, yeah," Billy told Arroyo. "And I've gone to gatherings on the [his wife Chynna] Phillips' side of the family where people got together and there was sort of mixed opinions there, too - not as polarizing as other settings I've been in - but yeah, you read it all the time."

Billy said it's interesting with the old adage, "Don't talk religion or politics: Now they completely intersect." 

While Billy's father was a high school teacher, his coach and ran the Cub Scouts and Little League, Phillips' mother, Mamas and the Papas singer Michelle Phillips, lived with Warren Beatty for four years after divorcing Chynna's father. Then Michelle lived with Jack Nicholson for four years and then was briefly married to Dennis Hopper, all while dating Mick Jagger throughout. Billy added that Chynna used to go to the Ice Capades and the circus and zoo with Michael Jackson and his brothers and sisters. 

"But oddly enough, the Baldwins have kind of jumped the Phillips' shark when it comes to family dysfunction and insanity," he joked. "They're all back together. They're all in the same room for Thanksgiving talking, while my brothers and I are like, battling. We're battling."