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Letting Them Talk with Will Harris

by willharrisinva

Longtime pop culture journalist Will Harris, perhaps best known for his work at the A.V. Club (or, more specifically, for his Random Roles interviews), finally embarks on a straightforward interview podcast, chatting with actors, writers, musicians, political pundits, comic book artists... The world is his oyster, and he's planning to make the most of it!

Latest episodes

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Letting Them Talk with WIll Harris - Ep. 60 - Mike Viola (The Candy Butchers / That Thing They Do! / Walk Hard / Panic at the Disco)

This time I’m letting Mike Viola talk. I’ve enjoyed Mike’s music even before I knew he was the one doing it. It all started with an amazing little movie called That Thin

Oct 16
1 h 14 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 59 - Neil Flynn [Scrubs / The Middle / Shrinking / The Fugitive / Second City / Mean Girls / Girls5Eva]

This time I’m letting Neil Flynn talk. Neil always surprises me when he actually agrees to talk, even though he’s done several interviews with me at this point. In my de

Oct 14
1 h 14 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 58 - Brittany Ishibashi [Brothers / Supernatural / Grace and Frankie / Marvel's Runaways]

This time I’m letting Brittany Ishibashi talk. Brittany absolutely qualifies for the descriptor “that gal who was in that thing,” because when you look at her filmograph

Oct 12
1 h 02 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 57 - Renny Harlin (The Beast / A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 / Die Hard 2 / The Adventures of Ford Fairlane / Driven]

This time I’m letting Renny Harlin talk. This man’s films have been part of the pop culture fabric of my life dating back to the late 1980s. I’m not going to lie and pre

Oct 9
36 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 56 - Mykelti Williamson (The Drop: A Snowfall Story / Forrest Gump / Con-Air / Heat)

This time I’m letting Mykelti Williamson talk. I’ll just go ahead and admit it: this is someone whose name I had somehow never actually heard spoken aloud before until m

Oct 7
56 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 55 - Jeneva Rose (The Perfect Marriage / Sometimes I Scare Myself / Dating After the End of the World)

This time I’m letting Jeneva Rose talk. Jeneva is an author who became a full-fledged phenomenon when she released her novel The Perfect Marriage during the pandemic and

Sep 28
43 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 54 - John Ross Bowie on STUART FAILS TO SAVE THE UNIVERSE - Season One

This time I’m letting John Ross Bowie talk. Yes, that’s right: I’m letting John Ross Bowie talk again…although in my defense and his, you may recall that during the cour

Sep 25
1 h 06 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 53 - Allan Havey (The Paper / Mad Men / Billions / Seinfeld / Curb Your Enthusiasm / The Office)

This time I’m letting Allan Havey talk. I was introduced to Allan way back in the days when there were two cable stations devoted to comedy: The Comedy Channel and HA! I

Sep 21
51 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 52 - Tommy Stinson (The Replacements / Bash & Pop / Guns 'n' Roses / Perfect)

This time I’m letting Tommy Stinson talk. Tommy was busy touring the world and elsewhere when he was still in his teens. Of course, that necessitated dropping out of sch

Sep 14
38 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 51 - Mark Sheppard (Ever After / Supernatural / Battlestar Galactica / Firefly / Doctor Who)

This time I'm letting Mark Sheppard talk. Mark's availability for an interview came up with a press release for his latest film, a horror movie called EVER AFTER, but my

Sep 4
1 h 00 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Stopgap Edition #2 - Christopher Plummer (The Sound of Music / Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / Starcrash)

This time I'm letting Christopher Plummer talk...because, yes, that's right, it's another stopgap episode, owing to the fact that I have no new episode in queue and I am

Aug 17
23 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 50 - Wesley Stace a.k.a. John Wesley Harding [The Smithereens]

This time I’m letting Wesley Stace talk. Wes is a singer-songwriter whose work I’ve enjoyed since the release of his debut LP for Sire Records, Here Comes the Groom. Tha

Aug 14
56 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 49 - Robin Shorr (The Middle / Samantha Who? / Galavant / The Carmichael Show))

This time I’m letting Robin Shorr talk. I hadn’t actually seen or talked to Robin since the summer of 2013, but despite the fact that 13 years had passed since our previ

Aug 10
1 h 12 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 48 - Michael Hampton (Parliament Funkadelic / Golden Palominos)

This time I’m letting Michael Hampton talk. Michael has been a professional guitarist since he was in his teens, earning his place in one of the most influential funk ba

Aug 7
1 h 09 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 47 - Chris Loggins (PBS / Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood / Odd Squad)

This time I’m letting Chris Loggins talk. Chris is someone I’ve been describing as an outside-the-box guest for this podcast. In realty, though, he isn’t, since he’s squ

Aug 3
37 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 46 - Josh Joplin (The Josh Joplin Group / Camera One / Among the Oak and Ash)

This time I’m letting Josh Joplin talk. I’ve been enjoying Josh’s music for 25 years now. He’s actually been making music longer than that, but I don’t mind admitting th

Jul 27
1 h 08 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 45 - Spencer Garrett (Dog Day Afternoon / Air Force One / Winning Time / 21 Jump Street / Star Trek: The Next Generation)

This time I’m letting Spencer Garrett talk. I’ve been watching this guy’s work since he made an appearance in a season four episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation cal

Jul 24
1 h 05 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Stopgap Edition #1 - Alex Rocco (The Friends of Eddie Coyle / The Godfather / Party Down)

This one's a bit of an experiment, folks: since I knew I wasn't going to have two episodes available for download this week, I decided that I'd venture into the archives

Jul 22
24 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 44 - John Ross Bowie (The Big Bang Theory / Stuart Fails to Save the Universe / Speechless / The Brink of War / Death in Paradise))

Today I’m letting John Ross Bowie talk. John has a true gift for comedy, but he’s also a gifted actor. Case and point: when he’s playing Barry Kripke, you often want to

Jul 17
1 h 10 min

Letting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 43 - Jane Seymour (Harry Wild / Dr. Quinn / Live and Let Die / Somewhere in Time / Battlestar Galactica / Radiohead )

This time I’m letting Jane Seymour talk. Jane has been a staple of TV and film since the start of the 1970s. Having gotten her start as an uncredited extra in the 1969 f

Jul 13
51 min

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15
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