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Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 20 - Captain Sensible (The Damned / "Happy Talk")This time I’m letting Raymond Ian Burns talk…although you’d know him better by his nom de punk: Captain Sensible.
As a founding member of the Damned, he’s a proper punk rock legend and a member of the band who famously released the first punk single in the UK and was the first UK punk band to play in the US. Mind you, he hasn’t been a consistent member of the band throughout the entirety of their existence, but it’s because of that absence from their roster that he was able to forge a solo...
2026-01-2850 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 19 - Kathleen Chalfant (The Copenhagen Test / Law & Order)This time, the person I’m letting talk is Kathleen Chalfant.
Kathleen is an actress who got her start in the theater, moved into on-camera acting through the wonderful world of soap operas, and has become a familiar face in films as well as on television, most recently on the Peacock series “The Copenhagen Test.”
In the series, Kathleen plays the elusive character known as St. George, and while I’m not the first person to use that particular adjective to describe her, it’s accurate enough that she agrees with it, too. During the course of...
2026-01-2047 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 18 - Kyle Vincent (Candy / Barry Manilow / Bay City Rollers)This time, I'm letting Kyle Vincent talk.
Kyle is someone whose music I’ve been enjoying since the release of his self-titled 1997 album. Appropriately, it’s that very album that brings us into conversation today, since it’s finally made its way to streaming services for the first time.
Kyle has a deep history in music, but things really got rolling for him when he was fronting the band Candy, who you may remember for their single “Whatever Happened to Fun?” It’s arguably one of the catchiest power pop singles of the ‘80s, which makes it all t...
2026-01-0558 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 17 - Chris Mulkey [Twin Peaks / Patti Rocks / First Blood / Whiplash]This time, I’m letting Chris Mulkey talk.
Chris is a character actor whose work I’ve been watching since well before I actually knew who he was, but I do know when I actually started paying attention to him: after he started playing Hank Jennings, the deceitful husband of Double R Diner owner Norma Jennings, on Twin Peaks.
He first stepped in front of the camera in the mid-1970s, and he’s been working steadily ever since, perpetually mixing things up between film and television but always keeping busy. The amount of TV series...
2025-12-311h 16Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 16 - Angelo Moore of Fishbone, a.k.a. Dr. Madd VibeThis time, I'm letting Angelo Moore talk.
Angelo is a force of nature, one of the most gregarious individuals I’ve ever had the good fortune to interview, and – it must be said – one of the greatest self-promoters you’re likely to ever come across. And I mean that as a compliment. I need to take notes from this man.
In addition to having been the frontman of Fishbone since the band’s inception, Angelo also works under the guise of Dr. Madd Vibe. I interviewed him years ago, way back in 2001, and it was a decidedl...
2025-12-281h 40Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 15 - Rizwan Manji (Re-Election / Outsourced / Schitt's Creek / Peacemaker)This time, I’m letting Rizwan Manji talk.
Rizwan has successfully carved himself out a career as a character actor, one who’s frequently comedic but has also had the opportunity to show off his dramatic chops on occasion. I first met him when he was in the cast of the NBC sitcom Outsourced, which was set in a call center in India. It met with a decidedly mixed reaction at the time, but I enjoyed it from the get-go, for reasons which I explain during the course of today’s episode. But I interviewed Riz and his co...
2025-12-241h 05Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 14 - Jerry Ordway (All-Star Squadron, Adventures of Superman, Fantastic Four)This time, I'm letting Jerry Ordway talk.
Jerry is one of my favorite comic book artists and writers, going back to the early ‘80s. If you listened to my interview with Mike Carlin a few episodes back, then you already know that I’m a certifiable comic book nerd, but I will admit that I got even nerdier while talking with Mr. Ordway.
If you came of age with DC Comics anywhere within the ‘60s through the ‘80s, then you’re aware of the existence of Earth-2, a parallel version of Earth where superheroes started to emerge...
2025-12-222h 06Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with WIll Harris - Ep. 13 - Mat Bradley-Tschirgi (The Films of Eddie Murphy / Uwe Boll / Star Trek video games)This time, I'm letting Mat Bradley-Tschirgi talk.
Mat's a fellow pop culture writer - because, you know, we’re all in this thing together, you guys - and he and I follow each other on social media. We have a number of similar pop culture likes, but I was still surprised and honored when he asked me if I’d give a read to his latest book and do a blurb for it. I happily agreed, because, c’mon, when someone says, “I’ve just written a book called ‘The Films of Eddie Murphy’ and I’d like you to read...
2025-12-1753 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 12 - Eden Sher and Brock Ciarlelli (The Middle / Middling with Eden and Brock)This time I’m letting two people talk. Better yet, it’s two people who starred in one of my favorite sitcoms in recent memory, and now they’re the hosts of one of my must-listen podcasts.
If you’ve ever watched The Middle, then you already know Eden Sher, a.k.a. Sue Sue Heck, and if you watched The Middle on a semi-regular basis, then you also know Brock Ciarlelli, who played Sue’s bestie, Brad. I think just about everyone who listens to this podcast already knows this, but I reviewed The Middle for the AV Clu...
2025-12-141h 20Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 11 - Thomas Jane (The Punisher / Hung / Arrested Development)This time I'm letting Thomas Jane talk.
The last time I talked to Mr. Jane was in 2011, when I interviewed him for the AV Club’s Random Roles feature, and I won’t lie to you, I was downright giddy when I got word that I’d secured him for an episode of this podcast.
Thomas Jane has been acting in front of the camera since he was 15, and the story about how he got that gig is one that we talk about during the course of our conversation. A lot of people know him as The...
2025-12-101h 01Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 10 - Pepe Serna (Scarface / Buckaroo Banzai / The Jerk)This time, I'm letting Pepe Serna talk.
Pepe is a character actor who’s been appearing onscreen since the start of the ‘70s, bouncing between film, stage, and television, and although he’s still acting whenever the opportunity presents itself, he spends a good chunk of his time these days as an artist and an acting teacher.
Pepe’s first film was a Roger Corman cult classic called The Student Nurses, and having gotten his foot in the door, he never looked back, quickly finding himself working for Dalton Trumbo in Johnny Got His Gun, sharing...
2025-12-081h 09Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 09 - Julie Klausner (Difficult People / SNL / Mulaney)This time, I'm letting Julie Klausner talk.
I’d never interviewed Julie before, but we found ourselves following each other on Bluesky as a result of my AV Club Set List interview with They Might Be Giants. It turns out that she's a huge They Might Be Giants fan, which is something I didn’t realize, but I clearly should’ve, since – as a realized during a rewatch of her Hulu series Difficult People – there’s an episode where her costar, Billy Eichner, is hanging out in Julie’s childhood bedroom, and there’s a very prominent They Might Be Gi...
2025-12-0452 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 08 - Billy Campbell (Star Trek: The Next Generation / Rocketeer / Tales of the City / Cardinal)This time, I'm letting Billy Campbell talk.
Billy is someone whose career arc has taken him from Dynasty to Dracula to Star Trek: The Next Generation, if not necessarily in that order. He’s starred in a plethora of period pieces that have found him in the midst of the Civil War, Los Angeles in the late 1930s, and Chicago in the early 1960s.
But, of course, it’s important to keep in mind that Billy basically hasn’t stopped working since kicking off his acting career in the ‘80s, and when you’re working more or le...
2025-12-011h 39Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 07 - Mike Carlin (Marvel Comics / DC Comics)This week, I'm letting Mike Carlin talk.
You may recognize Mike's name if you’re a comic book fan, since not only has he written and edited for both Marvel and DC Comics, but he’s even been a comic book character on occasion, famously hiring one particular superhero as an artist with Marvel Comics…while in his secret identity, of course.
The funny thing about this interview, however, is that it didn’t come about because of comics. It came about because Mike and I are Facebook friends, and it caught my eye when he offere...
2025-11-262h 06Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 6 - Vincent Martella (Everybody Hates Chris / Phineas & Ferb / The Walking Dead)This week, I'm letting Vincent Martella talk.
I’ve been a fan of Vincent’s work since he was a series regular on the UPN – later CW – sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, where he played Chris’s very white friend, Greg. It’s one of those sitcoms that not enough people watched when it was originally on the air, but its fanbase has continued to grow over the years as a result of the show’s streaming presence. In fact, it even spawned an animated sequel last year called – what else? – Everybody Still Hates Chris.
The original run of Ev...
2025-11-2355 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 5 - Murray Attaway (Guadalcanal Diary)This week, I'm letting Murray Attaway talk.
I first became a fan of Murray’s work when he was fronting the Georgia-based band Guadalcanal Diary, who – along with Rhett Crowe, John Poe, and the late, great Jeff Walls – brought us such classic college rock tracks as “Watusi Rodeo,” “Trail of Tears,” “Spirit Train,” “Cattle Prod,” “Litany (Life Goes On),” “Get Over It,” “Always Saturday,” and “Pretty Is as Pretty Does.” After releasing their fourth studio album, 1989’s Flip Flop, the band made a collective decision to go their separate ways, but Murray soldiered onward, signing a solo deal with Geffen Records and releasing h...
2025-11-191h 42Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 4 - Kevin M. KruseThis week, I'm letting Kevin M. Kruse talk.
Also this week: the debut of what I hope will be a recurring episode premise called “Political Pundits on Pop Culture.” Then again, maybe it’ll be a one-off. But given how much fun I had talking to Kevin, I certainly hope it isn’t.
Kevin is a history professor at Princeton, a respected author, and one of my favorite follows on Bluesky, but as it turns out, we also have more than a few similar pop culture touchstones, from SNL and Police Squad! to Edgar Wright and R.E.M...
2025-11-1655 minLetting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 3 - Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds)This week, I'm letting Paget Brewster talk.
I have a long and thoroughly non-sordid history of interviewing Paget for various outlets. It started with her Random Roles for the AV Club, continued with an interview for Decider, and I know I’ve interviewed her twice for That Thing They Did, and…I think this is therefore our fifth time talking, maybe? Unless you count the time when I met up with her at a CBS party during the 2016 summer Television Critics Association press tour, but if I did an interview with her there, I don’t think it was...
2025-11-131h 24Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 2 - Mitch Easter (Let's Active)This week, I'm letting Mitch Easter talk. He's a producer (R.E.M., the Connells, Suzanne Vega, Marshall Crenshaw), and he's also a singer, musician, and songwriter in his own right, though you likely know him best on that front from the years he spent in the band Let's Active. He's made a lot of music over the years, and as a result, he's got a lot of stories to tell. Also, when it comes to Smash Mouth's cover of "Every Word Means No," he has...thoughts. But you'll have to listen to find out what they are.
2025-11-091h 11Letting Them Talk with Will HarrisLetting Them Talk with Will Harris - Ep. 1 - Robbie RistThis week, I'm letting Robbie Rist talk. For my first guest, I wanted someone I actually know but who I've never interviewed before, and although I've interviewed Robbie once many years ago, it wasn't a full look back at his career, so this seemed like a good time to do that. We discuss Big John, Little John, Battlestar Galactica, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Kidd Video, and much more, including his music career. Fair warning, though: we barely touch on his time on The Brady Bunch at all.
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