303: Stand By Me/The Body with Wil Wheaton
The Kingcast
FANGORIA Podcast Network
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
I hope you brought your sad tissues with you today because this episode gets emotional real dang quickly. Our guest is Wil Wheaton who is returning to The Kingcast to talk about all things Stand By Me and The Body as Rob Reiner's film celebrates its 40th anniversary and Wil steps behind the mic and into adult Gordy LaChance's shoes as he narrates a new audiobook of Stephen King's novella, The Body.
We recorded this just two days after Wheaton appeared on stage at the Oscars for Rob Reiner's memorial and let's just say the emotions are still running strongly, but luckily for us Wil is very open about what he's feeling and what Rob meant to him as an artist and a father figure, the man who Wil believes was the first person to actually show him unconditional love and support as a young man.
So jump in as Wil recounts some stories from the making of the iconic movie and gives us insight into the process of revisiting this classic 40 years later where he, not Richard Dreyfuss, gets to lead us through it.
As a special bonus, Simon & Schuster have given us a preview of Wil Wheaton's reading of The Body, which is available for purchase now wherever you get your audiobooks. Make sure to stay to the end of the interview to hear a piece of Wheaton's narration.
Copyright © 1982 by Stephen King. Audio excerpt courtesy of Simon & Schuster Audio from the audiobook The Body, read by Wil Wheaton, published by Simon & Schuster Audio, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Used with permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Vespi here. Now, I usually don't jump in at the start of these things, but today's episode is a special one in more ways than one. |
| 0:08.7 | That's right. Will Wheaton returns to the show to talk about the 40th anniversary of Stand By Me, the late great Rob Reiner. Prepare yourselves now, by the way. It gets very emotional. Maybe a tear or two is shed. Who's to say? |
| 0:21.9 | And he's also here to talk about his brand new audiobook narration of King's novella of |
| 0:26.7 | The Body. The reason I'm jumping in here right at the top is to encourage you folks to stick |
| 0:31.9 | around at the end of the interview because the good folks at Simon and Chuster have given us |
| 0:36.1 | a lengthy preview of Will Wheaton's |
| 0:38.5 | narration of the body. |
| 0:40.9 | So not only do you get your normal Kingcast experience with me and Breznikin asking nerdy |
| 0:46.8 | questions of our guests and grilling them about Stephen King shenanigans, you're also going |
| 0:51.2 | to get a big chunk from Will's audiobook narration. It is really good. I'm very |
| 0:57.7 | excited. Thank you so much to the folks at Simon & Schuster for providing it. The audiobook is out now |
| 1:03.5 | wherever you get your audiobooks. So if you like what you hear, go pick it up. And yeah, |
| 1:07.7 | make sure you don't dip out when the interview is over or you're going to miss the good stuff. And of course, before we start, I also have to do my usual, give you the house ad read. Fangorri has been added for over 40 years and is better than ever. This magazine, it's not only gorgeous, it's highly collectible and delivered right to your door four times a year with each issues filled to the brim with articles exploring every nook and cranny of genre filmmaking, past, present, and future with all the most exciting journalists, filmmakers, and horror know-it-alls to guide the way, including little old me from time to time. This high-quality writing will only ever appear within the physical pages of the magazine, never online, so if you want to join in on the fun, you're going to need to subscribe. |
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| 1:58.2 | Now on with the show. |
| 2:03.3 | Hi. |
| 2:10.3 | My name is Stephen King. |
| 2:18.0 | The ice is going to break. |
| 2:19.4 | Dead rough. |
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