309: 11/22/63 and Widow's Bay with Stephen Root
The Kingcast
FANGORIA Podcast Network
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2026
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
One of our greatest working character actors joins up for his first appearance on The Kingcast. You know Stephen Root from just about everything, from Office Space to King of the Hill to No Country For Old Men to Man In The High Castle and the recent hit horror/comedy show Widow's Bay.
Root shows up ready to rock as we look back over his career, from working with George A. Romero on Monkey Shines to the prescience of Mike Judge's Office Space and Idiocracy, and his love of Stephen King, which started with The Stand and culminated in one of his favorite works: 11/22/63.
Did you also know that Root appeared in a King miniseries? We talk about all that and more in this very fun episode.
Widow's Bay is can be binged on AppleTV. It rules, go watch it.
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| 0:07.9 | From Damian McCarthy, director of Audity, Hocom stars Adam Scott in a profoundly terrifying horror film, said the rap. |
| 0:14.3 | When reclusive novelist Ome Bowman retreats to a remote Irish and scatter his parents' ashes, |
| 0:19.0 | the staff's tales of an ancient witch haunting the honeymoon suite take hold of his mind. |
| 0:23.6 | Soon, disturbing visions and shocking disappearances draw him into a nightmarish confrontation |
| 0:28.2 | with the darkest corners of his past. |
| 0:30.8 | Slash film called Hocom a straight-up horror thrill ride and Fangoria, |
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| 1:23.8 | And now, let's get on with the show, shall we? |
| 1:29.3 | San Goria. And now, let's get on with the show, shall we? Hi. |
| 1:35.5 | My name is Stephen King. |
| 1:42.0 | The ice is gonna break. |
| 1:45.0 | Dead rum. |
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| 1:48.0 | You guys want to go see a dead body? |
| 1:54.0 | Well, sometimes, death is better. |
| 1:57.0 | Welcome back to the Kingcast. I'm Anthony Bresnikan. |
| 2:02.3 | And I'm Eric Vespi. |
| 2:03.3 | Eric, we are headed today to Widows Bay, a series on Apple TV I cannot get enough of. |
| 2:09.6 | And listen, man, we have had some legends on this show. |
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