"The Body" with Wil Wheaton

Hi.

I'm very excited to have you on the show, and before we actually get into it, I will tell you that this story and this movie are both very special to me.

I feel like you...

I hope you hear that constantly, and I assume you've heard that since you were a kid.

Yeah.

I obviously saw the movie as a kid, and when you see it when you're, um, just a couple years younger than you, so, you know, in your head you're like, "Oh my God, what if we found a body" and you don't...

And really all the friendship stuff, the stuff that you're like, "Are these the best friendships I'll ever have?" All the things that you've probably heard a million times, and I have to say you're the most obviously uniquely qualified narrator in audiobook history.

[laughs]

You played Gordie LaChance when you were 12.

Now you're narrating Gordie's words-

Oh

... as an adult.

Thank you.

Um, yeah, man, sorry.

I didn't wanna talk over, like, a nice intro of you, but just I'm very excited that you're here.

That means so much to me.

Thank you.

I love this story too.

I loved the novella when I first read it.

Mm-hmm.

I love that Stand by Me is part of my life.

Yeah.

I love that I've managed to land my career, my artistic and performing career, in a place where I'm so happy being an audiobook narrator, so bringing these things together the way that we did right now-

Yeah

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