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Today on Too Opinionated we talk with the Iconic Wil Wheaton!\xa0

From starring in Stand by Me to playing Wesley Crusher on Star\xa0Trek: The Next Generation to playing himself, in his second (third?)\xa0iconic role of Evil Wil Wheaton in The Big Bang Theory, to becoming\xa0a social media supernova, Wil Wheaton has charted a career course\xa0unlike anyone else, and has emerged as one of the most popular\xa0and well-respected names in science fiction, fantasy and pop\xa0culture.\xa0

So\u2026 how did this story begin? How does it continue? Well, Wil\xa0\xa0Wheaton grew up. Ideally, this is what everyone does. But most of us don\u2019t do it in front of millions of people. Most of us don\u2019t get famous for being kids.\xa0

Wil Wheaton was a very famous kid\u2014right up until he wasn\u2019t. After that, he wasn\u2019t sure who he was at all.\xa0

So, in 2001, Wil started a blog. It was less about being a famous kid than about being a not-so-famous\xa0 grownup. He wrote about his pets and his hobbies, punk rock and parenting, board games and\xa0 birthdays and (most importantly) burritos. He thought he was writing for an audience of one:\xa0 himself. To be fair, he was only off by about 3 million people.

In STILL JUST A GEEK: An Annotated Memoir (William Morrow; on sale 4/12/2022; $28.99), an older,\xa0 somewhat wiser Wil revisits Just a Geek, his 2004 collection of those blog posts, with all-new\xa0 reflections that show just how far he\u2019s come. In this vulnerable, honest memoir about trying and\xa0 failing and trying again, Wil opens up about love, trauma, tragedy, and confronting the worst parts of\xa0 himself. Equal parts funny and poignant, Still Just a Geek weighs the folly of youth against the pain of\xa0 experience\u2014and celebrates all the strange, awful, beautiful adventures in between.\xa0

So, in fact, to say that Wil Wheaton grew up would be to miss the point entirely. The point is that Wil\xa0 Wheaton is still growing. Hopefully, he\u2019ll never stop.\xa0

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