Snapshot · Last Podcast On The Left
Stephen King took a young Joe Hill to a screening of The Shining before its theatrical release, and Joe emerged gripping his father's hand — only then realizing his dad had written the dialogue.
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Asked what it's like to have a father so visibly proud of him, Joe Hill fumbles for words before landing on something genuine: he has a great relationship with his dad, rooted in shared tastes in rock and roll, movies, and TV. Owen King — Stephen's younger son and author of The Curator — is also in the daily group text. Joe praises Owen's latest novel extravagantly, calling the first two pages better than anything he himself has written. Stephen jumps in with a Meat Loaf memory: Meatloaf and Jim Steinman once showed up at a commercial shoot Stephen was doing, wearing white gloves like Disney characters. 'Now they're both dead,' he adds cheerfully. 'But I didn't have anything to do with that.' It's a perfect encapsulation of the King family's humor: warm, loving, and slightly morbid.
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