Episode 670: Father's Day w/ Stephen King & Joe Hill
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What is the significance of Father's Day for Stephen King and Joe Hill?
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That's when the cannibalism started.
Who's that?
Big day here, boys. Big day. Big day.
Massive day. This is such a, let's just say a victory. Yeah. This is a victory for LPN. This is a victory for last podcast on the left. Validation. Validation. We got him. The white unicorn.
First of all, welcome to the last podcast on the left, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Marcus Parks. I'm here with Henry Zebrowski. Pink unicorn. The pink unicorn, Henry Zebrowski. Got filled with shrimp. Yeah, and the hairy unicorn.
I was going to say illiterate unicorn.
Just your beard is looking quite nice. Have you been trimming?
I have a person who trims.
It looks great.
Thank you. I appreciate it because I was worried it was looking bad, but now it gets another week like this. You really look good in that way. But the thing is, the guy who trims your beard definitely... Wow. But he makes you look like an Iranian lord. You know what I mean?
I'll take that. Yeah, you do look like a lord of some kind.
Hey, you want to get through the straight? You come talk to me. You all right? I'll get you through the straight.
I'll get you through the game. I got submarines.
I got big old submarines full of oil.
How did Stephen King influence Joe Hill's writing career?
All right, we're off topic here.
We're off topic. The big topic that we have today is that... Okay, we interviewed Joe Hill, author Joe Hill, a few months ago.
Yeah.
Fantastic man. It went so well. And we never, we didn't really even say anything about his dad. Yeah, we didn't say, we said nothing about his dad. We were so cool during that interview. But it went so well that he came back and he brought his father, Stephen King, with him.
That's right. He was like, I got my dad. You guys are talking about me and I got my dad here now.
But then he did a whole thing. You'll see in the interview where he's like, my dad will beat you all up. And Stephen King stood up and he was like, come here, you little F words. He yelled that five or six times.
You'll see. You'll see. It's all there. It's all there.
But this is our Father's Day special.
It is.
Because in many ways, Stephen King raised us. He was definitely a big part of my childhood and a very big part of everything I've ever known about horror and novels.
Yeah, he's one of the cultural voices of the 20th century. He's one of the guys who created the 20th century, culturally.
Yeah, it's unbelievable. I watched a documentary called King in Movies, and I was like, oh, he's like shaped my thoughts completely. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm very excited for this, but let's just get to it.
Let's just get to it. Yeah, because I finally got to ask him about shitters.
And I didn't even, I just rewatched Christine and I was like, oh yeah, shitters.
You should read it in the, they tone it down in the movie a lot. Oh, he asked him about it.
I look at that book on my shelf all the time.
Let's get to it. How are you guys?
We're doing fantastic. How are y'all doing today? I'm good.
First question out the gate, doing well. I just want to say, I hate to disappoint because honestly, our dads really wanted to meet you guys too.
What are some memorable gifts or experiences shared by Stephen King and Joe Hill?
And one of the hardest things was, is that I noticed that when I was bringing them over here, their urn was really loose. And so I didn't want to spread them all over the stuff. I didn't want to spread them all over my car. Yeah, well, the urn was loose because when you weren't paying attention, I actually switched out my dad's ashes with your dad's ashes. And so now I got your dad in my house and my dad's at your house. How many ashes have you been presented with as a couple?
Oh, no one's given me their ashes yet.
I have made an ash of myself once in a while.
I was at a signing at a library in Boise. This was years and years ago when a guy came up to me. He was one of the last guys in line, sort of a decrepit old fella. And he said, you know, I loved Heart-Shaped Box so much, and your dad's books have meant so much to me, and I just wanted to give you something to express that, how much those books meant to me. And he lifted up this leather bag, it looked like a doctor's bag, and I accepted, I said, thank you, and I opened it, and this stink just rolled out like there was, you know...
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the significance of Father's Day for Stephen King and Joe Hill?
0:01–1:31
2
How did Stephen King influence Joe Hill's writing career?
1:31–3:33
3
What are some memorable gifts or experiences shared by Stephen King and Joe Hill?
3:33–7:24
4
How do Stephen King and Joe Hill collaborate on writing projects?
7:24–10:01
5
What role does horror play in the current cultural landscape?
10:01–12:22
6
How do Stephen King and Joe Hill view the evolution of horror in media?
12:22–14:59
7
What personal anecdotes do Stephen King and Joe Hill share about their family?
14:59–17:19
8
What insights do Stephen King and Joe Hill offer about writing and creativity?
17:19–1:06:09
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