A Conversation with Stephen King

[@jeliarra]

Delightful man. 70 years old and I wish him another 70!

[@filex00]

I could listen to him for hours. Like some said in a coffee house. He is so down to earth and caring.

[@talbotmatthewdorr2425]

I’m listening to the audiobook for the 3rd time and it’s still good, one of the best books I’ve ever read

[@Zetrick]

Stephen King is a comedian. I love this guy.

[@cherylkelloggherman1303]

I know this will sound weird to some people and to some they will sadly know where I'm coming from. Stephen King saved my sanity as a teenager. When i read his books i could leave my horrible home life for a few chapters at a time. If I'm honest more than a few chapters at a time. But i digress. When people talk about his drug/alcohol abuse. He's human. Shit happens. Mr. King is the one who told us He had a problem. He's overcome His addictions and is a better man for it. Also from what I see and hear His kids are well adjusted human beings. Be like Stephen King!

[@wallacelovecraft8942]

I like hearing Stephen talk. Always a joy to watch and listen.

[@jay733]

Stephen King should use this woman for one of his books.

[@riccardotrono4930]

This book has really touched my heart, Mr King. Pure genius, clearly one of the best novels ever written. Chapeau! 💯

[@vero0992]

I liked the interviewer. She let him talk, but also kept things on track while adding her own insights. Great vid.

[@kharina65]

All of Stephen King’s interviews are great. This one is my favorite. Lee Cullum’s laugh is the best!

[@juice6494]

Here's why I like this lady interviewer: she is a great listener. She prompts him and actually lets him talk. Which is great, because there is nothing worse that listening to an interview and you hear more from the host. So many of the popular 90s interviews with that other guy at the brown table are so hard to listen to, because he'll ask Stephen a question and IMMEDIATELY INTERRUPT him with another question or statement. Or while Stephen's talking, he'll interject. Like BRO I DIDN'T COME HERE FOR YOU, LET KING FINISH A THOUGHT DAMMIT. This lady is great, she wants to hear what he has to say and the audience loves it. It's nice to hear a full streamlined thought from Stephen King without an interviewer interrupting him. Go lady!

[@bradymerritt7241]

Charlie Rose, I know it's annoying to watch those interviews with him talking

[@Spacemanchuck]

If you haven't read the book, read it. It's one of my favorite books, and one of Kings best books. It's really, really good. Not really a horror book at all, more of a mystery thriller. So good.

[@waterboy51]

+Charlie Baker Never been so upset by the ending of a novel. ahha

[@ronmarvicsin7709]

I loved the book from a fictional point of view but when I read that King used Gerold Posner as an expert on the JFK assassination I lost respect for the book.

[@mephistopheles4910]

@@ronmarvicsin7709 I was confused by your post so I did some googling. Jesus Christ this Posner guy is a plagiarist and a fraud. I'm assuming King worked with him because he had published a book on the JFK assassination and didn't do his due diligence.

[@ronmarvicsin7709]

WatchKassiopia thank you thank you. It’s what I’ve been saying all along. Plus he miss quoted folks too. ;)

[@mephistopheles4910]

@@ronmarvicsin7709 There was an allegation of deception against Harper Lee as well. Tricked her into signing away her her rights to her book "To Kill a Mockingbird" so he could collect royalties. I'm relatively new to reading Stephen King and have doing a lot of research on him and reading his books. He's an amazing writer and a great person. However, he has a propensity to jump on popular band wagons to appease others. It could be a defense mechanism though given that he does seem have some form of social anxiety. But yeah for him to not have sniffed Gerald Posner out is disappointing. If I could talk to Stephen King, I'd love to know why.

[@CC-nv9hj]

This was a brilliant watch. He is soooo cool. Jimla.

[@reneekad]

I’m so glad a bunch of the people from that era are still alive.

[@heidinova6883]

I feel super biased being from Maine and knowing this author, but I seriously feel pain for him going through this interview. Yet, super proud.

[@mja4752]

steve has been telling and retelling the same jokes and anecdotes for the past 40 years ^^

[@kabirshergill810]

PLAY FREEBIRD!

[@SPECTROID]

And they are always a fun! 😁

[@bbbbavkf]

(Oswald) "was a little shit, basically" (09:38). Thanks, Mr. King, I couldn't agree more.

[@janekelley2001]

A CIA, little shit.......

[@vshvevhfrfery638]

This interview is so fun haha I love it

[@joblues52]

I am constantly amazed at people's spelling of STEPHEN King's first name. We have all seen his name printed on book jackets, seen his name in movie credits, etc. etc., yet some people STILL spell his first name STEVEN. It's STEPHEN, people.

[@notme4680]

mhm

[@StopFear]

Josee Bisson That is a phenomenon in language whose name I do not know but it is when people learn someone's name by hearing first and only later discover how there are two or more different ways to write some names. Then, even if they learn the correct spelling, they'll still make errors. Also this happens when people learn his name in another language first, if they are not speakers of English as first language. In most languages his name has only one spelling with letter "v" or this letter's equivalent.

[@skateNappreciate]

I bet stephen was trying his hardest to not mock the way this lady spoke

[@missionrd100]

Stephen King is a delight.

[@KevinInkertwistedfictioncouk]

Nice interview, good use of 'levity' there, Stephen, and peppered with classic anecdotes. If you've read the novel, 11/22/63, you'll appreciate King's level of literary genius and the phenomenal amount of research that went into the craft of the book. Honestly don't know if I could go to such depths for one of my future novels!

[@yasaamoin4882]

I've never laughed so much in a Stephen King interview or talk before.

[@rhymeandreasoning]

Thank you SK for saying that..I say it as well when someone says you can't win the lottery..well someone does win the lottery everyday..so why can't it not be you..

[@alanrios9349]

I respect this man so much.

[@TheTechShack]

Amazing!

[@Tara4151975]

She's too distracting. I keep waiting for her wig to fall off, or for him to snatch it. Now that would have been a great ending. Stephen King snatching and running.

[@GoreyBits]

The King of horror, scaring us for decades. THE GORE THE MERRIER!

[@donarnold8268]

Thank you!

[@fukuutubeusuxx2756]

I watch a lot of King's interviews and speaking engagements(I'm weird like that). In all his speaking, I have never once heard him give one tangible piece of knowledge as to his method, outside a fuzzy kind of tapping into some weird "trance like" state. I love the guy and think the Gunslinger series(other than the ending) is one of the best fantasy series i have ever read. Listening to King is like viewing a beautiful machine. It's all shiny and wondrous to see, but it's a complete fucking mystery when you try to deconstruct it. Love his work though, and will go on listening to him as i find him to be very likable and modest in his talks. Sure do wish he would put more effort into explaining the "nuts and bolts" of his work though.

[@michaelbarnhart2593]

FUKUUTUBE USUXX He tries, but the interviewer is not asking the right questions. ;-)

[@BHAKTIBROPHY]

Read his book ON WRITING.

[@fredrickhinojosa4568]

The People of Dallas are some of the most creative artists and they are very witty !

[@valentinolover70]

Thank you.

[@Newton14alan]

Did you ever lose electricity, or have your battery go dead? All that you need to read a "P" (paper) book is sunlight. Plus, they look great on a shelf!

[@MargueriteFairProductions]

History would have to repeat itself as long as human beings keep making the same errors.

[@jessyjeantruecrime]

When she asked him about the design of the universe raise your hand if you answered "Ka is a wheel," in your mind.

[@Charleybones]

Perhaps the reason why SK supports the crazy lone gunman theory is because his whole book 11/22/63 is based arond the act of following, meeting and attempting to stop LHO from shooting The assassination of JFK. If SK does not accept the lone gunman bs, his whole storyline is gutted. I read somewhere that King had written most of the book back in the early 1970's, but didn't feel it was completed properly at he time, so he put it on the shelf.If that is true, then most of the information about the assassination and the cover-up of important facts by the Warren Commission was still not widely known at the time. In fact, the Zapruder film had not even been publicly shown until 1976. I read the book, and thought that the ending was disappointing and would have been a mucg greater and realistic irony had Jake stopped LHO, and then found out that JFK had still been shot at Dealey Plaza. The itony would be that this scenario would have been more realistic....

[@randyharris3175]

I guess you are deaf he just spit out all the facts that Oswald did it youre in denial

[@randyharris3175]

@Just think nut

[@carlitos2012ace]

I like a quote from a famous talk TV presenter "the lone gunman was killed by another lone gunman.... What are the chances...?

[@jetcat132]

⁠@@carlitos2012acePretty good I guess, because it happened.

[@Akh4428]

Like SK said what are the odds of winning a lottery? yet somebody somewhere wins every day.

[@firewithfire]

lol - the random sounds that pop up from time to time are weird, yet funny at the same time!

[@lilyfeather4472]

LOVE this man!

[@daleeloph5038]

I was glad the Beatles got back together and John Lennon was still alive even though Paul McCartney got blinded at the peace concert😞

[@loudrimshot]

In the book, King paints the picture that Oswald and his relationship with George DeMorenschielt was like the first terrorist cell in this country and that the assassination was the first real terrorist act in this country. It was the soviet driven version of terrorism.

[@loudrimshot]

DeMorenschielt is a very interesting character in history and a mysterious one too

[@jordan390a]

+T-bill G Yep..Ol' Phil Harbin was a real character..!

[@ChocoholicZombie]

Thanks. Stephen King was probably kidding when he made fun of MJ; he has mentioned being an MJ fan!

[@spudrain]

So disappointing to see the intellectual limitations of Stephen King. He’s such a brilliant writer and I loved 11/22/63. Mr. King is correct that history repeats itself, but what he misses is that the players often change places. Over time, the victims become the oppressors and the oppressors become the victims. People like Mr. King travel through life with their gaze fixed on the rear view mirror. Fighting battles that are no longer relevant to current times. But paradigms change and we all need to see things through the front windshield, not the rear view mirror. I listen to Stephen King continuously spew hatred at the tea party, Trump and conservatives. Incredibly, he is oblivious to the obvious fact that HE has become just like the intolerant bigots of the early 1960’s that he condemns. How can this ostensibly brilliant person miss this? He has become the modern day equivalent of those intolerant people who harassed Adlai Stevenson and Lady Bird Johnson. But in the end, the history of Dallas right wing hate is irrelevant to the assassination story. Oswald was a left wing extremist, not an intolerant right wing John Bircher. I’m disappointed in these otherwise excellent events hosted by the Sixth Floor Museum because Stephen Fagin always ignores Oswald’s left wing connections. Harmless oversight or intentional deception? What say you Stephen?

[@mephistopheles4910]

He's human first. Always remember that.

[@randyharris3175]

Oswald did it buddy

[@lebeautymarq8834]

King of Books or Bucks?

[@carlitos2012ace]

On the words of Oswald himself "I'm just a pattsy....!!!,"

[@stephanierott67]

Love Stephen but that lady's voice makes me want to dig my eyes out with a spoon!

[@StopFear]

Stephanie Rott whyy? Her voice is unusual but not bad.

[@MrEkoart]

A spoon! Under the King's spell. Yeah

[@edonis2787]

its horrific honestly. her voice makes me want to kill myself

[@_yellow]

It's only been 1 minute and I already want to kill myself.

[@Micha_el.]

Fork!

[@cuddlybear9041]

Stephen king is brilliant, but my fav all time author was Harold robbins, amazing writer

[@sclogse1]

+cuddly bear Leonard Gardner...Fat City

[@cuddlybear9041]

we all have our fav authors , I just love good writers, good writers keep the English language simple, and they know their purpose is to either inform or entertain, Lesley Thomas said I love to put words in here and there that people don't use, I do it because I know they will go and grab their dictionaries and that amused me, he was a man that entertained and informed in his own way

[@MarioDragon]

I thought it was pretty funny, just shows all the talented people are crazy, which isn't news to anyone.

[@meinmyworkclothes2881]

thanks for this.. love stephen kings books, and the fact he is so prolific.. :) nothing more annoying than great writers who write only one or two books!

[@wyattbohalle7134]

Dude I want to meet this guy

[@ashlynyoung9020]

i love your books stephen :)

[@ginor8416]

He's a pretty good stand up comic too

[@RM-ed1if]

I think her accent is a bad attempt at imitating Thurston Howell III ("Gilligan's Island").

[@markdaniels7174]

She's a terrible interviewer, but luckily Stephen is a great talker and can just riff, stream of consciousness for awhile, and we don't have to hear her too much.

[@valentinolover70]

A lot of people feel as you do. I am sorry to hear that, but everyone has the right to believe as you do.

[@Tsnore]

Stephen is a human after all, but the interviewer is a....?

[@reneekad]

I love the ppl who helped make you scary again

[@nancyking]

I wonder if he watched the 1980s Twilight Zone reboot episode, A Profile in Silver, in which Professor/Dr. Joe Fitzgerald (Lane Smith), from the 22nd Century, goes back in time to save JFK (Andrew Robinson); he is successful but tragedy results. It was a great episode, and the Elvis episode, The once and Future King, (which is also about time travel), they did was great too. I think both of them are on this site. There is even a book out (published June 1, 1999) called, A Profile in Silver: and Other Screenwriting(s)-by J. Neil Schulman. It has A Profile in Silver script in it, but there are others in it that didn't air because they were "too controversial". It's on Amazon.

[@JerryAntoine417]

Dunno why, but it seems like this interview was taken in the 90's.

[@ianmcintosh3978]

Tough to enjoy the exchange with the interviewer giving me more creeps in ten minutes than King has in thirty years.

[@priscillameyer1292]

Love him (except for his politics)... otherwise, a very smart man.

[@reneekad]

Wow. This was nearly a decade ago.

[@reneekad]

🥛

[@reneekad]

Well, I hear NV thinks I still have potential & worth

[@alpenglow4243]

Does the video guy have a wireless mic in his pocket?

[@7071t6]

Also if you look up the Scenes footage from the TV series 11.22.1963 on u tube & the loud gun noises & then look at the Dave Weigman film not 1 person is looking up at the TSBD yet they are all witness out the front of the TSBD & less than 60ft away from the gun shots & they dont look up ?

[@loudrimshot]

+7071t6 yes, but in the book there is a gun fight in the book depository. Many more shots were fired and it took over a minute for the gun fight to take place. Its different the what happened in reality.

[@randyharris3175]

Stop it.enough bullshit already

[@richbozzi3148]

I’m a long time fan of King, 11/22/63 a classic. But his view of Trump’s assassination attempt, he, having TDS( evident in some recent fiction of his), showed no sympathy for the rage of Trump, almost killing him, and blamed Trump for his 2nd Amendment stance.Plus he still thinks Oswald killed Kennedy.My wife has boycotted any future King productions and I’m considering it, although “ Holly” is an excellent read.

[@Keyser666]

Why is the High School Principal from that show Daria asking the questions?

[@mephistopheles4910]

Be nice, she's doing her best to represent Looondale Hiiiigh.

[@xRosey95]

I feel Stephen is trying to keep a straight face

[@reneekad]

Ten years!!!

[@TuckFrump-r9h]

The interviewer is Lee CULLUM, not COLLUM.

[@EmilMrsic]

Great interview but she is a little over the top

[@BillyJamerson]

Started watching Lost

[@OccultThinkTankOFFICIAL]

One thing I thought was funny as hell was when that woman mentioned "Intelligent Design" he dodged that with being an Agnostic. Which doesn't address "Belief" only "Knowledge". Agnostic is one that says a God is Unknown / Unknowable. Gnostic is one that says God is Known / Knowable. (Which Requires Evidence to Support this claimed Knowledge) Atheism is one that says they don't "Believe" in a God. Theism is one that says they "Believe" in a God. (Which Requires Evidence to Support this Belief) The Intelligent Design ideas are absolutely Laughable. She started off giving the Classic Argument From Ignorance Fallacy. As if this Proves Intelligent Design. If there is an Intelligent Designer why can't the believers of it come up with an Intelligent position on it?

[@cierraallen9288]

I do not agree with many of his views, but I still respect the mind that has given me a love for horror. He has his right, but wish this was not all politics I wanted to know more about what makes his author brain tik.

[@408Magenta]

A stretch job which has gone horribly wrong. She is more frightening that most of SK's characters. Good Lord!!

[@VickiBee]

That thing in the Gulf of Tonkin probably still would have happened, and what would Kennedy have done different? If he chose Johnson as his VP wouldn't it be logical to assume he thought similar to Johnson?

[@willywhitten4918]

Vicki Bee makes this uproariously hilarious remark; "If he chose Johnson as his VP wouldn't it be logical to assume he thought similar to Johnson?"... I must say Vicki, you are certainly naive. Do you learn all the history you know from your cat? \\][//

[@2DclanSnipingTeam]

First- "that thing in the gulf of Tonkin" never did happen and the U.S. Government has admitted to that. Second-Kennedy only chose Johnson to get the southern vote and they soon came to despise each other.

[@mtbd215]

i came for the Michael Jackson story and i was not disappointed

[@MEnik-ts2mb]

The Interviewer’s voice sounds like its something off of ‘F is for Family’

[@67foxcharlie]

Ma gosh THAT voice is a horror show. Imagine going out on a first date with her.

[@BlueOceanBelow]

Not trying to ridicule, just honestly wondering, what kind of accent/dialect is that interviewer using? Certainly there must be a name for it, or an origin.

[@johnnyfive4436]

As much as I love his books. He is very wrong here in a lot of stuff.

[@arjanhut3527]

I learned from Stephen King's book that coincidences are mostly just coincidences and the truth should not be too complicated. And that JFK was an airhead president way less competent than Johnson. But Jackie was nice, just like Jack Ruby and Dallas is a bad place that does bad things to good people. Just because it's Dallas.

[@ChocoholicZombie]

I don't think King will agree with you; he's a fan of MJ!

[@calabiyou]

What does he say @ 35:20?

[@7071t6]

So again about the GUN, look up Roy Truly's statement about showing off his gun that he took to the TSBD to show off to wok friends ? Basically he re: Stephen King is going straight off the movie the Kennedy's with Rob Lowe.

[@ChocoholicZombie]

What was the other person's comment?

[@pubate1]

Stephen King is 100 millions light years smarter than the interviewer...

[@neuralmute]

To be fair, Stephen King is probably smarter than at least 95% of all Americans, and will never admit it.

[@keiranj5149]

I agree. Hence why I'm shocked he believes the lone nut theory.

[@carrieanneatreides6240]

@@keiranj5149 We know a guy who was in the army(?) with Oswald. This guy is a conspiracy nut kinda guy, but he swears up and down Oswald acted alone and is just convinced of it. Always gave me pause.

[@keiranj5149]

@@carrieanneatreides6240 Doesnt mean hes right. Again.. hes one guy with the obvious less likely theory. Does that really hold more weight than all the other intelligent people who believe other wise. On top of copious amounts if evidence and strangeness that point to otherwise too? Otherwise . You would have to believe in soooooo many coincidences to believe in lone nut theory. Just coincidences.. no big deal right.. that much stuff happens all the time. Youd have to be the most luckiest person ever to have them all happen to you at once.

[@carrieanneatreides6240]

@@keiranj5149 Of course you are correct. As I said, it just gave me pause that a super liberal guy who was kinda into conspiracies (this was in the 1980s) and we assumed would be all "but look at the Zapruder film!" is so very "lone gunman." Made me revisit my assumptions about the case. It's always fun to review the evidence with others. Barring a time machine, I'm unsure if this is a mystery we will ever truly solve.

[@nateholyoak2458]

Same jake from dark tower ?

[@reneekad]

The family loves Sons of Anarchy

[@DanielRodriguez-mg7oi]

Snotty, that's the name of it.

[@BeesWaxMinder]

H A S it been determined that the gun used to kill Tippett was the one he ordered and that the rifle he shot at the generals house IS the one that fired the assassination bullets, like SK, here, says..?

[@12thgeneration54]

Not only did Oswald open his revolver and take out the slugs and place them at the crime scene, he also took out his wallet with his ID and placed it there. Case Closed.

[@jetcat132]

He dumped the revolver to reload on his way down the street. He didn’t drop his wallet, Tippit did. Oswald handed it to him in the car, when Tippit got out of the car, Oswald gunned him down. Tippit drops the wallet.

[@twmoore1959]

is the interviewer a member of the Caitlyn (Bruce) Jenner fan club? King is a very patient man. One sound of her voice and I would have to walk off the stage.

[@joebanzola3427]

Sandra Marchetti started writing because of you. She had trouble getting published so she started a publishing company for Unpublished authors. Please go there and say hello. www.literaryconnectionpublishing.com

[@ParkerMcgraw]

I don't think Micheal Jackson will mind. He's dead.

[@MIS315]

Almost mine in verbatim: "I became a Stephen King fan. I think he writes great books. I enjoyed this interview until he started making fun of Michael Jackson..so unkind...Very disappointing" Seems he deleted it given it didn't sway public opinion

[@filex00]

What is wrong with her voice

[@_yellow]

That interviewer lady talks like a caricature.

[@teeniebeenie8774]

weird, thought king would have been more insightful than thinking only oswald did it. bit shocking.

[@pushthetempo2]

What accent does she have? Sounds so odd to me.

[@raywalli]

J T 'Merican

[@warmecanic]

I´m afraid this is the 1% you are talking about, Stevie. Oswald was innocent, he was a "patsy". He was not an angel but damn, the did not shoot that fancy dude. I wanted to read this book, but if the goes down by the line of "OSWALD DID IT", I´ll pass. It is strange, King suddenly changed the thing while in Danze macabre talks about Johnson as a son of a bitch as well as Rockefeller. I guess it is better to be alive. Probably, Don Delilo did a better job with "Libra" talking about Oswald as a "historical figure" and a bit more objective rather than screaming to the four winds YESSSSSSS HE FUCKING SHOOT THE PRESIDENT. Too bad King did not go further and just wanted to sell the book. I like S. King books, but damn, I thought that something cool will come out of this conversations, but I was wrong, nothing but the ordinary story told over and over again. Like Goebbels said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

[@disturbed1013]

Shame, leaving your convictions aside, the book itself is very good. You don't have to agree with his opinions to enjoy his work

[@warmecanic]

​@@disturbed1013 shame? LOL have you ever tried to fire a Mannlicher-Carcano? XD

[@stevenwaterfield5305]

Stephen...Follow your advice, not what people are telling you. Follow the gun, follow the bullet CE399 and see if you still come to the same conclusion. The rifle could not be traced to Oswald, 36 inch barrel compared to 40 inch barrel. Backyard photo easily discredited by any amateur. Magic bullet almost intact. More lead in Connellys wrist then missing from bullet.

[@LunaTheKitty0]

That lady sounds like someone is strangling her. And she’s trying to speak as clearly as possible but the pressure on her throat is making the voice weak and almost deflated...

[@davemojarra2666]

Mr King is funny af. Who knew?

[@MrTree]

Bruh... her voice. Omg who thought that was a good idea.