Joe Talbot's father, David Talbot, is the author of "Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love" (2012), a critically-acclaimed, best-selling history of San Francisco in the 1960s and 1970s. Joe's grandfather was Hollywood movie and TV actor Lyle Talbot. His uncle is documentary filmmaker and former child actor Stephen Talbot.
