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Really?? The Doors?

by Talkhouse
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About the show

Really?? is a podcast about cultural memory — the icons and ideas we’ve mythologized and, in the process, might have misread or misunderstood. In the first season of this new series from Talkhouse (How Long Gone, Subway Takes, Alison Roman, Björk), the New Yorker's Naomi Fry convenes a multi-generational mix of musicians, writers, and cultural figures in conversation, to rediscover and reconsider the cultural legacy of the Doors in 2025, the band’s sixtieth anniversary. The show will use the Doors’ chaotic legend to ask what happens when myth overtakes meaning, and what that reveals about how we talk about American culture and about ourselves.

Latest episodes

  • The End? Live with John Densmore

    December 17, 2025 · 38 min

    This is the end, my friend. Really?? The Doors? is produced by Noah Chernin, Jody Avirgan, and Ian Wheeler of Talkhouse. Production support from Jake Bowman and Keenan Kush. Special thanks to our sponsor, ⁠Bootleg⁠. Be sure to check out…

  • Who Is The Lizard King? w/ Chris Ryan and Sean Fennessey

    December 10, 2025 · 40 min

    If you're under the age of, say, 50, there's a good chance that your idea of The Doors is shaped as much by Oliver Stone's 1991 movie, and Val Kilmer's portrayal of Jim Morrison, as it is by the music of The Doors themselves. Today, a look…

  • Ice Cream Is For Babies? w/ Billy Idol and Chris Black (How Long Gone)

    December 3, 2025 · 35 min

    "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"—William Blake This week, a conversation about why we are so drawn to the debauched rock and roll lifestyle that Jim Morrison and The Doors exemplified with two guests who have lived it…

  • He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Dead? with Weyes Blood and Amanda Petrusich

    November 26, 2025 · 42 min

    Jim Morrison, sex, poetry, masculinity, and the modern rock frontman with guests Amanda Petrusich and Weyes Blood. Whether he intended it or not, over the course of the late '60s, Jim became THE prototypical male rock god. So in this…

  • Music Is Your Only Friend? w/ Lucinda Williams and Walter Martin

    November 21, 2025 · 42 min

    Naomi Fry welcomes legendary singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams and Walter Martin from The Walkmen, Jonathan Fireeater, and host of the Walter Martin Radio Hour. In future episodes we’ll get into what Jim Morrison teaches us about…

  • The West is the Best? w/ Lili Anolik and John Doe

    November 19, 2025 · 42 min

    What did The Doors mean for their time and what do they mean today? What’s the place of Los Angeles in The Doors’ oeuvre? What can the figure of Jim Morrison tell us about American masculinity? Are The Doors cool? And, has popular culture…

  • Teaser: The Doors?

    November 11, 2025 · 3 min

    Episode one premieres November 19th, 2025. Really?? is a podcast about cultural memory — the icons and ideas we’ve mythologized and, in the process, might have misread or misunderstood. In the first season of this new series from…