Music Is Your Only Friend? w/ Lucinda Williams and Walter Martin
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 masculinity and fame… we’ll talk about the appeal of the rock and roll lifestyle… we’ll share big thoughts about how cultural norms can shift…Look, There will be plenty of time to overthink this band.
But for now… this episode… let’s remember… the music.
Enjoy Walter Martin's 20 Greatest Doors playlist "The Monk Bought Lunch"
Really?? The Doors?
is produced by Noah Chernin, Jody Avirgan, and Ian Wheeler of Talkhouse. Production support from Jake Bowman and Keenan Kush.
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The West is the Best? w/ Lili Anolik and John Doe
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 completely misunderstood The Doors? Naomi Fry welcomes you to the world of “Really??” and is then joined by writer Lili Anolik and musician John Doe of X to talk about the LA scene that gave birth to The Doors.
Really?? The Doors? is produced by Noah Chernin, Jody Avirgan, and Ian Wheeler of Talkhouse. Production support from Jake Bowman and Keenan Kush.
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Teaser: The Doors?
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 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.
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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.
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