Lock the gate!

All right, let's do this. How are you? What the fuckers? What the fuck buddies? What the fuck Knicks?

What's happening? I'm Mark Marren. This is my podcast. Welcome to it.

How are you holding up? Forecast for today? Clouds of virus

raining down on most of the United States. Jesus fuck!

My God, man! What a nation of dumb shits! Tremendous! Let it rip! Let it burn!

It's literally in your soaking in it. What a nation of dumb shits.

And looking at plenty of smart people or dumb shits. I don't know what it is. Things get slack. Things

are inconvenienced. Plague fatigue is a real thing. We just want it to be done. People get sloppy.

And then people get sick and people die. And you know, I'm not guilty of it. I'm not coming from

some higher plane here. Today on the show I talked to John Denzmore. He was a door. He was the

drummer for the doors. He's a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's written a couple

books about his time in the doors. He's got a new book out called The Seekers, which is about the

artists who inspired him. He's also taken a stand against commercialism and has prevented the

doors music from being used to sell products. We'll talk about that a bit. I know the remaining

doors not thrilled about that. But noted, you know, you don't hear that much anymore.

Yeah, people have integrated, adapted, assimilated into commercialism and somehow justifying it.

Is there any selling out anymore if you do it in a cool way? I mean, that's been the way it's

out for a while. Now we're in this new shift. It's like not so much about doing whatever it takes to

to make a buck or sell a product as long as you keep your shit together and look cool doing it.

Now it's literally about managing your brand, managing your own product, getting out there.

Yeah, right? Selling you and then having the people come to you so you can sell their shit.

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