Jim Morrison - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 12/8/25

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🗓️ 9 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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George Noory and author Paul Wyld explore the life and career of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the rock band The Doors, the spirituality and poetry that influenced his lyrics, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death at age 27 in Paris.

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0:00.0	This is an IHeart podcast.
0:02.6	Guaranteed Human.
0:04.4	Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast A.M. on IHeart Radio.
0:09.3	And welcome back. Paul Wilde with us. George Norey back with you.
0:12.6	Paul's website is linked up at coast to coastam.com.
0:16.4	Paul, what was that deciding moment for Jim Morrison that led him toward the doors
0:20.9	with Ritzman Zerick?
0:23.6	Well, like I said, he
0:24.6	didn't want to go to New York
0:27.0	to work at Jonas Mekis, the
0:28.7	Alvangard filmmaker he loved, and
0:30.4	so he moved to Venice Beach
0:32.5	in Santa Monica. He started sleeping
0:34.7	out of the Santa Monica Pier.
0:36.8	And that's where he started to open his mind up.
0:39.3	He was taking a lot of LSD.
0:42.3	Enough LSD would probably put most of us into a mental hospital.
0:46.3	A coma, yeah.
0:47.3	Yeah, exactly.
0:49.3	And he was opening up his consciousness.
0:53.3	He was breaking on through. The song that he wrote is just all about. He was breaking on through.
0:55.0	The song that he wrote is just all about that.
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