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Speaker 1: The Club is the production of I Heart Radio and

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Speaker 1: Double Elvis Media. Jim Morrison died at the age of

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Speaker 1: and he lived a life that routinely crossed the line

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Speaker 1: from harmless prank to criminal activity. I can give you

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Speaker 1: twenty seven reasons why that statement is true. Five would

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Speaker 1: be the number of years he would use his post

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Speaker 1: as band leader to challenge ideals, battle norms, and provoked

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Speaker 1: the easily provoked Old Guard of American society. Two more

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Speaker 1: would be the number of flights he missed as he

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Speaker 1: drank his way across the country trying to get from

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles to Miami for the kickoff to the biggest

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Speaker 1: tour of the Door's career. One more with the number

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Speaker 1: of lambs he held in his arms on stage in

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Speaker 1: front of twelve thousand fans while he ranted at a

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Speaker 1: crowd packed like sardines inside of an old airplane hangar

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Speaker 1: in Miami. Another one would be the number of pants

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Speaker 1: zippers he slowly clumsily undid on that same stage. Sixteen

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Speaker 1: more would be the number of people who would swear

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Speaker 1: they saw Jim expose himself that night. In two with

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Speaker 1: the number of years he had left to live when

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Speaker 1: the FBI showed up with Warren's handcuffs and zero patients,

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Speaker 1: and Jim, well, Jim was stoned somewhere in Jamaica. On

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Speaker 1: this our sixth episode of season two, FBI Warrens Jamaican

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Speaker 1: Spliff and Jim Morrison lost in another fantasy. I'm Jake

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Speaker 1: Brennan and this is the twenty seven closs. Bill Simmons

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Speaker 1: had to dumb it down, explain it in layman's terms.

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Speaker 1: Either he wasn't plaining himself clearly, or he was being played.

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Speaker 1: More frustrated he got, the more it felt like the

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Speaker 1: latter these motherfucker's were playing him. You do the math.

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Speaker 1: Sit and said, you do the math, and you just

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Speaker 1: see why I think you're fucking us here. Man, you

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Speaker 1: said one thing and you're doing another. Now you're talking

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Speaker 1: on the both sides of your mom. You're fucking us.

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Speaker 1: Sintons was twenty years old and it's been the Door's

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Speaker 1: manager for barely a year. He had been booking successful

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Speaker 1: shows for months, and he had learned the ropes of

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Speaker 1: the nascent rock tour business. A ROADI and a go

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Speaker 1: over dude who's young but a hustler ambitious on the ball.

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Speaker 1: Bill had booked the doors to play at the Dinner

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Speaker 1: Key Auditorium and Coconut Grove, Miami on the first day

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Speaker 1: of March n There was one problem. The promoter had

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Speaker 1: purposefully overbooked the show to make more money. It didn't

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Speaker 1: include the band in on the extra tape. It was

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Speaker 1: the first stop on a huge North American tour that

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Speaker 1: would take the to Pittsburgh, Philly, Toronto, Detroit, Dallas, Boston,

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. This was a bad omen to tick things off.

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Speaker 1: The converted seaplane hangar, with its dramatic rafters and precarious stage,

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Speaker 1: had a capacity of seven thousand. The promoters decided to

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Speaker 1: take out all the chairs on the floor to cram

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Speaker 1: and more people and increase the capacity to twelve fasts,

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Speaker 1: nearly double with the band had been contracted for. The

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Speaker 1: doors had been guaranteed twenty five grand based on the

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Speaker 1: venue generating a total of forty two grand, more than

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Speaker 1: half the total take, but there was no percentage. Cutting

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Speaker 1: that deal. With the additional five thousand ticket buyers, the

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Speaker 1: promoters were looking to pocket close to seventy five thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: It was a slap in the face to the band.

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Speaker 1: Bill was Piste. He was so pissed that he threatened

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Speaker 1: to pull the plug on the whole show. And there

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Speaker 1: was another problem too. There were two thousand fans outside

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Speaker 1: They congregated on mass outside the auditorium, pushed up against

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Speaker 1: the doors and the walls, looked for windows on the

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Speaker 1: scurry inside of. They were like rats fleeing the sinking ship,

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Speaker 1: doors play one way or another. That is, if Jim

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Speaker 1: Morrison would just show up. Jim was nowhere to be

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Speaker 1: Bill's first problem. Where the hell was Jim Morrison? Jim

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Speaker 1: was late, he was on his way, he was somewhere

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Speaker 1: between Miami and Los Angeles, could be in the air

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Speaker 1: fought again with Pam that morning in l A. Pamela

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Speaker 1: Corson was as close to a long term relationship as

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Speaker 1: Jim would get in his life, albeit a long term

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Speaker 1: relationship that was fraught with infidelity, deception, and apathy. Despite

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Speaker 1: other women, but he always returned to her. She was staying.

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Speaker 1: Pam was smart. She loved Jim but didn't exactly trust him.

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Speaker 1: She would sneak off to meet her heroin dealer and

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Speaker 1: Jim did a lot of drugs, perhaps more than the

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Speaker 1: average nineteen sixties rocker, but he didn't touch heroin. Tim

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Speaker 1: Pam knew it was sent him off. They had been

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Speaker 1: planning to go to Jamaica after his Miami show was over.

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Speaker 1: A quick siesta a recharge just the spell recharged the

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Speaker 1: up for real and things got crazy. Now it seemed

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Speaker 1: it was another one of their usual fights. An was

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Speaker 1: and where the hell had he been last night? Anyway,

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Speaker 1: Jim was irritated that he was getting the third degree.

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Speaker 1: They both felt like they were being second guests by

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Speaker 1: than usual. Tool They fought so long on this occasion

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Speaker 1: and they told him he had to wait until the

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Speaker 1: empty rocks glass. He didn't coming on there was a

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Speaker 1: and kept drinking. He missed his connecting flight, waited for

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Speaker 1: Bill in the band, who greeted him with a mixture

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Speaker 1: of relief, gratitude, and extreme annoyance. Like they knew it

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Speaker 1: like he had bathed in it before boarding the plane

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Speaker 1: in New Orleans. His beard was thick, it oozed alcohol.

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Speaker 1: He wore a wide brimmed hat with a skull and crossbones.

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Speaker 1: passed the show's start time. Jim padded Bill on the

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Speaker 1: back and looked at the doors. All Right, fellas, let's

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Speaker 1: go give him a show that they'll never forget. Jim

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Speaker 1: even though it was on stage in front of twelve

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Speaker 1: with a belly full of whiskey, cradled the lamb at

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Speaker 1: faces and rapture, hanging on his every word, eating up

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Speaker 1: the tension, his hat, his beard, lamb. What did it

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Speaker 1: all mean? Their expression seemed to say, they've never seen

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Speaker 1: a Jim Morrison like this, playful, mysterious, coated cool as ship,

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Speaker 1: or maybe some of them thought to themselves, maybe he's

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Speaker 1: something different. Give everyone a concert unlike any concert they'd

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Speaker 1: seen before, an experience. That's what he'd give them. He

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Speaker 1: it would be electrifying all the saying. Jim thought of

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Speaker 1: The lighting was low, intentional already in the corners of

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Speaker 1: an aphrodisiact gym. The doors were riding the vamp. But

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Speaker 1: wanted music to be over for real. Is his turn,

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Speaker 1: The whole room was waiting on him, waiting for entertainment,

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Speaker 1: waiting for instruction, Repeat after me. He shouted into the void,

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Speaker 1: I need love. The crowd looked back at him like

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Speaker 1: there were patrons analyzing and oil painting on the wall.

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Speaker 1: It was just what Jim wanted. He was the painting

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Speaker 1: scrutinizing patrons. Jim, I needs good loving. I talking about

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Speaker 1: no revolution I ain't talking about no demonstration. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: here and love my Jim felt the roar of the

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Speaker 1: It started as a feeling from their bodies to his

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Speaker 1: a sound of acceptance. It was louder and more bone

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Speaker 1: rattling than any applause he had received. His crowd was small,

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Speaker 1: began to unbutton his white dress shirts slowly, one button

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Speaker 1: at a time, and the crowd was his mirror, and

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Speaker 1: those who were sitting stood up. Those who had hidden

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Speaker 1: Shirts were lifted, hants dropped, shoes kicked off. The audience

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Speaker 1: carefully liberated themselves from their clothes, one piece at a time.

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Speaker 1: lightning flashed again. At first split second, Jim saw would

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Speaker 1: fell forward, flat on his stomach. The blackness enveloped him

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Speaker 1: It wasn't happening. Nothing was happening. The Doors were dead

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Speaker 1: The tour was dead on arrival. There was no tour

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Speaker 1: and there was about to be no Doors. Commercial radio

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Speaker 1: The money the band had made from their most recent single,

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Speaker 1: the ironically named touched me be funneled to pay for

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Speaker 1: legal fees. All in all, Miami would cost the band

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Speaker 1: at least half a million dollars in lost revenue. In

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Bill Siddons answered it was the FBI.

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Speaker 1: They were charging Jim with unlawful flight. He had left

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Speaker 1: is Jim Marris, the FBI asked Bill. Bill wanted to

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Speaker 1: one had come forward with convincing proof if the Jim

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Speaker 1: for the FBI. He behaved, Bill scrambled, he had a trackdown.

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Speaker 1: Jim cut the vacation short before a bad situation got

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Speaker 1: even worse. He bought some time with the Feds, got

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Speaker 1: and Bill asked to speak with Jim well, Mr Siddons.

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Speaker 1: The housekeeper replied, that may be a little difficult. We

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