Welcome to Michael and Us. I'm Will Sloan. Here is always with.

Luke Savage, welcome back, everyone. We are talking about content and content creation today.

We're content creators, Luke. We have a Patreon, patreon.com slash Michael and Us, extra episode every week, five Yankee dollars,

bonus content, different tiers, et cetera, et cetera.

But we're not alone.

Watching the video that we watched for this episode, I did feel a little old.

I felt of a different generation than what I was seeing.

But there are actually people who were older than us creating content. For example,

have you heard of Bob Dylan? Because he has a Patreon right now. There's a wonderful article in GQ

written by a friend of the podcast, Joker Men's Ian Grant. That's right, co-host of the great

Jokerman podcast. It's called Bob Dylan's

Mysterious AI Experiment. Something is happening here, but we don't know what it is. The article begins,

Ian begins it so beautifully, he says, somewhere deep in the heart of America, in the back of a bus,

hurtling down some God-forsaken highway, Walmarts and cemeteries and Civil War

battlegrounds whizzing past, mute and forgotten and eternal. Bob Dylan is on his iPad.

It goes on to note that there's been a stunning surge of activity in Bob Dylan's social media feeds.

You've seen this. We've all seen this.

For a long time, the official Bob Dylan Twitter or X account, as it were, would just post

things like, hey, bootleg series volume 10 million coming out this fall.

You know, hey, a new round of tour dates showing up, that sort of thing.

But then all of a sudden, Bob Dylan himself apparently started tweeting.

He took over the reins.

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