Hello everyone, Kirk here with another postseason interview, and this one is a real treat.

I'm very excited about it, and I'm excited for you all to hear it.

Every so often, I'll get an email about Bob Dylan, specifically an email asking me to cover

Bob Dylan on the show more, to do an episode dedicated to one of his songs. But Dylan, specifically an email asking me to cover Bob Dylan on the show more, to do an episode

dedicated to one of his songs.

But Dylan has kind of always lived a little bit outside of my musical world.

I'm aware of him, of course.

I've heard many of his songs, but I didn't grow up listening to him, and I've never

really sat down and tried to get my arms around his entire

musical legacy. It is just so vast. It's so massive. There are so many distinct eras over so many

decades. I say this all on the upcoming conversation, but it is daunting. I realize that shouldn't

stop me from trying, and what better way to familiarize myself with Dylan's work than by having two Dylan experts on the show to get me started.

Matt Sittman and Sam Adler Bell will be known to some of you out there as the co-hosts of the Politics and History podcast, Know Your Enemy.

Know Your Enemy isn't really much like strong songs in terms of content or format, but at the

same time, I could imagine there might be a small but meaningful Venn diagram overlap out there

between our two audiences.

I have been an on again, off again, know your enemy listener for several years now.

Admittedly, some of their historical deep dives go over my head,

but I always find myself coming back in no small part because of the warmth of its two hosts,

their commitment to really doing the reading and their obvious fondness for one another, just as

human beings. It's really nice to just listen to them talk. Know Your Enemy covers a lot of

ground in terms of subject

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