Oh right welcome listeners to episode 71 of Know Your Enemy. I'm Matt Sipman your podcast co-host and I'm here with my great friend Sam

Brother Bell. Hey Sam. Hi Matt. How are you doing today? I'm great. I mean, it's freaking beautiful. It is. The weather is

Extraordinary. It really is. I saw somebody say on Twitter that the vibes are very can we have class outside today?

Professor and that is so true. It's just that like first perfect day of spring. It really is.

And to top it all off. Not only is the weather great. It's matching the mood of the city because we're recording this intro when Donald Trump

surrendered to New York authorities. Wow. Thanks in large part to our efforts on this podcast. No your enemy. Donald Trump has today

surrendered to the New York authorities.

Anyway, we're not here to talk about Donald Trump or really a strictly political topic. This episode is

It's not unexpected, but it's not typical. That's because it's about one of our

preoccupations on this show one Bob Dylan Robert Zimmerman of Hibbing Minnesota. That's that's right. The great voice from the Midwest who still stalks the land

But really we're talking about the book of Bob's that came out back in November the philosophy of modern song

It's when we've been planning to do an episode on and we finally got around to tackling the strange weird wonderful book

And what it says about Bob and what it might say about America our guest listeners should be and we'll be excited to know is

No your enemy

Music aficionado will Epstein who as we say in the beginning of this show every time does the music for the podcast will

Is first of all one of my best friends in the world of an old friend. We've known each other since we were teenagers and he's a songwriter

Composer and improviser part of the occasion for having him on is that he has a new record of music

Separate from the album that we use his music from for the podcast. It's called Wendy

It's out from fat possum records Matt and I have both been spinning it. We love it

You'll hear a little bit of it during this episode and basically we're relying on wills expertise as a songwriter and as a huge

Bob fan, I mean it goes without saying maybe that he agreed to do this episode with us

But that's one of the ways that will and I have always bonded and and Matt and will are becoming friends

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