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Hello, the internet, and welcome to this spin-off episode of Dernelie Zeitgeist.

Yeah, what are you calling the iconograph.

Instead of looking at the zeitgeist through current events on Monday mornings,

we were looking at the zeitgeist through the powerful pop cultural deities that are our icons.

We dress up as these icons during holidays.

We misquote them to make something true.

We give them Nobel Prizes for literature.

We ignore that they're occasionally terrible harmonica players, even though that's like one of the

main things that they do.

That's right.

We're talking about Bob Dylan this week.

A guy who went to college as a teenager named Robert Zimmerman emerged a few years later in

New York with a different name, a different voice, a different

accent, a new personality, a new backstory, and as one of the most famous people in the

world. He was so famous that when he moved to Woodstock, New York in 1966, he indirectly

caused the Woodstock Festival to happen three years later because the original

pitch for that festival was like what if we had a concert in Woodstock featuring the sorts

of people who live in Woodstock like I don't know Bob Dylan in the band and he was like on a hiatus

from the public eye but people were basically just like maybe we'll get him

out of his house and so they threw like one of the craziest parties of all time and he didn't

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