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Ep. #1034: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s ‘Through The Open Window’

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Post date November 1, 2025
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Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety of Dylan’s voices and gifts as a music interpreter, the evolution of recording technology and live bootlegs, our experiences at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, the subtlety of Dylan’s political songs, this era of Dylan’s music and the recent film, A Complete Unknown, Dylan using social media, Sean’s next book, the Court of History podcast, and much more.

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Ep. #1016: Abby Govindan

Post author By vish
Post date September 20, 2025

Abby Govindan is here to discuss her Pushing 30 stand-up show at Just For Laughs Toronto on September 22, visiting her family in her beloved Houston, Texas hometown, her excitement as a New Yorker with high hopes for mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, being outspoken, translating one’s affluence into empathy and fighting for those who are less fortunate than you are, the end of centrism, Malcolm X and the Black Panthers, how first generation immigrant alienation can lead to anxiety, stress, and depression, why a traumatic self-harming incident drew her family closer together, the end of her How to Embarrass Your Immigrant Parents performance run and building a new hour with Pushing 30, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #804: Tommy Stinson

Post author By vish
Post date September 25, 2023

Tommy Stinson discusses the wonderful new box set, Tim: Let it Bleed Edition by his old band, the Replacements, touring Canada in October with Tommy Stinson’s Cowboys in the Campfire and the stories behind the songs on their new album, Wronger, John Doe and Bob Dylan, the state of American life and writing new songs about it, loving Canada, other future plans, and much more.

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