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TIL: in 1965, Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs were in a limo when Dylan decided to play his new composition, “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window”. Ochs hated it, so Dylan pushed him out the limo and said “You're not a folk singer. You're a journalist."

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