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The Press Box

Ep. 138: "Reasonable Pod" Jay Z Day Edition With Sean Fennessey, Donnie Kwak, and Justin Charity

The Press Box

The Ringer

Sports

4.43.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Jay Z's debut album, "Reasonable Doubt," The Ringer's Jay Z aficionados reflect on Hov's impact on the modern-day rap mogul and discuss what the next step is in his career. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Today's episode of this very special Ringer podcast is brought to you by SeekGeek,

0:04.5

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0:09.1

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0:11.7

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0:15.1

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0:51.6

Hello and welcome to a very special edition of a Ringer podcast.

0:56.4

This is what we'll call a reasonable pod.

0:58.6

My name is Sean Fennese.

1:00.0

I am the editor in chief of the Ringer.

1:02.0

I'm here with two other staffers from the Ringer, Justin Charity, a staff writer, and Donnie Quack, our East Coast Bureau chief.

1:09.5

This is a reasonable pod because we're here to talk about reasonable doubt.

1:12.8

Saturday marks 20 years since the release of Jay-Z's first album, which is staggering and makes me feel terribly old.

1:19.1

To commemorate this anniversary,

1:21.5

myself and the two other guys in the line here wrote pieces celebrating the album,

1:27.1

thinking about the album, breaking down the album, trying to understand why we still think about this album.

1:32.2

So we're going to talk a little bit about those stories.

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