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Hello and welcome to a special channel 33 podcast.

My name is Sean Fantasy.

I'm the editor-in-chief of The Ringer.

I'm here in the Ringer studios in Los Angeles joined by two Ringer employees.

Staff writer and micropeders sitting beside me, Michael, what's up?

And in New York, which is not Los Angeles,

Ringer, Staff writer Justin Charity, Justin, how are you?

I'm good, I'm good.

So we're here to talk about Kendrick Lamar.

It's K. Dot Day.

His new album, Damn, is now available on all streaming services and in stores

where they sell CDs, which are few these days.

Justin, you wrote about Damn this morning on the Ringer, a really smart and good piece.

You know, I'll open this conversation by telling a candid story.

I really noticed Justin as a writer a few years ago when he wrote something that was very

provocative and thoughtful about to pimple butterfly, which is Kendrick's last official

full length record.

And I was very curious the moment Damn hit to know what you thought of the record.

So why don't you just distill that essence into podcast form right now, Justin?

For sure.

You know, when I was listening through the first couple of times last night to Damn,

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