Ben Sinclair: High Maintenance And The Battle Of The Podcast Stars

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Ben Sinclair, co-creator and star of HBO's High Maintenance, opens up about his love of Chekhov and the real-life experiences that inspired the series. Plus, it's the battle of the podcast stars! The hosts of the podcasts Dr. Gameshow and Unofficial Expert play a series of puzzles and trivia games.

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0:00.0	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Bellhouse in beautiful Brooklyn, New York, it's NPR's
0:09.8	hour of puzzles, word games, and trivia, Aspinum.
0:13.6	I'm Jonathan Colton, now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
0:18.2	Everybody!
0:23.2	Woo!
0:25.2	Welcome!
0:29.2	It's the Brooklyn Podcast Festival!
0:32.2	I know, it's the Brooklyn Podcast Festival.
0:35.2	We have an amazing show for you.
0:37.2	We have four contestants who are going to come up here and play our nerdy games.
0:40.2	They're actually backstage right now competing with each other as to who has the highest
0:44.7	waist of jeans, and one of them will be our winner.
0:48.7	All of our contestants tonight are actually hosts of amazing podcasts.
0:53.7	That's right, that's how we've up, that's right, you're not excited by that, that's exciting!
0:57.7	Very exciting.
0:58.7	Yeah.
0:59.7	Agree strongly.
1:00.7	Thank you Jonathan, that is the kind of support I'm looking for on this stage.
1:03.7	I'm just here to support you, Ophira.
1:06.7	From Dr. Game Show, we have Joe Firestone and Manolo Moreno.
1:11.7	And from the unofficial expert, we have Marie Foster and Sydney Washington.
1:22.7	We also have Ben Stinclair from High Maintenance, everybody.
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