Spike Lee & High Maintenance

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Jesse sits down with acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee. He tells us about how addiction is made explicit in his movie, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, how he really feels about Larry Bird and about his own very serious addiction.... to Air Jordans. Jesse also talks to Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair. Katja is a casting director who previously won an Emmy for her work on 30 Rock; Ben Sinclair is an actor. The two are a married couple, and created the webseries High Maintenance. The show follows a New York City marijuana delivery guy as he visits his various clients. MTV2's Wonder Showzen looked like a kids' show. But it wasn't. It really, really, wasn't. Jesse tells us why Wonder Showzen is his favorite TV satire of the past decade.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:08.0	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:12.8	This week I'm talking with the acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee about his movie The Sweet
0:17.5	Blood of Jesus.
0:19.5	The protagonist of the film is a young man named Dr. Hess Green.
0:23.8	He lives part time on one of his estates in Martha's Vineyard, where he collects African
0:28.9	Art and Artifacts.
0:30.9	He throws cocktail parties.
0:32.9	As they say in San Francisco, he is hella money.
0:35.9	Hella, HLLA Hella.
0:41.0	You know how he do it in the year.
0:42.2	Suck a free.
0:44.0	So anyway, your man has hella money.
0:50.4	And Spike, I know that he has hella money because game recognized game in the bay.
0:55.5	Oh, there you go.
0:56.5	There you go.
0:58.0	He's got a host right.
0:59.0	He's dropping science people.
1:00.0	He's dropping science.
1:01.0	That was fun.
1:04.0	It's Bullseye.
1:11.0	Coming up, I'll talk to filmmaker Spike Lee.
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