The High Bar

- Season 2

(2011)

Jodie Foster visits The High Bar to talk about The Beaver and to raise a toast to and raise the bar for mental health.

Mike Daisey has a bone to pick with Steve Jobs.* Doesn't matter that, recently, the latter resigned his role at Apple. Mike still believes there are serious ethical, if not legal, improprieties taken by Apple in the manufacturing of iPads, iPhones, MacBooks, heck, all electronics. In this episode of The High Bar, master monologist Mike Daisey, joins host Warren Etheredge to raise a toast to and raise the bar for... corporate accountability.

If I could travel back in time, I would urge more folks to see MOON, Duncan Jones' debut, hard sci-fi feature that melded the cinematic sensibilities of Peter Hyams and Tarkovsky. MOON is far superior and thoughtful entertainment to movies made with twenty times the budget. Today, I needn't bend the space-time continuum as Duncan's second movie, SOURCE CODE plays in theaters and you can see it on the big screen without altering the course of history - Other than the director's own. Duncan Jones bellies up to The High Bar to discuss SOURCE CODE, second chances and the ...

The problem with great writers is that they often tease us with their talent; they'll write a great book or two then slowly slip away. No doubt, Ken Kesey was a masterful writer. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Neststands up as a classic and Sometimes a Great Notion deserves honorable mention. Yet despite these time-capsule treasures and Tom Wolfe's portrait of Kesey in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, too few know the writer and his rowdy, ribald Merry Band of Pranksters that crossed the country in 1964 in search of the World's Fair, unconventional affairs and ...

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Hold on, there really is no use in beating yourself up? Not according to the erudite and effervescent Kristin Neff, PhD who chronicles the reverse psychology in her best-selling book, Self-Compassion.