'Afternoon Shift' #163: Natural highs

October 5, 2012

View the story "'Afternoon Shift' #163: Natural highs" on Storify'Afternoon Shift' #163: Natural highsOn Friday's show we examine the state of the War on Drugs, Sports Talk radio, marathon prep and Paul Oakley Stovall's new musical.Storified by · Fri, Oct 05 2012 11:42:08After40 years, 45 million arrests, and 1 Billion spent…who’s winning the War onDrugs? Award-winning documentary filmmaker Eugene Jarecki’s new film, TheHouse I Live In, surveys the battlefield. We speak with the filmmaker aswell as one of the war’s former chief deputies, former Deputy Drug Czar toPresident George W. Bush, Dr. Andrea Barthwell.The House I Live In Official Trailer #1 (2012) Drugs Documentary Movie HDmovieclipstrailersThe24-hour Sports Talk format turns 25 this year, and the event is being marked bya celebration at tomorrow at the Chicago Theater during the National SportsTalk Radio Awards Show. Former ESPN1000 GM and owner of consulting firmSnyder Sports Audio talks about a quarter century of sports yak. ChristopherPiatt of Paper Machete and Nina Metz of the Chicago Tribune go over the bignews stories of the week with Rick.

Brendan Cournane, known as“Coach Brendan” returns to talk about good form, and more as thousands prepareto run the Chicago Marathon this Sunday.

PaulOakley Stovall has scored a new musical called CLEAR for About Face Theater. AboutFace calls it “…a spiritual quest in our decidedly computerized times,fusing music, memory, ancestry and pure love to remind us how best to livelife.”