WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

4/5/24 Keith O'Brien on Pete Rose (Charlie Hustle)

April 05, 2024 13:19 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

Best-selling author Keith O'Brien talks about his new book "Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose and the Last Glory Days of Baseball." The book chronicles Pete's blue collar roots, his improbable rise to greatness as one of baseball's greatest hitters, and the disastrous disintegration of his career due to his gambling addiction. (Pete Rose was banished from major league baseball for the rest of his life.) In part two, we go into the archives for a 2010 interview with Tim Wende...

4/4/24 Adventures in Lifelong Learning

April 04, 2024 12:42 - 48 minutes - 110 MB

We learn all about the non-profit group Adventures in Lifelong Learning (A.L.L.) from president Shelly Underhill, past-president Karen Kempinen, and day trips co-chair Carole Kotese.

4/3/24 David Baron - "American Eclipse"

April 03, 2024 12:40 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MB

Just in time for the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8th - we hear from David Baron, author of "American Eclipse: A Nation's Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World." The book focuses on the 1878 total solar eclipse that was visible in much of the United States. A trio of brilliant Americans (including a young Thomas Alva Edison and an extraordinary young astronomer named Maria Mitchell) raced to the Rocky Mountains to view the eclipse, gather inform...

4/2/24 Emily Didkinson's Gardening Life

April 02, 2024 15:25 - 29 minutes - 27 MB

From the archives: Marta McDowell, author of "Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places that Inspired the Iconic Poet." [Today's Morning Show broadcast was with gardening expert Nina Koziol. That interview was shared in the podcast back on March 28th.]

4/1/24 Don't make me pull over!

April 01, 2024 06:14 - 53 minutes - 48.6 MB

From 2018 - Richard Ratay, author of "Don't make me pull over: an informal history of the family road trip."

3/31/24 Life is Good

March 31, 2024 06:11 - 23 minutes - 21.5 MB

25 years ago this year, Bert and John Jacobs ... two college-age brothers .... designed and sold their first t-shirts. They eventually founded the company Life is Good. In honor of that anniversary, here is an interview where they talk about the Life is Good book that they co-wrote.

3/30/24 Crossword Puzzles

March 30, 2024 06:09 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB

From 2005- Stanley Newman's Opus 100 Crosswords.

3/29/24 An Elegant Defense

March 29, 2024 06:01 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MB

From 2020- Matt Richtel, author of "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System- A Tale in Four Lives."

3/28/24 Gardening expert Nina Koziol

March 28, 2024 15:08 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MB

Sneak Preview: One of the most prominent gardening experts/writers/teachers in the Chicago-area, Nina Koziol, is coming to Kenosha on Thursday evening, April 4th- in a program sponsored by the Four Seasons Garden Club. The interview is being broadcast on April 2nd, but we're sharing the interview today in podcast format since the event is coming up so soon.

3/28/24 Dr. Art Cyr

March 28, 2024 15:05 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB

Dr. Art Cyr

3/27/24 Debbie Irving Followup

March 27, 2024 13:26 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

This is a newly-recorded interview with Debbie Irving, looking back over the last ten years since the publication of her memoir "Waking Up White: and finding myself in the Story of Race."

3/26/24 Waking Up White

March 26, 2024 13:06 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

From 2014 - Debbie Irving, author of "Waking up White: and finding myself in the Story of Race." The book is a remarkably honest memoir about Irving's realization (in adulthood) that she had harbored all kinds of racist attitudes that she never realized were there. The book also explores the reality of systemic racism. (Tomorrow, we'll have a newly-recorded interview with Irving in which she looks back over the past ten years.)

3/25/24 The Cancer Detectives

March 25, 2024 13:37 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

We preview the next American Experience documentary film - "The Cancer Detectives" - with co-directors/co-producers Amanda Pollak and Gene Tempest. The film talks about the most important breakthrough in early cancer detection among woman: the pap smear, named for Dr. George Papanicolaou. The film charts the circuitous route by which this became a well-established practice- and the various barriers and attitudes that had to be surmounted. The film also tells about the enormously import...

3/24/24 S.C. Gwynne - "The Perfect Pass"

March 24, 2024 06:55 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

From 2017 - S.C. Gwynne, author of "The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Revinvention of Football." The book is primarily the story of two football geniuses, Hal Mumme and Mike Leach, who helped revolutionize the game of football with a radical approach to the passing game that had never been seen before.

3/23/24 Tom Clavin "Wild Bill"

March 23, 2024 06:53 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB

From 2020- Tom Clavin discusses his book "Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter."

3/22/24 Carthage Institute of Paleontology

March 22, 2024 22:10 - 44 minutes - 101 MB

We catch up with Dr. Thomas Carr, director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and Dr. Megan Seitz, who is the program's Preparator. We will revisit the history of the program, the way in which it has grown both in size and stature over the years, and the work that each of them does. We talk about plans for their next 'dinosaur dig' in Montana this summer. We also discuss a serious budgetary issue that threatens the very existence of the program. Last but not least - there is...

3/21/24 Ann Liguori "Life on the Green"

March 21, 2024 13:14 - 44 minutes - 51.4 MB

Sports journalist and podcaster Ann Liguori talks about her newest book, "Life on the Green: Lessons and Wisdom from Legends of Golf." In it, she shares some of the life lessons that some of the sport's greatest stars have learned through the course of their professional careers.

3/20/24 Delta Hawk Apprentice

March 21, 2024 12:52 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

We introduce you to Aubrey Marquez, a junior at Park High School who is an apprentice at Delta Hawk, an exciting young engine company in Racine. We also speak with two Racine Unified School District employees who have worked with Aubrey - school counselor Jeffrey Wilkins and youth apprentice coordinator Mike Lynch - as well as two employees at Delta Hawk .... Lisa Booker, head of HR, and Aaron Nieto, lead engine technician. In Part Two, we hear from the author of the book "Wish I Could...

3/19/24 The Suffragist Playbook

March 19, 2024 13:33 - 47 minutes - 43 MB

From 2020- for Women's History Month- Lucinda Robb (granddaughter of Lyndon Baines Johnson) and Rebecca Boggs Roberts (daughter of Cokie Roberts) talk about their book "The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World." The book examines some of the most important suffragists and how they managed to accomplish what they did- often against nearly insurmountable odds.

3/18/24 Dr. John Swallow

March 19, 2024 12:48 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Dr. John Swallow- the president of Carthage College

3/17/24 Malachy McCourt- The Claddagh Ring

March 17, 2024 06:38 - 22 minutes - 20.4 MB

From 2003 - Malachy McCourt (younger brother of best-selling author Frank McCourt) discusses his book "The Claddagh Ring: Ireland's Cherished Symbol of Friendship, Loyalty and Love."

3/16/24 Two books about Dogs

March 16, 2024 06:27 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB

From 2005 - Dr. Stanley Coren, author of "How Dogs Think: What the world looks like to them and why they act the way they do." Also, Emily Yoffe, author of "What the Dog Did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner."

3/15/24 Dr. Lynn Akey, UW-Parkside Chancellor

March 15, 2024 14:15 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

Dr. Lynn Akey, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, pays her first visit to the Morning Show. She assumed her position at Parkside in January.

3/14/24 Maple Sugaring

March 14, 2024 15:14 - 46 minutes - 107 MB

Kailyn Palomares has taken over from Nan Calvert in organizing monthly Morning Show programs around various topics related to the environment and the natural world. Today's program focuses primarily on Maple Sugaring as it takes place at Hawthorn Hollow, where Kailyn is Naturalist and Education Manager. With her today is Hawthorn Hollow's Executive Director, TJ Leveque.

3/12/24 Lakeside Players' "The 39 Steps"

March 13, 2024 15:30 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB

We speak with director Steve Mattnor and actor Sean Collier about the lakeside players' production of "The 39 Steps," a comic parody of the classic 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name.

3/13/24 Carthage's "On the Verge"

March 13, 2024 15:26 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MB

We preview the Carthage College theater department's production of Eric Overmyer's "On the Verge, or The Geography of Yearning" with Professor Herschel Kruger as well as two students involved in the production: assistant director/dramaturg Katie Layendecker and costume designer Ani Gebaur.

3/12/24 Tiffany Jewel on Racism

March 12, 2024 12:38 - 20 minutes - 18.3 MB

Best-selling author Tiffany Jewell talks about her most recent book "Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned In School." Growing up in Syracuse, NY as a biracial young woman whom the schools categorized as white, the author was in an uncommon position to witness the many and various ways in which the school district failed to properly serve most of its students of color.

3/11/24 Mia X Ally / Raghavan Iyer

March 11, 2024 13:23 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB

Part 1 - We catch up with the spectacular musical duo of Mia X Ally (Mia is a superb violinist, Ally is a award-winning bagpiper) who will be performing in Milwaukee on Saint Patrick's Day. Part 2 - (from 2016) the late Indian chef Raghavan Iyer talks about his book "Smashed, Mashed, Boiled and Baked: A Celebration of Potatoes in 75 Recipes."

3/10/24 Bilingualism in the home

March 09, 2024 14:55 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

From a few years ago- three Carthage College faculty members: Wayne Thompson, Matt Borden, and Dimitri Shapovalov, talk about their respective experiences with bilingualism in the home- either as parents or growing up in a bilingual household.

3/9/24 Let me clear my throat

March 09, 2024 14:51 - 26 minutes - 24 MB

From 2013- an exploration of the human voice with Elena Passarello, author of "Let me clear my throat."

3/8/24 Martha Graham's Cold War

March 08, 2024 14:38 - 46 minutes - 42.2 MB

Victoria Philips, author of "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy." The book explores some of the ways in which the renowned dancer and choreographer was utilized by the American government as a diplomatic tool at the height of the Cold War.

3/7/24 Uw-Parkside Jazz Week

March 07, 2024 15:56 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MB

Russ Johnson, director of jazz studies at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about Jazz Week 2024, which is next week. We also talk about the difference between playing jazz and classical trumpet.

3/6/24 "Cherries in Winter"

March 06, 2024 14:34 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

From 2009- Suzan Colon talks about her book "Cherries in Winter: My family's recipe for hope in hard times."

3/5/24 KAFASI Meals on Wheels

March 05, 2024 14:31 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

We talk about KAFASI (Kenosha Area Family and Aging Services) and their many programs with Executive Director Ron Tatum and AmericCorps Senior Project Director Rebecca Stevens. We give special emphasis to Meals on Wheels. (Next week they are doing a special event to draw attention to this life-changing program.)

3/4/24 "A Whaler at Twilight"

March 04, 2024 16:14 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

Alexander R. Brash, author of "A Whaler at Twilight: A true account of Whaling and Redemption in the South Pacific." Brash's great-great grandfather fell on hard times and took to drinking, and ultimately chose to join a whaling expedition in the 1840s. He wrote a detailed account of his experiences that was shown to Brash a few years ago. This book is based on that journal as well as on the author's extensive research into the whaling industry in this period of time.

3/3/24 Queen Noor

March 03, 2024 07:12 - 13 minutes - 12.7 MB

For Women's History Month: From 2003, Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan from 1978 to 1999, talks about her book "Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life."

3/2/24 Marc Elliot on Charlton Heston

March 02, 2024 07:20 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MB

From 2017 - Marc Elliot discusses his book "Charlton Heston: Hollywood's Last Icon."

3/1/24 "Where the children take us" / "Wonder Women"

March 01, 2024 14:47 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MB

Part 1- Zane E. Asher, author of "Where the Children Take Us: How one family achieved the unimaginable." The book his Asher's tribute to her mother and how she managed to raise her children as an unwed mother, often amid staggeringly difficult circumstances. Part 2- Sam Maggs, author of "Wonder Women: 25 Innovators, Inventors and Trailblazers."

2/29/24 Travel Writers Lucas Peters / Rick Steves

February 29, 2024 15:13 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MB

Lucas Peters talks about his Moon Guide "Grand European Journeys: 40 Unforgettable Trips by Road, Rail, Sea and More." Also, from the archives- Rick Steves talks about his guide for cruises around the Mediterranean Sea.

2/28/24 An Ibsen Play / A 21st century Cabaret

February 28, 2024 14:49 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MB

Part One: We speak with Brian Gill, Associate Professor of Theater Arts at the University of WIsconsin-Parkside, about their production of "When We Dead Awaken," the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Part Two: Singer Lynette Knapp Ryan talks about her cabaret program "I Wanna Fly," which is being presented under the auspices of Milwaukee Opera Theater.

2/27/24 Dr. James Ripley- Carthage Bands

February 27, 2024 15:12 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MB

Dr. James Ripley, director of instrumental activities at Carthage College, talks about the concert tomorrow night (Feb. 28th) that commemorates the first band concert at Carthage 150 years ago. Much of the repertoire from that first concert will be played - and the special guests of the concert, the Gaudete Brass Quintet, will play some of their selections on historic instruments from the period. We also talk about the history of bands at Carthage, the history of band tours at Carthage...

2/26/24 Alzheimer's Disease

February 26, 2024 15:49 - 48 minutes - 111 MB

We discuss Alzheimer's Disease with two representatives of the Kenosha County Aging and Disability Resource Center: Paula Clark, programs supervisor, and Susan Johnson, dementia care specialist.

2/25/24 Nan Calvert- edible native plants

February 25, 2024 07:08 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB

We are sharing some of our favorite Nan Calvert interviews from the past. (She recently stepped down after organizing monthly environmental Morning Show programs for the past 18 years.) This interview touches on one of Nan's most important environmental missions- educating the public about native plants. Her guest on this occasion was another native plants expert, Mieke And, talking about- among other things - edible native plants.

2/24/24 Nan Calvert - Wisconsin State Herbarium

February 24, 2024 07:06 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB

We are sharing memorable Nan Calvert interviews from the past. This interview from October 2022 was with John Zaborsky from the Wisconsin State Herbarium, talking about the Botanical Club of Wisconsin.

2/22/24 Dr. Colleen Palmer on Public Relations

February 22, 2024 13:53 - 47 minutes - 53.9 MB

Dr. Colleen Palmer, Assistant Professor of Communication and Digital Media, talks about the field of public relations and how it has changed quite dramatically in recent years. She is going to be moderating an event at Carthage next Thursday, February 29th: "Business for a Better World," featuring representatives from three different companies that have earned the designation of B-Corp for being socially conscious businesses.

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