WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

1/24/24 Mental Floss: The Book

January 24, 2024 15:05 - 7 minutes - 3.62 MB

From 2011- Ethan Trex, editor/co-author of "Mental Floss: The Book - The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory."

1/24/24 Courtroom Renovation

January 24, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MB

We talk about the proposed renovation of the ceremonial courtroom in the Kenosha County Courthouse with retired Circuit Court Judge Mary K. Wagner and Kenosha County Projects Manager Frank Martinelli. The once beautiful room was drastically altered in 1970 to accommodate much-needed air conditioning- and the proposed renovation will restore the room to its original splendor.

1/23/24 Dr. Keith Biddle - Forensic Anthropologist

January 23, 2024 16:29 - 47 minutes - 54.4 MB

Dr. Keith Biddle is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and the manager of Parkside's new Human Identification and Forensic Anthropolgy Lab- which, among other things, can do DNA extraction.

1/22/24 - Remembering Bill Hayes

January 22, 2024 16:58 - 1 hour - 37.1 MB

This is an interview recorded 8 years ago with singer and actor Bill Hayes.... who was a cast member on Sid Caesar's groundbreaking "Your Show of Shows" ..... sang a leading role in the original Broadway cast of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Me and Juliet" .... recorded the #1 song in the country in 1955 with "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" .... and was a part of the soap opera "Days of our lives" for more than fifty years. Mr. Hayes passed away on January 12th of this year at the age of 98. The...

1/21/24 My Racing Heart

January 21, 2024 07:32 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB

From 2002- Nan Mooney, author of "My Racing Heart: The Passionate World of Thoroughbreds and the Track."

1/20/24 One Car Caravan

January 20, 2024 07:28 - 28 minutes - 13 MB

From 2004- Walter Shapiro, author of 'One Car Caravan: On the road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In." The book examines what the leading Democratic contenders for their party's nomination for president were doing in the early months of the campaign - especially in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire.

1/19/24 American Experience: Nazi Town USA

January 19, 2024 13:21 - 47 minutes - 54.7 MB

We preview the next installment in the PBS documentary series American Experience. Peter Yost is writer, director and producer of "Nazi Town USA," which examines the phenomenon of fascist groups spring up all across America during the late 1920s and 1930s - culminating in a large rally at Madison Square Garden in1939 at which Nazi banners were brandished underneath a huge portrait of George Washington. What was drawing so many Americans to this kind of ideology?

1/18/24 Dial M for Murder/ Not a Gentleman's Work

January 18, 2024 13:51 - 47 minutes - 53.8 MB

Today is a murderous Morning Show. Part One: Michael Clickner talks about the Racine Theater Guild's production of "Dial M for Murder." Part Two, from the archives, is Gerald Koeppel talking his book "Not a Gentleman's Work: The Untold Story of a Gruesome Murder at Sea and the Long Road to Truth."

1/17/24 James Swanson- Bloody Crimes

January 17, 2024 14:12 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MB

From 2010 - Best-selling author James Swanson talks about his book "Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse."

1/17/24 Pat Sobkowski, Part 2

January 17, 2024 14:05 - 18 minutes - 8.45 MB

We conclude the conversation begun yesterday with Pat Sobkowski, who teaches law and political science at Marquette University. Our topic: the United States Supreme Court. In this portion of the interview, we discuss some of the especially significant cases that the court is expected to take up in the coming weeks and months.

1/16/24 Pat Sobkowski on the U.S. Supreme Court (ONE)

January 16, 2024 14:50 - 47 minutes - 110 MB

Pat Sobkowski, who teaches law at Marquette University, talks about the U.S. Supreme Court- how it functions .... its current makeup .... and what some of its most significant decisions have been over the past year. (Tomorrow, in the concluding portion of the conversation, he'll talk about noteworthy cases they are expected to take up in the coming weeks and months.)

1/15/23 Arc of Justice

January 15, 2024 07:16 - 28 minutes - 32.8 MB

For Martin Luther King Day (from 2005) Kevin Boyle discusses his book "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age." It tells the story of a black man named Ossian Sweet who was put on trial for murder when he accidentally killed a white man who was part of a mob that had entered Sweet's neighborhood. The title of the book is a phrase that Martin Luther King used in many of his speeches.

1/14/24 The Boys of Dunbar

January 14, 2024 07:03 - 40 minutes - 46.7 MB

From 2017 - Alejandro Danois, author of "The Boys of Dunbar: A Story of Love, Hope, and Basketball." This is the story of an exceptionally fine high school basketball team in Baltimore, Maryland whose success was a tremendous inspiration to the entire city.

1/13/24 Capote in Kansas

January 13, 2024 07:55 - 26 minutes - 30.5 MB

From 2008 - Kim Powers discusses his novel "Capote in Kansas."

1/12/24 Carthage Symposium: From Canvas to Cosmos

January 12, 2024 15:35 - 47 minutes - 54.8 MB

We highlight Carthage College's upcoming Symposium "From Canvas to Cosmos: Soviet Art, Solaris, Space Exploration, and the Science of Serene Spaces," which occurs January 18-20 .... with a variety of events free and open to the public. My guests: Leslie Brothers, Ryan Miller and Jojin Van Winkle from the art faculty - and Jean Quashnock from the physics and astronomy faculty. More information is available at: www.carthage.edu/arts/art-gallery/soviet-art-collection/symposium/

1/11/24 Nan Calvert-Laura Buska on Salt

January 11, 2024 16:52 - 48 minutes - 55.1 MB

Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the program features a conversation about the detrimental effect of sodium chloride (salt) on the environment- and especially on our fresh water. Joining her is Laura Buska from Root Pike WIN. January 22-26 is Winter Salt Awareness Week.

1/10/24 Encore: Call Him Jack

January 10, 2024 17:42 - 45 minutes - 85.6 MB

Encore from 2023: Yohuru Williams, author of "Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter"

1/10/24 Encore: Rise of the Black Quarterback

January 10, 2024 17:40 - 29 minutes - 34 MB

Encore from 2023: Jason Reid, author of "Rise of the Black Quarterback: What it means for America."

1/9/24 Encore: The Year That Broke Politics

January 09, 2024 14:47 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MB

Encore: Luke Nichter, author of "The Year That Broke Politics." The year in question is 1968, one of the most tumultuous in our country's history. The book primarily focuses on that year's presidential race through the perspectives of incumbent president Lyndon Johnson, Vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the two most significant challengers to Humphrey- Richard Nixon and George Wallace.

1/8/24 War Correspondent Jane Ferguson

January 08, 2024 23:10 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

This is an encore airing of my 2023 interview with celebrated war correspondent Jane Ferguson, author of "No Ordinary Assignment: a Memoir."

1/8/24 Encore: William Shatner

January 08, 2024 23:08 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MB

This is an encore airing of an interview that was recorded back in March of 2023, just ahead of William Shatner's visit to Milwaukee for a public screening of "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan" at the Pabst Theater.

1/7/23 Christian Patchell: "I put the 'Can' in Cancer"

January 07, 2024 07:27 - 48 minutes - 44 MB

I believe this interview is from 2012. Artist Christian Patchell's book consists of reflections and drawings he did during a health ordeal when he was diagnosed with and treated for a form of tongue cancer.

1/6/23 David Tolin: "Face Your Fears"

January 06, 2024 07:21 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB

From 2012, David Tolin discusses his book "Face Your Fears: A Proven Plan to Beat Anxiety, Panic, Phobias, and Obsessions." Dr. Tolin is a board certified clinical psychologist and founder and director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living in Connecticut and a member of the faculty at the Yale University School of Medicine.

1/5/23 Encore: How to know a person

January 05, 2024 12:54 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

In an encore presentation of yet another favorite author interview from this past year- David Brooks discusses his book "How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen."

1/4/23 Encore: "Valiant Women"

January 04, 2024 14:20 - 49 minutes - 45.3 MB

Encore: from 2023- Lena Andrew discusses her book "Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II." The book tells the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II in every branch of the military and in every combat theater ... and who played an essential role in the Allied victory.

1/3/23 Encore: "Of Time and Turtles"

January 03, 2024 13:36 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MB

Here's an encore presentation of one of our favorite author interviews from 2023: Sy Montgomery and Matt Patterson, co-authors of "Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell." This is a memoir of Montgomery and Patterson's experience working in turtle rescue. (Turtles are among the most endangered creatures on earth.)

1/2/24 Jonathan Scott: "Into the Groove"

January 02, 2024 09:42 - 1 hour - 72.3 MB

This first week of 2024 is devoted to some of our favorite author interviews from last year. Jonathan Scott's new history of sound recording is titled "Into the Groove: The Story of Sound from Tin Foil to Vinyl."

1/1/24 Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

January 01, 2024 09:39 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB

We devote this first year of 2024 to some of our favorite author interviews from 2023. Today: J. Randy Taraborelli, author of "Jackie- Public, Private, Secret" - a fascinating new biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

12/31/23 Remembering Frank Germinaro

December 31, 2023 09:08 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

We have been devoting the last few podcast episodes to replaying memorable 2023 Morning Show interviews with local guests. For this final episode of the year, I want to replay the Morning Show memorial tribute to Frank Germinaro that aired back in January, shortly after his death. Frank was a beloved member of the community - a highly-regarded educator, devoted family man, and wonderful entertainer and musician. This tribute included an archival interview with Frank and his wife Janet - ...

12/30/23 Casey Holtz

December 30, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 45.2 MB

We are devoting the last podcast episodes of 2023 to noteworthy Morning Show interviews from the past year that featured local guests. This is a replay of a memorable Morning Show from late August that actually featured two interviews .... recorded twenty years apart ... with the same guest: Casey Holtz. 20 years ago this summer, Casey saved the life of a young boy who almost certainly would have drowned in Lake Michigan had Casey not gone into the water to save him. We managed to trac...

12/29/23 UW-Parkside Chancellor Deb Ford

December 29, 2023 08:56 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

We are devoting the last podcast episodes of 2023 to memorable interviews with local or state guests from earlier in the year. This conversation recorded back in May was the final Morning Show appearance of Dr. Deb Ford, who for the previous 13 years had served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

12/28/23 Public Radio's Jack Mitchell

December 28, 2023 08:52 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MB

We are devoting the final podcast episodes of the year to noteworthy Morning Shows from 2023 that featured local or state guests. This is a memorable conversation I recorded back in August with public radio legend Jack Mitchell, one of the very first employees of NPR when that network was first created more than a half century ago. He went on to lead Wisconsin Public Radio for many years and helped shape the network and nurtured its spectacular growth over the course of a quarter century.

12/27/23 Track Star Joseph White

December 27, 2023 08:47 - 49 minutes - 45.1 MB

This week's podcasts are devoted to noteworthy 2023 Morning Show interviews that involved local or state guests. This show from March featured a spectacularly talented student-athlete from Kenosha, Joseph White, who is now a nursing student at Carthage. With him in the interview were three Carthage coaches: Seth Weidmann, Josh Henry and Greg Raimondi.

12/26/23 Kemper Hall's 150th Anniversary

December 26, 2023 07:19 - 48 minutes - 55.3 MB

Among our most noteworthy Morning Show interviews from 2023: the 150th anniversary of the founding of Kemper Hall, a girls school in Kenosha that was an important fixture in the community for more than a century before its closure in the mid 1970s. Earlier this summer, three Kemper alumni joined us to talk about their experiences with the school and how this anniversary was celebrated.

12/25/23 Love, Santa

December 25, 2023 07:40 - 18 minutes - 21.2 MB

From 2017 - Martha Brockenbrough, author of "Love, Santa: when you're ready to share the beautiful truth about Santa." This is a book about that moment when one might need to somehow confirm the suspicions in a youngster's mind that there might not actually be a Santa Claus.

12/24/23 The House at Royal Oak

December 24, 2023 07:58 - 48 minutes - 55.8 MB

From 2010 - Hugo and Carol Rizzoli, authors of "The House at Royal Oak: Starting Over and Rebuilding a Life, one room at a time." It's the story of a couple's efforts to refurbish a run-down country farmhouse and transform it into a bed and breakfast.

12/23/23 Intelligent Giving

December 23, 2023 07:36 - 30 minutes - 34.7 MB

From 2009- Joanna Krotz, author of "The Guide to Intelligent Giving: Make a Difference in the World- and in your own life."

12/22/23 Margaret Grossi: "The Boys of '36"

December 22, 2023 14:31 - 29 minutes - 18.3 MB

Margaret Grossi talks about the documentary film "The Boys of '36" which she directed and co-directed (with Mary Carillo.) It tells the story of the American rowing team that scored a stunning upset gold medal victory in the Berlin 1936 Olympics when they upset the heavily favored German team. The story is the basis for a new major motion picture titled "The Boys in the Boat" that opens on December 25th. The film is directed by George Clooney.

12/22/23 Raising a Kid who can

December 22, 2023 14:28 - 17 minutes - 11.6 MB

Dr. Catherine McCarthy, co-author of "Raising a Kid Who Can: Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength."

12/21/23 Basketball and Sneakers

December 21, 2023 15:45 - 14 minutes - 9.61 MB

Russ Bengtson, author of "A History of Basketball in 15 Sneakers."

12/21/23 "Fly" (fashion in the NBA)

December 21, 2023 15:31 - 25 minutes - 17 MB

Mitchell S. Jackson talks about his new book "Fly: The Big Book of Basketball Fashion," in which he examines some of the bold fashion statements that have been made by various NBA stars over the years. The book includes an interesting discussion of how some of those fashion choices have challenged customary notions of what is masculine. The book is loaded with spectacular photographs.

12/21/23 John Feinstein "Game Changers"

December 21, 2023 15:20 - 23 minutes - 14.9 MB

From 2022, John Feinstein talks about his novel for young readers titled "Game Changers," part of his Bench Warmers series. It follows the exploits of two goodhearted and talented middle school athletes named Andi and Jeff. The first book in the series concerned soccer- This book focuses on basketball.

12/20/23 Matt Hranek's "A Man and his Kitchen"

December 20, 2023 12:44 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MB

Matt Hranek, founder and editor of the men's lifestyle magazine "Wm Brown," has written a series of books including "A Man and his Watch" and "A Man and his Car." His latest, "A Man and his Kitchen," is an exceptionally beautiful and entertaining cookbook a guide to home entertaining.

12/20/23 Madame Fromage's Adventures in Cheese

December 20, 2023 12:36 - 32 minutes - 21.9 MB

Tenaya Darlington talks about her newest book "Madame Fromage's Adventures in Cheese: How to explore it, pair it and love it, from the creamiest brie to the funkiest blues." The book celebrates a variety of distinctive cheeses from around the world, explains the process by which it is made, introduces you to an array of people involved in cheese-making, and offers helpful advice on everything from pairing cheese with the right wine to tips on how to create wonderful and unique cheese boar...

12/19/23 Remembering Sandra Day O'Connor

December 19, 2023 15:41 - 24 minutes - 18.1 MB

From July of this year- Michelle Ferrari, talks about the American Experience documentary "Sandra Day O'Conner: The First," which looks at the life and legacy of the first woman to serve as a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. During her long tenure on the court (1981-2006) the Court dealt with a number of highly consequential and divisive cases- and often Justice O'Connor was the deciding vote. Ferrari was co-producer, director and writer for the film. Justice O'Connor passed away on Dec...

12/19/23 Home Inspectors

December 19, 2023 15:21 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MB

We introduce you to Sal Catanese and his sons Paul and David, who own and operate Legacy Inspection Group, which does home inspections in suburban Chicago. We talk with them about what home inspectors do- and how they do it - and what prospective buyers should be thinking about as they undertake this process.

12/18/23 "Merry & Hark" and 2 other Xmas Books

December 18, 2023 16:07 - 48 minutes - 38.3 MB

Part 1 Alice Genevieve Tucholke, author of 'Merry and Hark: A Christmas Story," based on a true story- a small owl accidentally finds itself transported from the woods to the heart of a huge city- but is taken in by a loving soul. Part 2: (from the archives) W. Bruce Cameron, author of "The Dogs of Christmas." Part 3: Charles M. Cohen, expert on the works of Dr. Seuss, discusses the 2007 50th anniversary release of "The Grinch who stole Christmas."

12/17/23 Big Time Sports in American Universities

December 17, 2023 07:31 - 30 minutes - 35.3 MB

From 2019 - Professor Charles T. Clotfelter talks about his book "Big-Time Sports in American Universities," which examines the place of high profile athletic teams at our major universities. Although Professor Clotfelter raises concerns, he comes to this as a sports fan and his approach to the topic is nuanced and thoughtful.

12/16/23 Weston Noble on Handel's Messiah

December 16, 2023 07:34 - 23 minutes - 27.4 MB

From 2007- a memorable conversation about Handel's MESSIAH with choral legend Weston Noble- who was conductor-in-residence at Carthage College that year and participated in in the 2007 Sing Along Messiah performance. Also in this conversation is Trevor Parker, who was the tenor soloist that year. This year's Messiah Sing Along is Sunday evening, Dec. 17th, 6 pm, at First United Methodist Church in Kenosha.

12/15/23 Craig Gall- Kenosha Pops Christmas

December 15, 2023 15:59 - 25 minutes - 28.7 MB

I speak with Craig Gall, music director of the Kenosha Pops Concert Band, about their Christmas concert on Saturday evening, December 16th, in Carthage's Siebert Chapel. This is the 20th anniversary of the group's first Christmas concert.

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