WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg
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6/18/23 Tim O'Brien: Dad's Maybe Book
June 18, 2023 10:08 - 48 minutes - 55.6 MBFor Father's Day..... Tim O'Brien discusses his memoir "Dad's Maybe Book," in which he talks about the experience of becoming a father quite late in life. The book was published- and the interview was recorded- in 2019.
6/17/23 Gender Stereotypes in Higher Education
June 17, 2023 10:12 - 31 minutes - 35.9 MBAn archival conversation about gender stereotypes in higher education with Dr. Sylvia Beyer, a longtime Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
6/16/23 Kemper Center
June 16, 2023 13:43 - 38 minutes - 44 MBKemper Center, executive director of Kemper Center - and Robin Ingrouille, Kemper's administrator.
6/16/23 Erik Lindbergh
June 16, 2023 12:48 - 8 minutes - 9.4 MBFrom 2002- a brief interview with Erik Lindbergh, a grandson of Charles Lindbergh. The occasion of the interview was the 75th anniversary of Lindbergh's historic solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927 .... and the publication of a brand new book about him titled "Lindbergh: Flight's Enigmatic Hero," for which Erik wrote the forward.
6/15/23 The Story of Baseball in 100 Photographs
June 15, 2023 15:32 - 20 minutes - 23.2 MBKostya Kennedy is one of the editors of "The Story of Baseball in 100 Photographs," which comes from Sports Illustrated. (from 2018)
6/15/23 Golf Links
June 15, 2023 15:29 - 27 minutes - 31.8 MBThis is an exploration of how the game of golf first established itself in America. Charles D. Burgess is author of "Golf Links: Chay Burgess, Francis Ouimet, and the Bringing of Golf to America." (Chay Burgess was the author's great grandfather.)
6/14/23 Kristen Singer/Carly Mikula discuss Musical Theater
June 14, 2023 13:57 - 50 minutes - 57.3 MBKristen Singer, a music and theater teacher at Harborside Academy, and Carly Mikula, who just graduated from there, discuss their exciting experiences at the most recent Jerry Awards ... an event in Madison that brings together gifted musical theater students from across the state. A production Kristen directed earlier this year- "Chicago"- was honored with a place in the program - and Carly ended up being selected as the one singing actress who will represent Wisconsin in the upcoming Ji...
6/13/23 Gus Russo- "The Outfit"
June 13, 2023 13:44 - 49 minutes - 56.4 MBFrom 2002- Gus Russo, author of "The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America." 'The Outfit' was the nickname of one of the most powerful organized crime cartels in Chicago. It exerted enormous influence over the city and beyond for half a century.
6/12/23 The Library of Broken Worlds
June 12, 2023 15:31 - 11 minutes - 13.1 MBAlaya Dawn Johnson- "The Library of Broken Dreams"
6/12/23 The Anger Advantage
June 12, 2023 15:28 - 36 minutes - 41.8 MBFrom 2003- Karen Bruckner, co-author of "The Anger Advantage: The Surprising Benefits of Anger and How it Can Change a Woman's Life."
6/11/23 What Liberal Media?
June 11, 2023 10:38 - 27 minutes - 31.5 MBFrom 2003- Eric Alterman, author of 'What Liberal Media: The Truth about Bias and the News."
6/10/23 Seedfolks
June 10, 2023 10:22 - 27 minutes - 31.5 MBFrom approximately 20 years ago- Paul Fleischman, author of "Seedfolks." This book was chosen as the focus of that year's Racine Reads project, in which readers of all ages and from all across the city were encouraged to read this heartwarming and inspiring book.
6/9/23 "Heat Wave"
June 09, 2023 13:29 - 46 minutes - 53.5 MBFrom 2002, Eric Klinenberg, author of "Heat Wave: a Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago." The book examines the devastating heat wave in the summer of 1995 in which Chicago saw temperatures as high as 106 degrees over the course of an entire week. It is estimated that 700 people died due to the oppressively hot weather. Klinenberg wanted to understand why the death rate was so high in certain neighborhoods and in certain sectors of the population.
6/8/23 Nan Calvert/Dave Giordano - Campbell Woods
June 09, 2023 11:55 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBFor Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the Morning Show, we talk about two new projects by Root Pike WIN (the Root Pike Watershed Initiative Network) ... at Campbell Woods and Cliffside Park ... with Dave Giordano, executive director of Root Pike WIN.
6/7/23 1) Given up for Dead 2) Napoleon
June 07, 2023 16:21 - 47 minutes - 54.4 MBPart One: (from 2005) Flint Whitlock, author of "Given Up for Dead: American POWs in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga." Part Two: Andrew Roberts, author of "Napoleon: A Life."
6/6/23 Sizing up the Universe
June 06, 2023 13:29 - 20 minutes - 23.2 MBJ. Richard Gott, co-author of "Sizing up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective," published by National Geographic.
6/6/23 How Math Explains the World
June 06, 2023 13:21 - 28 minutes - 32.7 MBDr. James D. Stein, author of "How Math Explains the World: A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repairs to Modern Physics."
6/5/23 "Mastering the Art of Quitting"
June 05, 2023 13:58 - 23 minutes - 26.7 MBAlan B. Bernstein, co-author (with Peg Streep) of "Mastering the Art of Quitting: Why it matters in life, love and work."
6/5/23 "The Last Coach" (Bear Bryant"
June 05, 2023 13:57 - 23 minutes - 27.2 MBFrom 2006- Allen Barra, author of "The last Coach: a life of Paul 'Bear' Bryant." Bryant, one of the most famous college football coaches in history, led the Alabama football program for a quarter of a century.
6/4/23 Sam Chell on Cult Movies
June 04, 2023 10:19 - 1 hour - 69.4 MBFrom 2002 - Dr. Sam Chell, now retired as a Professor of English at Carthage College, talks about a J-term course he taught about cult movies. He also discusses a radio program he had just begun hosting on WGTD - Saturday Night Bandstand.
6/3/23 Art Historian Clare Ford Dean
June 03, 2023 10:50 - 54 minutes - 62.2 MBFrom 1996 - Art Historian Clare Ford Dean - discussing (among other things) great Flemish painters as well as the art exhibit that inspired Modeste Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
6/2/23 "Love, Zac"
June 02, 2023 14:05 - 48 minutes - 55.4 MBReid Forgrave, author of "Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy." The book tells the story lf Zac Easter, a young man from a small town in Iowa who suffered repeated head injuries that led to CTE (Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy) - and eventually took his own life.
6/1/23 "A Petit Mal"
June 01, 2023 14:25 - 25 minutes - 29.7 MBPoet and writer Ana Maria Caballeros talks about her book "A Petit Mal," which chronicles the experience of her family when her six year old son was diagnosed with autism.
6/1/23 Spirit of Racine Music Makers
June 01, 2023 14:18 - 20 minutes - 23.4 MBGeorge Baumgardt, founder and director of the Spirit of Racine Music Makers, talks about their upcoming concert on June 4th.
5/31/23 Dr. Debra Ford
May 31, 2023 15:16 - 47 minutes - 54 MBDr. Debra Ford, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, looks back on her 14 years in the position. (She is about to become chancellor at the University of Indiana-Southeast.) Also with us is Scott Menke, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration, who will serve as Interim Chancellor until a new chancellor is named.
5/30/23 "The Big Roads"
May 30, 2023 13:50 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBEarl Swift, author of "The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers who created the American Superhighways."
5/29/23 The Unknowns
May 29, 2023 09:35 - 47 minutes - 54.7 MB(from the archives: for Memorial Day) Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of "The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and World War One's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home."
5/28/23 Aaron Kohlmeier & an American Idol Story
May 28, 2023 10:21 - 14 minutes - 16.6 MBThis interview was recorded (I believe) back in 2003. Aaron Kohlmeier, who was a student at Carthage College at the timer, recounts the story of how he and several friends traveled to Detroit, Michigan in the hopes of auditioning for AMERICAN IDOL.
5/27/23 Reefer Madness
May 27, 2023 10:01 - 17 minutes - 19.8 MBFrom 2003/2004- Eric Schlosser, author of "Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Lbor in the American Black Market"
5/26/23 Dave McGrath's novel "24 Hours from Tulsa"
May 26, 2023 14:46 - 47 minutes - 54.4 MBPostponed from last week: WGTD News Director Dave McGrath talks about his first novel, "24 Hours from Tulsa," which tells the fictitious backstory behind one of Gene Pitney's greatest hits. The book is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at pop music in the 1960s. Although the book is a work of fiction, it springs in large measure from Dave McGrath's working relationship with Gene Pitney over the course of many years. Pitney figures prominently in the novel.
5/25/23 Racine Kenosha Vocational Ministry
May 25, 2023 14:05 - 47 minutes - 109 MBWe talk about the great work of Racine Vocational Ministry with Executive Director James Schatzman and Re-Entry Program Director Heather Bennett. The agency is celebrating its 20th anniversary and just placed its 5,000th worker. They work to help people who have been incarcerated to re-enter society and achieve success.
5/24/23 Dr. Art Cyr
May 24, 2023 14:21 - 45 minutes - 52.3 MBDr. Ar Cyr, a member of the faculty at Carthage College, pays his monthly visit to the program to talk about a variety of issues, including recent elections in Great Britain, the most recent meeting of the G7, and what the looming crisis of the Debt Ceiling is all about.
5/23/23 Sweeney Todd at the RTG
May 23, 2023 14:12 - 47 minutes - 54.2 MBWe discuss Stephen Sondheim's SWEENEY TODD, which has just opened at the Racine Theater Guild and runs for the next two weekends. Doug Instenes is Managing and Artistic Director of the RTG and the stage director of this production. Davidson Kane portrays Sweeney.
5/22/23 "Under the Iron Heel"
May 23, 2023 12:22 - 48 minutes - 55.7 MBAhmed White, author of "Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers." The term 'Wobblies' in the subtitle refers to members of the I.W.W. - the Industrial Workers of the World - a radical union formed in 1905 that sought to overturn capitalism in order to eliminate the brutal working conditions of millions of U.S. factory workers in early 20th century America. The union was ultimately destroyed thanks to internal division as well as a concerted attack from...
5/21/23 (2001) Bob Bonn
May 21, 2023 09:04 - 26 minutes - 30 MBEarlier this week, I spoke with the new athletic director at Carthage College, Ryan Kane. Today, we listen back to a 2001 interview with Bob Bonn, who was Carthage's athletic director for 26 years, from 1992 until 2018. Bonn passed away in the summer of 2020. It was under his leadership that athletics at Carthage expanded in some truly spectacular ways. He also oversaw the construction of the TARC.
5/20/23 "Healthy Anger"
May 20, 2023 09:59 - 26 minutes - 30 MBFrom 2002 - Dr. Bernard Golden, author of "Healthy Anger: How to help children and teens manage their anger."
5/19/23 Greg Borowski "First and Long"
May 19, 2023 13:01 - 1 hour - 71 MBFrom 2004- Greg Borowski, author of "First and Long: A black school, a white school, and their season of dreams." The book chronicles the complicated and difficult first season of the combined football team of Shorewood High School (a mostly white school in an affluent suburb) and Messmer High School (a mostly black school with many inner city students from low-income families.) A documentary film ("Messwood") that takes the story up to the present day is being screened Saturday evening...
5/18/23 Athletics at Carthage College
May 18, 2023 15:05 - 46 minutes - 53.4 MBAthletic Director Ryan Kane and Assistant Athletic Director Seth Weidmann.
5/17/23 Heart of the Game
May 17, 2023 15:31 - 47 minutes - 54.9 MBS.L. Price, author of "Heart of the Game: Life, Death and Mercy in Minor League America"
5/16/23 "Beyond Birds and Bees"
May 16, 2023 13:45 - 48 minutes - 55.2 MBBonnie J. Ruff, author of "Beyond Birds and Bees: Bringing home to our kids a new message about love, sex and equality." Ruff, her husband and children moved from the US to the Netherlands and found themselves confronted by profoundly different attitudes about sexuality - and, in particular, different ideas about the best way to educate youngsters about matters related to sex and sexuality. Ruff's book explores this.
5/15/23 Kenosha Verbatim Project
May 15, 2023 14:39 - 46 minutes - 52.6 MBWe preview Saturday evening's performance (the one-and-only performance) of the Kenosha Verbatim Project, the latest in a series of Verbatim Theater Projects from Carthage. This one deals with the aftermath of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the summer of 2020. Joining us is Martin McClendon, Professor of Theater, along with two Carthage students intimately involved in the project: Rayven Craft and Katherine Layendecker.
5/14/23 Motherless Mothers
May 14, 2023 10:01 - 50 minutes - 58.1 MBFrom 2007 - Hope Edelman, author of "Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become."
5/13/23 "Adoption Nation"
May 13, 2023 10:27 - 55 minutes - 63.1 MBFrom 2011 - Andrew Pertman, author of "Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming our Families - and America."
5/12/23 Maybe Baby
May 12, 2023 15:13 - 56 minutes - 65.1 MBFrom 2007, and in honor of Mother's Day: Lori Leibovich, author and editor of "Maybe Baby: 28 Writers tell the truth about Skepticism, Infertility, Baby Lust, Childlessness, Ambivalence, and how they made the biggest decision of their lives." (Because of time constraints, we could only broadcast an abridged version of the interview. Here it is in its entirety.)
5/11/23 Hawthorn Hollow
May 11, 2023 14:33 - 48 minutes - 55.9 MBNan Calvert's May visit to the Morning Show features two representatives from Hawthorn Hollow Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum: TJ Leveque (executive director) and Kailyn Palomares (naturalist and education manager.) Hawthorn Hollow has expanded its acreage and a celebratory grand opening will be occurring on July 15th.
5/10/23 Simon Read on young Winston Churchill
May 10, 2023 13:51 - 48 minutes - 55.5 MBFrom 2015 - Simon Read, author of "Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent."
5/9/23 Manuel Lima- "The New Designer"
May 09, 2023 15:21 - 46 minutes - 53.8 MBAward-winning designer and best-selling author Manuel Lima, author of "The New Designer: Discarding Myths, Embracing Change."
5/7/23 "Our Dumb World" (from The Onion)
May 07, 2023 10:47 - 23 minutes - 27.1 MBFrom 2007 - "Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth"
5/6/23 Carlyn Berghoff (The Berghoff Family Cookbook)
May 06, 2023 10:42 - 34 minutes - 39.5 MBFrom 2007(?) - Carlyn Berghoff, co-author with her mother Jan Berghoff of "The Berghoff Family Cookbook: From our Table to Yours, Celebrating a Century of Entertaining."
5/5/23 UW-Parkside performs the Abyssinian Mass
May 05, 2023 14:52 - 19 minutes - 22.7 MBWe preview the performances this Sunday and Monday evening at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside of the Abyssinian Mass by Wynton Marsalis. My guests: Dr. James Kinchen, director of choral activities at UW-Parkside, and Russ Johnson, director of jazz studies at Parkside. This upcoming performance will feature the combined choirs of Parkside in collaboration with the school's jazz ensemble.