Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

For his monthly visit to the program, Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht celebrates October as National Manufacturing Month by talking about some of the ways that the manufacturing sector has most dramatically changed over the last few years- and how new technology has completely transformed the kind of work that the typical worker is called upon to do in manufacturing today.   Joining President Albrecht is Matt Janison, Vice President for Business and Workforce Solutions,  and Stacy Riley, Vice President for Student Services & Enrollment Management. 

This is part two of the Jessye Norman Morning Show that was recorded and originally broadcast back in 2014 after the release of her memoir "Stand Up Straight and Sing."  Jessye Norman died on September 30, 2019 at the age of 74.   Her celebrated career took her to nearly every major concert hall and opera house in the world- and she sang at two presidential inaugurations,  the opening ceremony of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta,  Paris's 200th anniversary commemoration of the French Revolution, and the funeral of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. 

The interview is with Meaghan Heinrich,  the artist-in-residence for the Racine Symphony for their 2019-2020 season.   She will be offering a pre-concert presentation at the RSO's season-opening concert on Sunday afternoon,  October 6th, at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.  

Part one features Jack Rose, a board member for the Kenosha County chapter of NAMI - the National Alliance On Mental Illness.  Part two is a portion of a 2017 conversation with comedic pianist Jason Lyle Black, who is performing at Carthage on October 8th.   

In part one, we preview Carthage's production of "A Doll's House- Part Two" - a thought-provoking contemporary sequel to Ibsen's renowned and controversial masterpiece.  The guests are Herschel Kruger, Professor of Theater, and three students involved in the production: Lydia Haasl, Giovanni Bahena, and Latora Lezotte.  Part two is a preview of the Thursday night concert at Carthage by the exciting vocal quartet Women of the World.   WGTD's Troy McDonald speaks with Giorgia Renosta, one member of the group. 

Our guest is a well-known Russian economist,  Pavel Usanov - speaking on, among other things, the current state of affairs in Russia - and what the policies of Vladimir Putin have done to the Russian economy.  He is joined in the studio by two members of the Carthage faculty: Dr. Yuri Maltsev and Dr. Art Cyr. 

Today is the monthly visit of Gateway Technical College president Bryan Albrecht.   Our special guest is Celeste Carter with the National Science Foundation.   

This is an interview with author James Swanson about his 2010 best-seller "Bloody Crimes:  The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse."  The book dramatically chronicles two parallel stories that unfolded in the wake of the Confederacy's surrender and Lincoln's assassination - Confederate President Jefferson Davis's desperate attempt to evade capture - and the unprecedented outpouring of grief that swept across the country as the body of Lincoln was transported from Washington DC to Springfield, IL by train.  This is an amazing book.

Jane Bryant Quinn is one of the country's leading commentators on personal finance and financial planning.  This 2017 concerns her best-selling book "How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide."  

Clive D. L. Wynne's book is "Dog is Love:  Why and How Your Dog Loves You."  Wynne is the founding director of the Canine Science Collaboratory at Arizona State University.  He has been studying the nature of the connection between dogs and human beings and what the nature of that connection is.  Can is be properly described as Love? He says yes!    This podcast version of the Morning Show features the interview in its unedited entirety - about twelve minutes longer than the abridged version that was broadcast over the air.  

Today is the monthly visit of Nan Calvert - and her guest is Dawn Demuyt,  manager of the Eco-Justice Center's Farm Youth Corps, in which the large and organically-grown vegetable garden of the Eco-Justice Center is tended by young people from the city of Racine who learn where our food comes from and all about sustainable practices in growing food.  The program just completed its fifth year.  

We begin with Ian Livingstone, a British game enthusiast with over 1,000 board games in his personal collection.  His new book is titled "Board Games in 100 Moves:  8,000 Years of Play."   The second interview, from the archives, is titled "Hot Hands,  Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak:  Debunking Sports Myths."   The book seeks to dispel the misunderstandings that we tend to have about certain sports accomplishments.   

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College- and director of the Clausen Center - discusses an array of current events and issues .... including Brexit and the British Supreme Court's unanimous ruling against Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend Parliament .... the recent resignation of National Security Advisor John Bolton ....  and escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea.  

Novelist Linwood Barclay talks about his latest thriller,  "Elevator Pitch."  

This Morning Show interview dates back to the mid 1990's.   WGTD's Bill Guy interviews then-Carthage College baseball coach Augie Schmidt.  We are rerunning this interview as a memorial tribute to Bill Guy, who created the Morning Show and was the program's original host.  This past Friday marked the 20th anniversary of Bill's untimely death on September 20, 1999.   

Today's podcast consists of the The Morning Show - in its entirety, exactly as it aired - from September 20, 1999 - which was the morning that we learned of the death of our longtime and beloved colleague Bill Guy,  who had worked for WGTD for 21 years and whose legacy included the creation of "The Morning Show."  I talk about the Art of the Interview with writer Michael Schumacher,  who was a frequent guest during Bill's tenure as M.S. host.  At the end, you'll also hear a tribute from the late Frank Falduto, who was WGTD's general manager at the time. 

Our guest, Robert Haggarty Jr., volunteers for an advocacy non-profit called Raise the Voices that seeks to raise awareness of key human rights issues.  Haggarty leads a group that is advocating on behalf of more than a million minority Muslims in China - the Uyghur -  who are being held in 're-education camps' that are clearly designed to stamp out the culture and language of the Uyghur.  

Today's Morning Show opened with a brief tribute to long-time WGTD News Director Bill Guy, who died twenty years ago today.   This tribute featured the the first five minutes of the Morning Show we aired back on September 20, 1999.   That interview, which featured Kenosha-based author Michael Schumacher,  can be heard in its entirety on tomorrow's podcast .... and an interview conducted by Bill Guy himself will be shared on Sunday's podcast.  Bill died at the age of 50 after a courageous battle with cancer. 

This is a conversation with Lisa Kornetsky, guest director of the Racine Theater Guild's production of Neil Simon's brilliant play "Lost in Yonkers."  The production opened this past Friday and runs the next two weekends.   

Part One of today's Morning Show featured an exciting young tenor named Nick Huff, a Carthage graduate from 2015, who is singing a recital at Kenosha's Creative Space Friday night.  He talks about his experience at both Carthage and Eastman, as well as the thrill of being part of two world premieres.   Part two is with Tommy Novak, a member of the music theater faculty at Carthage, talking about how the actors in a 2010 Carthage production of the comedy "Room Service" are reuniting at Carthage for a staged reading of the play this Saturday night.