Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2010 - Mary Roach, author of 'Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void" - which explores some scientific oddities related to working and living in outer space.

From 2007 - one of my all-time favorite interviews .... with Mark Kreidler, author of "Four Days to Glory: Wrestling with the Soul of the American Heartland." It follows the efforts of two outstanding high school wrestlers in their senior year- both 3-time state champions in their respective weight divisions- contending for a fourth state championship.

Brendan Conway, a spokesperson for WE Energies, talks about the proposed natural gas power plant that they are proposing to build in the town of Paris.

We talk about the proposed power plant in Paris, WI - and concerns about the environmental impact it might have - with Abby Novinski-Loras, executive director of the group Healthy Climate Wisconsin.

Today's Morning Show features excerpts from three of my previous interviews with best-selling author Michael Perry. We begin with a portion of a 2012 conversation about his book "Visiting Tom: a Man, a Highway, and the Road to Roughneck Grace." After that is an excerpt from an interview from 2009 about "Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting." We finish up with part of my earliest interview with Michael Perry, a 2006 chat about his memoir "Truck: A Love Story." Michael Perry is appearing at the Racine Theater Guild this Saturday evening, February 1st.

Best-selling author Michael Perry. (He is appearing at the Racine Theater Guild on Saturday evening, Michael Perry.)

We speak with Dr. Jeffrey Weiss, superintendent of the Kenosha Unified School District, about the referendum on which Kenoshans will be voting on February 18th.

From 2007 - Dana Buchman, author of "A Special Education: One Family's Journey Through the Maze of Learning Disabilities."

From 2006- one of my favorite author interviews- David Standish, author of "Hollow Earth: The Long and Curious History of Imagining Strange Lands, Fantastical Creatures, Advanced Civilizations, and Marvelous Machines Below the Earth's Surface."

We introduce you to the new Poets Laureate of Kenosha and Racine ....... Nico Moore, poet laureate for Kenosha, and Mary Skillings and Thomas Carr, co-poets laureate for Racine. They will be meeting the public in an event coming up on February 22nd at Vintage & Modern Books in downtown Racine at 6:30 pm.

Dr. Art Cyr - a monthly visitor to the Morning Show for more than twenty years- pays his first visit to the program in 2025. We discuss the closing days of the Biden administration and his decision to pardon members of his family .... the opening days of President Trump's second term, with an array of executive orders .... the legacy of former president Jimmy Carter, which Professor Cyr believes is not properly acknowledged .... and the political landscape of southern California that has played some role in the response to the disastrous wildfires there.

From 2003 - renowned science-fiction author Ben Bova talks about his novel "Saturn," which was part of his Grant Tour series, which depicted the human colonization of the solar system in the late 21st century.

From 2008- Jonathan Kozol, author of "Letters to a Young Teacher."

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa, author of "How to Chase Change: Thirty Days to Master your Mindset."

Our guest is Dr. Dana Oswald, Professor of English, and Chair of the Department of Literatures and Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is about to teach a free community course on Homer's "The Iliad." We talk about this iconic work - who may have written it and why - and what sort of lessons it teaches us all these years later.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day: From 2014 or 2015 ..... Todd Purdum discusses his book "An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Two Presidents, Two Parties, and the Battle for the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

From 2009- Nancy Garfinkel, co-author of "The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship."

In light of the catastrophic fires in southern California, we are re-sharing this interview with Daniel James Brown from 2006 in which he discusses his book "Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894." This was one of the most destructive fires in American history up until that point.

We speak today with Wisconsin State Senator Robert Wirch, who has represented the 22nd senate district since 1997. We touch on a number of different issues, including funding for education , gerrymandering, and what to do with the largest monetary surplus in Wisconsin history.

For Kailyn Palomares's monthly visit to the program, she is joined by two fellow alumni from the environmental studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside .... Tiffany Wagner and Maddy Kammerer .... for a discussion about what each of them is doing now.