Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Julie Farnam, author of "Domestic Darkness: An Insider's Account of the January 6th Insurrection and the Future of Right-Wing Extrermism." Farnam was an intelligence office for the Capitol Police at the time of the insurrection- and her warnings of the likelihood of such an attack went largely unheeded.

From 2014- John Feinstein, author of "Where Nobody Knows your Name: Life in the minor leagues of baseball."

From 2012- Mark Bowden, author of "The Finish: THe Killing of Osama Bin Laden."

Part 1- Barney Saltzberg, author of a new children's book called "Arlo Needs Glasses." Part 2- (from 2007) Robert Kurson, author of "Crashing Through: A true story of risk, adventure, and the man who dared to see." It's the true story of a man blinded by an accident at the age of 3 who was offered the chance to have his vision restored with a revolutionary stem cell surgery. Part 3- (from 2024) David Shoemaker, author of "The Squared Circle: Life, Death and Professional Wrestling." We're replaying this because of a major motion picture, "The Iron Claw," which is in movie theaters right now. It tells the tragic true story of the Von Erich Family. (They figure prominently in Shoemaker's book.)

Dr. Elizabeth Brownson, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discusses the historic context of the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is teaching a one-day course on the topic for Adventures in Lifelong Learning on February 8th.

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

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.

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.

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 interview also includes some comments from his wife, actress Susan Seaforth Hayes.

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

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.

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?

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."

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."

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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

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/