Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

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Synopsis

One-of-a-kind interviews with locally and nationally-renowned authors, regional newsmakers, opinion leaders, educators, performers, athletes, and other intriguing members of the community.

Episodes

  • 9/1/23 Three Children's Books

    01/09/2023 Duration: 46min

    We speak with renowned children's book author Carmen Adra Deedy about her latest book, "Carina Felina," a fresh take on a Caribbean folk tale. We follow that with interview from the archives with the authors of "Big Nate" and "The Proudest Color."

  • 8/31/23 Captured Freedom

    31/08/2023 Duration: 47min

    Steven Procko's book "Captured Freedom" tells the true story of nine Union solders in the American Civil War who managed to escape from a Confederate prison camp, Camp Sorghum in Columbia, South Carolina, and journeyed more than 350 miles to freedom with the aid of sympathetic Southerners as well as some enslaved men and women that they encountered along the way.

  • 8/30/23 Kate Colbert - "Commencement"

    30/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    From 2022 - Kate Colbert, author of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education." Colbert and her co-author spoke with over one hundred college and university presidents across the country for a comprehensive view of the extraordinary challenges confronting higher education and the ways in which these institutions are scrambling to remake themselves to meet these challenges.

  • 8/29/23 President of the Other America

    29/08/2023 Duration: 46min

    From the archives (2010) - Dr. Ed Schmitt, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, discusses his book "President of the Other America: Robert Kennedy and the Politics of Poverty." This interview serves as an interesting sequel to two different recent Morning Show interviews: yesterday's conversation with the co-author of "The Poverty of Place" and last week's conversation with the author of "The Year that Broke Politics," which examined the presidential race of 1968 in which Robert Kennedy played a significant role.

  • 8/28/23 The Injustice of Place

    28/08/2023 Duration: 47min

    Kathryn J. Edin, co-author of "The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America." Edin and a team of researchers studied those areas of the U.S. where poverty is most seriously entrenched and tried to sort out the reasons for it.

  • 8/27/23 More God, Less Crime

    27/08/2023 Duration: 26min

    (from 2011) Byron Johnson, author of "More God, Less Crime: Why Faith Matters and How it could matter more."

  • 8/26/23 Film Critic Michael Phillips

    26/08/2023 Duration: 43min

    (From 2018) Chicago Tribune Head Film Critic Michael Phillips

  • 8/25/23 The Boxing Kings

    25/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    Paul Beston, author of "The Boxing Kings: When American Heavyweights Ruled the World"

  • 8/24/23 Too Much Sea For Their Decks

    24/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    Michael Schumacher discusses his latest book, "Too Much Sea For Their Decks: Shipwrecks of Minnesota's North and Isle Royale." The book chronicles some of the most dramatic shipwrecks to occur on Lake Superior - and the last section of the book focuses on three exceptionally savage storms in the region.

  • 8/23/23 Casey Holtz

    23/08/2023 Duration: 58min

    We revisit a dramatic event from the summer of 2003 when a then-college student named Casey Holtz saved a youngster (a complete stranger) from drowning in Lake Michigan. We also hear briefly from Holtz in the present-day. He is Dr. Casey Holtz, a clinical psychologist based in Milwaukee. We also hear from Seth Weidman, head swimming and diving coach at Carthage College, who performed a similar feat last summer at roughly the safe place at the Kenosha lakefront.

  • 8/22/23 Leyte Gulf

    22/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    Mark E. Stille, author of "Leyte Gulf: A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle." The Battle of Leyte Gulf occurred at a critical point in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War.

  • 8/21/23 Public Radio's Jack Mitchell

    21/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    Jack Mitchell is a something of a legend in public radio. He was hired as National Public Radio's very first employee in 1970 and went on to serve as the first producer of NPR's All Things Considered. He later served as director of Wisconsin Public Radio for more than 20 years and presided over the network at a time of spectacular growth and expansion.

  • 8/20/23 Lost in Space

    20/08/2023 Duration: 48min

    (2017) Marc Cushman, author of "Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series"

  • 8/19/23 Mary Pipher

    19/08/2023 Duration: 26min

    (2016) Mary Pipher, author of "Letters to a Young Therapist."

  • 8/18/23 The Streak

    18/08/2023 Duration: 47min

    John Eisenberg, author of "The Streak: Lou Gehrig, Cal Ripken Jr., and Baseball's Most Historic Record." The subtitle refers to the record for most consecutive games played; Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games, and his record remained unbroken for 56 years.

  • 8/16/23 Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Fest

    16/08/2023 Duration: 45min

    We preview this Saturday's Harbor Park Jazz Rhythm and Blues Festival. Part One features Ardis Mahone-Mosley, co-chair of the event, and three participants in the popular Cooking Studio event that kicks off the festival. Teri Jacobson is the co-chair of the Cooking Studio. This year's event features a competition between Kenosha Police and Firefighters. Representing their respective sides are Jeff Weidner and Josh Kunz. Part Two features Tim Mahone, co-chair of the event, with two recipients of the Mahone CEO Scholarship- Benjamin Woods and Benjamin Wajerski.

  • 8/15/23 Dr. Jonathan Shailor

    15/08/2023 Duration: 46min

    Dr. Jonathan Shailor, Professor of Communications at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about his 28 years teaching at Parkside .... as well as the groundbreaking work he has done with his Shakespeare in Prison Project. Professor Shailor was just given the UW System's highest teaching award.

  • 8/14/23 Anna Ploszajski "Handmade"

    14/08/2023 Duration: 46min

    Dr. Anna Ploszajski, author of "Handmade: A Scientist's Search for Meaning through Making." Dr. Ploszajski is a materials scientist, which means that she studies the properties of substances such as metals, plastic, glass, etc. In this book, she chronicles her encounters with various artisans who actually interact with materials to create things.

  • 8/13/23 Everybody Eats There

    13/08/2023 Duration: 25min

    From 2007- Mara Gibbs, author of "Everybody Eats There: Inside the World's Legendary Restaurants"

  • 8/12/23 Confessions of an Alien Hunter

    12/08/2023 Duration: 29min

    From 2009- Seth Shostak, author of "Confessions of an Alien Hunter: A Scientist's Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." [the originally announced interview concerning a true story of a real life rescue at the Kenosha lake shore will be shared later]

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