Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From the archives:   NPR's Linda Holmes (host of "Pop Culture Happy Hour") talks about her first novel,  "Evvie Drake Starts Over." 

Gateway Technical College's  Bryan Albrecht  pays his final visit to the Morning Show to look back on his 19 years with GTC,  the last 16 of which were as its president.  Dr. Albrecht begins his well-earned retirement within a few weeks. 

Dr. Jay Baruch, author of "Tornado of Life: a Doctor's Journey through Constraints and Creativity in the ER."  

Replayed from earlier this year:  Tripp MIckle, technology reporter for the New York Times, discusses his book AFTER SEVE: How Apple became a trillion-dollar company and lost its soul" 

Keri Blakinger,, author of "Corrections in Ink: a Memoir." A highly-regarded journalist and prison reform activist, Blakinger brings a very personal passion to the cause; she herself was incarcerated for a time.  

From 2018 - Reyna Grande discusses her memoir "A Dream Called Home" ( a sequel to "The Distance Between Us.") 

From 2010 - Rachel Fershleiser, one of the editors of "It All Changed In An Instant: More Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure."  The Six-Word Memoir Project was created by SMITH Magazine (still in existence) which has gathered many thousands of six-word memoirs in which somebody seeks to summarize their life in six carefully chosen words.   This book is one of their published collections of such memoirs.  (Replayed by listener request) 

Sportswriter Jason Reid discusses his book "Rise of the Black Quarterback: What it Means for America."  He chronicles the slow emergence of black quarterbacks in the NFL and presents vivid portraits of an array of them, including the superstar black quarterbacks currently on the scene.   

We preview the 2022 Racine Starving Artists Fair (Sunday, August 7th, 9-4 on the grounds of the DeKoven Center) with Jayne Herring, coordinator of the fair, and Jill Castillo, president of the Racine Art Guild.  

Dr. Frank Egerton, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, talks about his book "GunCrazy America: A History and Critique of our Gun Culture."  

Best-selling novelist discusses his latest novel,  "Gods of Deception,"  which was inspired by the Alger Hiss Spy Trial in 1950.  

From 2020-  Ryan Swanson, author of "The Strenuous Life: Theodore Roosevelt and the Making of the American Athlete." 

From the archives:  Mary Norris, author of "Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen."  

From the archives:  Michael Takif, author of "A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as told by those who know him." 

We talk with 11-year-old Bellen Woodard about her project and children's book that are both called "More than Peach," which sprang from an encounter with a schoolmate who asked her to hand him a 'skin-colored crayon'-  which made Bellen realize that she needed to say something about the wide range of beautiful skin colors that exist in the human family.  

We talk with Betsy Ade ("The Voice") - of Betsy Ade and the Well-Known Strangers - about their upcoming performance this Saturday night with the Kenosha Symphony in a free open-air concert by the Petrifying Springs Biergarten

We speak with three young adults - Miriam Zouhri, Jared McLean and Zion Parrish - who have been working on an AmeriCorps team in Kenosha since mid July.  We discuss what AmeriCorps is all about and what the experience has been like for them.  

From 2010 - Ellen Rogers, author of "Kasey to the Rescue: The Remarkable Story of a Monkey and a Miracle."  After Ellen's son Ned was left paralyzed by a tragic car accident,  the family was able to adopt a pet monkey that made an enormous difference for the better in Ned's life.  

John Moyles talks about the work he does rescuing and relocating exotic animals (mostly aquatic animals.) 

From the University of Wisconsin-Parkside:  Dr. Peggy James, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and the School for Professional Studies- and Dr. Edward Schmitt, Associate Professor of History.  They are both involved in UW-Parkside's Alternative Historical Narrative Summer Program, a 17-day experience for high school students and high school history teachers; it is designed to broaden the participants' understanding of our nation's own history and the players in it.