Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2005, we replay an interview with Katherine Newman, author of "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings." The book details a Harvard study about mass school shootings and why the vast majority of them occur in small, largely idyllic communities.  

Pulitzer Prize winning writer Matt Richtel (a science reporter for the New York Times) talks about his newest book "Inspired: Understanding Creativity: a Journey Through Art, Science, and the Soul." 

Seth Weidmann, assistant athletic director and head men's swimming coach at Carthage College, talks about this work with Kenosha's Safety Around Water coalition.  (May is Water Safety Month.)  

John Fricke attended the Lyric Opera of Chicago (a performance of Puccini's TOSCA) back in 1971 when he was just 16 years old.  Earlier this spring, he fulfilled a long-held dream by being cast as a supernumerary in a LOC production of TOSCA.  In this interview, he describes the experience from his audition to his closing performance.  

Samuel J. Redman, author of "The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience."  The book examines how American museums have survived and been transformed by crises in our history such as World War One, the 1918 Flu Pandemic, World War Two,   and 9-11.  

From 2015:   Christopher Doob, author of "The Anatomy of Competition in Sports:  The Struggle for Success in Major U.S. Professional Leagues."  

From 2017 -  In honor of the 95th anniversary (to the day) of Charles Lindbergh's dramatic landing in Paris at the conclusion of his history-making transatlantic flight, we replay our conversation with Dan Hampton, author of "The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing."  

Trevor Jung, Transit Manager for the City of Racine,  talks about the city's move to convert one-quarter of its fleet of public buses to electric vehicles.  

Brian Schoettler talks about the organ recital he will be playing at the Kemper Center Chapel on Saturday night.  It's a fundraiser for a group of Kemper alumni who are hoping to underwrite some renovation work at Kemper, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. 

Brandon Corder, who is pursuing his doctorate in botany at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses Mosses and their place in the natural world. 

Jori Lewis, author of "Slaves for Peanuts:  A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History."  

From 2014- Bruce Meltzer, author of "I am Rosa Parks."  This one of the first books in the author's acclaimed children book series titled "Ordinary People Change the World."  There are now 31 books in the series, with profiles of notable people such as Abraham Lincoln, Amelia Earhart, Jackie Robinson, Helen Keller, Neil Armstrong, Jim Henson, Harriet Tubman, and Lucille Ball.  

Keanon Lowe, author of "Hometown Victory: a Coach's Story of Football, Fate and Coming Home."  Lowe was an assistant coach in the NFL - in his mid-twenties - when he decided to return to his hometown of Portland, Oregon and began coaching a struggling high school football team with a 23-game losing streak. He turned the team around- and then achieved unexpected fame when he thwarted a would-be mass shooter at the school. 

From 2019 - Mark Beach, author of "The People's Team: An Illustrated History of the Green Bay Packers." 

Best-selling author Dan Hampton talks about his latest book:  "Valor: The Astonishing World War II Saga of One Man's Defiance and Indomitable Spirit."  It's the true story of a U.S. Marine, Lieutenant William Harris, who was captured by the Japanese, escaped, and was captured again - but managed to survive. 

In the wake of Carthage College's national championship in men's volleyball,  we look back with the late Tim Rucks, longtime football coach, to the 2004 season when the football team advanced to the national championship game.  

From 2006 -  We talk about volunteering in the third world with Dr. Peter Emer (who operates Emer Eye Center in Kenosha)  and Dr. Roger Lindberg, a former member of the biology faculty at Carthage College.  Emer talks about providing eye care in the Dominican Republic - and Professor Lindberg talks about taking a group of Carthage students to offer medical care in rural Nicaragua.  

Conductor John Mauceri discusses his new book "The War on Music:  Reclaiming the 20th Century."  

Today was a very special day on the Morning Show.  We had Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College,  Debra Ford, Chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and John Swallow, the president of Carthage College, live in our studios. We discuss the close and affectionate relationship between the three of them and the rich spirit of collaboration and cooperation that exists between the three schools.  With President Albrecht's impending retirement, this is very likely the final time that we will have these three distinguished guests on the Morning Show together.  

Milwaukee-based labor activists Ellen Bravo and Larry Miller talk about their new book "Standing Up: Tales of Struggle," a collection of fictional short stories that are actually closely based on the activism in which they have engaged for almost half a century.