Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Waldo Mellon (the pen name of screenwriter Steve Adams) discusses his book "What's What and What to do about it: Answers you didn't know you wanted to Questions you didn't know you had." 

 Best-selling novelist Rebecca Serle discusses her latest book,  "One Italian Summer: a Novel."  

From 2021 - (for women's history month)  Robin Gerber, author of "Barbie and Ruth: The Story of the World's Most Famous Doll- and the Woman who created her."   

From 2020 (for women's history month) Robert Weintraub, author of "The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame and Mystery." The book examines the life and legacy of Alice Marble,  one of the greatest tennis players of the 20th century. 

We discuss the new book "Bandits, Misfits and Superheroes: Whiteness and its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels" with its two authors: Josef Benson, associate professor of literatures and languages ... and Doug Singsen, associate professor of art history .... at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.

Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen discuss their book "Connectable: How Leaders can move teams from Isolated to All In."  It's a very perceptive and illuminating book about loneliness in our modern world - and although the book focuses quite specifically on loneliness in the modern workplace, it has relevance far beyond the workplace. 

From 2013- Tim Federle discusses his book "Better Nate than Ever," which tells the story of a 13-year-old boy whose passionate love of musical theater and his dreams to perform on Broadway puts him out of step with most of his peers.  The book has recently been transformed into a film (written and directed by the author) which will premiere on Disney-Plus on April 1st. 

In memory of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who died on March 23rd,  here is our 2003 interview in which she talks about her newly-published memoir Madame Secretary.

A preview of the upcoming Sustainability Summit at Carthage College with Carol Sabbar (Director of Library and Instructional Technology Services) and four Carthage students - Zach Gibson, Alyssa Rodway, Alexis Menendez and Grace Condit - who have helped to put the event together.   ALSO: a preview of this weekend's concert by the Belle City Brassworks with conductor Doug Johnson.  

For Women's History Month:  John Oller, author of "American Queen: The Rise and Fall of Kate Chase Sprague, Civil War 'Belle of the North' and Gilded Age Woman of Scandal."   The daughter of Samuel Chase (a member of President Lincoln's cabinet), she was for a time the most famous woman in America - and one of the wealthiest and most influential - before her life was engulfed in a ruinous sex scandal.  

Fifty years after passage of the groundbreaking Clean Water Act,  Eric Schaeffer (executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project) talks about his organization's study of the Clean Water Act and what still needs to be done to reach the legislation's lofty goals. 

Philosophy professor Andrew Fiala, author of "Tyranny from Plato to Trump:  Fools, Sycophants and Citizens."  

From 2005-  Jeffrey Tayler, author of "Angry Wind: Through Muslim Black Africa by Truck, Bus, Boat and Camel." 

From 2009-  Renowned pastry chef and chocolatier Norman Love talks about his life in the kitchen and what it was like to be a guest on "Baking with Julia." 

Nan Calvert with Jennifer Phillips-Vanderberg, Science Director of the Western Great Lakes Bird and Bat Observatory. 

Clayton Trutor, author of "Loserville:  How Professional Sports Remade Atlanta - and How Atlantic Remade Professional Sports."  

James Schatzman,  founder-conductor/artistic director of the Choral Arts Society of Southeastern Wisconsin,  talks about the group's 35-year history and the celebratory gala concert coming up this Saturday evening at Racine's First Presbyterian Church.  

Russ Johnson, director of the jazz studies program at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside,  talks about the school's Jazz Week,  which features an array of superb guest artists performing concerts each night this week.  

We talk about the Racine Theatre Guild's production of "Clue: Onstage" with Doug Instenes, RTG's managing and artistic director, who is directing this production .... and Dan Martino, who plays the butler Wadsworth in the production.  The show opens this Friday and runs through the first weekend in April. 

From 2003 -  Stephen Coonts talks about his book "Victory" which is comprised of short novels about World War Two by ten award-winning authors (including one by Coonts himself.)