Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2009- in honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday,  Ronald C. White talks about his book "A. Lincoln: A Biography,"  which was written to commemorate Lincoln's 200th birthday.

We speak to two members of the Carthage faculty -  Jeff Roberg and Maribel Morales - and three of the eighteen Carthage students who participated in their J-Term study trip to Peru .... Letitia Siers, Abigail Trch, and Serena Richardson.  

GTC President Bryan Albrecht and Provost Zina Haywood have both announced their impending retirements.  (Haywood steps down in September- Albrecht in November.)  They look back on their many years at Gateway Technical College and discuss the many ways that the school has grown and changed.  

We preview the Fleeing Artists Theater Company's production of "Failure: A Love Story," which opens this weekend at Kenosha's Rhode Center for the Arts,  with director Alex Metalsky and cast members Denise Johnson and Rick Bingen. 

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of "Guys on Ice" (opening this coming weekend) with director Doug Instenes and cast mates Dan Venne, Bob Benson and Tony Lazalde.  

Carthage theater professor Martin McClendon talks about the new play FRONTLINE based on interviews done with six health care workers talking about the stresses of working during the pandemic.   Also in the interview is a student, Melissa Schmidt,  who was in the Verbatim Theater class that helped create the play.  

Benjamin Gilmour, author of 'Paramedico:  Around the World by Ambulance."  Gilmour is an Australian paramedic who decided to experience life as a paramedic in countries around the world.

From the archives: (2000 or 2001)- Robert Hollingsworth, who at the time was manager of the Chrysler Automobile Plant in Kenosha.  (The plant went dark in 2010 and was demolished in 2013.  This interview takes us back to a day when automobile manufacturing was the dominant force in the Kenosha economy.)  

From 2005:  Figure Skater Megan Oster, from Kenosha, who won two bronze medals at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships .... one in the novice division, the other in the junior division.  We replay this interview in honor of the Winter Olympics that are currently underway with so much attention focused on figure skating. 

Justin Spizman, author of "Coach:  The Greatest Teachers in Sports and their lessons for us all."  Filling out the hour is an excerpt from my interview with L. Jon Wertheim, author of "Strokes of Genius: Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played."  The interview includes comment about Rafael Nadal's uncle, Antonio Nadal (his first tennis coach), who is one of the coaches profiled in Spizman's book.  

BONUS: As UW-Parkside celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts & Humanities, we're replay the 2012 Morning Show that aired right before The Rita opened its doors to the public.  I spoke with Dr. Dean Yonkh, then Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences,  Dr. Lisa Kornetsky, then Chair of the Theatrical Arts Department, and Deborah Karp, Director of the Center for Community Partnerships. 

We celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Rita (The Rita Tallent Picken Regional Center for the Arts & Humanities) with Dr. Lesley Walker, Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.  At the end of the program is an excerpt from the Morning Show interview done ten years ago right before The Rita opened its doors to the public.  Dr. Dean Yonhk, who was Dean at the time, shares a bit about what it took to make this long-held dream a reality. 

Greg Brennecka, author of "Impact: How Rocks from Space Led to Life, Culture, and Donkey Kong."  Brennecka has been studying meteorites for most of his professional life.  

We preview the next film in the PBS series American Experience...... "Riveted: The History of Jeans."   The film traces the history of blue jeans through the lens of our country's history- examining who has worn jeans at various points in time and why.   The film airs on PBS next week.  

Mark Zwonitzer, author of "The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain and the Rise of American Imperialism."  

Young poet Jacob Hunt bills himself as Otherpoet.  The book "Shift" is a collection of his poems.   

From 2005-   Barry Becher and Edward Valenti, co-authors of "The Wisdom of Ginsu: Carve Yourself a Piece of the American Dream."  Becher and Valenti help make Ginsu knives a retail phenomenon beginning in the late 1970's.  

From 2006-  Dr. Norman Berlinger, author of "Rescuing Your Teenager from Depression."  

We speak with Trevor Jung, Transit Manager for the city of Racine.  In 2019, he was elected to the Racine Common Council at the age of 23.  We talk about his passion for public service as well as his uncommon personal story.  (He was adopted from a Russian orphanage when he was two years old.)

For Holocaust Remembrance Day, here is an additional interview- from 2004- with Alexandra Zapruder, author and editor of "Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust."  The book is a collection of 15 diaries written by young people during the Holocaust... diaries like the Diary of Anne Franck, but not nearly so well known - and in many cases just as compelling.