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In honor of my 40th anniversary with WGTD (my first day was May 27, 1986) we are replaying some noteworthy Morning Shows from the past this week. This is among the most menorable of the thousands of author interviews I have done over the past several decades .... with Buzz Bissinger, talking about his blockbuster bestseller FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS, one of the best books about high school football ever...

In honor of my 40th anniversary with. WGTD (my first day with the station was May 27, 1986)., I'm replaying some noteworthy Morning Show interviews from the past. I wanted to include one example of the rather rare interviews that were recorded away from our studios. I've chosen a interview I recorded back in 2008 in the home of theater organ afficionado Fred Hermes- who converted the basem...

In honor of my 40th anniversary with WGTD (my first day at the station was May 27, 1986) I'm replaying some noteworthy Morning Shows this week. This interview aired in 2006 to celebrate my 20th anniversary with the station. It was the idea of Mick Burke, who then was a reporter with the Racine Journal Times as well as a faithful Morning Show listener, for him to come to our studios and intervi...

In honor of my anniversary with WGTD (my first day was May 27, 1986). the next seven days are devoted to seven special high points in the history of the Morning Show. Today is the interview that in many ways I value above all others. If I could only have one single interview as my legacy, it would be this interview from 2003 with Alexandra Zapruder, author and editor of SALVAGED PAGES: Young Write...

From 2017- Scott Raab, author of "You're Welcome, Cleveland. - How I Helped Lebron James Win a Championship and Save a City."

We speak with two representatives of Advocate Health - Dr. Jonny Macias .... and Ann Gallo .... who will be the keynote speakers for the 35th annual Aging Well Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside next Friday, June 5th. They will be talking about the model of Age-Friendly Health Care and its attention to the 4 Ms..... What Matters Most, Medication, Mentation, and Mobility .... to saf...

Nationally-syndicated columnist Dr. Art Cyr, a retired Carthage College professor, joins us to offer his commentary and analysis of various current issues and events.

We speak with attorney Meg Groff, whose memoir "Not if I Can Help It" recounts her experiences in the first years of her career (in the mid-1980s) when she was a Legal Aid attorney in rural Pennsylvania, working with mostly poor women who had been the target of domestic violence or abuse.

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of Route 66, one of the most iconic roadways in North America. In honor of that centennial, we are replaying a 2021 conversation with Brennan Matthews from ROUTE magazine, talking about its and what fun and amazing things can be seen and experienced by traveling Route 66.

For Memorial Day. (from 2018) Patrick O'Donnell, author of "The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and World War One's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home."

From 2016 - Scott D. Sampson, author of "How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature."

From 2013 - Ian O'Connor, author of "Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry."

Victoria Hetherington talks about her latest book ...... "The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship." The book examines how tens of thousands of people around the world are utilizing AI for companionship, friendship, and even romance. The book discusses what there is to celebrate as well as what there is to fear in this technology.

We speak with author and journalist Phyllis Karas about her book "Curse of the Blumenthals," in which we talks about two very unhappy events in her family's history - "The Tragedy," a car accident in the 1930s involving a drunk driver in which six of Karas's relatives were killed ...... and "The Incident" from the early 1950s in which one of her relatives purp...

We speak with entertainment writer Scott Ryan about his latest book- "Twin Peaks: Through the Red Curtain." The book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this groundbreaking series by David Lynch and Mark Frost .... a series that helped pave the way for all kinds of series that have come in its wake, including "The X Files," "Lost," and "Stranger Thi...

We are sharing Thursday's Morning Show a couple of days early because it concerns a performance coming up this Friday night at the White Lilac in downtown Kenosha: Storyteller, actor and singer Tom Kastle is presenting his one-man show "Dan Seavey: Confessions of a Great Lakes Pirate." Seavey is someone how actually engaged in piracy on the Great Lakes during his long and colorful li...

We speak with Marcus White, President of the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, and Alexandria Smith, Program Officer, about their Safety and Well-Being Collaborative, an enormous project involving nearly three dozen organizations from around Racine - seeking to address some of the most pressing concern confronting the city around the issue of racial disparity.

From 2008- John Broughton, author of "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual." This book was published at a time when Wikipedia was a relatively new addition to the internet, and many people were still unsure of what it was and how it functioned.

Yesterday, May 15th, Racine native Zachary Scot Johnson posted his 5,000th "Song a Day" on Youtube. That's 5,000 consecutive days that Zach has posted a song . In honor of the milestone, we're re-sharing the interview we did with Zach back when he passed the 3,000 benchmark. That interview was done during the period when COVID had basically shut down Zach's live, in-person pe...

We speak with Nick Greene, author of "How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game."

For Kailyn Palomares's monthly visit to the program, we hear from Ben French, Vice President of Propogation, Production and Product Development at Johnson Nursery in Menomonee Falls ..... one of the largest providers of native plants in Southeastern Wisconsin.

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of the musical PIPPIN with Doug Instenes, managing and artistic director of the RTG and the stage director for this production. We also talk about his long time connection with this particular show.

We preview this coming Sunday's concert by the Kenosha Chamber Choir .... "Songs of the American Heartbeat," an all-American program in honor of our country's 250th anniversary. We speak with Michael Gutierrez, director of the group, and Agnes Gray, president of the ensemble and a member of the soprano section. The concert will be performed at Bradford High School thanks to a gra...

Pauline Steinhorn, author of "Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight for Survival during the Holocaust." The two people named in the book's subtitle were the author's mother and grandmother- and this book is based extensively on journals written by both women shortly after the end of the war. It allows Steinhorn to tell many of the same stories from two differen...

Note from Gregory Berg: One of my favorite television programs is CBS Sunday Morning. Today, for Mother's Day, they ran a moving story about a series of retreats across the country for women who have lost their mothers and are trying to cope with the loss. I immediately recognized the name of the woman responsible for organizing the retreats- Hope Edelman - because she had been a guest on my M...