WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

This fascinating book examines the environmental perils of our age through the eyes of a philosophy professor.  Dr. Roger Gottlieb,  who is a member of the faculty at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, poses very intriguing questions about what our relationship with the natural world around us needs to be.   

Three college presidents converged in WGTD's studios for today's Morning Show.   Bryan Albrecht,  President of Gateway Technical College .... Debra Ford,  Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside ....  and John Swallow,  President of Carthage College.   They are part of a new consortium of 18 leaders of higher learning in Southeastern Wisconsin. &n...

Tomorrow (Monday, June 3) marks the 50th anniversary of the night that "Turnabout Intruder,"  the last episode of the original Star Trek series,  aired on NBC.  In honor of that anniversary, we're re-airing this interview with Marc Cushman in which he talks about the third volume of his book series "These are the Voyages," which explores each and every episode of Star Trek in thorou...

Paul Lockhart is the author of "The Drillmaster of Valley Forge:  The Baron de Steuben and the Making of the American Army."  

Kenosha is home to the Washington Park Velodrome, the nation's oldest continuously operating velodrome for competitive track cycling.  On the program, you'll meet Mike Riva, one of the coach's of the Kenosha Velosport Team - and two of the finest athletes on his team,  Carter Kasianowicz and Mia Scarlato.  Mia's mother, Jennifer Scarlato, contributes the perspective of the parents a...

My guest, Shannon Watts, is the founder of Moms Demand Action .... and the author of "Fight Like a Mother:   How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World."   In the wake of the horrifying shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School,  Watts posted a call to action on her Facebook page- and six million mothers across the country have joine...

Retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters is now a New York Times bestselling author who is best known for his historically-based novels.  His most recent is "Darkness at Chancellorsville: A Novel of Stonewall Jackson's Triumph and Tragedy."  

My guest, Nolan Gasser, was the first musicologist hired by the creators of Pandora Radio- and the chief architect of the so-called Music Genome Project.  His book is titled "Why You Like It:  The Science & Culture of Musical Taste."   

For Memorial Day:   Patrick K. O'Donnell, author of "The Unknown: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and World War I's Most Decorated Heroes who Brought him Home."   

After living and working in China,  Zak Dychtwald wrote "Young China:  How the Restless Generation will Change their Country and the World."  By 'restless generation,'  Dychtwald is referring to China's young adults in their twenties.  

This interview from 2005 is with Peter Steinhart, author of "The Undressed Art:  Why We Draw."     In a follow up conversation,  I get a reaction to the book from Dr. David Holmes, a Professor of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside at the time.  (Professor Holmes passed away in 2014.)  

We have a conversation about - among other things - why there have been so few women in the field of computer science and whether or not that situation is beginning to change. 

Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers are friends- but also at odds politically. (One of them is a Democrat; the other is a Republican.)  They co-host a popular podcast called "Pantsuit Politics" and their new book is titled "I Think You're Wrong (But I'm Listening) - A Guide to Grace-Filled Political Conversations."  They want this book to help all of us be better at talking about poli...

This is a conversation about the Gateway Promise, a program which allows deserving and qualified Gateway students to have what is essentially a tuition-free Gateway education.  The Gateway Promise program provides funds that bridge the gap between the amount of financial aid a student has received and the full cost of tuition.   We speak with Jennifer Charpentier, director of the Ga...

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business,  is a monthly visitor to the Morning Show.  In today's interview, we discuss the so-called U.S.-China Trade War .... as well as recent summits involving the leaders of the U.S. & South Korea at one and the leaders of  Russia & South Korea at the other.  Also an update on recent events...

Mitchell Zuckoff was a reporter for the Boston Globe on 9-11.   His meticulously-researched and beautifully-written book about the events of that terrible day is titled "Fall and Rise:  The Story of 9/11."  

Jim Dwyer, a reporter for the New York Times,  was co-author of "102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers."   This book, published in 2005,  examines how thousands of people on 9-11 were able to escape the Twin Towers on that terrible morning before the Towers ultimately fell.  

Ralph Houghton was the coordinator of Fine Arts for the Kenosha public schools for many years.  Saturday night, May 18th, at 7:00 there is a free concert at Reuther High School Auditorium, which is being renamed the Ralph J. Houghton Performance Center.  There will be performances by the KUSD Madrigal Singers, the Golden Strings, and the Kenosha Alumni Band with Ralph's son Steve (a supe...

Joshua A. Douglas, a professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law, examines efforts across the country to expand the voting rolls such as lowering the minimum voting age or extending the right to vote to felons ... as well as efforts to remove barriers that can discourage or prevent people from exercising their right to vote.  His book is titled "Vote for Us: How to Take Back our El...

We are discussing Aerial Arts, in which a person is suspended above the floor or ground- sometimes a large distance off of the ground - by silken hammocks and/or silken strips which they hold on to and with which they can assume various positions.  It can be done as dance, for therapy, and even for Yoga.   We speak to two instructors at the Spiral Space Yoga Gallery where aerial art...

In Part One, we find out about an exciting exchange program called "Two Worlds-One Art" involving choral singers from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and Jianghan University in Wuhan, China.   In Part Two, we meet composer Dana Wilson; a new piece by Dr. Wilson will be premiered this weekend by the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra.  

May is Mental Illness Awareness Month.  Part One is with Lisa Zanin, co-president of the Kenosha County chapter of NAMI- the National Alliance on Mental Illness.   Part two is a portion of a 2005 conversation with Paul Raeburn, author of "Acquainted with the Night."  Raeburn, a former writer for Business Week,  writes about his son's and daughter's respective struggles wit...

Kenosha's own Betsy Ade returns to the Morning Show to tell us more about what it was like to be a contestant on NBC's "The Voice."  (She was recently eliminated.)  She takes us behind the scenes to describe what it was like to be coached by the show's celebrity judges,  how the songs she sang for the series were chosen,  what kind of relationship she had with her fellow contes...

From 2007 comes an interview with best-selling author Joe Drape and a book called "Black Maestro: The Epic Life of an American Legend."  It tells the story of Jimmy Winkfield,  the last of the great African-American horse jockeys. 

From 2008 comes a memorable interview with Mort Zachter, author of a book called Dough: A Memoir.   It's the true story of Mort's two uncles (who never married),  the day-old baked goods shop that they ran for all of their lives,  and the rather odd way that they chose to live their lives.   It is a very intriguing and entertaining book.