WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

Part One- Hal Eisner, author of "My Accidental Career: My 58-year Adventure as a Broadcast New Reporter." Part Two- (from 2019). Mitchel Zuckoff, co-author of "Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11." Zuckoff was a journalist in Boston who ended up covering the events of September 11, 2001 as they unfolded. (This September will mark the 25th anniversary of 9-11, and in the coming mon...

Our guest is Hope Otto, Director of Health and Human Services for Racine County. We talk with her about what a challenging time this is for the entire human services sector. Specific topics include- disruptions in federal aid ..... homelessness in Racine ..... and about the Jonathan Delagrave Youth Development and Care Center.

Part One- We speak with Adam Smith, a free-lance production assistant for TV and radio commercials based in Milwaukee. He is also a screenwriter, and he is organizing a public table read series called "Voices Off Paper" that will feature the work of local screenwriters. Part Two- A portion of a conversation with the late Bob Newhart, talking about his memoir "I Shouldn't Even Be...

We speak with Dr. Alyssa Dweck, an OB/GYN, about Urinary Tract Infections in women and what one can do to reduce the likelihood of contracting a UTI.

Dr. Ashely Alker draws upon her experience and expertise as an ER doctor in penning her informative and entertaining book "99 Ways to Die - and How to Avoid Them."

From 2007 - Dr. Atul Gawande talks about his book "Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance."

Darlene Rivest, a well-known violinist in Southeastern Wisconsin, previews Violin Intensive, a five-day event at DeKoven Center that is drawing adult violinists from across the country and even from a couple of other countries. We also talk about Darlene's own wide-ranging career as a violinist.

For Holocaust Remembrance Day (which was January 27) - Mikhal Dekel, author of "Tehran Children: A Holocaust Refugee Odyssey." (from 2019)

From 2008- Frederick Kaufman, author of "A Short History of the American Stomach".

In our ongoing memorial tribute to Kenosha's own Michael Schumacher, a nationally-published author many times over, we are replaying a 2020 conversation about Schumacher's long friendship with Allen Ginsberg. (Schumacher passed away on December 29th at the age of 75. He was a guest on the Morning Show more than a dozen times over the course of three decades.).

One of our favorite interviews from 2025- Samuel Ashworth discusses "The Death and Life of August Sweeney: a Novel." The main character is a young forensic pathologist who is doing an autopsy in the hopes of understanding more about both the death and the life of a controversial chef named August Sweeney.

Part One- We speak with Mike DeRubis, who is with the non-partisan group Voters First Wisconsin, which is working to eliminate gerrymandering, reduce the influence of Big Money in politics, and to reform the way that certain elections are done in our state. Part Two- from 2018- historian Jon Meacham talks about his book "The Soul of America: The Battle for our Better Angels." The book ex...

One of our favorite interviews from 2025: Juliette Fay talks about her novel "The Harvey Girls," which was based on a fascinating slice of Americana. Fred Harvey created what is widely regarded as the first hospitality chain in the United States- a network of restaurants and hotels primarily in the West. The women who worked at his establishments were known as Harvey Girls - and these we...

Part 1 - We preview the Service Above Self Expo coming up this Saturday, January 31st at Fountain Hall in Sturtevant. The event is sponsored by the Racine Founders Rotary Club. My guests are Dan Widmar, who is its current president, and Laura Sumner Coon, a member of the club and the primary coordinator of the event. They are expecting at least thirty different local non-profits to participate, sh...

One of our favorite interviews from 2025: Elizabeth Minnich, author of "The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking." In this book, Minnich explores the nature of evil - and particularly the phenomenon of what she calls "extensive evil" in which many people are involved in the perpetuating of evil without consciously doing so or without fully grasping the...

From 2003 - Richard Tofel, author of "A Legend in the Making: The New York Yankees in 1939."

We are paying memorial tribute to Kenosha-based author Michael Schumacher, who was a guest on The Morning Show a dozen times over the course of three decades. (He passed away on December 29th at the age of 75.). This interview concerns his book "The Contest: The 1968 Election and the War for America's Soul." (This interview occurred in 2018.). We plan on sharing more archival intervi...

In his first visit to the Morning Show since November, Dr. Art Cyr offers his thoughts on several different current events and issues- especially the recent U.S. activity in Venezuela.

We speak with writer Monte Burke about his new book "Men of Troy: The Epic Afternoons, Wild Nights, and Enduring Legacy of Pete Carroll's USC Trojans." After a rough experience as a head coach for two NFL teams, Carroll achieved great success (including two national championships) with USC .... and then achieved comparable success with his return to the NFL as head coach of the Seatt...

The Morning Show interview from 2025 that probably generated more comment than any other was this conversation with David Eliot, author of "Artificially Intelligent: The Very Human Story of A.I."

Today's program began with David Anderson, music director of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra, talking about the ensemble's gala coming up on February 14th. After that is an archival conversation with Larry Tye, author of "Jazz Men," which examines the careers and influence of Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong.

Today is Martin Luther King Day. One of the issues that most concerned Dr. King - especially in the last several years of his life - was access to housing regardless of race. The book at hand examines the practice of "Redlining," a means used to exclude certain types of people from various neighborhoods. Josh Silver's book is titled "Ending Redlining through a Community-Centered...

From 2016- We talk with Marc Cushman about his book "Lost in Space: The Authorized Biography of a Classic Sci-Fi Series."

In memory of Kenosha's own Michael Schumacher, who passed away on December 29, 2026 at the age of 75, we are going to be devoting the next few Saturday episodes of the podcast to archival interviews featuring Schumacher. This interview is the first interview that I did with Schumacher. The year was 1999 and the book in question was "Francis Ford Coppola: A Filmmaker's Life." One...

We pay tribute to Kenosha's own Michael Schumacher - a nationally-published authors many times over who passed away on December 29th at the age of 75 - by hearing from an array of his friends who knew him and loved him.