WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

From the archives:  L. Jon Wertheim, author of "Strokes of Genius:  Federer, Nadal, and the Greatest Match Ever Played." We are replaying this 2010 conversation because of the recent announcement that Federer is retiring."  

Phil Allen Jr., author of "The Prophetic Lens:  The Camera and Black Moral Agency from MLK to Darnella Frazier."  

Part 1 - Dr. Thomas Carr and Dr. Megan Seitz talk about the Carthage College Paleontology program's most recent field exhibition in Montana.   Part 2 - A preview of the first movie in UW-Parkside's Foreign Film Series - which opens tonight.  

Barbara Risman, author of "Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure." 

David Stashower, author of "American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Search for America's Jack the Ripper."  The book discusses a terrifying series of unexplained and gruesome murders that occurred in Cleveland, Ohio in the mid 1930's - and the efforts of Eliot Ness, fresh off of bringing Al Capone to justice, to identify and apprehend the killer.  This was one of America's first serial killer...

Stephen Guinan, author of "We are the Troopers: The Women of the Winningest Team in Pro Football History."  The team in question, the Toledo Troopers, utterly dominated the National Women's Football League in the 1970s.  

For 9-11 .... Jim Dwyer, co-author of "102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers." 

Racine native Zachary Scot Johnson has been doing his Song a Day Project on Youtube for ten years.  (Today is episode #3656.)  He is back in Racine to headline a concert in honor of the anniversary: tonight (Sat., Sept. 10) 7:00 at First Presbyterian Church.  In honor of his anniversary, here is the Morning Show interview I did with Zachary on the occasion of the 3000th edition of h...

Roseanne A. Brown, author of "Serva Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting," a new novel series for young readers. 

Cheryl Hernandez, Ex. Director of the Kenosha Literacy Council - and Marsha Connet, SE Consultant for Wisconsin Literacy.  Today is International Literacy Day. 

Barbara Goldsmith discusses her book "Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie."  Madame Curie, one of the most gifted and important scientists of her generation,  was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, the first woman to win two Nobel Prizes, and the first man or woman to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields - physics and chemistry.  Her research into ra...

This is a rebroadcast from November 2021 of a conversation about Chiwaukee Prairie, a 485-acre nature preserve in Pleasant Prairie.  The three guests include Carthage biology professor Dana Garrigan, who will be giving a free public presentation about Chiwaukee Prairie this Thursday evening at Kenosha's Kemper Center.  

For Labor Day - from 2004 -   Mike Rose, author "The Mind at Work:  Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker."  The book examines, among other things,  the ways in which blue collar workers possess and utilize intelligence and creativity to an extent that is not always understood nor appreciated. 

From 2008 -  Phoebe Damrosch, author of "Service Included:  Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waitress."  She was a waiter at the four-star restaurant Per Se during its first year of operation in 2004.  (Per Se is still open for business.) 

In a followup to yesterday's conversation with Joe Drape, author of "Our Boys," we speak with one of the young men who was a member of that extraordinary football team in Smith Center, Kansas - Marshall McCall, one of the team's four captains.  (He is mentioned more than once in the Joe Drape interview and plays quite a prominent role in the book.)  Both of these interviews were recorded...

From 2010-  New York Times reporter Joe Drape talks about his book Our Boys:  A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen.  Drape moved to the small town of Smith Center, Kansas to follow the exploits of the high school football team, which at the time was enjoying the longest winning streak in high school football.  Ultimately, the Redmen won 79 games in a row...

Ellyn Lem- author of "Gray Matters:  Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later LIfe." 

Jill Tietjen and Barbara Bridges, co-authors of "Hollywood: Her Story- An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies."  The book talks about and celebrates the surprisingly prominent role that women played in the early years of the film industry. 

Neil Swidey, author of "Trapped unthe Sea:  One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles into the Darkness."  

From 2021 - Stephen Kurczy, author of 'The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence." 

From 2015,  Ashlee Vance, author of 'Elon Musk: Tesla, Space X, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future."  

From the summer of 2008 - Chester Biscardi, a Kenosha native who has gone on to great acclaim as a composer.  Also part of the conversation:  Dr. Richard Sjoerdsma, longtime music faculty member at Carthage and a good friend of Mr. Biscardi.

Marshall Jon Fisher, author of "Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL's only Perfect Season." 

Part 1- Matthew Goodman, author of "The Sun and the Moon: The Remarkable True Account of Hoaxers, Showmen, Dueling Journalists and Lunar Man-Bats in 19th century New York."  Part 2- Andrew Jampoler, author of "Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah."  

We talk about the intersection of science and art with Dr. Thomas Carr,  director of the Carthage College Institute of Paleontology,  and Matthew Warren Lee, an oil painter who is a professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.  He has been both a volunteer and instructor with the program.  His professional resume includes a memorable stint at a research station at th...