Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

We speak with Holly Stanfield, who directs many of the music theater productions for Kenosha Unified.  We find out how the district is proceeding with its theatrical productions during this time of COVID-19 and all of the restrictions that are in place.  

Today, we hear from the two candidates for the U.S. First Congressional District -  republican incumbent Bryan Steil and democratic challenger Roger Polack.  

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, Director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College,  pays his monthly visit to the program.   

This is the unabridged interview I recorded with Walter Koenig, who portrayed Ensign Pavel Pavel Chekov on Star Trek: the Original Series and in the major motion pictures that it inspired.  Koenig has written several books over the years.  His most recent book is a far-reaching and illuminating memoir titled "Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek,"  published by Jacobs Brown Press.  

From 2010 -  "The Enough Moment:  Fighting to end Africa's Worst Human Rights Crimes" with author John Prendergast. 

Kenneth C. Davis discusses his newest book,   "Strongman:  The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy."  He chronicles the rise of five  fascists - Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein -  and explores what allowed them to gain the power that they did.   Davis is well-known for "America's Hidden History" and "Don't Know Much About History." 

From 2011 comes a conversation with Steven Pinker, author of the much-discussed book "The Better Angels of our Nature:  Why Violence has Declined."   Pinker contends in his book that - contrary to our common assumptions - the world is much less violent than it once was.  

From 2017:   Susan Stryker, author of "Transgender History:  The Roots of Today's Revolution."  October is LGBT History Month.  

We speak with Luce Brett about her new book "PMSL: Or how I literally pissed myself laughing and survived the last taboo to tell the tale."  Ms. Brett suffered an injury while giving birth to her first child - and became incontinent.   Her book is a disarmingly honest- and often entertaining account of what it was like to contend with incontinence at the age of thirty.   

Bryan Albrecht, president of Gateway Technical College-  and Cheryl Carrier,  CEO of Ford Next Generation Learning, which has partnerships with school districts across the country, including the Racine Unified School District.   <The broadcast of this interview over WGTD was preempted by NPR's live coverage of events in Washington DC.> 

Mary Frances Winters talks about his book "Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body and Spirit." 

We have a quick follow up interview with Rick Riordan about his latest book,  "The Tower of Nero."  the fifth and final installment in his series "The Trials of Apollo."  

Nan Calvert (from Root-Pike Watershed Initiative) has organized a conversation about the importance of wetlands and wetlands restoration.  She' is joined by Dave Giordano, executive director of Root Pike WIN - as well as Joshua Brown from the Wisconsin DNR;  Brown is coordinating the Meacham Road wetland project in Mount Pleasant.  

Ben Loeterman is the director/producer/writer of "Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip,"  the next episode in the PBS series American Masters.  The film airs Tuesday night on PBS. 

From 2005 -  Robert Trachtenberg discusses his book "When I Knew," which gathers together the recollections of different people about when it was that they first believed themselves to be gay.   The mood of the stories ranges  from humorous to deeply poignant. 

From 2007 comes this conversation with Diane Ackerman about "The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story," which recounts how the director of the Warsaw Zoo and his wife Antonina hid more than 300 Jews on the grounds of the zoo and assisted many of them in escaping to the countryside during World War II.  The book was adapted into a major motion picture in 2017 that starred Jessica Chastain in the title role. 

We speak with Rosemarie Day,  one of the chief architects of Massachusetts' universal health care system, which served as a primary model for the Affordable Care Act.   Her new book is titled "Marching Towards Coverage:  How Women Can Lead the Fight for Universal Healthcare."  

Tom Nagorski's remarkable book "Miracles on the Water" tells an inspiring stories of the men, women and children who managed to survive the harrowing experience of having their ship torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi U-Boat in the early days of World War II.  

From 2003 comes this conversation with Michael K. Bohn, who was director of the Situation Room for the George H. W. Bush administration.  His book is titled "Nerve Center:  Inside the White House Situation Room."  

From 2012 -  Anthony Swofford, author of  the best-selling book "Jarhead,"  talks about a later book,  "Hotels, Hospitals and Jails: A Memoir,"  which chronicles the often turbulent relationship he had with his father.