Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2004 comes this conversation with Robert Sullivan, author of "Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants."     One comes away from this book with a deep appreciation for how amazing rats are. 

Dr. Peter Dennee, a member of the music faculty at Carthage College,  shares the story of earning a Fulbright Grant to work and do research in the nation of Tanzania next year.  He describes the arduous application process and the kind of work he is hoping to do in Tanzania. 

Today we present a second round of interviews with Gateway Technical College instructors sharing about what it is like to be teaching online.  Our guests are: Pat Hoppe (electrical engineering),  Maryanne Kuiper & Helene Stacy (nursing),  Tedd Lupella (surgical technology), and Rich Malloy (adult high school.)  

Psychotherapist Amy Champeau returns to the Morning Show to offer some thoughts on how we can weather the COVID-19 crisis in a way that best preserves our mental and emotional well-being.   She also honestly shares about her own difficulties with anxiety and how that has helped her to be able to help others deal with their anxiety issues.  

Long-time UW-Parkside history professor John Buenker passed away earlier this month.  He was a frequent and much-admired Morning Show guest.   This is a rebroadcast of a visit he paid to the Morning Show in early 2001.  He offered thoughts on the very close and controversial victory of George W. Bush over Al Gore - and what was likely to be ahead in the then-new Bush presidency.   We hope to share other archival interviews with Professor Buenker in the coming weeks and months. 

Steve Allen, one of the legendary figures in entertainment history,  was the original host of The Tonight Show (the first late-night talk show)  and a prolific composer and author as well as a popular game show host and participant.   He came to Carthage College during the first week of March 1999 as a Johnson Distinguished Visitor.  This is one of the only instances in which I co-hosted a Morning Show interview with long-time WGTD news director Bill Guy, who created the program and was its primary host before his death a few months after this interview aired.  

From 2006 comes this interview with W.K. Stratton, author of "Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man's Search for the West."   It's fascinating look behind the scenes of the modern rodeo.

From 2008 comes this conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of "Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back."  

In honor of National Wildlife Week.  Part One: David Mizejewski, a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation.  Part Two:  Nan Calvert, from Root Pike WIN, and Rick Fare, an avid birdwatcher who is active with the local chapter of the Hoy Audubon Nature Club. 

Four instructors at Gateway Technical College talk about what it is like to teach online during the COVID-19 crisis .... in programs ranging from Nursing to Welding.  

We reached out to four members of the clergy in southeastern Wisconsin to find out how their respective congregations or parishes are functioning during COVID-19:  Father Ricardo Martin, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Racine ....  Rev. Bradley Brown, North Cape Lutheran Church in Raymond ..... Rev. Susan Patterson-Sumwalt, First United Methodist Church in Kenosha .... and Rev. Levi Ketelson, pastor of the Burlington campus of Journey Church.  

From 2010 comes this  conversation with Bruce Feiler, author of the best-selling book "The Council of Dads:  My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me,"  which NBC has adapted into a new drama series airing Tuesday evenings.  When Feiler was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer,  he approached several of his closest friends and asked if they would be willing to step in as surrogate fathers for his daughters.  His beautiful book chronicles what is was like for him to assemble this 'council of dads.'   

Part One-  Dr. Ed Kawakami, chair of the Academic Senate at Carthage College, talks about how the faculty wrestled with the question of what to do about grading during the COVID-19 Crisis.  Should letter grades still be given?  Should the school switch to pass/fail?  Should a mix of options be offered?    Part Two-  Jolene Hart, author of "Ignite Your Light,"  offers some suggestions on how people can remain happy and mentally healthy during the COVID-19 Crisis.  

From 2006--  Franz Wisner, author of "Honeymoon with my Brother: a Memoir."  When Wisner's fiancee breaks off their engagement,  Franz decides to go on his scheduled honeymoon anyway ... but with his brother.  

From 2008- Michael Joseph Gross talks about his book "Starstruck:  When a Fan gets Close to Fame."  Please note that the book was published and the interview conducted a year before singer Michael Jackson's unexpected death at the age of 50.  

From 2017 comes this conversation with Meta Wagner, author of "What's Your Creative Type: Harnessing the Power of Your Artistic Personality."  

From the archives comes this 2009 conversation with Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of "I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like: a Comprehensive Compilation of History's Greatest Analogies, Metaphors and Similes."  

From the archives comes this 2005 conversation with Dan Koeppel, author of "To See Every Bird on Earth: a Father, a Son, and a Lifelong Obsession."  This book examines birdwatching at its most elite level, when people will travel the globe in order to see literally thousands of different species of birds in the wild.  

We spend most of the program looking back at the terrifying Polio Epidemic of the late 1940s and early 1950s.  We begin by previewing the American Experience documentary "The Polio Crusade," which is being rebroadcast Tuesday night on PBS.   After that, you'll hear an interview with David Oshinsky, author of "Polio: An American Story,"  which served as valuable source material for the film.  The hour finishes out with a brief 2003 interview with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, talking about her memoir "Madame Secretary." 

We begin with a newly-recorded interview with Dr. Beth Rush, a neuropsychologist with the Mayo Clinic, who offers some advice to people on how to maintain their mental and emotional health during the COVID-19 crisis.   After that is a 2008 interview with food writer Frederick Kaufman, author of "A Short History of the American Stomach."