Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

From 2002 - Dr. Linda Harper talks about her book "Give to your heart's content - without giving yourself away." The book explores how one can be a giving, generous person without compromising your own well-being.

From 2015 - Jane Bryant Quinn, author of "How to make your money last- The Indispensable Retirement Guide."

We preview the two performances this weekend of Handel's MESSIAH at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside ... performances that are dedicated to the memory of Frances Bedford, longtime member of the UW-P music faculty who played harpsichord for every Parkside Messiah performance for more than two decades. Frances Bedford passed away in February 2023 at the age of 98. Monte Bedford, who will be playing oboe in the orchestra for these performances, offers reminiscences about his late mother. Also joining us is Dr. James Kinchen, director of choral activities at Parkside, who will be conducting this weekend's performances.

We preview this weekend's performances of the Carthage Christmas Festival - billed this year as the 150th anniversary festival. We speak with Matthew Hougland and Maggie Burk, co-directors of the festival. They talk about all that goes into coordinating this massive production and talk about some highlights from the program, including an exquisite new work commissioned especially for the occasion. We also hear from Polly Amborn, a Carthage graduate ('89) who is now the conductor of the college's Treble Choir. Polly reminisces about attending the festival more than 40 years and reflects on how the event has changed in the intervening years and what it is like for her to now be a part of it in a very different way from when she was a student at Carthage.

Curzio Caravati talks about his non-profit KUFI Farm .... KUFI stands for Kenosha Urban Farm Institute, a research farm that explores how we can raise crops more effectively and sustainably to better feed the world.

We preview Sunday afternoon's concert by the Spirit of Racine Music Makers with board president Laura Sumner Coon as well as their new artistic director, Margaret Stetka Girdzius. We also talk about the scholarship that has been created in memory of the group's founder and former artistic director, George Baumgardt, who passed away earlier this year.

We preview this weekend's holiday concert of the Kenosha Symphony Orchestra- which will also feature the Kenosha Chamber Choir.

Lawrence Spinelli discusses his new book "Watergate's Unexpected Hero: The Life of Peter Rodino Jr." Rodino was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey for forty years- and was chair of the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment hearings against President Richard Nixon in 1974. Those televised hearings made Rodino one of the most famous men in America for a time. This is the first full-length biography of Rodino, who chose not to capitalize on his newfound fame in any way. Rodino is widely praised for the sense of restraint and care with which he chaired the committee during that tumultuous time in our nation's history.

In this interview, we hear from both Clive Cussler (one of the most successful novelists in recent decades) and his son Dirk Cussler talking about collaborating on a thrilled titled "Arctic Drift."

From 2016 - J. Ryan Stradel talks about his bestselling debut novel "Kitchens of the Great Midwest."

This interview was actually most recently broadcast a week ago, on November 22nd. Cody Keenan served for a time as head speech writer for former president Barack Obama. In this interview, he discusses his remarkable book "Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America."

Because we associate our 16th president with Thanksgiving (he was the president who signed the bill that made Thanksgiving Day a federal holiday) we are sharing three Lincoln-related interviews to celebrate .... including part of an interview with historian Ronald C. White talking about his acclaimed biography "A. Lincoln." These three interview excerpts were aired on Lincoln's birthday (February 9th) several years ago.

This is an extended version of the tribute to Norm McPhee that aired on Wednesday, November 27th. Norm McPhee served the Racine Theater Guild as its managing and artistic director from 1969 to 2001. He passed away in early November at the age of 88. This extended edition of the tribute features unabridged interviews with Jo Nissen, George Mangold, Mona Lewis, Michael Clickner, and current RTG director Doug Instenes. There are also stories about Norm from Dawn Van Ness, Sherry Babicky, Kara Ernst-Schalk, Jill Jensen and Rachae Renee that are read. In a special bonus, we hear from Norm himself in a 2005 interview in which he talks about another beloved figure in RTG history, Hilda Greenquist. This interview was done shortly after her death at the age of 95.

From 2010- Best-selling author Michael Schumacher talks about his book "Will Eisner: A Dreamer's Life in Comics."

Dr. Thomas Carr joins us - Associate Professor of Biology at Carthage College and director of their Paleontology program. Joining him: Brett Jackson, a senior biology major, and Andrew Goebel, a recent Carthage graduate. All three of them recently attended the most recent meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Paleontology.

From 2010- Annie Murphy Paul, author of 'The Cult of Personality: How personality tests are leading us to mis-educate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves."

From 2020- Bruce Boyce, author of "Cold Comfort: One man's struggle to stop the illegal marketing of powerful opioid drugs and save lives."

In observance of Epilepsy Awareness Month, we speak with Victor and Libby Boyce - whose son Cameron was a gifted child actor who was part of a couple of Disney programs. Cameron contended with epilepsy the last four years of his life before dying from epilepsy-related complications at the age of 20. His parents created the Cameron Boyce Foundation in his memory.

We talk with Robert Creamer, who has worked on a wide variety of political campaigns over the last half century, about his new book "Nuts and Bolts: The Formula for Progressive Electoral Success." We spend a few minutes looking back on former president Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and some of the reasons for it.

Brad Ricca, author of "True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to find the legendary Ark of the Covenant."