Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

We preview the newest season of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside's Foreign Film Series with its current director, Dr. Jay Mcroy, who is Professor of Film Studies at Parkside. (In an extension of the interview not heard on today's broadcast, Mcroy talks about the film studies program and his own love of cinema.)

Nick Demske, executive director of the Racine Public Library, talks about Book Banning and Censorship during National Banned Books Week.

We speak with Jeff Shinabarger, founder and executive director of Plywood People, an Atlanta-based non-profit center for social innovation. Shinabarger is one of the guest presenters for the upcoming leadership conference Inspire 2024 sponsored by KABA - the Kenosha Area Business Alliance - on October 11th. Shinabarger is the author of several books, including "Yes or No: How Your Everyday Decisions Will Forever Shape Your Life."

Dr. Art Cyr offers his thoughts on the current state of the U.S. economy, the most recent visit to Washington by the current British prime minister, recent efforts to broker peace between Israel and Hamas, and a look back at the Nixon-Kennedy debates in 1960.

Rachel Zimmerman discusses her new book "Us, After- A Memoir of Love and Suicide." The book chronicles what she and her family experienced in the wake of her husband Seth's unexpected suicide.

From 2008- we speak to the father and son who co-wrote "I Am Potential: Eight Lessons on Living, Loving, and Reaching Your Dreams." Patrick Henry Hughes was born without eyes and with other severe physical deformities - but was also born with an exceptional talent for music that he was able to explore with the help of his father.

From 2011- Astronaut Al Worden talks about his memoir "Falling to Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon."

Mark O. Hubbard discusses his new book "Ara: The Life and Legacy of a Notre Dame Legend" .... the authorized biography of renowned football coach Ara Parseghian.

Moe Cason, one of the country's best-known and most highly regarded experts on all matters related to BBQ, talks about his new book "Big Moe's Big Book of BBQ: 75 Recipes from Brisket and Ribs to Cornbread and Mac & Cheese."

We talk about the current production of Kenosha's Lakeside Players, "Puffs - or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic," a thinly veiled parody of a certain popular series of books and films about a certain bespectacled young wizard-in-training and his friends and adversaries. The production opened this past Friday and runs for the next two weekends. I speak with two members of thecast - Hannah Wade and Sam Simon - who are music theater majors at Carthage College.

Doug Instenes, managing and artistic director of the Racine Theater Guild, talks about their current production - a stage adaption of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" - and about the rest of the RTG's current season, which includes "Little Women," "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," and "Legally Blonde."

Dr. Thomas Carr, director of the paleontology program at Carthage, talks about their most recent field expedition to rural Montana. Andrew Goebel, a recent Carthage grad who has been a valued part of the program and has been working as a preparator, joins us as well.

This is a correction to an earlier posting of the Morning Show from September 12th. For Kailyn Palomares's September visit to the program, she wanted to talk about the Heide Observatory at Hawthorn Hollow - as well as the concern of Light Pollution and its effects not only on stargazing but also on the well-being of nocturnal creatures and other living things. Joining her was Dr. William Parker, Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, and director of the Heide Observatory.

Carol Mithers talks about her book "Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and the Story of America's Forgotten People and Pets." The 'Dog Lady' referenced in the subtitle is Lori Weise, who for decades has done dog rescue in some of L.A.'s poorest neighborhoods. What has set her work apart from that of others engaged in pet rescue is that she has tried to help struggling dog owners as much as the dogs they own - and Weise's hope has always been that pets and owners might remain together or be reunited someday.

From 2005 - Tom Downey, author of "The Last Men Out: Life on the Edge at Rescue 2 Firehouse." The book is an extraordinary portrait of NYC firefighters and the culture of this particular firehouse. Downey was in the midst of studying them and their story when the unthinkable events of 9-11 occurred. This book includes a riveting account of what happened on that nightmarish day - and the profoundly moving story of what followed for those who survived 9-11.

From 2018 - We speak to Suzann Pileggi Pawelski and James Pawelski, who are the husband & wife co-authors of "Happy Together: Using the Science of Positive Psychology to Build Love that Lasts."

John Talty, co-author of "The Price: What it takes to sin in college football's era of chaos." The book explores how college football and the experience of student-athletes in large colleges and universities has drastically changed in recent years with the infusion of big money.

(From 2011) Genelle Guzman-McMillan, the last survivor pulled from the rubble at Ground Zero, talks about her memoir "Angel in the Rubble." She was working for the Port Authority in the Twin Towers on 9-11. She was caught in the collapse as she and coworkers were attempting to leave the building. She was buried alive for 23 hours.

We talk about the poetry and the Poets Laureate program in Kenosha and Racine with Jean Preston and Jennifer Kozelou, who are members of the committee who will be selecting new poets laureate before the end of the year.

Jenny albertini, author of "Decluttered: Mindful Organizing for Health, Home, and Beyond."