Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

For Kailyn Palomares's June visit to the Morning Show, we have a conversation about the importance of bumblebees with Judy Cardin, an educator with the Wisconsin DNR's community science program Bumblebee Brigade.

This is a portion of a conversation with Roger Carp, Senior Editor of Classic Trains magazine, and the author of "Lights, Camera, Lionel Trains! - A Photo History of an American Icon." The book celebrates the legacy of Lionel model trains in the company's 125th anniversary year. We will air the interview in its entirety next week.

We speak with Greta Neubauer, State Representative for the 66th Assembly District and Minority Leader for the State Assembly. We talk, among other things, about the current impasse regarding the state budget.

Matt Prochaska, Tourism Manager for the Village of Mount Pleasant, talks about Campus Park and the beautiful outdoor entertainment venue there and the summertime performances that will be presented there.

From 2004 ..... Lynne Truss, author of the best-seller "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation." The sound quality of this interview, as preserved, is rather poor- but we are still sharing it in the hopes that listeners will still find it to be compelling and entertaining.

Thursday, June 5th, would have been singer/actor Bill Hayes's 100th birthday. We are replaying the interview that I was privileged to record with Mr. Hayes nines years ago. Hayes's career included a stint on Sid Caesar's legendary series "Your Show of Shows," performances in the original Broadway cast of Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Me and Juliet," and half a century of performances on the soap opera "Days of our Lives."

Deborah Karp, director of the Alan E. Guskin Center for Community and Business Engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, reflects on her career at Parkside and the work she has done with local non-profits, community-based learning, and arts management. She is about to retire after just over a quarter century with the university.

Kristine Heuser (Root Pike WIN) talks about a free community planting event happening this Saturday afternoon at Kenosha's Washington Park .... in which 14,000 square feet of turf grass will be replaced with native plants that will be attractive for pollinators.

We preview Sunday afternoon's concert by the Belle City Brassworks ("The Music of Espana") with conductor Doug Johnson and board of directors president Katie Humphrey. The concert is Sunday afternoon, 3:00, at Francis Bedford Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. The concert is free and open to the public.

In the new book "Human History on Drugs: An Utterly Scandalous but Entirely Truthful Look at History Under the Influence," Sam Kelly examines forty historical figures who used drugs. Some of these stories are stories of drug abuse, but other stories are of drugs used out of necessity and very much for the person's benefit. Kelly discusses an array of remarkable people, from Alexander the Great to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. The author mentions in the introduction that he is on the autism spectrum, and we spend a few minutes talking about how this figures into his passionate and relentless love of history.

From 2005- Dr. Mardy Grothe, author of "Viva la Repartee: Clever Comebacks and Witty Retorts from History's Greatest Wits and Wordsmiths."

Marguerite Holloway, a journalism professor for Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, participated in a tree-climbing workshop for women- and it touched off in her a fervent interest in trees and deep concern for the way in which many trees in America are facing unprecedented challenges. Her book is titled "Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests."

From 2005 ..... T. R. Reid discusses his book "The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy." Much has happened in the twenty years since this book was published- and it's interesting to consider what has come to pass as Reid envisioned as well as the ways in which events have not played out quite as he imagined they would.

(from 2006) Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan talk about their book "Sinatra: A Life."

From 2022- Kate Colbert, co-author/editor of "Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era in Higher Education."

Part One- Ted Williams, author of "Earth Almanac: A Year of Witnessing the Wild from the Call of the Loon to the Journey of the Gray Whale." (2020) Part Two- David Rothenberg, author of "Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound." (2008)

From 2007- Tim Jeal, author of "Stanley: The Impossible life of Africa's Greatest Explorer" (Henry Morton Stanley)

Former Navy SEAL Eric Greitens discusses his book "Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life." The book explores what resilience is and how essential it is for living a truly successful and happy life.

From 2017- Corina Chocano talks about her essay collection titled "You Play The Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, and Other Mixed Messages."

For Memorial Day - from 2006 - Sergeant Daniel Hendrix, author of "A Soldier's Promise- The Heroic Story of an American Soldier and an Iraqi Boy."