Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Ruby Warrington, author of "The Curious Sober Re-Set:  Change the way you drink in 100 days or less."   Warrington is credited with coining the term 'curious sober.'  She advocates a more thoughtful attitude when it comes to how much a person drinks and why they drink.   

From 2002 - Armand Nicholai, author of "The Question of God:  C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life" 

From 2009,  Ashley Rhodes-Courter,  author of "Three Little Words; a Memoir."  

From 2004 -  Dr. Ira Byock, author of "The Four Things That Matter Most:  A Book About Living." 

2004-   Ari Weinzweig, author of "Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service"

In an unprecedented Morning Show event, I speak with WGTD's full-time staff members:   General Manager David Cole,  News Director Dave McGrath, and Development Director Troy McDonald about our coverage of the two biggest stories of 2020 -  the COVID-19 pandemic ..... and the Jacob Blake shooting and the demonstrations and riots that occurred in its wake. 

From 2007 - John Lloyd, co-author of "The Book of General Ignorance: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong,"  a book about the many misassumptions we make about the world. 

From 2007 - Jonis Agee talks about her novel "The River Wife."  

From 2005 - The Cat Fancier's Association Complete Cat Book, edited by Mordecai Siegal.  

From 2007:  with an editor from New Scientist magazine, we discuss "Why Don't Penguins' Feet Freeze?  - and 114 Other Questions," a book which poses and then answers 115 intriguing and out-of-the-ordinary questions.  

From the archives:  Two interviews with Charles D. Cohen, the world's greatest expert on Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.   First is a 2004 conversation about his book "The Seuss, the Whole Seuss, and Nothing but the Seuss,"  which explores Geisel wide-ranging career.  Second is a 2007 interview about the 50th anniversary edition of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." 

From 2003-  Ann Byrn, author of "The Dinner Doctor:  Quick Cooking when time is short."  

Here is the unabridged 2015 interview with Ray Forgianni,  longtime Kenosha City Planner and Director of City Development, talking about Harbor Market, which he helped to create and sustain.  Also part of the conversation is local artist Melanie Hovey,  who worked closely with Ray in the formation of the market.   We replayed a portion of this interview on today's Morning Show as a memorial tribute to Fogianni, who died earlier this fall due to complications from COVID-19.  

Today's program is a memorial tribute to Ray Forgianni, who served Kenosha as City Planner and Director of City Development for more than thirty years, who died earlier this fall due to complications from COVID-19.   Part One is a 1998 conversation led by then-WGTD News Director Bill Guy.  He and Ray Forgianni discuss the plans for Harbor Park, which at that point was still in its final stages of planning.  Part Two is an excerpt from a 2015 conversation about Harbor Market.  

Best-selling author David Baldacci talks about his most recent novel,  "Daylight." 

Today's program is a memorial tribute to the honorable Shirley Abrahamson, the first woman to serve as a justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court (1976-2019) - who also served as Chief Justice of the court from 1996 to 2015.   We were privileged to welcome Justice Abrahamson into our radio studios on two occasions- in 2006 and 2009.  This tribute includes excerpts from the interviews we recorded with her during those visits. 

This is the unabridged interview recorded with retired Lutheran pastor Warren Williams, describing what it was like to contract COVID-19 and the life-threatening symptoms which he experienced.  He also offers some thoughts on the plight of the homeless in Racine during the pandemic.   

From 1998-  a conversation that helps us to better understand the wide-ranging academic discipline of Geography.   This interview was done when Professor Gober, a much-admired member of the geography faculty at Arizona State University,  returned to her hometown of Kenosha, WI to accept an honorary doctorate from Carthage College.  (Professor Gober recently retired from ASU.) 

From 2004-  "David Rosengarten Entertains: Fabulous Parties for Food Lovers" .... replayed in the hopes that one year from now, we'll be able to entertain family and friends as we once did.  

We preview the next video offering of the Choral Arts Society,  "On the Fifth Day of Christmas," which will be shared with the public on Tuesday, December 29th.