Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

This is my most recent interview with best-selling author Deborah Tannen, talking about her most recent book: a memoir titled "Finding My Father: His Century-Long Journey from World War One and My Quest to Follow." 

Dr. Art Cyr-  Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business and Director of the Clausen Center.   

Dr. Inder Paul Singh,  President of the Eye Centers of Kenosha and Racine.  

We get a COVID-19 update from Carlo Nevicosi,  Deputy Director of the Walworth County Health Department.   

Brad Balukjian, author of "The Wax Pack:  On the Open Road in Search of Baseball's Afterlife."   Balukjian, an avid baseball card collector when he was young,  ordered a vintage pack of Topp's Baseball Cards and then crisscrossed the country in an attempt to connect with the dozen baseball players pictured on those particular cards.  

From 1995 comes this interview with Alice Parker, one of America's most beloved and admired choral composers and arrangers - and a close collaborator with conductor Robert Shaw for many years.   This interview was recorded during a visit that Parker paid to Carthage College as a guest artist.  Her stay included the world premiere of a work commissioned for Carthage's campus organist at the time, Dr. Susan Klozbach. 

From 2004-  Edward Conlon's "Blue Blood," his remarkable book about New York City police officers.  

Marc Cushman has written a new series of three books titled "These are the Voyages: Gene Rodenberry, Star Trek in the 1970's."  These books focus on the years after Star Trek: the Original Series was cancelled by NBC.   It was during the 1970's that the Star Trek phenomenon was truly born.  This interview focuses in particular on the groundbreaking Star Trek conventions as well as Star Trek's return to television in the form of an award-winning animated series.  

Valerie Tripp is one of the country's most successful and highly-regarded authors of fiction for young readers.   (She has written many of the books in the American Girl series.)   She has just begun a new series for National Geographic, and the first book is titled "Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Absolute Hero."  

We talk with Jo Frost, well-known to millions as the Supernanny.   Among other things, we talk about some of the special challenges that parents are facing during this time of COVID-19. 

We begin with the mayor of Kenosha,  John Antaramian, and talk about how the city is working through some difficult issues regarding racial justice and equality.  After that, Emmy Award-winning talk show host Tamron Hall, who offers thoughts on how we can have difficult but fair conversations about race.  

Todd D. Snyder, author of "Bundini:  Don't Believe the Hype" - which tells the story of Drew "Bundini" Brown, the corner man for Muhammed Ali who coined many of his most colorful poetic phrases, including "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee."   'Bundini' was in Ali's corner for the vast majority of his most important fights.  Before working with Ali,  Bundini was with Sugar Ray Robinson.   <NOTE:  Today's originally scheduled interview with Brad Balujkian, author of "The Wax Pack," has been postponed until next week.> 

Best-selling author Lorene Cary discusses her new memoir "Ladysitting:  My Year with Nana at the end of her century."  Cary talks about the experience of taking in her 99-year-old grandmother.  The book touches on many themes and issues, including aging,  family, caregiving, and race. 

How do we train people for the incredibly challenging work of law enforcement?  And how has that training changed in light of concerns over incidents of police brutality?  How are prospective police officers trained in matters such as use-of-force or how to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations. We speak today with Richard Stein, Director of Law Enforcement Training at Gateway Technical College, and Ray Clark, Police Chief for the Town of Delaven and a half-time instructor in Gateway's Law Enforcement Academy.  

From 2009 -  Nancy Garfinklel,  co-author (with Andrea Israel) of the novel "The Recipe Club: a Tale of Food and Friendship."  

In memory of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we are rerunning this 2018 interview with Bryant Johnson, author of "The RBG Workout."  Johnson was Justice Ginsburg's personal trainer for twenty years. 

From 2015 comes this conversation with Tina Seelig, author of "Insight Out:  Get Your Ideas Out of your Head and Into the World." 

Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the Morning Show features Megan Severson, state director for Wisconsin Environment, an advocacy group for a variety of environmental issues and concerns.  

From 2008-  Atul Gawande, author of 'Better:  A Surgeon's Notes on Performance,"  which gathers his thoughts on what it means to be a better doctor.   

Here is a look back at a very different era in NFL history, the 1950's-  and one of the most glamorous teams of that era,  the Los Angeles Rams.  Jim Hock's father was an offensive lineman for the team.    Hock's book is titled "Father on the Line: a Memoir."