Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

Part One:   Brad Ricca, author of  "Olive the Lionheart:  Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey into the Heart of Africa."   In 1910, 30-year-old Olive MacLeod traveled over 3,000 miles through the heart of Africa to learn the fate of her fiance, explorer and naturalist Alexander Boyd.  It's an amazing and true story.  Part Two:  (from 2018)  Kristin Helms, author of  "From Boardroom to Baby:  A Roadmap for Career Women Transitioning to Stay-at-home Mom."   

Our guest is Dr. Leslie Cameron, Professor of Psychology at Carthage College.  She has done extensive research on the sense of smell for many years.  This interview focuses on how one of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 is the loss of the sense of smell.  Professor Cameron is helping to arrange widespread olfactory testing for students, faculty and staff at Carthage as one more means of screening for COVID as the school resumes in-person instruction.  

From 2003-  Father Dominic Grassi's talks about his book "Still Called:  Why I Love Being a Priest."   Update: Father Grassi recently retired from the priesthood and is now writing novels.   Grassi spent the last quarter century of his ministry serving parishes on the north side of Chicago.  

From 2010:  "Game Change:  Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime."  

Howard Furman examines the childhood and adolescence of baseball superstar Micky Mantle in "Mutt's Dream:  Making the Mick."   

We begin with Margaret Gesner and Jeffrey Langlieb from the Greater Racine County Health Department-  and finish up with Carlo Nevicosi from the Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services .... for COVID-19 updates.  

From 2006 comes this interview with Simon Houpt, author of "Museum of the Missing:  a History of Art Theft."  

Racine County Executive Jonathan Delagrave tells the story of being diagnosed with COVID-19.   

Bradley Garrett talks about his new book "Bunker:  Building for the End Times."  

Ellyn Lem discusses her new book "Gray Matters: Finding Meaning in the Stories of Later Life."  

From 2009-  Dr. Sandra Moats from the history faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside talks about her book "Celebrating the Republic:  Presidential Ceremony and Popular Sovereignty from Washington to Monroe."   The book examines the nature of  the U.S. Presidency and how it was viewed by the American public through the tenure of our first five presidents.   

We're turning the clock all the way back to 1989 - and to two interviews that appear to be the oldest Morning Show interviews preserved in our archives.    The interviews are done by longtime WGTD News Director Bill Guy, who created the Morning Show.    Part One is with longtime UPI columnist Georgie Anne Geyer.  The second is with renowned television journalist Judy Woodruff,  who has done exemplary work for both PBS and CNN.  

Elizabeth Englander discusses her new book "25 Myths about Bullying and Cyberbullying."  

Nick Huff and Kaila Bingen, board members of the newly-organized Kenosha Opera Festival,  talk about how COVID upended their new company's plans for their first summer of operation - but also preview the virtual opera concert that the company will be streaming this Sunday, August 9th. 

Dr. James Ripley, director of instrumental activities at Carthage,  talks about the steep challenges that musicians have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as some of Carthage's preparations for in-person teaching/learning this fall.  (He is a member of Carthage's COVID Coordination Committee.)  He also summarizes the initial findings of an important study from the University of Colorado-Boulder that is specifically exploring what protocols can minimize the risk COVID transmission in band and choral rehearsals and lessons.  

Part One: Melba Pattillo Beals, author of "March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine."  In 1957, Beals was one of 9 African-American young people who were enrolled in the facially segregated Little Rock Central High School in the wake of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of the U.S. Supreme Court.  Part Two:  ABC's Dan Harris, author of "Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics: a 10% Happier How-To Book."  Harris turned to meditation to help him through some anxiety issues; it worked for him, even though he was far from the typical practitioner of meditation.  

Part One:  Edward Goldberg, author of "Why Globalization Works: How Nationalist Trade Policies are Destroying our Country."  Part Two:  Dan P. McAdams, author of "The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: a Psychological Reckoning."  McAdams is a psychology professor at Northwestern University.  

We speak with Dr. Gary Wood, Vice Provost at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, about the challenges he and others are confronting in preparing UW-Parkside for this upcoming fall semester.  He is one of the people sorting out where in-person teaching can occur ....  how physical distancing can be achieved in various spaces .... and what alterations in class schedules and offerings might have to be made to accommodate this complicated situation.  

We are not certain exactly when this interview aired on WGTD.   The best guess of one of the guests in the interview is that is occurred in 2003.   The topic is Rosie the Riveter- a symbolic character representing the many women who worked in America's industrial factories during World War Two while so many men were off fighting.   The occasion of this interview was a local screening of a documentary about such women.  The three guests:  Dr. Fran Kavenik, Jane Harrington Heide, and Joyce Hill Westerman.  Ms. Westerman was an actual 'Rosie the Riveter.' 

We have dusted off a 1998 interview that celebrates the Great American Pastime: Baseball.   This is a conversation with Racine's own John Salvo,  a fervent baseball fan, who talks about seeing games in every single major league ballpark across the country.