Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg
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Sinopsis
One-of-a-kind interviews with locally and nationally-renowned authors, regional newsmakers, opinion leaders, educators, performers, athletes, and other intriguing members of the community.
Episodios
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4/1/24 Don't make me pull over!
01/04/2024 Duración: 53minFrom 2018 - Richard Ratay, author of "Don't make me pull over: an informal history of the family road trip."
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3/31/24 Life is Good
31/03/2024 Duración: 23min25 years ago this year, Bert and John Jacobs ... two college-age brothers .... designed and sold their first t-shirts. They eventually founded the company Life is Good. In honor of that anniversary, here is an interview where they talk about the Life is Good book that they co-wrote.
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3/30/24 Crossword Puzzles
30/03/2024 Duración: 15minFrom 2005- Stanley Newman's Opus 100 Crosswords.
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3/29/24 An Elegant Defense
29/03/2024 Duración: 28minFrom 2020- Matt Richtel, author of "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System- A Tale in Four Lives."
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3/28/24 Gardening expert Nina Koziol
28/03/2024 Duración: 47minSneak Preview: One of the most prominent gardening experts/writers/teachers in the Chicago-area, Nina Koziol, is coming to Kenosha on Thursday evening, April 4th- in a program sponsored by the Four Seasons Garden Club. The interview is being broadcast on April 2nd, but we're sharing the interview today in podcast format since the event is coming up so soon.
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3/27/24 Debbie Irving Followup
27/03/2024 Duración: 48minThis is a newly-recorded interview with Debbie Irving, looking back over the last ten years since the publication of her memoir "Waking Up White: and finding myself in the Story of Race."
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3/26/24 Waking Up White
26/03/2024 Duración: 47minFrom 2014 - Debbie Irving, author of "Waking up White: and finding myself in the Story of Race." The book is a remarkably honest memoir about Irving's realization (in adulthood) that she had harbored all kinds of racist attitudes that she never realized were there. The book also explores the reality of systemic racism. (Tomorrow, we'll have a newly-recorded interview with Irving in which she looks back over the past ten years.)
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3/25/24 The Cancer Detectives
25/03/2024 Duración: 48minWe preview the next American Experience documentary film - "The Cancer Detectives" - with co-directors/co-producers Amanda Pollak and Gene Tempest. The film talks about the most important breakthrough in early cancer detection among woman: the pap smear, named for Dr. George Papanicolaou. The film charts the circuitous route by which this became a well-established practice- and the various barriers and attitudes that had to be surmounted. The film also tells about the enormously important contributions made to the cause by Dr. Papanicolaou's wife Andromachi and others.
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3/24/24 S.C. Gwynne - "The Perfect Pass"
24/03/2024 Duración: 25minFrom 2017 - S.C. Gwynne, author of "The Perfect Pass: American Genius and the Revinvention of Football." The book is primarily the story of two football geniuses, Hal Mumme and Mike Leach, who helped revolutionize the game of football with a radical approach to the passing game that had never been seen before.
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3/23/24 Tom Clavin "Wild Bill"
23/03/2024 Duración: 25minFrom 2020- Tom Clavin discusses his book "Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Frontier's First Gunfighter."
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3/22/24 Carthage Institute of Paleontology
22/03/2024 Duración: 44minWe catch up with Dr. Thomas Carr, director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and Dr. Megan Seitz, who is the program's Preparator. We will revisit the history of the program, the way in which it has grown both in size and stature over the years, and the work that each of them does. We talk about plans for their next 'dinosaur dig' in Montana this summer. We also discuss a serious budgetary issue that threatens the very existence of the program. Last but not least - there is an amazing moment when I (Greg Berg) get to hold an actual dinosaur bone!
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3/21/24 Ann Liguori "Life on the Green"
21/03/2024 Duración: 44minSports journalist and podcaster Ann Liguori talks about her newest book, "Life on the Green: Lessons and Wisdom from Legends of Golf." In it, she shares some of the life lessons that some of the sport's greatest stars have learned through the course of their professional careers.
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3/20/24 Delta Hawk Apprentice
21/03/2024 Duración: 48minWe introduce you to Aubrey Marquez, a junior at Park High School who is an apprentice at Delta Hawk, an exciting young engine company in Racine. We also speak with two Racine Unified School District employees who have worked with Aubrey - school counselor Jeffrey Wilkins and youth apprentice coordinator Mike Lynch - as well as two employees at Delta Hawk .... Lisa Booker, head of HR, and Aaron Nieto, lead engine technician. In Part Two, we hear from the author of the book "Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life."
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3/19/24 The Suffragist Playbook
19/03/2024 Duración: 47minFrom 2020- for Women's History Month- Lucinda Robb (granddaughter of Lyndon Baines Johnson) and Rebecca Boggs Roberts (daughter of Cokie Roberts) talk about their book "The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World." The book examines some of the most important suffragists and how they managed to accomplish what they did- often against nearly insurmountable odds.
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3/18/24 Dr. John Swallow
19/03/2024 Duración: 45minDr. John Swallow- the president of Carthage College
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3/17/24 Malachy McCourt- The Claddagh Ring
17/03/2024 Duración: 22minFrom 2003 - Malachy McCourt (younger brother of best-selling author Frank McCourt) discusses his book "The Claddagh Ring: Ireland's Cherished Symbol of Friendship, Loyalty and Love."
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3/16/24 Two books about Dogs
16/03/2024 Duración: 48minFrom 2005 - Dr. Stanley Coren, author of "How Dogs Think: What the world looks like to them and why they act the way they do." Also, Emily Yoffe, author of "What the Dog Did: Tales from a formerly reluctant dog owner."
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3/15/24 Dr. Lynn Akey, UW-Parkside Chancellor
15/03/2024 Duración: 48minDr. Lynn Akey, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, pays her first visit to the Morning Show. She assumed her position at Parkside in January.
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3/14/24 Maple Sugaring
14/03/2024 Duración: 46minKailyn Palomares has taken over from Nan Calvert in organizing monthly Morning Show programs around various topics related to the environment and the natural world. Today's program focuses primarily on Maple Sugaring as it takes place at Hawthorn Hollow, where Kailyn is Naturalist and Education Manager. With her today is Hawthorn Hollow's Executive Director, TJ Leveque.