Wgtd's The Morning Show With Greg Berg

A discussion about Carthage College's Aspire Conference, Oct. 4-6 2021

From 2005 - Bruce Feiler, author of "Walking the Bible."  

Dr. Bryan Albrecht, the president of Gateway Technical College, celebrates National Manufacturing Month with Carolyn Lee, Executive Director of The Manufacturing Institute in Washington DC.  

Dr. Peter Dennee, from Carthage College's music department,  talks about his sabbatical in Tanzania.  He also shares information about this year's Christmas Festival.  (Tickets for it go on sale tomorrow, October 1st.)  

Sheila Modir and Jeffrey Kashou, co-authors of a new children's picture book titled "The Proudest Color," in which a young girl comes to appreciate who she is.

Brendan Kiely, author of "The Other Talk:  Reckoning with Our White Privilege."   

Part 1:  a preview of a documentary about our 39th president, Jimmy Carter, airing this week on the PBS series "In their own words."  Part 2:  from the archives,  a 2005 interview with former president Carter upon the publication of his book "Our Endangered Values:  America's Moral Crisis."  

A preview of the two-part American experience documentary "Citizen Hearst, " which chronicles the remarkable life and legacy of William Randolph Hearst.  

From 2008-  Aimee Liu, author of "Gaining:  the truth about life after eating disorders."  

From 2007 -  Ron Saxen, author of "The Good Eater:  The true story of one man's struggle with binge eating disorder."   

Brendan Kiely, author of "The Other Talk:  Reckoning with our white privilege."  

A preview of the second season of the podcast Read More Plays.   

Dr. Adam Levine, author of "The Great Upheaval: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future."  

Dr. Thomas Carr,  head of the Paleontology program at Carthage,  and Dr. Meagan Seitz,  who is the program's preparator,  are joined by four Carthage students who accompanied them on a field expedition to rural Montana this past summer.  

Dr. Brian A. Primack, author of "You are what you click:  How being selective, positive, and creative can transform your social media experience."  Dr. Primack suggests in this book that just as we need to be mindful of what we eat,  we must be similarly mindful of our utilization of social media by constructing a 'technology diet.'  

Conservative columnist George F. Will talks about his newest book (his 16th) - "American Happiness and Discontents: the Unruly Torrent: 2008-2020,"  a generous sampling of the columns he has written for the Washington Post over the past 12 years.  

From 2007-  Louis Cataldie, author of "Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death." 

From 2010 -  Annie Murphy Paul, author of "The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are leading us to mis-educate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves." 

Rich Smith, Managing Artistic Director of the Over our Head Players in Racine,  talks about their production of "Nixon's Nixon," which is performed for the next three weekends.  The play is an imaginative depiction of the conversation between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger the night before Nixon resigned the presidency.  Smith both directs the play and portrays Nixon.  

John Rhodehamel, author of "America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination."