We speak with attorney Meg Groff, whose memoir "Not if I Can Help It" recounts her experiences in the first years of her career (in the mid-1980s) when she was a Legal Aid attorney in rural Pennsylvania, working with mostly poor women who had been the target of domestic violence or abuse.

2026 marks the 100th anniversary of the creation of Route 66, one of the most iconic roadways in North America. In honor of that centennial, we are replaying a 2021 conversation with Brennan Matthews from ROUTE magazine, talking about its and what fun and amazing things can be seen and experienced by traveling Route 66.

For Memorial Day. (from 2018) Patrick O'Donnell, author of "The Unknowns: The Untold Story of America's Unknown Soldier and World War One's Most Decorated Heroes Who Brought Him Home."

From 2016 - Scott D. Sampson, author of "How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature."

From 2013 - Ian O'Connor, author of "Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus, and Golf's Greatest Rivalry."

Victoria Hetherington talks about her latest book ...... "The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship." The book examines how tens of thousands of people around the world are utilizing AI for companionship, friendship, and even romance. The book discusses what there is to celebrate as well as what there is to fear in this technology.

We speak with author and journalist Phyllis Karas about her book "Curse of the Blumenthals," in which we talks about two very unhappy events in her family's history - "The Tragedy," a car accident in the 1930s involving a drunk driver in which six of Karas's relatives were killed ...... and "The Incident" from the early 1950s in which one of her relatives purportedly committed a horrific murder that became a sensationalized news story. Karas found herself obsessed with uncovering as much information about these two events as she possibly could.

We speak with entertainment writer Scott Ryan about his latest book- "Twin Peaks: Through the Red Curtain." The book gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of this groundbreaking series by David Lynch and Mark Frost .... a series that helped pave the way for all kinds of series that have come in its wake, including "The X Files," "Lost," and "Stranger Things."

We are sharing Thursday's Morning Show a couple of days early because it concerns a performance coming up this Friday night at the White Lilac in downtown Kenosha: Storyteller, actor and singer Tom Kastle is presenting his one-man show "Dan Seavey: Confessions of a Great Lakes Pirate." Seavey is someone how actually engaged in piracy on the Great Lakes during his long and colorful life.

We speak with Marcus White, President of the Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, and Alexandria Smith, Program Officer, about their Safety and Well-Being Collaborative, an enormous project involving nearly three dozen organizations from around Racine - seeking to address some of the most pressing concern confronting the city around the issue of racial disparity.