John Schlimm-  "what would Gen-Z Do? : Everything you don't know about Gen-Z but Should."  

Dennis Baron, author of "You can't always say what you want: The Paradox of Free Speech."  (The book is not released until February 2023.  This interview was recorded on December 9th.) 

Bill Schutt: "Pump: A Natural History of the Heart."  The book examines the human heart and how it functions, but also explores the heart of widely diverse creatures of the animal kingdom.   It also traces the history of humankind's understanding (and misunderstanding) of the heart and its function.  

From 2018-  Leonard Mlodinow, author of "Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Time of Change."  

From 2018 -  Dan Barry, author of "The Boys in the Bunkhouse: Servitude and Salvation in the Heartland." 

We preview Sunday evening's Sing Along Messiah at Kenosha's First United Methodist Church (at the corner of Sheridan Road and 60th Street) - a much loved event that is back for the first time since 2019.  In Part One, I speak with Jessica DeBoer, who coordinates the event.  In Part Two, we share an archival interview from 2007 featuring choral legend Weston Noble, who conducted the choruses in that year's performance - as well as Trevor Parker, a Carthage graduate who was that year's tenor soloist - discussing the work.  

For Nan Calvert's December visit to the Morning Show, we have John Holloway, chairman of the town of Paris, which is the site of a new and exciting solar farm.  

Ken Wiele, a highly regarded high school band director from Kenosha Unified, has taken up nature photography in his retirement ...  and has a beautiful book that collects some of his finest work and combines it with his mother's poetry has just been released in a second edition. 

BONUS -  Here is the complete and unedited interview with Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, author of "Falling to Earth: an Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey to the Moon."  (An excerpt from this interview aired on today's Morning Show.)  

Today's program commemorates the 50th anniversary of Apollo 17, which was on the moon fifty years ago this week- the last time that human beings walked on the moon.   Part One:  Andy Saunders talks about studying the massive frozen film archives at NASA and selecting 400+ images which he gathered into a massive and magnificent new book called "Apollo Remastered."  Many of the images have never been seen by the public before.  Part Two: an excerpt from "Falling to Earth," a memoir by Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden.