Psychotherapist Amy Champeau returns to the Morning Show to offer some thoughts on how we can weather the COVID-19 crisis in a way that best preserves our mental and emotional well-being.   She also honestly shares about her own difficulties with anxiety and how that has helped her to be able to help others deal with their anxiety issues.  

Long-time UW-Parkside history professor John Buenker passed away earlier this month.  He was a frequent and much-admired Morning Show guest.   This is a rebroadcast of a visit he paid to the Morning Show in early 2001.  He offered thoughts on the very close and controversial victory of George W. Bush over Al Gore - and what was likely to be ahead in the then-new Bush presidency.   We hope to share other archival interviews with Professor Buenker in the coming weeks and months. 

Steve Allen, one of the legendary figures in entertainment history,  was the original host of The Tonight Show (the first late-night talk show)  and a prolific composer and author as well as a popular game show host and participant.   He came to Carthage College during the first week of March 1999 as a Johnson Distinguished Visitor.  This is one of the only instances in which I co-hosted a Morning Show interview with long-time WGTD news director Bill Guy, who created the program and was its primary host before his death a few months after this interview aired.  

From 2006 comes this interview with W.K. Stratton, author of "Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man's Search for the West."   It's fascinating look behind the scenes of the modern rodeo.

From 2008 comes this conversation with Ann Vileisis, author of "Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get it Back."  

In honor of National Wildlife Week.  Part One: David Mizejewski, a naturalist with the National Wildlife Federation.  Part Two:  Nan Calvert, from Root Pike WIN, and Rick Fare, an avid birdwatcher who is active with the local chapter of the Hoy Audubon Nature Club. 

Four instructors at Gateway Technical College talk about what it is like to teach online during the COVID-19 crisis .... in programs ranging from Nursing to Welding.  

We reached out to four members of the clergy in southeastern Wisconsin to find out how their respective congregations or parishes are functioning during COVID-19:  Father Ricardo Martin, Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Racine ....  Rev. Bradley Brown, North Cape Lutheran Church in Raymond ..... Rev. Susan Patterson-Sumwalt, First United Methodist Church in Kenosha .... and Rev. Levi Ketelson, pastor of the Burlington campus of Journey Church.  

From 2010 comes this  conversation with Bruce Feiler, author of the best-selling book "The Council of Dads:  My Daughters, My Illness, and the Men Who Could Be Me,"  which NBC has adapted into a new drama series airing Tuesday evenings.  When Feiler was diagnosed with life-threatening cancer,  he approached several of his closest friends and asked if they would be willing to step in as surrogate fathers for his daughters.  His beautiful book chronicles what is was like for him to assemble this 'council of dads.'   

Part One-  Dr. Ed Kawakami, chair of the Academic Senate at Carthage College, talks about how the faculty wrestled with the question of what to do about grading during the COVID-19 Crisis.  Should letter grades still be given?  Should the school switch to pass/fail?  Should a mix of options be offered?    Part Two-  Jolene Hart, author of "Ignite Your Light,"  offers some suggestions on how people can remain happy and mentally healthy during the COVID-19 Crisis.