WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

This is a 2018 interview with Finn Murphy, author of "The Long Haul:  A Trucker's Tales of Life on the Road."   Murphy writes about the many interesting experiences he has had as a long-haul trucker moving people's possessions across thousands of miles over the last several decades.  

From the archives comes this 2010 interview with Diana Jean Schemo, author of "Skies to Conquer:  A Year Inside the Air Force Academy."  

We preview the upcoming Non-Profit Leadership Conference at UW-Parkside on November 8th.   Parkside's Debra Karp, the coordinator of the event, joins us- along with Kate Robinson, whose film "Failing Forward" will be screened and discussed at the conference.  She offers thoughts on the ways in which non-profits can most effectively use data to improve their success.  

More than a third of the teams in the NFL have been sued by one or more of their cheerleaders out of concerns about mistreatment and disrespect. We are previewing Laura Schellhardt's play "The Handbook," a commission from the Carthage theater department, which opens this weekend - and also talking about Yu Gu's documentary film "Women's Work: The NFL's Cheerleader Problem."  

We speak with Nancy Tate, co-chair of the 2020 Women's Vote Centennial Initiative and a past executive director of the League of Women Voters of the United States.   She is coming to Carthage as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow -and will appear on Tuesday the 29th at 6 p.m. in a public interview with Carthage faculty member Dr. Stephanie Mitchell.  In this conversation, we talk about the long struggle for women to secure the right to vote, a right which was finally and completely granted by the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920.  

We talk about climate change with Dr. Ankur Desai, Reid Bryan Professor of Climate, People and Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He is speaking this coming weekend at the 5th annual Alumni and Community Celebration for the CNHS - the College of Natural and Health Sciences.  The event is a major fundraiser for their scholarship program.   

This 2014 interview is with Alan Bernstein, author of "Mastering the Art of Quitting:  Why it Matters in Life, Love and Work."   This book invites us to rethink the assumption that most of us make that it's always a mistake to quit.  It suggests that Quitting is sometimes the best thing we can do.  

This 2014 interview is with Dr. Allen Frances, author of "Saving Normal:  An Insider's Revolt Against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life."   It is the contention of Dr. Frances that far too many people nowadays are diagnosed with various "disorders" because of behavior that once would have been regarded as normal. 

William Schaberg, a historian and rare books dealer,  has written a book titled  "Writing the Big Book:  The Creation of A.A."   It's a thorough and illuminating chronicle of the process by which Bill Wilson wrote the book that spelled out the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous.  The book was published 80 years ago in 1939.  

Nan Calvert's monthly Morning Show visit features P.J. Liesch, an Etymologist with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, talking about the various means by which insects in Wisconsin manage to survive Wisconsin winters.