WGTD's The Morning Show with Greg Berg

We begin with Ian Livingstone, a British game enthusiast with over 1,000 board games in his personal collection.  His new book is titled "Board Games in 100 Moves:  8,000 Years of Play."   The second interview, from the archives, is titled "Hot Hands,  Draft Hype, and DiMaggio's Streak:  Debunking Sports Myths."   The book seeks to dispel the misunderstandings that we tend to have about certain sports accomplishments.   

Dr. Art Cyr, Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business at Carthage College- and director of the Clausen Center - discusses an array of current events and issues .... including Brexit and the British Supreme Court's unanimous ruling against Prime Minister Boris Johnson's move to suspend Parliament .... the recent resignation of National Security Advisor John Bolton ....  and escalating tensions between Japan and South Korea.  

Novelist Linwood Barclay talks about his latest thriller,  "Elevator Pitch."  

This Morning Show interview dates back to the mid 1990's.   WGTD's Bill Guy interviews then-Carthage College baseball coach Augie Schmidt.  We are rerunning this interview as a memorial tribute to Bill Guy, who created the Morning Show and was the program's original host.  This past Friday marked the 20th anniversary of Bill's untimely death on September 20, 1999.   

Today's podcast consists of the The Morning Show - in its entirety, exactly as it aired - from September 20, 1999 - which was the morning that we learned of the death of our longtime and beloved colleague Bill Guy,  who had worked for WGTD for 21 years and whose legacy included the creation of "The Morning Show."  I talk about the Art of the Interview with writer Michael Schumacher,  who was a frequent guest during Bill's tenure as M.S. host.  At the end, you'll also hear a tribute from the late Frank Falduto, who was WGTD's general manager at the time. 

Our guest, Robert Haggarty Jr., volunteers for an advocacy non-profit called Raise the Voices that seeks to raise awareness of key human rights issues.  Haggarty leads a group that is advocating on behalf of more than a million minority Muslims in China - the Uyghur -  who are being held in 're-education camps' that are clearly designed to stamp out the culture and language of the Uyghur.  

Today's Morning Show opened with a brief tribute to long-time WGTD News Director Bill Guy, who died twenty years ago today.   This tribute featured the the first five minutes of the Morning Show we aired back on September 20, 1999.   That interview, which featured Kenosha-based author Michael Schumacher,  can be heard in its entirety on tomorrow's podcast .... and an interview conducted by Bill Guy himself will be shared on Sunday's podcast.  Bill died at the age of 50 after a courageous battle with cancer. 

This is a conversation with Lisa Kornetsky, guest director of the Racine Theater Guild's production of Neil Simon's brilliant play "Lost in Yonkers."  The production opened this past Friday and runs the next two weekends.   

Part One of today's Morning Show featured an exciting young tenor named Nick Huff, a Carthage graduate from 2015, who is singing a recital at Kenosha's Creative Space Friday night.  He talks about his experience at both Carthage and Eastman, as well as the thrill of being part of two world premieres.   Part two is with Tommy Novak, a member of the music theater faculty at Carthage, talking about how the actors in a 2010 Carthage production of the comedy "Room Service" are reuniting at Carthage for a staged reading of the play this Saturday night.  

This is an illuminating and inspiring conversation about the importance of helping people who have recently been incarcerated to find employment and build new lives for themselves.  Our guests are Patricia Hansen, Racine DA ......  Jim Schatzman,  Executive Director of Racine-Kenosha Vocational Ministries .... and Karl McNeil, who was incarcerated for drug offenses back in the late 1990's but who has become an important contributor to his community since his release from prison.