The Morning Show

Nan Calvert's monthly visit to the program.  Her guest is Jason Meekma, Executive director of Focus on Community and a new "Take Back My Meds" program that involves the safe disposal of our medications.

Our topic is memory - and what it means if our memory fades when we are in middle school.  Cathryn Jakobson Ramin's book is called "Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife."  

Joe Bageant, author of "Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War" 

Chana Gazit,  producer and director of "The Codebreaker,"  the next documentary in the PBS series American Experience.   

Ruby Warrington, author of "The Sober Curious Reset: Change the way you drink in 100 days or less." 

A memorial tribute to Ray Forgianni,  who was Kenosha's City Planner and Director of City Development for more than thirty years. The tribute will include the rebroadcast of a 1997 interview in which Forgianni talks about the Harbor Park development before construction had even begun.  We'll also hear from a more recent interview in which he talks about HarborMarket. Forgianni died on September 26th due to complications from COVID-19.

Part One:  Rev. Warren Williams shares the story bout with COVID-19, which was serious enough to necessitate hospitalization - and his recovery.  <The entire interview can be heard in the podcast version of the program.  Search for 'The Morning Show with Greg Berg' on Spotify, Apple Podcast or Google Podcast."   Part Two:   Best-selling author David Baldacci discusses his latest novel, "Daylight."  

Nan Calvert's monthly environmental program

Paul Robert Coyle, author of "Swords, Starships and Superheroes- from Star Trek to Xena to Hercules: a TV Writer's Life Scripting the Stories of Heroes"

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht.  

We talk about singing safely during COVID-19 with three high school choral directors:  Elizabeth Steege (Case H.S. in Racine),  Polly Amborn (Tremper H.S. in Kenosha) and Derek Machan (Waterford H.S.)  We'll find out what they have done to keep their choral programs active and effective since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Lucina Robb (granddaughter of Lady Bird Johnson) and Rebecca Boggs Roberts (daughter of Cokie Roberts.)  They are co-authors of "The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World."  The book celebrates some of the most notable women in the suffragist movement- and highlights some of the lessons they can teach present-day activists.

Barry Jagoda, author of "My Journeys with Jimmy Carter and Other Adventures in Media."  Jagoda was a media advisor to former president Jimmy Carter.

Part One:  Carlo Nevicosi, Deputy Director, Walworth County Department of Health and Human Services, with a COVID update.   Part Two:   Hope O. Baker, author of Finding Hope:  A Birth Mother's Journey into the Light.  

No Morning Show broadcast because of the holiday. There will be a Morning Show podcast. 

Listen to the podcast here:

Apple Podcasts (iPhone and iPad) 

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Google Podcasts (Samsung, Android, and Google products) 

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Spotify (Requires Spotify account) 

https://open.spotify.com/show/5f19ZOrL8hLAOZmFlxTUAi

Lincoln expert Steve Rogstad, author of 'Lincoln Among the Badgers: Rediscovering Sites Associated with Abraham and Mary Lincoln in Wisconsin."

Racine-born musician Zachary Scot Johnson talks about reaching the milestone of 3000 episodes of his Song a Day project on Youtube.   He also talks about how life for him and other professional musicians has changed so drastically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tim Weiner, author of "The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare." 

Gateway Technical College President Bryan Albrecht

Brian Vikander, author of "Dalko: The Untold Story of Baseball's Fastest Pitcher." 

Two conversations about COVID-19 with two of Greg Berg's relatives:  Dr. Randi Berg, a M.D., talks about trying to keep herself, her family, her patients, and the nursing home residents in her care safe from COVID.  Also, Aidan Spencer-Berg,  who currently lives in Paris, France will talk about the stringent restrictions that are currently in place in Paris and throughout France as that country (and much of Europe) contends with their own surge in COVID-19 cases. 

Lenora Chu, author of "Little Soldiers: An American Boy, a Chinese School, and the Global Race to Achieve."  

Part One:  Belinda Thielen, local Quaker, talks about an initiative called Choose Democracy that seeks to safeguard the integrity of our democracy as well as the integrity of the 2020 election. Thielen and other local Quakers were part of a letter-writing campaign to local public officials and law enforcement administrators.  Part Two: Jennie C. Stephens <pictured> , author of "Diversifying Power: Why We Need Anti-racist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy." 

In part one: a 2002 interview with Judith Martin, a k a Miss Manners,  discussing her book "Star Spangled Manners: In Which Miss Manners Defends American Etiquette (for a change). In part two: A 2003 conversation with Ace Collins about his book "Songs Sung Red, White & Blue: The Stories Behind America's Best-Loved Patriotic Songs."