Yesterday, May 15th, Racine native Zachary Scot Johnson posted his 5,000th "Song a Day" on Youtube. That's 5,000 consecutive days that Zach has posted a song . In honor of the milestone, we're re-sharing the interview we did with Zach back when he passed the 3,000 benchmark. That interview was done during the period when COVID had basically shut down Zach's live, in-person performance activity and the Song A Day project was an especially important means to remain connected with his fans. Zach is now busier than ever as a musician based in the Twin Cities.

We speak with Nick Greene, author of "How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius: What Architects, Stuntwomen, Paleoanthropologists, and Computer Scientists Reveal About the World's Game."

For Kailyn Palomares's monthly visit to the program, we hear from Ben French, Vice President of Propogation, Production and Product Development at Johnson Nursery in Menomonee Falls ..... one of the largest providers of native plants in Southeastern Wisconsin.

We preview the Racine Theater Guild's production of the musical PIPPIN with Doug Instenes, managing and artistic director of the RTG and the stage director for this production. We also talk about his long time connection with this particular show.

We preview this coming Sunday's concert by the Kenosha Chamber Choir .... "Songs of the American Heartbeat," an all-American program in honor of our country's 250th anniversary. We speak with Michael Gutierrez, director of the group, and Agnes Gray, president of the ensemble and a member of the soprano section. The concert will be performed at Bradford High School thanks to a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

Pauline Steinhorn, author of "Dreaming of the River: A Mother and Daughter's Fight for Survival during the Holocaust." The two people named in the book's subtitle were the author's mother and grandmother- and this book is based extensively on journals written by both women shortly after the end of the war. It allows Steinhorn to tell many of the same stories from two different perspectives.

Note from Gregory Berg: One of my favorite television programs is CBS Sunday Morning. Today, for Mother's Day, they ran a moving story about a series of retreats across the country for women who have lost their mothers and are trying to cope with the loss. I immediately recognized the name of the woman responsible for organizing the retreats- Hope Edelman - because she had been a guest on my Morning Show many years ago (2007) - talking about her book "Motherless Mothers: How Losing a Mother Shapes the Parent You Become." The book was a followup to her 1994 best-selling book "Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss." I am replaying this interview today in honor of Mother's Day and because I am mindful of all of the people for whom this day includes sorrow and some sense of loss.

As Willow Newell ends her reign as Miss Wisconsin (she crowns the next Miss Wisconsin on June 20th) we decided to re-share this interview that was recorded shortly after she became Miss Wisconsin in the summer of last year.

We speak with David King Dunaway about his new book "A Four-Eyed World: How Glasses Changed the Way We See." It's a look at the history of how eyeglasses were developed - and what may be ahead as technology advances. The book also touches on the author's own relationship with glasses- which he has worn for more than 70 years. During the course of researching this book, the author elected to spend a week without wearing his glasses to see how well he could navigate with his very serious myopia uncorrected.

We speak with Russ Johnson, director of the Jazz Ensemble at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, about Wynton Marsalis's Abyssisian Mass: A Gospel Celebration, which is being performed at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside on Sunday afternoon and Monday evening in Frances Bedford Hall. This is a collaboration between the Jazz Ensemble and the choirs at Parkside, conducted by James Kinchen.

We speak with David Anderson, artistic director of the Lake Geneva Symphony Orchestra, about the concert this weekend that finishes out their 25th anniversary season - a program that will include Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture.