Dick Preston

Morning and noon show anchor for @KRCG13

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We occasionally hear from viewers who say we're showing disrespect for the President when we call him Mister. It's actually just the opposite and is a sign of respect. It's in the Association Press Style Book that most tv stations follow.

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The death on Saturday of Kent Hunter was the first incident of losing someone I know to covid. Kent spent some time as a KRCG Sports employee and became a friend to many of us. His death is a shock and the realization that the coronavirus isn't going away anytime soon.

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What's the most popular name for a street in the U.S.? That's today's trivia question. There are well over ten-thousand streets in the nation with this name? You'll find the answer on https://t.co/CoL8TEEafd. Look for Beyond the Trivia.

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Do you know what "bury the hatchet" means and how that idiom started? Check out Beyond the Trivia on the KRCGTV website. You can find all of the questions under the Spotlight heading by clicking on the three horizontal bars in the upper left corner.

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Did you know this is toasted marshmallow day? Is air an actual ingredient of marshmallows? It's one of true or false statements about them on today's Beyond the Triiva on KRCG-TV and on the Dick Preston Facebook page.

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Not sure if this happened to anyone else, but yesterday morning my bedroom clock decided to advance one hour...a week late for daylight saving time!

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Lincoln's birthday was never a national holiday but most of us honor him along with Washington on this day. Still, some states celebrate the two separately and some southern states aren't keen to praise Lincoln. So is it Presidents' Day or President's Day? Officially neither.

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Despite what some are saying, Presidents' Day does not honor all our presidents. There is no official Presidents' Day! Congress tried but failed in 1968 to honor both Washington and Lincoln and only managed to move Washington's Birthday to the third Monday in February.
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Our "Number of the Day"had to do with the popularity of Alexander Hamilton, which caused Elyse to start rapping a song from the musical "Hamilton". I had to comment that we had "trouble with a capital t and rhymes with p".

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Behind the scenes this morning: @DickKRCG13 & I had a rap battle of #MusicMan vs @HamiltonMusical. You could say, “Oh we got trouble,” because “I’m taking this horse by the reigns making red coats redder with blood stains.”

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Today's trivia question was how many public library buildings in Missouri were built in the early 1900's with grants from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation. There are 33, 32 still standing, including Jefferson City, Fulton, Sedalia, Mexico, Fayette and Huntsville.

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This morning's trivia question:
What visible feature of the city of St. Louis is the result of a huge fire in 1849? Answer: The city adopted a new zoning code that required all new buildings to be made of brick or stone. That makes St. Louis look different than most cities.

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I've had David McCullough's massive biograpy "Truman" for ages. Thanks to a 10-hour power outage Saturday, I finally decided to tackle it. I've now made it to page 225.... only about 700 pages to go!

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Not a bad travel to work day. And the snow is actually beautiful. Can't say that about too many mid-Missouri snowfalls....at least not for long.

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Answer: Glenn fell in his bathroom and hit his head. It caused him to drop out of a planned U.S. senate race for ten years.
(January is bath safety month.)

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Today's trivia: John Glenn flew millions of miles in outer space after serving in World War II and Korea. His only serious injury was after all that. What was his ironic injury?

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Trivia this morning.. what's unusual about flying west from Amercan Samoa to independent Samoa (about 100 miles)?
You'd be crossing the International Date Line, so today you could go back to last year.

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Today's trivia is about Time Magazine's Mammal of the Year in 1941. Apparently there was no standout for Man of the Year, so the editors decided to honor Dumbo of Disney fame. Alas, the Pearl Harbor attack canceled those plans along with a completed formal cover picture.

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Going out for New Year’s? Lt. Williams ⁦@JeffCityPolice⁩ says if you’re going to be drinking, you need to do it responsibly. Joins us on Live at Sunrise to hear his advice. ⁦@KRCG13⁩

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Today's trivia:
When was the last time a human was on the moon's surface?

Answer: December 14, 1972 when Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt completed their final three-hour moonwalk.

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Today's trivia: What two items found in a grocery store are named for two unrelated women named Smith?
Amanda Smith (Mrs. Smith) baked pies.
Maria Ann Smith also baked pies and apples she threw in a compost pile sprouted a new variety.. named Granny Smith apples in her honor.