Show Me Today - The Voice of Missouri

Do the winter blues have you down? Anthony Morabith chats with Dr. Angeline Stanislaus on ways to combat seasonal depression. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Hunt family, the same family that owns the Kansas City Chiefs, also operates Hunt Midwest. The company’s prize location is an underground business complex that is comprised of 14 million square feet with eight million of it in use. Hunt Midwest’s Director of sales and leasing, Ryan Tompkins, joins Cameron Conner on Show Me Today to discuss how the company capitalized on the world's largest und...

Today as part of our series of interviews with Missouri Veterans, we meet a Navy seaman from St. Joseph, Dennis Dornhoffer, a resident of the Cameron Veterans Home. He tells Ashley Byrd about his service in the late 1960’s, and how he served with, as he says, a group of guys from St. Joe. To learn more about the Missouri Veterans Commission, service, and homes, click here.   See Privacy Polic...

What do Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, and Starfield all have in common? Space travel. Anthony Morabith talks with Mike Reed at Missouri State University, who says there’s something to that. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Okay, let’s try and settle the age-old debate – which is right, Missour-EE or Missour-UH? Christy Garcia at St. Louis University tells Anthony Morabith BOTH are right. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Can you believe that you actually need sunscreen in the fall and winter? Anthony Morabith chats with Dr. Joshua Smith at Missouri State University on why we need it. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

A Missouri pumpkin grower has broken the world record for paddling about 39 miles down the Missouri River in a giant pumpkin. Alisa Nelson talks to Steve Kueny of Lebanon. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

General and President Ulysses S. Grant quit the U.S. military to become a farmer before the Civil War broke out. Cameron Conner talks to Nick Sacco, Historian and Curator of the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site in Southern St. Louis County about how Grant found his way to Missouri.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...

Missouri has recently added the historic Hawken Rifle to the list of state symbols. Anthony Morabith gets the details from Republican State Representative Mazzie Boyd. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The direct descendent of Dred Scott, Lynne Jackson, has made sure her great-great-grandfather has a large monument where he is buried in St. Louis. One that people can find and pay tribute to the enslaved Missourian who fought for his freedom all the way to the US Supreme Court. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...

Missouri has been awarded five million dollars to help people who are out of a job. Alisa Nelson talks to Donna Brake, with the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, to find out what jobs this grant will target.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

What if I told you that Missouri is looking to build a supercomputer to help simulate how galaxies collide? Colin Degraf at Truman State University talks about the plan to build one of these. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Forecasters are calling for an ‘historically strong’ El Niño, but is that accurate? University of Missouri State Climatologist Zack Leasor tells Anthony Morabith that it depends on who you ask. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The Patee House Museum served as a “last stop shop” for travelers making their way to Western territories during the 19th Century. Just a block away, Jesse James and his family had a house under an alias name. Director of the Museum Gary Chilcote joins Marshall Griffin to discuss the history of the area.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:/...

Even though winter is creeping in, there’s still plenty of time to enjoy plants, flowers, gardens, and exhibits at the Springfield Botanical Gardens. Katie Keith of the botanical center there tells Ashley Byrd about this natural attraction that changes with the seasons. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Autumn transitions Missouri into one of the best viewing areas for Fall foliage. However, drought may be playing a significant impact in changing leaves this year. Marshall Griffin is joined by the Missouri Department of Conservation’s Community Forestry Coordinator, Russell Hinnah, to discuss the best areas to check out the changing leaves and the science behind them. See Privacy Policy at https:...

Roll on 18-wheeler! Anthony Morabith chats with Tom Crawford with the Missouri Trucking Association on new happenings in the trucking industry affecting truckers. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

If you have thought about the tenuous political times we are living in, you are not alone. Peverill Squire at the University of Missouri tells Anthony Morabith that this is one of the most contentious times in American politics. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It has been over two years since the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan. However, not everyone has made it out. Darrell Moore, Executive Director of the Missouri Prosecutors Association, joins Marshall Griffin to discuss what efforts are taking place to retrieve Afghan prosecutors who assisted in establishing justice and law in Afghan courts.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and C...

Inflation is high. Interest rates are high. So what is the state of our economy? Alisa Nelson talks to Southeast Missouri State University economist David Yaskewich about the good and the not-so-good.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The University of Missouri hosted the first official homecoming event back in 1911 in preparation for a football game against, who else, but Kansas. This year's event is paying homage to that in Mizzou’s “First and Finest” theme. Tri-Directors of Mizzou’s homecoming Jonathan Jain and Adela Keller join our producer and alumni, Cameron Conner, to give the rundown.  See Privacy Policy at https:/...

Just how bad is Missouri’s internet/broadband situation? Anthony Morabith caught up with BJ Tanksley with the state Office of Broadband Development with an update on improving connectivity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

It seems like we all have our own home remedies when it comes to the cooling weather. Cameron Conner is here with Truman State University Professor, Adam Brooke Davis, to discuss Missouri’s folklore history and many ingredients you can forage for all over the state.  See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info...

The Red Cross continues to send help to places like Maui, where there is much work still to do to help victims of the wildfire. A 48-year veteran Volunteer from Jamestown Missouri recently returned and updated Ashley Byrd on his work there. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .