This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - How KC Local Are You?

Episode Date: December 13, 2024

To end our eighth season, we found an article on Kansas City colloquialisms that you might enjoy: https://kctoday.6amcity.com/city-guide/live/kansas-city-unwritten-rules

Hi, I'm Mike Chernivsky, and your listen to this podcast is Un Called For. All right, everybody, welcome to the podcast, our season 8 finale. So I was going to do a potpourri for this finale, but I always liked me. my finale to be somewhat a beat. And I thought that the stuff I wanted to talk about in the potpourri would be a little too negative. So we're going to hold that off at the start season nine. And yes, we are going to do season nine.

Because, you know, I still have a few goals that I want to do with this podcast. So number one, we got to get to 200 episodes. All right. It's still going to take us a couple of seasons. to do that, and I'm really excited about that. Number two, Brett Kassin, if you happen to be hearing this, I would be more than happy to do a live show with this

for our 30th high school reunion. So consider that as an option for the entertainment, and it'd be a great way to get you on the podcast. I can't believe we haven't done that yet. but that is the case and Brett, you know how I get in touch with me and all that

my number has not changed in over 20 years so you can still find me that way and number three sort of a selfish and personal note I would love to get my niece Penny on this podcast she's 12

at the time that I'm recording this, which means another six years before she'd be okay to come up here on air without needing my brother's permission.

So I think she would be a cool guest to have. And who knows? Who knows? She might consider going to college, and this would be just before she goes to college

or she probably could have just finished her first year by time. I don't know. She started early. So, all right. But anyway, there are a bunch of things I would

like to go over in a popery, but those will wait for the start of the new season. For now, I like keeping things upbeat. I came across this article today. So Craig goes to a site

KC2.6amC.com. Which bills itself as your ultimate guide to Kansas City. And the article is gets familiar with Kansas City's unwritten rules. Tell us you're from KC with that's telling us you're from KC.

uh... September 6th, 22, 84 by Travis Mayer and Madison Michael Millen.

All right. Nice shout out downtown. Here, Kansas City is in flatterman. Sorry, in the sky. Nice caption. All right.

So I'm going to read the article and, uh, as I always do when reading articles, I'll comments, uh, when necessary. So,

There's a certain pride that comes with living or growing up in Kansas City. Often that manifests itself in quirky ways, like specific city knowledge, trans and colloquialisms, think. How do you pronounce the plaza? We'll get into that. I am fully aware that we're supposed to pronounce Plaza. but I have heard both pronunciations Plaza and Plaza

and clearly I prefer the Plaza pronunciation Of course none of these rules are official or written down when you just wrote an article about them so yeah they are kind of written down

now but they are absorbed by the community if you are lucky enough to be from the heart of America here are a few unwritten rules that you have committed to writing shared on Instagram and Reddit that you probably already know if you're transplants you might want to save this article for future reference

or this episode of the podcast we have a dress code on Friday's we wear red not necessarily and I certainly don't wear Chief's colors because, as has been established timing again on this podcast, I could care less about the local NFL team. But I get it.

Two-time defending Super Bowl champions, four times overall. Played in the very first Super Bowl. Okay, I get that. And you have the biggest pop star in the world dating your Hall of Fame caliber tight end. So I get that. And don't forget, Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays, too. Yeah. You know they're from KC if they dress like a KC tourist.

Okay, I'll give you that one, yeah. I believe the Made in KC store might be a little responsible for that. And I did buy one of their shirts. For the love of God, include UMKC colors in your store. for crying out loud the only Division I school in the metro

sorry Kay you you don't count Lawrence isn't technically part of the metro it's just metro adjacent so so yeah I've seen

I'm aware of the trends and I kind of sort of participate a little bit but alright I give you that one if you have trouble if you're having trouble

finding your flights gates coming home look for people with KC gear 10 out 10 someone on the flights will have something on okay well I haven't flown anywhere since

2008 and have no intention of flying anywhere ever again so so speaking of travel we're still in the subject of air travel it looks like to book a flight use the code MCI for mid-continent international but never ever ever speak those three letters aloud it's KCI and always will be KCI okay on this yes the official initials for Kansas City International airports

K-C-I R-M-C-I Because it was initially Mid-Continent Airports I am consulting the Wikipedia right there

So MCI is still the I-A-C-A code for the airports Because it was originally Mid-Continent International airports when it opened in 1972

by the way the downtown airport their code is MKC so downtown airport is much smaller than KCI and does not service the type of jumbo

jets that you see nowadays so so that's but yeah lots of room around KCI and Platt City's just on the other side so you got that and of course if you've been there the last year or two we just opened a new terminal single terminal that good-looking pass security to check anything interesting out I have heard rumor that they've addressed that, but it's just a rumor. Nothing confirmed. Moving on with the Arkel.

So public transit can take you to and from the airports. There's a route that starts at 10th and Maine that goes to KCI decently fast. Buck 50 each way is a great deal. Okay, that's good to know. I am also aware that they've been talking about doing rent. speed rail between downtown and kcii i want to see that happen it's not going to happen by the time the world cup gets here less than two years from now um but i want to see it happen so uh yeah let's make it happen i think mary lucas wants to make it happen uh too so yeah let's make it happen

uh let's make it happen uh heck even metro link in St. Louis goes out to Lambert Airport. All right. Heck, even the Piccadilly line on the London Underground goes to Heathrow. As does cross of his purpose.

All right. It's not always a straight shot. Everything in Kansas City is about 30 minutes from Kansas City. Yes and no. Yeah, it does take about half an hour

to get anywhere in the, or it seems like that, just to get from the suburbs to anywhere decent within the city. But when you're... But also need to keep in mind that the city itself spans three counties

and is quite spread out. So there is some truth to that. If you ever get lost, remember these simple rules. The uptown theaters in Midtown, true. but the Midland is in downtown.

Also true. North Kansas City is south of Kansas City north. I think I've explained this one too, so I'll go on and explain again. North Kansas City is its own little city. Kansas City North refers to any part of Kansas City proper north of the Missouri River. So if it's in Clay County or Plac County

and part of Kansas City, that is Kansas City north. and yeah North Kansas City is kind of sandwiched in between KC North and the Missouri River and I-70 somehow runs parallel

to itself downtown he's referring to the downtown loop with this one to the North Loop and the south loop is what he's referring to then that loop is so confusing but that's what he's talking about

the Independence Avenue Bridge is undefeated okay for those who are not locals I need to explain this one so on Independence Avenue the infamous Independence Avenue there is a rail bridge that does go over the streets that does not have a very

high clearance below it has been known to destroy a few heavy-due trucks because there's not enough clearance

and and I yeah they keep saying the bridge isn't defeated because of that because they the bridge is too damn low

so it does make me wonder because I do think they need start running some sort of transit down Independence Avenue as part of their Green Corridor, which also includes State Avenue on the Kansas

sign. They need to address that fucking bridge. All right. And I get it. It's a rail bridge. Not much they can do about it. So, apparently,

semi-trucks are the prey like I, like I just said. Not enough clearance. Then if you drive, to K.C.K. Since I did mention KC.K. in State Avenue. The numbered streets run north-south instead of east-west.

This is true. This is true. In fact, you'll go down Antioch, which is at north-south here in Johnson County. Then you get to the county line, 47th Street.

Cross-Sat County line, Antioch becomes 47th Street. so yeah unless you're in rosdale which is sort of annexed by midtown casey mo so the rosdale section so we're talking south of southwest boulevard and east of mission road it includes everything north of 47th Street that neighbor that it does include

KU Med that's the Rosdale area where you will also find Rosedale barbecue which I still highly recommend

and for the love God to check that place out if you're ever in town which gets to the nice part of getting hungry

agree yet. Go grocery shopping during Chiefs games. The store will be empty. Some truth to that, but let's be honest. There are a lot of people in this town like me

that's particularly careful the local team, but I get it. I get it. There's a little truth to that because I was at the grocery store just a little bit ago. And it was and not more empty than usual but

so you can order wings at the peanuts cooked extra crispy charred or double-dipped it only took 20 years to learn that okay not a place I go to but okay good enough

and this next one is funny because I just mentioned Rosedale Barbecue we never reveal our true favorite barbecue spots I believe I just did unless it's Gates apparently and Gates is 1A for me so

the next to relate to Gates if you go into a Gates barbecue no matter what looks appetized on the menu the response to the counter person is Bifabon and their counter response is one Bifam on a go please

and this is after they yell at I'm not happy all right and I don't know if this one I don't know if there's any truth of this one but I did notice this too so

if you to Tell the lady at Gates, you need a minute to look at the menu she won't keep yelling at you. Ah, that helped you? All right. Names aren't always so obvious. Okay, so here's that plaza, plaza

thing. So it's pronounced Plaza like cats, not plaza like Paul. I made that mistake before. Again, I've heard both. I've heard both pronunciations. It's kind of like Missouri versus Missouri. I've heard both.

I prefer Missouri myself. I think the difference between those two is Missouri. It tends to be a more urban thing. Missouri, you hear it out in the country. So I digress. This next one is playing. Patrick Mahomes is never Pat. Clearly you've never heard.

heard the New Heights podcast because Travis Kelsey refers to him as Pat all the time. Then again, he has a different relationship than you do to Mr. Mahomes and Arrowhead is Arrowhead. All right. Similarly,

Sandstone. I don't know what they call it anymore, but yeah, it's Sandstone. The amphitheater out in Bonner Springs. West of the racetrack and legends

I think the fairgrounds for the Renfair are in that area too but I digress and this one's pretty funny

the dark building in O.P. is called the Darth Vader building it's an office building in the southwest corner of College Boulevard and Metcalf another couple of

streets that should have some form of rail in them, in my opinion. Yeah, they call the Darth Vader building for some reason. But that's where it's located. It's college and McHaf. College being the east-west in the

arrangement. And if nothing else sticks, weed is on the right, sports gambling is on the left. Okay, weed is still very highly illegal in Kansas. Hopefully, our friends, I have a sneaking suspicion to go and re-elect the sum of a bitch. But unless Time Masters is gone, I don't see weed ever becoming legal here despite. Now, he can just get his ass up here.

and see for himself Kansas is losing tax dollars because of him because people are crossing the state line to get their weed the only reason I have not done so yet is because I don't want to go jail

all right and sports gambling is on the weed might be illegal on this side of the sandal but sports gambling is legal in Kansas. They're going to try to make it legal in Missouri.

This episode will come out after the election. I understand that is on the ballots in Missouri. So what do we miss? Do you know any official rules that are not on the list? to which someone said, Who made up this rule not to call it the plaza? Never ever heard that. Lived in this area almost 50 years.

Okay, I agree with that. I agree with that. Like I said, I heard both. I've heard both. It's fine. It's fine. But I think the natural inclination is Plaza. The border wall.

is real and ongoing only in the minds of k u missouri don't give a shit all right that's my comment on that comments and uh there's no corner of twelfth street and fine on which to stand this is reference to that classic uh kansas city song up i'm going to kansas city kansas city here i come go ahead stand on the corner of twelfth three and fine yeah very very well Vine Street does not go all the way to 12th Street. But where Vine would intersect with 12th Street, they do have a commemorative street sign. So you could, if they stand on the car, 12th Street and Vine.

One thing I've noticed that annoys the hell out of me when talking about highways, If it's, okay, if it's an interstate highway, okay, I-435 or I-35, I-70-I-70-I-70, I-29, I-49, 670, 4-70, okay, that's, that's all right, everything, or Kansas highways, K-32, K-7, K-10, to name up a few, okay, those. It's when you get to the U.S. highways and Missouri highways that annoy the absolute living shit at me. So instead of Missouri 291, it's 291 highway or U.S. 40. It's 40 highway. Yeah, knock that shit off, please. I know people won't, but it's annoying as hell.

Don't get me started on the football team traditions. I've been through that all over. And, yeah. nothing I can't think of anything else to add to this but this was fun I want to do yeah more stuff like this that's just fun to do and yeah we'll go ahead and end the current season with that I want to thank you all so much for you continued listening to the podcast. If you made it to Fringe, thank you for

that as well. We'll still think about trying to do it again next year. I wanted to get some far of live show going. That's probably a little more regular than Fringe. But

that'll be a discussion for another time. And remember, I have my goals to 200 episodes. 30th year reunion. and gang pain on when she reaches adulthood

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