This Podcast Is... Uncalled For - Tour of Kansas City - Swifties Version

Episode Date: April 19, 2024

Once again, we cater to the Swifties.  We react to a Today Show article about our city and, for the second time in our podcast's run, give you some details that may be missing.

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All right, everybody, welcome to the podcast. So, you may recall from season two, we did a tour of Kansas City video based largely I don't have a critique of my friend Emerson Rapp and his famous Tour of KC video, which you can still see on YouTube. and by the way you can also download our episode still to this date that being said thanks to some

gal you may have heard of this you may have heard of her Taylor Swift a country star who turned into a pop star and yeah started dating one of our local NFL players

inspired an article from today.com so the Today show the article is going to

Kansas City like Taylor Swift here are some places to visit and as a Kansas City

and I feel obliged to revisit the whole tour of KC

idea the Swifties version so credits for this

article goes to Samantha Kubota at Trudey.com and well here we go. So for all Swifties, considering a trip to the city of Fountains,

here are some of our top recommendations for Kansas City and this is me, a Kansas City in commenting on this. So, while many of us are rooting for Taylor Swift and her murmured bow, Kansas City

Chief's tied-in Travis Kelsey still more of her fans could be considering a trip to the Midwest. If you're Swifty or just looking for a unique trip to Kansas City, aka City of Fountains, we have some

suggestions of where to go and today.com put together this list based on personal experience and with the help of our friends and fellow Swifties at the local NBC news affiliate, KSHB. So, side note, KSHB, Channel 41, locally, their station is not too far from the plaza and not too far from the UMKC campus.

A friend of the podcast, Brian Boy, worked there for a time when I first met him. And believe I, tried unsuccessfully to get a job there. So, move on. So where is Kansas City? That's the question. So for starters, we feel it's important to know that Kansas City is split between the states of Missouri and Kansas. Technically, Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas and Missouri remain two separately incorporated cities, but together, along with several other surrounding cities and suburbs, they make up the Kansas City metro area.

And it's important to note that Kansas City, the city in Missouri, is the older of the two and the much, much larger of the two. And actually was incorporated sometime before the state of Kansas was. So very important to note. And some of those cities that make of our metro, well, of course, the two Kansas cities, Ovalon Park, where I live, which actually somehow has a larger population than KCK, but slightly. Olathe further out in Johnson County, Independence, in the northeast corner. I can't expect to call it corner, but the northeast part of Jackson County, and least some of it to the southeast of Jackson County.

They also have Shawnee, which is north central Johnson County. And right below that is Lanxa. And then back out to eastern Jackson County, a place I go to a lot, mostly for work, Blue Springs. And then, you know, just cut it off at cities with a population of 20K above. So, Leavenworth, where the hell? Up north, in Leavenworth County. And, of course, home to a federal prison. And Fort Leavenworth, military base.

Leewood, Kansas, which hugs the state line. Liberty, Missouri, up in the Northland. We used to have the Chess Club office up there. Raytown, Missouri, not too far from where the stadiums are in eastern Jackson County and mostly enclave by Kansas City. Glatso, Missouri, that's up north and entirely enclave by Kansas City. Grandview, Missouri to the south, Belton, Missouri, to the south of that in Cass County. Gardner, Kansas, that's the southwestern corner of Johnson County. Prairie Village hugging the state line just north of

Leewood and Raymore, Missouri is also Cass County. So we're in all the counties. Well, Kansas City proper spills into clay and Platt counties. So, yeah, we do hit all of all the counties here. So where to eat in Kansas City? Well, for Swifties in town to follow the footsteps of Taylor Swift, you can start by checking out Prime Social. That's the cocktail bar that Swift and KLC reportedly went to

after her first chiefs gained the last. fucking go! Game on September 24 for an after party. KSHB reported Kelsey actually rented out the place for the gathering, and fittingly

the establishment is located on Pennsylvania Avenue named after Swift's home state. In point of fact, this place is actually on the country Club Plaza in a very modern building,

on the country co plaza so the I think they mentioned the plaza later in the article but for those of you who are new to Kansas City the country co plaza celebrating this 100th birthday at the

at the time this recording by the way is a couple miles south of downtown you'll know you're there because it's a very Spanish looking architecture it's supposed to be designed

off of Seville, Spain but there's a one there are a couple of very modern looking buildings and one in particular so modern that at the top of the building just underneath the rooftop you see a big TV if you're looking at it from the south

there's a big TV on this building that's about where Prime Social is I've been in this building once and is ultra modern in fact the elevators in this particular

building were pretty darn cool. You actually in the elevator lobby you actually select the floor going to first before you even get on the elevator and pre-programs the elevator to just take it up and then

on the way down you just press a button before you get on the elevator again and it takes you down. It is so awesome and I wish more elevators were like that. So that's pretty cool. Apparently this bar is behind that giant TV.

Moving on with the article, Kelsey and Swift reportedly were also recently spotted on a date at Pieropos restaurant, a high-end Argentinian steakhouse with views of the city. so this particular establishment is in the Briarcliffe neighborhood which is in Clay County just very close

to the Platte Clay County border just due north of the downtown airports which is where small planes like Miss Swifts would fly into

along US 169 And Yeah, that's Interesting A little neighbor with a Very high-end Restaurants

And And mansions But it's mixed in With more milk-class Stuff And it's a good thing I mention Argentinian here Because the first time I heard about

This they used the word Argentine which would be correct but for a Kansas City and there's a neighborhood in K.C.K. called Argentine which is the complete opposite classwise of Briarcliffe and it's mostly nowadays home to a large Mexican and Latino population

and home to the best army surplus store in the on the planets in Mickey's surplus so so shot it's a Mickey's surplus and I did check out the mini at Piropo's like 50 bucks a dish oh my god but hey if you're a pop superstar and a NFL player then yeah you can certainly afford that problem but a guy like me yeah forget it so moving on with the article for any meat-loving meat eating folks visiting kansas city for the first time we'd be remiss not to mention the excellent barbecue this is where you get barbecue this is where you get barbecue kansas city is known for its sweet and thick tomato-based barbecue sauce so any barb-any that's labeled barbecue sauce is most likely going to be

derived from Kansas City style barbecue sauce and burnt ends the favorable pieces of meat cut from the point half of a smoked brisket

if you've been watched if you watch any cooking videos on YouTube I highly recommend suvied everything and Guga Foods so shout out to Guga he's done a number of videos on cooking brisket. So brisket, for those not to know,

comes from where the chest would be on a cow. And it comes in, like, there's two muscles associated with the brisket. One is called the point, which is really fatty and contains all the good stuff. and that's where the Burnt's In's coming. And the other part is called the Flats, and that tends to be much leaner. So shout out to Guga. Bert's In's reportedly gains their fame

from Arthur Bryant's barbecue, a legendary restaurants in Kansas City. So once again, friend of the podcast, Brian Boy, he loves Arthur Bryant's Personally, I find Arthur Bryant's disgusting

but that's my view next we have Joe's Barbecue Another Barbecue Classic born out of a gas station That's true

There are now several locations around Across town and is known for the legendary Z-Man sandwich, which has brisket, smoked provolone cheese, and onion rings. I made my views on Joe's perfectly clear, but if this is your first time listening to the podcast, here's my opinion about Joe's.

In order to just order, you have to stand in line for about an hour, if you're lucky. That's just to order, all right? odds are if I'm hungry I want to order as quickly as possible I'm not standing in line for a fucking hour just to order all right if an hour comes

along and I'm still in line then adios so not worth it if you want to get shows just do the right thing order DoorDash

plug for DoorDash So, I am going to recommend the next restaurant they mention here, and that's Gates Barbecue. Another option with several locations around the area. I have to correct the article writer here. So the staff yells, how may I help you? It's actually, that's how it sounds, but they're actually saying, hi, might help you. Because it sounds more like, uh, How'd I help you?

One beef on bun and go, please. Say, yeah, they're at customers, and Brian did talk about that. When they walk in, it's a gag, something our friends at KCPT say, no viscer is ever ready for. There are several Jackstack barbecue locations around Kansas, including conveniently at the Country Coat Plaza, which is a typical stop for tourists.

Though the eatery has been around since the 1950s, it recently was the talk of the town for reportedly catering a proposed game party at Kelsey's house. So I've talked a little bit about Jacksack in the past end. That's what they're about. at is catering. This is high-quality barbecue that we're talking about. And again, catering is what they're best at. And then the last one they mention here in terms of barbecue places is Q39, which Carl, Carl Fletcher brought up in his episode. And I talked a little about my soul experience

with them not a pleasant one but it's a newer barbecue restaurant that several of our local friends recommended there are loads of atypical dishes offered like

bacon wrapped shrimp and a smoked pork pork bon me for example and could choose

your own mix in like roasted tomatoes or sausage for making cheese all right uh they don't mention it here but

I'm once again going to put out Roselle Barbecue there's only the one location on Southwest Boulevard near KU mid then

I found out about during my own TV internship and I swear I got that is actually the best barbecue at KC and it is criminally underrated so so do check

that place at now continue with the article if burgers are more your style several of our Kansas City friends

suggested tays burger shack at affordable and low-key shop that

unintentionally shares part of its name with Swift so this is actually a place

I have not been to but it is located in north Kansas City Not to be confused with Kansas City North America. Kansas City, North is KC proper in Platts and

or Clay counties whereas North KC is its own little suburb completely enclave by Kansas City. It's on Armour Road

in North KCC is we do have two streets named Armour, A-R-M-O-U-R. This is one North, and this is the one I usually take on the way up to our Chesco office.

So, since it's on the way to the office, next time I go up, I'm going to have to check the place out. So, pretty cool. Now, if you want to eat some chicken, with seemingly

ranch just like Swift check out mother clocker that's a new one on me too so I'll look that up in just a bit

but the Nashville style hot chicken is an option for Swifties who want to pay homage to her country

roots I mean we are talking about someone who started her

career is a country musician and looks like they have two locations once in Shawnee Downtown Shawnee

and one is in the Crossards so Mother Clocker All right and then we have Westport Alehouse

is another fun place this is not one of my Westport's regular spots but I know exactly where it is rough of Broadway on certain days it's more of a sports barb on

Thursday nights you can catch locals doing the Kansas City two step a popular style of dance unique to the area I've never seen the Kansas City two steps so I couldn't tell you what all that

entails so Oh, we got another North KC option. So sailaway wines. There's more than 72 wines on tap, and customers can serve themselves as they go with their wine passports. The bar also serves beer, food, and spirits. And for the more literary inclined,

visit afterwards, tavern, and shells for a combination, bookstore and craft cocktail bar and also has board games to borrow and play with your friends while you enjoy your drink I believe this is in the crossroads and check in there thing and yeah it's in the crossroads on Grant

although if you want to do board games go to Tabtop Game and Hobby in Ovalon Park Renka next door is the Cardboard Corner Cafe and they have a library of a board games that you can

check out and play while you're eating or having the spirits so so the next bar they mentioned I am absolutely going to recommend

is the Blue Line hockey bar in the River Market area fun podcasting story about that with winning side. I had Ray Domino on a couple

times and one of those times he suggested checking out this place and it was just too loud for us to actually podcast so we went across the street to the opera house to record. But still I highly recommend this place as a

classic sports type bar with loads of televisions showing just about every game known to man and not just hockey. It serves classic bar food and it has a great, read, cheap. Happy our menu. And then this last one I am not familiar with at all, but we'll talk about it.

And as Purcheron, it's a seasonal rooftop bar at Crossroads Hotel. It features great skyline views, but be aware that no kids are allowed. after 8 p.m. it's first come first serve unless you have a party of six or more in which case a reservation is recommended so let's check this place out okay it looks like it's in a newer building at the Crossroads Hotel I've never been to the Crossroads Hotel so okay all right I think I know where I think 2101 Central that They would put, yeah, deep in the heart of the crossroads. All right. So, probably another place to check out. I don't know. So, what to do when visiting Kansas City?

Well, obviously anyone visiting during football season should check out a Chief's game at Arrowhead. Not only might you catch a glance of Swift cheering on Kelsey. Let's fucking go! Casey Nade of Paul Rudd is also a huge fan. Once again, Paul Rudd, Shine Mission West, go Vikings. Of course, if it's baseball season, a Royals game is also always a hit,

and Rudd, another fellow Viking, Jason Siddakis, Rob Wrigal, Shireesh, South, and Eric Stone Street, I don't know where he went to school but our devout supporters, there's two. Kansas City is also home

to the Negro League's Baseball Museum in the 18th and Vine District, which is dedicated to preserving the history of the Negro League baseball in America. And right next door

to the Negro League Museum, you'll find the American Jazz Museum. which pays tribute to the greats like Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Ele Fitzgerald, among others. Again, 18th of the Vine, highly recommend. Then we have the Historic Union Station is a grand building featuring both permanent and temporary exhibits, a planetarium, and science center, And shopping is also a functioning Amtrak station. It has a post office, as theater space, as office space, is connected via the link skywalk system to crowd center and is the current terminus of the Kansas City streetcar.

from which the main street extension is as of this recording being built and will hopefully be up and running by 2025 the Nelson Atkins Muse of Arts located in just east of the plaza and due north of the UMKC campus and not too far from the TV station in question known for its large collection of Asian arts and admission is free be sure to get your time

entry tickets ahead of time and know that the museum is only open Thursday through Monday if you don't have time to go inside you can always snap a photo outside with the giant shuttlecock sculptures. They have more than just shell cocks in there

long, but point taken. Point taken. They do have a very nice down-mace coffee shop in there, so I do highly recommend that, and the guy that runs that coffee shop is a really cool dude.

Of course, the nearby Countryco Plaza, or, as we locals call it, the Plaza. It's a shopping destination from Barnes & Noble to Tiffany and Co. There's something for everyone there. And after a long afternoon of hidden the shops, grab a bite to eat at one of the many restaurants located in the outdoor mall. I personally go up a plug for the shake shack on the plaza,

which was partially what part of the design work of that place was done. by my sister. Same goes for the Capitol of Grill, if you can afford that. But, you know, the Ponza is not what it used to be. It could be, there's a lot that could be done in a resort to its former glory. But one thing they kind of messed up on was tearing down the movie, tearing down the annex to the movie theater. Yeah, that was kind of a bummer.

So now we have a giant hole in the western part of the plaza where that theater used to be, and it's kind of sad. But anyway, it's moving on. So for the devout swifties, you can also visit Swift Street in North Kansas City. the town temporarily put up signs in June a half of Swift's Erestour stop at Arrowhead on the southwest corner of Swift Street and Armour Road one sign ran honorary Swift Street Taylor's version and the other said honorary Cornelia Street

It's also near sale away wine the one bar we mentioned earlier And oh, this is a good time to talk about North Rail Because if that were to happen They did the study that we talked about earlier And they determined that North Kansas City Can't really afford it on their own Someone on Reddit recently posted that they could continue the study thanks to something in the Missouri State budget

that tried to search earlier today but could not find it. But if North Rail were to become a reality, it would run on Swift Street. And, yeah, let's move on. There's one more paragraph to this. You don't need to drive your own getaway car if you're staying downtown. That's the key.

It's only downtown. The city operates its own free streetcar service. That comes every 15 minutes or so and makes a loop to many of the destinations we mentioned here. One of the cars is even currently decorated in pink for the Barbie movie. that is true that is true so once again

we talking about the street car I've already talked about what's going on with North Rail but for our just as a reminder

the current starter 9 the stops are and I'm going to make a challenge to our old-called musicians if you guys want to do a

song based on the street car stops a la J. Foreman's tube station song have had it here the official names of the stops

city markets river market north river market west north loop library metro center power and light Coffman Center Crossroads Union Station

For the main streets extension we can add We call it a Liberty Memorial As locals But they're interested in calling it World War I Museum and Memorial There we got Union Hill Armor Westport

South Moreland Art Museums and KC Art Institute Plaza UMKC my alma mater and Riverfront

for the riverfront extension and there was just a meeting online just this past week that I was fortunate enough to attend on Zoom about their

East West line which would make use of the Westport and armor stops and at a new stop

for the down line but that's not until 20232 at the earliest is when that should be completed but they're asking for input now because this shit takes

years to a plan and I've heard on the news that that they just There's got a shit ton of grant money for improvement parties, including the East-West line,

as well as an express line from KCI all the way to downtown, which should integrate with the network. I digress. But these are stops proposed for the East-West line going from West to east-to-east. So UKHS, University of Kansas Health Services, just call it KU Med, like all the locals do. And the rest of these are all street names. So Wyoming, so West 39th Street, neighbor on Clark, which puts in front of Q39th Street on 39th Street. Then Broadway, again, Westport Broadway would be awesome. Then May at 39th, that's already the Westport stuff.

Armour, Mena Linwood, which would be a new step. Then we turn Gillum, Truist, Paseo, Brooklyn Prospect, Indiana, Jackson, Lister, parentheses VA hospital and the terminus at Van Brunce Boulevard So I So yeah I put that to challenge Let's do a song

Similar to J. Foreman on the Kansas City Streetcar network I think that's it for the article Kind of Limited in scope but still fun to revisit tours of my city

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