W. David Keith has never met a Taco he didn't like. He believes his hometown of Kansas City is one of the most under rated, underappreciated Taco Towns in the USA. TACO THE TOWN is a safe place where taco lovers can talk about loving tacos. A judgment free zone. On every episode of TACO THE TOWN Dave will be joined by a guest who will share with him their favorite local taco eatery. They'll share some stories, share some laughs and most importantly...share some tacos! Welcome to TACO THE TOWN!
Episodes
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
We're talkin' tacos and summer movies with Screenwriter and Co-chairman of Cinema KC JERRY RAPP and Filmmaker and Fox 4 Movie Critic SHAWN EDWARDS this week on T3 as we review their favorite neighborhood Taco spot TEOCALI! Jerry and Shawn breakdown what makes Teocali their favorite KC Taco Joint as well as dive into the Summer Movie slate!
Dave also asks his guests their Most Overrated and Most Underrated Films of All Time! Jerry tells us a story about working with Nick Cage! And Shawn agrees with Dave on KC being the best taco city in the nation! We also delve into the question: What movie could have been made better with the inclusion of tacos? And why are tacos so under represented in film? In the TACO TICKER we taco 'bout Long John Silvers getting into the Taco scene and Jack-In-The-Box's new Tiny Taco Box! In TOWN OF THE TACO we ask "What fast food chain would you like to see come to KC?" and we talk Museums and Stuff! ALSO: DID PIRATES EAT TACOS? DOES NICK CAGE EAT TACOS?! WE COVER IT ALL ON THIS WEEK'S EXCITING SUMMER BLOCKBUSTER EDITION OF T3!!
EDITED BY MATT ALLEN.
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
T3's Summer Taco Tour Across America continues this week as we hit the City of Big TACO Shoulders! The Windy TACO City! The City by the TACO Lake! MY KIND OF TACO TOWN...CHICAGO, ILLINOIS! Dave and Executive Producer Chris Garibaldi are joined by Chicago Residents Musician MATT NALBACH (Woodland Creatures, TOURS) and DR. SARAH HOLLOWAY (Woodland Creatures) and together we review the tasty tacos at ZACATACOS (with 5 Chicagoland Locations!)
Matt and Chris reminisce about their early days of friendship in Chicago eating Taco Bell and all their great and terrible former band names! We also settle the argument on what kind of food town Chicago truly is! HOT DOGS? PIZZA? BURRITOS? TACOS? OR ITALIAN BEEFS? Chris and Matt discuss going to the same Chicago High School as David Hasselhoff! Chris talks about the time he watched his real Dad Steve McQueen film a movie in Chicago and we taco 'bout other Chi-Town Movie Filming Stories! We talk TASTE OF CHICAGO and NATIONAL HOT DOG DAY!
In the TACO TICKER we taco 'bout Chicago's Alligator-On-The-Loose CHANCE THE SNAPPER and how many Tacos an alligator could eat! Also we remember the Cubs Good Luck Taco Bell in Wrigleyville (RIP!) We also touch upon the McDonald's in the UK serving a Kansas City Stack Burger and do some bad British Accents! We play 'HUZZAH or HARUMPH' and Matt & Sarah tell us about their many exotic travel/food tales! ALSO: Chris G. tells us about the new Suneaters album available FRIDAY JULY 26th and we play a song from the album! ON THE ROAD TASTE TESTING TASTY TACOS IN OTHER TASTY TACO TIME ZONES!! Wait, Chicago is in the Central Time Zone, too? Never mind!!
EDITED BY MATT ALLEN
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
This week we're ON LOCATION at the 1st Inaugural KC TACOFEST in the KC Crossroads tasting all sorts of tacos and salsas and tequilas with former T3 guests and First Time T3 Guests! Dave is joined by Engineer MATT ALLEN, Former T3 Guest EMILY KEIZER, Former T3 Guest JESSI BURKETTE, CHRISTIE COURVILLE (actress, model), KEVIN SCHMIT (Chicago Sports Journalist/Podcaster) and Executive Producer CHRIS GARIBALDI!
Don't miss Dave discussing eating his first INSECT TACO!! Emily does the TACO GAUNTLET! In the TACO TICKER we discuss THE TORTILLAPOCALYPSE (Taco Bell and Chipotle running out of Tortillas!) and the recent Pig Intestine Truck Crash on the KC Highway! Where were those Pig Intestines Headed? ALSO: Is a Gyro a TACO?! And: HOW DO YOU HOLD YOUR HOT DOG and TACO? We also taco 'bout BURGER KING Selling $1 Tacos! Jessi takes on the TEQUILA TASTING CHALLENGE! And we run down a list of other Fun Food Festivals! MONKEY BUFFET FESTIVAL ANYONE? Kevin Schmidt, Chicago Sports Podcaster, tells us about Chicago Tacos! Bubba Starling's MLB Debut with the Royals! And Chris and Kevin breakdown their recent visit to the Evel Knievel Museum in Topeka! We also taco 'bout the Jalapeño Eating Contest and if Competitive Eating can really be called a sport! AND: What is a Walking Taco and what is a Frito Pie? Can a Walking Taco have Fritos in it? And what's up with Chicago Pizza? We also check the KC CUP and do some KC Talk! What a wonderful hot and steamy day at KC TACOFEST! Take me back to this place of dreams where wonders never cease!!!
Edited by MATT ALLEN."
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
We're traversing the Taco Time Zones once again this summer taste testing tasty tacos in other great Taco Towns!! This week we're in LOS ANGELES reviewing the taco-rrific tacos at SALAZAR in Frogtown with old friend, T3 Superfan and LA Native ARTEMUS ARMAS and LA resident/Actor/Writer/Host of Bigfoot Collectors Club Podcast MICHAEL McMILLIAN! We're also joined by Executive Producer CHRIS GARIBALDI who takes a walk down memory lane with his college buddy ART and we find out about their adventures jumping on cars and smashing chairs in Columbia, Missouri and how Art got his Nickname!
Michael, Dave, Art, and Chris remember filming the movie THE TROUBLE WITH AIRBAGS in Columbia back in 1997! Art and Michael give us a list of their favorite LA Taco Spots! Michael gives us a taco history lesson! Art talks about tacos in QATAR and growing up in LA! In the TACO TICKER we taco 'bout JOE BIDEN's LA TACO TRIP! And the TACO BELL HOTEL in Palm Springs selling out reservations in 2 Minutes!
OTHER TACO TOPICS COVERED: MENUDO! Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge Tacos! Taco Brawls in Elysian Park! Turtle Tacos! Leaf and worm Tacos! MRE TACOS! CRICKET TACOS! And Chris G. tells us about his love for that one Ricky Martin Song! Just a beautiful Saturday eating tacos under palm trees in LA! The way Robert Palmer would have wanted it!
Edited by MATT ALLEN.
This episode of TACO THE TOWN is sponsored by TWISTED FRESH!
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
Tuesday Jul 02, 2019
The boys from KC Rock Band BERWANGER (Josh Berwanger, Chris Jankowski, Brian Klein and Ricky "Twilight" Salthouse) join us this week to eat some tasty tacos from TRES MEXICANOS in Lawrence, KS and to tell us about their latest album WATCHING A GARDEN DIE!
We play some tracks of the album and Brian gets into his many encounters at KC Taco Bell locations and talks about KENTACOHUT! We delve into some Tornado Talk, Janko and Ricky's recent trips to Mexico (Dolphins Eating Tacos?) and Ricky tells us about Pepe's Tacos in Norman, Oklahoma! We get into Janko's Wizard costume and the filming of him and Dave's cinema classic "DREAM CUBE!" Josh and Janko remember the time The Anniversary was on TRL Canada! In the TACO TICKER we taco 'bout Taco Bell's Free Doritos Locos Taco Day and taco 'bout the recent incident where a customer called the cops on a Taco Bell for running out of shells! We also break down the question: WHERE DO DORITOS LOCOS TACO SHELLS COME FROM? ALSO: LUCKY THE TACO EATING PIT BULL! In TOWN OF THE TACO: We ask 'WHAT UP WITH THAT, KC' and sing our favorite Radio/TV Jingles and tell tales of our Favorite Live Music Venues and Concerts in KC! ALL THIS AND THE TOPIC OF ALIEN RACES AND WHAT KIND OF TACOS THEY EAT! And Josh tells us about his UFO Sighting! NO GAMES! NO GIMMICKS! JUST REAL VALUE ON TACO THE TOWN!
Edited by Matt Allen.
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
Tuesday Jun 25, 2019
This week on T3 we attend a Pop Up Taco Happening at Dodson's in Waldo as we experience the Plant based Vegan Taco Goodness from DEAD BEET TACO SHOP! Dave is joined by special guest KIM HAWLEY (Vegan Author and Actress) and Dead Beet taco Shop Founder and Taco Queen KAT WILLIS! Kim tells us about working on a Chocolate Podcast (and the dark underbelly of chocolate) and growing up in Eudora, Kansas eating a lot of TACO JOHN'S! We talk a little about the 4th of July in KC and Kat Willis talks about how she started Dead Beet Taco Shop and what inspired her to become the KC Taco Queen!
In the TACO TICKER we talk about the TASTY TACO vs. WICKED TASTY TACO Legal Battle! We also talk about the latest tale in CHEESY GORDITA CRIME (Or crimes at a Taco Bell!) We even discuss the latest Vegan Taco Bell menu items! In TOWN OF THE TACO we taco 'bout THE WEIRDEST PLACE IN KC and we describe our PERFECT KC DAY! ALL THIS AND Dave remembers the summer the Double Decker Taco Supreme debuted! PLUS: Kim talks about raising a Burrito Eating Baby!
This episode of T3 is sponsored by TWISTED FRESH and LOTUSPOOL RECORDS! Edited by MATT ALLEN!
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
Wednesday Jun 19, 2019
This week, T3 is ON LOCATION at the inaugural LOUD & LOCAL MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL in Rockin' Riverside, Missouri! Dave is joined by Executive Producer CHRIS GARIBALDI and together they interview the amazing music acts and performers appearing at Loud & Local!
This episode includes visits with Event Organizer, APRIL ROBERSON; Musician NATHAN JURRIES; Solo Singer/Songwriter and Singer/Drummer for SUNEATERS, CHRIS CARDWELL; Musician, HEIDI LYNNE GLUCK; Painter/Dancer/Disco Queen, JENNY SEVERO; Composer of the TACO THE TOWN Theme Song and Bassist/Singer for SUNEATERS, SCOTT HARTLEY; and last but not least our very special guest, Actress/Voice Over Artists/Hollywood Body Double, SARAH TUTTLE SCHERR!
When the Taco Truck for the festival doesn't arrive, we call out an audible and review some Taco flavored tortilla chips...LUNDBERG FAMILY FARMS STREET TACO Flavored TORTILLA CHIPS to be exact! We also taco 'bout Riverside History, Our Favorite RED X Stories, We Sing a Little Meatloaf and Sarah tells us about the time she was a semi-nude body double in the movie UP IN THE AIR, sharing the screen with George Clooney! Just talkin' tacos at a Music and Arts Fest! The way Meatloaf would've wanted it!
Edited BY MATT ALLEN.
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
It's morning in Kansas City and that means Dave is hungry for some BREAKFAST TACOS!
So this week on T3 we are reviewing the tasty tacos at RED KITCHEN TAMALES in the Brand New Lenexa City Center's Public Market with Special Guest DANIELLE LEHMAN from the OPEN BELLY Podcast! On this episode, we discuss the wide variety of KC restaurants reviewed on OPEN BELLY and Danielle discusses her youth eating tacos growing up in Hutchinson, Kansas (TACO HUT Anyone?) We get into Lenexa's rich Spinach History as well as other Lenexa Fun Facts! WE LIKE LENEXA!
We also talk about Danielle's days working at MySpace and we ask the question "What is a Sancho?" We also break down what makes a good breakfast taco! In the TACO TICKER, we talk about India becoming the 2nd most Taco Bell-ingest country in the world and Chipotle's stocks dropping due to African Swine Flu! We also get into Food Trucks, Our Other Favorite KC Food Podcasts, TACO TOWELS, LA TACOS and we invent an apparatus to help us eat tacos while driving! In TOWN OF THE TACO we talk CITY MARKET, THE LAMEST THING IN KC and STREETCAR DESTINATIONS! We also encounter a quandary: ARE WE EATING BREAKFAST TACOS, BURRITOS or BURR-ACOS? THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW!! Rise and Shine with TACO THE TOWN!!!
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Tuesday Jun 04, 2019
Dave's quest to eat all the tacos in Kansas City continues as he hits the Westside once again and taste tests the tasty Kansas City style Tacos at P.R.'S PLACE with guests Photographer/Urban Explorer/Cyclist KIM HORGAN and Actor/Voice Over Artist/KC Radio Legend RICK TAMBLYN! The trio discover that P.R.'s is business up front and taco party in the back!!
Rick tells us about his favorite taco hole-in-the-walls and growing up in KC and being scared of Mexican Food (Too Spicy!) as a child! Kim gives us the lowdown on growing up in Oklahoma as a child of Irish parents and being deprived of tacos! We get into Kim's cycling photography and Rick and Kim give us some cycling tips! We also talk KC Tornadoes, Taco Via Sauce and Dave tells us about his Taco Vision Quest! In the TACO TICKER, we talk about the TACO BELL HOTEL in PALM SPRINGS and KFC JAPAN's new menu item: the CHICKEN SLIDER TACO! In TOWN OF THE TACO we talk about THE PERFECT KC DAY and the BEST NEW RESTAURANT IN KC! ALSO: Dave reveals his recent visit to TACO BELL where they refused to make him a Chicken Gordita!!
ALL OF THIS AND WE EVEN SING A LITTLE 'HOTEL CALIFORNIA' with Taco-centric lyrics! JOIN THE TACO THURSDAY PARTY AT P.R.'S PLACE THIS WEEK ON T3!! EDITED by MATT ALLEN. EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY CHRIS GARIBALDI."
Tuesday May 21, 2019
Tuesday May 21, 2019
We're ON LOCATION at the new South Plaza Location of MISSION TACO JOINT reviewing their special seasonal JUICY BANGER TACO as well as their tasty Vegan tacos! With special guests Comedian/Radio Guy PATRICK MOORE and Model/Actress/Photographer/Vegan ALANAH O' CONNOR! Host Dave also talks about creating the huge GHOST ROCKERS EATING TACOS IN SPACE WITH ALIENS Mural featured on the main dining room wall at Mission Taco Joint-South Plaza!
This episode we're also joined by Special Guests from Mission Taco Joint Kitchen Manager Luis Zamacona and Assistant General Manager Chelsey Tighe! Alanah describes her adventures of eating Vegan in KC! Patrick tells us secrets from working at Taco Republic and also tells us tales of KC Radio Legend Chuck Nasty and The Keyhole! We talk TACO PHOTOGRAPHY! FOOD TRUCKS! TACO UNITARDS! SOUTH PLAZA EATING! In the TACO TICKER we discuss: DEL TACO'S POPULAR NEW VEGGIE TACOS! TACO BELL EMPLOYEE SLAPPING A CUSTOMER COMPLAINING ABOUT AN OVERCOOKED CHALUPA!
In TOWN OF THE TACO we ask the question: KC HAS THE BEST (BLANK) IN THE WORLD! And our THE BEST THING/THE WORST THING ABOUT KC! We also taco 'bout the new KC Slogan: THE NEW MIDWEST! We do some BAD REVIEWS IN FUNNY VOICES AND TACO TOPICS! This episode's chock full of healthy vegan taco fun so climb aboard your surfing space taco and fly off onto the tasty taco Asteroid Belt!!!