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 Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
On a rainy October night, Taco The Town invited two Paranormal Investigators and Psychic Mediums DENISE SEAH and KATHY MARQUEZ (Mystic Moms Paranormal) to investigate the strange happenings at DOS REALES in Shawnee, Kansas.
For years the owner and employees of Dos Reales-Shawnee say that after dark this taco-rrific Mexican Restaurant with some of the best tacos in the town becomes an epi-center for the unexplained and just down right spooky!
Taco The Town has taken it upon themselves to get to the bottom of this Haunted Taco Joint. What arcane secrets lurk inside the walls and the fountain at Dos Reales-Shawnee? Will Dave's dream of witnessing a floating taco come to fruition or will those dreams be replaced by dark taco nightmares?! It's our HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR! LISTEN IF YOU DARE!
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
Tuesday Oct 23, 2018
We've been kind to tacos and they've been good to us in return! We celebrate 50 Episodes of T3 by finally hitting the most requested KC taco spot from our fans and KC taco lovers...that's right...this week we review BONITO MICHOACAN! With two KC locations, KCK and Olathe, Bonito Michoacan is a wonderland that will fulfill all of your taco dreams!
This week we are joined by Digital Editor of The Pitch and Taco lover/Taco Writer KELCIE McKENNEY and Software Cruncher/Taco Crusher, The Boss from Belgrade, JUG STANOVCIC! This episode we cover many many taco topics like: "Did Nikola Tesla ever eat a taco?", Bringing Tacos to Serbia, Using Taco Bell Menu Item Names as Compliments, TACO DREAMS, Cricket tacos and a place called BEST FISH TACOS that doesn't have the BEST FISH TACOS!
We also discuss what upcoming stories Kelcie has been working on for The Pitch, The Taco The Town team getting called out by Afentra at the Pitch's Best Of KC Party and we ask the question: "Since he is a food critic, Should Dave get his tips frosted?"
ALSO IN THIS EPISODE: We talk KC BBQ, Martini Corner (Is that still a thing?), We go over a list of Overseas Taco Bell Menu Items, Dick-Shaped Pasta From Italy, We Celebrate Celebrities Turning 50 in 2018, Facts about Belgrade and a Pig the size of a Mini-Horse that loves Doritos! All of this while reviewing some of the tastiest tacos in the town! Bonito Michoacan!! Tacos So Good They will bring you to tears!
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
Tuesday Oct 16, 2018
TACO SATURDAYS at BICHELMEYER MEATS are a TACO MUST SEE/MUST DO here in KC and this week T3 is coming to you ON LOCATION from that very PLACE AND THING!! Dave is joined by special guests Food Photographer & Taco Bell Fanatic GRACE PRITCHETT & Taco Guy By Night/Tech Guy By Day and Competitive BBQ'er CLAYTON SNODGRASS!
Together the three taste test some of the most delicious tacos in the town as well as cover some hard hitting taco news and notes and quotes! Clayton reveals the SECRETS of BACON EATING CONTESTS and the keys to being a successful competitive KC BBQ'er! Grace gives us some KC to Iceland Travel Tips as well as the inside scoop on FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY!
The group also taco 'bout Guy Fieri's New Power & Light District Taco Joint, THE KC FALL TO-DO LIST, Purchasing Pig Heads, Ways to incorporate the River More into the City's Infrastructure and the hard hitting question: IS IT A CHICKEN SOFT TACO OR A SOFT CHICKEN TACO? Other Taco Topics Covered: Who drinks Coffee at Taco Bell? (Grace!), Eating Tacos While Driving & If KC ever does THIS, I'm Moving! On a crisp autumn morning in KCK the smell of pumpkin spice is nowhere to be found, only Taco Spice here, just the way we like it!!!"
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
Thursday Oct 11, 2018
It's been one year since TACO THE TOWN started its quest to EAT EVERY TACO IN THE TOWN of KC!
This week, we take a look back at the past year of episodes! All the Taco Highlights, Taco Low lights, and tear-jerking emotional Taco Moments! We think back to all of the taco-rrific Taco Ticker News stories and all the fun times we've had eating tacos and talking tacos with our taco reviewer guest stars and much much more!
The best thing about tacos is eating them with friends..so grab some tacos, grab your friends, pull up a chair and take a taco trip back across space and time as we celebrate 1 YEAR OF TACO THE TOWN!
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
This week we're ON LOCATION at Children's Mercy Park, the Home stadium of SPORTING KC and we put their tasty tacos (& Brat Mac n' Cheese) to the test! Our special guests this episode are Sporting KC and Soccer Fanatic ANDREA GARCIA & Actor/Filmmaker TREVOR MARTIN (TheComedyMinute.com)! We're also joined by Executive Producer CHRIS GARIBALDI! In this episode DAVE relives some bad childhood soccer memories and with the help of his guests he tries to put them behind him and to accept Soccer into his heart once again! Dave also shares his tips on how to improve(?) the game of Soccer and Andrea gives some tips on what makes soccer the most popular sport on the planet!
Other Taco Topics Covered: Andrea's Adventures in Soccer Ballpark Nachos & Online Dating! New KC Restaurant Recommendations! Trevor's Go-To Secret Menu Item at Taco Bell! Dave gives his plans for NATIONAL TACO DAY (Oct. 4th!) & also shares some new Chant ideas for The Cauldron! ALSO: Trevor tells us about when he shot a TV commercial with Graham Zusi! Tornadoes Stories! Tony Meola! Our Favorite Soccer Themed Movies! Sexual Innuendo Dance Hits of the early 2000's! And we give a lot of Shout Outs! With dance music pumping in the background we enter RockTacoTober with a bang!! DAVIN, YOU'RE NOT INVITED!"
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
Thursday Sep 27, 2018
We're ON LOCATION again this week coming to you LIVE from one of our favorite taco spots, TACO ZONE in Lawrence, Kansas! Singer-Songwriter-Musician HEIDI LYNNE GLUCK stops by to talk to Dave about music, growing up in Manitoba, Canada, and her upcoming variety show concert at MYERS HOTEL BAR in Tonganoxie on Saturday Sept. 29th. We also discusss her upcoming appearance on THE MYSTERY HOUR (Check your Local Listings!).
Dave and Heidi also tackle FACTS ABOUT MANITOBA and WINNIPEG; CANADIAN FOOD and CANADIAN SLANG; and...CANDADIAN TACOS?!!
Quick! Eat those tacos before a Polar Bear gobbles them up! Heidi's Latest Record "Pony Show" is available now from Lotuspool Records!"
Friday Sep 21, 2018
Friday Sep 21, 2018
T3 hits the Country Club Plaza to review the tasty tacos and margaritas from ZOCALO with special guests, the Kansas City improv comedy quintet, HAM KITTY (Trish Berrong, Kate Haugan, Ashley Osborn, and Jen Roser)!
Taco Topics and KC Topics Discussed: Favorite Country Club Plaza Memories! Improv Comedy Mishaps! Things We Love/Hate about KC! KC NEEDS A BREAKFAST TACO PLACE!! And much much more! We check the TACO TICKER, play TOWN OF THE TACO and we taco lot about GUACAMOLE. We also taco 'bout a little ole place called the RUSTY TACO! And we read some BAD REVIEWS in a FUNNY VOICE!
Taco The Town: Bringing a Little Class to this ole former swampy marsh now called The Plaza!"
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
Wednesday Sep 12, 2018
It's BBQ Week in KC!! (When isn't it BBQ Week in KC?) So this week in honor of the World Series of BBQ Cook Off at the American Royal BBQ we are reviewing the BBQ Pork TACQOS from Q39 with Visit KC's TONI ALEXANDER & DEREK BYRNE! On Location at the Visit KC Offices, in this edition we talk a whole lotta KC! They give us their expert opinions on the Top Things to See, Do and Eat Here in KC!
We talk Food (KC BBQ, KC PIZZA, KC Sandwiches, KC Coffee Shops, KC Burgers) and tries to sell his guest's on his KC Taco Initiative! Will Visit KC help him make Tacos the Official Food of Kansas City?
Other Taco Topics discussed: Downtown Tacos! Late Night $2 Tacos at Chipotle, Toni's Homemade Pizza Tacos, Lifetime Supplies of Queso, KC Taco Tours, Q: "Is a Taco a Sandwich?" Hear Toni and Derek go for a Perfect Score in the Taco Topics Speed Round! Dave and his guests even touch upon KCK, the Shake Shack Opening (NO TACOS?!), and Bird Scooters vs. Floating Segways! The Future of KC is a stake! This week it's KC BBQ Meets KC TACOS! Two KC Culinary Monsters at last become ONE!!!
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Wednesday Sep 05, 2018
Lots o' Taco Topics are cussed and discussed this week on T3 as we're ON LOCATION at TACO REPUBLIC! Dave is joined by Copywriter/Grammy Winning Singer and Taco The Town SuperFan KATIE CRAWFORD and Photographer/Taco Fanatic JASON TRACY! Together the three tackle plates of tasty tacos and discuss some of the most important Taco Questions of our times, such as: MUSTARD ON TACOS: YAY OR NAY?, TACO DATING, ENDANGERED TARANTULA TACOS, IS DALLAS THE BEST TACO CITY IN TEXAS?, and MINNESOTA LUTEFISK TACOS!
Also this week we touch upon Cruising the 'Fe in MiniVans; What Does KC Get a Bad Rap About?; Blockbuster Video; Favorite KC Radio or TV Jingle; Kansas vs. Missouri; Chili Cheese Burritos; and Secret Menus.
We also do our first SIDE O' BEANS REVIEW!!! Plus: Dave puts his guests through THE TACO GAUNTLET! Hop in your MiniVan and get down to Taco Republic! Located at one of the Best Food Intersections in the Town of the Taco!
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
Tuesday Aug 28, 2018
This week on T3, Dave and his guests, CHRIS and LINDSY DORSEY belly up to the bar at DOS REALES AUTHENTIC MEXICAN RESTAURANT and devour plates and plates of tasty tacos; and buckets of their famous Margaritas (or as Lindsy calls them, her 'Happy Juice'!).
Dave is also joined by owner and operator of Dos Reales, ALVARO QUEZADA and they break down a plethora of Taco Topics, such as: TACO ORIGINS, TASTY TORTILLAS, HAUNTED MEXICAN RESTAURANTS and we unlock the SECRETS OF THE ULTIMATE LENEXA PARTY BASEMENT!
Also covered in this episode: A 101-Year-Old Woman who Eats a lotta Taco Bell, Behind-The-Scenes Stories from the set of Dave's film 'JACUZZI NIGHTZ', McCormick Taco Seasoning, Hot Tub Time Machine Karaoke Parties, and Chris tells us about working for AMC and seeing Mickey Rourke's Face Up close in person! No Fake Taco News here...just 100% Authentic Taco Realness.