It's 7:30 AM in Kansas City, and Jamie and I have booked Barry and Ben a surprise.
This is great on a number of levels. #1 two stadiums next door to each other: the Chiefs
and the Royals. #2 Ben and Barry are probably just realizing what's happening about now.
Okay, so turns out we're going to be running 5k and getting colorful.
(laughing)
I am so glad we did this.
We upset Ben so much he left...
Ready?
Do I need to change my shorts?
No. They'll get ruined. This is a color run.
I am regretting going so big last night.
(Laughing)
To be fair, we did buy them the right clothes, so they wouldn't look stupid.
Good luck boys!
Jamie and I left the boys to get colourful for this...
We have found an actual barbecue competition that is run by the Kansas City Barbecue Society.
We are in the middle of the competition. All the meats been cooked and they're actually
in that building about to judge some stuff. The judges are actually going to give us an
insight into how and what they look for in judging professional barbecue.
Now when we got there, we were just hoping to have a quick chat, film some bits, but
then this happened.
Would one of you gentlemen care to give the oath?
Yeah?
Yeah, I would do that. Yeah.
Take your right and repeat after Jamie.
I do solemnly swear.
(Repeated)
To objectively and subjectively,
(Repeated)
evaluate each barbecue meat
(Repeated)
that is presented to my eyes...
(Repeated)
It was a pretty amazing welcome. And Jay did a job leading the pledge.
Nailed it.
I read.
And then, it was time to judge some barbecue.
The teams have five minutes before and five minutes after 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, and 1:30.
They bring it to the tent outside, which you see over here. They bring it to this table
right here where we change the number, so nobody knows what the number is except us
front desk reps. We then pass it along to the table captains. The table captains are
in charge of the table. The six judges, they score for appearance, then they score for
taste, and then they score for tenderness.
After the score cards are completely filled out, the representative takes it over to the
computer operators, tallies all the scores from each category, the computer spits out
the winner!
We chatted to a couple of judges, who ran us through how the scoring works and what
exactly they were looking for.
You look for a Wow! factor. You have a score of 1 - 9, but as a judge, you cannot give
the 1. The only one that can authorize a 1 or a disqualification is a Rep. The 2 is inedible.
Inedible is it's bloody or something is wrong with it. So a 9 is excellent. It doesn't say
the best or outstanding, it just says excellent. If I want your recipe, that's a 9.
My last thought is would I spend money on something like this? 'Cause that's what it
all boils down to.
After they've judged the food, they have 36 boxes of ribs, which are over there. And we
are very kindly invited back into the kitchen to sample some of those ribs. And they are
unbelievable. I'm not going to get through them...
I'm going to try.
Back at the color run, the finish line was approaching and our pretty little ballerinas
were getting competitive.
And that's it. The happiest .... came in the....I've won.
No, no!
Baz and Ben made up, had a shower, and swung by one of your recommendations, the City Market.
And then the four of us set out to prove that we can jump at the college basketball experience.
I am starting to lose confidence...
And wearing a hat like that is really going to help...
Ben, what're you doing?
We obliterated the court with our unbelievable teckers.
Can you believe that literally no one has scored a basket in the entire last sequence?
But this did happen.
Stick to what you're good at. That's what I say.
It's probably time for me to give it a go, isn't it?
If you come to Kansas City, I would definitely go here. But now it's time for us to leave.
But seriously, this place is great. If you're visiting Kansas City, you should come.
No, but seriously, Kansas City is the best.
We left out the back door to escape the talent's scouts and headed to another one of your recommendations,
BB's Barbecue, which was just brilliant.
This is the best place ever. We have met so many new friends already.
We were instantly welcomed by everyone including fellow Brit, Charlie, and Mama Ray, who has
been providing a Blues and Jazz Jam in Kansas City for 25 years.
The place was just an absolute pleasure to be in and obviously, the food and Kansas City
barbecue was also superb.
(Ben "singing"/squawking)
I found my new home!
Did we find our game changer? Uhh, yeah. I guess we did. So barbecue burnt ends in particular,
they were out of this world incredible.
But I expected that, and I would've been disappointed if it hadn't have done. However, as a city, I don't know what I was expecting,
but I wasn't expecting it to be like that.
Effortlessly beautiful. Every shot I take was just easy to make it look amazing but
it is. The lighting, the architecture...um, again, the people when they're smiling is
kind of what made it.
Everyone that we spoke to as soon as they heard our accents were like, "where are you
from?" And they were so interested and at first, confused. They were like, "why have
you come to Kansas City?" Because what they do with great food and great music and great
hospitality, they have all the time.
Without sounding like a textbook end to a video, Kansas City as a city was a game changer,
and I don't think you can deny that the footage and the experiences that we had hasn't proven that.