(upbeat music) - Welcome back for another edition of Kansas city experience.

I'm Catherine Hoffman.

This month, we meet the couple who help fullfil the around the clock childcare needs of Kansas City's east side.

- We started getting requests from parents.

Well, we don't get off til eight o'clock.

We opened up the second shift and before you know it, we were open till 12 o'clock and then the next thing you know, it happened again the over night.

- [Catherine] And though the flowers are beginning to fade.

It's not too late to spot butterflies in your garden.

- [Tabitha] They just remind you, how small you are, how big the world is, how big nature is.

And we're just, you know, we're just on the stage playing our little part.

- [Catherine] We look back at how Powell gardens offers a unique chance to learn about butterflies up close.

We meet the filmmakers who produced the documentary, chasing gold about one man's journey to the Tokyo Olympics.

- [Edward] You know, it covers his character, his family, and the drive.

It takes to be a top performing athlete and in his field.

- [Catherine] What are experimental beers?

And do they taste any good?

We check in with flatland beer enthusiast, Cassie to find out.

(upbeat music) - [Cassie] Definitely smells sour.

If you guys have seen this before, you know, I have affinity for sour beer.

- [Catherine] From the series playback Sam Wells covers System of a Down's, Chop Suey to celebrate the 20th anniversary of 90.9, the bridge.

- Oh, I don't think you trust in my Self-righteous suicide I cry when angels deserve to die - But first we visit the childhood home of one of Kansas City's favorite homegrown celebrities who just meet history at this year's Emmy's.

- Tell us a welcome wagon has arrived.

- [Group] Ted!

- Art house thought it would be a good idea to enter the Kansas CDPBS video vault, where I did an interview with Jason back in 2017, where we talked to Jason about growing up in Kansas city.

And I also talked to Jason's dad and he gave me a tour of the family home.

(old film count down) (upbeat music) - [Interviewer] So you have any favored this weekend?

You think this will end your embarrassing streak of drawers?

- Oh, wait.

I've never been embarrassed about having streaks in my draws.

You know, it's all part of growing up.

(referee blows whistle) - [John] So Ted last was really tearing it up.

Jason Sudeikis is stirring turn in the apple plus series has garnered more Emmy nominations for a first time show in history.

(blows whistle) - Alright, you little turd birds, start touching your toes.

And touch each other's toes.

- [Group] What?

- [John] And back in the fall of 2017, I interviewed Jason for a documentary we did at the time called Show Me and Jason told me what it was like to grow up in Overland park, Kansas.

And then I went and talked to his dad, Dan Sudeikis, and Dan showed me around the house.

(cheerful music) - And here's a picture he originally was upstairs, but then he moved downstairs.

I should turn some lights on down there.

Probably shouldn't I.

Where are you standing?

You're in the hallway of our home or where Jason and our two girls were raised.

Yeah, but here's the family room where a lot of, a lot of time is spent.

- [Jason] But we moved here when I was like six months.

So, I mean, we lived in two homes.

We lived in a duplex right off of 69 highway 95th street.

That's still there.

Weird.

Then we moved to the house that we live in now and south district actually like in the 95th and Metcalf area.

- This is where Jason spent his most of his years in high school.

I mean, he has, he's really a great son.

That's been very interesting.

He's he's never forgotten his roots as they say in the Midwest area.

And he's very good with he's come along very well in his own career.

I think, and, and growing up he was, he was great.

He was just, it's sort of the way he is now.

You could see, and this was true of the daughters too.

Very quick, had a good sense of humor.

- [Jason] It was great living here.

I mean, you know, so we felt safe.

We felt protected, but also, you know, I was lucky to grow up around in a house that laughed a lot and supported the arts.

And so this town has always been like that to me.

I've always seen that side of this city.

- [Dan] He and his siblings say we got them all involved in this city and they did a lot of extracurriculars in high school nap.

When he got to west, he, he, he was definitely a good basketball player, set a couple of records and assist not only for the school, but a couple of tournaments he played in.

And you know, he, he was definitely an above average basketball player.

- [Jason] I was a sophomore, a junior, I guess when I'd actually transferred to Shawnee Mission West that's, that's sort of where it all started.

Along with that move from going to rockers to Shawnee mission west.

I would, you know, I ended up performing and learning and studying and being taught by this amazing teacher named Sally Shipley, who did this great speech and debate program, this forensics program in Shawnee Mission West that I just lucked into going there.

I went there because of, you know, friends that I had there and, and, and whatnot.

- We took them to ball games, whether it be Royals or football, and that they just loved the city.

They have such good friends here and they loved the colleges in the area too.

I mentioned, KU, all three of them are KU fans, but they liked the other colleges too.

And they have other friends that went to those colleges and they just, they became part of it.

They just loved Kansas city.

They love getting back here.

They all live in New York, but if you ever asked them about where they're from, they're very big promoters of Kansas City like Jason, that KC hats he wears constantly.

No, he's very affable with the KC group that way.

And very open to the residents of this city in the area.

- Growing up here was even though I played sports and everything I had, I had one foot firmly rooted in just my upbringing in the arts, as well as the athletics.

And it's a great place.

(camera rolling sound) - This room here, the orange room is the pre-K classroom.

(uplifting music) - [Penny] I was made of grandmother early, 16 years ago.

And my son was still in high school.

And at that time, we, it just wasn't really any resources out there.

And so what I decided to do, I had a rental property that was just kind of sitting vacant.

And after talking to several women, they were like, Hey, just what's wrong, baby.

And, you know, just start next month off the house instead of renting it out.

So that's what I ended up doing.

I had some ladies that I worked with and they were telling me, they said, hey, I'll bring my kid and, or I'll bring the grandkid.

And I was like, okay.

Then the words that started kinda getting round, and then people started calling me, hey, can you watch mine?

And it's kind of took off from there.

- I think our normal hours of operation were perhaps 6 o'clock in the morning till you know, 6 in the evening.

Then we started getting requests from parents.

Well, we don't get off til 8 o'clock.

I don't get off till 9 o'clock.

We opened up the second shift.

And before, you know it, we were open until 12 o'clock and then the next thing you know, it happened again the over night.

Well, I work at Ford motor company.

I work at the casino.

I work for the health department.

I worked for KCATA and I don't.

I go in at 11 o'clock.

I don't get off till 6 in the morning.

So I said to her, you know what we've got to do.

We are here when a lot of others are closed.

And so we are the only fully functioning 24 hour center.

And we are here around the clock.

Those areas back, there are houses that will have little furniture in them.

So when we're doing experimental labs or they come home from school, or they come into the center from school, there'll be a small sofas and chairs, comfortable chairs for them to kind of lounge in.

- KD learning academy has really made a huge difference in the community because they're not your standard 9 to 5 daycare by offer overnight services.

They offer weekend services.

So they are making sure that they're serving the community that they are in.

And it's really important to be accessible in that way, because a lot of folks, especially in the urban core, don't have traditional nine to five jobs.

- [Penny] The other things too, this most important too, is to be able to employ more people.

- [Myron] So currently we have approximately a staff of 22 at full capacity.

We would have the ability to provide 60 plus jobs.

So we hire people from the community and we've got several of the same staff that we had, that when we started in 2012.

- As a family of color, we wanted our child to culturally experience, I guess, the equivalent of what you would get from an HBCU.

So everyone at KD learning academy looks like her, speak like her.

They have a lot of the same upbringings, so it's very easy to feel comfortable there.

- But if all children see is blighted neighborhoods and blighted homes and blighted environments, then their expectation never rises above that.

And so we were willing to forego the expense and afford those children an opportunity to come in something new and allow them also to see that it is people that look like them that actually have provided this opportunity.

(uplifting music) - [Tabitha] When you go in there, they're mesmerizing.

So we take our conservatory and we turn it into an exotic butterfly house.

And we work through the USDA permitting process.

And we bring in exotic butterflies from around the world.

When you go in there, you'll see a hatchery and you'll see them starting to come out of their Chrysalis or cocoons of their MAs.

And then we release them into, into the space, (birds chirping) go in there and you get to just be around all these butterflies, flying and learn about them.

They're just fascinating creatures.

- My name is Eric Perrette, and I am the lead horticulturalist of the children's garden.

And I also have a big part in the butterfly festival with all the native butterflies.

I would hope that they have a feeling of joy and having this connection with nature almost and just happiness, because that's what I get.

I get really excited when I see them.

And I always grabbed my net and I always chase after him and try to catch him and look at them and learn about them.

What they're going to get out of it is just education about where they're from and where they live and how to raise them and what plants to look for, what plants to have in your yard to create your own butterfly garden.

- I'm in charge of the exotic butterflies.

It's bringing people together, educating them, especially the children and helping them understand the importance of nature.

Especially those people that might be in the inner core of the city.

It gets them out and have a, a respite from, you know, that city life and come out here and enjoy plants and flowers and, and wildlife.

You know, there's, there's always something to see out here.

- [Tabitha] You know, this festival and butterflies, they just remind you how small you are, how big the world is, how big nature is.

And we're just, you know, we're just on the stage playing our little part, right.

You know, I've seen people brought to tears in there because butterflies are symbols of lost, loved ones.

And so sometimes if someone, if one of them lands on them, they automatically feel like it's their lost grandmother or their lost father.

You can't see these butterflies anywhere else around here.

(upbeat music) - [John] Today, art house takes a look at the amazing film, Chasing Gold, about discus thrower, Mason Finley.

And we talked to writer, director, Edward Schroer, and Daniel Christopher, the director of photography about this amazing new film.

(old movie countdown) - A lot of coaches, when they talk about the fluidity of the throw, a lot of them will you also use the word firing order.

- [John] So Edward, tell me what is Chasing Gold about?

- Chasing Gold is a film about my friend Mason Finley and his journey to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

You know, it covers his character, his family, and the drive.

It takes to be a top performing athlete, in his field.

I actually knew Mason at KU.

I went to KU and met him through rooming together, actually.

So I lived with Mason and I was sort of thrown into this, the world of throwing.

I was always surrounded by that environment and, you know, quickly became good friends with all these guys and, and kinda got a, a humbling experience and a better understanding of a sport that I think tends to kind of go overlooked in the world of track and field.

I wanted to create this film to, to highlight Mason, lift him up, lift the sport up and, and try and give it some, some, some much needed spotlight.

- [Daniel] For me, my involvement started with Edward Edward and I have become friends over the years and work together in a number of capacities, the crux or the most important thing as the cinematographer was the drama that exists in the way Edward pitched it to me was essentially Mason works tirelessly for years for three throws, three opportunities to make it count.

And for us, it was really fun, I guess, from a visual standpoint, to try to build that drama, whether it be through the overhead shots with him, sort of doing his dance or trying to recreate different things and just the drama that existed in that space and everything mattered so much, all the charge that is necessary to tell the story sort of exists implicitly.

(uplifting music) - [Edward] As we were in the cutting room and finishing the film.

Daniel had a really interesting idea to show Mason, throwing the disc is at the end of the film.

All one shot, no cuts.

And all we hear are the Kansas cicadas in the back.

And it's just this really, I thought beautiful moment of Mason.

And going back to what Daniel was saying about he's out there by himself, he's there every day.

And in the cutting room, there are so many ideas and you can explore those options and to have someone like Daniel there to give the creative idea that I never would have thought of.

So it's, it's, it's always collaborative and it's always great to have good teammates to help you.

- [Cassie] Do you want something different from the typical beers you drink?

Do you want to give your taste buds some excitement?

- Hey guys, it's me, Cassie, your flatland beer enthusiast.

And today we're going to try three local experimental beers.

(upbeat music) - These beers go beyond conventional beer, wisdom and rules, and maybe aren't what you're used to seeing at the grocery store, alternative.

These beers are typically made with unique ingredients and in small batches.

Here in KC, we have several breweries that love to test those waters.

And here are three that we're going to taste today.

(upbeat music) Okay.

First up Sandhill's brewing Sandpiper.

It's a sour saison on agent Oak barrels with pawpaw.

I'm pretty excited about this because pawpaws are delicious.

They're grown natively here.

You can probably walk out into your woods and find some like in the next couple of weeks, when they're ripe, kind of tastes like a mix between banana and papaya and they're great.

And not enough people know about them.

And you can find like old basket full in your own neighborhood.

So definitely smells sour.

If you guys have seen this before, you know, I have an affinity for sour beer.

Does that little thing in the back.

I don't know what the scientific name is for the mouth pucker, but it's got that going on.

This was aged in Oak barrels.

I don't get a lot of like oakiness out of it.

Definitely just sour.

Well, that's really refreshing.

If you haven't had pawpaw before you would say, this is just like a sour tropical beer, and it's really crisp and clean and easy.

If you like tart things, this is a great beer.

This beer for me, it's taken a lot of boxes.

I'll give this beer 4.8 out of 5.

(upbeat music) Okay.

Beer number two.

And even as experimental in the title, Lambics are ales that are fermented in the open air with wild yeast.

They almost always give you like kind of a funky sour flavor.

And when most people make Lambics, they dump a bunch of fruit in it too, to kind of sweeten it up.

It uses the watampa grape, which is a native grape to Missouri and Kansas to I'm sure.

Native to this region and they age it for 3 years.

That's pretty cool.

Okay.

Excited to try it.

A little more of a deeper golden color than our first beer.

Oh yeah.

That smells funky and sour.

(upbeat music) Whoa.

It does.

That's again, hit you right back there.

I'm going to take another sip.

The aroma is funky and sour.

But you taste grape in that it tastes like a grape jolly rancher, but yeah, it's sour.

It's grapey again, light bodied, refreshing.

It has more of those Grapey notes.

So I feel like if you're not a wine drinker and you're more of a beer drinker, this could go in the place of like a natural wine at a dinner or something.

And this is beer 61 out of 65.

So it'll probably be gone by the time you see this, sorry.

This beer it's delicious.

It's creepy.

I'm going to give it a 4.7 (upbeat music) Beer number three, Big Rip brewing company.

This is called Fire Tree, and it's gluten free.

It's brewed a sorghum, honey, pineapple, jalapeno and roasted tomatillo.

It looks like it's going to taste like a delicious salsa.

Whoa.

Okay.

I only needed like half a second to smell both pineapple roast, like a roasted smell, which is the tomatillo.

And you can smell the jalapeno too.

So it's like, cause you get a little bit of that, like sense of spicy right here at the top of your nose, but like the sweetness and the rosiness from the other two, I'm excited.

(upbeat techno music) Yeah.

You know what?

The flavor is much more mild than the aroma, but that's okay.

Because it would be a lot to have all of those things packed in there.

You get all the flavors that you got from the aromas, but right at the beginning, and then it's like, it was a dream it's like disappeared from your mouth, which makes me want to go back for more.

That's crazy.

All the flavors hit like all of the parts of your mouth at the same time and then disappear.

It's like firework.

I have no issue with gluten-free beers at all.

I would not know this was a gluten-free beer.

It's got not a lot of audience, light bodied, but there's nothing about it that doesn't say beer to me.

Dang.

That's really good.

(laughs) Also, if you want to see an episode about more gluten free beers, this one has some that I already tasted that were delicious too.

I'm going to give this beer maybe like a 4.9 because I've never had anything like it.

So that is truly experimental, really good.

They set out what they were trying to do.

Made great beer out of it.

And it's gluten free and a 7%.

That's pretty cool.

You know, in these trying times, I feel like we could all use a little change in our life.

What better way to start with some cool local beers?

I thought I could pick a favorite.

I mean, I think this one was the Big Rip (audience clapping) was like the one that was what is going on the most, but like they're all awesome and exciting.

And it just proves, you know, our local breweries are pushing the envelope, trying new things.

We're not going to have a stale beer market here in KC.

No, no.

(guitar solo) - Wake up, grab a brush put on a little make up, hide the scars to fade away, the shake-up.

Why'd you leave your keys upon the table.

Go on, create another fable.

Grab a brush, put on a little make up, hide your scars to fade away the shake-up.

Why'd you leave your keys upon the table.

I don't think you trust in my Self-righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die.

(guitar solo) Wake up, grab a brush put on a little make up, hide the scars to fade away the shake-up.

Why'd you leave your keys upon the table, go on create another fable.

Grab a brush put on a little make up, hide the scars to fade away the shake-up, why'd you leave your keys upon the table.

Oh, I don't think you trust in my Self-righteous suicide, I cry when angels deserve to die.

in my, Self-righteous suicide.

I cry when angels deserve to die.

Father, father, father, oh father.

Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

Father, into your hands.

Why have you forsaken me?

In your eyes forsaken me.

Oh, in your heart forsaken me, oh In your heart forsaken me.

I don't think you trust in my Self-righteous suicide.

Oh, I cry when angels deserve to die.

Oh, Oh, my Self-righteous suicide.

I cry when angels deserve to die.

(guitar solo) When angels deserve to die.

When angels deserve to die.