Sound Smart This Weekend

Supertaster Tracy Allen is filmed while he looks over the roasting of the papal coffee beans at Brewed Behaviors headquarters in Overland Park, KS. (Credit: Brewed Behaviors)

THE REARVIEW: We all know Pope Francis made his first visit to the U.S. this week, and his Congressional address has already been called everything from too progressive to not progressive enough. We’ll leave that for the pundits, but an equally fun fact is the pontiff’s java was created right here in the Kansas City…

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Sound Smart This Weekend

THE REARVIEW: We can’t wrap up the week without talking about clocks and presidential debates. In summation, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed is transferring schools and accepting his White House invitation, and the fact the hashtag #hotdebateguy trended on Twitter during the Republican face-off and was a news story afterward may be all that we need to say…

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Sound Smart This Weekend

Without her sidekick, Needle, Arya Stark is just Maisie Williams, a girl with a You Tube channel. (Credit: You Tube)

THE REARVIEW: We’re going to let our Game of Thrones geek flag fly here, and tell you that Arya Stark is easily our second favorite character. Mainly because before going to sleep she names off everyone she wants to kill. And who here hasn’t drifted off to dream in the same satisfying manner? The real…

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Sound smart this weekend

President Obama and Michelle Obama entertain during a Girl Scout campout on the South Lawn earlier this summer. The question is whether survivalist Bear Grylls is going allow the president to bring those lanterns on their trek. (Photo: Evan Vucci | AP)

THE REARVIEW: (Three stories to have in your wheelhouse) 5 Skills President Obama Will Need To Survive A Day With Bear Grylls (NPR) Bear Grylls is the President of Awesomeness, what with his mad post-apocalyptic survival skills. So it’s fitting he’s taking the actual POTUS on a trek through the Alaskan wilderness for an episode of Running Wild with…

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Sound smart this weekend

The Yawpers rock out during a live in-studio session with The Bridge on Friday. The Denver, Co.-based band plays for the sold-out TEDxKC event Saturday, for which KCPT is a major partner. You can watch on LiveStream at http://livestream.com/tedx/TEDxKC2015.

THE REARVIEW: (Three stories to have in your wheelhouse) 3 Americans who thwarted train attack receive France’s Legion Of Honor The honors kept coming all week, and deservedly so, for those brave boys, ahem, men, on the French train. We’re so enamored that they were forgiven for wearing polo shirts to the Frenchie version of the White House;…

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