“Didn’t know the French were pogo stick illiterate.”
— An e-mail from Wichita producer Bob Walterscheid on a commercial he shot in the ’70s for a Chance Rides pogo stick that a French producer would like to use to help educate viewers on the history of pogo sticks
“We kind of laughed about the fact that we’re going to be as shocked as everyone else is. They could be setting them on fire for all we know.”
– Beth Tully of Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates on the Shocker-themed chocolates and other products that she and WSU gave to “Mike & Mike” to use on the ESPN 2 show Friday
“I mean, I can not tell you how cool this girl is.”
– Weigand’s Herb Krumsick on his new daughter-in-law, Brooklyn-based Cristina Suarez Krumsick, author of the forthcoming No Bake Makery who will be on Rachael Ray’s show Tuesday
“The national media contends, and I agree, that the local media …would be more starstruck.”
– KAKE, Channel 10’s Susan Peters on how members of the national media have congratulated her for not being starstruck and instead asking a hard-hitting aviation question when she recently interviewed President Obama
“Now I know what the Baltimore Ravens felt like on Sunday.”
– KAKE-TV, Channel 10, marketing director Bryan Frye on an equipment failure at the station Wednesday that prevented the morning newscast from being broadcasted
“This year is starting off with a bang. … Would I say we’re second in the nation? I don’t know about that.”
– Realty World Alliance’s Greg Fox on a “Today” story this week that puts Wichita at No. 2 on a list of 10 real estate markets that are rebounding
WICHITA — More than a year after filming, “Shipping Wars” aired footage of ’Til We Meet Again shipping a custom casket on Jan. 16.
Nathan Smith says he and business partner Traci Smith-Cone weren’t allowed to publicize the A&E show’s air date, but the episode will replay on Feb. 3.
Smith says the show shot more than three hours of footage but used only a minute and a half.
“It was a lot of fun doing it.”
The show didn’t use the ’Til We Meet Again name, but it mentioned Smith and Wichita, so people have found the store.
“We’ve had so many calls about it already,” he says. “You can’t pay for advertisement like that.”
It’s given Smith-Cone an opportunity to tease Smith, too.
“She’s said it’s always frightening to see me at 52 inches.”
Jason-Paul Febres
WICHITA — Taste & See owner and chef Jason-Paul Febres has always wanted to be on TV, but he couldn’t believe it when he got a call from the Spike television network a couple of months ago.
“They called me, which was surprising. I didn’t even have to call them.”
A Spike representative wondered if Febres might like to discuss appearing as a guest expert on “Bar Rescue,” which is similar to shows such as “Restaurant Impossible” and “Kitchen Nightmares” that feature experts trying to help struggling restaurants.
So Febres submitted a video and did an interview but didn’t allow himself to get his hopes up, so he was shocked when Spike called back to inform him he’d been selected.
“I was freaking out. I jumped out of the shower and was screaming.”
The Caracas, Venezuela, native, came to Wichita in 2006 and says he thinks Spike was interested in him because “Bar Rescue” was looking for a chef with Latin flair.
Though the show helps business owners, it’s not always in the nicest ways possible.
“It is pretty explicit, which is fun,” Febres says. “It’s pretty out there. They like to do everything controversial. Pretty dramatic, ‘Jersey Shore’ style.”
Febres flies to Los Angeles Jan. 7 for a week of filming at a yet-to-be-named restaurant.
He admits he won’t be shy about telling others what to do.
“I’m very particular about the way I run my businesses.”
“I’m kind of amused by it.”
– Movie mogul Bill Warren, whose Moore, Okla., theater is getting some free publicity in a TV ad trying to lure Boeing workers to the city
WICHITA — Aerosmith front man and former “American Idol” judge Steven Tyler did an interview from Kansas City, Mo., today with the syndicated “Bobby Bones Show.”
“Do you travel so much that you forget where you are at times?” Bones asked.
“Absolutely, absolutely,” Tyler said before unintentionally going on to prove it.
“I was on the set the other night in … Wichita, Kansas,” Tyler said.
That part was true. Aerosmith played Intrust Bank Arena Sunday night.
“Just so happened ‘Idol’ was there,” Tyler said. He went on to explain that he called up his former “Idol” buddies Randy Jackson and Ryan Seacrest, who said they wanted to come to his show.
“Of course, I dragged them both out on stage, which was a hoot for me. That was my coup de grace, getting them both out on stage in my world and not on the set of ‘Idol’ was a grand finale for me.”
A grand finale it may have been, but it didn’t happen in Wichita. “Idol” was taping in Oklahoma City.