May 25, 2025 • 10 mins
There are 6 Chilly Wonton Willy books that will delight your children.
Soupville is the home of the best soups in the world. It is also home to friendship and fun. Chilly’s friends; Silver Spoon, Cheddar Cheese, Rye Bread, Paula Penguin, Walt D. Walrus and Egg Drop Sue work and play together in Soupville.
Join them for many tasty adventures.
Soupville is the home of the best soups in the world. It is also home to friendship and fun. Chilly’s friends; Silver Spoon, Cheddar Cheese, Rye Bread, Paula Penguin, Walt D. Walrus and Egg Drop Sue work and play together in Soupville.
Join them for many tasty adventures.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I love meeting artists artists. There are two of them
in the studio with me right now, one of whom
is not ready to talk on the air quite yet,
but I'll get them to. Longtime friend Chip Dumbsdorf, he's
a multi media wizard. An author by the name of
Bob Ernest has accompanied him. Bob, welcome, good to have
you here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's great to be here. Thank you, Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm glad you brought Chip with you. He's a solid guy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
He's the best. He's my art director.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Dude. These books are fantastic. They're kids' books. And you
have how many six?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Are you on?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now? Six? Gonna do seven?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Number seven in process right now?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean these stories about Chili and the Derby I'm
looking at right now. I went into that one right
away because it was about the Derby and I thought,
oh my goodness, this is going to be a Secretariat story.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And it was.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It really kind of was because you put a checkerboard,
or Chip did drew a checkerboard? Like is it the bridles?
I was up to call that thing earth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That was inspired, I think, And I don't know anything
about horses called a bridle or something.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, secretariat had a checkered yes face mask for lack
of a little clip.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Many times on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So what inspired you to write these kids? But first off,
tell people what you do normally for a living. Once
you've done through your career.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thirty years at Toyota and I would have died at
my desk. But they said, Bob, your job is moving
to Michigan. And I said, the job can go. I'm
staying here in Kentucky. You can't leave here Michigan. I
think it snows up there, it's cold, it's brutal.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I'm sure that people are friendly, but yeah, this is
you live near Georgetown, Kentucky. Yes, and that's heaven.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
One day I was walking through the living room and
into my mind came chili Wanton Willie was a suit
from old Shanghai. So where did that come from? I
didn't request it, it was there now, I think in retrospect.
Over the years, my wife watched cooking shows incessantly. I
(02:04):
can't cook a hot dog, I have burnt spaghetti on
the stove. I'm just not very good there. She doesn't
want me in the kitchen. So a few weeks went
by and I was sitting down to put on my
tennis shoes and heading north to Erlanger, which was an
hour drive every day fifteen years, and I thought I
got to double it. So Chili one ton Willie was
(02:26):
a soup from old Shanghai. His favorite cheese was cheddar,
his favorite bread was rye boom. I was happy as
a clam. I drove off to work the next day,
same time, five o'clock in the morning. I said to myself,
I gotta double it again. So I Chili one of
the rye. But Chili wasn't happy. And I thought to myself,
(02:50):
why is a soup not happy?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Why is a soup not happy? A soup should be happy.
It makes people, it delights people.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He had no heat, you see. Oh, and Chili won
Ton Willie was as cold as cold can be. So
I doubled it again.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So I went to work, came home that night, called Chip,
who just happens to be in your studio? And I said, Chip,
I need an image of Chili Wanton Willie, And there
he is, and he said, no, Bob, We've got to
keep focusing on the children's book of quantum Physics, which
I wrote in nineteen eighty and I said, what's it
(03:26):
been chip fifteen years and we hadn't done anything with it,
so I said, please get me an image, and he did,
and the rest, as they say, is history.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, the books are fantastic. They're very clever. They're not
like little quick reads because they're like thirty five pages long, right, yes,
thank you. I noticed that right away that it wasn't
you know, six pages and then your little kid goes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I could read it again, you know, let me tell
you why they're about thirty two pages. I was in
California fifteen years ago showing the book to this lady
who put books in walmarts, and she really wanted She
thought it was going to be a hit, and she
wanted all the merchandise that was going to come with it.
She I mean, she wanted a percentage of something that
(04:09):
didn't even exist yet. So we didn't never do business.
But I told her that I wanted this to be
the longest children's poem of all time, and she said, Bob,
parents want their children to go to sleep. That's right,
you get thirty two pages. So she created the length.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, I mean, I remember my days of having to
read over and over again, It's like and then when
they say do it again, it's like, why aren't you
asleep yet? But these are these are interesting adventures now.
And then when I saw like Chili in the derby
is the one we discussed about the horse race. As
soon as I saw Chili in the paint chips, I thought,
now there's my story. That's what a lot of people say,
what's wrong with you boy? And I always say I
(04:49):
had a few too many paint chips. That's what got
me here.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, that one was the first one, you know, came
to me, and I really found Chili going searching for
his heat great, but there was no real purpose there
other than to introduce kids to new words and maybe
a couple of geography concepts. The second one, the paint chips.
I wanted to do color. I wanted it to be colorful,
(05:15):
so Chip actually said, why don't you put paint chips
in it? And brilliant? So the paint ships, of course,
are animated characters, right, and they help paint Chili's house.
So each Chili book has some lessons in it. They're
about friendship, They're about Chili being a lot like me,
(05:38):
never doing anything right, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But it's okay. Everything works out.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, because his friends get together and help. So it's
about friendship.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Chili in the numbers, Chili in the blue notes obviously
that's a musical thing, and then the chili and the
Missing Heat, which you already referenced. These are phenomenal books,
and they're beautiful. On top of that, I think your
art person should be commended. Again.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I don't remember who did that. Let mean, let
me think. I believe his name's in the book. I
think it's Chip dumb Store.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Who's in the studio? Was Hi, Chip, You're gonna say
Hi at least once. Okay, there you go. Chip. And
he didn't do that microphone right.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He didn't do the art. He did the art direction,
which was every bit, every critical thing. Oh my gosh.
Without him, we wouldn't have Chili books, Great Sea Again, Chip, it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is so good to be here. It's great to hear
Bob tell these stories for the very first time.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You two spend a little time together, have you. I've
heard a couple of them thirty years. Well, the books
look beautiful. I mean they are. They're eye catching, and
that's part of them being able to mesmerize kids. Anyway,
is that something you know really is eye candy Well?
And then the story has a lesson.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Here's the cool part. So of course I can't draw
a stick man. And Chip says, hey, mate, me in
the studio, my office. I want to introduce you to someone.
So the first book is done by Gerald Tidwell. So
I mentioned Gerald Tidwell's name to my niece, who now
is about thirty five. Well, she was probably about eighteen then,
and she had one of those floor to lease things
(07:09):
down her shoulder, and she said, I know Gerald Tidwell.
He's a famous tattoo artist. He didn't do tattoos, but
he drew the art that people used to make tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So years went by jet legit artists.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Legit big time. And if you go on his website,
which is humantree dot com, and you read about who
he's done artwork for skateboard people, rock stars, I mean phenomenal.
He blew up, as the kids say. So when I
ask Chip, do you think that Jerald wants to do
another Chili book, he sort of suggested that I couldn't
(07:49):
afford him. So Chip found us another artist, Allison Callahan,
so she stepped in and.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's been a group effort. Lots of different artists participated,
which is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Cool of course.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And yeah we've kept it together seven six down, seven
seven on the way.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So that was two great artists. So last year, last year,
before Derby, I wanted to do the Derby book, So
I said, Chip, call Alison. I've got this pet book
that's seventy five percent written. It's about pets and Chili
not being responsible enough to have a pet. His friends think.
So Chip calls Alison and she tells us she's just
(08:31):
been hired by a company that won't let her do moonlighting.
Oh and I was the moonlighting. So now we didn't
get to Derby with a book a year ago. So
Chip finds a guy in.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Croatia Serbia international story.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Now he's Serbia. I thought it was Kratia, but it's Serbia.
I kept saying Krazia all the time. Who can tell
the difference. But this guy did a poster for us
in no time, and we knew this is the guy.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's struck gold.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh yeah, so that's the last page I'm showing Terry
of the Derby book.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, it's a great story. We're gonna run out of time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's a great story. I mean you see the twin
spires there, and so anybody around here is gonna be
thrillable with that. But there's all these other stories are
great too. They all have to They wrote mapew two
two good concepts and they look beautiful. So good work
all the way around, Terry, thank you very much for that.
Very welcome, my friend. I love the description that says
you and your wife live nestled on a hill with
(09:32):
an unobstructed view of nature. In your home.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We have a nice lake.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's not a big lake. It's a little lake in
Scott County. Or yeah, it's Mallard Point. And if anybody
told me when I was younger i'd be a bird watcher,
I would have said, you got the wrong guy. That's right,
sure enough. Look, dear, there's the Kingfisher.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Good work, Bob.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's what happens when you get old.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Nice job with the books. They're beautiful and you can
find full information at Chilliweton Willie dot com. And it's
c h I l l y you know how to
spell one ton, and then Willie's w I L l
y Chileiweton Willy dot com great to see you Chip,
great c YouTube brother man, You're the best.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Harry, thank you
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Back in a minute on news radio WA forty w
H A. S.
I love meeting artists artists. There are two of them
in the studio with me right now, one of whom
is not ready to talk on the air quite yet,
but I'll get them to. Longtime friend Chip Dumbsdorf, he's
a multi media wizard. An author by the name of
Bob Ernest has accompanied him. Bob, welcome, good to have
you here.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
It's great to be here. Thank you, Terry.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I'm glad you brought Chip with you. He's a solid guy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
He's the best. He's my art director.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Dude. These books are fantastic. They're kids' books. And you
have how many six?
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Are you on?
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Seven?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Now? Six? Gonna do seven?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Number seven in process right now?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I mean these stories about Chili and the Derby I'm
looking at right now. I went into that one right
away because it was about the Derby and I thought,
oh my goodness, this is going to be a Secretariat story.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And it was.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
It really kind of was because you put a checkerboard,
or Chip did drew a checkerboard? Like is it the bridles?
I was up to call that thing earth.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
That was inspired, I think, And I don't know anything
about horses called a bridle or something.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, secretariat had a checkered yes face mask for lack
of a little clip.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Many times on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
So what inspired you to write these kids? But first off,
tell people what you do normally for a living. Once
you've done through your career.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Thirty years at Toyota and I would have died at
my desk. But they said, Bob, your job is moving
to Michigan. And I said, the job can go. I'm
staying here in Kentucky. You can't leave here Michigan. I
think it snows up there, it's cold, it's brutal.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I'm sure that people are friendly, but yeah, this is
you live near Georgetown, Kentucky. Yes, and that's heaven.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
One day I was walking through the living room and
into my mind came chili Wanton Willie was a suit
from old Shanghai. So where did that come from? I
didn't request it, it was there now, I think in retrospect.
Over the years, my wife watched cooking shows incessantly. I
(02:04):
can't cook a hot dog, I have burnt spaghetti on
the stove. I'm just not very good there. She doesn't
want me in the kitchen. So a few weeks went
by and I was sitting down to put on my
tennis shoes and heading north to Erlanger, which was an
hour drive every day fifteen years, and I thought I
got to double it. So Chili one ton Willie was
(02:26):
a soup from old Shanghai. His favorite cheese was cheddar,
his favorite bread was rye boom. I was happy as
a clam. I drove off to work the next day,
same time, five o'clock in the morning. I said to myself,
I gotta double it again. So I Chili one of
the rye. But Chili wasn't happy. And I thought to myself,
(02:50):
why is a soup not happy?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Why is a soup not happy? A soup should be happy.
It makes people, it delights people.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
He had no heat, you see. Oh, and Chili won
Ton Willie was as cold as cold can be. So
I doubled it again.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
So I went to work, came home that night, called Chip,
who just happens to be in your studio? And I said, Chip,
I need an image of Chili Wanton Willie, And there
he is, and he said, no, Bob, We've got to
keep focusing on the children's book of quantum Physics, which
I wrote in nineteen eighty and I said, what's it
(03:26):
been chip fifteen years and we hadn't done anything with it,
so I said, please get me an image, and he did,
and the rest, as they say, is history.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Well, the books are fantastic. They're very clever. They're not
like little quick reads because they're like thirty five pages long, right, yes,
thank you. I noticed that right away that it wasn't
you know, six pages and then your little kid goes.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I could read it again, you know, let me tell
you why they're about thirty two pages. I was in
California fifteen years ago showing the book to this lady
who put books in walmarts, and she really wanted She
thought it was going to be a hit, and she
wanted all the merchandise that was going to come with it.
She I mean, she wanted a percentage of something that
(04:09):
didn't even exist yet. So we didn't never do business.
But I told her that I wanted this to be
the longest children's poem of all time, and she said, Bob,
parents want their children to go to sleep. That's right,
you get thirty two pages. So she created the length.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Yeah, I mean, I remember my days of having to
read over and over again, It's like and then when
they say do it again, it's like, why aren't you
asleep yet? But these are these are interesting adventures now.
And then when I saw like Chili in the derby
is the one we discussed about the horse race. As
soon as I saw Chili in the paint chips, I thought,
now there's my story. That's what a lot of people say,
what's wrong with you boy? And I always say I
(04:49):
had a few too many paint chips. That's what got
me here.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, that one was the first one, you know, came
to me, and I really found Chili going searching for
his heat great, but there was no real purpose there
other than to introduce kids to new words and maybe
a couple of geography concepts. The second one, the paint chips.
I wanted to do color. I wanted it to be colorful,
(05:15):
so Chip actually said, why don't you put paint chips
in it? And brilliant? So the paint ships, of course,
are animated characters, right, and they help paint Chili's house.
So each Chili book has some lessons in it. They're
about friendship, They're about Chili being a lot like me,
(05:38):
never doing anything right, you know.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
But it's okay. Everything works out.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Yeah, because his friends get together and help. So it's
about friendship.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Chili in the numbers, Chili in the blue notes obviously
that's a musical thing, and then the chili and the
Missing Heat, which you already referenced. These are phenomenal books,
and they're beautiful. On top of that, I think your
art person should be commended. Again.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Well, I don't remember who did that. Let mean, let
me think. I believe his name's in the book. I
think it's Chip dumb Store.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Who's in the studio? Was Hi, Chip, You're gonna say
Hi at least once. Okay, there you go. Chip. And
he didn't do that microphone right.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
He didn't do the art. He did the art direction,
which was every bit, every critical thing. Oh my gosh.
Without him, we wouldn't have Chili books, Great Sea Again, Chip, it.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Is so good to be here. It's great to hear
Bob tell these stories for the very first time.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
You two spend a little time together, have you. I've
heard a couple of them thirty years. Well, the books
look beautiful. I mean they are. They're eye catching, and
that's part of them being able to mesmerize kids. Anyway,
is that something you know really is eye candy Well?
And then the story has a lesson.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Here's the cool part. So of course I can't draw
a stick man. And Chip says, hey, mate, me in
the studio, my office. I want to introduce you to someone.
So the first book is done by Gerald Tidwell. So
I mentioned Gerald Tidwell's name to my niece, who now
is about thirty five. Well, she was probably about eighteen then,
and she had one of those floor to lease things
(07:09):
down her shoulder, and she said, I know Gerald Tidwell.
He's a famous tattoo artist. He didn't do tattoos, but
he drew the art that people used to make tattoos.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
So years went by jet legit artists.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Legit big time. And if you go on his website,
which is humantree dot com, and you read about who
he's done artwork for skateboard people, rock stars, I mean phenomenal.
He blew up, as the kids say. So when I
ask Chip, do you think that Jerald wants to do
another Chili book, he sort of suggested that I couldn't
(07:49):
afford him. So Chip found us another artist, Allison Callahan,
so she stepped in and.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's been a group effort. Lots of different artists participated,
which is.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Cool of course.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
And yeah we've kept it together seven six down, seven
seven on the way.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
So that was two great artists. So last year, last year,
before Derby, I wanted to do the Derby book, So
I said, Chip, call Alison. I've got this pet book
that's seventy five percent written. It's about pets and Chili
not being responsible enough to have a pet. His friends think.
So Chip calls Alison and she tells us she's just
(08:31):
been hired by a company that won't let her do moonlighting.
Oh and I was the moonlighting. So now we didn't
get to Derby with a book a year ago. So
Chip finds a guy in.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Croatia Serbia international story.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Now he's Serbia. I thought it was Kratia, but it's Serbia.
I kept saying Krazia all the time. Who can tell
the difference. But this guy did a poster for us
in no time, and we knew this is the guy.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
It's struck gold.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Oh yeah, so that's the last page I'm showing Terry
of the Derby book.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Well, it's a great story. We're gonna run out of time.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Here.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
It's a great story. I mean you see the twin
spires there, and so anybody around here is gonna be
thrillable with that. But there's all these other stories are
great too. They all have to They wrote mapew two
two good concepts and they look beautiful. So good work
all the way around, Terry, thank you very much for that.
Very welcome, my friend. I love the description that says
you and your wife live nestled on a hill with
(09:32):
an unobstructed view of nature. In your home.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
We have a nice lake.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
What are you looking at?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
It's not a big lake. It's a little lake in
Scott County. Or yeah, it's Mallard Point. And if anybody
told me when I was younger i'd be a bird watcher,
I would have said, you got the wrong guy. That's right,
sure enough. Look, dear, there's the Kingfisher.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Good work, Bob.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
That's what happens when you get old.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Nice job with the books. They're beautiful and you can
find full information at Chilliweton Willie dot com. And it's
c h I l l y you know how to
spell one ton, and then Willie's w I L l
y Chileiweton Willy dot com great to see you Chip,
great c YouTube brother man, You're the best.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Harry, thank you
Speaker 1 (10:11):
Back in a minute on news radio WA forty w
H A. S.
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