Steve and Johnnie

We know you missed them, we did too! It’s been a couple of weeks, but Johnnie Putman and Steve King are back in time to ring in autumn!

Suzy Bogguss starts the show with what would have been a recap of Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Sadly, the ceremony has been postponed. No reason to not have her on the show anyway and chat about her dear friend Muriel Anderson!

Publisher of Consumer Guide Automotive and Host of the Car Stuff Podcast Tom Appel is breaking down the cost of recalls following the news of over 100,000 Toyota Tundra and Lexus LX models from the last two years. We also ask some questions regarding updates and how you can find out if your car has a recall notice, whether at NHTSA or your car manufacturer’s website!

Steve King and Johnnie Putman are back from their West Coast weekend off for another show starring a very special musical guest this summer.

Muriel Anderson and her amazing harp guitar have made port and stopped by the studio for some enthralling anecdotes from her time at sea with her partner Bryan Allen, along with some truly masterful fingerpicking on the massive harp guitar which you’ll soon be able to see in visual form!

After some relaxing music, we turn to the terrors of technology with the Director of Educational Technology at Keck School of Medicine of USC and your tech guru, Patrick Crispen! Among this week’s topics are the DIRECTV drama shutting users out Disney and ESPN and what Apple Watch users may expect as the next generation rolls out! Ironically, we address tech issues with Patrick as they happen.

As always, there’s more classic Steve and Johnnie stories, so listen below and don’t miss a second!

Think you’ve heard it all? Think again! Johnnie Putman and Steve King are exploring the history of songs both ancient and… wacky.

Dr. Don Romano, our resident musical archivist returns to the show after rave reviews! This time we take a turn for the odd, the awful and the downright silliest old songs to ever grace your ears. Don’s American Songbook is doing the world of music justice by preserving the history of music in digital form!

Tom Appel, Publisher at Consumer Guide Automotive and Host of the Car Stuff Podcast, takes us for a ride with some of his own old jams, which he uses to test the sound systems on his regular test drives. Among the topics with Tom, we talk about some modern updates to 2025 models, including some that might cause more problems than solutions with proximity sensors. We also get some much needed advice on the car buying process.

Tune in for a whole bevy of auditory amazement and as we jump back into Bears season, we tap into Bears superfan and WGN’s Gabe Salgado for a return to an old segment they like to call… Sports Between the Sheets!

It’s National Radio Day! Steve King and Johnnie Putman are back again with a whole bunch of fun and not so fun things to talk about!

Axios reporter Monica Eng walks over from the DNC kickoff party and airs some grievances with the paths and walkways allowing us to cross Lake Shore Drive safely. Naturally, we always end up talking about food.

Next up, we have Josh Solomon, Erika Brett and Nate Bellon from The Empty Pockets to celebrate the release of their new, live album Al Stewart & The Empty Pockets Live.

The big topic of discussion is the biggest data breach of the modern age. Patrick Crispen has a full breakdown on the social security leaks of millions of people. We learn about the bad actors who might be responsible and where to start in preventing your identity from being used against you.

There goes summer! Johnnie Putman and Steve King are your bookend to summertime and on this show we’ve got air show anniversary anecdotes, bricks disguised as phones, and we’re chatting about old tv and music legends!

Jon Provost, star of the classic TV series Lassie, is making an appearance at the Wheaton All-Night Flea Market. He stops in to chat about his visit, his TV days as Little Timmy, and he settles the decades long debate: did Timmy really fall down the well?

Then, TV historian, author and Beatles expert/superfan Wally Podrazik tells the class about the Fest for Beatles Fans and all of the Beatles trivia, treats and tunes one typically would expect at the Fest!

Closing out the show is Consumer Guide Automotive‘s Publisher Tom Appel with a slew of new car tests and some of the latest recalls. As usual, we enjoy some of Tom’s Tunes that he uses to test the sound systems.

Steve King and Johnnie Putman are in for a show you’d have to see to believe! With weather wackiness, new things to watch, tech woes and wizardry and you might learn a thing or two about photography

Chris Smith, WJHG-TV’s Chief Meteorologist touches down to teach the class about how a tropical storm develops into a hurricane and the potential fallout of Hurricane Debby as it hits the southern coast.

Jessica Radloff, Senior West Coast Editor at GLAMOUR and NYT best-selling author of “THE BIG BANG THEORY: The Definitive, Inside Story” is back again for your August update of what to catch on TV! We also catch up after her incredible trip to Switzerland and we get some Bob Newhart stories from his days on the set of Big Bang Theory!

Patrick Crispen, Director of Educational Technology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, is in studio once again for part two of his summertime Chicago visit, along with young Joseph. We have more scams as usual, an update for your phone that allows you to save your license, some Google Chrome rollbacks on UBlock Origin, a prominent adblocker extension, and we learn about plethora of other web browsers and why, like Steve, you might need a few.

We then close out the show with a fan favorite guest: Will Byington! He is a Rock Star Freelance Photographer based in Chicago who specializes in iPhone photography! We learn some new tricks when taking iPhone photos, some more incredible stories from his photo adventures, and with Lollapalooza in town recently, he gives the inside scoop of concert photography.

Both of these photos were taken by the same person, but can you tell which one was Steve’s Samsung phone and which was Will’s iPhone?

Johnnie Putman and Steve King have yet another show stuffed full of a bunch of guests, almost as stuffed as a pierogi! Following the recent birthday for Steve, there is more than enough reason to celebrate!

Joseph Crispen and the Crispen Gang (a.k.a. his parents) are in town for the first of a two part in studio appearance. We’ll save the tech talk for next week with Patrick; this time, it’s the Joseph Show! We learn about his latest Chicago adventures and a nifty Lego radio he built for Steve’s birthday!

Next up is Tony Panek, who might be better known as Mr Pierogi, for a mouth watering chat about Pierogi Fest! It’s an annual festival in Whiting, Indiana dedicated to the palatable pockets of Polish patisserie. This year was a big one as the Fest celebrated its 30th year!

Then we have Chuck Mead, Co-founder of the alt country group BR5-49, fellow radio host down in Nashville, and a masterclass of talent in the Americana music scene. He stops by to chat and promote a few Midwest appearances including SPACE in Evanston and Shank Hall in Milwaukee!

As usual, we get our routine automotive check-in with Consumer Guide Automotive Publisher Tom Appel. We have some more of Tom’s Tunes, a few interesting test drives, and a round up of recalls regarding hazardous Toyota engines, lethal BMW airbags and an odd update for all of you Maserati owners out there.

We also jam to some morsels from Steve and Johnnie’s Life After Dark CD, and stick around for a few reviews for movies that are new, old and really old!

Steve King and Johnnie are back in town just in time to bring you some comfort after the crazy week in the world. We are talking all things tech, entertainment and some history with a musical cherry on top!

Alice Selke is a very important part of Illinois history being the very first dispatcher for Hoffman Estates Fire Department. She joins us following her 106th birthday and reveals the secrets to staying fabulous at her age!

Ron Romero, the Founder of the Illinois Rock and Roll Museum on Route 66, gives us a little status update following the recent tornado outbreak, one of which struck in Joliet where the Museum is located. After we breathe a sigh of relief, we jump in to the good stuff that all kinds of music fans can anticipate at the 2024 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, including, but not limited to Suzy Bogguss, Richard Marx and The Chi-Lites.

Our favorite Milwaukee entertainment reporter Gino Salomone stops by for more tomfoolery, but also joins the class in reminiscing on the loss of Chicago’s own Bob Newhart and the impact he had in the world of comedy and entertainment.

Chicago musician Steve Dawson is our special guest in studio to present us with a live performance for your listening pleasure, with visuals to come later. We learn a bit more about his new album ‘Ghosts’, his work with Dolly Varden and with his wife, Diane Christiansen and what the future holds.

Following the recent tech outages across the globe, your tech guru Patrick Crispen jumps in to give us the scoop on what happened, who was affected and who Crowdstrike is. We also discuss the 110 million AT&T customer logs that were breached. Then, we have a lengthy discussion about the X (formerly Twitter) AI chatbot known as Grok and how misinformation prevalent on X is leading users to seek other platforms for more accurate news and research information.

Due to inclement weather and after a very heated political discourse, Johnnie Putman and Steve King bring this brief show to you from a brief appearance in Panama City Beach, Florida all in the name of peace and tranquility!

In studio, they have Mike & Maggie McKinney, otherwise known as Lucky Mud, to play some of that sweet and relaxing ‘swampytonk’ they’re known for! They tell a few stories about their Florida roots, their musical farm, and we get the back story of how Lucky Mud came to be!

Tom Appel jumps on for his regular automotive check in! This time were covering a drop in Jaguar sales, numerous manufacturers phasing out models and a handful of other test drives!

More music with Steve King and Johnnie Putman?! No surprises there! But with topics covering new photos of old rockers, troubling tech terrors and ancient auditory artifacts, they may just have a surprise up their sleeves!

Dr. Don Romano, musical archivist and man of many hats, takes us on a musical trip down memory lane with some of the rarest patriotic gems from the Great American Songbook, just in time for Independence Day. If you thought you’ve heard all of the old music, you might discover something new!

We then have another double feature with our resident car and tech gurus!

Publisher at Consumer Guide Automotive Tom Appel gives us a brief update on the ongoing fallout from the CDK Global cyberattack affecting tons of dealerships across the country.

We then follow up on Patrick Crispen’s brief update from last week concerning the rise in malicious cyberattacks. Some of that entails a bump in voice AI scams and even voice cloning! We talk about what companies can do to to combat hackers and we also learn a bit about some fascinating new video communications from Google that can simulate the people you talk to in 3D models.

Of course, it wouldn’t be a regular show with Him n’ Her if we didn’t throw in chat about food, mull over some musical memories and cover some of the weekend headlines! It’s only radio if you like it!