Erika Brett and Joshua Solomon with The Empty Pockets sit down with Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier. The duo discuss their latest album release and perform LIVE in studio.

The man who has been called “Chicago’s Picture Poet,” Barry Butler, the internationally published landscape and cityscape photographer, joins Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier. Press play to see how the conversation “developed.”

Legendary roadhouse party pianist, songwriter, and vocalist Marcia Ball, calls in to speak with Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier. The stars have aligned and so have their schedules; press play to hear it all unfold.

Noted cartoonist, illustrator, and designer Jim Engel, who is also the children’s television curator at Chicago’s Museum of Broadcast Communications, speaks with Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier. Jim talks about all his wonderful work in children’s television programming.

Consumer Guide Automotive‘s Publisher Tom Appel joins Steve and Johnnie while they fill in for Dave Plier to recap some of the best new vehicles he sampled at the Midwest Automotive Media Association’s spring rally.

Joining Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier, is one of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees for the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum! The man behind The Ides Of March and many other incredible musical adventures, the multi-talented, Grammy winning, Jim Peterik.

Ron Romero, Founder & Chairman of the Board of the Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66, joins Steve and Johnnie, in for Dave Plier! Ron shares the details of the museum’s 2nd Annual Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Sunday, June 5th, 2022 at the Rialto Square Theatre in downtown Joliet!

Steve and Johnnie step in for Dave Plier, and they decided it’s been too long since they’ve talked with Chicago’s incendiary blues queen, Joanna Connor. She’s one of the headliners at this year’s Chicago Blues Festival, has a terrific new album, a signature guitar, and a whole lot more to talk about!

Steve and Johnnie fill in for Dave Plier with a hop across the big pond for a report on Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee from “Chicago’s Royal Watcher” and multiple Emmy Award winner, Fred Weintraub.

Fran Tate from Alaska was a favorite guest of Steve and Johnnie - and Johnny Carson.