Left of Center Show Thomas McDermott, Jr. and Kevin Smith

Is Tom turning into Larry David; Tom loses his A-List status on Southwest Airlines; Tom, Kevin, and John reflect on seeing Dead & Company at Sphere in Las Vegas; Jenny Craig from GreatNews.Life stops by to discuss their upcoming event All About The Girls, why she just climbed 2,000 stairs, and more.

New CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority Phil Taillon returns, and along with him the CEO of the NWI Regional Development Authority Sherri Ziller, and the Executive Director of the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission Dan Repay; Dan’s picture that was used to promo his appearance on the podcast causes a stir; do Dan and Sherri not like each other; the South Shore Line double track is complete; Dan is startled by an opossum in his garage; Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 golfer in the world, was arrested on his way to the PGA Championship; the official portrait of King Charles has been unveiled and is receiving a lot of criticism.

Were the recent Northern Lights overhyped; Tom and Kevin talk with Phil Taillon, the new CEO of the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority, about what he’s looking forward to in his new position, what he’ll miss as Chief of Staff for Hammond, Indiana, and more; Tom and Kevin suffer the same groin injury at the same time; was Trump’s recent massive rally in New Jersey and indicator of what the outcome will be of the upcoming election; Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reveals that a worm died inside his brain after eating a portion of it.

Chase McDermott stops by to set his dad and the world straight on the Drake versus Kendrick Lamar beef; one of the best Mailbag segments ever; Tom and Kevin cover local and state election results, including two involving Speros Batistatos; Democratic candidate for Indiana Attorney General Destiny Wells stops by and talks with Tom and Kevin about her campaign, autonomous race cars, and more.

Lindsey tries to explain the Drake and Kendrick Lamar beef to Tom and Kevin; Trump threatened with jail time; Tom and Kevin weigh in on the pro-Palestine protests taking place at college campuses across the country; Tom admits he was wrong about his stock market prediction.

John Cantrell fills in for Kevin; Lindsey graduates; Tom fires off after reading that the Northwest Indiana Building and Construction Trades Council endorsed U.S. Senator Mike Braun for IN Governor; did President Biden just legalize weed; former Congressman George Santos now dressing in drag for his Cameo videos; South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem shot and killed her family’s dog; Democrats to save Speaker of the House Mike Johnson against Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene’s motion to vacate; an AI-generated LOCPOD theme song?