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

Former U.S. Senator from Indiana Joe Donnelly to step down as U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican; Trump found guilty; Marshmello to perform at Hammond, Indiana’s Festival of the Lakes on Saturday, July 20th; charges against golfer Scottie Scheffler dropped; a posted sign in front of the Laurel, Mississippi City Hall sparks discussion.

Tom and Kevin see Billy Strings in concert; Kevin’s friend gets reprimanded at his place of work for using the wrong pronoun; Tom and Kevin break down the lengthy corruption case of former Portage Mayor James Snyder; Congresswomen Majorie Taylor Greene, Jasmine Crockett, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez trade barbs at a recent House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing.

What’s up with self-driving cabs; police officer who arrested golfer Scottie Scheffler has a disciplinary record; Tom shares that he was once almost arrested in Cleveland; British girl goes viral over her anger about the cost of ice cream; Indiana attorney general’s office defends Lake County’s merit selection process for judges; study finds that more people in the United States are using marijuana daily compared to alcohol.

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.