Leaning Right and Turning Left with Sadler and the Senator

The boys have been off a few weeks, but they come back with a vengeance this week with a brand-new episode that will blow your socks off!! Hermie and the Senator talk about the status of their race team, where Virginia is right now with no budget as the Democrats battle with the Governor over the state's spending priorities for the next two years – "to tax, or not to tax, that is the question." Th...

Hot off their team's success at the King of the Modifieds Race at South Boston, Sadler and the Senator sit down to talk about the current status of the skill games bill in the Virginia General Assembly, and debate what could happen to the bill now that it on Governor Youngkin's desk--- will it be signed? Will it be vetoed? Who Knows! But that doesn't stop Hermie and Bill from puttin' their "two ce...

Sadler and the Senator are Turning Left this week -- live at the inaugural King of the Modifieds SMART Series event at the historic South Boston Speedway in Virginia!! Listen as Hermie and Bill give you the live play-by-play and color commentary as the 125-lap race takes place! They also bring on great guests, like Dr. David Ramadan (at his first race event ever), and new Virginia House of Delegat...

The Inaugural Pace O Matic "King of The Modifieds" Race, Powered by Dominion Energy is set for this Saturday, March 23rd (Rain date: this Sunday, March 24th) at the historic South Boston Speedway in South Boston Virginia, and the Leaning Right and Turning Left Podcast brings you all of the exclusive details of the largest purse race for the SMART Modified Tour. Get yourself a cold beer, pull up yo...

Thank goodness the 2024 Virginia General Assembly session has come to a conclusion, and Senator Stanley and Hermie Sadler discuss the last-minute actions of Virginia's government, and how the "skill game" bill fared in the "sausage making" legislative process. Listen as Bill discusses the media's wrong assertion that Stanley had something to do with the latest version of the skill game bill that n...

The boys had to hold this explosive episode for a week but its finally here, where Sadler and the Senator explore the national making headlines story of the exchange between the President of the Senate, Winsome Earle-Sears and Senator Danica Roem, the first transgender politician elected in the Virginia Senate, where, according to the press, Madam President Sears called her "sir" when answering a...

Hermie and his BFF Senator Stanley meet up in Virginia's Capitol to discuss what is happening at the 2024 Virginia General Assembly as it approaches the last two weeks of session, what happened with the budget proposals approved in the Senate and House of Delegates, the current state of the attempt to legalize skill games in the Commonwealth, and they also discuss the crazy state of politics in th...

Hermie and the Senator meet up in the Capitol of Richmond to discuss "crossover," where the Senate finishes their bills and sends them over to the Virginia House of Delegates, and vice versa. Listen as they discuss the important (and silly) bills that will now be considered by the other chamber, and they talk about the current situation of skill games legislation in Virginia, and what will happen...

Senator Stanley is having a bad week at the Virginia General Assembly, and it shows in this week's episode of Leaning Right and Turning Left With Sadler and the Senator! First, Hermie and Bill discuss their great passion, auto racing, and introduce to the audience their new "Young Gun" driver for their Sadler/Stanley Racing Team in the Southern ("SMART") Modified Tour Series, Luke Baldwin, son of...

Hermie and Bill are back with yet another jam-packed episode of Leaning Right and Turning Left With Sadler and the Senator, discussing business competition, political ethics, democrats (once again) trying to infringe upon your Second Amendment Rights in the 2024 Virginia General Assembly. And they even manage to talk about the fun stuff – big changes in their Sadler/Stanley Racing open-wheel modif...

Sadler and the Senator are back in the Capitol of Virginia recounting the events of the first week of the Virginia General Assembly, and boy do they have a lot to talk about! From bills to protect Virginians from the harm of Fentanyl, the reckless policies of California's greenhouse gas emissions mandates on everyday Virginians, to the wild ride in committee as legislators consider legalizing skil...

The 2024 Virginia General Assembly is back in session, and Sen. Stanley, Hermie and their ol' pal Shep Moss return to the Capitol in Richmond and they are up in the middle of all that is happening in the Virginia General Assembly, from Senator Stanley being in the dog house on the first day with the Executive Branch, what to expect with skill games fight in the legislature, the upcoming battle ove...

What better way to end the year then to have the boys look back at some of their best moments of the Leaning Right and Turning Left Podcast in 2023. And you know if they are funny, then their "Swear Bear" Shep Moss must be involved. The boys dig back into their famous "Lake Gaston Tapes" to pull out two clips: their discussion of adult entertainment, and then Shep Moss and his enormous strike zone...

As we end this tumultuous year, Sadler, Shep Moss and the Senator hilariously reflect on the year that has been 2023, and discuss what the Christmas Season means to their families. They even tease next week's episode of their Christmas Special (Part 2), "Merry ShepMoss," as they reach back into the Leaning Right and Turning Left library to relive the funniest moments of 2023. Hermie, Bill and Shep...

As we approach the Christmas holidays, Hermie and the Senator bring back their Swear Bear, Shep Moss to the podcast to talk about a whole bunch of topics, from politics to sports and even their Sadler/Senator open-wheel modified race team, and include a whole bunch of Dick Trickle jokes that make Shep and Bill laugh and make Hermie totally uncomfortable. This episode is a hilarious mess of these t...

In this week’s episode, Sadler and the Senator open the show with a discussion about “civility” in the Virginia Legislature, according to one of the retiring Senators whose sanctimony is, quite frankly, breathtaking. Next, the boys discuss the update on the fight for small businesses and skill games, as the Virginia State Police roll-out an anonymous toll-free “tip line” for Virginians to spy on t...

After taking a much-needed break to spend time with their families on Thanksgiving, the boys are back with another action-packed adventure into the current happenings in Virginia after the General Assembly election, and after their loss in their ongoing skill game lawsuit and fight for small business against the casinos and government overreach. They open with an up-to-date and very frank and fact...

Hermie and the Senator have brought you along on their two-year journey of fighting government overreach and the power of the casino monopolies as they seek to control small business owners in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the emerging gaming industry. For two years, Sadler was successful in a court of law in overturning an unconstitutional law known as "SB 971," and continued to fight the gover...

Those two racing and political junkies, former NASCAR® driver and Fox Sports® commentator Hermie Sadler and Virginia State Senator Bill Stanley report live from their Virginia election desk to give you the results and their impressions on the tumultuous on the 2023 Virginia General Assembly races-- as all 140 seats are up for election in the legislative body that will determine the control of the...

Last week, the boys were busy, Sadler and the Senator come roaring back from the week off with a whole bunch of exciting news. First, they talk about Hermie becoming a grandpa, and they talk about their exciting week in racing, detailing their Sadler/Stanley Race Team’s final week of the SMART and NASCAR Whelen open-wheel modified season, with their drivers having great success at each race, inclu...

This week, the Leaning Right and Turning Left boys welcome back their human fanny pack, Shep Moss to the show after his three-week hiatus, and man is there a lot to talk about. Hermie and Bill open the first segment at the historic South Boston Speedway racetrack as they get ready for their open wheel modified race team Sadler/Stanley Racing to try to get into the SMART Modified Series championshi...

This week, Hermie and The Senator rev up the engines to talk about their race team (Sadler/Stanley Racing) bringing home a big win at Tri-County Speedway with their #18va open-wheel modified race car driven by their NASCAR® Hall of Fame expert wheel man and good buddy, Bobby Labonte! What a difference a week makes, as they discuss how a tough season for their race team in both the Whelen Modified...

This week, Sadler and The Senator -- but no Shep (as he possibly goes on strike for a second straight week in a futile demand for more wages for less effort, just like the Hollywood writers), dive into this week’s episode and talk about a whole host of things, from their joint field trip to what Stanley calls “Darwin’s Waiting Room” in criminal court, how the this November’s political races are sh...

This week Sadler, Shep and the Senator travel to the Sadler Travel Plaza in Shep’s hometown of South Hill Virginia to tape this week’s episode of Leaning Right and Turning Left, and they have plenty to talk about. They open with discussing the current state of affairs in Virginia, the impact of the grand opening of a gambling parlor (with games of chance not games of skill) in downtown Emporia, ho...

Crack open that cold beer and get set to listen to a wild episode as Sadler, Shep and the Senator welcome Senator Stanley’s law partner, Virginia trial lawyer legend (and former Attorney General) Tony Troy to the show! The interview bounces around through a number of hilarious topics, from Tony’s Uncle George, his colorful 57-year legal career, and Tony even shocks and surprises Senator Stanley wi...