Leaning Right and Turning Left with Sadler and the Senator

In this week’s Leaning Right and Turning Left With Sadler and the Senator, the crew talks about the topics that are making headlines in both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the nation. First, they pay homage to the victims of 9/11 on the 22nd anniversary, recount where they each were on that fateful day, and discuss where our country is after that horrible moment in American history. Then Shep, S...

The boys go remote to Ace Speedway in North Carolina as the SMART Modified series heats back up for its final stretch to the 2023 SMART Championship. Listen to them as they tape the first part of the episode in Hermie's Chevy Tahoe (from Boyd Chevrolet, of course), talking about the current state of national politics and the upcoming Presidential election in 2024. Then Sadler, the Senator and Shep...

Following up with their discussion with Short Track Legend Peyton Sellers, Sadler, the Senator and Shep sit down with a young late model racer fighting Sellers for the 2023 South Boston Track Championship, Carter Langley -- it's coming down to the last race of the season at South Boston Speedway over the Labor Day weekend, and they are neck and neck. Be sure to listen to this young man describe ho...

Leaning Right and Turning Left roars into the historic South Boston Speedway to catch up with Late Model Racing powerhouse Peyton Sellers! Listen as Peyton tells the boys about his journey in becoming a successful late model driver in the grass roots NASCAR Advance Auto Parts weekly series at local short tracks throughout Virginia, as well as his run for a record seventh championship at South Bost...

In the final episode of the LRTL "Lake Gaston Tapes," Hermie, Bill and one and only Shep Moss talk about Sen. Stanley's Bill SB 1515 (2023), which required that pornography websites that solicit a Virginia audience put a filter on its website to verify the age of the user and to protect children under the age of 18 from pornography on the internet. Listen as the guys discuss the specifics of this...

Part two of the Lake Gaston tapes has the LRTL boys welcoming to the studio race car driver and Karting specialist Jonathan Cash to talk about what its like to be the third driver in the Sadler/Stanley Racing Tour Modified stable alongside NASCAR® Hall of Famer Bobby Labonte and Legend Ryan Newman, and he and Hermie have an in-depth discussion of the Karting race circuit, the growing industry of K...

After nearly a month hiatus, the Sadler-Shep-and Stanley trio reunite on the shores of Lake Gaston North Carolina at the Sadler Compound to catch up on what’s being going on the past three weeks after the Republican primary election. While not victorious, Hermie shares his afterthoughts and experiences about running for a political office for the first (and last, as he says) time. Listen as Senato...

The boys took a week off (Stanley had a week-long trial and the Herminator was busy campaigning) but are back at full strength with this latest episode! Sadler and The Senator are “Leaning Right” as they recount Hermie’s final efforts as a first-time citizen candidate for the 17th state senate district, and reflect upon the lessons they both have learned during this election process. Listen as Her...

Leaning Right and Turning Left roars into the historic Franklin County Speedway to document the SMART Tour Kenny Minter 110 modified race in Callaway, Virginia to start the 2023 Memorial Day Weekend, but unfortunately without their boy Hermie! Stanley goes solo without his good buddy Sadler (who was with his family watching his daughter play in the D-III softball play-offs for Randolph-Macon Colle...

Following up with last week’s awesome sit-down with Hermie’s brother, NASCAR® great Elliott Sadler, this week’s episode of LRTL with Sadler and the Senator focuses on family issues, family values, and explores Hermie’s foray into the political arena and his experience as a regular citizen stepping forward to run for elected office. Listen as Sadler details the surprising fight that he must wage no...

Part two of the Elliott Sadler Chronicles is finally here! Picking up from where we left off two episodes ago (“The Sadler Brothers, Part Won,” first aired May 4th), Hermie and the Senator dive right in to the life and times of NASCAR® great (and Hermie’s younger brother) Elliott Sadler. They jump right in with Elliott’s recollections of when he was, for a brief and shining moment, the “Mayor of S...

Join former NASCAR® driver and Fox Sports® analyst (or as he says in the opening, a former “Spox Forts Analyst”) Hermie Sadler along with his good buddy Virginia State Senator Bill Stanley as they dive into the important topic facing parents today -- protecting their children from the “woke” politicians who let men into women’s sports, into women’s bathrooms, and those who think that Senator Stanl...

The boys at Leaning Right and Turning Left With Sadler and the Senator have been busy with campaigning for office and running their small businesses here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, but they still manage to sit down together (minus Shep, he’s on vacation again) to bring to you this week a great flashback to the first time the Sadler Brothers, Hermie and Elliott, got together on this podcast’s...

Pull those belts tight, one more time because Shep Moss roars back onto the show after returning from yet another vacation out of the country….how does he do it?  Well, he’s gonna’ tell you, the Senator and Hermie about his seventh vacation of the year, in every excruciating and hilarious detail. The boys then talk at length about the increasing crime wave that seems to be hitting America right no...

Senator Stanley leads off the second segment of the show when he sits down with the Southern Modified SMART Tour Director Chris Williams, his new announcer, the” Mark Twain of Modifieds,” Bob Dillner, and the Tour Flag Man Extraordinaire, Jeff Bunton, for an in-depth and hilarious conversation about everything SMART Tour and the current state of local short track racing, and they even get to talk...

Sadler and the Senator set up the podcast with their “Swear Bear,” Shep Moss this week in the Start/Finish tower at the front stretch of The Richmond International Raceway (RIR) for the Sadler/Stanley race watch party, where their drivers, NASCAR® Hall of Famer Bobby Labonte and NASCAR® Legend Ryan Newman were set to compete in the Whelen Open Modified Race Series. And, while the race may have bee...

As the future of Virginia political power in the Virginia legislature hangs in the balance in 2023, the dispute over the Republican nominating process for Hermie Sadler’s grass-roots, anti-establishment run for the Virginia State Senate heats up and heads for the courts as the Republican Party and its leaders attempt to put their “thumbs on the scales” to favor Sadler’s opponent, and use their pow...

After a two-week hiatus, Sadler and the Senator come roaring back with a must-listen to episode that explores Sadler’s huuuge campaign shindig with country music stars and NASCAR® Legend and friend of the podcast Kyle Petty, as well as the Virginia Republican Party shenanigans and interference with the nomination process with Hermie’s race for the Virginia State Senate District 17. Listen as Hermi...

The Virginia General Assembly wrapped up its work at a furious pace in order to adjourn “sine die” (latin for “without day”—which means that its now gone from the Capitol, “indefinitely”), with tempers flaring, bills either living or dying, and a still-undecided battle raging over the Virginia State Budget. Hermie and the Senator go over the last days of the 2023 General Assembly session – the ups...

In a special Valentine’s Day special episode, Sadler, the Senator and their side-kick Shep Moss get together to spend part of the “holiday of love” talking with you, the listener! And boy do they make the most of it! The boys begin the first segment by discussing the bills that are dying, and the ones that are still surviving during the last two weeks of the 2023 Virginia General Assembly Session,...

 Larry The Cable Guy hilariously opens this week’s episode of Leaning Right and Turning Left With Sadler and The Senator, and Hermie and Bill recap this week’s events in the 2023 Virginia General Assembly. Its heating up in both the House and Senate as they work furiously to pass their final pieces of legislation that will “crossover” to the other side for ultimate consideration and potential pass...

Sadler, Senator and their “plus-one” Shep welcome Dwayne Yancey, expert Virginia political journalist, former Editorial Editor of the Roanoke Times and current Editor of the Cardinal News on-line newspaper to the group’s discussion on the current state of media in politics. The fellas have an in-depth discussion with the sage political editor about what is in store for the future of traditional ne...

The fellas (and Shep) are knee-deep and digging deeper this week with all the goings-on with the legislative process during the first full week of the 2023 Virginia General Assembly Session. Hermie and Bill look deep into their totally imperfect “crystal ball” to prognosticate what we might expect in the weeks ahead, as Democrats and Republicans face-off to determine the future of the Commonwealth...

Week two of the 2023 Virginia General Assembly Session heats up with Sadler and the Senator having a front row seat to what is going on at the Capitol of the Commonwealth! From Gov. Younkin pushing back against the attempted China invasion of Southside farms and local industries, to the liberals’ unwillingness to tackle the most dangerous cause of harm to Virginians, Hermie and Bill tackle all the...

They.. Are.. Back Again! Hermie and Senator Stanley (with their “plus one,” Party Time Entertainment’s and South Hill’s very own town councilman Shep “Burn Pile” Moss), come out swinging with great conversation and tons of laughs in their first episode of the 2023 Leaning Right and Turning Left podcast season, with special guest, former state Senator and current Executive Director of the Virginia...