Leaning Right and Turning Left with Sadler and the Senator

Leaning Right and Turning Left with Sadler and the Senator

Leaning Right and Turning Left with Sadler and the Senator, powered by Pace-O-Matic, features NASCAR legend, broadcaster and businessman Hermie Sadler along with his good friend and Virginia State Senator, Bill Stanley. You can expect a lot of talk about "turning left" as the two longtime racing fans discuss the latest happenings in the world of auto racing, along with some "leaning right" as they dive into the world of state and national politics along with talk about small business and the law. No matter the subject, Sadler and the Senator will keep you informed and entertained each week, and this show will be unlike anything you have ever heard.

Episodes

Frat Bros and Skill Games Save America

May 7, 2024 • 120 mins
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." They also talk about the future of sk...
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Legendary Tommy Baldwin: King of the Dads

April 4, 2024 • 83 mins
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 cents" in on the issue, and then they...
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We Shall Be Kings – Live From South Boston Speedway!

March 29, 2024 • 110 mins
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 Delegates member from Southside, Eric Phil...
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The King of The Modifieds Race at South Boston Speedway

March 19, 2024 • 88 mins
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 your chair next to your phone and giv...
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Crossing the Finish Line

March 15, 2024 • 100 mins
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 now sits on the governor's desk, and...
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Behold, The Knight Rider

March 6, 2024 • 113 mins
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 question posed by the Senator. List...
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Going Around In Circles

February 23, 2024 • 122 mins
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 the national scene. Then in second se...
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Crossover Happens

February 16, 2024 • 90 mins
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 next in the next three weeks to sup...
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Young Guns and the Utter Hypocrisy of Moms Demand Action

February 5, 2024 • 103 mins
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 racing legend, Tommy Baldwin. Liste...
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It's Costing Them Too...

January 29, 2024 • 107 mins
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 modified team for the 2024 racing season...
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Politics is the Ultimate Skill Game

January 19, 2024 • 121 mins
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 skill games in the Commonwealth, this e...
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Some General Assembly Is Required

January 13, 2024 • 138 mins
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 over the Governor's agenda with a deep...
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The Best of the Lake Gaston Tapes: Christmas Special, Part 2

December 28, 2023 • 86 mins
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 when he was an umpire in a childre...
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The Christmas Special, Part One

December 21, 2023 • 103 mins
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 wish you and yours all of the bles...
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This Thing Is a Real "Shep Show!"

December 14, 2023 • 112 mins
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 three friends talking about both the...
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Behold, The Hypocrites

December 7, 2023 • 113 mins
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 their small businesses who might, ju...
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Radical Agendas and Questionable Haciendas

December 2, 2023 • 120 mins
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 factual conversation on where small bus...
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Winning By Losing

November 16, 2023 • 99 mins
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 government that was being influenced by ...
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Election Night Blues (and Reds)

November 9, 2023 • 133 mins
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 Senate and House of Delegates. List...
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Legendary Conversations with Richard Petty and Frank Scott

October 30, 2023 • 148 mins
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, including a big win for Bobby Labonte at...
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