The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - AlbCo's Rev Sharing ($22M) Yields No Econ Dev In CVille; Another Biz Closes In CVille Beer Scene

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Sevo Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on a Thursday afternoon in downtown Charlestful. This is the water cooler of content and conversation. I mean, you look at the statistics, the metrics across the board. There is no other show in Central Virginia with the collective combined viewership and listenership in this region. We call Central Virginia, Charlestville, Almar County, Flavanna, Orange, Green, all the outer counties. There's 300,000 people in this area. This program, this one hour, 90 minutes. slot. We start at 1230 Monday through Friday. It's the most watched and listened to program out there, period, bar none. You can't argue with it. The I Love Seville platform is second in the region with reach, influence, followers, viewers, listeners, readers, you name it. You can't argue with it. They're metrics, their facts. UVA's number one. We're in the two slot. Why this platform works is because it's long form content that spares no expense. It's unaffiliated, unafraid, unabashed in its analysis and commentary. We spent 90 minutes yesterday with Mike Pruitt,

the Almar County supervisor, Scottsville District. He's one of six people responsible for $730 million. $730 million, the approved Almore County budget. And he's one of six people responsible. And he was so straightforward. So I commend him for his straightforwardness, his authenticity. We may disagree on stuff. but I commend him for his authenticity.

So much came up on the show. I thought he offered a master class on why Donald Trump is failing with this war in Iran. Who's seeing gas above $4? $4.19 at the Bel Air on Ivy Row. It's getting more expensive, not less expensive. Remember those promises for the war to be over in a couple of weeks? Remember the promises for Armageddon with Iran? remember the promises of flexing the full force of the American Navy and the Strait of Hermoos?

Remember all that? Look where we are. Watch what happens as that goes into the summer months, when gas goes up because of summer travel. And the longer this goes on, the more impact this is going to have on real estate, the more impact this is going to have on interest rates, the more impact this is going to have on the job and labor market. on hiring and firing, the more impact this is going to have on transportation, groceries, floating debt, everything.

People will lose their jobs because of this man's crusade on the other side of the world. Vendetta. Mark that down. I want to talk about some highlights from the Pruitt interview yesterday, including the Revenue Sharing Agreement. Almore County allocated $22 million to the city of Charlottesville. What's the Charlottesville City fiscal budget, Judah? It's $270 million.

Can you get that number for me? Charlottesville, Virginia. Budget, it's about 270. Does that come into mind? Deep throat, that's for you, deep throat, Judah. You're talking, I think it's about 279 million. if memory serves correct. 22 million comes from Almaro County

with a revenue sharing agreement. As we confirm, yep, it's 280 million. I said 279, so I'm right there. $280 million. What percentage of the budget comes from revenue sharing? What do we at, like 9%? I mean, you're quicker at math than the 280 times 0.09

is 25 million. $280 million times 0.08. We're talking 8% of Charlottesville's budget comes from revenue sharing from neighboring Almero County in a dinosaur-dated archaic agreement about annexation from generations ago. made a fantastic point. All of us should be making this point moving forward. As Al Morrow County's economic vitality becomes more momentum driven, we know it will, biotechnology, AstraZeneca, new jobs, biotech Beltway connecting Merck to Eli Lilly with Almaro County as the runway, as the foundation of that that way as that vitality becomes more significant ladies and gentlemen are we just going to fund all of charlisville's budget when does eight percent start looking like 20 percent when is

22 million dollars start knocking on the door of 30 million dollars 40 million dollars and and how how fat and lazy does that make charltsville and its government knowing can count on 8%, 10%, 12%, 15% of its budget from its neighbors for doing Jack Diddley because of a dinosaur agreement. When do you cap it? Cap was the word utilized. Of course, Charlottesville doesn't want that. And how about the scuttle butt, the chitter-chatter, the rumor mill that has City Hall

and Charlottesville and city councilors preparing to ask of Almarl County for $10 million in taxpayer contribution for 2,000 holiday drive, the homeless shelter. That is now well over $20 million in expected costs to construct this shelter. Well over $20 million now. I'm hearing it's a $10 million ask waiting to happen. I passed that along to Mike Pruitt clearly the first time he was hearing it when I mentioned it to him. And he was flabbergasted and taken aback by a $10 million potential ask of Charlottesville. How about the comment Mike Pruitt made, Judah, where he said,

I found out for the first time. Almaro County Executive Jeff Richardson found out for the first time that Charlottesville was purchasing 2,000 holiday drive on the news, on the I Love Sevo show. Remember who broke the news about 2,000 holiday drive and the fact that Charlottesville City Hall and Charlottesville City Councilors had brokered a deal to purchase the 27,000 square foot office building next to the Aberdeen Barn, the brick Georgian office building that you could see from the bypass.

We broke that news on the program because we were close to the deal makers. We were the first to let you the community know about this purchase. Pruitt yesterday said, I heard about this for the first time here. City Hall and counselors did not even pick up the phone, not even a phone. call, not even a text message, not even an email, not even a little shoulder tap, hey guys, we're buying this $6.2 million

office building that's 27,000 square feet, literally on the city county line to build a homeless shelter, not even the common courtesy to let them know. They heard about it on the I Love Seville show. And now the expectation is a $10 million

ask of the county. I want to talk about that on the program. I want to talk about the revenue sharing agreement. I want to highlight how the revenue sharing agreement is basically a vehicle for fat and sassy Charlottesville. You've had the fat and sassy at Dr. Hose in North Garden, right? I mean, that delicious cheese bread that's cut into individual sticks, it almost reminds me of gumbies. And remember, pokey sticks at gumby's? This is for the OG in Charlottesville.

When I was a student at the University of Virginia, when we got after it on the UVA corner, when we closed down bars, Coops or the Biltmore or Buddhist or the Virginian or Orbits or O'Neils, some of these bars have been rebranded. O'Neills is now Trinity. Orbits is now Boilin Heights. Buddhist is now Croze Pizza at Buddhist Biker Bar. Coops is still the same. The Biltmore is now Ellie's Country Club.

But when my posse, our crew, we were closing down bar. and we had the munchies for a number of reasons, a number of reasons. It was gumbies and pokey sticks that we ate. Fat and sassy at Dr. Hose, very resembling, very symbolic, very nostalgic of pokey sticks. That fat and sassy brand, perfect for that cheesy appetizer at Dr. Hose. And the ranch dressing is the best ranch out there, bar-nodon period. Don't at me on that. Don't at me on that.

that fat and sassy moniker and brand, that's what's the behavior that's being bred by this revenue sharing agreement. I want to talk about that on the show. I want to talk about some other highlights from the Mike Pruitt interview today. I want to talk on today's show, ladies and gentlemen, about Jay Jones. Jay Jones twice this week has made to, you know, to look what, weak? Yeah. Lacking foresight.

I mean, just, I mean, what do you call it when someone continually tries something that's not going to work? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just strikes out. Yeah, it just strikes out over and over again. Jay Jones is like the kind of like nerdy guy who goes and asks the super hot cheerleader, the captain of the cheerleading team. Can I get a date with you? Ask her on Monday.

She shoots him down in embarrassing fashion. and then Jay Jones on Wednesday goes to the same captain of the cheerleading team with the same pickup line and the same suggestion for what to do that evening and she says, dude, dude, I'm dating the quarterback, the point guard of the basketball team,

the captain and the squash team. We're not doing algebra two trig and so-katoa at 7.30 and a Friday evening with you. What's Jay Jones doing? We'll talk about that on the program. as it applies to redistricting and gerrymandering. I would imagine we're going to get a response from the Virginia Supreme Court soon. I mean, there's a deadline tomorrow.

What do you think they're going to have a response soon? I mean, do a little research. Look at what the deadlines, the deadline that's on the horizon tomorrow. We'll talk about that on the program. You should do a little intel there because that's your headline. That's your suggestion. I also want to talk about another business and craft beer here in Charlottesville. that's closing.

April 6, it was South Street. Now it's Murphy and Rood Moulting Company, closing their doors on the 31st of May. We have a list on our I Love Seville Substack. I Lovecville.com. Or excuse me, Iloveceville. com. It's an $8 a month subscription

where we're publishing real estate transactions, what real estate deals have closed, at what price point, on what days, the purchase price, the selling price. No one else has given you that. We're also providing valuable intelligence that's unreported anywhere else. It's $8 a month.

It's the price of a cup of Starbucks coffee. And it's going to get you anywhere from 40 to 50 fresh pieces of content tied to Central Virginia per month. I mean, join the hundreds that have already signed up in the first week at I Love C. substack.com and get content that you can't find anywhere else, including 17 notable Charlottesville area businesses that have closed. We have a running tality and a running list that's only for I Love Seville insiders. I want to talk commonhouse Richmond. The House of Cards is collapsed. Common House

Charlottesville is closed. Common House Charlottesville, I'm curious if it's in the gray area of, it's certainly in that gray area of disingenuous, not notifying members that they're closing, members asking, hey, what about our initiation dues? What about our monthly dues? Will we get a portion of the dues back since you close mid-month? How about the bride who's talking to local media and said, common house won't give us our $6,000 deposit back. Six grand, Common House Charlottesville won't give her back for a planned event there. Crickets on the communicates. where's my $6,000. Now the common house in Richmond,

this news broke earlier this week. I think it was on Tuesday. I had Jimmy Evers from Stanley Martin Holmes on the program on Tuesday. 70 minutes of new construction with Jimmy Evers, the general sales manager at Stanley Martin. Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes,

and let's give them some love? Has built 600 homes in central Virginia. Over the last 24 months, I will give you that number again. There's no more prolific of a developer or builder in Charlottesville, Almaral, Central Virginia, Green County, Fluvanna County, Keswick, then Stanley Martin Holmes. Colonial Circle, Breezy Hill, soon to come in Keswick outside of Glenmore, what they're doing in Green County. Ladies and gentlemen, 600 homes in 24 months for Stanley Martin Holmes, who is building homes the honest way, the communicative way. Dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyles, high quality, single family homes, condos, town homes, design and constructed and innovative techniques, Stanley Martin homes, 600 in the last 24 months.

The Common House News broke Tuesday or I would have reported it to you. got a fantastic email from Holly Foster, the Queen of Henrico, who gets the print edition Holly does. She sends me a picture from the Richmond Times Dispatch this morning, but Common House Richmond announcing a rebrand, the Broad Street Social Club, has changed management. It will no longer operate 303 West Broad Street as Common House. the new brand will be 303 West Broad as of now.

This club is owned by the U-Crop family, yes, of the grocery store fame, the U-Crop family, along with New York-based Mercer Street partners. Both entities will continue operating the space, which will reopen under a new name on the 19th of May. It's going to have new management, a new brand. the members found out literally as the media found out. The change ends Common House's brand in Richmond, which opened in the fall of 2020.

The House of Cards is collapsed. Let's see if it infects, infiltrates, or it's the poison pill that takes down Chattanooga as well, and takes down New Orleans as well. The Richmond location, they're trying to compartmentalize the poison pill, and how they're trying to do that is ownership, the U-Crop family, Jesus. This is the same family that brought the Quirk Hotel to market in Richmond, and the Quirk Hotel to West Main Street.

They've exited the Quirk Hotel on West Main Street. We intimately were a part of that deal. Now the U-Crop family in this private equity group, Mercer Street Partners, is like, dude, we had nothing to do with the proverbial, you know what, that hit the Charlottesville fan. 60 minutes from us. We share a name, but we own this. We have nothing to do with the management team in Charlottesville. We have nothing to do with the founders here in Charlottesville. We're changing the name. We're kicking common house out as the operator that was operating common house in four locations. They're getting

kicked out of our Richmond location. We're finding a new operator. It's going to be called shoot hospitality group. Shoot hospitality group is taking over to manage. of the club. Shoot also operates the nearby Quirk Hotel in the Arts District. You see what's happened here. I'll give you a master class of what's happened. The U-Crop family brought Quirk Hotel Richmond to market, a boutique hotel that's centered around the arts because the U-Crop family is super wealthy and they love to be philanthropic as it applies to art and creativity. They've had success in Richmond. They took the U-Crop Quirk Hotel concept

and brought it to West Main Street in Charlottesville. They realized it was a completely different market. I would imagine it's challenging, running a boutique hotel that charges a ton of money per room, per key, that's directly across from the ABC store and the

certainly gentrifying Fifeville 10th and page and Star Hill neighborhoods. that encompass this $500 a night hotel. Ucrop said, get me out of this. They sell to a New York hotel year who tries to come in with fancy gadgets and technology,

strips the hotel of human capital, and instead says, I want check-in to be tech-based. I want to check-in at these hotels to be tied to technology, screens and gadgets. He didn't realize, what we all already know, when we're traveling and we're spending $500 a night for a hotel room,

we want white glove service. The deal flow I'm hearing in my deal maker circles as Quirk Hotel West Main Street, again on the market for sale. That's what I'm hearing. Short-lived experiment. U-Crop, they invest in common house because they're trying to do

hotels and private clubs and this West Broad Street area in the Arts District of Richmond? They're being a developer, right? Let's get a private social club here and let's get art galleries and let's get a fancy-dancy hotel. They bring this common house brand from Charlottesville to the Arts District in Richmond. And then in the Arts District in Richmond,

as U-Crop is trying to revitalize this with the help of Mercer Street partners, this New York-based private equity firm who also has investment in the arts district with the U-Crop family in a number of different holdings. They see what's happening in Charlottesville, and they're like, we got to get away from this poison. They immediately cut the operator out of the social club in Richmond.

They rebrand it, and then they tell the media, we had nothing to do what's going on in Charlottesville. Let's see if this takes down Chattanooga in New Orleans as well, because this is a nasty, business cancer that's materializing. A lot I want to cover. I'm going to open it up to your comments here on the program. We have another business that's closed in in craft beer,

which we will talk about. We'll talk Jay Jones on the program today. And I'm going to offer you a master class on why Trump is failing in Iran, courtesy of Mike Pruitt, whose profession, his career was in intelligence. he was a military man, retired, intelligent side of military, and he offered yesterday five minutes of masterclass, geopolitical relations, geopolitical strategy based on years of service

on why what Trump is doing in Iran is an absolute failure. So obvious. It was obvious in the beginning. How do you negotiate with terrorists? that would rather die than give you what you want. How do you negotiate with somebody that literally has nothing to lose? How do you negotiate with somebody that has nothing to lose? And that's what he's trying to do.

And now pride and dark triad personality traits are in play. And when pride and ego and sociopathic dark triad personality traits are in play, in negotiation with people that have nothing to lose, that is an absolute recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for disaster. I want to talk about that on the program today. We'll weave you in on a two-shot. Comments are coming in.

I got an anonymous comment that I want to get to here in a matter of moments. Got a number of comments that I want to come in that I want to relay to you, the viewers and listeners. You start. First, what struck you from the Pruitt interview? I mean, Pruitt is, I think he's a great, a great selection for our area. Mike Pruitt is an intelligent guy.

While we may differ on some of our politics, I feel a kinship to him. He seems very practical. He seems very calm. I don't see him I think he got a little bit excited about some of the topics but I don't see him I don't see him

making emotion-based decisions on anything I take him as someone who does all of his due diligence and makes informed decisions and I appreciate that in

any policy politician, one you can find it, because I don't think it's a, I don't think it's the kind of trait that you, you find in quite a few politicians. John Blair, I'm going to get to your comment, deep throw it, I'm going to get to your comment, handsome Hank Martin, I'm going to get to your comment. Fidessa Parkhill, I'm going to get to your comment. Put your comments in the feed, I'll relay. I'm live on air.

William McChesney, I'm going to get to your comment. Travis Hackworth and Danville, I'm going to get to your comment. We'll welcome Spencer Pushard and Ray Cadell to the program, Stacey Baker-Patti to the program, Richmond, Short Pump, Henrico, Williamsburg, Newport News, Croze, Charlottesville, Keswick, Louisa Orange, McLean, Arlington, Eastern Tennessee, Wheeling, West Virginia, the Outer Banks, Western North Carolina, Buckhead, Georgia, all watching the program right now. put the lower throat on screen about the revenue sharing agreement. 8 to 10% of Charlottesville's budget is given to them by Amar County, thanks to a historic dinosaur of an agreement. Here's Deep Throat who negotiates agreements like this, not at the local level, but at a global level.

The global level, deep throat negotiates agreements like this. No BS, folks. He says this. the revenue sharing agreement is one of the reasons I say that Charlottesville should be governing on easy mode. You have 8 to 10% of your budget simply handed to you as an unrequitted transfer. unrequited. Unrequited. Thank you. Love the folks that interrupt you to correct you with pronunciation.

And you have fewer public school kids per household than 128 of 131 of the jurisdiction. in Virginia. Not to mention Seville has all these students from wealthy families who pay meals and sales tax and consume essentially zero in service. Dude, Pruitt straight up yesterday said like, it's time to start talking a cap for the revenue sharing agreement. You heard them say that, right? Yeah.

22 million, Judah. based on annexing from dinosaur age. Yeah. And the chance of annexing was killed permanently not long after the deal was made. Vanessa Park Hill in Ehrlichville. Almore County continues to funnel funds into the city, but the city councilors are not accountable to county voters.

Backdoor taxation without representation. Yeah. Get ready for Charlottesville. City Hall and city counselors to ask Admiral County taxpayers for $10 million for the homeless shelter on holiday drive. 10 million more. 10 million from Almore County.

Are the city of Charlottesville's homeless issues, Albemarle County's problem? Did the city of Charlottesville make its homeless issues, Admiral County's problem, by building a homeless shelter on the city-county line?

Was the city disingenuous at best, actors of bad faith most likely when it purchased 2000 Holiday Drive without giving a notification signal, any communication whatsoever to supervisors and the county executive.

Pruitt said they learned about this Jeff Richardson and the Almore County Board of Supervisors from the I Love Seaville show who broke the news about Holiday Drive because we're a degree away from the deal flow. I want you to understand

what just happened there. Almore County's supervisors and its county executive learned about 2000 holiday drive from the I Love Seville show who broke the news about the purchase.

How do you not communicate with your neighboring jurisdiction and then a few months later go to that same jurisdiction and ask for 10 million How do you not include them in the decision in the first place if you're going to ask for money? I mean... Does this seem like common sense to the viewers and listeners?

It's like inviting someone to a wedding and then telling them when they get there that you're going to need $200 for the food, for their portion of the food. It's like, wait a minute, what? This $6.2 million holiday drive story, this $6.2 million holiday drive story was in the new cycle two days before it was in print, radio, and television, right here on the I Love Sewell Show, because we're a degree away from what happened. This comes in from somebody who works in development and commercial and residential real estate at scale in central Virginia. This individual is asking for anonymity for obvious reasons. This is not deep throat. This is another individual that I trust implicitly, and I see often. You must keep

this anonymous and not utilize my name in any capacity Jerry. You know as a county urban ring resident I used to be cool with the revenue sharing agreement as I used the city amenities a lot and would always take friends and visitors to the city areas. I go to the city less and less as their decisions have resulted in the places I used to enjoy having regressed and utility for me. Revenue sharing is harder to swallow when many county people probably have shifted behavior of similar capacities like I have. The most significant point,

and Supervisor Pruitt is watching the program, I want to commend you again, Mike Pruitt. You coming on the program, I sincerely mean this, Mike. I felt we were, we are less apart on a lot of things than I initially thought. I still believe that you are much, you are without question, much more inclined to tax residents than I. I'm much more of the Fitzgerald Barnes,

Dwayne Adams' mindset in Louisiana County where they cut the personal property tax rate. They literally cut the personal property tax rate in Louisiana County. And they're going to offer a real estate tax rebate next year, they said. A rebate. And that's because of the economic vitality and the taxpayer incremental revenue of data centers in Louisiana. I would love a mindset of Almaro County, economic vitality and incremental tax revenue associated with biotechnology and AstraZeneca and all these new jobs and all this new vitality to yield tax rate cuts and rebates as well.

But I don't think that's going to happen in Amorle. Outside of this one issue of taxing, actually there's two issues. Taxing and the developmental area. I do not believe we should expand the 5% development area in Almoreau County. I don't believe we should trade out what's in the development area, Rivana Village, for locations or territory outside the development area. I think incremental housing, if not managed correctly, could create infrastructure, strain, schools, roads, fire and rescue.

I think we've got to be very, very strategic of what's going on because one of the reasons we love Almoreau County is because it's God's country. It's green. I understand that Biscuit Run was replaced. Biscuit Run was a backdoor tax save with some heavy hinders involved. I get that. And I understand that my former neighborhood, Glenmore, did a really, really good job of making sure that Rivana Village was extremely limited in the development that could happen there.

But we don't want Fredericksburg or Northern Virginia here. Outside of those two things, I think we're very similar in how we look at stuff. I sincerely, sincerely believe that. And his words and usage of caps with revenue sharing made perfect sense to me. And, you know, I've been questioning on this program for so long. Why is Chris Engel in Charlottesville like awful at economic development? Well, do we have an answer? 8 or 9% of its budget comes from Almaro County every year in a check.

And it also knows that, oh my God, AstraZeneca's coming to Almorel. 600 new jobs, starting salary of 125,000 for those 600. Weldon Cooper and the smart people say not only 600 at AstraZeneca, but another 6 to 8,000 people moving to the area predominantly in Almoreal County because it's the largest one with the most rooftops available, all we have to do here, Charlottesville, is just kind of bask in the sun. Like my 12-year-old German Shepherd, Maximus Miller, Max Miller, who finds the sunny spot, lays there all day because he's 84 in human years,

and he just soaks up the sun. Fat and sassy. Why do economic development? when you can fat and sassy at Dr. Hose and bathe yourself in ranch dressing or just chill like Max does in the sun and ivy at our house. Why do economic development? And the most significant point is what happens if that number starts getting to 12%, 13%, 14%, 15%, 15%, 16%. Why need to innovate? I used to make this comment.

I used to make this comment. Charlottesville is the needle driver, the momentum driver for central Virginia. I used to make the comment that Charlottesville was the momentum driver for Al Morrow, for Fluvana, for Orange, for Green, for Louisa, for Gordonsville, for Nelson. I used to make the comment, if you go somewhere and say, I'm from Green or Flavana or Orange or even Al Morrow, people will be like, what? Who? Where the hell is that? but if you made the comment

before August 12th A11 and A12 and you made the comment I'm from Charlottesville, everybody like, oh, I love Charlottesville, I know Charlottesville, UVA, hell yeah, I love Charleston, downtown mall, music, restaurants, I love Charlottesville, yeah, I know where you're from.

Now I'm going to make this comment. Charlestville's not the momentum, the needle driver for Central Virginia. Charlottesville's not the engine that purrs under the hood of the 68 Mustang. And it's now Almaro

County. It's Almaro County that's the V8, the straight eight. And Almorel County is rip roaring and purring. In Charlottesville City, it's like you poured some water in the gas tank and it's El Camino-esque right now. El Camino, who comes up with a name for a car in Spanish like El Camino? Or the Chevy Nova doesn't go. Nova doesn't go. John Blair's coming on screen. Jerry, I'm curious to you. think the idea of a social club not centered on golf and racket sports can be profitable in Charlottesville? Let's see, social clubs in

Charlottesville that are not centered on racket sports or golf in Charlottesville. The Redlands, the Redland Club is one. You know where that club is? A Redland Club? Yep. Next to Court Square. That's one. The Redland Club. A lot of people don't know. There's a private

club right next to Court Square. Fantastic offering. Great little respite, the Red Lynn Club. Go in there, have a bourbon, play some chess, play some cards, read the newspaper, do it in quiet, the Redland Club. He's trying to do a club, this 19 or 20-year-old on the downtown mall, upfit. Is it upfit? Is it uplift? Uplift?

Come on, Judah. Is it upfit or uplift? I don't know. You walk by it. I think it's uplift, right? I'm doing a quick Google. Uplift Training Club. He's trying to do kind of a social club there, but that's heavy workout.

I do not think a strictly social club with high overhead can work in this market. Now, you talk about a garden club that doesn't have a brick and mortar, that could work. You talk about a Kiwanas club. That could work. Now, you do have the, what is it, the, what's the club over there by Darnetal Park? That's a moose lodge, right? I think it's a BPOE, benign and protective order of the Elks.

Oh, it's an Elks. It's an Elks. There you go. The only reason the Elks one is working is because they bought that piece of real estate so long ago and it doesn't have any debt on it. That's why that works. I don't think a social club works locally. I don't think you have the density of people to make it work. And on top of that, the density of people to make it work. And on top of that, the density of people that can afford a club, like Common House, call it $180, $190 a month, plus an initiation fee.

Those folks are at Borset, Farmington, Kesewick. Those are your Class A clubs. Borset, Farmington, and Keswick. There's no club across the board that is offering more amenities and more value proposition for membership. than the Borset, period, bar none. They're backed by a foundation that has an endowment of $15 billion. The most well-rounded amenities offered, period, bar none of all the class A's, is Borset. Farmington may give you a little bit more old money,

and Keswick may give you a little bit more of that white glove hotel service. But for your money, well-rounded, all your offerings, it's Borset. Two, it's probably Farmington because it's the OG. three, it's Keswick because of the White Glove Hotel. Your next tier clubs are what? Glemour, Spring Creek, probably in Tier 2. Tier 3, what? Greencroft?

I'm completely convinced that Greencroft and Ivy is eventually going to have to dissolve its membership and its club status and current membership that owns equity in the club in some capacity is going to vote to sell out to some kind of developer and equity members will get some kind of payout associated

with exit. The dinner model is aging. The dinner model is not a reality. The dinner club. The pickleball courts in the pool and the one Paddle court are okay, but they're not driving revenue.

They just had a general manager embezzling money from the club. That was all over the media. literally the general manager embezzling money. If it wasn't for private events like weddings, the club would be dust. Facts on facts, on facts, on facts. I want to play at the bottom of the show,

a master class from Mike Pruitt on why Trump's war and Iran is failing. I will play that at the bottom of the show. Six minutes, seven minutes? I think it's closer to nine. I was one of the best parts of the show, Mike. It was literally one. I thought Mike was on fire.

Carol Thorpe watching the program. Jerry, we can, she's the Queen of Jack Jewett. The Jack Jewett District. Queen of the Jack Jewett District is not Sally Duncan. Queen of the Jack Jewett District is this lady who's on screen right now, Carol Thorpe. The one-time co-founder of the Tea Party locally. We can kiss any tax relief in Almore County goodbye as long as it It is held in the one-party stranglehold death grip of Democrats.

The last time we got any tax relief was nearly 20 years ago when Republicans Ken Boyd, Ronnie Thomas, and Dwayne Snow made up half the board of supervisors. May God bless their souls. Conan Owen watching the program. For the revenue-sharing agreement, how is the revenue-sharing agreement any different than New York City's commuter tax on workers who live in other jurisdictions?

Charlottesville has lots of policies in common with New York. City. What's the New York City's mayor? Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, Mama, Ma'a. Mamma di I'm Di Aquite. Is it Mamadie di Aquite? The New York City mayor? Mamma di Aquite. What's his name? Sure. What's his name? Mom Donnie. Did I read correctly, let me see if I can find it. Did I read quickly, let me see if I can find it. About Charles Schwab moving its New York City office. I read so much.

I think I read Charles Schwab is moving out of its historically legendary headquarters that it's been there forever to Jersey. I'd have to fact check on that. Conan also offers the issue with Quirk in Charlottesville was not its location or its concept, but the fact it opened right before COVID and didn't have the track record of being in,

business long enough to qualify for PPP or idle loans. The current concept where they've outsource everything to central operators and hardly have any staff on hand wasn't a good fit for Charlottesville's market. Alumni paid top dollar to expect service dot technology. Absolutely. Who's going to spend $500 a night to have to check it on an iPad? Yeah. Seriously.

I don't want to go to Wegmans to go through the self-checkout line. to bag my groceries the few times I go to a grocery store. I'm going to a checkout line and someone's going to bag my groceries. I'm not going to bag of myself. I'm certainly not going to go to a $500 a night hotel and carry Samsonite and my wife's Louis Vuitton and iPad or tech into a digital entryway or security system or a keyless door system.

Carry my banks to the room. I'll give you a tip. Travis Hackworths and Danville. The revenue sharing agreement with no guarantee of return built in is nothing more than an excuse to be lazy with no accountability. But can you blame them really if Almore County leaders aren't pushing to renegotiate that? That's on them equally. 100%. 100%.

The Albor County supervisor should be driving negotiation. Should be driving the renegotiation. of the revenue sharing agreement. And I'm going to tell you right now, you heard it from me first. Viewers and listeners that are watching this program, our crystal ball has proven to be extremely accurate. When the Almorough County Board of Supervisors tries to renegotiate this revenue sharing agreement

or in worst case scenario puts a cap on the revenue sharing agreement in some capacity. Because really, what leverage the Charlottesville have here? You heard it here. That will put an economic, strain on the city as significant as job loss, willow tree going to woolen mills, as significant as failure to recover post-pandemic,

as significant as any headwind the city has seen. This is a worst-case scenario for Charlottesville City. One of those, what do they call them? White elephants are the gift exchanges at Christmas. It's not a white elephant. black swan. What's the second cousin of the black swan? The gray goose?

This might not be a black swan event for Charlottesville City, but it's a gray goose event for Charlottesville City. Anything happening to that revenue sharing agreement for Charlottesville City. Mark that down. That's a gray goose event for the city. Jerry, handsome Hank Martin. The only reason the RSA exists is because BITD, the acronyms. What's the BITD acronym? The only reason the RSA exists is because BITD, the city,

back in the day. Oh, it's back in the day? That's my guess. Okay, I'm, I think you're right. The only reason the RSA exists is because back in the day, I think you're right. The city exhausted the Fashion Square Mall developer with hoop jumping. Fashion Square Mall was to be located where Seminole Trail Center, where Seminole Trail Shopping Center was, is across from Northrop Grumman. The developer approached Al Morrow and moved it a mile out of the city limits. The city did not want to annex at the time

because in doing so, the 39 square miles they would have gained would have altered the socioeconomic of Charlottesville City Council, and they did not want that. Everyone knew that the city gave up nothing in 1982, knowing that the threat of annexation was soon to be eradicated. I know because at 19 years old, I voted against it, and many warned why. What we see now is why.

That's good stuff from handsome Hank Martin. Handsome Hank Martin, you make the program better. I mean that, handsome Hank. Jude, I've been talking. Jump in. Anything you want to cover? Let's see. Yeah, I think that Alamara County should certainly do something about the

revenue sharing agreement. It's not sharing. There's nothing sharing about it. It's a one-way deal. And as you pointed out, it doesn't get them anything they have. As Vanessa pointed out, it's essentially taxing the Albuhral County people to give money to Charlottesville, and they have no representation in the matter. How about when Mike Pruitt yesterday called out Fred Missal?

for being disingenuous. Supervisor Mike Pruitt called out fellow supervisor Fred Missel for being disingenuous with how he campaigned for housing affordability, and then when he supported the advertising of a 15 cent personal property tax rate increase, and then Fred Missal changed his vote to the, no, I don't want the 15 cent real estate tax rate increase,

I'm going to side with Malick and Lipisto-Curtly, to make it a deadlock 3-3 so it doesn't pass. And Pruitt straight up said that was disingenuous of Fred Missal and said, come on, Fred. How about that from yesterday's show? One of the best interviews on yesterday on the Iloops Seville Network, 90 minutes of nitty-gritty for Almore in Charlottesville. All right, we're at the 125-minute market,

and we've got other things that we want to get to today on the show. Is the next one the Kraft Beer Headwinds? Yeah, another business closes. Dude, on April 6, South Street Brewery closes that for 28 years. We have a story at I Loveceville.com for I Love Seville Insiders only $8 a month. That's the plan of attack of what South Street's turning into. The concept, who's behind it? I Love Seville Insiders, get that.

We also have a story on our $8 paywall. behind our $8 paywall and 17 notable businesses that have closed in the last 120 days. One of them is Murphy and Rood Moulting Company. They announced a couple of days ago that they are closing the 31st of May. Murphy and Rood is Charlottesville-based, handcrafted malt, regional grains, unique flavors. These are the folks that are applying the ingredients, supplying the ingredients to the craft breweries. Yeah. This is malt.

These are grains, different types of roasts. Unfortunately, they just announced they're located on Broadway Street here in the city, Judah. Yeah. They're closing their doors. You're talking a business, ladies and gentlemen, that's been in operation for years that is now shutting its doors. Their craft beer. South Street closes.

Just consider the city what's happened in the city in the last 120 days. And I'm not going to give you the full list. This is for subscribers of our substack. I encourage you to subscribe. You'll get 30, 40 pieces of fresh content, 45 pieces of fresh content a month. Real estate transactions, people are lapping them up.

Join the hundreds that have, already subscribed. Just off the top of our head, Judah, the Stefan Freeman Empire, South Street Brewery, this Murphy and Rood malting. I never even heard of, but

and it's interesting, I've been thinking recently about the fact that there's kind of like a how do I put this, kind of like a price race in terms of retail and wholesale and everybody in the chain, for instance, restaurants, whatever else, we hear about people passing the costs down. And you've talked in the past about what was the company?

Croce seafood company. Yeah, crazy seafood company where everything gets passed down. eventually it can't get passed down anymore. Restaurants can't just, you know, can't just charge $30 a sandwich to make sure that everything gets paid, everybody gets paid. At some point, the buck can't be passed any further. So what really surprises me about Murphy and Rood malting is that they're one of the middle, they're one of the middle guys.

They're not at the end point anywhere. And typically, as I said, you know, The prices get passed down until they get to somebody that can't pass them down anymore. Crozay seafood company straight up said this gasoline crisis that we're in is going to cause businesses to close. And they said, look at us as an example. All our vendors are passing on diesel and transportation costs to us as new line items on our invoices. Yeah. So the fact that we use 1,500 gallons of propane a week, they said.

We cannot pass these costs. to customers because across the street from us is a Harris Teeter that has economies of scale, efficiencies, and vertically integrated strategies and techniques and upside that we can't match as a mom-and-pop seafood company in Crozay. So we just have to eat it, but we can't eat it that much longer or we're going to close our doors. And then they said, we provide seafood to a boatload of businesses locally. Others are in the same boat as us. That's literally what Crozay seafood supply company said.

Mike Rodey of Rapture put on the Rapture Restaurant Facebook page that we're behind on our meals tax payment and we're behind on our rent. And he put that in public-facing form on his Facebook page about a month and change ago during the Stefan Friedman collapse. You want to see locally owned businesses collapse in the American economy fracture, you have escalated gas

Donald Trump in the fours for even a few weeks longer. This molten rude company, they transport stuff to breweries. They transport ingredients to breweries with trucks. Yeah. With trucks. I was filling up the family fordicts, explorer this morning at 419 a gallon, Conan Owen, you're going to lose that bet with me.

You might as well bring the bottle of McCallon 12 to the studio on Monday because there's no way by May 25th gasoline is going to get to $2.79 a gallon or lower. Certainly not at the Bel Air on Ivy Road. Certainly not heading into summer. We're now looking at 26 days left. That's our prop bat. Anything that's $2.81.81 or more, I win the McAllen 12. We're about to play a masterclass from a military intelligence veteran, Mike Pruitt, on what this war is doing to America and how unprepared the country looks.

This is literally a guy that's retired military that couldn't say this while in the service, but can't say this, thou, that he's not in the military service. This is what he was trained to do. I have a list in front of me of five additional businesses that will close by the end of the summer. And why I know that is because I'm being asked by the landlords and the business owners to come up with an exit strategy for them, either tied to the lease or selling their business. But guess what? I do not walk on water. I can't take a few loaves of bread and a couple of fishes and feed the hundreds. I cannot walk on water. I cannot rise from the dead.

I cannot take a business that has a couple of months left on its lease that has tough financials and sell it. When you sell your business, and Charlottesville business brokers does this all the time. There's no firm that's selling more businesses locally than the firm that I'm running. Point, period, facts on facts, on facts. You sell your business when your business is crushing it

when you don't want to sell it. You don't want to sell your business. You never sell your business when you're desperate to sell it. You sell it when you don't want to sell it. That's when you sell it. When your business is humming and you're like, why would I give this up? That's when you sell it. That's when you sell it.

When you say, I think I should sell it, but why would I give this up? That's when you contact me. Same idea is buy low, sell high. That's when you contact me. When the saying in your mind comes in, I really, when am I going to retire? I want to do some something else. But why would I ever give this up?

That's when you contact me. So many people are contacting me, Jesus, $4.19.19 oil. Escalated labor. My lease, I have to go into another five-year renewal, and it's at an 5% or 6% year-over-year escalator. Do I really want to commit to another 60 months? The customer base doesn't have any money to spend with us. Our customer account is low.

The year-over-year financials, are flattered down. What should I do, Jerry? I'm like, well, there's three months left on your lease. What are we really selling here? Then you go for an asset sale where you're looking at 50, 60 cents on the dollar. This is, you want to know why Kraft Beer has had wins J-dumps? I'm going to give you a very straightforward explanation. You ready? Young millennials and Gen Z don't drink like they used to. Young millennials, and Gen Z love to Puff Puff Pass

or better yet love to pop some gummies Pints of beer are $8 or $9 for a pint And people are surprised And people are like, dude A 12 pack in the grocery store is A six pack

A six pack in the grocery store is 12 bucks Not even that much, is it? It's 12 bucks A pint is not at the brewery. Persistent inflation, escalated oil, and as one of my buddy said, complacency

over the last generation that craft beer and booze was recession proof. Because forever we've always heard, the only industries that preserve depressions, one of the few is booze.

Well, that's not proven to be the case. and I continue to heal here through the grapevine, another established brewery is fighting for their lives right now. Tina Wyant Breedin, welcome to the broadcast. Nora Gaffney, thank you for watching the show. And you know what? It sucks because this Murphy and Rude Moulting Company,

they poured their heart and soul into this. They're probably thinking when they launched this business, you know what, let's provide the malt, and the grains to the breweries in an industry that has proven historically to be recession-proof. And let's do it in a market where there's not many local providers of malt and grains. Malt and grains. We'll use the Charlottesville Edge as the reason to go into business. Good idea.

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They will deliver it to your doorstep for free, oftentimes the same day. And if you're building a swimming pool, above-ground or in-ground, gun-night vinyl, above-ground, in-ground, water testing, pool robots, pool covers, pool-shape. If you don't call Charlottesville swimming pool company first,

then you're doing yourself a disservice and you're just going to basically light your money on fire. because they're going to give you the strategy to keep you from lighting your money on fire on swimming pools. Trust me, taking care of the Miller family swimming pool over there, and Ivy. Anything else on the show that we need to cover? I mean, a lot of stuff, but... What? The Jay Jones? Is that the last thing? Let's see. I guess we've kind of already gone over the 17 notable businesses.

Common House. We talked Common House. Common House Richmond's rebranding. U-Crop family wants nothing to do with the common house founders of the common house operator. Neither does Mercer Street partners. Not surprising. Yeah. Taking $6,000 deposits from brides and not picking up the phone calls when they try to call them. And apparently, what, not paying rent for how long?

Months behind on rent. And then shocking their members, the lifeblood of their business by closing with an email sent the day before they shuttered their doors and taped a piece of paper to the front door? Yeah. Did they give them back pro-rated dues for the month of April? What's your guess? No. Because my guess is no.

I mean, how is this not in the gray area of, it's obviously like... Fraud? Yeah. Why, how is it not at that point? No, like, seriously. Especially with the $6,000 deposits. I know.

Next headline is Jay Jones. Can we do it in 90s? seconds. Michael Guthrie, Andy Zeman, Keith Smith, thank you for watching the show. Andre Xavier, Carly Wagner, James Watson, Stephanie Fick, Sarah Hill Buchensky, thank you for watching the show. Carol Thorpe. Jason Leffler. Everybody who's anybody is watching this show. Anybody who's everybody who wants

to know about what's going on watches this show. And it's the same thing for the $8 a month subscription on the side. substack. It's a news desert. Jay Jones, set the stage. Well, as many of you may know, we recently had an election. The Virginia Supreme Court, rather than stop the election, rather than stop the vote on redistricting slash gerrymandering, they thought it would be better to allow it to go forward rather than block a vote. However, that did not mean that they were necessarily in line with the reason for the vote. As soon as the vote was completed, the TASwell court judge basically said, no, none of this is certified,

you cannot go ahead with this. And Jones, who had previously attempted to get a stay to stop the, to stop essentially the Republicans from taking this whole thing, to court and was denied there, tried to push forward another stay in order to allow the certification to go through while the, what's it called, the Republicans are trying for a blanking on what the word is. An appeal. He tried to push another stay on the Republican appeal. It was thought by many that the Virginia Supreme Court.

court would go ahead with it, would give him the stay. In other words, the certification of the results of the vote. All right, so here's what's basically happened. 3% margin. 3% margin, Virginians voted that redistricting and gerrymandering should happen. 3% margin, yes. Very, very tight. 3%.

Jay Jones is a Democrat. Jay Jones is trying to cock-block the Supreme Court of Virginia. Jay Jones, the Attorney General of Virginia, is trying to cock-block and eradicate the decision-making power of the Virginia Supreme Court. I don't know about that. Twice, Jay Jones tried to maneuver.

Both times that maneuver crashed and burned. Supreme Court is trying to... It should be making a decision before the state board of elections has to meet tomorrow to certify the vote. I would have thought that this I don't think they have to make a decision based on anything but what they decide to

their meeting tomorrow to certify the vote who is the state board of elections okay I thought the Virginia Supreme Court would have made a decision before tomorrow's deadline to certify the April 21 vote but it has not happened maybe it happens by close of business today I'm not sure why

necessarily because it's muddy it's complicated it's confusing the state board of elections tomorrow is meeting a scheduled meeting to certify a vote except they can't if they certify a vote

tomorrow and then the Supreme Court later says no that certification was not legitimate, it looks like a soap opera. It looks like young and the restless. Alrighty then. You see what I'm saying? I see what you're thinking.

I'm not really sure why you think that. Oh, okay, gee. We're reading the same article, right? Potentially. Okay. Look at the second paragraph that's right in front of you. that's right in front of you. Which which article is this?

Tuesday's ruling upholds the injunction issued by Taswell County Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley and comes three days before the State Board of Elections is set to meet to certify the April 21 vote. Virginians nearly passed the measure 51.7% to 48.3% and last week's special election.

The result, if it stands, would allow Democrats to redraw congressional voting maps ahead of November's midterm elections, a move they say is being pursued to counter Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio. Yeah. Why we don't have a ruling from the Virginia Supreme Court before tomorrow's meeting is befuddling. I still don't know why you think the Supreme Court is beholden to...

Supreme Court is not beholded to anyone. Exactly. The Supreme Court, however, needs to realize that urgency is an issue, that having clarity of this is important to keep Virginia from looking like a bunch of idiots. Because right now voters have said we're going to redistrict. But according to the letter of the law, this vote was not a legitimate vote that should never been allowed to happen. So now it's up to the Virginia Supreme Court to say, do we hold the letter of law to the dotted eye and the cross T, or do we go with the popular vote that was extremely narrow in victory? And do we hold? And do we hold the letter of law to the dotted eye and the cross T? Or do we go with the popular vote that was extremely narrow

in victory. And do we make that decision as soon as possible because congressional candidates need to determine what district they're campaigning and running within? Because they've been dramatically redrawn and readjusted.

I mean, it's... Time is the biggest issue. It's funny, but I'm not sure why the Supreme Court would feel the need to rush a decision. I just explain why. Because it makes the Commonwealth of Virginia look like a laughingstock. This is

literally a national story. They already do. But we can collateral damage and cut the losses here. But that's not the way Supreme Court's work. J-dubs. Okay. Let me try it a different way, okay?

You can try it as many ways as you want. I'll try it a different way. Let's just be a common sense individual. I'm as common sense as there is. This referendum has been a talking point for the entire year. Yeah. Virginia is a

blue state. Anyone with any kind of common sense and were of the mindset that Virginia Supreme Court justices are smart people, right? Anyone with any common sense had to know that this

vote was going to go in favor of redistricting and gerrymandering. As a result, the Supreme Court justices in Virginia probably had a head start on their research and how they were going to a rule because common sense would suggest that it was going to pass in this referendum.

As a result, because of that head start with its research and its ruling, it should not need that much runway to make a decision. A very important meeting is happening tomorrow with the State Board of Elections certifying the result from April 21st. It would make sense that the Virginia Supreme Court that has had an entire... year to prepare for this circumstance would have its decision in before tomorrow's certification. They haven't had an entire year, though. We all knew that this was going to play out this way. That's not true.

I mean, there's a lot, seriously, Jerry, there's a lot that happened regarding this that was not immediately, that was not known about a year ago. Like, that's why. Louise Lucas, the state senator, was literally caught on camera singing 10, to effing one. Did you know State Senator Louise Lucas is selling T-shirts with that slogan on her Twitter account? Well, State Senator Louise Lucas is literally selling T-shirts 10 to Fing 1 on her shirt as a business. Okay.

Everyone knew this was going to play out this way. And you're right. The big, you know what's in the room or the Virginia's state. state Supreme Court. And clearly you saw it when Jay Jones tried to, and Virginia Supreme Court was like, nah. I mean, I've said it put this way that if the Supreme Court were likely to, we're likely to allow the certification and the vote, chances are they would have permitted the stay, the second stay, but they didn't, which means that they may be, they may be leaning towards, towards the same thing that the Taswell court is. I don't see how possibly, and Stacey

Baker-Patti is exactly right. Senator Lucas is an embarrassment. I, I, I, I, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, gross. She's the one that compared U.S. senators to, uh, uh, cuckold. Warner and Kane What did she say? The cut chair? The cuck chairs, she said. Now she's selling T-shirts, no BS guys. Senator Louise Lucas is selling T-shirts

with 10 to effing one on them, on her social media channels. Okay, this is like Trump tactics at a couple of steps above the local level and the Commonwealth. But I do agree with what you just said. about the Virginia Supreme Court. I like to make prop bets.

I know you don't like to make prop bets. In this prop bet scenario, I would prop bet that the Virginia Supreme Court would say this is not right. Yeah. Because by the letter of the law, it's not. That's what the Tazewell Court came up with. Taswell, Tazewell, whatever.

I mean, it's obvious. I'm just surprised we haven't had a decision made already. Why I'm not surprised is because, Because they've known that this was going to play out this way the entire year. But they didn't. Judah, early voting started in March. They had to know that this was going to be, okay, Judy, I'll try a different approach, okay? And then we'll close with Mike Pruitt's master class.

The date of the voting was set as April 21. We knew that the vote was going to be set on the 21st of April. Yeah. Right? We knew midterm elections. we know midterm elections are in November. We know from April to November is just seven months. And we know to have midterm elections

that candidates need to know which district they're running within and representing. So Virginia Supreme Court justices had to have realized that time and urgency was paramount. They've known about the referendum for all of 2026, to say that they only started their research on April 22nd, the business day after the vote happened, is absurd. These men and women do not become Virginia Supreme Court justices

by waiting until the business day after a referendum is decided. But they already decided not to decide before this. Until the vote. They decided to. let the vote. Of course they did. Because you've got to let democracy happen. Now they've got one ruling already saying, no, none of this was constitutional. None of this was lawful. None of this was in good faith. And I think they're stuck. Virginia Supreme Court's not stuck. Yeah. They're stuck. Why haven't they made a deliberation yet? They're deliberating.

So you, you, what's your bet on how this plays out? I mean, they've got to hear, they've got to hear from, it's all about the appeals. How do you think this plays out? I have no idea, but I don't think that they, I don't think they wrap it up quickly just so the, just the election committee can, can certify or not certify the results. I don't think they're feel beholden to anyone's particular timeline. and if they if something does happen that's that's why everybody wants this closed within the next month because if it's not done by May 25th then there is no sixth district there is no change in district

urgency is paramount but that doesn't mean that doesn't mean anything to the to the supreme court because we already have we already have a districting it's we're already already district. Yeah, it would just, we would stay with what we have. Yeah. It's not their problem that the new- It's their problem. You know, the Virginia Supreme Point is appointed by the Virginia

legislator, right? So? Now, they're appointed for extended terms that often outlasts those that are in the legislator. Are you saying that something about their appointment means that they have to vote a particular way? They're appointed by

Richmond, politicians in Richmond. I'm not sure why that's a... They're human beings. They're human beings. I would have expected a result by now. An announcement by now. A ruling by now. Especially with a certifying meeting tomorrow.

Regardless, it's this. Virginia's in the national news and the Commonwealth is, looks like we can't keep our house in order. I mean, how is that a surprise? Right. We've got... It's disappointing.

It's disappointing. To close the program, I want Pruitt's master class on why Trump is failing with his war in Iran. This is eight or nine minutes long. This is a guy that is a retired military veteran whose experience and expertise is literally in what he's talking about. You will see a lawyer who is obviously extremely intelligent speak about a topic that he knows inside and out right here on the program. Nine minutes, I encourage you to watch it.

University of Virginia law school graduate, Mike Pruitt, Georgetown University graduate, Mike Pruitt, Almar County Board of Supervisor, Mike Pruitt, military veteran, intelligence veteran, Mike Pruitt on why Trump is failing in Iran and hurting America and Americans. Three, two, one. How do we, gosh, we could spend an entire week

talking about these last two topics. And the last two topics are redistricting Jerry, and what the heck Trump is doing right now. You totally were right at the beginning of the show. It should have just been like the budget in like Iran. You're totally right. I got to put the meme on screen. Okay.

Can I put the... Yeah, let's talk about Iran and this is. Okay, okay. Put, if you could, put the meme on screen. This is from truth social. This, I honestly, and this is me being authentic when it comes down to it in a lot of ways of the maturity of a middle schooler.

I saw this meme this morning. This made me vomit a little bit in my mouth and I had to swallow it. back down. This is Donald Trump on True Social. I think it's AI probably. With a machine gun or a rifle. Is he wearing sunglasses? Is he in a suit?

What's the headline on it, Juna? No more Mr. Nice guy. No more Mr. Nice guy. This is everywhere now. This is humiliating. Let's talk. What are we even doing? What are we doing? What's the goal? What's the accomplishment? Okay. Okay. I served in the military for a long

time. I'm obviously not afraid of military conflict. and of the idea of America exercising power, but I'm also a Christian, right? You don't engage in violence and bloodshed unless it's in the service of mitigating violence and bloodshed and harm. Strategic intent objectives inform strategy and strategy informs tactics.

I have not been clear for a single second what the United States objective is, because we've been inconsistent in what we've said our objective is. there have been some who have suggested it's about eliminating Iran's nuclear program, which I find a really uncanny, we had effectively eliminated Iran's nuclear program almost a decade ago. Jikpura, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the Iran nuclear deal, had problems. There's a lot of things it didn't do it.

Didn't try and rein in Iranian proxies. It didn't try, their funding of terror in the region. But what it did do is it curtailed Iran's nuclear. ambitions. It created an inspection program and they complied with it. It worked. It also cooled tensions. We were able to de-emphasize the Middle East to focus on our real actual strategic threats in Russia and China because of cooling tensions, right? It was very embarrassing when our sailors in the Riverine detachment were detained by Iranian officials, but our sailors messed up, right? I'm sure people have seen this image and it feels like a black eye, but the truth is

we accidentally encroached on their territorial waters, and they returned our sailors without punishing them. That reflects of massive cooling intentions, and we have thrown that out. We have actually made it more likely that Iran in the future be a violent and unpredictable threat. We have put a more untrustworthy and violent person in charge of Iran. Right?

Mujah Bahamini was not... likely to ever be the supreme leader. His father opposed him, and a lot of the Council of Experts opposed him because he was seen as deeply embedded with the besiege, with the IRGC, with the industrial interests that support the IRGC. He is a violent and mercurial person by his nature in a way that outstrips his father, and he was unlikely to, even with hardliner control of the Council of Experts, he was unlikely to ever be the Supreme Leader.

He is now the supreme leader because of the situation that we created. We have created the necessary ingredients for a more dangerous and unpredictable administration. And the only way we can fully ensure that they don't have a military capacity or the ability of threaten us would be absolute destruction. As in no Iran left, which is not our goals. It would be something that would require a ground invasion. It would require the deaths of Americans, of Iranians. The only realistic, and this is a challenging thing to say,

the only realistic strategic explanation, strategic set of goals, Israel has very rationally been opposed to our cooling tensions with Iran. And I say that setting aside the fact that Israel is a Jewish state, setting aside everything in Gaza, it is a near threat to them that is existentially opposed to them. A rational Israel wants America to continue. to be an adversary of Iran because that gives them additional cover, that gives them an additional ally to turn to. It is the role of a rational American government to identify when our interests

don't align. And I think something we have always seen with Donald Trump is that Donald Trump is easily wooed. Donald Trump is someone who is so willing to not along and repeat the talking points of the last person who spoke to him. I think in this moment we did not have someone who was strong-willed enough in office to say, actually, no, Bibi Netanyahu. This does not align with our interests. This, yes, us engaging in a war with Iran takes a threat away from you, but that is not in the region's interest and that is not in our interests. We did not have someone with that kind of strength to say no, and we got pulled into

a war that doesn't align with our interests, a war that actually hurts our own interest. It is going to be at least half a year. And the thing that kills me, every single part of this conflict has been so utterly predictable. It is the exact way that we could have anticipated this, right? Iran knows they can't defeat us. Control the straight. Yeah. All they have to do is make it so that the political, the global political consequences for the United States are so untenable that we have to negotiate.

And that's exactly what's happened. We knew they would try and deny access to the straight. and ultimately the big thing that they have to threaten us with is mining the straight. So far, my understanding is they've had a very limited number of moored mines, so forcing people to use a channel that they identify. And they continue to have that last trigger. The last trigger Iran still has is deploying significant additional mines, including unmoored mines to the strait,

which would make it so that the strait would be impassable for at least a year. Every Western Navy has an embarrassing. min-sweeping capacity. This is public news. It is something widely remarked on. It's a known blind spot in the United States' naval capacity. It is going to take us months, half a year at least, to clear even the amount of mines that are currently there, meaning we could say anyone can pass it tomorrow. You're not going to have routine traffic because no maritime insurance industry is going to certify passage through the straight. It's going to be too high risk. they're going to lose their cargo, so they don't want to do it.

This is going to affect, this is about one-fifth of all crude in the world. Yeah, 20%. That touches every single part of the economy globally, because we have an economy globally that is built around the idea of logistical interconnection. And so every, every product has like a four-stage process that involves shipping across the country in between each step. So this is a massive price. increase that is put onto every consumer

good in the world. Our CFO, in between the beginning of our budget process and the end of it, asked us to set aside an additional $350,000 purely because of the Iran War, in

budgetary buffer, because of additional cost, additional fuel cost, additional ways that would affect procurement. And this is like a more embarrassing thing. This has a little bit to do with tariffs also, but like we are seeing such cost increases, and especially on consumer electronics. This is being driven by this and tariffs and the AI race,

but all of these things are creating a... My husband, for my birthday, got me a gaming computer, plays Steam games, right? I'm a nerd. I play it in bed. It cost him a pretty penny, I think it was like $4 or $500. It is more than doubled in price in the past two months. It is now a four-figure device. I'm very lucky to have it because it's basically untenable. There's a lot of, this is the only time in American history where game consoles have gone up in price within the same generation.

That has literally never happened in U.S. history. And that's just one aspect of this. It's egregious and it's not clear what the hell the U.S. taxpayers getting out of it, what the U.S. is getting out of it, other than a few dead soldiers. 13. Yeah, too, that was a master class right there. Judah. Master class. So how do we, gosh, we could spend an entire week talking about these last two topics.

And the last two topics are redistricting Jerryman.