The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - CVille High School Has New Cellphone Policy; The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Of The New Policy

Episode Date: December 4, 2024

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common sense. Are you throwing shade at people with common sense? Good Wednesday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Siebel Show, a program where we'll talk the market of common sense. We will talk

is it easy to throw shade on Charlottesville, Virginia, yes or no? Judah Wickauer says it's quite easy to throw shade. I'm going to push back on that. He says it's the city that absolutely does sleep, where I say from a content and news cycle, it's a city that does not sleep. Really?

We'll talk on today's program, the Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce. The building is now under contract, and they are heading to the closing table. That's a little bit of just breaking news, just news that was recently released. Right across from where our studio is sitting, an institutional office, 3,000 plus square feet at a fantastic location. Is that Fifth Street over there, the corner of Market and Fifth, the Chamber of Commerce building? Cadty corner from the Market Street garage,

where parking is very easy to find. The building now under contract and the chamber is shutting down tomorrow. Any kind of interaction or touchstone point at that location until they move to their new location, which they are leasing. It is a new chapter for the Charlottesville Chamber of Commerce. We'll talk about that today. Mr. Bill McChesney, thank you for watching the program. Offer your perspective on the topics we cover today. We want the show to be interactive. We want it to be as much Judah's opinion, my opinion, as it is your opinion, the viewer and listener. Challenge us. Offer commentary, topics for the program. We love that. We just want to be the water cooler of conversation in a town that I love, evidently a town that Judah wants to throw shade against over there. We'll talk on today's program a tweet from Jerry Ratcliffe today, the star of the Jerry and Jerry show.

In fact, I am now going back to my first boss's Twitter account. First boss I had. First time I worked for him at the University of Virginia, rising third year. Hootie Ratcliffe on Twitter says that Tony Elliott said today that he does not anticipate any changes to his coaching staff at Virginia. I was, I had to read that tweet three times, and I literally just went back to the Twitter account and read it again because I am so shocked that Tony Elliott is not making any changes to his football coaching staff. Despite having the least amount of wins of any of the power conferences,

Tony Elliott has the least amount of wins over the last three years. On today's program, ladies and gentlemen, Logan Wells-Claylow, thank you for watching the show. We'll talk what Charlottesville area business should be launched in 2025. Judah, you have some ideas on that? What Charlottesville area business should be launched in 2025. We'll talk on today's program, Time Magazine ranks UVA the number three public university for future leaders. Another damn ranking for UVA? Good old UVA? Ladies and gentlemen, whether you want to believe this or not, these

rankings have a significant impact on who applies at the University of Virginia and then who later chooses to stay in Charlottesville to launch and run their businesses, which clearly is having a gentrifying impact on the community. Not just Charlottesville, Alamaro County, and Central Virginia, guys. We'll talk a new cell phone policy today, a cell phone policy that basically says this. If your son or daughter at Charlottesville High School gets caught using a cell phone during school hours, we will take it away from them. We will put it in the principal office's drawer. And then their mommy or daddy has to come to the school to pick up the cell phone we won't give it back to the young man or the young woman who got caught on tinder or bumble which one do you want you to is it bumble on snapchat on tiktok which

one are you on is it bumble that you're on? Yeah. Someone connect with Judah on Bumble. Come on. Connect with Judah on Bumble. Like and share the show. I want to give our friends at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply Judah some love. We saw John and Andrew Vermillion today. Fantastic people. Generational business. Three generations. The Vermillions at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply on East High Street. 60 consecutive years of businessilions at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply on East High Street, 60 consecutive years of business operation serving the Charlottesville community. John Vermilion, a Chamber of Commerce Small Business Person of the Year, quite a significant honor for Mr. John Vermilion. We'll also give some props to our friends over at Mexicali Restaurant, J-Dubs. River Hawkins and Johnny Ornelas have created a cocktail bar, street art museum, music venue,

and a Latin fusion culinary paradise. Mexicali Restaurant, old world of beer location on West Main Street. Studio camera, then two-shot J-dubs. A lot I want to cover on today's program as I thank Warrior AG for retweeting the show and Ginny Hu for retweeting

the show. Albert Graves, I love when you watch over and Ginny Hu and Deep Throat on Twitter. I love when folks subscribe to our YouTube channel. That's a fantastic place to watch the program. YouTube seems to be the most stable connection from a video quality consistency of all our social media channels.

J-Dubs, which headline most intrigues you? First, it's Wednesday. Hump Day. Hump Day. It felt like nine degrees when I was walking the family german shepherd this morning got up uh got up uh this morning alarm went off at 5 45 in the morning hustled downstairs my my responsibility with the family one of my responsibilities

is moving the elf on the shelf his name is is Dash, to a new location every morning. I scurried under the cloak of darkness, taking the path on the hardwood floors that created the less cracks and crinks and noises when you walk on the hardwood floors, because I was hesitant to wake our six-year-old, who eagerly sprints out of bed as soon as he hears noise. And he sprints out of bed, Judah, to find where Dash, the elf on the shelf, is located. I quickly shuffled Dash from the mantle, where the family pictures are located, inside a stocking that is hanging from the mantle next to the, is it garland? Is that what's the green stuff that you hang on the mantle?

Yeah. The garland my wife has put on there? I mean, it's usually, yeah, I guess garland is kind of like an un-wreathed wreath. Un-wreathed wreath? Yeah. Very good. There you go. I respect that. Dash hanging from the stocking. As soon as I'm

done putting Dash in the stocking and start making coffee, my wife's getting the lunch ready to go for our first grader. He sprints out of the room and says, where's Dash? Where's Dash? I literally made it by the skin of like 35 seconds. Now remember, the key with the elf on the shelf with your kids is they can't touch the elf. They can only look. If they touch the elf, he has to go back to the North Pole. And the elf is always watching, so it creates a need to be on your best behavior for the month of December. A lot we're going to cover on today's program. Which headline most intrigues you today, J-Dubs? I'm surprised that the Charlottesville school system is going to make parents drive all the way to a school and pick up the kid's phone.

Is that a place to start on the program, the new Charlottesville high school cell phone policy? Sure. Recently released. Do you want to set the table? Do you want to put down... When you set the table, where does the fork, the program, the new Charlottesville High School cell phone policy? Sure. Recently released. Do you want to set the table? Do you want to put down, when you set the table, where does the fork, the knife, the fork and the knife go in relation to the plate? I would say fork on the left, knife on the right. Exactly. And the blade of the knife, should it be in, facing out from the plate, or facing into the plate? Out? No, sir. In? The knife blade is facing in toward the plate.

The fork on the napkin or next to the napkin? I'm an uncultured swine, so. On the napkin or next to the napkin for the fork? On the napkin. On the napkin. Yes, sir. I'm a graduate of three years of cotillion. Did you do cotillion growing up?

Is the napkin on the left side? Oh, my goodness gracious. Maybe that's why you're not getting the connections on Bumble over there. You ask on a well-watched talk show, is the napkin on the left or the right side? It's on the left side of the plate. It's probably when they ask me if I know what a cotillion is and I say no. And that's the last I hear from them. That was funny.

That was really good right there. You don't know what a cotillion is? It's like a sweet 16 for upscale kids. No. No? That's absolutely incorrect. That's called a sweet 16 party. Is that a little close?

No, it's not close at all. It's not even in the same ballpark. A cotillion, my friend, is a rite of passage often for middle school students where they learn proper etiquette and manners, where they learn dancing, where they get to dress up and socialize, where they have in group setting almost quasi-social functions and dates with the opposite sex. Cotillion, you learn how to midnight waltz, you learn how to cha-cha, you learn how to sit and eat properly,

you're often showing up in a jacket, button-down shirt, tie, and some slacks that are iron. The young ladies dress nicely. And for, what, six to eight weeks each calendar year, it's a rite of passage. I think you were talking literally about a sweet 16 birthday party. Which is also a rite of passage.

But that's not what cotillion is. I had no idea. I've never had one or been to one or been in a place that held regular cotillions. Viewers and listeners, are you familiar with the concept of cotillion? Is that a Southern thing? I would say it might be a Southern thing. I would say that's fair. It is a Southern thing.

Would you say Charlottesville High School is abiding by the right social etiquette with its cell phone policy? Again, the policy is this. If you are a young man or young woman at Charlottesville High School and you get caught using your cell phone during school hours, your phone is taken away from you. I respect that. They take

the phone away from you. The phone is put in a drawer or a locked area. Wherever they put them. Wherever they put them. And then, at the end of the day you can get the cell phone back with a caveat

that caveat I mean the caveat is a parent has to come and get it that just blows my mind how many parents are free when school gets out there it is do they have to is somebody going to be there when the parent gets out of work?

Does the parent have to drive in the next morning? It just seems odd. We all know that, I mean, yes, parents are going, this is a way to make sure that the parents are. Engaged? Not so much engaged, but... Involved? Holding their sons and daughters accountable with not bringing the phone to school? Aware of what's happening? Should I continue?

The parent is obviously going to be annoyed, and I believe the hope here is that an annoyed parent will shift that anger towards the kid and hopefully ensure that the kid behaves himself with their phone. But what I see happening is parents just getting annoyed with the school, especially if you have a kid who is a repeat offender. I mean, yeah, obviously the parent is going to want to take the phone away from the kid, but if they don't, then they just end up having to drive to the school a bunch of times. It seems a little odd. Deep Throat, I'm going to get to your comments in a matter of moments, including your thoughts on Tony Elliott not making any coaching staff changes,

your thoughts on Tony Elliott, not making any coaching staff changes, your thoughts on Deep Throat. What is your, if your moniker is Deep Throat and your son's moniker is High Voice, you're referencing your wife here in this message. What should I call your wife? Son is High Voice, he's Deep Throat. I don't want to reference his wife by first name. What is your wife's nickname?

He's got some commentary on cotillion Ginny who is very quick to hold me accountable she says Jerry watch your mouth there's kids watching easy on that elf talk kids are listening with their parents Oh deep throats wife's name her moniker is the professor the professor wanted high voice to do cotillion and deep throat slammed his foot down emphatically and said, there's not a chance in H-E double hockey sticks that high voice is going to do cotillion. I'll live in bumpkin Dixie, but I'm not making my son do this bumpkin bumpkiss. Did I say that right? Can you say it three times fast?

Bumpkin bumpkiss? Yeah. Bumpkin bumpkiss, bumpkin bumpkiss, bumpkin bumpkiss. Dude, that is a reason to connect with Judah on Bumble. I didn't even know I could say that three times fast. You did it perfectly well. Thank you. Asking parents to retrieve their son or daughter's cell phone

after it's been hijacked by administrators or teachers is crazy. To the point that Judah has made, how many parents have the freedom of schedule to go and do this? Here's the next question. I am a grown-ass man most of the time, and I feel a level of anxiety and stress when my phone is not on my person. Where's my phone? Where's my phone? I can't

find it. I can't see it. I can't hold it. I feel stress. If I went a night or evening without my phone, work, sports, social media, emails, photos, I would be probably not a pleasant person. I can't imagine what a 14, 15, 16, 17, or 18-year-old is feeling when it comes to their lifeline of communication, their phone. And if their parents can't pick it up from the school that day because it was taken away from them, what is that child doing to their parents at home? I'll take it a step further here. Let's talk about the social equity piece of this. Let's talk about the families, the kids that have their phones hijacked, and it's a one-parent household. A one-parent household where that parent is working multiple jobs to pay the bills. How's that parent expected to go in to get their child's phone?

Whether we want to admit this or not, a cell phone, an iPhone, an Android, whatever you want to call it, whatever kind of phone you use, is more than just a form of communication. It's someone's identity. It's someone's digital DNA. And to build on what you're saying with the equity portion of this, and this rule being particularly hard on as you said uh single parent families or even just families that uh you know that work different hours uh you also have the issue of okay part of the reason they're still letting kids even bring the phones to school

is i would assume the fear there's... The fear. There's the whole... Well, no, there's the whole... Everybody wants to be able to contact their kids or contact their parents or whatever. Yeah, and the fear in case something is happening at the school, the parent wants to be able to contact their kid to make sure they're okay. Bill McChesney says,

Your wife's new nickname is CEO. Running in the house, deep throat, Bill McChesney says. Finish your thought. Kevin Higgins, you're on deck. So while I'm not sure how often kids should need to be calling their parents or their parents calling them while they're at school, what about after school? If the parent is not able to come pick up the phone, what happens to family communication

when the kid all of a sudden no longer has a phone? And what, they may have to leave it at the school for days because the parent isn't able to come pick it up? It just seems misguided. Viewers and listeners, let us know what your thoughts as you rotate those lower thirds on screen. Marlene Jones watching the program. She said, Jerry and Judah, Charlottesville High School students and their parents

have had a year to get their act together. She says, figure it out. Appreciate that comment from Marlene Jones. Love when you watch the program. Vanessa Parkhill, let us know your thoughts. I'm very curious of what your thoughts are as someone I respect tremendously on this program. Kevin Higgins, the mayor of Greenwood.

The new cell phone policy will eliminate students making videos of the riots and teacher beatings that have happened there. I support no cell phones in school, but I guarantee you videos played a part in this decision. You're about to offer some commentary there, J-Dubs. I don't know if it's going to stop those things, because the kids are still allowed to have their phones on them. Well, they're allowed to have their phones on them, but they can't use them during school hours. Yeah, but come on. If there's an altercation in the hall and 20 kids pull out their phones and start filming it,

do you really think a teacher is going to prioritize walking around and confiscating 20 cell phones rather than breaking up whatever is going on? Okay, I'll push back on that. If the video is posted from a young man or young woman's social media accounts about something that happened during school hours, can administrators vet video content, post video, and offer punishment to those kids? That's not part of the rule. Hey, this is...

First of all, it's not currently part of the rule second does it really does it really do any did is there really any point in taking someone's phone a day or two after they posted a video proving that they what used their phone in school well i'm are we gonna head for the day are we gonna head to a world where there is a cell phone policeman that is essentially scouring social channels, or maybe it's a geofence, a digital geofence around the school that's able to track. There's no such thing. Is there no such thing? IP usage? You're telling me the friends of Seville, the lobbying pro-business, pro-downtown mall group,

is able to track IP addresses from 2017 through 2023 and present to city council from 2017 to 2023, IP traffic on the downtown mall is a million IPs down? I would love to know how they're getting those IP addresses. Greer said it on the show. There's a third party that's able to track that IP address. There's a client of ours. But IP address means that they're connecting to something that's showing that, like people connecting to the downtown mall. I don't think, no, I disagree with you.

I'm pushing back on that. The third party that's tracking IP addresses from 2017 to 2023 is not tracking those IP addresses based on said IPs logging onto the downtown Wi-Fi. Well, then what's the IP address that they're tracking? I'll ask Greer that question. I'll text her after the show. How is the third party tracking the IP addresses?

I had a conversation. Barbara Lundgren and Maria Marshall Barnes, you're on deck with your commentary. Deep Throat may have an answer for you. Deep Throat, you're a smart man. I had a conversation with Mary, the owner of Tools Jewelers. I walked in, was having some work done on a watch.

And Mary's a wonderful woman. I very much enjoy having a conversation with Mary at Tools Jewelers about anything Charlottesville or business or life related. And she relayed to me that there was a salesman that pitched her in a branding, marketing, advertising strategy, where if a person with a cell phone got within X amount of feet of her store, they would be text messaged or prompted on their phone, some kind of call to action to go into tools and spend some money with them.

Highly questionable. Both Mary and I thought that was something that would be a turnoff, a turnoff for a small business owner. Potentially a turnoff, but I don't think it's possible. What are you, of course, how are you talking about? We do this for a living. You know it's possible what are you of course how are you talking about we do this for a living you know it's possible you can do that no you can't just

there's no way to just set a geofence around I love Seville and anytime someone walks by on the sidewalk their phone gets a text message there is no way absolutely ways you can do that how somebody There is no way. Absolutely ways you can do that. How? Viewers and listeners,

have anybody been in an area where you've had a phone, you've had a call-to-action text message prompt based on you being in a certain geofence of said business? That is absolutely doable. If you say so.

We will research it together after the show. The problem is... Karen Wolf and Vanessa Parco, I'm getting to you next. Deep Throat, I'm getting to you. Go ahead, J-Dubs. If you've ever gone into your phone, you can go into settings and you can check the things

that your phone is allowed to show, not map access, but you know what I mean. Yes. Show where you are for certain apps. And most of them are turned off. Even if they weren't turned off, it's not like you or some other business can just randomly connect to one of those apps and get access to your phone or my phone. You would have to be on some app that the business provides and have the app running so that it can access where you are.

And then a geofence is viable. But without that, there's no way me walking by some random business in whatever city, United States, I'm just going to get a text from them saying, hey, you're five feet away. Come check out our deals. I'm curious to see if that's actually true. We will research that. Kevin Yancey says, maybe it's a Wi-Fi ping, J-dubs. Barbara Lundgren has some comments. Let's get some photos on screen.

Barbara Lundgren, the queen of Let's get some photos on screen. Barbara Lundgren, the queen of weddings watching the program, she says, have they tried simply collecting the phones in each classroom? That way they will have them in an emergency. It seems that school shootings are one good reason to have phones accessible. Think about the parents of students involved who cannot reach their child during a school shooting. That is the primary argument we hear for kids having their phones. The primary argument is school violence. The fear of violence, lockdowns, whether real or fake. Actual violence or threatened fake violence. The fear of violence, lockdowns, whether real or fake, actual violence or threatened fake violence, called in violence, and parents wanting to reach their kids is always

the pushback. Youngkin is driving this train here. Youngkin's plan goes into place on January, where there's no more cell phones during school hours at public schools in the Commonwealth. Right? And the pushback on Youngkin's policy is what Barbara just said, and as a parent, I think that it's a viable, viable stance. It's a viable stance. You can make a legitimate argument that before phones, there was still school violence, and parents didn't have access to their kids.

But then the response to that statement is, hey, we've evolved from apes and chimpanzees into humans that can walk on our legs and drive cars and create Teslas and artificial intelligence and robots that vacuum our floors. I think the only thing that phones in schools provide in those situations is a little bit of peace of mind. That's great, but I'm not sure how it actually helps in even the slightest way. Comments coming in quickly. You're carrying the show today, J-Dubs.

You're absolutely on point. We need to get to Maria Marshall-Barnes as you're rotating those lower thirds on screen for the many folks that are tuning into the program. Maria Marshall-Barnes, communication after school is very important, especially when kids stay after for sports. This will be a major problem. I stress my kids to leave their phone often in their backpack because of this. It's a great comment from Maria Marshall Barnes. It's a comment that you made. It's a comment that you made. A lot of kids staying after school. Great comment there. Kevin Yancey, there are cell phone jamming programs available

out there. No need to take the phone. Just jam them so they don't work on school grounds. This is getting a little CIA-esque over there. Dr. Karen Wolf watching the program. I don't think the decision had anything to do with past videos, videos of violence. This movement is among all schools because smartphones affect students' ability to focus and learn. I do not understand why everything has to be all or nothing and so severe. My son's school installed phone lockers and phones live in there during the school day. Students can retrieve them for after-school activities. If found with the phone, the phone is taken and returned to the student at the end of the day. Common sense by Dr. Wolfe. Respect that. Vanessa Parkhill, I would be annoyed if I had to go pick

up my kid's phone, but it's likely I would only need to do that once. I respect that, Vanessa. And frankly, knowing your son, I don't even think you would have to pick up your phone. You would never have had to do this. She also says there are rules in civilized society. There are supposed to be consequences when the rules are broken. Dr. Wolf adds, there are many police and first responders who have commented that when students and parents are calling during an emergency, it can delay the ability of the first responders to respond, both by physically blocking from traffic and phone lines being overloaded.

A hell of a comment right there. Laura Smither-Hawkins, welcome to the program. Love when you watch the program. I want to add this. I want to add this. What happens if the phone is confiscated? And in the process of it being confiscated, the phone is broken

yeah phone is lost i mean the same thing could happen with uh with locking them all up i mean who is responsible if the phone is taken from a kid and that phone is stolen lost or broken is the school then responsible for buying the child, more specifically the parents, a new $1,200 phone? Yeah, that's a good question. I would love to know the answer to that. I would see that same problem with if you just took all the phones at the beginning of class and gave them all back at the end of class.

Right. What if Johnny likes Susie's phone and reaches in and grabs it and pockets it when everybody is grabbing their phones? I would love to know the answer to that. Nobody knows where it went. I would love to know the answer to that. I'm of the mindset that children and screen time is the 2024 version of, of,

of hardcore drugs for kids. Children and screen time is akin to when I was growing up. I mean, this is, this is drugs for our kids, guys. You know, they've got these,

I forget what they're called. They got these pockets. Yeah. Yeah're called. They've got these pockets. Yeah, yeah, the pouches. Pouches. Yeah. Those would seem like they would be the best solution because if you see a kid with his phone out, you say, come here. You put his phone in the pouch, put a lock on it.

The teacher has the key. You give the phone and the pouch back to the kid. That way it's in his possession. You don't have to worry about the school being liable for the phone getting busted, broken, lost, whatever. And at the end of class, you unlock it, take the pouch back, and the kid's got their phone. Comments coming in quickly. Ginny Hu on Twitter. She says, Judah.

She says, J-dubs. They tracked down a bunch of people simply from their phones pinging during the capital area on January 6th. Yeah, but that's not tooled jewelers. That's not the local burger joint. I can assure you this can be done. Okay. I should know off the top of my head what service it is, what third party does it.

I should know it off the top of my head, but I will look it up after the show. She also says, as I've said before, Ginny Who, phones aren't supposed to be on during a lockdown in any way because the sound or screen lighting up can alert the perpetrator as to where people are 100 jenny who you're good people appreciate the comments from from uh one of the key members of the family here on the i love seville show um we have a lot we're going to cover we are alerting you to the new charlottesville high school policy

marlene jones parents concerned about contact with students need to have a conversation with their kids stop making the administration to have a conversation with their kids. Stop making the administration responsible for bad behavior from their kids. Parents need to parent. If my CHS junior needs her parents or grandparents, me, to pick up her phone, she is not getting it back for a week. And that would be wonderful if that was the response across the board with all parents. The challenge is that... But we all know that there are going to be some parents who are just irritated that their precious

had their phone taken away, and they have to come into the school, you know, wasting their time. Deep Throat offering some digital and behind-the-scenes commentary here. The IP address is served by the mobile phone company. Technically, it would probably be IMEI tracking, not IP tracking.

Many services provide anonymous IMEI location data, so you can easily find out traffic on the downtown mall, but serving SMS to people based on location is more difficult. Your argument that you're making over there. I will find the third-party provider here and relay it to the viewers and listeners. I should know that. I should also talk to

Mary about it. She does fantastic service at Tools Jewelers. Fantastic service. I'll close with this. Asking the parents to pick up the phones when the phones are taken from the kids

puts the parents in an awkward position and wastes their most precious commodity, strains their most precious commodity, their time. Yeah. Puts potentially a strained relationship with the parents and the administrators or the teachers who took the phones. Right. And switches or shuffles the accountability from the young man and the young woman to adults.

And that's the most unfortunate aspect here. That's the most unfortunate aspect. And I remember I got in a lot of trouble in high school. A lot of trouble. And I remember various ways my parents tried to hold me accountable for the trouble I got into. One of them was, oh, you can't drive the family 1988 Volvo GLE four-door sedan. You've lost car privileges. Then my parents realized that I drove my brother and I to and from school and after school activities.

And by taking away the car privileges, it created significant additional work for them as they were running a CPA practice. My dad, the CPA, my mom, the front of the house interacting with the clients. And then they said, good God, if we take Jerry, the car away from Jerry, how the heck are they going to get to and from school, to and from soccer practice, to and from church, and all these other things that he's driving Jeffrey to and from to? It's the same circumstance with, hey, you break the rules, I'm going to take your phone from you. Then you realize you're not going to be able to communicate with your kid. If your kid misbehaves with their phone, the parent is punished. Exactly. That's the point I'm making with the car.

Which gives them an incentive to, in turn, punish the kid, but that kind of passing the buck just seems unwieldy. Bill McChesney says, what about something like airplane mode, requiring everyone to be on airplane mode? Kevin Higgins, Meta has new eyeglasses coming out soon that can walk by 20 people and tell you about all 20 of them from birth until now. He says, what is it, geofence? We are all geocaged. It won't change in our lifetime. But I don't think the information it's gathering is

based on phone data. No, it's based on their Facebook profiles. Yeah. It's based pictures. I'll give you a very big tip for the viewers and listeners that are watching this program. If you have your birthday on your Facebook page, take it off. Having your birthday on your Facebook page in public capacity is just information that should not be out there and will make you more susceptible to being hacked. I'll give you another thing. You might know how many people I've talked to that go on, that check like their Robinhood account

or their Merrill Edge account or their bank accounts on public Wi-Fi. You know one of the riskiest places to access the internet in all the world is? Public Wi-Fi at airports. Do not utilize public Wi-Fi as if it was the Wi-Fi at your home. Yeah.

Please. Another thing. One of the most hacked platforms out there, emails. Do not share sensitive data via email. We manage the branding and advertising and media placement for a boatload of businesses in this region.

And we always try to get sensitive information over the phone or, in worst-case scenario, through secure encrypted communication. Never through email. Yeah. All right, next topic on the show. J-Dubs, put the headline on screen. What is it, my friend?

Let's see. What Charlottesville area business should be launched next year? So comments are already coming in on this. One of the comments, first we'll go to number one in the family, says get some adults and have CHS parents delegate to this person as a guardian and this guy or gal can pick up 30 phones a day then sell usage that would be a that could be a big job you take the phone dude this is so crazy this is how my mind works you're an administrator and

i'm joking here please don't take this out of context. I'm joking. You take the phones from the kids during the school day and you sell usage of the phone during the school day, almost as if it was a burner that someone could pick up at the 7-Eleven. And then the phone is returned at the end of the day for pickup.

You're saying you're selling the usage of someone else's phone for the day? For illicit activity. Oh, man. Oh, man. All right. Here's a business idea.

He says, I was just talking to High Voice about this. He's adamant that an indoor airsoft arena would kill it. Nice. Yeah. Surely at one of the dead malls along 29, there could be some cheap space for it. Yeah. I was thinking something along those lines, except with like a, you know, a play emporium.

So it would be. We've hyped this for three years on this show. Yeah. Some kind of fun zone for kids. Yeah. That has bumper cars, go-karts, putting, putt-putt yeah a batting cage skating skating arcade laser tag an epicenter of fun for kids this used to exist what was i asked you this the other day was it berkmar drive yeah there used to be one i believe off berkmar

drive and it had a go-kart track bumper cars a batting cage arcade and other stuff for kids who remembers that there used to be laser tag ladies and gentlemen where dairy market used to be i remember as a first... Starbase Alpha? No, it wasn't Starbase. Fun Land. There you go, Maria Marshall Barnes. That's what it was called on 29.

I remember as a first year at the University of Virginia during pledging of fraternities, I ended up accepting a bid at Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the end of the Mad Bull. And as one of our rushing activities, we pounded beers at what was then, I think, Sharky's or the Firehouse or the Splat House, whatever it may be. And then we went and played laser tag right next door. There was laser tag where Dairy Market was. Where's the activities for adults and kids that are not tied to screens?

Yeah. Bill McChesney said, yes, that existed on Berkmar. Maria Marshall Barnes says it's now a spa. Is that Signature Spa? Vanessa Parkhill said that might have been called Planet Fun. Yeah, Starbase Alpha and Planet Fun were two places. That was an awesome spot.

You could spend the afternoon in a batting cage, driving go-karts and bumper cars. It was awesome. They also had the arcade component, which I'm not as high on the... My six-year-old is asking me all the time for an iPhone 16.

My six-year-old is asking me all the time for... Did you know Netflix is now rolling out video games? There's under settings, under your Netflix profile, you can go to games, video games,

and then it allows you to connect your phone, your iPhone, to what's on screen with Netflix, and your phone becomes the control. And he figured that out through some house guests that we had at our house. They stayed with us for a long weekend. Two couples from Manhattan stayed with us for a long weekend. They're like, oh, we're going to have, they work in finance in Manhattan, right? One couple lives in Queens. One couple lives in Manhattan. One of them previously worked for Blackstone. Now he's in a fintech startup. And they're like, oh, let's hop on an airplane. These people make a lot of money, especially since they're both working.

Let's hop on an airplane from LaGuardia and let's fly down to Cho for a long, relaxing weekend. They call it a long, relaxing weekend in the country. For some reason, I bristle when they say a long, relaxing weekend. I'm like, do you realize I live in Charlottesville? Because you imagine that Charlottesville is a city that never sleeps? Touche, Judah. you realize I live in Charlottesville. Because you imagine that Charlottesville is a city that never sleeps?

Touche. You realize I live, I technically live in Ivy, but I'm right in Charlottesville. It's like a long, relaxing weekend. And then once I bristle when they make that comment, I then have a little laugh inside. Because I'm like, there's nothing relaxing about living with our two sons. They will wake up at 545 in the morning and be 1,000 miles an hour until 730 p.m. at night. Our two-year-old is a rooster. Every day at 545 in the morning, he is screaming, dah!

I wake him up out of the crib. Oof. Dah! Every day at 545 in the morning at the top of his lungs. Say kids, have kids, they say. Have kids, they say. We got talking about some of the businesses that Charlottesville needs.

Some of the businesses that should be launched in 2025. We routinely come back to that planet fund concept for kids. Routinely come back. We've come back to that for years. What are some other ideas, viewers and listeners, that would work for this area? You got any ideas, Judah? I'm thinking.

No ideas? We're in the idea business. I mean... This is what clients pay us for. I think the... I see the roles here. I think a kid's play area is the big one. There was nowhere that I lived growing up.

From Santa Barbara to Los Angeles to Portland, Maine. There was no place that didn't have something that you could go and do. Whether it was roller skating, whether it was video game you know, we've got some of that. But I just feel like for the most part, you know, it's great that we've got a skate park. But I just feel there could be more. I'll give an update on this. And I'm able to speak about this because I asked the permission of the owners who I was having a beverage with at the mill room the other day. The folks that are opening up the pickleball place and the old Marshalls and the Rio Hill shopping center had bumped into them at the mill room, had some beverages. They are making significant progress

and are excited to come on our program in the near future to announce what's going on with an indoor pickleball facility in the old Marshall's location, Rio Hill Shopping Center. Is it going to be more than just pickleball? Pickleball meets sports bar.

So not for kids? Pickleball's for kids? Have you ever played pickleball meets sports bar. So not for kids? Pickleball's for kids? Okay. Have you ever played pickleball? No. What? No.

You've never played pickleball? No. You've played pickleball. You would like pickleball. Pickleball's fun. Okay. Well, excited to get that news out. I also, an item out of the notebook

Next Wednesday, Commonwealth's Attorney Joe Plantania And Charlottesville Police Chief Mike Kochus in studio For about 30 to 45 minutes Wednesday, December 11th On the I Love Seville show Barbara says, cherish these days with your kids They will be gone way too soon As hard as it is, this time flies.

You are 100% right, Barbara. I describe parenthood as this. The best, hardest thing ever. It's the best, hardest thing ever. And the shortest, longest thing ever. And then I also say for any of my friends who are about to have kids, I say crackheads and cavemen have both successfully raised children. And you, my friend, are neither a crackhead nor a caveman. You can do this. That's my pep talk for people. I thought you were going to say, so give up now. Jesus, Judah, it's so dark.

It's not dark. You're telling them, hey, crackheads and cavemen have been doing it for however long. MMB, Maria Marshall Barnes. Was there a Marshalls at Seminole? I know there was a Marshalls at Rio Hill. I think there was also a Marshalls at Seminole. Now Marshalls at Fifth Street. I think there was also a Marshall's at Seminole.

Now Marshall's at Fifth Street, at Fifth Street Station. Bill McChesney, the pickleball court in ACAC, Alamaro Square is in constant use. Absolutely. The pickleball court by Adventure Central. There's a pickleball court in Adventure Central. Friend of the program, Catherine. Catherine, I always mess up your last name, and I apologize. D'Souza is running the pickleball with ACAC, and she's crushing it over there.

She went from a tennis fanatic to a pickleball fanatic. Vanessa Parkhill says, someday you'll reminisce about the days when your little ones called for da early in the morning. Enjoy the ride. I do. I FaceTime my wife and our two-year-old right before he takes a nap every day. Judith sometimes gets the benefit of hearing this. Usually in the 1115 to 1130 marker, I try not to book meetings around 1130 if I can help it because I spend 10 or 15 minutes FaceTiming with my wife and our two-year-old before he takes a nap and my heart melts every time I FaceTime with him. I mean, the Christmas magic my wife is making with the lights outside the house

and with the Christmas tree and with Dash, the elf on the shelf, and with the ornaments that are 43 years old. Dude, I've gotten to the point, I am so sappy right now. The older I get, the softer I get. I am 43 years old. I will get the box of ornaments.

And literally, I pulled an ornament out that said, Jerry's first Christmas. I'm like, this ornament is legitimate and 43 years old. I will get the box of ornaments. And literally, I pulled an ornament out that said, Jerry's first Christmas. I'm like, this ornament is legitimate and 43 years old. I have our oldest son's first Christmas, our youngest son's first Christmas ornament. We do an ornament every year. And every time I pull this ornament out of the box, I get almost emotional. And no, it's not the Johnny Black that i've been drinking that's causing the tears that are running down my eyes it's the feeling of joy and love that i have for my kids and my family maybe it might be a couple two couple johnny blacks

one ice cube don't want to water it down too much all right a couple items left on the notebook um chamber of commerce offices are under contract remember they put it up for sale A couple of items left on the notebook. Chamber of Commerce offices are under contract. Remember, they put it up for sale, the Chamber of Commerce building on the corner of 5th and Market Street. It's been there forever. The Chamber owned that building. Talented brokers, Johnny Pritzloff and Jenny Stoner of Talheimer, I believe, got that now under contract. In fact, I know it's under contract.

I would say that chamber building probably traded in the vicinity of somewhere between, I don't know, eight, nine and a quarter. We'll see when it closes and it becomes public record. The chamber has announced that it's going to close its office tomorrow

and not have any more activity as it transitions to a new space. I don't know where they're going to lease the new space. The chamber is turning a chapter. I'm very curious to see if the new space that leases is in downtown Charlottesville. Do you think it will be in downtown Charlottesville if you had to put a bet on it? Do you want to do a prop bet, Judah? Hell no.

On where the new chamber lease will be? You want to do a prop bet on that? I'm pretty sure it won't be in downtown Charlottesville. Do you want to put a prop bet on it? No. pretty sure it won't be in downtown Charlottesville. Do you want to put a prop bet on it? No. Why? Because I have no idea what I'm talking about. Why don't we put a prop bet? It's a proposition bet. We can bet a bottle

of Johnny Black. Yeah, no thanks. Okay. Why do you say you don't think it would be in downtown Charlottesville? And should the chamber be in downtown Charlottesville? And should the chamber be in downtown Charlottesville? That's a better question. I think downtown Charlottesville,

they'd probably be paying a premium for something that they don't need to pay a premium for. Well, they own that building. Yeah. So why would they move out of a building that they own and start renting or leasing a building that is going to cost more than their needs require? Okay, then I'll rephrase the question. What should the chamber accommodations look like as they head into 2025?

And they're searching for a CEO and president. Remember, Elizabeth Cromwell was there for a CEO and president. Remember, Elizabeth Cromwell was there for a long time. She retired. Andrea Copeland took over the CEO and president position in an interim basis before Natalie Massery was hired. And when she hired, she surprisingly quit in very short time of being on the job. And currently the chamber has been in this leadership purgatory with uncertainty of its chief executive officer, who's also the president and kind of runs the organization. An organization that let's be very straightforward and the chamber would, would, would agree with this. And this is by no means throwing shade.

The chamber is, has an aging membership. An aging membership. What are the accommodations for the 2025 chamber look like? As they said, they have a space that they're about to sign and ink for a lease. I'm the wrong person to ask. Well, you can have opinion. I've never even been in this one.

What do they need? I don't know how many people regularly walk through their doors. I would imagine they need some type of office, potentially a waiting room. And depending on how many people they expect to have working there on a daily basis, perhaps more than one office. But other than that, I honestly don't know what their needs would be or how they would fill them with a particular space. If I was the chamber and its leadership team, and I was trying to young-ify youth in the membership,

I would pursue one of two spots for some kind of leasing environment. Okay. Jeffrey Woodruff's code building that is sexy, modern, and absolutely caters to that young business profile the chamber wants, or Studio X. young business profile the chamber wants or studio x studio x is parking right in front and has availability for group settings if they need it which the chamber does the chamber doesn't need an office in the old school setting anymore the code building has got the that theater room where they can host group functions as well

if i was the chamber i'd do it in one of those two spots let's see what happens yeah let's see what happens next headline is that time magazine as you put it on on screen Yep. What do you want to make? How do you make of this? Another, do you just chalk these awards up to mumbo jumbo? Yeah. Or do you chalk these awards up to legitimacy? It's Time Magazine. Listen to this. Do they even mean anything anymore?

Time, well, here's a better question. Does Time Magazine even mean anything? Time Magazine ranks UVA the number three public university for future leaders. The number three university for producing future leaders, moving it up one spot from last year's ranking. UVA placed number 15 overall in the new list, jumping two spots from last year's ranking. There are 125 schools on the list.

What's the overall list? UVA advanced in both categories, even as time and data gathering from firm statista double the number of u.s leaders resumes analyzed these people include ceos of fortune 500 companies c-suite executives and diversity officers the front runners also come from fields including government artificial intelligence sports organizations, and major mission-driven nonprofits. At least this list sounds like it has some actual measurable, quantifiable reasons for why a school ends up as, you know, 1, 2, 3, 5, 15, whatever.

A lot of these lists, I'm like, okay, did someone just throw darts on a map and choose the places that sounded the best? This sounds like they actually have criteria for their decision, which is... Can so many lists, can being accoladed on so many of these lists actually work against the list themselves for UVA, the honors themselves? Because you're drowning in accolades?

Or is this something to tout and champion like they're doing on news.virginia.edu on UVA Today? I continue to bring the list up because the list will continue to help the university attract the best of the best from an admission standpoint. And some of the best of the best from an admission standpoint will choose like I... I'm not saying I was far from the best of the best, but will follow a path of staying in Charlottesville post-UVA and launching companies. There are so many people I run into in Charlottesville that either went to the University of Virginia and stayed post-UVA and launching companies. There are so many people I run into in Charlottesville that

either went to the University of Virginia and stayed post-UVA or came back because their time at UVA was so special to them. And now they're running high-level businesses or businesses that are hiring a lot of people, driving a lot of revenue, whatever it is, in Charlottesville or Elmore County. That gentrifies the community. It certainly is gentrifying the community. That's one of the reasons I keep bringing up these lists. There's two other items out of the notebook. Are they basketball and football related, the last two? Let's see.

You can one-shot me on this. JerryRackliff.com, best boss I ever had. I haven't had a boss for 17 years, 17 years in May. Jerry Rackliff was the best boss I ever had. He put on had a boss for 17 years, 17 years in May. Jerry Ratcliffe was the best boss I ever had. He put on Twitter right before the show started this. I can't believe this. This was published at 12, 16 p.m. I mean, I know it's fact that he's reporting this, but I can't believe Tony Elliott said this. Tony Elliott said today that he does not anticipate any changes to his coaching staff at Virginia. Jerry Hootie Ratcliffe, the namesake of jerryratcliffe.com. You should see the responses

to this tweet from fans that are absolutely irate that Tony Elliott is not making any changes to his staff, despite having the least amount of wins over the last three years, UVA football, of any program in the power conferences. Tony Elliott said today he does not anticipate any changes to his coaching staff. And then the final topic, the University of Virginia men's basketball team, led by interim head coach Ron Sanchez, travels to Florida, to Gainesville,

to face the number 13-ranked Florida Gators, 7-15 tip-off. ESPN2 National Television. The Virginia basketball team is a 17.5-point underdog. 17.5 points, ladies and gentlemen, Virginia basketball. The line opened at 16.5, so it's actually increased. I follow Brandon Lloyd on Twitter, and he tweets, UVA has not been a 16-point or more underdog in any basketball game since 2011.

2011. Think about that, ladies and gentlemen. Today's show was pretty good. Judah Wittkower carried the show today. Jack of all trades, Jack of all wits connect with the man on Bumble connect with the guy on Bumble can I say that? you already did I don't know if there's any need to ask permission now okay, is it connect?

buzz? pollinate with Judah? pollinate with Judah? thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville show for Judah Wickauer my name is Jerry Miller so long Thank you.