The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Highlights From Attorney Walter Smith Interview; Walter Smith Is FOIA Lead For The Jefferson Council

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Highlights From Attorney Walter Smith Interview Walter Smith Is FOIA Lead For The Jefferson Council Highlight 1: Former Pres. Jim Ryan Navigating Politics Highlight 2: Scott Beardsley Contract Info Highlight 3: Bert Ellis & Close-Mindedness At UVA Wingstop Coming To Rio Hill Shopping Center New Rio Hill Owners Paid $52.5M For Shopping Center Update On Coco’s Adventure Factory In Seminole Sq Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

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 Charlottesville. We will get headlines up on screen. It's been a busy morning for our firm. As we were on location at a client's business this morning, I had two meetings prior to that, but we have a lot of news that we're going to relay to you on the program. Yesterday, our 1230 show, because the technical difficulties, did not air from 1230 to 1.30. We did air the program later yesterday afternoon.

Walter Smith was our guest, the lead FOIA. I mean, he's a trailblazer, really. He's handling the Freedom of Information Act efforts for the Jefferson Council. He's a retired attorney, a retired attorney for an extremely high-dollar organization. I think in the interview yesterday, he said at one time he was the chief counsel. for a organization that had more than 4,000 employees. He had a lot of intel and information that he relayed on yesterday's show. So we're going to try to highlight some sizzle reels.

It's what's called in our business, but we'll call them highlight clips, shortened versions of the interview or clips from the interview that we're going to play for you on the program today. These clips, we will play some today and on some on tomorrow's program, I think are going to further drive the new cycle. He talks about Scott Beardsley's contract. He talks Jim Ryan. What's the third clip in a nutshell about, Judah?

Basically, Jim Ryan, selective outrage and hypocrisy. Yeah, selective outrage with Jim Ryan as well. So we'll play some of those for you on the program. If you missed the interview, it's fantastic. We also want to highlight some comings and goings in the commercial real estate world. in November of last year, we broke the news that Ryo Hill Shopping Center was sold. It was purchased by a global conglomerate for $52.5 million in November of 2025. Interestingly, that news has not been reported by any other media outlet.

You would think when a shopping center is sold, like Ryo Hill Shopping Center, I understand we were first to do it, but the legacy media should have also reported on this. 52.5 million it was sold in November. The shopping center assessed at 38 million. The shopping center is the home to Kroger, T.J. Max, Sierra, about 288,000 square feet. There is a new tenant in the shopping center of note that I think you, the viewer and listener will appreciate, Winkstop Restaurant. Planet Fitness Open location in the Ryeho Shopping Center, and now Winkstop Restaurant is on the cusp of opening in the Rio Hill Shopping Center. We'll talk about what is the shopping center that has been completely revamped and remodeled. And since it's been revitalized, revamped, remodeled, the new owners, this global conglomerate is, is attracting, you know, class A type of tenants. The price per square foot has increased and really the holding is much more attractive. We'll also give you, speaking of real estate and update on Coco's Adventure Factory. We spoke with Dr.

Dr. Daniel Halpert, the founder and the vision behind Coco's, he's going to join us on the I Love Seville Network potentially next week. He indicated to us that this project that he's been doing is in the Central Square Shopping Center. The most difficult thing he's ever done in his life, and this is a doctor saying that. And, you know, spending $2.5, $3 million to got a retail space and turned it into a an indoor adventure part is no easy task. Doing that, you know, on your own dime, doing that with the type of overhead that he has, you know, $2 million to $3 million in build-out costs, $25,000 to $35,000 a month in lease, personally guaranteeing the money associated with this project, $34,000 square feet.

I mean, goodness gracious, we've got to give props to this man. I'm excited to welcome Dr. Halpert to the program for a second go-round. I do want to start the program with the conversation I had, and I'm going to keep this off the record for now, who I had it with. Perhaps it will be on the record if the individual that I had this conversation with chooses to come on the show to discuss this. There is a concerning trend that's happening in Charlottesville and Elmore County with governance, where city government, Almore County government,

are choosing to purchase things like all. office supplies, let's just use the office supplies example from vendors that are global businesses, that are Fortune 50 businesses, purchasing office supplies, cleaning supplies, purchasing, you know, the basic tools that you need to run Almore County in Charlottesville City, these purchases should be allocated or should be done with locally owned and operated businesses in Charlottesville now more. I've had this conversation with Conan Owen. He's the owner of Sir Speedy, Central Virginia. It's a great guy. He's a partner of the show. Conan Owen and Sir Speedy Central Virginia, a darting graduate, Conan Owen. If you have a logo

and you need signage, you need Dreckmail, you need the banner behind me, window decals. Conan Owen and Sir Speedy is who you call. The individual I was speaking with this morning was not Conan Owen. It was another individual on our client roster. and what we are hearing from people that do business in Charlottesville and Albemarle is the University of Virginia, Almore County government, Charlottesville City government are not prioritizing locally owned and operated businesses with their vast war chest of dollars. And that is infuriating.

It's a vulnerable economy. I don't care what you read macro-wise in the Wall Street Journal or watch on CNBC. The economy here on Preston Avenue, on Main Street, on the downtown mall, on 29, it is vulnerable and fragile. And for the three largest spenders locally, the three largest spenders, Al Marl, Charlottesville, and UVA, to not spend their dollars locally with locally owned and operated businesses.

It's a big shame on you. So we'll use our influence and our vast following on that. We should pressure city council supervisors in the University of Virginia to change and adjust their spending habits. Judah Wickhauer, were we feeling good with headlines on screen? Just about.

Okay, fantastic. I'm going to weave you in on a two-shot in a matter of moment. So give me the thumbs up on that. This is going to be a kick for me, making sure Amarral, Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia spend their vast war chest of money with locally owned and operated businesses and not sending a single cent out of market to Amazon and Walmart and Target and sent to us and these big box brands. Even the food providers.

I mean, doing a catering, you know how much money the University of Virginia spends on catering? How much money it spends with its department heads to feed associate professors and professors and grad students. All that money should be spent with locally owned and operated businesses. Okay? That's important. Judah Wickhauer's studio camera, two shot, as we're going to highlight some of the clips from yesterday's show with Walter Smith. He's the lead FOIA trailblazer for the Jefferson Council. I caught pros and cons on the interview yesterday, Judah.

Some folks highlight the obvious Jefferson Council with their right-leaning agenda. And I don't think it's an agenda. I think it's just a group that's committed to what they believe is the right path. We may disagree whether or not it is the right path or not. but, you know, I want more groups out there that are offering transparency and pursuing transparency, and that's what the Jefferson Council is doing.

Yeah, no doubt. Walter Smith had an hour on the show. The reason we're talking about this on the show today is because there was some technical difficulties that interrupted the show yesterday. Yeah. We two-shotted with you. Just about. I want to talk about the interviewing totality.

with you and what you thought of the interview first before we play the highlight clips. And we encourage you, the viewer and listener, to listen to listen to the interview wherever you get your podcasting content. What did you make of the interview? You know, I like the fact that this guy is a bulldog and he's not going to give up. And it's not because he wants to find bad things about UVA. It's because he loves UVA. And he wants what's best for UVA.

like a lot of people out there. You know, he's trying to shed light on what, you know, UVA makes some great claims of transparency. And I think he's trying to hold him into that. And I appreciate that. And it's important to emphasize he's an attorney who has the sophistication to pursue FOIA. And the hour interview we had with Walter Smith, He talked Almore County.

He talked Jim Hingley. He talked Jim Ryan. He talked the redacted reports, the redacted report of the triple murder. Yeah. He talked about Scott Beardsley's contract. He talked about UVA health and Craig Kent. Yeah.

He talked text messaging with Robert Hardy, the former rector and Rachel Sheridan, who's the current rector. He talked Abigail Spamberger. The guy has the paper trail of what's going at the University of Virginia, and if he doesn't have it now, he's pursuing it. And he's willing to discuss it.

We'll have them on future shows. I had a commenter on the I Love Seville Network named Mark Brown, who was trying to diminish the Jefferson Council on their efforts by just basically labeling them right-wing nuts. And I push back on that. And I push back on it not to disagree with the guy that the Jefferson Council is conservative or on the right of center,

but I push back on the nuts label. I like to live in a world locally where we have as much content as possible for us to parse through as individuals and to use our judgment to determine what's right and wrong. And to have another voice out there, I think, is valuable. And Walter Smith is that voice. I want to give the viewer or one of those voices. I like to give the viewer and listener some insight into three of the highlights that we're going to be playing on today's show, Judah. Yeah. Let's see. We've got, we've got Walter talking about, talking about Bettinger and leading into discussing Ryan and how his.

Morgan Bettinger. You got to let me know who Morgan Bettinger is. Morgan Bettinger, who was, who was vilified by Zion Bryant for a comment that was repeated to Bryant in, in, in, passing. Black Women's Matter protest on Water Street. He is offered some insight in some intel on the University of Virginia and Jim Ryan on Morgan Beniger. Some insight and some intel on Jim Ryan and how he's trying to navigate the political landscape as the former president of University of Virginia. Yeah. He talks Scott Beardsley in his contract and compares and contrasts it to Jim

Ryan's contract. We talked the UVA health scandal. Other insight before we get to the first clip. I mean, there's some great stuff here. He just talks about, like, I want to get back to the transparency. I think a lot of what he touches on is the fact that UVA talks a good game when it comes to transparency, but when it comes to actual facts, they are masters at hiding information. Should we queue up the first clip?

Sure. The interview you can find in totality on the I Love Seville Network, you can find it on YouTube, you can find it on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, wherever it may be. It did not air at 1230 to 130 during a regularly program, a regular schedule time for programming yesterday because of technical difficulties. We did re-air the interview in full in the middle of the afternoon yesterday. As a result,

and we would have done this regardless, we're going to play a couple of highlight clips from yesterday's interview that we found compelling. We're also going to play some highlight clips on tomorrow's program because it was 60 minutes of content that some of it I had never heard before, and I followed

this stuff very closely, like white on rice or like black on beans. Okay, so a lot I want to cover, highlight clip number one, set the stage, Judah, Wickhauer, and then play it. As I was saying, this is about Morgan Bettinger and how Ryan pretty much didn't do anything because he didn't want to anger the people that he likes on the left. Okay, so cue it up in three, two, one.

Give me just a second. And let us know when it's playing. And it's on. Hold on. Here we go. Oh, yeah. No. Do you really want discovery and those documents to end up becoming available?

No, no. It's, you know, but they've done this with poor Morgan Bettinger, who was slimed by Zionne Bryant. She was cleared by the Office of Civil Rights at UVA. and but student council radicals that wasn't good enough they had to make her take training and Jim Ryan and this is again this is part of Ryan was great at raising money and he was personable but he wanted to be a friend of the faculty and students instead of the president and he also he refused to cross the line to to to make to make make the leftist mad.

And if he had gone in and done as he should and cleared Morgan Bettinger, the activist would have been mad at him. So he didn't do it. And he let her hang. They settled with Mattine Goldstein. I assume they settled with Robin Hadley. I think they put the blame for Christopher Jones on her. But, you know, UVA said they didn't, they couldn't discuss.

the guns. And that's, I'm sorry, that's a lie. They had police power. They had the ability to go in there. Everything, there's deflection, there's not quite the truth to keep these. And it just, for me, why don't you just tell me the truth? All right, so that's the first highlight clip from yesterday's show we want to play for you. And again, the interview in totality on the I Love Seville Network.

If you want to watch it, check it out on YouTube. If you're a podcast, it's on any of the podcasting platforms. It's about 60 minutes long. Those 60 minutes is information that a lot of that information is stuff that I had not heard before. Okay. And if I had not heard it before, I would say a very good chance that you, the viewer, and listener, have not heard it before because I follow this stuff very closely. This guy is a retired attorney who is spending much of his free time doing exhaustive FOIA

efforts with the University of Virginia. And he said on yesterday's program, he oftentimes gets roadblocked by UVA, but he pushes forward. He said in yesterday's interview, one of the foias costs thousands of dollars that the University of Virginia charged him thousands of dollars to do the foia.

And then he compared it and contrast it with the foyer he did of the Attorney General's office, which was like $70. So he's clearly indicating, these are his words and not my word, that the information that he's getting from a public university that's supposed to be transparent and public for everyone to read and see that UVA is roadblocking him as much as possible.

I want to play a second highlight clip, Judah Wickhauer. You set the stage from the second clip for the viewers and listeners. This is discussing a bit about Scott Beardley's contract info. Scott Beardsley, the newly minted president at the University of Virginia. Does he compare and contrast it to Jim Ryan in this clip? Yeah. Okay. That lower third that you have on screen,

the highlight clip two, highlight clip one, can you put that over the sizzle reel when it airs? If not, no big deal. Not easily. Okay, then let's just keep the name plates on there. Is highlight clip two ready to go? Just about, there we go. Okay, queued up in three, two, one.

And just sweep these things under the rug. But, you know, in my real-world experience, I didn't hesitate not to pay people if they did wrong. I'm sorry, you're fired. And I would say, you know, should Jim Ryan have been fired? The contracts for the – I did get Scott Beardsley's yesterday, I think. Very interesting. It has some differences from Jim Ryan's. But they're incredibly, wow.

Then you get tenure for life at 75% of your pay. Beersley, his salary is $1.3 million. His post provisions are 60% or the dean of the business school, whichever is less. Very interested. But in the real world, if it's really ugly, yeah, you'd settle. You wouldn't settle at full payment of paying out the whole contract. You know, there's usually enough, yeah, do we really want to have a fight over cause?

To me, what's alleged sounds like there's enough for cause. Well, I don't want to jump to conclusions, and you're more experienced in this department. than I am. Just from my standpoint, it seems like you allow the resignation and you do the payout with a caveat or contingency that there's some kind of non-disclosure agreement that's ironclad that should the NDA be pierced in any capacity, there's financial payment, repayment, or retribution to the university, which is the leverage UVA has for Kent keeping his silence. Because if you fire Kent, so in that second sizzle reel right there, We're talking about Jim Bryan's contract.

We were talking about Scott Beardsley's contract, and we're referencing the resignation of Craig Kent. I asked Walter Smith, the attorney, this question. We understand at UVA health, there's a, and I'm going to continue to use the word alleged here, so I don't get myself in trouble. But alleged is starting to seem like it's pretty clear cut, especially when 128 doctors go on a warpath, you know, citing medical chart changing to maintain rankings and performance standards.

And 128 doctors go on a documented warpath, a paper-trailed warpath, talking about medical malpractice and fraudulent billing. And doctors, you know, we now have third-party law firms saying pediatric oncologists were demanded to do, unsafe bone marrow medical procedures on children that were sick and stricken with cancer. Without the proper equipment. Without the proper equipment, infrastructural personnel to perform these surgeries. Okay. So we have medical professionals. I am just a guy with the microphone saying this is red flag.

Okay. So I asked them the question, if you have all these people saying this, why was Kent not fired the CEO who resigned of UVA health system. Instead, he was allowed to resign. And I have been told, and I have been told by now multiple people about this, that he got a significant payout, his contract paid out in full. I've been told to the tune of $5 million, the embattled, jettisoned former CEO of UVA Health,

was resigned in a nondescript Board of Visitors' Meeting after a third party law firm report was presented to the board of visitors, he then resigned. I've been told that it was a $5 million contractual payout and a non-disclosure agreement that was signed by Kent that was extremely ironclad and buttoned up. Should he have pierced this NDA in any capacity, there would be punitive financial damages.

Okay, so they've basically like luck and keyed him because of a $5 million payout. A $5 billion payout for an organization that's top line revenue, you know, many billions and billions and billions of dollars per year is absolute peanuts. This is called collateral damage minimization. This is called hedging risk is what they're doing, right? So I asked him in that highlight in that clip why Beardsley, why Craig Kent was Craig Kent, why Craig Kent was not fired, instead was allowed to resign. and then he also starts mentioning Beardsley and Ryan's contract and how they're different. I believe you have a third highlight clip that we can play on the show for the viewers and listeners.

Yeah, I've got a third clip that's about Ellis and... Tell them who it is. We don't want to jump to conclusions. Burr Ellis. They don't follow it as closely as we do. Former Board of Visitors member. He was let go to put it nicely. by Governor Glenn Yonkin.

He was fired by Glenn Yonkin, the current governor, who's the current governor for, what, 48 more hours? I think Spanberger swore it on Saturday, I believe. Go ahead. Yeah. And fired for... Malfeasance? Supposed malfeasance.

And just he talks about some of the... some of the just nonsense that goes on at the school, the closed-mindedness involved in what's going on. You have that clip ready to go? Yep. Viewers and listeners will take your comments after playing this third and final clip. We'll do a couple more clips from yesterday's interview with Walter Smith on tomorrow's show at 12.30 p.m. Here's the third and final clip of today.

Judah, three, two, one. I have another new one today that UVA used to tape the Senate faculty meetings, faculty senate and the executive committee. Well, for some reason, they stopped taping them. So I discovered that the videos of the meetings weren't there for the last two academic years. And I said, well, I'd like you to send me the videos. and this, no, we stopped doing it. And they stopped doing it because we uncovered in the, when they want to censure Bert Ellis,

oh, well, we don't want this to appear to be political, so we need to frame it that it's all about student safety. Because, you know, Bert, who's like a 510, normal-sized guy wanting to cut a sign off the lawn. Oh, my, such danger. Christopher Jones can have a gun in his room, and yeah, well, we'll look the other way for that. But Bert, oh, my, he's a threat.

Just the hypocrisy. And so there was another one where, and this one really offended me, the guy taught Bert at business school, and they've gone through this long character assassination, to finally get to their point. And then this, he goes, yeah, well, Bert really loves UVA from 50 years ago. And they all, they think they're so, it's impossible for them to be wrong and they're so right.

And they won't even listen to a contrary viewpoint. It's the closed-mindedness and the way they draw ranks. And I think that's also So Third and final highlight clip What struck me from that is the no longer recording

of the faculty senate sessions. Yeah. Talk about transparency. Why stop doing that? Why do you do something like documenting Senate faculty

sessions, faculty senate sessions, and then stop doing it. If it's not for a concern that there's some watchdog out there that's going to highlight the comings and goings of the university. If you're worried something you say

might be used against you, then you make sure it doesn't get recorded. Yeah. We'll play a couple more highlight clips on tomorrow's episode of the I Love Seville show on Friday. The show airs Monday through Friday from 1230 to 130. I think you've seen folks that if there's a media platform locally that's dictating the pace and tempo of the news cycle or the content that you should be reading, watching, listening, absorbing, it's this platform.

Like I'm watching right now two newspapers, TV stations and radio stations vetting what we're talking about on our talk show. I see them on the show. Like we see them on the show. What would intrigues me also about this storyline is the immediate stigmatization of the organization that's doing the foyer, the Jefferson Council, and how they, by a large portion of the alumni base or the community locally or the professors, the associate professors, the dean, the staff, the Board of Visitors, are just being stigmatized as so far right-leaning that whatever efforts they're doing should be discounted.

I counter that, and I understand that the Jefferson Council is right-leaning. But I push back on that narrative with this. All they're doing is foyering information and publishing it online. Yeah. They offer commentary, in these FOIA efforts with Walter Smith, the attorney, all he's doing is getting the documented paper trail from the university, and then they're publishing it online for us to parse through. Yeah, whether it's this report, whether it's the, you know, whether it's the FOIA of like 900 plus

pages of text messages. There's no, there's, how do I put this? They're not, you're not, putting your own spin on there can't be an agenda with FOIA yeah because you're just presenting agenda with FOIA presenting information as it is recorded you you literally are just taking information the communication

of a university that has a yearly budget of more than $5 billion probably sniffing $6 billion a year the budget of the University of Virginia per year six billion with a B the largest land

real estate owner in Almorel County in the city of Charlottesville, the top employer in central Virginia, the driver of the economy. Sleep with one eye open here, Judah Wickhauer. The driver of the economy, and all they're doing is getting information and publishing it. You're saying I should be worried about someone coming to my house late at night? Sleep with one eye open. Just so everybody knows, I've got my house rigged up like Kevin. From home alone. Don't touch that door not. Yeah. Don't touch that door not. Yeah. You It's not going to be an M that's burned into your palm. It's a W, damn it.

You better be careful coming after me at night. And watch out for those paint cans, that tarantula, the iron, those Christmas ornaments, that nail, and goodness gracious, the dude at his house has got a zip line set up with an oak tree out the back door if it comes to it. And he'll run to the basement next door with the old guy with the beard. And that guy will slam you in the face with a shovel. exactly i guess highlight clips on tomorrow's program as well the interview in full walter smith the foyer lead with the jefferson council

anywhere you get your content your podcasting social media content all you have to do is search the i love seville network the i love seville show and wednesday january 14th episode it did not air in full it did not air 1230 to one 30 because we had technical difficulties, and that was demoralizing for me. Judah can speak to this here. I put my heart and soul into this. And while this is not the revenue generator for our firm, it is what we're most known

for our firm. This brand, this talk show we created, the I Love Sebel show, is what we're most known for. We make our living working alongside clients and helping them gain market share and drive incremental revenue and brand awareness, either through strategies, offering our consulting services, real estate, through venture, throughout people buying and selling stuff. We basically make our living through solving problems.

But this brand has taken a front-center lead. And because we're so emotionally invested into this, good, bad, and ugly, goodness, five or ten minutes before the program, you want to hear a level of stress that's going on in this shop? It is off the chain as we're doing our best to come on air at 1230 p.m. Oftentimes at 1231, 1232, 1233. And I know you, the viewer, enlisted, because you tell me, are asking, are they going to come on or not? We apologize, we're late.

So when a show yesterday doesn't go on, as I expected it to, especially a big interview like Walters that I had promoted in advance, it's disheartening and demoralizing for me. But Judah came up with an amazing idea to air the show in totality later in that day. And now together we came up with this strategy of airing highlight clips from the show on today's program and tomorrow's program, clips where we vetted the transcript. We read the transcript of the show and said these are tidbits that the highlights that the viewers and listeners should hear. If they don't catch the entire interview,

they should catch these highlight clips. So we'll do that again tomorrow. We'll cherry pick three of them, J. Dobs. All right, a couple of items I want to get out of the notebook. And before I get to the items, John Blair and Deep Throat have comments. Let's go to John Blair, number two, in the family. Saw John Blair yesterday.

his son was playing fantastic squash on the glass court at the MacArthur Squash Center. His son's turning into a fantastic squash player. Goodness gracious, as a parent, I'll say this out there, as a parent and you love your child so much, I got a, I got a shiner on my eye right here. If you look at here and you've been wondering why this week, I've got the remnants of a black eye on Saturday morning, Saturday morning is my day to sleep in. Sunday morning is my wife's day to sleep in. We have two, and I say this tongue in cheek and with much affection,

two terrorists for children. On Saturday morning, I get to sleep in, Sunday morning my wife gets to sleep in. So on Saturday morning, my three-year-old, our three-year-old, walks into our bedroom, doesn't like that dad's sleeping in. He probably wakes up at 5.15 in the morning, grabs one of his tonka trucks while daddy is sleeping

and slams it as hard as he can. my face, a Tonka truck on the side of my face. I look up, wake up after he's Tonka trucks my face and he's sinister laughing next to my bed. And you know what's so wild about being a dad? While I was angry and my face was throbbing and I was feeling incredible pain, I picked him up, hugged him, put him under the covers and we ended up watching a full episode of Paul Patrol. immediately after he talked a trucked my face. And speaking of John and his son playing on the glass court yesterday, as a parent, goodness gracious,

is there anything more stressful than watching your son or daughter put themselves out there, whether playing sports or a music recital or a spelling bee, or reading a writing poetry that they've created themselves, or reading Bible verses in front of the synagogue or the church? I guess you're not reading Bible verses. at the synagogue. Torah verses. Yeah. Is there anything more stressful for a parent than seeing your heart, your heart that is walking

outside your body in trying to figure out life, put themselves in a vulnerable position where they could feel stress or pain, highs or lows? And, you know, his son, John's playing squash, deep throat son's playing squash, our son's playing squash. You take a sport where it's just one person playing the sport. you don't necessarily have a team around you. It's akin to a kid who's got one second left on the clock and his team is down by one point

and he's got two free throws to make to either send the game into overtime or help his team win. That's basically what an individual sport like squash is like. Soccer football, basketball, depending on the position, you can get lost in the shuffle. An individual sport is like your kid is the kicker on the football team and he has to bang home the football through the uprights

with no time on the clock. And if he does it, the team wins, and if he doesn't, the team loses. That's what an individual sport is like. I've never felt that kind of stress. I felt more significant stress, more significant stress, but the kind of stress associated with saying,

my kid, our seven-year-old, do some kind of vulnerable thing like that. John says this, his photo on screen. I think you can make the FOIA request if you wish concerning Craig Kent. I hereby request all public records that record monetary payments from the University of Virginia. Its agents, employees are contractors to Craig Kent from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025, including but not limited to checks issued to Mr. Kent. I have no idea what you'd receive, but that's a possible FOIA request for you.

So John's talking about the Craig Kent FOIA. University of Virginia, Walter Smith, the attorney, is literally right now doing a FOIA on whether Craig Kent was paid out, what he was paid. out with his resignation. Jefferson Council that's watching the program, print television radio that's watching the program, you should be asking these questions with your investigative reporting. This is what I would be doing. At one time, 18 years ago, I was a print radio and television reporter. Now that's not how I make my living.

I run a consulting firm. I'm a deal broker, someone who drives and creates venture opportunities for clients. I don't do this anymore. But I would be asking these questions. I would be saying, was Craig Kent paid upon resignation into what amount? Was his contract paid in full? I would be asking this question. The non-disclosure agreement that he signed, what does it look like?

What can Kent say? Was Wendy Horton or Melinda Kibby paid in any capacity upon resignation? Were they required to sign a non-disclosure agreement? what did they sign? I would be trying to discover, and this is something that literally puts the health system in a vulnerable position. What are the risk exposures with Medicare and Medicaid? Yeah.

And fraudulently billing. Unless they just don't care because everybody does it. Is it so commonplace fraudulently billing that Medicare and Medicaid is in cahoots with the hospitals? and gray area billing, fraudulently billing, medical chart changing, all that. Okay? I would want, we should know that. We should know that.

Yeah. Why was Craig Kent not fired is what we should know. I really want to know that. Why was he allowed to resign and paid out like we're hearing, as opposed to fired, which would appear there's many reasons of cause to fire the man? No doubt. The Scott Beardsley contract, you should be foying the Scott Beardsley contract.

If I was negotiating the Scott Beardsley contract on behalf of Beardsley, we were told Scott Beardsley's office watches every single one of our shows. You saw it, right? Did you not see it? Yeah. That we were told that. The Beardsley contract, whoever negotiated the contract and the guy's the former dean of the business school. Yeah. This guy is a sophisticated businessman, Scott Beardsley, right?

He is a former what? C-suite or close to C-suite, a vice president. Find out what he was at McKinsey and Company, the consulting firm. Just Scott Beardsley, McKinsey and Company title. C.S. CV or his resume? Beardleys, this is his first rodeo. When he is terminated, if, I should say if, if, if he is removed as president of the University of Virginia.

I would imagine he negotiated a contract that offers him a significant payday where the contract is paid in full, and he is offered a percentage of compensation for X amount of years after he is removed, if he is removed, of President of University of Virginia. I would never have taken that job if I was Scott Beardsley, the former dean of the Darden School, unless I had some key caveats in my, contract and those key caveats were a scott beers they've been told his office is literally

watching the show now that his contract is paid in full within x amount of days being removed if it happens from spamburger lump sum payment that's a great deal he can no longer go to the dart and dean position because he's been replaced at darted by another person yeah so he then needs some earning potential protection moving forward where he gets a percentage of his presidential salary, which was more than Jim Ryan, according to Walter Smith, the interview yesterday, a percentage of his yearly compensation

moving forward for X amount of years. That's the only way I would have taken this job if I was Beardsley, and Beardsley's no fool. Do we have his position at McKinsey? Yeah. He became a partner in 95, a senior partner in 2000. He served as McKinsey's head of talent development and co-founder of the McKinsey Academy.

Okay, so this guy's a... stud here. Obviously he's a study of the president of the University of Virginia. He's a former dean of the Darden School. We got a stud here, okay? No way in hell this dude took this job unless there's contractual protection.

You've probably got a platinum parachute. Yeah. So I would, I want to know Jefferson Council, you should be doing this with your FOIA, Walter Smith. I want to know what Beardsley's parachutes are. Financial parachutes.

Should Spamberger remove him from the president's office? And I would bet you it's contract paid out in full lump sum within a short time after Spamberger or the BOV removing him. And then a percentage of that contract, 75% above, paid every year for X amount of years. Media, FOIA, do this. Deep Throat, watching the program. Deep Throat, I feel like the one thing that comes out of the interview with Walter Smith is that that Jim Ryan was an easily intimidated weakling. He was rolled by Craig Kent.

He was rolled by Diana Bryant. He was rolled by everyone. That's what struck me deep throat says from that interview with Walter Smith. You want to touch on that, Judah. I mean, it makes sense. We always wondered. I think for me, one of the big questions was,

why did they just roll over when the state police came in and pepper sprayed students. Like, it ended up looking like he called them in, which doesn't make any sense at all. We know that he was aligned with the interests of protesters. And so it seems like he just went along to get along. I'd like to know this. Foya, Walter Smith, Jefferson Council, Jefferson Council watching the program.

I'd like to know this with your four. efforts, Jim Ryan, who resigned, right? Mm-hmm. As part of his resignation, what's the NDA suggest? What is the NDA limit Ryan he could say? Now, he did write that letter throwing Board of Visitors members under the bus. He threw Paul Manning under the bus. He threw Rachel Sheridan and Porter Wilkinson under the bus.

He linked them when he wrote that 12-page letter, Jim Ryan, airing the dirty laundry to the Department of Justice and MAGA efforts in Donald Trump. He didn't throw Glenn Yonkin under the bus. Jim Ryan's got a financial parachute of generational significance. What was a part of that financial parachute? FOIA, Jefferson Council. That eight or ten minutes of me talking, the last eight or ten minutes of this show, Jefferson Council,

I suggest you clip it, air it on your media platforms, and then use it a checklist of what FOIA you should do and then provide it to the world and we'll discuss it on this platform and make it go viral. Because the council may be labeled as right-leaning, and they are right-leaning. And in today's world, being labeled right-wing or right-leading is what did you say in the meeting today?

I thought it was so intelligent. Right-wing is like the red-headed stepchild of the red-headed sister of what? What did you say? You said it so beautifully. I think I just said, No, it was like right wing, racist, and then. I think I said being labeled right wing is a hop-skip and a jump from being labeled a Nazi.

No, no, this is how he said it. You said being labeled far-right-wing in today's culture and climate and society is a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from being labeled a racist, and that's a hop-skip-and-a-jump away from being labeled a Nazi. I mean, I wouldn't mean. And here's the thing. I wouldn't go so far as to as to, call it far right.

I mean, there are some pretty nuts on the far right and the far left. Okay, here's the thing. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. I apologize for interrupting you. Finish your thought. I apologize. I just think that you don't even have to be a far right wing Republican.

Just being labeled a Republican nowadays is almost tantam out to being a Nazi in some people's minds. It goes like this. Here's the spectrum of labeling on the right side of the aisle. It goes center aisle, you get scolded, especially in the Charlottesville area, if you're center aisle, if you're conservative, you're yelled at.

If you're Republican, you're screamed at. If you're a MAGA Republican, you're scathed. If you're far right wing, you're stigmatized. And if you go, center aisle, Republican, no, center aisle, conservative, Republican, Magid Republican, far right wing, then as Judah said, this society and climate and culture, you're a hop-skip-it-a-jump from racist, and from that point a hop-skip-it-a-jump away from Nazi. Okay.

And maybe the Jefferson Council is in the temperature of leaning is conservative, Republican, in some cases, far right. but one thing you cannot say about the I Love Seville show and we have a proven track record is labeling us in any capacity. We go after the Republicans, we go after the conservatives, we go after the Democrats, we go after the libertarians, the socialists, the atheists, the Protestants, whether you're black, right, Puerto Rican, or Haitian, it does not matter.

One of my biggest pet peeves, pet peeves is putting it very lightly, but one of my biggest pet peeves it's hypocrisy. And I will call it out wherever I see it, whether it's someone that I admire or someone that I despise. And that's why if you watch this program, that's why people watch this program. Unafraid, unabashed, unfiltered, and unaffiliated. That's it. Unafraid, unabashed, unfiltered, and unaffiliated. So when those foias come out and that checklist is crossed off and that content is given to us,

We'll talk about it. All right, two items out of the business notebook. First, the Rio Hill, lower third on screen, if you could, please. We broke the news on the I Love Seville show that a global conglomerant purchased the Rio Hill Shopping Center in Charlottesville for $52,500,000. $52,500,000. It was purchased by Cohen and Steers in a joint venture with Philip Edison and company. $52,500,000 deal, significant deal.

You're talking to 288,000 square foot shopping center. Since that purchase, the center's been remodeled and revamped, and it looks absolutely gorgeous. At one time, this center was a dump. It was a dump. Now it's gorgeous. They've secured Planet Fitness, a second location for the Charlottesville area, and then the braking uses the wing stop, if that lower third's on screen. A wingstop restaurant coming to Rajo Shopping Center.

And on that note, we're talking real estate, and we're talking business comings and goings and clients and deals we're a part of. How about Coco's Adventure Factory and Dr. Daniel Halpert, the founder? We spoke with him on the phone. He's scheduled to open in March or April of this year, 34,000 square feet in the Seminole Square Shopping Center, trampolines, rope courses, bumper cars, zip lines, Ninja Warrior course, a drop tower, which is a big tube that rises up and drops you down. LIDs, LED slides, ballpits and arcades, a cafe, a birthday party, birthday party rooms, a parents lounge, coffee and tea, alcohol is to be determined.

34,000 square feet. The buildout costs $3 million. Bank that's financing it is M&T Bank. Chuck Rockin, the landlord, 10-year personally guaranteed lease. rent 25 to 35,000 a month. That's a big bite of the apple. But Charlottesville needs things like this. I would love to go on a ninja warrior course.

Of course, I'm getting a little old. Dude, you have the balance of a mountain lion. It's because I'm short. The dexterity and balance. Weebles wobble, but they don't fall down. Well, you got the balance of a billy goat and a mountain line. If a billy goat, a mountain lion had a baby, it would be Judah Wickhauer.

You know why they call them the young cowers? What's the saying? It depends. The young cowers saying. Yeah. Sometimes we're called the young cowers. It depends on what we want to goof off about. But yeah, we all look young.

Coco's Adventure Factory opening in March or April of this year. Dr. Daniel Halpert's going to join us on the show this month. We're excited to work alongside Daniel Halpert. a fantastic business he's bringing into market. Seminole Square Shopping Center is going to have Coco's Adventure Factory in an experiential

business. It has Seville Smash with Chris, was it Chris Crater, Colleen Shear, Lauren Cabo that owns Seville Smash the indoor pickleball facility. And it's got Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, owned by Brent Liller. So just like that,

a shopping center has been revamped from selling stuff on shelves to experiential with three various businesses and three of its primary units in the shopping center. Well done. No doubt. I can't wait to check it out. We'll give some love to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. They're approaching 62 years of proudly serving this community.

62 years for Charlottesville Sanitary Supply of serving this community. They just launched a sister business, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, Charlottesville swimming pool company is the concierge or the consultant for anything swimming pool related. When you have 62 years of experience working around sanitary and swimming pools and water testing, building indoor and above ground pools, outdoor pools, you put that experience to use and you help families and commercial organizations and outfits and homeowners associations and apartment complexes and condos make swimming pools better, more optimized. The only person you call for that is Charlottesville swimming pool company.

It's the family that's been in business for 62 years with Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. The Vermilions are honest, like kind. The kind of guy I want to drink a bourbon with next to a fire while eating some venison. The vermilions. John don't know what I'm talking about there. Judah Wickhauer crushed it today. He's a metronome of emotional consistency where I am a, lightning rod

storm tossed sea a stirred hornet's nest of emotional consistency and like that we make a fairly good team uh juda what coward jerry miller the i love seaval show don't miss real talk with keef smith tomorrow at 10.15 a.m.

John Ralston the real estate attorney's on the show and so is Scott Morris the the real estate lender on the show along with Keith Smith tomorrow's show with John Ralston Keith Smith and Scott Morris, the collective combined experience, along with yours truly, is over 100 years of real estate experience and deal-making experience, ladies and John.

Over 100 years of deal-making experience on the 1015 a.m. show tomorrow. And then at 1230, more highlight clips from the Walter Smith interview. There's no one doing media like this. And advertisers and businesses that are watching the program, there's no platform that's reaching more people in the region than our platform. period period no platform reaching more people than us

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