The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - How Does CVille Stop Displacing Black Citizens?; Is Lack Of Govt. Foresight Causing Displacement?

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

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Welcome to the LFCVo Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us the Friday edition of the show. Last piece of content, that's live, at least, for us this week, and it's been a good week. Happy Good Friday to you. Our sons is out of school.

Are the public schools in session today? It's a good question. I don't see why they would let kids out. Public schools are in session. I would imagine. Yeah. Private school, at least our son's school is out. A lot.

going to cover on the broadcast. I ask a favor of you. If you're watching the program, like and share the show. If you're watching the program, hammer the like button. If you're watching on YouTube, subscribe to our YouTube channel, the I Love Seville Network. Tag a friend and let somebody know that the show is up and running. Sarah Williams on YouTube, Sarah Williams 6683 is watching from the Bahamas. Oh, must be nice. She says, so glad I can watch while cruising. Sarah Williams, we appreciate your viewership and your listenership. We are jealous that you're in the Bahamas, but at the same time, we wish you a fantastic time in the Bahamas. We don't know who you are in person, but we appreciate your viewership and listenership, your commentary.

Thank you for tuning into our broadcast. All viewers and listeners are appreciated, and I want to personally highlight Sarah Williams, who is watching on a cruise in the Bahamas, and work on that suntan. I hope you have an umbrella drink in your hand and enjoy the trip. A lot that did not make the rundown, which I'll cover in my opening, monologue. There was a fight. We're not going to show the video on the show. It was a violent fight at Monticello High School yesterday between a Monticello high school student and an adult, a Monticello High School staff member. The staff member has not been identified. Clearly in the

video, it's an adult. Clearly in the video, it's a student. In this video, it's about 30 or 40 seconds. You can find it online if you want. I think Rob Schilling's got the video. Yes, he does. It's about 30 seconds or so. You see a student swinging haymakers at an adult and the adult responding with haymakers of their own against the student. A letter went out yesterday to Monticello High School parents acknowledging the fight happened, addressing the incident. Almar County Police is now investigating the incident. And Monticello, High School's administration has asked students to delete any video recordings of the brouhaha from yesterday. Of course, when adults ask teenagers to delete videos, those videos become viral

and circulate on Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, even more. And that's what happened. And now our show's talking about it. I would imagine Legacy Media is going to discuss it. The curious timing of all this is it's a media. a couple days removed from Charlottesville School Board and activists pushing school board members to remove school resource officers from high schools. Monticello High School on Thursday, school board on Tuesday, 48 hours after activists are politicking and protesting school board members to remove police officers in hallways, a fight of significant proportions happens between an adult staff member and a kid.

Do we need yet another example of why school resource officers are important in public schools locally? No, we do not. Should we ask school board members Nicole Richardson and Diana Bryant to step into today's reality, to get a grip, and to stop bowing to the pressure of activism, absolutely we should. We showed video three minutes on Tuesday's show, actually it was Wednesday show following Tuesday's meeting, three minutes of catty behavior and immature cat fighting during a school board session. And now we had a fight at Monticello High School.

Timing is everything, ladies and gentlemen, and I'll leave it at that. All right, a lot I want to cover on the program. Holly Foster is watching the program. She says I'm watching today on my deck, having a gin and tonic and getting my vitamin D. Early start to the Easter weekend at my home. Gosh, the ladies of the show are living the life. The 12.40 p.m. gin and tonic from the Queen of Enrico. Holly Foster, you live the life.

We all should live, my friend. We appreciate your viewership and listenership. Holly Foster, you are a true gem. Carol Thorpe and Philip Dall and William McChesney watching the broadcast like and share the show. I also want to debunk a rumor that's circulating. It was started by an April Fool's Post by Troy Woodson, who's got a social media following about Jack and Jill's closing. Then Paulie McDaniel, one of the legacy media, do you call them DJs, on-air personalities at one of the country stations locally, ran with, Troy Woodson's April Fool's post

about Jack and Jill's closing, they are not. Jack and Jill's is not closing on High Street. Please, dear God, let's not drive the rumor mill with restaurant closings at a time when food and beverage businesses are struggling to survive.

Logan Wells Claylow is watching the broadcast. She says she's listening to the show while driving home from Charleston, South Carolina. Logan Wells Claylow, we love you. We love your husband, Logan Wells Claylo. Thank you kindly for watching and listening to the show, Logan Wells Claylow. Viewers and listeners, let us know where you're watching the program. I would love to give you a shout out on Good Friday today.

Jack and Jills is not closing. Pauley McDaniel and Shame on Troy Woodson for starting this April Fool's rumor that went viral sadly because that's the nature of social media. I want to give some love to Charlottesville Santeria Supply. And I'd love to give some love to Charlottesville. swimming pool company. They've been in business for 62 years. John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion are the proprietors. The Vermilions are five generations strong in Almorel County. Their business, you can find online at Charlottesanitary Supply.com where they have an e-commerce store

that will deliver inventory to your doorstep for free at no charge at price points that cannot be beat. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast and we want to highlight Charlottesville swimming pool company. Charlottesville swimming pool companies who you contact for anything swimming pool related, including pool construction, above ground or in ground. One last item out of the notebook that's not tied to the rundown. About one hour ago, or at least the news is reporting, that a U.S. fighter jet went down over Iran.

It's unclear if the fighter jet was shot down or went to. down from another reason. This appears to be the first known loss of a U.S. jet in the country since the war in Iran began in late February. Right now, there is a manic and strategic search for the crew of the fighter jet, two crew members, their whereabouts unknown at this time. I pray for these two searches. service members, I hope they are alive. And I pray we find them quickly.

President Trump confirmed midweek in a 20-minute address to the nation that 13 U.S. soldiers have fallen already. I pray these two are not in that count of 13. Please. That's a perspective right there. Those servicemen service men and women, they have families and parents and wives and husbands and children and people who care for them. And the scariest thought of any parent is outliving your children. A lot I want to cover on the show. We'll talk about $4.20 gas. We now have gasoline with a four handle.

This is the first time in the Charlestville area since the year 2022, so four years. we've had a forehandle on gasoline. That number jumped dramatically from yesterday, $3.95 a gallon, where I shop, to $4.20. And I would imagine that that number is going to uptick some more. Eventually, we need to start having the conversation of what, escalating gas, especially if it starts flirting with $5 a gallon, is going to have the impact it's going to have on housing,

the economy, the job sector, discretionary spending in a fragile, fragile ecosystem, economic ecosystem. Now that fragility is getting a boost from Luke Combs this weekend as 60,000 fans are going to be clad in Levi's and Red Wings and tank tops and cowboy hats pounding adult beverages and eating around the bars and restaurants near and close to Scott State. and celebrating everything and anything that is great about the music scene here locally. Judah Wickhauer himself will be in attendance, wearing a cut-off American flag tank top, a piece of straw hanging from his lip, a cowboy hat on his side, tight Levi jeans on his torso,

and red-wing boots to give him that three- or four-inch lift that he has always wanted. Judah Wickhauer at the Luke Combs concert on Saturday. Giddy up and Yehah. Can I get a yeha for your fans? Judah Wickhauer. Yehaw, guys and girls. And let's remember that if you send Judah Wickhauer a piece of fan mail, he will respond with an autographed photo and very near time. Ginny Who sent him a piece of fan mail this week. I'm sure she is eagerly anticipating the autographed shirtless photo of Judah

that's coming in snail mail in the very near future. My friend, studio camera, two shot, it's Friday. You've kicked ass this week. Happy Good Friday to you. Happy Good Friday. Easter weekend to you with your family. I know how important that is to you and our family as well. Spencer Pushard, Carol, Carol Thorpe, Philip Dow, watching the program.

Share the show, like the show, spread the gospel. I ask you the same question, Judah Wickhauer, every single show. So it should be no surprise to you. Which headline intrigues you the most and why, my friend? Oh, let's see. I got to go with, oh, man, so much good stuff. Still, he acts surprise every time I ask this question. Well, it's not like I've been sitting here waiting for you to ask me the question.

I've been getting photos. You literally have been sitting here waiting for, that's the definition of what you've been doing. No. I've been, I got the video if you want it. Handsome Hank Martin watching the broadcast. You do have the video of the fight. Yeah. You can play it?

You have it now? I believe I can. Rob Neal, welcome to the broadcast. Bob Yarborough, James Watson, Bashir, Janice, Boyce Trevillian watching the broadcast. Play the video. This is a fight at Monticello High School yesterday, Thursday. Monticello administration asked students to delete any video content they had of this fight.

So, of course, when the administration, ask students to delete something, they do the exact opposite. They all do it immediately. That's why we don't need SROs at the school because kids are great and they always listen to their elders. What Bonicello High School should have done if they wanted the video deleted is they should have told the students keep the video, keep recording. Don't delete the video whatever you do.

That's what would have led to the deletion of the video. Yeah. We're not going to do what these old fogies say. Is this 30 seconds? I don't even think it's that long. I think it's like 19. Three, two, one. Let's see it. That's it all right. Video's playing. Play it up. Play it again and I'll talk over it. All right. Let us know when it's playing. Look at the screen. Look at the screen. Look at the screen. And I'll talk over it. No. Video's playing. Clearly, you see a student. What are you seeing there?

student, Judith, describe the play-by-play? You've got a girl walking away. You've got a kid. It looks like he's punching someone. Then the guy comes out from behind the door and looks like he punches the kid back. And then... I hope that... Is that a boy that's fighting the male student, the male adult?

That would be my guess. Obviously, the video is not the best quality, but... Yeah. Rob Schilling, good coverage on that. Good coverage on a terrible incident. Yeah. Good coverage on a terrible incident. Why this, it's sad at a number of ways.

It's sad and that's the scenario we're in, but it's no surprise. Students and teachers have fought whether we want to admit this or not for as long as school has been in session. Yeah. And this is no surprise. And this was, this took place at a, in a, what was it, in an area where basically students who have been suspended are kind of, reintegrated. This happened in the school's step program, which is how

suspended students are reintegrated. Something tells me the student is not getting unsuspended. This is the synonymous of Operation Hope on the downtown mall. Why you would put in a nonprofit that why you would put an outfit that specializes in the assimilation of convicts

and criminals on the downtown mall is beside me, but hey, that's the world we live in. Okay. The storyline here is not adult staff member and student in a brawl. The storyline is this happened mere days after activists and protesters, the teacher union head and livable Seaville pressured school board Charlottesville to remove SROs for hallways. The timing could not be better for those who are in favor of SROs and hallways. that's the storyline folks

and that's why we're talking about it on the show a segue into our lead story which we didn't get to yesterday there's two headlines we need to put on screen this is an uncomfortable conversation but it's factual it's what's happening it's realistic the show talks about

storylines whether you like them or not and that's what makes this show work Judah why are black and brown taxpayers and citizens being displaced or pushed out of Charlottesville and Almaro County. Why is this community becoming less diverse? Because we've got a new, well it's not so new anymore, but we've got a zoning ordinance that is essentially making the cheapest land

the best place to build. And the fact of the matter is it was, you know, they created the zoning ordinance in order to expand the buildable area due to, you know, obviously zoning issues with neighborhoods where you can't just tear down a house and put in a hotel or an apartment complex. The problem being that, of course, with the new area available to be built on, people are going to choose the cheapest plots of land. All right, here's what's happening. Absolutely. Here's what's happening.

The University of Virginia is becoming less diverse, and it wasn't that diverse to begin with. The Trump administration's eradicated DEI from UVA, So each class over the next handful of years that is admitted to the University of Virginia will become one that is more academically gifted, but certainly less diverse. And last check, the UVA student body was a huge portion of the city and Almore County population. Secondly, as Judah highlighted, the flexibility of the zoning ordinance has made it much more likely that neighborhoods and dirt, and black and brown communities are going to be targeted by developers for student housing. Without question, that's happening.

The most obvious answer is the HUD median family household income. It's 125,800. We learned on Real Talk with Keith Smith. The next meeting family household income metric to be released will be on May 1. So that is, in 28 days, 22 days, our 27 days, we'll get the updated median family household income metric. It's 125,800 right now. The frontline jobs are being eradicated, and I want you to consider this.

The frontline jobs, one of the difficulties with filling service industry, sales jobs, hospitality jobs, music industry, catering jobs, nursing jobs, police jobs, fire and rescue, EMT jobs, transportation drives. These jobs are difficult to fill. Imagine the difficulty of sourcing these jobs, finding people to fill these jobs as gas becomes more expensive. If folks working these jobs were already living away from the epicenter of employment, right?

They cannot afford Charlottesville and Almore on the urban ring. They're pushed out already. Now watch what happens when gasoline starts flirting with $5. The labor pool is going to shrink even more. As the labor pool shrinks even more, the businesses that need that type of labor will become even more fragile. The population base will become even more wealthy and homogenous. We talked about the North Point development that's happening north of town. The developer wants to replace commercial inventory with residential inventory.

On Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to allow the developer to bring more housing over commercial, a project that's been in the hopper for years. The units, it's an additional, what, 100 or so units that are coming? Neil Williamson's going to talk about that on Friday, on Real Talk with Keith Smith, a week from today as he fills in for Keith, who's traveling to Las Vegas, where he's a keynote speaker at a housing conference. So, Neil's in on Friday. We'll talk about this.

those additional units the affordable the entire project the entire project the affordability for that project is tied to area median income I talked about this yesterday if you're tying the project to 80% AMI 15% of the units at 80%

of the AMI 80% of the AMI is still over 100 grand for the family median household income if you want diversity you have to be intentional about it and I don't think that intentionality, I always butcher that word, is truly a focal point of local government. My words.

Those are my words right there. I think we've had, we're at a position now with leaders, especially in the city, especially in the city, where we have a leadership team that needs to rewrite its mission statements, a leadership team that needs to rewrite its priorities and its priorities. goals. I think it's got too many of them. Sam Seners went before council at a recent council meeting and said, we need to raise the real estate tax rate because council, you have tasked me with nine goals or nine missions or nine priorities to pursue. Let's whittle that down to one or two. And if one of those two goals is not economic development to create jobs for people locally, then you are not

seeing the force through the trees council period. Hard stop. We can prioritize activism and we can prioritize inclusion and we can prioritize what these lobbyists and protesters want to do. But the top one needs to be economic vitality because if you continue to drive jurisdictional revenue

with taxes, all you're going to do is gentrify locals out of this community. like and share the show like and share the show Judah Woodcair, anything else you want to add to that? There was a protest recently

mainly made up of the groups Charlottesville Low Income Housing Coalition and Charlottesville's public housing association of residents they've been pushing back against

against student housing going up in the Fifeville West Haven Tenth and Page areas and saying that it's going to not just tower over other developments but also completely changed the character of the communities and they're probably right but the fact of the matter is that groups like livable Seaville

I don't think really care about the end result as long as they get what they want initially. Did they really think about what the new zoning ordinance was going to enable? In this case, big productions, that may end up greatly changing the face of Charlottesville. What's said you to what kind of? Chanispoist Stravillian is watching the program. She said that my dad would have kicked my arse if I had backtalked, let alone fault with the teacher, 100%. My parents, if I had been in a physical altercation with the teacher, would have the next day, and this is not exaggeration, would have pulled me out of that school and would have started

touring military schools with me. I was raised in an entrepreneur household. My dad of CPA, my mom ran the front office of his CPA practice when my brother and I were not spending hours of our days in the copier room of their CPA firm when entire rooms were dedicated to printing and copying paper because the equipment was so large. When we weren't doing that, forced to do that because that's the life of children of small business owners. We were raised by my Cuban grandfather and my Cuban grandmother, my mom's parents, Mima and Poppy. And Poppy ruled with an iron and fist, or shall I say, a leather belt. And if we stepped out a line, it was three to the ass with a leather belt.

And if we really stepped out of the line, it was three to the ass with the buckle on the leather belt. You learn quickly when you're getting hit with a buckle by a grown man and you're a kid. And at that time, that was parenting. And today's time, that is jail time. I'm not so sure about the buckle. The buckle was parenting. No one would look, no one batted an eye when that happened. Because they didn't want the buckle either.

Maybe so. No one batted an eye. Now that's jail time. Jeremy Wilson's watching the program in Eastern Tennessee. He says if you're brave enough to hit an adult, then you're brave enough to be hit like an adult. And it looks like he was. There's the eye for an eye, Jeremy Wilson in Eastern Tennessee, about the Monticello or altercation. There's also the fact that they're,

This child, young man, we assume, was suspended and was in a program to get unsuspended. This is not a first-time offender. Yeah, this is not somebody that's probably scared of getting hit by their dad when they get home. Conan Owen watching the program. Let's be clear on displacements. The two proposed student apartments on West Main, 7th Street are empty lots. No one is being displaced. Homeowners get displaced mainly by choice.

They don't have to sell, but the economics are compelling, especially with rising assessments and tax rates. So that leaves renters. How do you stop driving out renters? Raising taxes doesn't help, but rent controls a disaster everywhere it has tried. $5 gas probably won't happen, and certainly it won't last very long. Enough with the fear-moggering. Disagree with Conan Owen on that.

We're in an escalated gas environment, and we've been that way for over a month. And Conan, why I disagree with you and why I think you're completely off base here is in the middle of the week, Donald Trump told the nation that this war is going to go on for at least three more weeks, his exact words. And he's been using the phrase two or three more weeks, two or three more weeks for at least two or three more weeks. And once the war is over, gasoline prices are not going to drop immediately. That's not how it works. The true inflationary pressure of escalated oil has not done. even been felt yet. We're at the first, second, and third inning of escalated oil.

Conan, I think you're completely incorrect here. I want to be clear with you. This scenario of where we're at right now is the starting point, not the finish line. We're not even in the middle of the race. And in regards to the empty lots with the black community that's chopping at the bit saying, we should allow this, what do you think is going to have to be? happen to the homes once the luxury student housing is built right next to them. What do you think is going to happen to their tax base and their tax exposure once multifamily student housing is built

in the neighborhood? It's not going to lower the tax base. It's going to increase the tax base when luxury housing is built next door. What do you think is going to happen to the traffic? What do you think is going to happen to the economic pressure, the amenity pressure when 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22-year-olds are there with mommy and daddy's Black American Express card. It's an amenity effect. When you put wealthy people into a historically marginalized neighborhoods, amenity-riched businesses, businesses focused on amenities for the wealthy will follow suit. That's called gentrification.

That drives gentrification and black and brown displacement. This is common sense, Conan Owen. Can't be more straightforward with you than that. Comments are coming in quickly. Carol Thorpe has a comment on Ziona Bryant. She says, Zion Bryant is the power of activism. That's from the Queen of Jack Jewett.

More comments continue to come here as print, radio and television is watching the program right now. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts, and we will relay them live on air. handsome Hank Martin is watching the program and we appreciate the comments coming in from Hank Martin to Judah Wickhauer as he's peppering the show with content suggestions no doubt John Blair's comments on this beautiful day let's all remember the message of this season we are all absolutely unworthy of life we are selfish we are hateful we are drenched in sin but we are redeemed by the ultimate sacrifice may we all lead our lives by spirit of sacrifice for others and he says I got the belt too many times to count when I was young. Yeah, same with me.

In school, I was raised by nuns in school, and they were permitted to hit with wooden spoons. Oh, I got belt, spoon, and sneaker, but never the, my dad was never sadistic enough to use the buckle. Thank goodness. Is that sadistic? I believe it is. You know what's interesting is with our sons?

my wife and I, our sons, we have never spanked our sons. I have an 8-year-old, we have an 8-year-old and a 3-year-old. Not once have we spank them. My sister doesn't spank her daughter either. It's wild. You know, another story. I grew up, like I said, in the household of a small business owner.

Father was a CPA. During tax season, my dad never home for dinner. even out of tax season rarely home for dinner because he was working and earning for the family. Me, small business owner, every single dinner home. Do not miss a dinner with the family. Every single dinner home.

It's funny how your childhood shapes your parenting. No doubt. Next headline, Jude Woodcarry, what do you got? Let's see. I want to know one last thing. The groups protesting against the new zoning and the apartments going up, the student housing, they are calling for action from the city council to begin a new zoning amendment that would restrict where student housing developers can build and how tall.

But obviously there's pushback against that. because you can't just legislate every single company that comes in here to build something. This comes in from someone who's asking for anonymity. He says I want to backtrack to the HUD area median income number. And please respect my anonymity here, Jerry. This is not deep throat who's talking. He says that HUD AMI metric is primarily from your AGI on your 1040, which is gross wages,

less qualified deductions like health insurance, 401K, IRA contributions, then add dividends and capital gains. So if the AMI, AGI per median household is 125K, you probably want to add 30K to that per household. So that number, he's saying that area median income number is low. Really, area gross wages,

the median is around $155,000. He also says, plus so many in our area are living on distributions, which cash flow will far outpace the reported dividends or capital gains shown. So add another 20K to that $155,000 to get what our area median gross wages or cash flow is. Not sure how to claw back to affordable for middle or lower income families. All efforts must put the squeeze in middle and upper middle. Yeah, he's basically saying the middle and upper middle are squeezed out.

That's why the 80% AMI metric is a broken metric. Yeah. which is the concept, one of the concepts we covered on yesterday's show, or the show before that. Next headline, what do you got? Gasoline. It's $4.20. I mean, you can't argue with this. And I honestly, Conan, I'm really going to push back on you here. And I respect you.

Thank you for sending the abundance of text messages to us on what's going on locally. I sent him a boatload of business. A boatload of business my firm has sent his firm. the $4.20.20 gas is not fear-moggering. It's today's reality at every gas station locally. Yesterday, when you walked into the gas station or when you were driving by the gas station, what was it? You told the story on Real Talk this morning. Yeah. I saw $3.95. I was like, hey, I'm going to get a $5.5 discount when I come back this way on my way home. And I pulled in, not even paying attention, walked into the store.

You know, I usually pay inside, put a certain amount of money on the, on, you know, number five, went back out. And as soon as I got there, took the, you know, get ready to start pumping the gas. And I look over as I'm going to push the button. And I'm like, $4.4.19, you know, basically $4.20. It's like, did it just go up 25 cents in like the two or so hours that I was hanging out? Before the war in Iran started, and it's been going on since late February. So we're a month in. And before the show just started, national media said a U.S. fighter jet has now been either shot down or some kind of malfunction.

But two U.S. soldiers on that fighter jet, their status and location is on that fighter jet. their status and location is unknown. And right now, our military forces are searching for two men who are behind enemy lines. Wow. Before the war started, the gas was $2.69 a gallon. I don't think I was getting that cheap.

I was getting $269. I intentionally wrote it down, and it's the metric we've been using. $4.20, minus $269. is a buck 51 delta. A buck 51 delta, let's use 15 gallons in a tank. It's $22.65 more expensive to fill your tank now.

How many Phillips is the average person using a week? 1.5? I'll say 1.5. Let's just use a conservative number. 2265 times 1.5 over a week. Let's $33.97. Let's times that by four weeks in a month. Let's say we stay at this price point for the next month.

You were talking $136 to $150 additionally per month for nothing else besides pumping gas into your car. When does that impact that? When does that have an impact on outer county housing? I don't guess it's starting already. When does that have an impact on who considers where they want to buy or rent? What does that have an impact on who considers what jobs they want to take? When does that have an impact when you are in Fluvana and you're considering a job in Charlottesville? And that job in Charlottesville is $18 an hour.

And it takes you one gallon of gas. Keith said round trip from Lake Monticello to our studio. It's a gallon in and a gallon back. Yeah. He said, I'm spending $10 just to come. and do real talk with Key Smith. Ten bucks. Yeah.

To sit in and do real talk with Key Smith. Imagine if you have to do that five days a week. It's not fear-moggering. That's what the average person has to calculate in their head. Yeah. Is it worth it? Is it worth it to keep working in Charlottesville? Is it worth it to keep living where I am?

How do I make it work? How far do I go? drive to you qualify if you're looking for a place. But, you know, I can't imagine it's an easy calculation for most people looking for a place and wondering where to work. If you're making more money in a place that you have to drive farther to get to, when does the tradeoff become unsupportable? Media reports are coming across the wire now that one of the two crew members was rescued. just rescued, just came across the wire, thank God. One still, the unknown whereabouts.

Is it worth it is what folks are contemplating? Is it worth it? Is it worth it? Should I do this? Is it worth it? There's also the psychological impacts of the $4 a gallon. And you drive by it every day on the side. Yeah.

Now, there's economic vitality. on the near horizon tomorrow, Luke Combs, lower third on screen. 60,000 fans at Scott Stadium. Yeah. 60,000. If you do not have to be driving around Charlottesville tomorrow, do not drive around Charlottes. He's got a sold out Scott Stadium. The football team has struggled to sell out Scott Stadium.

Luke Combs has sold it out. 60,000 Heinies in the football stadium to watch. a country music star. The economic vitality of people around Scott Stadium patronizing bars and restaurants. 60,000 people, folks.

And it's a perfect segue to Virginia guesthouse. It opens on Monday. You have photos you can put on screen, yes? I do. Put the lower third on screen as well. Randy O'Neill's watching the broadcast. He has this comment. I work for two years at Eastern State

Hospital for the Center of Education opportunity, a multi-district school for long-term suspended and expelled students. About 125 students were training three hours per day in my trailer. During those two years, we improved 35% in academics, and truancy went down 75%. Nice. He said, build a business around health, education, and safety, and lead it with love and caring for the students who need it the most. Virginia Guesthouse, Judah, give us the specs.

lots of specs it's 223,000 square feet I'm putting the only actual image of the place that I have on screen first so here it is Virginia guest house and 223,000 square feet

hotel and conference center It's got a restaurant called the Poplar. It's got a wide range of versatile meeting spaces. The study, 1,280 square foot space, the gallery, the main hall, the Poplar, Parlor, with the restaurant. The Poplar, Logia, an open-air terrace. I think there's a mock-up. I'll start putting up the mock. up images now.

Look at the screen. Look at the screen. There was a time where Charlottesville was a conference center desert. Now with what Jeffreys built at the Code Building, along with the Virginia guest house, along with the Kempton Forum Hotel, we have conference centers, meeting spaces, and event spaces galore. This is awesome. I'm curious. I don't know if you're curious about this, viewers and listeners. Where is the staffing going to come from for these projects?

Is this going to be the Wegman's effect? Restaurant owners locally pinpoint when Wegmans open, they call it the Wegmans Effect, our restaurant owner friends. Once Wegmans open, Wegmans

with its hourly rate, its salary, its benefits in health care, took the A and B players from local restaurants. The A and B players. That left local restaurants with the B minus C and D players to fill their front line jobs.

You have a Virginia guest house that is going to need how many employees? I don't even know the number. I think it's safe to say dozens. I would imagine it's safe to say north of 100. How many total square feet? 223,000. 223,000 square feet. How many rooms?

It's on the headline. let me check I'll put it up for everyone to see 214 rooms 223,000 square feet 214 rooms 25,000 square feet of event space a restaurant

parking cleaning maintenance facilities concierge I mean are you talking 100 plus employees here I'm sure where does the staff come from

the staff is not going to be the staff is not going to be coming from outside the area, where is the staff going to come from? Who is it going to pull the staff from? I want to highlight Stanley Martin Holmes on the show. Stanley Martin Holmes is a partner of the program, a smart move. If a move has been on your mind lately, take a look at Stanley Martin Holmes. Stanley Martin is building great Charlottesville locations, new homes designed for how people live today. If a move has been on your mind lately, consider For example, Pleasant Green, Essence at Colonial Circle, and Essence at Creekside today.

Stanley Martin Holmes, where is the staff going to come from for Virginia Guest House that opens on Monday? What's the Wegman's effect here? The effect is that if they're paying well enough, they'll pull people from other areas, whether it's food and beverage, whether it's, you know, other hotels, made cleaning services. Where is the staff going to come from? That's the storyline. And props to Virginia guesthouse for opening. Last headline, what do you got you to look at?

Let's see. I think we've gone through everything. Erica Kirk no longer scheduled to speak at WAHS. Erica Kirk was scheduled to speak yesterday. it was thought that she might be. Hank, if you would care to elaborate on what you sent me, you mentioned that, you mentioned that if there was a question of whether Erica Kirk was ever actually asked to come speak, or whether she was actually scheduled.

No, Cuffin on the show, confirmed that she was set up to speak. Maybe this is a newer thing. It says WINA played. a sound bite wherein a school board member stated that the Erica Kirk event was never officially submitted. Turning Point USA Western Abarrow chapter, Noah Kaufen said that she was scheduled to speak after school hours yesterday. So because it was after school hours, it did not have to be officially submitted. According to the new approved protocols, 45 minutes before school or 45 minutes after school, a guest speaker had to be approved before they could speak.

So it was after school, the 45-minute marker, she didn't have to speak. Interestingly, I believe she spoke yesterday at an event at George Washington University. Yeah, that's what I saw too. Andrew Hamilton was promoting on his Facebook pages as attending. The whole Erica Kirk debacle at Western Amaral High School became a circus. And it's not about your ideology or your, your politics. It's about treating kids the same.

And the very next day after the the Amar County School Board put these new policies in effect of who could speak, when they could speak, what had to be approved, what could not be approved, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The Democrat Club at Westrodite

at one of the schools hosted a speaker that was not approved. Yeah, young Democrats hosted a speaker. Not only did they host a speaker that was, well, it was during the day, which was no longer allowed, and what's worse is that the speaker came and badmouthed pretty much 50% of the population. But apparently that's not hate speech for some reason, because reasons. And I think what should also be noted, the article in Siva Weekly is actually not bad.

It covers a wide swath of this discussion. And the article, just to highlight, written in the SIVO Weekly about the Erica Kirk storyline at Western Amar High School, is written by a journalist who also moonlights as the communications director for the local Republican Party, the local Democratic Party. It's important to emphasize the author of the CIVA Weekly article is the comms director for the local Democratic Party. Yeah. That's a conflict of interest. Do a Google search of, if you want to look into it.

It still covers quite a bit, which I'm appreciative of. and I thought it was interesting to find out that there are a lot of interesting groups at Western Alabama High School, and a few of them have noted that this change is affecting them as well. So it's always interesting when everybody is equally put upon by a change in rules because of what one group is doing. The author's name is Nathan Alderman. He wrote the article in the Seville Weekly titled How Turning Point USA's Spurring Discussion and Division at Western Alamo High School.

He is the comms director of a local Democratic Party. That strikes me as conflict of interest. And in response to the $5 gallon of gas that's potentially upcoming, and were these kinds of consideration when gas was routinely higher in 2022 to 2024, We talked in 2022, 2022,

about expensive gas. And in 2022 and 2023, expensive gas impacted things without question. Expensive gas impacts things regardless of year or climate. What was the number you found when researching

this on Real Talk with Keith Smith? The last time gas was this high was 2022, right? Yes. Let me see if I can find it again. It was like $4. and $0.86 in 2020. Yeah.

The difference between 2022 and now you want to know the difference between 2022 and now is housing is way more. Yeah. The difference between 2022 and now is the interest rate

7% on a 30 year fixed. Where in 2022, the interest rate on a 30 year fixed was in the 3% range. It's 2x higher. So to compare and contrast 2022 gas to 26 gas is not apples to apples

because 2026 is more expensive than 2022. So the economic headwind is more significant. When your rate in 26 on your 30-year fixed is 7 points versus 3 points, it's considerably more mortgage payment. Look at what rents have done from 2022 to 2026. I'll just talk about one of rentals. I have a condo that I own in the Almore Urban Ring. This thing in a 10 year, in a 12-year period of time,

has gone from 1,000 a month in rent to 2,600 a month. And I'm below market. I'm below the market. I have a waiting list for it. If anyone chooses to leave, we fill it in a day. You can't compare 2022 to 2026. If the gas is the same price, it's much more damning now than it was

in 2022. In 2022, people were getting... That's ideology influencing your analysis, by the way. Go ahead. I was going to say in

2022, a lot of people were getting, uh, we're getting, you know, PPP. Uh, there was, you know, money coming, flowing to, uh, a lot of people.

22. free money galore. I don't know about galore, but yeah, there was a lot going around. Not to say that there weren't challenges back then. There certainly were. All right. Close with this. It's Good Friday.

It's Easter weekend. Happy Easter. Happy Easter to you. Happy Easter. Happy Good Friday to you. If you're not going to the Luke Combs concert, be mindful. There's 60,000 people that are. And I'll close.

by saying, look, you, folks, we got to support locally owned and operated businesses now more than ever. I'm telling you right now. We are in the B2B space, our firm. We're the confessional of small business. Somewhere between, I don't know, call it 15 to 25 meetings a week with small business owners, and that's conservative. It's a confessional small business. It's tough out there.

He's Judah Wickhauer. I'm Jerry Miller. Happy Easter. Friday.