The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - How Will Trump's Win Influence The CVille Area?

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

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Good Thursday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville show. It's great to connect with you through the I Love Seville show. It's great to connect with you through the I Love Seville network. 48 hours and change removed from an election that is, depending on your voting preference or ideology, rocked, rattled, or riveted the Central Virginia voting community. Rocked, rattled or riveted folks

here in Albemarle, Charlottesville and the outer counties of Central Virginia. The region, Central Virginia, which is roughly 300,000 people, is so incredibly unique. You have Charlottesville, which is just under 50,000 in population. 2023 census has it at 45,000, Judah. Albemarle County population, the sixth largest county in the Commonwealth of Virginia, has it at 115,000. So you have, in those two jurisdictions, Charlottesville and Albemarle County, 160,000, okay? Roughly 160,000. And the counties that surround Charlottesville and Albemarle, Fluvanna, Orange, Nelson, Green, Louisa, Madison, Culpeper, you have about 140,000 people. So almost an identical number to Charlottesville and Albemarle County combined. And their voting preferences could not be more opposite. Right. So the outer counties voting for Trump,

and large portion, and the urban ring, Albemarle and Charlottesville, voting an overwhelming portion, overwhelming numbers for Harris. Yeah. So you have a sense of central Virginia of significant tribalism. Are you on camera here?

Yeah. It's a microcosm of what we see on the United States stage. Bingo. Political stage. Bingo. And that's exactly what I want to unpack today. And I'll tell you, Judah,

Judah Wickauer was fantastic yesterday on the show, and I think he's got fantastic commentary lined up because in our pre-production meeting prior to the show, we talk about what we want to cover. And I, you know, sometimes I'll be straightforward. Sometimes I find some of the ideas in the pre-production meeting I'm exhilarated for, I'm excited for. Like today. Yeah.

What you had to offer today. Some days I'm like, darn it, Judah. What? Give me some value for the show, some content for the show. I'm lukewarm. There's only so much news. Lukewarm. Today I'm excited for. And it follows, ladies and gentlemen, Brian Lambert, Kevin Yancey, welcome to the program. It follows a show yesterday that we got significant feedback on. Some of the feedback

points we received after yesterday's show, an incredibly well-watched show. I appreciate you having conversations that are difficult to have. I heard that from a lot of people. I heard this from a lot of people. I appreciate you covering the presidential election and talking about Trump and his victory in an area like Charlottesville and Alamaro County that's so anti-Trump. I appreciate you trying to localize a national election to Charlottesville and Almaral County and how it would influence Charlottesville and Almaral County in Central Virginia. Some of the points we highlighted on yesterday's show, it's going to inspire a lot of civic engagement and activity. I think Trump winning in Charlottesville and Almaral

County is going to get a lot of folks that are left-leaning, activist-leaning, socialist-leaning, even more involved with politics or first-time involved with politics or more deeply involved with politics, either from a running standpoint or encouraging people to vote or a volunteering standpoint. I think Trump winning and this red wave that's going to take the House and the Senate is going to have a significant impact on housing and real estate. You look at, as I said yesterday, job sites, and you see a lot of migrant and Hispanic workers. Out of curiosity, or maybe it's something we should follow up with a microscope,

I wonder how the labor pool when it comes to construction and remodeling and development is going to be impacted by a stronger focus on border patrol and immigration and who's in the country. I think a good question to ask is how much of that labor pool is illegal. Right. It's a great question because there are certainly legal immigrants in our country who are working and living here. It's a fantastic question. How much is illegal? As I said yesterday, I've got a neighbor, Hispanic guy, sweet guy, beautiful wife, great kid, and he's got a painting business. And they go to a local church, and I don't know how long his English is a little bit broken, but they're really nice people. You know, not everything, you know, a lot of what we hear, especially heading into elections, is this kind of like this grandiose, this trying to pull at your heartstrings or push your anger buttons. And it's not all

like that. And we have a remodeling crew and a construction crew that works on our real estate holdings. A local entrepreneur, multi-generation entrepreneur tied to Charlottesville and Almar County. A registered voter in Charlottesville and Almar County. A Hispanic gentleman that does fantastic work for our holdings that certainly has on his team very proficient and talented remodelers, but folks that are paid cash and are here in the country, not above border legally. I'm curious to see how that impacts labor pools, the cost of labor. I'm curious to see how the tariffs on imports are going to impact cost of goods.

Yeah. As it applies to real estate. Yeah. As it applies to any sector of business. So, today's show, we're going to spend a little more time on maybe some folks will call it the fallout or collateral damage of Trump winning. Maybe other folks will call it the tailwinds that are on the near horizon for the economy and for inflation and for the next four years. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Everyone looks at it differently. One thing we can say with confidence and conviction is in our community right now, Central Virginia, which is 130,000 people, you have very close down the middle division.

Oh, yeah. With Fluvanna, Orange, Nelson, Green, Madison, Culpeper, Louisa, Mineral, Barbersville, these outer counties overwhelmingly voting red. And Alamaro County and Charlottesville City in the urban ring overwhelmingly voting blue. And the sense of tribalism in central Virginia, 300,000 people strong. I've been here 24 years. I've never seen this unfortunate nature of tribalism where you stick with your pack like we did in high school or middle school, where at the cafeteria, we may have only ate with the same eight to 12 people. The jocks sat together. The cheerleaders sat together. The call them the nerds sat together. Yeah.

Segregated. Segregated. Aggregated. Self-segregated. Saw that in college. Whether it was extracurriculars or performance in schools, whether it was sports, whether it was looks, where you grew up, the neighborhood you were in, self-segregation. It's happening again, and it's because of a politics standpoint. We're seeing a region, Central Virginia, 300,000 people strong, that's embodying this more than ever.

I want to have this discussion today, and then tomorrow on the I Love Seville show, we will return to being your digital newspaper. We will return to talking about real estate and politics and sports and that Virginia basketball victory and a football team that may be on a seven-game skid to close the season, the impacts of UVA and gentrification and changing what it looks like to live here. We'll talk about the restaurants. We'll return to being your digital newspaper today or tomorrow. But today, we're going to talk about the restaurants. We'll return to being your digital newspaper today. But today, or tomorrow. But today, we're going to talk about this.

Trump's victory. How will it influence, impact, or inspire Central Virginia? Impact, in this case, negative connotations. Influence, in this case, moderate or down-the-road connotations. Inspire, in this case, positive connotations. Influence, in this case, moderate or down the road connotations. Inspire, in this case, positive connotations, depending on how you vote. Offer the commentary you did in the pre-production meeting, which is fantastic in presidency are talking about how they can get involved. And I think that's a great thing. I think more people getting involved in not just politics, but what's going on in your locality, in your area is a good thing. So the fact that

people are getting fired up about something, the fact that while they might not be happy, this has pushed them to start getting involved in their local politics. And as we were talking about tribes, I think some people are deciding that now is the time to shrink their tribe. Stop thinking about, you know, all of the United States and start thinking about your own town or your city and what you can do to make changes there. Feeling that, you know, their vote didn't change anything or, you know, because the vote went the other way. They don't want to end up with their hands tied doing nothing. And so they're going to do something. I think that's a good thing. I mentioned on yesterday's show, you get a red wave.

Other impacts it could have on housing, you may not see that one or two point drop in interest rates like a lot of folks were anticipating. Yeah. That's going to be rough. That's all going to happen at the same time that cost of goods may increase because of tariffs.

Labor may increase. Hopefully he'll use tariffs more as a bargaining chip than as a hammer. Time will tell. I did see a headline today on CNBC. Let me see if I can find that headline. That headline on CNBC, Steve Madden to slash China sourcing as Trump's tariff plan looms. I've read something that said that a lot of, or not a lot, but some countries are starting to, with this professionals, smart people say,

that's going to create a level of inflation. And to get ready and buckle up for it. So I want to have this conversation today. I read, I try to follow on social media, individuals or groups that I align with and that I am the furthest from aligning with. One of the individuals in this community is the co-chair of the Livable Charlottesville urbanist activist group, Matthew Gilligan. He posted this

within the last 24 hours. We have been here before and in Charlottesville have a strong sense of what will come. I'm already past the shock stage. I'm mad and motivated to keep up the work. And he's rallying. This is one of the biggest activists in Charlottesville, Matthew Gilligan. Maybe the biggest. Now that Nakia Walker and Tanisha Hudson are more on the sidelines,

Zianna Bryant's still in the activist front lines. Gilligan, certainly on the activist front lines, is rallying his troops by saying, I'm furious, I'm angry, I'm ready to get to work. Who's joining me? Supervisor Pruitt would fall in this category. Scottsville District, Alamaro County Board of Supervisors. He did a fantastic interview i hope

this is heard by mike pruitt a fantastic interview this morning on jay james's wina talk show talking about my former stopping grounds the rivanna village in the Keswick area. And Glenmore, the neighborhood, 950 homes, expensive homes, gated community. They fought to have Breezy Hill, a southern development project that was going to bring a lot of single-family detached homes right next to Glenmore.

They organized, Glenmore did, strategized and vocalized a not in my backyard effort to squash Breezy Hill. I was privy to a lot of those efforts because we previously lived in the neighborhood. We lived there for four years before moving over to Ivy. Were they worried about construction vehicles? They were worried about traffic vehicles they were worried about traffic they were worried about emts and fire and rescue being able to make it down the road because it's a two-lane road they were worried about congestion quality of life water safety all the usual maybe you call them dog whistles maybe Maybe you call them legitimate concerns. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Pruitt's on the talk show this morning, and he's saying, hey, guess what? You Glenmore folks don't like it. But I'm going to lead a charge, and I'm going to be focused and intentional with my efforts to revamp what the Rivanna Village, that corridor around Glenmore, looks like. And it's going to be something that these wealthy folks may not like.

Michael Payne, very much in that Pruitt camp from an ideology standpoint. How does he lead the socialists of Charlottesville? He's a key member of that group. Gilligan's a key member. They have passed the point of, I called it yesterday, Trump's sticker shock, and now at the point of furiousness and anger.

It's the stages of grief. Is it post-mortem? Post-partum. One of them is the struggles a woman goes through post-pregnancy. I believe it's post-partum. I know those struggles not personally. Post-partum depression. Because my better half went through,

um, uh, with our oldest, uh, can affect both men and women. Okay. I'm not going to say it affected me because if I do, when I get home,

I will be chastised and rebuked. So it's the stages of grief. And now the stage of grief is entered into the anger stage. And do you know what's following the anger stage in Charlottesville and Elmira County? What follows anger? Action. There it is. Perfect word.

You're on point today. Action. And because we're viewers and listeners of this talk show, and Judah and I follow you, the viewer and listener's lead, and our viewers and listeners, the most intelligent ones out there, we need to follow the stages of grief, sticker shock, anger, and action. And as intelligent people, we want to hedge our positions or strategically place our positions in this stages of grief, fall of dominoes.

What does the action yield? What does the action yield from an investment standpoint, from a politics standpoint, from a money standpoint, from a school standpoint, from a quality of life standpoint. That's what I want to talk about today. And your prediction prior to the show is you're going to say, see regional tribalism, Charlottesville, Elmira County, Central Virginia, regional tribalism become more micro in its efforts. Where maybe it's a tribalism tied to Fluvanna. If you live in Fluvanna, you're focused on Fluco country. Or Louisa, you're focused on Lion Nation.

Or Orange County, you're focused on Hornet, your Hornet's Nest. Orange County High School is the Hornets. You may not have known that. Louisa County is represented by Bubba the Lion. They had a lion in a cage in the jungle at Louisa. When I was working at the Daily Progress, Doug Straley was the athletic director. Now he's the superintendent of Louisa County Public Schools.

And he built, in conjunction with Mark Fisher, who has since passed away and is in heaven. They built an offense that was a single wing attack. And it galvanized Louisa County, where it was kind of like you would see in Varsity Blues or Friday Night Lights. The shopkeepers would have a sign in their window. Our business is closed because we're at the football game. And everyone would drive and get to the stadium four or five hours before the actual kickoff to tailgate and party and booze it up, literally boozing it up at a public school parking lot.

And then they'd go into the jungle at Louisa, 10,000 to 12,000 people strong. They had a fire-breathing lion. The Louisa County Lions did. They dropped the football prior to kickoff be via a skydiver on the 50 yard line the cheerleaders would push around bubba the lion in a cage that's crazy prior to the game and louisa built a culture with doug straley and mark fisher that was second to none in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

And I'll tell you what, you've never seen a rowdy and, is it raucous? What's the word? Raucous. R-A-U-C-O-U-S. Raucous. You've never seen a rowdy and... Raucous. environment, silence to the point of hearing a pin drop until you've seen Bubba the live lion pushed around in a cage

by 15 and 16 year old cheerleaders and then Bubba takes a crap in front of 12,000 people. You could hear a pin drop from the press box. True story. Saw it with my own eyes. So is it going to become a level of tribalism

that's specific, Judah, to the community you live and much less regional like it previously was? Is it going to be pockets of action that are specific to the pockets the community member lives within or works within? Will we see the community become more divided than ever? Will we see less support for an eight-block radius we call the downtown mall because folks are more...

I'm not sure if I follow that. Less willing to support other jurisdictions because of politics. Yeah, we could see some of that. We saw that post-A11 and post-A12. Tribalism is definitely not going away. I was introduced to, I think we talked about this, a word called othering by someone who then immediately made the mistake of acting in their own, acting exactly the way they were explaining that we shouldn't be acting in othering. And I don't see that type of behavior declining anytime soon. Neil Williamson, president of the Free Enterprise Forum,

says Breezy Hill was approved for one unit an acre, not an efficient use of the government scarcity known as the development area. I was actively involved in those Glenmore efforts where the neighborhood chopped Breezy Hill down into one unit an acre through public outcry and some would say bullying the board of supervisors. And this is the developmental area. How will it increase, how will it impact, influence, or inspire

where folks choose to live? Interesting story. You ready for this? My parents, like many folks that are of a, what's my parents? They're boomers. Boomers generally tend to vote more moderate to conservative. That would represent my mother. My father, extremely conservative. Extremely conservative. They looked after selling in Williamsburg, the house we grew up in, my brother and I, to moving to Charlottesville. This was 15 years ago, less than 15 years ago. And they were

stunned by A, the pricing of homes in Charlottesville 15 years ago, astonished with how expensive it was. B, they were taken aback by the politics and chose instead to move to Hendersonville, North Carolina, where the level of affordability was more manageable and the politics more aligned with their ideology and beliefs. What they did not anticipate, perhaps it was a mistake, perhaps they did anticipate it

and they did not care. Yes, the Charlottesville-Nalmoral County area is more expensive, but the economy and the appetite to live in Charlottesville-Nalmoral County is significant. Job growth is significant. The impact and Alamara County is significant. Job growth is significant. The impact of the University of Virginia is significant.

So had they have purchased 15 years ago, at this point, in particular, the locations they were looking at, their investment would have 2x'd, maybe 2.5x'd. Instead, where they purchased, their investment has appreciated to the tune of 20-25%. And now the unfortunate nature of Helene, the hurricane in western North Carolina. A lot of folks in this area of the state are concerned that the economy won't recover. That home values will plummet, that younger Gen Zers, young millennials, Gen Alphas will look elsewhere to live, and Western North Carolina, like Eastern Tennessee and other parts of the country that were impacted by Helene, will take a step back with their output,

with their production, with their upside, with their potential. How many other folks will say, I'm choosing to live here because of politics or what aligns with my tribalism? How will it impact, as we said yesterday, who chooses to run for the three seats that are open in 2025 on the Board of Supervisors. Judah made the point, and he pushed back on me, the folks that run for Board of Supervisors will always have a D next to their name. And the two spots on council that come up for grabs in 2025 will always have a D next to their name. And I said, yes, I'm in agreement with you. And I pushed back by saying, but there's varying degrees of D's. There's the prudent pains that are socialist D's and there's the moderate D's like the Snooks and the Diantha McKeels. Yesterday, I saw it on Neil Williams' Twitter account. Neil's watching the program. Love Neil Williamson.

Diantha McKeel, supervisor, Jack Jewett District. She said from the dais, ADUs should not be by right. And she highlighted, Diantha McKeel, from the dais, that ADUs should not be by right and I am voting against, I will stand against ADUs being by right, and it's her words, because I'm concerned my district will be overpopulated

by University of Virginia students with these ADUs. Matthew Gilligan grabbed a hold of that tweet from Neil Williamson, a tweet Neil Williamson put in the stratosphere, the digital universe, because he was astonished by Diantha McKeel's commentary on the dais. Gilligan used it and he galvanized his livable CVO crew around it. And Williamson put it out there because he's doing what he's supposed to do, being a watchdog of what's going around. He's for housing everywhere for everyone. And he's certainly someone that supports

ownership rights and real estate rights. And he's one who champions density when it comes to housing. And Diantha McKeel, the antithesis of what he stands for. Shouldn't ADU be by right for a homeowner? Should it be something that you seek

approval for? They're happening anyway. Pruitt was talking about it this morning on Jay's talk show. It was a very good interview. He said these accessory dwelling units are happening anyway. Whether they

have approval or not, people are converting basement apartments or that granny flat or that cottage in the backyard into a rental. Whether they have approval or not. Yeah. Fascinating time we live in. This is Brad Wilcox, the sociologist at the University of Virginia. This is a dream for Brad Wilcox. An academic's dream to study what's going on. We'll get to some comments. Before we get to some comments, some thoughts from Judah Wittkower on any of this. Some thoughts from Judah W woodcower well i think what uh worries me the most is that again we are getting i feel like we are getting

farther and farther apart uh we had the uh the herpes in here this morning for the wonderful Today y Mañana show. And I believe it was Xavier who mentioned the fact that, you know, it used to be that you could talk to your neighbor or your co-worker or somebody passing on the street about who you voted for. And you could have a conversation about it. And now I see a lot of people, you know, they may tout who they cast a vote for on social media. But in a conversation, they're guarded because you never know how people are going to react. And I think it's insane that we have to be careful about telling someone that you voted because they might think that you voted for the wrong person.

I mean, look at, we've got half the country. Rarely – when was the last time we had an election that was so massively unbalanced that nobody – that there was no chance that the other person was ever going to win? You're saying Trump won in a landslide. Is that what you're saying Trump won in a landslide. Is that what you're saying? No, we're talking about usually 50% of the population and 50% of the population. So if you're going to go around saying that 50% of the population are, you know, whatever you want to call someone for not agreeing with your ideology. That's terrifying to me. That's what I was talking about with othering. Othering is the act of splitting off, zeroing in on a difference and using that difference to dismantle a sense of similarity or connectedness between people.

You're basically saying those people believe something that is so out of alignment with whatever, morality, with your beliefs, that they're not even – essentially you don't even think of them as humans anymore. Which makes it very easy to do terrible things like what happened when Nazis came to Charlottesville. Jeff Bogdan, I think this is a first-time commenter on the show. He said on the I Love Sivo group, and this show airs on 15 social media channels or platforms at one time live. 15 platforms and communities carrying this show live. He says, with the trades, all the orchards and wineries that all regularly employ undocumented folks in the area, if we had employers being forced to only employ those with papers,

costs will certainly go up. A lot of legal folks are not taking a lot of these labor jobs because the pay rate is so low. And as a result of the under the table employees, this is nothing new, especially in our area. That's the point I made yesterday. The exact point I made it on yesterday's show, the feedback we received on yesterday's show, as significant as any show we've ever done. And I love Seville Network history. I said the impacts that this election will have on central Virginia and Charlottesville and Alamaro County will be very real. And there's some in the community that dismiss it as a national election. And national elections don't have impact on local markets. Only local elections do. And I say, that's BS. I said, an immigration reform

is going to have significant impact on the labor pool locally in Charlottesville and Albemarle and central Virginia. And I pointed to the wineries and the vineyards. I pointed to remodeling. I pointed to development and whole building. And I pointed to restaurants and back of the house and who's employed and who's paid cash under the table at a very low rate. And I said, if that is something that's truly reformed, the cost of labor is going to escalate, which is going to create a level of inflation because those increased labor charges or costs will be passed to the consumer through increased prices. I also said, and Scott Morris pointed about this, talked about this on his Facebook page, you see a red wave where it's a sweep of the House, the Senate, and the White House, and interest rates are not going to drop. And you're going to see that impact the central Virginia market

because those rates are creating unaffordability, especially when a large portion of the central Virginia market has rates that were secured during the pandemic of 2.5% loans or 3% loans or sub 4% loans. Why would they get off those sub 4% loans when it's over 7% right now? Yeah, we're still too close to that they have massive stacks of equity but they don't get off a payment that's under two thousand dollars a month and that's going to create an inventory throttle and an inventory throttle that happens at the very same time that labor goes up that materials tied to real estate go up because of tariffs that are imposed at the same time that rates don't drop and you have a perfect storm of unaffordability and increased inflation a perfect storm that happens at a time

of increased tribalism increased not in my backyard. Increase activism. All catalysts, all catalyzing at the same time. 2025 is going to be very interesting in Albemarle, Charlottesville, and Central Virginia. No doubt. I'm curious to see who chooses to get on their horse and say, I'm going to announce my push for these three spots on the Board of Supervisors. Remember, Supervisor Pruitt, I believe he's watching the program. Supervisor Pruitt, I want to say this again. You did a hell of a job on the morning interview today. I was very impressed.

He's a very fresh perspective on Alamaro County's board as an attorney that's a fair housing advocate. That's what he does. If Supervisor Pruitt is able to get with these three other spots that are on the board that are coming up in 2025, other like-minded ideologies with him, you could have a shift in what Almono does. Or are you going to see the tribalism get even stronger where so many pound their chest and say, no, don't expand the development area? I personally am one that utilizes this platform and says the development area should not be expanded until it's fully, fully developed. I learned from Neil Williamson yesterday that the development area, which is 5% of Albemarle County for commercial and residential real estate. 7% left. percent of Albemarle County for commercial and residential real estate seven percent left as seven percent still undeveloped so 93 percent is either developed or cannot be developed the topography is not there mm-hmm or it's already developed there's still seven percent left to go why would we

consider expanding the five percent if there's still seven percent left to go and I'll tell you another thing. I find this pickle, this tomato tomato, this chicken and egg conundrum very fascinating. Many in Albemarle County say no more to housing. We don't want to sprawl without prioritizing infrastructure like schools and water and bicycles and quality of life and fiber internet and pedestrian and runner safety. That's the argument utilized against housing development, right? Some people call them dog whistles. Other people call it common sense. I call it common sense, right? I'm of the mindset if a vast portion of the community does not want the additional development

then that's democracy others are of the mindset how can the people that don't live here combat the people that live here with ideology if they don't have housing to live here how can they have a voice how can they have a voice if they can't buy a house and I don't buy that I think that's a bogus argument I think it's a bogus argument. I think it's a bogus argument. Because the person that lives here that's paying the taxes, sending their kids to school, running businesses that are paying taxes, paying taxes on their house, paying taxes on their car, paying taxes on their businesses, paying taxes on their employees, shopping locally and keeping the money in the community,

choosing to pay more to support local merchants than doing it online, those voices should be prioritized over the voices that do not live here. I'll close with this. I've been in business from a self-employed capacity for 17 years. Neil, I saw that comment. You came in.

Someone moving from Williamsburg, find a place to live in Seville, absent housing supply. I love you, Neil Williamson. Support the Free Enterprise Forum. I'll close with this. I've been self-employed for 17 years in May of 2025.

Our team gets raises every year in those 17 years we gone from business that was tied to an advertising agency where we helped clients utilize strategic branding and advertising techniques to gain market share. That business did well, and it birthed a media network called the I Love Seville Network. And that business did well, the I Love Seville Network, and it complemented with the advertising agency, another company, a real estate holding business. I learned from Bill Nitschman, my mentor, the power of creating

a real estate company and buying distressed real estate and repositioning it as a different class of real estate. And now we have 24 executive offices. I think we have the most executive offices

under our control and ownership than anyone in the city of Charlottesville. And that real estate holding company did well. At the same time, the advertising agency continued doing well. At the same time, the I Love Seville network continued to grow with additional shows and with the I Love Seville show gaining momentum and steam. And then we birthed a business brokerage business during COVID. Why did we birth a business brokerage business during COVID? Charlottesville Business Brokers online at charlottesvillebusinessbrokers.com. Because we saw during the pandemic that business owners were taking on massive debt, idle loans, loans against their houses.

And we knew during the pandemic that this was not, it was a house of cards that was going to crumble. And I said, I'm going to birth a business brokerage business where I could use the I Love Seville Network and our branding and advertising agency to market and promote the businesses that are for sale. And Charlottesville Business Brokers has done fantastic deal flow. Fantastic deal flow. And then last year we birthed the Blue Ridge Venture Fund

because we heard from our clients they needed to raise money for projects they wanted to bring to market and they weren't getting those loans from banks because banks were getting tight with what they were doing lending wise. And then we connected our friends that were wealthy with our business owners or entrepreneurs that needed money. And those businesses all complement each other. That's called vertical integration. And we do it with the same staff. And one of the abilities or one of the reasons we've been able to do that is because of hedging and seeing what's ahead.

And I'm trying to see what's ahead right now as a fallout of what happened with Trump. Some call it, how is the Trump victory going to influence, impact, or inspire, depending on your lens. And I see massive influence, impact, and inspiration from this Trump victory. I see the activist community being more boldened than ever. I see the socialist community growing deeper in numbers. I see civic engagement popping at significant proportions in 2025. I see an Almarill County Board of Supervisors that is aging and old. What is the average age of the Almarill County Board of Supervisors? Got to be north of 60 years old. You take Mike Pruitt off the Almar Admiral County Board of Supervisors? Got to be north of 60 years old. You take Mike Pruitt off the Admiral County Board of Supervisors,

it's probably flirting with 70. No doubt. Seriously. How old are you, Michael Pruitt? Watching the program right now, I believe. Mr. Pruitt, he's aging well. What are you, Mr. Pruitt? Is he a 30 spot, 32 spot, 28 spot?

Put him somewhere around there. After that, what do you got? Galloway? What's Galloway? 50? I'm not trying to put a marker of age on Malik or McKeel or Jim Andrews. Or B, love you, B. Love you, Lapisto-Curtley.

But you've got to say 65 plus. Will the Board of Supervisors become younger in its profile as a result of what happened with this race with Trump? Because more folks are civically engaged. And if it becomes younger in its profile, how does it impact somebody that's a small business owner? How does it impact somebody that owns a house? How does it impact somebody that's an investor? How does it impact somebody that's a small business owner? How does it impact somebody that owns a house? How does it impact somebody that's an investor? How does it impact somebody that's a business broker? How does it impact somebody that raises funds for others?

How does it impact leasing and sales? How does it impact entrepreneurship? City Council. A little more youthful in its leadership. Natalie Ostrand, Michael Payne. What are they, in the 30 vicinity? And then you've got Snook, Pinkston, and Wade. What are they, probably 60 plus?

55, easily 55 plus. My boy Lloyd Snook is probably flirting with this big 7-0, ain't he? Wouldn't you say? Yeah, if I had to guess. How does it impact the profile of who's in charge? And if the profile of who's in charge is impacted and becomes more youthful because of what happened with Trump, how does that change the landscape of Charlottesville and Alamaro County? And people that are able to figure out those answers are the ones that are able to hedge risk and position their investing strategies and their decision making at the forefront of what's going to happen. And some have those skills and some

do not. And those that do not should contact those that do. It's the Thursday edition of the I Love Sieville show. Judah Wickauer, compelled commentary from me today. He was on point. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you.