The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Large Fire Reported At Free Bridge Tent Town; No One Burned In Early Morning Tent Town Torching

Episode Date: June 30, 2026

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program this show is simultaneously airing on 27 social media and podcasting platforms as we speak there was a fire at tent town imagine that drought like conditions judah propane tanks and tents judah propane tanks outside tents judah open air fires for cooking juda a fire at tent town juda imagine that the police the fire

the firefighters have to have to put it out in an early morning blaze now we figure out what led to the tent town torching fortunately no one burned in the tent town torching we'll talk about that on the program today. We'll talk to

the birthday of the downtown mall. 50 years for the downtown mall. 50 years for the crown jewel of central Virginia. The most important eight blocks in this region we call Central Virginia. That's 300,000 people strong. The celebration begins this weekend.

I applaud City Hall. I'm giving Sam Sanders props. City Hall, I'm giving you props. You got the cross streets finished. client of the program I Love Seville Show, partner, Oak Valley Custom Hartscapes, they

earned the contract to re-brick, repave the cross streets on the downtown mall. I thought City Halls is making a smart move, Judah. They're actually keeping the side streets closed for vehicle traffic till after the 50-year anniversary celebrations start

or I guess following the weekend they'll reopen them after the weekend is over and kind of the launch of the 50-year anniversary. I think it's genius. I think it's genius. We'll talk 50 years for the downtown mall in the program today. We'll talk Mike Kachis. Someone get the George Clooney of policing. Is the George Clooney of policing watching the program?

We love the George Clooney of policing. Mike Kachis. He has been named the Rotary Citizen of the Year, Judith. Mike Koppius. I want to talk the... impact of Chief Mike Kachis on the program today. Huge fan of Mike Kachis, if you don't watch and listen to the program frequently. Taco Nako is closing across from Barracks Road Shopping Center.

When we put our list of most curse locations, that little hot across from Barracks Road shopping center, I believe at one time it was home to a printing company. There was a vape and tobacco company there. Unfortunately, the beloved food truck. Taco Naco, chose a very challenging location. The street, the Barrax Road streetside, across from Barracks Road Shopping Center, that little hut on Emmett to open their family business, and now it's officially closed. We'll talk about that on the program.

We'll take a national topic and localize it to Charlottesville. The Supreme Court has upheld state laws banning trans athletes and youth in high school sports. Good move. I mean, goodness gracious, great balls of fire. Good move there. I'll remind the viewers and listeners that our show is on vacation starting tomorrow through July 19th. So we're back in the saddle after some R&R on Monday, July 20th. We're back in the saddle.

But tomorrow through the 19th, some R&R at the beach for yours truly in our family. Hammer the like button, share the show, like the show. We'll give props to John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion of Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, partners of the show, proud to partner with the Vermilions. If John Vermillion was here, I'd have some bourbon with him. If Andrew Vermillion was here, I'd have a beer with him. We'll talk some golf. He's a fantastic golfer, Andrew Vermillion.

Damn near close to scratch golf for Andrew Vermillion. Recently engaged, soon to be married, will be an awesome father, Andrew Vermilion, just like his dad, John. The Vermilions are Almore County. five generations and their business, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, and its sister company, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, are owned and operated by the Vermilions for three generations. Anything swimming pools, anything vacuums, anything cleaning supplies,

anything vacuum repair, Bono Wood Flooring, you call the Vermilions at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply or Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company. Logan Wells-Clailo, we love you. Welcome to the broadcast. Always good to see you, Logan Wals-Claelow. She's a fantastic real estate agent. her husband is fit as a fiddle Carol Thorpe is watching the program

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We'll see him in moments I want to talk about 30 seconds Something that did not make the headline list That I found compelling Ryan Odom, the men's basketball coach at the University of Virginia, secured a commitment from a 24-year-old German professional basketball player. You heard that correctly. Ryan Odom and UVA sports has a former, and by former, I mean,

he was a professional basketball player as of a few days ago. He has said, I'm not going to play pro basketball in Germany anymore. And I'm going to go to Central Virginia to Charlottesville to play at UVA, where I have only one season of eligibility, only one season of eligibility, and I'm going to play as a 24-year-old man, 6-4, 220 pounds for a college basketball team. Think about how much money it takes to get a man who's 24 and 6'4 and 220 pounds to go from the other side of the world to central Virginia to play college basketball. And Ryan Odev has done that.

That I found provocative and compelling. and I wanted to relate to you, the viewer and listener, because it's the wild, wild west still of college athletics, where money talks and anything else walks. Judah Wickhauer Studio Camera, Judah Wickhauer Studio Camera, Carol Thorpe, I sincerely mean that. The profile picture looks fantastic. Hammer the like button viewers and listeners.

We work hard for you. That's the only thing we ask for return. John Blair, thank you for watching the program as well. Where do we begin? Do we begin with the tent town torching? I think we have to. We begin with the tent town torching? Yeah.

I mean, this is the second tent town torching. The first tent town torching was associated with one of the tent town tenants torching a spoon to cook their heroin before they shot the white china in their veins. And when they torch the spoon to cook their heroin, they mistakenly torch some torch to ten. Now, do you know that for certain? That's your source told us that.

Okay. You relayed that to the viewers and listeners. A source directly close to the authorities, that was your information. Right? Your information. Yeah, you're right. Now we have a new tent town torching, my friend.

Yeah. Could be the same thing. Where do you want to go? Show is yours. First, great to see you. Thank you. I'm going to miss you here. I'm going to miss you over the vacation.

You may not miss me. I'm going to miss you over the vacation. One of those weeks, Judah's gone with his family to Maine. He's gone the week of July 13th with his family. My family and I leave tomorrow. Imagine my wife and I and the family Ford Explorer heading to a beach and Long Island. What could be a seven and a half hour trip or could be a 13-hour trip with an eight-year-old and a three-year-old in the back seat.

pray for us dear God. I assure you, I have a bottle of scotch packed in a bag in the back of the Explorer, waiting to be cracked as soon as we hit our home. Where do you want to begin, my friend? Well, like we've said before, it's not a hard pronouncement, and hard, anyone could have guessed that there was going to be a fire down there. I mean, geez Louise, seriously. Michael Payne, even Michael Payne, who just moved out of the, move out of his parents' basement said this was going to happen.

Deep Throats watching the program. I think Deep Throats watching the program from Paris. Are you in Paris right now, Deep Throat? Nice. In Paris, I believe, with his family. Maybe fresh from Paris. Maybe it is sprawling Montana Diggs deep throat. Michael Payne moved out of his parents' basement.

The two-term city councilors said this was a dangerous scenario and said this was going to happen. Yeah. Do we not as a community ask questions, did anything impact free bridge and its structural integrity? Judah thinks I'm blowing this out of proportion. The free bridge stuck structural integrity and the fact that fires are ablazing adjacent or underneath a passageway that transports tens of thousands of vehicles every day. You ever been on that bridge, Free Bridge, when it's swaying? You know it's supposed to sway. Yeah, most bridges are supposed to.

That bridge is constructed to sway. Deep Throat back from Paris was a business trip, but he did bring his oldest son with him. High Voice is the nickname of his oldest son. He's just a fantastic young man, I know his oldest son. He's got two great sons. He said his oldest son wandered Paris mostly by himself, and he was like,

this is not nearly as intimidating as the downtown mall. No one harassed me while I was in Paris, What's going on here? That's high voice, deep throats, oldest sion. He also says deep throat, his photo on screen. I mean, this is a true representation of our friend here, Deep Throat. I guess two fires in a month at Tentown tells you why one can't just open up the holiday drive building and let people sleep there. They'll end up burning it down.

Tells you also how much more challenging solving the low barrier shelter problem is than providing high barrier shelter. 100% 100%. The folks that the low barrier shelter is constructed for don't want a low barrier shelter. The large majority of town tenants don't want to be in a shelter. They want to be free. They want a free ball. They want literally to free ball freely. Free ball.

Who doesn't want a free ball freely? Go by the Miller House. anytime after 5 o'clock, and it's a freeball freely epicenter, much to the dismay of my wonderful wife and the mother of our two children. That's what happens, sweetheart, when you marry me, we produce two sons, and we have Max the family German Shepherd along for the ride. Where do you want to go with Tentown Torching? Do we hold Sam Sanders accountable?

I don't think we can hold anyone accountable. I mean, maybe we hold the city council accountable and Sam Sanders for saying, yeah, go ahead and stay there. But really, what were they going to do? There would be such a hue and outcry if they, I mean, the only thing I can imagine they would have done differently

would be to send Chief Conscious and the police to clear them out. We have 70 plus calls for service to Tentown in the last 24, in the last 12 months. 70 plus calls for service. Patrick McAdams is watching the program, friend of the program,

all around great guy Patrick McAdams on YouTube. We're going to have to get a Patrick McAdams photo that we put on screen. One of the greatest lacrosse players to come from Central Virginia, Patrick McAdams, now a fantastic father, Patrick McAdams. He says this, Tentown is a thriving community

except they're missing one key aspect. a volunteer fire department. We kid because we so, so care. That's my words right there. We kid because we so, so care. They've got a hand washing station, just attach a hose. Hand washing stations, courtesy of you and me and the viewers and listeners in our tax dollars. Porter Potty's courtesy of you and me and the viewers and listeners in our tax dollars.

All these calls for service from the fire department and the Charlottesville Police Department funded by our tax dollars. There's more fecal matter in the Rivana River than maybe there's ever been. The businesses around Tentown refuse to offer the city access, and why should they? The only business that's offering the city access to Tentown is the Rivana River Company, not because they're empathetic of Tentown tenants, but because they're leasing land, the Rivana River Company from the city itself and they have no other choice. can you imagine tent town and the Rivana River company saying you know you can't access tent town the city would be like dude you rent from us what are you talking about you want your rent to

go up next lease cycle you're going to give us access to tent town and the 80 residents here and to deep throats point imagine putting tent town at 2000 holiday drive without a management system in place the 27,000 square foot brick georgia next to the Aberdeen barn which you can see from the bypass it would be burned down in days. I don't know about that, but... They've had two fires in a month. I know. One of them from cooking white China on a spoon.

Give them a 27,000 square foot brick Georgian that ran 6.2 million of taxpayer dollars. They torch, they torch the building. This is what happens when you give men and women handouts. Not hand-ups,

but handouts. Empathy and kindness. And goodwill is not synonymous with handouts. You see it here, viewers and listeners. The only positive that's come from tent town, ladies and gentlemen, is the fact that the 50-year downtown mall celebration, the eight blocks, the crown jewel of Central Virginia at the downtown mall, have been free of tent-town tenants.

There is no coincidence. No one will ever admit this at City Hall. But there is absolutely a coincidence. I'll change my absolutely a coincidence. It's hand in hand. Cause and effect. The allowance of tent town under Freebridge. A handful of months prior to the 50-year downtown mall celebration.

Cause and effect. Hank Martin watching the program. Here's why structural engineers worry about fires like this. This is for you, Judah, from handsome Hank Martin, who's got a new profile picture, by the way. Extreme heat, Judah, can cause concrete to explode spall. I've never heard that word spall. Have you? S-P-A-L-L.

Yeah. I didn't know that was a word. I've heard it. I learned from the viewers and listeners. I wouldn't be able to give you a... Spalling refers to fragments or chips of material that break off from larger solid body. I didn't know that, Hank Martin. You educate me often, handsome Hank.

I'll start his comment again. Here's why structural engineers worry about fires like this, Judah. Extreme heat can cause concrete to explode or spall, exposing steel supports and can warp heavy steel beams under the bridge deck. The presence of propane cylinders means a constant threat of massive explosions directly beneath a major traffic artery. Intense heat causes rapid, uneven concrete expansion, which can ruin critical bridge joints and bearings. I'd expect VDOT inspections to follow. A hundred percent. A hundred percent.

him Hank Martin, 100% on point. How can you have multiple fires adjacent or under free bridge and not have a structural engineer and inspection? And based on that logic, extreme heat with exposed beams causing

spall? Or what a small? Yeah, spall. How does that not apply to the Dewberry Hotel as well? The extreme heat, we're getting this coming week the temperature of Charlott's fault. My family

he's leaving right at the right time tomorrow morning. Over the next four or five days, the feels like temperature is going to hit 101, 104 to 106. Judah Wickhauer is going to be walking around in denim, a button-down shirt, and an undershirt, and he's going to be completely comfortable because my friend Judah Wickhauer is cooler than the other side of the pillow.

In the words of the late great Stuart Scott, one of the best sports center anchors ever. Philip Dowell, the mayor of Scottsville, his photo on screen. This shows you again how absolutely stupid Charlottesville City Council is. Our sons are watching the program. Trey and Zachary, and they leave a comment, I love you, dad. I love you two boys. Please don't drive your mother crazy, please. I'm begging you. Too late. Too late, I know, my poor wife. We're in between summer camps right now. although our son, we're going to Southampton,

our son is doing a squash camp next week while we're up there. He's going to be playing squash against a lot of Manhattanites. I'm looking forward to see how he performs up there. This will be his third camp of the summer. John Blair, I hope that you and Judah have a restful vacation and look forward to great things when you all return. Thank you, John Blair. We appreciate you, J.B. Anything you want to add to that, Judah Wickhauer,

for the first topic of the program? You're the voice of reason. You're not necessarily wrong about the extreme heat, but one tent town torching, as Jerry put it, is... I thought that was really good alliteration. If the entire thing were under the bridge, I would still think it would require

the absolute destruction of the tent town in order to create the kind of heat that would seriously impact. the bridge. I just don't see a, you know, a 20-minute fire causing that kind of damage.

I could be wrong. I'm obviously not a fire marshal. Or a structural engineer, and nor did you stay at a holiday and express last night. But you are a respected... What does that have to do with anything? It's the whole advertising campaign, the Holiday and Express.

You are accounted upon contributor to the Charlottesville, Almoreau County, and Central Virginia community. You're a stakeholder. And you're a man with a platform that has a respected and trusted voice locally. I count on you to be the ying

to my commentary yang, often on the show. I live in the moment. I'm passionate. I am energetic. You are often the yin to that yang. Cooler than the other side of the

pillow. I'm surprised. with your downplaying of the dangers to free bridge here. I'm very surprised. And the dangers here are not just death. We've had two people die. The dangers here are not just drug overdose. Often the drug overdoses are happening. The dangers here are not just the pollutants

that are entering the Rivana River and the Rivana Trail. The dangers here are not just the cannibalization of an urban amenity the Rivana Trail. The dangers here are not just the perceived brand damage to Charlottesville and Amarral County. The dangers here are not just the financial

malpractice of reckless taxpayer management. The dangers here, I think the most crippling are the impacts to free bridge itself. Tens of thousands of vehicles on that stretch of roadway. And if anything happens to the bridge, That's when you will see the heat, pun intended for Sam Sanders as city manager and people calling for his job really pick up tempo. No doubt. I still feel like it's a very small chance that that happens.

You might be right. But if I was the city manager, I wouldn't allow any chance to impact my job security. Because look at what happened to Matthew Haas. were both in agreement that Matthew Haas was probably professionally far enough away from the day-to-day operations at Holly Meade Elementary. Now, he did create the social-emotional learning coach position. And he is the highest-paid employee, and he is the superintendent, so he becomes the fall guy.

But the true fall guys, the true accountability outside of Mike Sweeney at Holly Meade Elementary, was Joe McCauley the principal, the vice principal, a guidance counselor, anybody else that did not act as an alerter of what was happening. Protector of the children. Protector of the children. Right. Not the superintendent that was in the Almore County office building. Or the Almore County or the superintendent's offices.

Yeah. Okay. But he's the fall guy. Yeah. Same scenario with Sam Sanders. Sam Sanders might be not, might not be the head of neighborhood development services or the assistant city manager that's walking around here. We're in charge of the nonprofits.

or boots on the street at tent town, but he's the highest paid guy. Comets come in. Deep Throat says in Paris, it was 105 degrees. They just arrived in Montana and they had a foot of snow up the hill from his sprawling

ranch. And he says, I'm glad I'm missing the Charlottesville heat wave. He says the fire issue is if it gets out of control and becomes a big brush fire. 100%. This is so effing obvious. It's a effing drought. We're in one of the most historical.

I've been here 26 years in August. I literally was saying this to my wife. In the 26 years I've been here, I've never seen drought conditions like this. Yeah, not this bad. It's, what is happening here? My hostas are dying. Your what?

My hostas are dying. What's a hostess? A hosta. What's a hosta? Is that like a twinkie? It's a small flowering bush. I've got tons of them out front. and the leaves are...

Do you water them? I watered them a little bit the other day, but obviously I don't want to... I'm not trying to stretch the city's water in a time of drought. I'm also not overly worried about the hostas. They'll come back next year. Shoot is a very empathetic

and considerate individual. All right, next topic. It's the one o'clock marker on the I Love Seville Show, the water cooler of content and conversation. We'll give some attention to Stanley Martin Holmes. Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes has built more than 600 homes in the last 24 months in central Virginia? Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes has a project coming in the Fry Springs neighborhood? Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes has a new project, Breezy Hill, coming outside of Glenmore and Keswick?

Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes is bringing hundreds of homes to market in Green County? Stanley Martin Holmes, ladies and gentlemen, is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyle. High quality single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums, design and constructed with innovative techniques that ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Also, on a side note, we're talking new construction and development. I heard this through the Great Vine. Keystone Custom homes acquired southern development homes.

It's a strategic partnership which allows Keystone Custom Homes to expand into Southern into Central Virginia. Keystone Custom Homes is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's a top 100 builder with over $430 million in top line revenue. Southern Development Homes has been operating in Charlottesville and Central Virginia for more than 25 years. Keystone Custom Homes has acquired Southern Development, Frank Bailiff, Charlie Armstrong's outfit. That's pretty significant news in the

development and home construction community. And I believe no one else is putting that in the new cycle besides yours truly. Keystone Custom Homes has acquired southern development. Judah Wickhauer, next topic. What do you got on the talk show? We've got a 50th birthday

coming up. It's this weekend. I hope it goes really well. Yeah. It's, it's I mean, good God. I hope this goes well, right? Yeah, definitely. I mean...

The business is on the downtown mall deserve it. Yeah. The downtown mall has not been able to catch a break. Let's hope this goes well. It's a 50-year anniversary. Coensides with the 4th of July, the 250-year anniversary of our country. Let's hope this goes well.

Greer Ackin-back at Friends of Seville is working her took us off. No doubt. She's a fantastic person, fantastic mom, all around an awesome person, always has a smile on her face. I mean, I hope this goes extremely well for everyone involved,

most notably for the merchants on the downtown mall. I saw Mary from Tools, the owner and proprietor of tools, jewelers walking down the downtown mall. She's just a fabulous human being. I mean, she's got a back of the napkin agreement with a couple of hobos who sleep in her vestibule.

Can't pee. You can't puke. You can't poop in my vestibule. And you've got to be gone by morning time by the time I get there and I'll let you sleep here in my vestibule. Literally in agreement with some hobos for fantastic Mary of Tools. Hope it goes well. Mike and Cecilia at Rapture, I hope it goes well. I mean, check out downtown seaville.com forward slash 50.

Dash anniversary. It's got all the times. There are tours. There's a mall birthday party with free ice cream. There's music at the Ting Pavilion. There's music at the Paramount. There's a lantern parade in the evening. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. There's a light show and discos and 70s dance party. It's good stuff. You mentioned the positive experiences that you've had at Bagby's and their new location the former spot of the Blue Ridge Country store? Oh, yeah. I was surprised to learn that they've got a

salad bar. I had no idea that, you know, it's called Breckys. I imagine it was going to be, you know, eggs, waffles, basically breakfast fair. But I saw police chief cautious outside of there. He was heading in, said they have an amazing salad bar, so I followed him in, and sure enough, I was blown away. It's great. You got a salad to go?

Yeah. That's nice. I came back later and got a salad, and yeah, it's good stuff. Didn't you get the soup there, too? I get soup next door at... Marker Street? No, at Bagby's. Oh, at Bagby's.

Bagby's has some really good soups. Some I'm okay, man. That's a father and son running those businesses. Yeah. At Bagby's and Brecky's. And speaking of the downtown mall, I was sent this by Kent Hammond this morning. The open container zones, the designated outdoor refreshment areas, the Doras that I've been pushing for downtown Charlottesville. If you want to revitalize and drive economic stimulus to downtown Charlestville that has not recovered post-COVID,

a designated outdoor refreshment area where you're able to walk from the Omni Hotel to the Ting Pavilion, and patronizing the restaurants and bars in between while walking and carrying your alcoholic beverage of choice on the downtown mall, that's how you revitalize downtown Charlottesville. It's so clearly succinct to me. Ken Hammond watches the program. He says, I know you're a huge proponent of the Dora.

He sends me some content. I vetted Kent Hammond. He's a regular viewer and listener. He says, Jerry, the open container zones in downtown Boston are surging revenue for restaurants. Boston's first weekend trial of social districts, streets where bars and restaurants

can serve patrons who carry drinks in designated zones, drew more than 10,000 visitors to Temple Place, exceeding foot traffic from any single day in the past seven years. Operators reported their highest revenue nights on record. Jim Curley, the founder of Babak Bina, said the bar posted all-time best sales over the weekend. the pilot zones on Temple Place

and in the Blackstone Block Historic District enabled by new state legislation signed earlier this month run through the end of July. How many proof of performances do we need before Michael Payne, who's drinking his high-seed cooler in his parents' basement, eating his fruit roll-up or his tootsie, tutsie roll, tutsie pop. His peanut butter sandwich,

peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with the crust cut off, chopped diagonally only don't let the vegetables and the mashed potatoes and his protein touch on the plate because he needs them separated of their own sections on the plate how much longer

tell us about the dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets he needs some dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets that's right he only eats the T-Rexes Michael Payne only eats the T-Rexes and you better not give him catch up with his T-Rex dinosaur

shape chicken nuggets. Give him ranch, but only the Hidden Valley. Ranch. I mean, Hidden Valley is good. Only the Hidden Valley. And even better than Hidden Valley is the is the, what do you call it? Oh my goodness. Buttermilk. Buttermilk. Buttermilk Hidden Valley Ranch. That is peak. Peak ranch. It doesn't get better than that. How many more proofs of performance do we need before Michael Payne realizes the designated outdoor refreshment area will be a monumental success for downtown Charlton. Monumental success. Keith Maupin watching the program.

The water conservation should have been implemented quite some time ago, and it gives kudos to Judah for letting his plants die outside his house. I do not have a green thumb to begin with, so I surprised myself by turning the the hose onto a trickle and giving a little rain and sprinkle to the hostas and scaring off a Is this Hachkis like the prep school? Hachkis? Hachah. Carol Thorpe watching the program.

The main concern she has for the 50-year anniversary as you put her photo on screen and she's got a new profile picture. I think we should probably get it. Carol Thorpe says the main concern she has for the 50-year anniversary is the fact that so many people leave town to celebrate the fourth. I mean, my family is a perfect example of that. This is when we leave almost every year. We go up, we go up north. Pat McAdams loves the show.

I love you, too, Pat McAdams. One of the most talented lacrosse players to ever matriculate through Central Virginia. H.O. High School Legend. H-O-S-T-A. Is that a Twinkies brand? Twinkies. Ginny Who watching the program, her photo on screen. You must not have deer if you're a hostess are still standing.

You've got deer, right? Yeah, they come wandering through the neighborhood every once in a while, but I guess they haven't found my spot yet. Well, because they're dead. The deer are dead? No. I said some of the leaves are turning brown. When they bloom, they,

shoot up and you get like you get like a bunch of little hanging purple flowers off the end. And they'll chew the ends off those in a night. You don't have a green thumb. I don't have a green thumb. I have a black thumb.

I do. I honestly, I sincerely mean this. I do like two things, only two things really well. Two and a half things really well. That's it. Don't ask me to do anything like maintenance-wise. Like water. I have a hard time screwing in a light ball.

You think I'm joking. 50 year anniversary of the downtown mall, I hope to God it goes well. I mean, seriously, the downtown merchants need this to go well. You guys, like, we are intimately involved with downtown business. Many clients

intimately involved with downtown business. Many tenants of ours to say they're hanging on by a thread is an understatement, ladies and gentlemen. Next topic, what do you got? Judah Wickcarry. Next up, we've got a little more

police chief, conscious news. He's been named the Rotary Citizen of the Year. Do we got a Mike conscious photo we put on screen? I'm sure we do. We got a Mike Conscious. This is the George Clooney and Police. Let me see. I love this guy. I'll tell you a Mike Cottius story in a second.

We got a photo we can put on screen? Go ahead and tell it. I'm going to get this. We're in the Family Ford Explorer. my family and I. I think I'm driving. And our eight-year-old son is in the back seat. And Chief Kachis, he's got a nice Ford Explorer. It's a black Ford Explorer.

It's got tinted windows. It's tricked out a little bit. It's like a little under the radar undercover like Ford Explorer. It's dope, dude. And Chief Conscious has got the seat kind of riding back, right? It's kind of leaning back. He's got his glasses, kind of his sunglasses on the bridge of his nose. dude looks cool.

I look over to the right. We're like pass and settled tire. I'm like, that's Chief Kautchus. And our sons know that I'm a huge fan of Chief Kachis. He's come on the show. They like Chief Kautchus sometimes better than I do. In fact, one of the ways I keep our 3-year-old son in line is I'm saying, Zachary, you're stepping out of line.

I'm calling Chief Kautchus right now. He goes, don't call Chief Kautious. A three-year-old, don't call Chief Kodgis. So I roll. I'm in the family for an explorer, and I'm like. Here's his police chief officer. his photos on screen. I say, Trey, our Chief Kautchus is next

to us. He goes, Chief Kautchus, he's next to us? We roll down the window. I roll down the window with Trey in the back seat. He's looking at the door. Chief Conscious rolls down his window, wearing his uniform, and Trey looks at Chief Kautchus as if he's seeing LeBron James. Chief Conscious gives him an ear-to-eer

smile, made Trey's entire day. He's, Trey, I promised Trey that I will get him a photo with Chief Kachis. Trey and Chief Kachis. He wants that photo for his room. He asked me that once a month.

I got to ask my Kachis if he will get a photo with our and the world son. He is very deservingly the citizen of the year. No doubt. I think he's won multiple awards like this. Is this the Rotary?

Yeah, this is the Rotary Citizen of the Year. It's an honor recognizing his exceptional dedication to community service and leadership in law enforcement. I'd say leadership in the community. not just in law enforcement. Hank Martin says,

Mike Cottes is not the George Clooney of police chiefs. He is more the general George Patton of policing. I give him a big salute. That's handsome Hank Martin. Dude is, if Chief Kachis, and he has told me multiple times he would never run for office, if he ran for city council, he would be the first place vote getter,

and it wouldn't even be close. I would like to think so as well. Chief Conscious could win a spot. It could be a delegate. I don't know. He might end up with a campaign of... He would never do it. He would never do it.

I'm just saying we might end up with a campaign of people who don't like the police coming out against him. What are you talking about? You know what the reality is? This is the reality. Have you seen how many instances of ACAB are sprayed around the city here? The reality outside of a handful of people in this community, including the Gillican gang leading the charge. You've said yourself how loud they can be and how...

The Gillican gang is leading the charge. The overwhelming, large, massive majority of people are backed the blue tremendously. Yeah. Overwhelmingly. When he took this job, there was riddled with murders, God violence. Overwhelmingly, the matured. Even the black community, the low-income black community, wants the police patrolling their neighborhoods. Overwhelmingly they do. It's a very small pocket of this community that screams, real in the budget,

too much resources, taxpayer on police, and I call bullshit on that. Overwhelming people want it. And a perfect example of this is neighboring jurisdiction with an investigation that's going on with the Almaro County Public School, system and this child sex scandal. Okay?

I'm soon calling on and he watches and listens to the show Jim Hingley, routinely, often daily. I get text messages from Commonwealth's attorney Hingley on the regular about the show. When we misspell something in our headlines, there is no one that texts me first, often in the program, that we have a misspelled word in our headlines. Is that not true? That's true.

And we change it in real time. I'm hoping in the very near future, future in very respectful fashion from yours truly that commonwealth attorney jim hingley's office offers some kind of communication on the investigation with mike sweetney i don't need anything that compromises the investigation or the prosecution in any capacity just communication because he saw in this sex scandal how infuriated parents were that it went six months without any communication in any capacity yeah that infuriated parents they felt blindsided so if you want to get ahead of that fury and you want to do great public relations and he is one that is

savvy and sophisticated and experienced Jim Hingley, you communicate with your office of what's going on. And imagine being the interim police chief at Amarrow County. Right? Yeah. While the real police chief is out on what the, you know, pay time on, medical leave. I mean, you know. Yeah, something like that. You know.

We don't want to speculate. I don't know why. Why Carl Rees now. Don't know why. But the interim, and I should know her name, and I'm doing, I'm disappointed in myself that I don't. Interim, Almore County Police Chief is Major Camille Stewart. She's done a, she did a fantastic job at that Holly Meade Town Hall with the parents. And Matthew Haas tried to throw under the bus multiple times there.

the police department, to the point where she interrupted Matthew Haas and said, no, if you had communicated with the parents sometime between now and June, January and June, that wouldn't have compromised our investigation after all. Then he goes, oh, this is the first time hearing of that. Super shady and sketchy. Superintendent Haft, former Superintendent Haas's public relations in that meeting. I'm convinced that led to his term, his force resignation. Anyway, Chief Kocchus, George Clooney of policing,

arguably one of the most popular people in Charlottesville. Commonwealth's attorney's office, Jim Hinchley, would love to see some communication on where we are with this investigation. No doubt. Intram, police chief, Camille Stewart, you're doing a hell of a job. Police Colonel Sean Reeves, extended medical leave, good luck with everything that's going on. I don't know what's going on.

This show overwhelmingly backs the blue. Overwhelmingly. To the point that I get ridiculed and reprimanded and ripped by folks in this community and I'll just straight up take it because we back them.

Next topic, Judah Wickhauer. What is it? Next, we've got Taco Naco. Dude, Taco Naco. I mean, great tacos. Great food truck on 29. Yeah. And it should be noted that the food truck will still be around.

Food truck is still open. Buy the laundromat, the food truck. Moves around on 29. Gas station laundry mat. Maybe a strategic error. Opening it in that hut, that building across from Baratrow Shopping Center. Yeah, as I've seen people note, it's not an easy... Getting in and out of that parking lot is Ms.

Yeah. It is miss. Unless you're going a particular direction. That one way. And navigating that corridor is like akin to navigating the Raising Cain entry. The Raising Cain is absolutely getting ripped on the Charlottesville subreddit right now for some cleanliness issues. Did you see that? I did see something about that.

Wasn't it like boxes of trash put up right next? Overwhelming amounts of trash on the prep station. If that post is accurate, it's absolutely disgusting. And the most disgusting element of that Charlottesville subreddit. is a former health inspector commenting about visiting the restaurants locally. I'm not even going to relay what he said. It was skin curling.

I don't even want to know. Fortunately, I don't think I've ever been to... The only one of those I've ever been to is the KFC. The only place you visited on the cock block is KFC. Yeah. Chick-fil-A. Zaxby's. It goes from Barracks Road to the cock block.

We're going from Barracks Road to Raising Cades on the Cockblock on Emmett Street. Chick-fil-A-in-Barrick-Filley in Barracks. I don't think I even knew there was a Chick-fil-A-in Barracks. Come on, Judah. I don't go to Barracks much anymore. There's Chick-fil-A-N-Barricks. Chick-Fleigh and Barracks, Zaxby's, by the cook-out-in-the-car wash. KFC, Pop-I's, Raising Cains.

Yeah. Five fried chicken joints. within three quarters of a mile at each other on the cock block. And don't forget Ultimate Bliss, the porn shop right there in the middle. Nothing like going to the fried chicken joint and swinging by the porn shop on your way home.

Ultimate Bliss. I'm still at heart a 13-year-old boy. My wife would confirm that. Still very much a 13-year-old boy, despite having an 8-year-old son and a 3-year-old son. Philip Dow says the police chief needs to be the mayor of Charlottesville. The city would be improved in less than a year.

I have no doubt that would be true. I know for a fact that Mike Cottius would never do that. But I have no doubt if Chief Cottius was the mayor of Charlottesville, less than a year the city would be vastly improved. I have no doubt about that. Patrick McAdams, this show, he says, is fantastic. He says there's tremendous police support in this community for police support in this community.

Pat McAdams on YouTube. All right, it's the 122 marker. What else we got, Jada Wickcarra? On the water cooler of content and conversation. And we encourage the viewers and listeners to subscribe to Jerry Racklip.com. It's $8 a month. You get $40 to 50, 40 to 50 fresh pieces of content for $8 a month at Jerry Rackliff.com. I mean, it's just incredible what the man is doing and what the team is doing.

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The Taco Naco address. What's the Taco Naco address? 1136, I think. 1136 Emmett Street? Yeah, 1136 Emmett Street. You know, it's wild. I went and found it on the Google Maps, and it doesn't even have

Taco Nacos isn't even the storefront that's shown in the image. It's Rumi's. What? Rumi's. What's Rumi's? I don't know, but it's not open and neither is Taco Naco. That's probably tied to the Taco Naco personnel not updating their Google business listing correctly.

No, no, I'm looking at the street view. Oh, you're saying the street view. Where the Google car goes by and captures the content what shows up on the Google map. Yeah. And it's not showing

Taco Nakos anymore. It's not even, it's not even that's not showing Taco Nako anymore, it's that Taco Naco wasn't around long enough for Google to capture an image of it. Or even more terrifying that Google already knows that Taco Naco is closed and is predicting the future that the new tenant for that spot will be a business called Rumi's.

No, no, because Rumi's famous kebob. It's showing up as permanently closed. Yeah, the kebab shop was before Taco Nako. And at some point before that, what was the name, I always forget the name of this place. Was it the lodge or what was the name of the diner there? You're talking about the tavern. Is it the tavern? Yeah, but the tavern wasn't there.

But there was something. The tavern was across from the grocery, was across from the pharmacy. Where locals, where students, locals and townspeople meet the tavern. That was the staying on the roof. No, it was called the tavern. And you're saying it wasn't there? The tavern was not where Taco Naka was. The tavern has since been torn down.

Yeah. I remember going into the tavern like 26 years ago. This is when you could smoke inside restaurants. Okay? We'd go into the tavern. There was this gentleman. What was the guy that was the short-ordered cook or the line cook at the tavern? Fears and listeners, you know what I'm talking about, right?

This guy literally, this older African-American fellow, was literally the short-order cook. tall, skinny guy, wore an apron, he was cooking flapjacks and eggs and sausage, literally had a cigarette hanging from his lip while working the short-order cook station. And it was like by the hundreds we would go there for breakfast. Locals, students, and townspeople alike at the tavern. That building has since been torn down. William McChessie, you're watching the program? Confirm that for me, William McChesney?

I remember that place being dark and smoky. Yeah, that you could smoke in there. Giant stacks of of pancakes. Pancakes and butter. That's a good memory you have there. 100% of good memory. I remember I've told the story before on the show. I used

to live on Little Graves in Belmont. And when we lived on Little Graves on Belmont, after we closed the bars down, this was in my 20s when I was chasing, chasing tail, closing down the bars, working my took his off and closed it down the bars, it was single and ready to mingle.

wake up on Saturday or Sunday morning hungover as hell. We need some grease in the belly to get over the hangover, and we'd go to Fox's Cafe in Belmont. And that's when you could literally, it was this tiny, like, rancher of a house. What's at Fox's Cafe right now? It's a tobacco hut, right? A babe shop? Yeah.

Next to Thomas Rahals, Tomas. Bar Tomas. Bar Tomas. Yeah. I went in there so many times hungover as hell in this little rancher of a house that was a restaurant. you could smoke in there. It was a chimney. Like literally, it was a cloud of smoke when you walked in.

And I was just like, we just accepted it because that's what was normal. Yeah. You'd drink your coffee. You'd eat your two eggs, your bacon, your pancakes, and you walk the hell out. And you'd have to change your clothes and you'd have to leave them next to the laundry or throw them in the laundry right away because they stanked the house up so much. You remember that? I'm curious what happened to all the memorabilia.

weren't the walls covered in UVA memorabilia there? I'm sure they were. Philip Dow is watching the program. Jerry, I'm not sure if you've been to a tangerine kitchen off of Avon next to food line, but it's a must-try, wonderful Thai restaurant. In fact, Philip Dowell, yours truly brokered the deal for Tangerine Kitchen. It was previously Kroby's restaurant. Krobe's sister and brother looked to sell the restaurant.

restaurant, my client, Kit Ashi, purchased Krobees in a deal that I brokered lease and business transaction for Kit Ashi to open a Thai restaurant. I went to Kit. I said you should consider buying Krobees. You have Lake Renovia. You have Mill Creek. You have hundreds, if not a thousand plus rooftops within short drive of Avon extended food line shopping center and very limited food offering, your takeout business would crush, your tie business would crush, we brok her to deal, long-term lease. It is fantastic. And Philip Dowell says, thank you very much for the safe travel. Hank Martin says, the CBS Pharmacy sits where the tavern was, corner of Eminent Meadowbrook. Yeah, it's 100% right. Also, there was also

Anderson's carriage house there. I found a picture of it on Flickr, and it's an interesting little The Tavern or Anderson's? The Tavern. Tavern was dope. Yeah, yeah. Where tourists, students, and townspeople meet is what was painted on the roof. On the roof, I know. And this little blurb says that at one time it was called Sarges. That was before my time. Yeah. It said at some point in the 80s it became the tavern.

Rumi's deep throat. Rumi's was the kebab place that never managed to open. So don't we have a list of the most curse restaurants that you've put together? Ginny Who, I'm getting your comment next year. Yep, let's see. We've got... Ginny Who says, goodness gracious. I need to do a gardening segment for you two idiots.

She didn't say two idiots. My mom's the gardener and the family. What's the cursed real estate list in the city of Charlottesville? You know, I've got to add it to my list over here. Do you have a curse list? I think so. Yeah, top cursed. Top cursed.

I got it. Here, I'm going to put it on my computer list. Let's see. We've got, oh, man, it's gone way past. top five. What's the most cursed real estate in the city of Charlottesville? I've got Lark. Wait, wait, what's number one?

Lark. The lark? Yeah. There's no lark? There was at one point. Oh, you're talking about the world of beer spot? Yeah, I don't have these like it depends on what you were calling something because, you know, most of these places that are cursed

have multiple... Okay, the lark. Go ahead. I'm interrupting you. Keep going. After the lark, I have in parentheses, breweries. That's where all the breweries have come and gone. Oh, okay.

Okay. That's where the Hardywood was. Yeah. The Hardywood, Devil's backbone, and skipping rock. Okay, that one's unbelievably cursed. We've got tonic, which is also, what,

botches, and... Happy Bocci, Uncle Charlotties. No, not Uncle Charlie's, Carlton's. Now most recently, Tonic, Tin Whistle Irish Pub. Right across from the police station. What else you got? Let's see.

Michael's Bistro. Michael's Bistro, yep. Commonwealth Skybar. Alan Kajin's going to cringe when we say Commonwealth Skybar is close. He's also cringing the Tavern and Grocery's on the list. Go ahead. We're not Tavern on the grocery. Tin Whistle.

Tavern in the Grocery is not cursed. It's owned by Ashley Seag, and it's still crushing in right now. Wild Wing Cafe. Watt's an Alan Kajin'n Spont. That's three right there. Sorry, Alan. We love you, Alan. I'm pointing at Jerry.

We love you, Alan. Leave the man alone, Judah. We've also got Ralph Samson's. Oh, yeah. Now milk and honey. Yeah, be good. Be good. That was North Barracks.

North Barracks, yep. Okay. Peers, what used to be. The old Mavericks. Yeah, Mavericks. The old boat house. Plaza Esteka. Ex-Lound.

X Lounge, yeah, geez. Sombreros, when it was back in the... The back of your place, the Water Street location, the back of your place. Now sombreros is in the old Grick coffee spot. That spot's not curse. You better add the Taco Naco spot to that cursed real estate in Charlottesville. Yeah, I will. Let's see.

See, and the crazy thing is you would think the Taco Naco spot would crush it. Because on paper, you're across from Barracks Road Shopping Center, at the top shopping district in the city. Right off the road. Right by the UVA, and you have 20,000 cars drive by there every there. I mentioned somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 every day drive by Taco Naco. The challenge you have is the other side of the road cannot access your parking lot. And the other challenge you have is it's so close to the traffing light that it makes entering there absolutely miserable.

And leaving there. Yeah. You either have to wait for the cars that are at, the light to move so that you can get on there, or you go out the other end, in which case you're still kind of stuck going one way. Exactly. Exactly. Conan Owen says, Jude, I didn't realize we shared a birthday.

Conan, thank you for deleting those comments. I called Conan seven times last night after 11.30 p.m. aggressively and consistently, as Judah has seen me do many times. Thank you for deleting those. 133 marker what else do we got you to Wickhauer let's see we've got I think we're getting close to the end I think we're at the end here Supreme Court right I don't normally talk about topics like this on the I Love Seville show but I think it's important I want to commend the Supreme Court for upholding upholding state bands on transgender athletes and and youth sports. I am all four. I will lead with this.

Someone will still take this out of context. I will lead with this. I don't care about gender fluidity. I don't care who you sleep with. I don't care who you fall in love with. I don't care what you pack in your pipe and you smoke. I don't care who you marry. I don't care what you drink.

I don't care what God you pray to. Do it on your own. Don't force your issues. on me. One of my biggest issues with the pandemic was the government telling me to stay at home, the government telling me what I could do with my life and what I had to wear on my face, I thought it was bullshit.

If you want to do stuff, viewer and listener, Judah, anyone, anyone, in your own time, your personal time, go for it. It's a free country. There's consequences to freedom of speech, but I'm all for freedom of speech. Just don't push it on me and force me to do stuff.

I'm overreach and overstep will always bring out a side of me you don't like. Allowing girls that are born girls, excuse me, this is so confusing for me. Allowing guys that are born guys to take puberty stopping drugs and then transition into girls and then compete against girls that are born girls

and youth in high school sports is an absolute travesty. It's a travesty. I don't even need to speak to the integrity of the game and what it does do it. I'm speaking to just basic common sense. Boys that are born boys that transition into girls should not be playing youth sports or high school sports.

The Supreme Court agrees. That's something that I'm going to put. put on the cycle of commentary today on the I Love C. I'm going to go further and say that young people who aren't allowed to vote or make a lot of their own decisions for themselves are being allowed to transition in the first place. I think that's crazy. It's a topic for a different day.

If they want to transition with their parents alongside them, okay. Topic for a different day. Mine's strictly on the sports. That's the Tuesday edition of the show. I'm going to highlight again that yours truly is going to be at the beach, Wednesday, tomorrow, July 1 through Sunday, July 19th. Back in the saddle on Monday, July 20th. Judah is gone the week of July 13th.

He's in Maine with his family. My family and I are going to a beach on Long Island, the first through the 19th of July. How's the weather looking there next week? It's going to be effing marble. Nice. In the early 80s, high 70s, 20 to 25 degrees cooler here. Perfect beach weather. You get the wind from the ocean.

It's just absolutely special. You're Judah. You're an all-around great guy. Thank you. My name is Jerry, and this is the I Love Seville show, where it's just a water cooler of content and conversation. We want to do this with you, the viewer, and listener. We want you, the viewer and listener to be a part of the show.

We're going to miss connecting with you. We're excited for vacation. and when we're back from vacation, we're recharged, we're energized for the back half of the year. And oftentimes, innovation is birthed from this respite. I found that I've been doing this for 18 years. You give me two weeks off from the day-to-day grind, something positive materializes with the business that's innovative,

that is impactful. And I think that's going to happen again. For Judah, I'm Jerry. So long, everybody.