The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Matthias John Joined Alex Urpí & Michael Urpí On "Today y Mañana" On The I Love CVille Network!

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

Matthias John of Matthias John Realty joined Alex Urpí & Michael Urpí On “Today y Mañana!” “Today y Mañana” airs every Thursday at 10:15 am on The I Love CVille Network! “Today y Mañana” is presented by Emergent Financial Services, LLC, Charlottesville Opera and Matthias John Realty, with Forward Adelante.

Good morning, everyone, everyone, welcome to today and morning, I'm welcome to today and man. I'm out. I'm out. This is my We're super excited to have you joining us on a chilly morning. But listen, winter's only a month away, Alex. I got bad news. I'm going to get colder. I know. It's not going to do warm work. I know.

So it is a chilling morning here in Charlottesville, Virginia. But that's a great opportunity to get down into your cozy place. Get you grab your topic on leche and watch them today. Exactly. No excuses. You're not going to be outside today. So you might as well be inside. Stay warm and watch them today.

Exactly. And nice and warm. Because we have a great show lined up for everyone. We're going to be joined in seconds by Matiasione or Matias Yon. of Matias Yon Realty for our monthly meet-up with him, and it's going to be fantastic. Just a big shout-out, thanks, of course, to being on the ILOC-WL network,

our fantastic partners at Emergent Financial Services, Matiasioen Realty, and Charlotte for us out in the little season, and forward our Lentie, so we appreciate it, and be sure to send us any questions, comments, thoughts, that you may have already, Monita Miller from Montana, tuning in for the show this point, so we always appreciate that.

Hopefully, Monica's staying warm out there, Montana. I hope so. I always worry because one week it's like, oh, it's only 35 or 40 degrees. It's very nice. And the next week, I'm talking to your wife. And it's like, oh, yeah, they got snowed in minus 20 degrees. I'm like, oh, my God. Exactly, exactly.

And speaking of which, my wife is watching. Dotterbury watching, which means Maria Herpy is probably also watching and smiling. So we appreciate that. Unless she's busy crawling. Unless she's busy, yep, exactly. She may be busy judging determining where they do the job. So with that, let's go ahead and bring in our fantastic guest for the day, and it's wonderful always to have you here, Matthias.

Yes, Matthias. Thank you, thank you for having me. I always liked the introduction here on the show. Just said, oh, our fantastic guest, Matthias, you know, I usually don't get this kind of introduction, this kind of, this welcome. Next time we got dimmed the lights and then just had the spotlight on him, so it's just like, boom, Matthias is here. You know, once a month when I leave the studio and go back to my office,

So I always have the chin up, you know, chest out, full of self-confidence because you guys always make me feel good. That's wonderful. And it's great to have you here right before the holidays. Right before the holidays. That's right. Thanksgiving is one week out. And it always feels like it's just a blur between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

And I think everyone just refers to it as the holidays, even less. The holidays, yep. Several weeks in between. but it's all right and in my job not much happens between the one holiday and the others right it's just this

this gray blur and not too many people are really looking to switch homes between Thanksgiving and Christmas that's what we observe but you know what I wanted to what I wanted to share with you

it's so funny right after the holidays is usually when we get calls from people that have made some realizations during the holidays. And it's, you know, it leads people to rethink how they live, the space they have, how to utilize the space. And I'm saying this a little bit with humor because there are some funny anecdotes about what people realize during the holidays about the way they live.

And it has to do almost always with the amount of people that come. because everyone hosts family for Thanksgiving, right? For Christmas, this is when family members from far away travel, and you host them, and all of a sudden, things look very different. You know what I mean with that? Absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, and it's so funny because I think what happens is I think a lot of times you fall in love with, okay, this is, look how great this configuration of my houses,

I have the living room here, I have this here, and then you realize, oh, I never use that room. everyone always sits in this room in the kitchen here and I've been noticing it was just the other day on HGTV that my Elizabeth had on a family

that had bought a very cute house right in a historic neighborhood big backyard it was a creed in the backyard and they were like yeah this would be great the house is a little small but don't worry we'll put in expansions that our kitchen can be bigger so we can have people come over we can have

turn it into an open concept right And then they go to do it and it was like, no, you have a, this is a historic house and you have a treat in your backyard. You can't add this. You can't add that. You can't expand this way. You can't go up. You can't go sideways. You can't go into the backyard. And they realized, oh, this house does not fit our needs anymore.

And they didn't realize it, of course, until they said, all right, here's what's missing in the house. Let's try to fix it. It's that, well, actually, you can't. You probably should have thought of that before you or done a little more. research before you bought the house. No, really. I feel like the holiday entertainment or holiday hosting of family

members and friends is like a full-scale stress test of your home. Every flaw of the home shows, right? For example, the charming, cozy kitchen that you read about in the MLS listing description,

all of a sudden is a fire code violation. That formal living room where you thought when you moved in, this is where we are going to host everyone for family gatherings. Turns out no one hangs out in there. And everyone, all of a sudden, you have 15 people standing in the kitchen between the trash can and the kitchen sink, right? Everyone gathers there.

It's crowded, even though you have designated space in your home for that. That's what I mean with, it's this full-scale stress test because you learn what is the reality and what was a fantasy when you moved in. And that's, you know, we made this realization ourselves, the current home we live in. Now after a couple of years, we know what works and what does it, right? And we are not at a stage yet

where we host a lot of family gatherings. We usually go to my wife's family at their home, but I know exactly that things that we envisioned when we moved in won't really stand the test of reality. And that's what I mean with after the holidays, we get those phone calls because people realize. That reminds me a little bit because we have that problem in my parents' house. And mom fell in love with the idea of a formal dining room,

which again, in theory sounds great when we have guests, we go to formal dining room, everyone else. Every day we use the big kitchen table. we probably use a handful of times because the problem is it's too small so when you have guests it's like well no one wants to be cramped in a small dining room on a small dining room table

so everyone just gravitates to the kitchen so in the end everyone eats on the kitchen you have all the expanded tables you know the four-legged ones and thankfully we have they were smart enough to have a large kitchen sometimes you'll see some of the chefs like sometimes when people go to

get a kitchen like you said Matisse they'll either be the cozy or a lot of times chefs will say say, no, don't make your kitchen too big. You don't want to be walking around to get to everything. You want everything to be easily accessible. And said, well, that's great if you're the only one in the kitchen. If you have everybody else sitting there.

And there's always the things, too many cooks in the kitchen. That can happen basically with two people. Already, there's a couple other people with my mom in the kitchen. She's like, everyone needs to get away. I need my space. I need to do my stuff because then it's getting too crowded. But I wonder whether people sometimes when they're looking at home, and I don't know, I've never purchased a home,

But whether they look at more of the visual without thinking about the functionality of it, that they're sort of like, oh, this sounds like this looks beautiful. Look at this room. Yeah, we can make the, but I'm actually thinking, what am I really going to use this room for? Or what is, like, my lifestyle is actually going to fit into this home? But I don't know. I never purchase a home, so I'm just kind of throwing that question out there for those who have. Well, it's, we use those descriptions.

We think about how do we describe this room best, right? And then we give it a term, and that's how we market it. fully intending to describe it to the very best of our ability. Example, flex room. If there's a room in a house that is not clearly a bedroom, right? Or maybe it could use as a bedroom, but not officially because of the size of the window, no closet. And you don't really know what it's going to be used at. Oftentimes you see the description flex room.

You know what flex room in reality becomes? storage right so it's not really a lot of flexibility it's just right you wouldn't market it as here's a storage room

that doesn't sound very appealing no because you end up with seven storage rooms if you call it that it's yeah or you know let's say you have an additional

bedroom and you designated the guest room right and then time goes by and you start filling up the closet of that guest room until it's just full of boxes and things that you thought you would use but you're not so you cramp it into that into that closet and then you do get guests right and you wish you had found a different solution for that so that another example of storage you know but it is something that I think people underestimate their need for because I notice a lot of times townhomes

other things like that there's very little storage because you want the appearance of the home to be larger so bigger rooms more space but of course that eats away closets what would otherwise be flex rooms you know storage rooms and I think sometimes people don't look for that because when you walk, I don't know if this is your experience when you're showing people houses a lot of times it's the least interesting part, right?

You don't typically go checking around all the closets and basements and because you're looking for us oh, does the kitchen look nice? Does this look nice? Does that look big? And you don't think, well, does the closet look big?

Maybe the bedroom closet, I would imagine some people looked at, but in terms of the number of places where you can store things probably is something maybe you have to bring their attention to as opposed to them noticing it themselves? You know, when I show homes,

what I realize is that when people walk through a home and they try to envision their storage needs, they usually just think about Christmas decor. They ask themselves, okay, so where can we store the Christmas tree stand and everything else? So that's what they have in mind. And it usually, the solution is usually at the attic.

right and so the the question then becomes okay is the is the hatch to the attic is it big enough can we can we move things through there so that's that's that's often how oh how i see people approaching it in reality and i can share from from personal experience it's so much more that we that we that we have a storage right maybe maybe that's why there's this booming storage facility industry but that's a topic for a different day, right? I heard if you want to invest wisely, you invest into storage. Well, nobody throws things out these days. I mean, we know from even for the experience. Everybody just keeps everything. We like to accumulate things, right?

As humans, that's not really a national problem. I think that's just us humans, we like to accumulate and collect. I'm guilty of that. I mean, another thing that I saw. saw recently that I think I'm wondering if you encounter or if you're encountering it more that is something about it is that I've seen a lot of people particularly when they do like some of these remodeling shows that they went for a what's it called open concept all my house is one big room I can see everything and now with work from home they're like I can't

find a place that is quiet to work because oh my house is one big room and they find themselves like taking a phone call in the bathroom or they have to go put the computer on their bed while your mother-in-law listens exactly and I don't know

are you finding that or seeing that or do you think that's something that may be coming because people now have much more work from home you know the housing or design trends they happen in phases of a few years or several years and don't ask me for the

specific numbers but we do observe a trend going back to our division of rooms for example the formal dining room is experiencing a comeback right again I don't know the numbers but this open concept that was very popular still is don't get me wrong still is in new construction, especially in the 2010's leading up to the pandemic. I think we all learned a lot about our preferences during the pandemic and we were all stuck at home, right? That's where we saw this huge shift, people needing and wanting more space because they realize that they're going to spend much more time at home and family.

and if you are with your mother-in-law but you need also to work from home then you rethink that's open concept a little bit and I'm not sure if the correlation is there but I can say yes the foul dining room is coming back and that probably stands for a larger Oh yeah, it's probably symbolic by a representation of a lot larger changes

I want to delineate my spaces again as opposed to having this one amorphous room that I loved the openness but now I'm not sure if it actually fits my needs. Now my question is when you say formal dining room

so that means like is that their only dining room or do they still kind of had doing with like no we have a table in the kitchen for eating but then we also have another dining room. Right so often especially in newer homes you have a large kitchen with either

a counter on the kitchen island that can be used for breakfast and informal family dinners, or there's a separate table. But it's not considered the formal dining room. This is not where you would host guests for dinner, right? That's why the term formal dining room. But again, the reality is often different. That goes back to that claim that during the holidays,

we experience reality, right? when you have that nice dining room set up or you have that open concept for hosting family members and friends for Thanksgiving, but then in reality, everyone is cramped between the fridge and the kitchen and the trash can and to a point where you can't open their fridge anymore. It just often happens differently. Part of it, I think, too, with the formal dining there,

people have been done to realize if you have just an open concept, people have no place to put their dish down. They all, as I've been there where there's the open concept, no one's on the couch because who feels comfortable when you go to someone else's home eating on off their couch

because you're like, I don't want to make a mess. So what happened? You don't know if it's from. The kitchen island. If I drop something, no big deal. And I think people are saying,

well, if you're going to do that anyway, why not sit down and have an actual meal? No, it's interesting to observe and I talk to clients about this and here in this format we can joke about it a little

bit because it's just what happens and I experience as myself when we moved into our current house we said oh the kitchen is just fine that's actually the word I used, the kitchen is fine knowing it's not the largest kitchen and now

you know two children later it's less It would be good to have a little bit more counter space to prepare meals because we are double the people now. Yep. So circumstances change, but especially during the holidays, you really realize where people hang out and what your space needs are. Well, maybe the good lesson as people look for a home, right, to not just think about what you need now, but what you may need to, three years down the road, because you're probably not going to, like, I'm not saying you need to find something that's your forever home, right? But you're typically not going to

move, not going to want to move again in the next two to three years after you just moved into a house, right? Maybe you do it five, six, seven years down the road, but you don't typically move in and say, oh, yeah, two years from now, I'll just do this whole thing all over again, right? But to think, okay, what, where could I envision myself in two years? What might I be doing? Am I going to wish then that I had a separate study. Am I going to wish for more counter space? Because I've had the same thing. Suddenly, wait a second, half my island is now baby

stuff. Baby stuff. Sterilizer, baby things. So it's like, okay, I'm very glad now that I had such a large island because half is still good to cook on because the other half is gone. So if this had been a small kitchen, I would have been sitting here with no counter space.

But maybe something a good lesson for people like, okay, does this work for me now and will this still work for me in two years? It's so important to have this conversation. And, you know, the way people look

for homes has changed. Now that everything is accessible online, you know, we all know those big platforms where you can type in your search criteria and then it shows you the homes. And then oftentimes people

pre-select homes and then they approach us and say we have identified A, B, and C as homes. We would like to see it. Can you please help us? And then so sometimes I like to gently push back and say, okay, those are a good example that helps me understand more or less what you're looking for, but can you please still have that conversation? Is it okay if I ask all my questions because it might help you, especially if it's your first time buying a home, to do your homework, to really analyze what is the best home for your needs. And oftentimes, you know, the realization then is that maybe those pre-selected homes on Zillow might not be the best idea.

So I enjoy having that conversation because it really helps. So it's about asking the right questions. As you just said yourself, you just had a baby, your living situation has changed. And maybe the needs change. Our needs are changing. We have two children at home. The home will no longer work in a couple of years. It's not just the space.

It's also the layout, the configuration, right? And so it's worth having that conversation. But again, the holidays will teach us so much about the way we live and what we actually need. it's a teaching moment and well as we said Thanksgiving is coming up Christmas is coming up I'm sure

we will talk before Christmas and maybe we have some funny anecdotes to share about our Thanksgiving family gatherings we'll be able to say Matias here's all the people that are not call you in January but I think

to your point I think the beauty of it is it is great to be able to take advantage of someone Because your questions, right, it's not just so that you know what to do. It also helps them learn about themselves. So that's the beauty of talking with someone who's been through this so many times through the eyes of others. Yeah, sometimes it helps them to be asked to those questions. Because, you know, many people don't know those questions until they're in that situation. And that's what we like to do.

Well, this has been. A pleasure, as always. Thanks for having me again. I know. I love talking with the end. It's so funny. You know, we've got the shorter road, but I always feel like we could just sit here for like a three-hour podcast and just talk about so many different things.

I get some beers and some go-cuts and stuff like that. Just have a nice meal and just, we just talk with my tears for like three hours, you know. Just have a today mania. Maybe that would be the future iteration. Exactly. But thanks so much for coming us today. So I guess we will have one more before Christmas. Yep.

One more before Christmas in December. Look forward to it. Thanks for having you guys. Thanks for coming. Thank you. Wonderful. Thanks, David. Always so good.

Yeah. And always very thoughtful. Oh, yeah. Yeah. You don't want that. Yeah. It was, but he did a great job. He put the phone on silent, put away.

Exactly. Right? He was so perfect. His way could not disturb his day. You know, it's pretty. Yeah. But it's always nice. Batis always gets you thinking about certain things,

especially when you kind of, again, I've never purchased a home, right? home, right? So I've never been in this boat. But just kind of think about your future of working out what you want. And they're really kind of like I was kind of go about the functionality of your home too. It's like, what's my lifestyle going to be like, does it actually fit this home versus, oh, this is beautiful. Look, it's got this room and that room

and this room. Or like you talk about open space. I know someone who bought open space and the problem now that they're having is like, oh, this person wants to watch this TV. Someone else wants to watch TV somewhere house. Well, the problem is it's open space. So the vault, like, well, I have my TV over here. You can't both be watching. You can't both be watching.

the volume's going to go versus when you actually have individual rooms, it's like, yeah, you're in your room, I'm in mine, I'm not going to hear your TV. Because the walls will block it out. So it's certain things to think about that you would be like, oh, look, it's nice that, I said, open this and that. But what's the two people, two different people want to watch TV? You can't do that now. Yeah, exactly. One, and like I said,

the way, I mean, granted, they're smart builders, right? They're not going to build a house, particularly if it's a development. They're not going to build a house that the rooms look small because you have all these storage spaces, extra closets, closet under the stairs, closet on the side, right?

They're going to build a house that has really big rooms and then you're going to realize later oh yeah, I could have used because the problem with like a big okay you got a huge flex room, right? Well what are you going to do? Put a whole bunch of boxes in it that, like a dent, right?

Put a whole bunch of boxes that people can see in it that doesn't look very nice anymore. You wish that they were hidden behind a closet door. But when you don't buy that house you don't want to walk into the house and be like, oh, this room that's kind of small. Of course it's small, there's closets So that you can open and put stuff inside

So it's one of those things To sit down with someone like Matthias And kind of like Walk through that list Okay, what do I actually need So that when I go into one I walk into this house I'm gonna, all right, I can appreciate the beauty

But I'm not going to be blown away And then forget all about What I actually need To use and live with And look at your example With the counter space I mean you were never even a big you didn't cook a lot before you left

and you got married right and you probably would look at that kind of space and be like this is so big I'm never going to use all this to be honest I was sitting there when we first moved it we had come from a small apartment we were chopping vegetables on the actual kitchen table right that I looked at them yeah this is great

I mean half this island I can do everything so imagine with the other half right when I was that I'm glad that on half the island I can do everything because I only have half because the other half is now baby stuff exactly so you're like and you can imagine if that if it was not that big imagine if we had settled and said no it doesn't need to be the yeah it's too big i'll find some place with smaller one the smaller i don't need the island to be that big you know this island half the size

is sufficient well now it wouldn't have been because he would have been sitting there buying probably have to buy one of those folding tables and put it somewhere put a bunch of baby stuff on it so it's just things that to think about okay does it end you also want to be in control financially and I think the problem is you want to be able to move take your next move on your timeline when it made sense financially maybe good

the conditions are right you never want to be forced where oh my goodness I have no choice but to move even though interest rates are too high home prices are too high I really don't know where to move it's not the right time but this house doesn't work for me and I didn't think about that I'm moving earlier than I wanted to

you want to be in control of okay, I can begin planning knowing that I'm going to move in a year or two not like, oh boy, this is unbearable You know, so Well, I guess you make things work, right? People used to live in tiny apartments and make things work. Yeah, I know you ever see those old movies

In the apartments they used to live in But again, a different world, I don't think they cooked as much Or cooked, you know Some of the movies, they didn't really cook as much Although Abuelita used to Yeah, I guess you could in a tiny kitchen I know, I still don't understand How exactly that worked

skill i guess i just yeah just just made it work exactly you make it work exactly like you and elizabeth when you lived in pari he said you used to come vegetables in the table we made it work it's not like we didn't put stuff we made a lasagna in that apartment there you go you know but the extra space is helpful because now you got a cappuccino machine there so it's like you know it's a little more enjoyable exactly it's a little more enjoyable just a little bit uh a couple other shoutouts of jerry miller liking the show this morning which we always appreciate Thanks for tuning in. I appreciate it, Dimitri. I always love our great, our favorite viewers. All our top viewers, we appreciate them all. But speaking of things that we appreciate and we're excited about. And we cannot go through a show without touching on some UVA sports.

Yeah, I know. Alex, I've been waiting for a while for UV football. Be good again. We had some rough pageant. When Bronco left, it was like, it was rough. It was rough, yeah. Yeah. You know.

Now, but now it's. and not what I loved about this last statement is dude I don't know if you felt the same way this was not of oh we barely escaped overtime yes because our three previous wins had been like oh my goodness how did we like come out of this a lot exactly yeah this one we're like whoa we actually went out there and won it was what I guess many people were called like a statement win because I think let's be honest we lost the previous week to wake forest now in my opinion I kind of was like people was like oh look you know they lost to wake forest look at wake forest but and I'm like yeah but we'd

lost our quarterback in the second quarter. I mean, to go through over half a game with your backup quarterback. And like you said against the team that supposedly... It's a good pass defense. So what they were able to do is say, I'm going to load the box so that you can't run because the only thing you have left is running and see if your backup quarterback

can beat a good pass defense. And I mean, that's a hard ass. Yes. And, you know, yeah, we end up losing the game, but it didn't feel like it kind of lost what it's like, oh man, it's like we got exposed. I was just kind of like, it felt like some people were acting like that way. I'm like, I'm not sure about that. And this was a good win to basically say, yeah, last week was

a fluke. We lost, like, you know, Chinle Morris came out, the entire offense came out and really kind of put a hammered out. And that was closer than it looked, but he had like two pitch in the fourth quarter. Yeah. Or, no, they sort of touched it and then had a pitch sit or something. Yeah, something happened, but we were But it was, like, that game was

well out there. It was kind of garbage time stuff. Exactly, yeah. The final score felt closer than the actual game felt. Versus, like, it felt like UV was in control from the first quarter to the, almost the last. Yeah. Which just leaves this. I mean, did I or did I not predict on this show many weeks ago? I said, watch.

Us making or not making the championship game is going to come down to beating Virginia Tech. And sure enough, if we beat Virginia Tech for 99% chance we made to the championship game, and if we lose to Virginia Tech, we probably do not make the gym. I always hate these kind of games because, let's be honest, right, Tech is a bad team, and they have nothing to play for. right now usually granted whenever you're playing your rivalry you're always going to get amped up but usually

this is their season this is their super they're going to look at saying wait a second our season is going to come down that we can knock Virginia out and make sure they don't play a CCC championship game you don't think they're going to play their butts off like you said this is their Super Bowl they got nothing they're not playing a bowl game they're a terrible team

they're not doing anything yes who probably wants to get well and who's not going to get the job yeah that might help us in some cases at that point because at that point He's like, I'm already out, you know, but still, it's, yeah, it's just one of those games where you know, like, it's going to be. They're going to have to come out and match that level of intention to be like, we want this so bad that we want this more than you want to knock this out of the same. Now, it's the UVA a win and they're in situation.

It's basically that. Apparently, we'll find out a little more of this weekend. Because Georgia Tech's playing Pitts program. Georgia Tech is playing Pitt. So one of those two is going to be knocked out. Yes. All right. apparently I guess it's more beneficial to us if it is Georgia Tech who is knocked out

because we I guess we've beaten someone that Pitt has lost to so we it's advantageous with this a three-way tie right but apparently we're definitely in if SMU loses a game to either Louisville or yes I'm about to say SMU is playing Louisville and then I forget who they play after someone who's not as good yes no one good um apparently there is a very rare scenario where if we finish 7-1 SMU finishes 7-1 and Georgia Tech finishes 7-1

Georgia Tech automatically goes in and apparently if certain other themes don't doorway like NC State starts winning a whole bunch of games and other stuff and changes the like the strength of schedule because right now our strength of the schedule is like strength of conference schedule. Ours is better than SMU's

if I guess people that SMU beat and suddenly start winning all these games. And Louisville starts losing, for example. Yeah, and then it swaps and stuff, that SMU's schedule would be hard, and then we somehow don't get any of them, but that's apparently very, basically, there's five

games that determine that. All five of them need to go SMU's way. Like, SMU needs everything to go their way, including them winning their two games and Georgia Ted beating pitch. Yeah, but it's UVA football. I mean, it's certainly possible. It is UVA football, so that could certainly happen. Yeah, if you

me there's like a 5% odds is going to happen. I'm like, jump, push that up to 50. But I think, I think it's a very good chance that if we beat Virginia Tech

we're probably in the ACC which should be pretty great. I mean, just, I mean, just, I mean, not even trying to think about,

oh, well, technically you could get into the college football players because all you have to win is one game. You know, you have to win one game

against Georgia Tech, Pitt, or SMU. It's not like you have to win one day against Miami. Yeah. Right? Because, ironically, the Miami probably is still the best team in the ASEC, but they had some...

They're a Jekyll and Hyde. They're Jekyll and Hyde. It's like, one game, it's like, you see, like, they'll play five games. They're like, oh, man, this is a top five team in culture. And then they'll just have two or three clunkers. You're like, what the heck? Well, you're sitting there. I mean, they lost, basically they've lost two ACC games to lousy teams.

Yeah. And they're sitting there, but they beat Notre Dame. I know. Earlier this year. And they beat some other teams, too. They beat some other teams. So you're sitting there and you're like, wow. It's like they're probably

They're the little bit as long shot To make it to the championship game Despite probably being the actual Talent-wise best team in the ACC Then you don't You probably don't have to play them To make the college of a world playoff I know it's pretty exciting

You know but that's not going to be fun What's a Friday Saturday? I think it's usually a Friday Yes It's usually a Friday game Not going to be fun day But we're going to be a home though Correct

But it is a home game Yes That home crowd going to be one i think someone i know i'd said actually the previous home game that we had against um was it uh who do we play the home game was probably wake force was it was actually one the most uh attended uh uvaa games i mean we went to the uh it wasn't a thomas but we went to the washington state games yes i mean that was the most energy probably ever that i have had yeah at a uva now there's been more people but as we went to like some

notre dame one notre dame right that we lost but that was a lot of notre dame fans i did i mean We were, unfortunately, we were surrounded by them. But this time was, like, the most energy from an actual UVA partisan crowd, so much so that it affected that day. Yeah, we were on the end zone side where it's like they kept getting the false starts and stuff. And Alex was like, I felt like the first time ever had an impact on a footballer. That's the first time I've ever attended any sports name ever where I said, I feel like I actually had an impact on that game because we were there with the guy in front of us

who took a shirt up at the end, like doing the booze. Yeah. And they had all the false. starts and the... We remember we were banging on the chairs. Yeah, the interception and then finally the safety. That was pretty crazy. That was the great game.

Yeah. That was the right game. So you didn't feel the energy. Well, I think, let's be honest. You've been your friends, I mean, you don't have many opportunities in our sports in the big three, really lately the big two, just to kind of have this opportunity. We won the championship of 2019. We had a great team, but since then, basketball had a rough patch.

And then football, I mean, we've never even been remotely close to this girl. We had a good run with Mendenhall. I think it was 2019. But we all knew it's like you're going to go into the championship game against Clompson. It was like, hey, you know, maybe we'll just make it close and it didn't happen. But you never had a team that it's like a situation where like, my gosh, I actually get to the college football players.

Like you could see the potential. You see a little light the hand of the tunnel. We've never been this point. Yes, is it still a launch shop? Yeah. You got to win. You need to beat Virginia Tech and then you need to beat what's going to be a good team in the ACC championship team.

You don't win two games. So it's still a launch shop. we've never even been where it's like mathematically possible like we have never been in a situation where it is mathematically possible for us to go to the college football way back when UVA was never going to be a top two team

then UVA was never going to be top four team and let's be honest most of the time too you may not a top 12 team or even a top 10 team you had Clemson and Florida State that were behemites and you're like yeah the you were fighting in the coastal for the right to go get crushed by

them in the championship game is what would happen, right? And now for the first time it's like, they're not there. Florida State is not good. Clemson's not, Florida State's not maintaining it, Clemson's not median, and Miami probably isn't making it. So you're sitting this. I know. Your championship game to be Georgia Tech. I know. SMU.

I don't even know where SMU is. I think he's in Texas. Texas. Yeah, I thought it was California. Then I realized it's Southern Methodist is what it stands from. I'm like, oh, that's just Texas. Oh, Dallas. Yeah. Dallas, Texas. Wow.

The new ACC, I know. The new ACC. I know. It's like with the new... Dallas, Texas, Stanford. Yeah, it was like the new Big Ten. My dad goes, wait, Oregon's in the Big Ten. Was it Oregon that's in the Big Ten?

I'm like, yeah, remember, everything switched to rats. It's like Ohio and Oregon. I'm in the Big Ten. No, is Washington in the Mid-10? I don't know. I can't remember. Washington State is it. And Washington State and somebody else are the only ones left in the Pac-12.

The Pac-12 has two teams in it. Can you with the Pac-12 and get into the... No, no. It doesn't count anymore. What a shit. Because otherwise I said maybe UVA should move to the Pact 12. It was like, hey. The one of the three teams always is B1 of good states.

Yeah, I don't think so. But it's also the highest ranked conference champions. So actually, there was a scenario. It's not going to happen anymore. There was a scenario where if we had lost to Dute, Dute could potentially have won the ACC, right, despite the fact that they were like five and four at the time. And what happens is if that had happened,

there was a good chance the ACC champion didn't even go. Because if the committee had said that the group of five champion, like the Cincinnati or something, was better than Dute, they could have been like, yeah, Dute is just so bad that I don't care that they won the ACC. This other team is deading in. But obviously now that won't happen. Whoever wins will be, whoever wins the SEC will probably be seven. Well, no, not that too.

I mean, first of all, Georgia Tech's ranked in top 25. Yeah. We are ranked in the top 25. We are ranked in the top 20, I believe. yeah what are we 19 something like that yeah so i mean we're pretty well ranked and smu again if if they won they would be ranked yes because they would have won out and at that point yeah they would be ranked because eventually they would have either beaten us or georgia tech who's a top ranked at that point in louisville so yeah they would probably jump in so i imagine

whoever wins a zzzi you probably will be ranked yeah so that's not going to happen but there was a scenario there were like yeah the azzie champion could have been like so bad that they left them out yeah but i mean for a school like uva i mean let's be honest like i i never liked when people kind of hang banners for it's like hey look we made the playoff so we hang a flag and say look we made the but but in college football considering the school you are more academically inclined to have that kind of base to be like hey look we won a c c bjave and we made the cover like i feel like yeah that's actually something really to be proud about what for most schools that's a big deal let's face it the number of schools that have ever actually won a college football championship is

tiny yes and for the most part that's probably going to be the case it's always because it's always the same schools who are getting the best athletes it's just so reality but you're the beautiful thing about five which I think sadly has been diminished a little bit since they made the playoffs. You used to just hand your hat on a bowl gym.

It was your great achievement for a lot of students. I went to a bowl game and won one. Yeah. Right? And that's what you hang your banner on

but as you know you're never going to actually win the national championship. Unfortunately, I think the playoff has kind of diminished the value of the bowl games for certain teams.

I guess the only thing the playoff does now is hey, I mean, technically you could look at the rally UVA could go in and go win entire championship. You could have a Cinderella one. Some team can basically go on the cinder

versus let's be honest. It would have been always the one, two teams. I guess your worries, especially today's age, I mean, what? It could have been Georgia and, you know, whatever, Alabama, then another is Georgia and Ohio. And then next year it's Ohio and Alabama. And then you'll be like, wait a second, it's the same thing every single time.

Yeah, it's a group of four teams playing. Last year, I mean, Notre Dame probably was not expected to make it to that day. No. I mean, Ohio State, yes. Everyone figured Ohio State. I remember lost in Michigan. Everyone was like, Coach would be fine.

They had, both teams kind of had a bit of a, I wouldn't call a Cinderella one, but an underdog run to the championship. Because Georgia was supposed to be the top dog, and they got beat by, it was Ohio, right? I think it was by Ohio State. You know, and, yeah,

again, Notre Dame pulled off an upset, I think, against Penn State. Oregon lost. And let's be, remember, Ohio State, it didn't feel like that now because they just dominated on their right. They lost in Michigan. In a one, two, in a,

back in the old days was one and two neither of those teams would have been international championship neither Notre Dame nor Ohio State it would have been two different teams exactly they were not that high so it's crazy to think about so you know you never know so again this pros and consented but I do agree with you when you use

at bowl games that was kind of like everyone had the individual Super Bowls you know so we we can end up be playing a Miami in some bowl game is like this is our Super Bowl you know you could pull up a little bit like that in the sense of if you You do manage to win one game in the top football. You want a goal game because the bowl games are part of the college football playoff now. Because you're just playing a way better team.

Yeah, exactly. There's not too many teams that I'm looking at to play a picture. Well, the problem is, yeah, you're probably, if we do make it, you're probably talking about that you're probably playing the number one or two teams. Or whoever doesn't have the buy, actually, some of them did the buy. So you're talking about a good team that you're playing. But you never know? Yeah, we never know. That's why you've got to play the game.

Exactly. That's why we got to be tech. Exactly. Make Alex have a happy Thanksgiving. Otherwise, you're going to be very sad. I'll be very sad if we don't beat this year of all years. This year of all years. We should beat them.

But we'll see. We'll see what happens. But it'll be exciting. It's been a good year as an important thing. They've turned the program around and done a good job. And I think it's some good things about the basketball team, too. I haven't really been following really too much. Definitely more.

It didn't be a different basketball team. Yeah. I love Tony. Tony Bennett, it's just, I do wonder considering how the players just come and go whether you needed a change in style. Yeah. You know, because Tony Ben was all about, you stay here. You learn how to actually play real defense and real basketball, but you have to say the

two, three years actually learn the system versus if guys come one year, then leave the next. It doesn't work. Yeah, it just doesn't work, you know, and that. It looks like we're definitely 100% more offensive oriented. Yeah. We're going to pay more offensive. And the defense doesn't, does not look bad. It's just instead of like a pack line.

it's more like a pressure defense where we're putting sometimes we're putting pressure on the ball yeah the double teaming full core press basically instead of just waiting for them to come and being the sturdy line back here which can still be fun in its own way and a lot of I mean steals are fun steal and go the other way

it reminds us the one we used to play an old NBA game way back one they've always did the full core press you try steal yeah of course yeah so you can get the dunk you know that was fun yeah that was fun what are you looking forward to or for Thanksgiving have you had one thing. One thing. Food-wise or just like...

And in general. Family-tumming is probably what I'm looking forward to. And Marie's first Thanksgiving. Oh, yes. I had an knit, uncle knit, got her a cute little turkey outfit. Oh, did he really? Well, it's overall with a turkey on it. But, yeah, I don't want people to think I'm dressing her up as a turkey, but it's like

overall then so I'm excited for that. Well, I'm glad, too, because they were born in April. I think now they're a little more like you could celebrate the holidays now with them and also kind of feel like they're kind of getting. getting a little bit of the celebrators. We took her to the Noel niche store up on Madison. She was fascinated by all

the colors of all the ornaments and stuff. So they're at the age where like, okay, does she know it's Christmas? What do I mean? No. But they can see well enough to be like, oh, this is different. This is cool. This is shiny. Yes. Yeah, they'll understand a little more

the celebratory nature. And then, yeah, probably next year is when you get the really great Christmas because it's like now they're walking, they're talking, could actually get them presents it's like as an uncle i'm kind of like what do i get them though it's like she's not to like open it with that excited yeah exactly i'm like i don't know what to get you know you know you to see with them you gotta pretend like it's not actually theirs you put it on like a side table as though it's like an adult thing but no don't touch that and then she'll try to grab it because she wants all the stuff you give her her book no

i want daddy's book you give her here's here's your little you know thing to look at no i want the tv remote i'm going to get it like a chewing toy because she loves to chew and they'd be like now that's daddy's chewing toy don't touch that

oh I don't touch daddy's chewing toy what are you most would avoid you probably usually the meal yeah it's probably what I look forward

to family I mean I'm like it but no no really I mean I love the family part but definitely like

just kind of sitting down and eating and kind of getting nice to stuff I mean it's like once you get the turkey the stuffing it feels like

a really classic meal and then you get to put on a nice fireplace, you know, you stay cozy and warm, you know, maybe throw the football around a little bit, you know. It'll be good. Yeah. It'll be good. Well, on that vein, today, this was, I'm thankful for you in the show. I'm thankful for having you host and. Great show. I'm thankful for Judah behind the camera, making it all look good. Thankful for L of Seville Network and, of course, for Emergent Financial Services and Matthias, always love him coming on. Thank for all of you.

And thanks everyone who tuned in today and liked the show, appreciate it. And really, this is one time I to say, you know, we won't be on next Thursday, obviously, but we wish you all a very happy Thanksgiving, and until our next appearance on the show in a couple of weeks, Asta maniana. Thank you.