The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Sam Sanders, City Of CVille Efficient Snow Plan; Executive Orders & UVA Research Funding

Episode Date: February 12, 2025

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Thank you. downtown Charlottesville. Is that the seven dwarfs? Were there seven dwarfs? Were there 12 dwarfs? Were there 11 dwarfs? How many dwarfs were there? There were 12 days of Christmas, and I believe there were seven dwarfs. Seven dwarfs.

We have sleepy and silent and snowy. One of those was a dwarf, right? Are you on a two-shot? What are the seven? There was sneezy. Sneezy. There was sleepy, right? There was sleepy. There was Sneezy. Sneezy. There was Sleepy, right? Sleepy.

There was Doc. Let's see. Grumpy. Pinocchio. There was a Pinocchio, right? Was there a Pinocchio? I don't think he was a dwarf. There was not a Pinocchio dwarf?

He may have been an honorary dwarf, but I don't believe he started as one of the seven dwarves. Okay, okay. Elsa? Elsa? Elsa the dwarf? Was there Elsa? I don't know. Okay, okay. Elsa? Elsa? Elsa the dwarf? Was there Elsa? I don't know.

Did she have a beard? No, Elsa. No, Elsa was the snow princess from that Disney movie my kid watches. She's not a dwarf, is she? Elsa? I don't think she is. Elsa was not a dwarf?

Moana? Moana was a dwarf, right? Moana. Is Moana a dwarf? What were the dwarves? Sleepy was a dwarf, right? Snow White? She was the leader of the dwarves, right? Moana. Is Moana a dwarf? What were the dwarfs? Sleepy was a dwarf, right? Snow White. She was the leader of the dwarfs, right? Snow White and the seven dwarfs. Okay. Okay. So there was Dopey. Okay. There was Snow White. There was no Elsa as one of the dwarfs or no Moana as one of the dwarfs. No. Okay. Fine. All of them but Doc end in a Y. Dopey. Dopey.

Bashful was a dwarf, does not end in a Y. Bashful, was that? Yeah, maybe you're right. Sneezy was a dwarf, right? Sneezy, sleepy, grumpy. Here's a great question. This is a great question. If we had the seven dwarfs, name the seven dwarfs.

We should Google this. Name the seven dwarfs. It's the Wednesday edition of the I Love Seville show on a slow news cycle. Have no fear. The I Love Seville network will create the news cycle when the news cycle is slow, as 20-somethings that work for the television stations and the newspaper are unable to get out of their driveways. I mean, because frankly speaking, they're paid peanuts and living on the other side of the mountain or in the backwoods of Buckingham County and are struggling to make their way into the epicenter of news,

Charlottesville, Alamaro County. Sean Tubbs, I think, is on a train somewhere, probably to his parents' house in Pennsylvania, covering the news cycle. Neil Williamson, the meetings have been canceled today and yesterday. So have no fear. The I Love Seville Network is going to create the news cycle for you. We've got Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey.

If we had to moniker local celebrities and local stakeholders in the Charlottesville community, who would earn these monikers of Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, and Dopey? In the Charlottesville local elected Charlottesville stakeholder circles. Is Doc Mike Cotches the George Clooney of policing? Doc is the coolest of the seven dwarfs, is he not? He did seem to have his head on straight. Is Chief Katchus Doc of the seven dwarfs the George Clooney of policing? I might have to go back and watch the movie.

Who is the happy dwarf? I mean, something about Juan Diego Wade, the mayor, always strikes me as happy-go-lucky. Is Juan Wade, Juan Diego Wade, does he not give the impression that he is a jolly, happy guy? Sure. I'll give Doc Mike Kotchis to George Clooney of policing. I'll give happy to the mayor, Juan Diego Wade, who's running for re-election. We're starting to get into the tough monikers that we have to assign.

The sleepies, the grumpies, the sneezies, and the dopies uh may former mayor lloyd snook seems to always battling be battling some kind of uh cough or cold or congestion of some kind when he's on the dais is is is former mayor current city councilor lloyd snook the sneezy of the seven dwarfs he's a friend of the program i see him quite often his office his law firm is literally within 20 feet, 25 feet of where our studio is right now. We're in the same building, in the same commercial condo association in the Macklin building. So we got Chief Cotches is the doc of the seven dwarfs. We got Mayor Juan Diego Wade is the happy. We got Counselor Lloyd Snook, who seems to always be battling something cold-wise or congestion-wise as the sneezy.

We have bashful, sleepy, grumpy, and dopey left. I'm hesitant to ask a deep throat his take on these. Jesus. Oh, man. Viewers and listeners, help us figure out, and we kid because we care if you get monikered the the grumpy or the bashful or the or the sleepier the dopey which one is the worst of the monikers is it the grumpy or the dopey that is the worst of the monikers sleepy i think we could just chalk that up to being you say dopey is the worst of the monikers? I'd say that's the worst one. Who is the dopey of our Charlottesville stakeholder community?

Is the dopey we're going to give? And this is a little bit mean here. I'm hesitant to say this right here. Are we going to allocate this to one of the activists in our community? One of the activists that's driving the new zoning ordinance that has frankly fallen flat on its face. We're now at the one-year anniversary of the new zoning ordinance, and literally nothing has materialized. In fact, what has materialized from the new zoning ordinance is just frankly a lawsuit that's costing the city money as we're hiring a third-party law firm, very expensive law firm at that, to represent the city in this lawsuit,

and the city is not letting us, the taxpayers, know what it is spending on this legal representation. Is the DOPI, the leader of the new zoning ordinance, an activist associated with urban policy group Livable Seville? I'll allow you to fill in those blanks. And I'm curious, Judah, who's seeming to take the high road over here, how you would utilize the remaining monikers grumpy and sleepy and bashful and dopey.

Judah Wickhardt. You got Doc as chief conscious, the cool one. You got happy as Juan Diego Wade, the mayor. You got sneezy Diego Wade, the mayor. You got sneezy as beloved Lloyd Snook, who was always battling some kind of congestion. What about grumpy? What about sleepy?

What about bashful? What about dopey? Man, well, you got Livable Seville as the catch-all for dopey. I want to catch some heat for that. I'm going to stand true to that. I'm going to stand with that. Somebody's going to call the livable Seville folk and ask if they've watched the I Love Seville show.

I know they watch it. I hear they give me grief on it. I know they do. I see the grief that's given. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts as we're having some fun. Neil Williamson says he's the grumpy. No, you're not, Neil Williamson. I would never, ever, ever call you grumpy, Neil. I would never call you grumpy. I'd call you jolly. You know, if Neil Williamson was one of the seven dwarfs, I'd say he would be in the happy category with Mayor Wade. I would never call him grumpy. Neil, who's the grumpy? Bill McChesney is listening to

us while he's shoveling right now. The city of Charlottesville has given an edict to its commercial and residential owners. You have until 6 a.m. tomorrow to clear your sidewalks or you will be fined. We'll talk on the program today how Sam Sanders, does he get one of the seven dwarf monikers? City Manager Sam Sanders? Oh, man.

You want to give him grumpy? I don't think Sam Sanders is grumpy. I don't either. What's your beef with Sam Sanders calling him grumps? You're asking. I don't know that I need to really say. I don't think. What's your beef with Sam Sanders calling them grumps? You're asking. I don't know that I need to really say it. I don't think Sam is grumpy.

These are pretty odd categories to put people in. Sam is always dressed to the nines. Specific people in mind. Holly Foster says, if you're looking for a local stakeholder to be bashful, a local celebrity to be bashful, it's the guy that's on screen, Judah Wickauer. She says that you're the bashful. Can Judah be bashful over there? Can we moniker you as the bashful of the seven dwarfs? I don't know. Do I have enough renown to fill that role? You have je ne sais quoi and influence in this community. I would say you are a bit bashful from time to time.

Would you not? Do you know what that means? What it means on the I Love Sivo show is swagger and clout and an air of influence. Give me the exact meaning of the je ne sais quoi. I know you're going to hold me accountable. I mean, it's great if you know what it means, because it just means I don't know what. Oh, so when I say he's got some je ne sais quoi, I'm saying I don't know what? Yeah, I mean I say he's got some je ne sais quoi, I'm saying I don't know what? Yeah, I mean, usually someone says he's got a certain air of je ne sais quoi.

It's just like I don't know how to describe it. Yeah, so I was using it right. You have an air of je ne sais quoi. You have an air of clout, an air of I don't know what, an air of pizzazz. You have an air of bashfulness. I'll agree with the Queen of Henrico that Judah's

a little bit bashful from time to time. I would say, is that fair? I'm not denying it. Is that fair? I try to convert, you know, not convert. That's not the right word. I try to take that bashfulness and metamorphosis into, whatever the word is. Look at this. This guy's holding me accountable. Try to get it into a quality that's good for a talk show. Maybe that's what we're doing right now. All right, so a lot we're going to cover on the program. We still need to figure out who the grumpy is.

And sleepy. And who the sleepy is. We've got the bashful Judah Wickauer. We've got the doc George Clooney of policing Mike Cotches. The happy is the Juan Diego Wade. The sneezy is Lloyd Snook who's always battling some kind of cold or congestion of some kind. The dopey I'll give to the head honcho of Livable Seville. Getting us in trouble.

Sam Sanders, lower third on screen. You going to put it on there? Do we give the man some props? Yeah, definitely. He did what John Blair, number two in the familyville show during the first snowstorm of 2025. And during that first snowstorm, downtown Charlottesville, for more than a week, was treacherous territory. Sidewalks were precarious at best.

Parking spaces were unparkable. Downtown Charlottesville was unwalkable, almost unusable. It was rough. It was rough. We walk around yesterday and today. We were in the studio for half day yesterday. We did the Jerry and Jerry show yesterday morning, and then we made an executive decision around lunchtime,

look, we better leave to get home just for the safety of Judah and I's commute home. And today we're in the office. The roads are fine. They were a little bit, like, I was surprised. There was quite a bit of snow and ice and slush still on the road next to the courthouse. But all the surrounding roads have been fine. City Manager Sanders should get props. Oh, the, the, it's Sam super city manager. Uh, Sanders should get props. Yeah.

I hope city manager Sanders hears this. I saw him walking down the downtown mall the other day. I was just coming out of the post office, uh, supervisor, excuse me. I'm calling the supervisor city manager. Sanders, Sam Sanders is, is, is dressed to the nines all the time. The man's got a stylist, either he's got a stylist or the man understands the concept of style because that dude is flossing.

And I hope Sam hears this. He is, you talk about one of the best dressed guys in the city of Charlottesville. Who is on that short list? Best dressed guys on the city of Charlottesville. Is it Sam is number one on that list? Who dressed guys on the city of Charlottesville. Is it Sam is number one on that list? Who would we, Jim Hingely is a man that dresses very well. I've, I've seen Jim Hingely and maybe this isn't the right moniker, rocking a fedora, rocking various hats.

I have seen him wearing hats. And he pulls the hat look off extremely well. And he, if he was part of the Seven Dwarves, he would be monikered as happy. He's got an air of happy. Jim is a guy that you can tell is just very secure with himself and pleased with, he's just a good guy. He's got to be on that short list, best dressed guys. I think Sam might be on top of it.

And city manager Sanders has gotten a lot of grief on this program. He caught grief for Sandersville, where he allowed a homeless encampment in the most recognizable park in all of the city. He's caught some grief with how he's managed the houseless population, in particular this low barrier shelter on Cherry Avenue, which frankly speaking has become an afterthought. Have we heard anything about the low barrier shelter? tells the media, including a show on the I Love Seville Network, the Downtown Spotlight, that we are going to convert a thrift store on Cherry Avenue into a low-barrier shelter. And we're going to accommodate the houseless in this community that have criminal records, that are sex offenders, that are alcoholics, that are drug addicts,

and that are potentially violent. And we're going to welcome them. We're going to open them up and have them trot up onto our ark by the two. By the two, Major Van Meter said. And then, after doing a little bit of reconnaissance,

Major Van Meter said, uh-oh, Salvation Army won't let us do that. We might allow you, we can allow you to use our thrift store, but the Salvation Army can't be the ones that are actually managing this project.

And then City Manager Sanders caught a lot of yoke on the face because of the doo-doo that Van Meter stepped in and caused the city to step in as well. But for the doo-doo that's been stepped in atop the totem pole at City Hall, he deserves some props and some accolades for how he's managed the weather over the last 48 hours. On Monday, as I'm leaving the studio, and occasionally I'll do the two-hour shuffle. I mean, I've told this story many times on this program. I caught heat on one of the meme accounts for doing this. Look, I get seven to 10 parking tickets a year. I park outside the studio on Market Street or the block right around Market Street. I try to move the car within the two hours because I'm in and out all the time. I'm not a guy that's going to grind and sit at a desk for a long period of time.

I'll take phone calls with my earbuds and just walk around the mall, walk to my car and move them. Sometimes I go beyond the two-hour limit. And if I get a parking ticket, it's the cost of doing business. Seven $20 parking tickets is $140. Ten $20 parking tickets is $200. The cost for a monthly parking pass in one of the garages is a buck 35. I'm coming out way ahead and my walk from my car on the street versus the parking garage is a fraction of the time. And I was having this conversation with somebody and saying, I'm actually helping the city by getting the parking spaces. I'm paying the fine. It's incremental revenue.

And they're like, oh, this is why the city is at a loss for dollars. First of all, the city is not at a loss for dollars. They have an abundant surplus. Aren't they trying to figure out what to do with $22 million? They're trying to figure out what to do with $22 million, a surplus. I wish I had that problem. I mean, Judah Wickhauer and I both wish we had that problem. I jingled the pocket. It might be $22, not $22 million. This is where Judah's going to say $0.22 over there. Hey, I've got $0.25. What you don't have anymore is a penny.

Right. Is the penny going to be a collector's item as we eradicate the penny from American currency? It costs $0.03 to make $0.01. What a laughing stock, ladies and gentlemen currency, costs three cents to make one cent. What a laughing stock, ladies and gentlemen. Three cents to make one cent. Well, I mean, it made sense at one point. It never made sense. Is that pun intended, Judah Wickauer? Never did it make sense. When did it make sense? And now the haters on Trump are starting to say, oh, this is going to drive more inflation because it's going to cause people to not do the $6.99 price. They're going to just round up to $7. It's a penny,

people. You walk by them on the side of the road and you don't pick them up. I can walk down Market Street and see a bunch of pennies thanks to how city manager Sam Sanders has handled the snow. On Monday afternoon, he tells the community with signs on the parking spaces, you can't park here. If you park here, you're going to get towed. We need to prepare for the snow that's coming. And he used Tuesday to have his plows

clear the major roads in Charlottesville and around downtown in particular. And then he offered the community free parking, which we're taking advantage of. Yeah. In the Market Street Garage as we speak. That's great. And then just walking to the studio. So, Sam, you deserve some props.

Kudos. Kudos. Well done, City Manager Sam Sanders. Maybe the best-dressed man in Charlottesville, Virginia. Who challenges Sam Sanders as best-dressed man in Charlottesville, Virginia. Who challenges Sam Sanders as best dressed man in Charlottesville, Virginia? Elliot Harding watching the program, talented defense attorney. He says the city would be able to do whatever they want if they followed Blair's suggestion of sticking a penance into Bitcoin. John Blair. Sticking what? Giving Bitcoin some props or some attention with the city budget, investing into Bitcoin is what Elliot Harding said.

And I'm going to add to what Elliot's saying. John Blair would be a phenomenal city manager, phenomenal city manager in any jurisdiction. Lucky to have him in Charlottesville. Lucky to have him as a county executive in Elmira County. And that's no shade against jeff and no shade against sam that's just props and kudos to john and and his leadership acumen and skill set um bill mcchesney says uh don't forget about the eighth dwarf jumping jerry he wasn't including in the disney version because he was too controversial i appreciate that mayor of mcintyre, Bill McChesney.

Not sure. Not sure. I understand that comment, but I appreciate the comment. Deepthroat, number one in the family, says, with Donald Trump closing the Federal Executive Institute, maybe that could be the low barrier shelter. That's a little zing on the Federal Executive Institute that's closing on what, Emmett? Is it closing on Emmett, ladies and gentlemen? I believe that's where it's closing. I still get the roads confused.

Which ones? All of them. My wife gives me a hard time because I use the car navigation system to still navigate myself around Charlottesville, Alamo County, and Central Virginia despite being here 25 years. I always forget.

For me, it's Prophet. I don't know why. Prophet Road? I feel like there's another one similar to that that I always get confused with. The same thing happened in Maine. In fact, my friends and I got in trouble with cops because I forgot what street my friend lived on.

I knew it started with a P. It was the same thing like profit or something along those lines. John Blair says, thank you to both Elliot Harding and you, Jerry, for the kind words. John Blair also says, as you're putting some photos on screen, one thing you might find amusing, in the old days, Waynesboro would not plow streets until the final flake of snow had fallen. They claimed it cost too much to plow while it was still snowing. I think they've changed that practice, but it did occur in the 1990s. One thing that we have been doing is, as the snow plows at the Miller House, we live over in Ivy now, we plow the driveway it's a pretty long driveway it's a pretty big driveway

we have here we're on four acres we plow the driveway as it snows and if you plow the driveway throughout the snow and allow asphalt to show driveway to show it's way easier to melt it's amazing of how much heat the asphalt radiates. It becomes its own melter of the snow. The folks in our neighborhood that wait until the snow is over, in particular, this last one, where it iced over and was single digits for a week after the snow fell, they could not leave their house for like a week. There was one house in the neighborhood that legitimately was asking other neighbors to bring them groceries because they had a long driveway and no four-wheel drive vehicle. So they couldn't get out of their house. I mean, first world problems, of course.

Here you have multimillionaires in Ivy, Virginia on acreage with long driveways and no four-wheel drive vehicles. I'm sorry. They just had lexus sedans and and brick georgian homes and they didn't have the foresight to shovel their driveway as the snow was falling or call someone to clear your driveway so they're putting on their 1200 iphone on the neighborhood facebook group someone please bring us some groceries, pinkies up, we need to drink our lattes in the morning, we need our tea and crumpets and our champagne and caviar. Crazy. I'm fortunate enough to have pretty nice neighbors. And we do each other solid.

So I looked out the door yesterday evening, and somebody had shoveled the walkway all the way up to my front door, all the way along up and down. And so I did the same thing this morning. I shoveled mine and my two next door neighbors down to the parking lot. I will say this. Judah Wickower may be bashful of the seven dwarfs, but if you had an opportunity to have a neighbor next to you, there's probably no better neighbor in the world than Judah Wickower. I sincerely mean that. I'm giving you props over there. Because I keep to myself. You don't have ragers.

You're not having keg parties. You're not having late night traffic. Last I checked, you're not bumping Kendrick Lamar or Drake or Yeezy on your surround sound, right? Not usually. Okay. I'm next going to ask you to give me a case study of the Super Bowl halftime show and all the hidden meetings. So get ready for that. You keep to yourself.

I hear there's 50. And the last three, like the last three or four, 47 through 50 are the most important. But that's just hearsay. That was actually a joke from Judah Wickauer, I believe. Was that a joke? I think that might have been a joke. Okay. I could be wrong.

Maybe there actually are 50 hidden meanings. I know that's a joke. I'm trying to help emphasize that for the viewers and listeners. But if Judah was your neighbor, he'd clear the driveway for you. He'd clear the sidewalk for you. He's not going to have loud music playing. He'd check in on you. He's pretty safe. Probably the best neighbor you can ask for. Vanessa Parkhill of Earleysville says absolutely clear the snow as it's falling. That's what we do, and it's made it

so much easier to manage. My wife taught me that, the Yankee last that I married. Scott Aaronworth. I can't imagine what the snow would have been like this morning if my neighbors hadn't cleared the walkway yesterday evening because it was pretty thick and heavy this morning. Our neighbors legitimately

have probably 200 yards of driveway. Like, legitimately. I can't believe they don't have a... I can't believe they don't have a, I can't believe they don't have someone with a snow plow attached to the front

of their pickup truck on speed dial. Well, you can pay for someone to plow your driveway. It does cause damage to your driveway. You mean it can cause?

It can cause damage to your driveway. Absolutely. It can cause damage to the streets? A hundred percent. I think that. It can cause damage to the streets. 100%. I think that's why the road next to the courthouse was poorly plowed is because it's a brick roadway. They straight up damaged the road next to the courthouse.

I'm not surprised. They damaged the road next to the courthouse from the previous plow. You look at the road after it was plowed with the first snowstorm and the road next to the courthouse from the previous plow. You look at the road after it was plowed with the first snowstorm and the road was damaged, the brick was damaged because of the plows. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to replace a brick. I mean, it is and it isn't. Well, as opposed to filling in a pothole where you may end up with a pot hill. I like that. That was very good, especially with the hand motion.

The pot hill. Well, anyway, Sam Sanders, props to you for what you've done with managing the snow. Deep Throat says, I did four passes of my driveway yesterday. We did four as well, Deep Throat. Can't wait until the last minute yesterday we did four as well Deep Throat can't wait until the last minute in Montana we have a very good plowing service plowing is not easy the guy who runs the service has the degree from Montana Snate in snow science wow wow we did four passes of our driveway yesterday I even had our seven-year-old out there pushing snow for us.

I did one last pass last night. It was two Emperor of Clouds deep. Scott Roth and George Kastendijk, that is my favorite beer, the Emperor of Clouds. Dave Warwick, if you're watching the program, I love the Emperor of Clouds. It has surpassed Minuteman. It is my favorite beer. You know they have other IPAs now. I know they have other IPAs. New IPAs. I know. I'm just saying I love the Emperor of Clouds. I was a couple of Emperor of Clouds deep. I just watched the Yukon Huskies

beat Creighton in a come from behind victory. My wife is a Yukon graduate. She fell asleep at halftime though. I stayed up and watched the second half. It was a fantastic ball game. And I said, you know what? I'm feeling pretty good. It's 1115. It's 1120. The boys are asleep. Me and the family, German Shepherd, go out to the driveway. It's a U-shaped driveway. And I plow and I snow shovel the driveway. And when I woke up this morning, most of the work was already done. Yeah, when you do it frequently, when you're only shoveling an inch or two, it's pretty easy. It was most of the work was already done.

Scott Ehrenworth watched the program. He's at Riverside enjoying a bacon cheeseburger, he says. Oh, man. And he thought Judah was talking about 50 Cent there for a second. What? When he said the 50 symbols in the Kendrick Lamar halftime show. Oh, yeah. He says he wants to give a shout out to Riverside for an awesome burger today.

I think he actually, did you text me a photo of that, Scott, as we were getting ready for the show? We do have. Dude, it's the best. I would say it's one of the best burgers out there. Yeah, I was a little surprised when I heard about who was getting the best burger accolade in Charlottesville. Because for me, it's 100% Riverside. I mean, that's just... Well, Jack Brown's got the best burger that was out there.

That's what they say. Can I count Dank Seville, share a video of one very prolific commercial landlord seeming to pepper a certain burger joint with trash after hours? I know this man well. He's a friend of the program. I do business with him. I'm not going to cover this or offer more than that. But one prolific landlord caught on camera. I don't know. It was not the best of a look. I think I did see that, but it was just a grainy, it was like two grainy pictures that didn't tell me anything.

I had no idea what anyone was talking about. Elliot Harding, yes, my wife is a UConn graduate. I did not know your wife was a UConn graduate as well. My wife is a UConn graduate with a finance degree and somehow I was able to romanticize and seduce her down here from her position working for the hedge fund Blackstone to come to Charlottesville nearly 10 years ago and now she's having to deal with the Miller maniacs, which is frankly a job that I wish upon no one, but she handles it with grace and patience and talent. I sincerely mean that, sweetheart, if you're watching the program.

Next headline, Judah Wickauer, what do we got? The 110 marker, 106 marker on a Wednesday, a snowy, a sleepy, a silent, a sleek. Any other S's you can think of? A saturated, a slippery downtown Charlottesville. Get the market tree cam on right now. We got this gentleman on, you got the Market Street camera on right now. You got the Market Street camera on right now? We're doing a live

podcast right here. Yeah, I appreciate you though. Look at that Market Street camera. The guy's walking in there. He didn't realize. Did you get him on camera there? He's on camera now. There we go. Jeez, downtown Charlottesville. What's the next headline you got, Judah B. Wittgower?

Jack of all trades, jack of all wits. Next up, we've got... I've seen some crazy stuff in that courtyard right there. No doubt. Legitimately some crazy stuff. Next up, we've got executive orders and UVA research funding. Dude, it's like Meltdown City over at UVA research funding. Dude, it's like melt, it's meltdown city over at UVA. Yeah. It's meltdown city. And, and I follow a local realtor named Jim Duncan. Jim Duncan is a partner at nest realty. He lives in Crozet. He has a local blog. He's active on Reddit.

And Jim Duncan has highlighted the impact that federal funding cuts could have on the housing market in the Charlottesville, Albemarle, and Central Virginia area. I first heard that concern mentioned on Real Talk with Keith Smith two Fridays ago. Man, that guy's cigarette is just stinking up the studio right now. Not a fan of the cigarettes. How much do you pay for cigarettes a week? How much is a pack of cigarettes these days? I'm not getting into that. Can you just tell me how much a pack of cigarettes these days? I'm not getting into that. Can you just tell me how much a pack of cigarettes is? No. Why? Because.

Bashful, the dwarf, come on. We've got other things to talk about. Is it $7 for a pack of cigarettes? Something like that. Is it $7? Something like that. Is it $8? Something like that.

Is it $9? Something like that. How much is a pack of cigarettes, viewers and listeners? All right, I'll stay on track. I apologize. Thank you. I first heard it from Woody Fincham, the impact of federal cuts on the local Charlottesville, Alamaro, and Central Virginia economy, specifically housing. Woody made the comment almost in passing

that this could have an impact on sales and price points. Duncan is now making this point, a partner at Nest. Interesting. A lot of... Duncan makes the point on... Do we even call it social media anymore? Isn't it just media now? Do we take the word social away from media where people are posting online? That's just media now.

Duncan makes the point on media that many of the folks that are moving to this area are tied to research and UVA and that grant money. And that money is in this Trump Trumponian purgatory. Sure.

It's in an abyss in uncertain waters to the point where the University of Virginia is now using its own media platform. We all have media platforms, ladies and gentlemen. Some just have larger followings than others. UVA Today launched a FAQ page on federal policy changes.

It's on news.virginia.edu. They compiled an FAQ, Frequently Asked Questions resource, that's on their news.virginia.edu platform, on President Donald Trump issuing several executive orders and directing other policy changes that may affect programs, operations, or people within the University of Virginia community. So when Duncan and Fincham both comment that these cuts could impact the local economy, that's when I start to listen. Now, I will say this. Charlottesville and Almar, Charlottesville and Almar in particular, these two communities are extremely diverse with their employment. You have defense sector. You have UVA.

You have tourism. You have hospitality. You have finance. You have business. And that diversity has created a sense of security and stabilization. It's not like southwest of Virginia where 850 people laid off at a Goodyear plant and the Danville area is going to potentially dam the economy over there. You have a number of payment sources here.

But the big one is UVA and these federal cuts is something to follow to the point where UVA is putting out an FAQ. We'll follow that closely on the program. Next headline, what do you got, Judah Wickauer? Next up, we have the impact of cutting UVA funding. We've got Seville responds to Tesla gallery at Stonefield. Put that lower third on screen. How is the Charlottesville and Albemarle community, extremely left-leaning,

extremely activist-laden, going to respond to essentially a Tesla dealership at Stonefield? And we broke that news about a Tesla dealership coming to Stonefield more than a year ago on the I Love Siebel show. We have the receipts. It's on camera. It's on YouTube. It's on media. We broke that news of Tesla coming to Stonefield. It's one of the reasons you listen to the show.

Now that Elon Musk and Tesla are coming to Stonefield, how are folks going to respond? Oh, I know that one. What's your response? I mean, some of them have already written about it. What are they going to do? Are they going to boycott it? They're going to spray paint it.

Come on. Give me a break. There's the boycott list that's going on tied to Kroger on digital media. And now Whole Foods as well. You're going to run out of places to eat and drink and live. If you start boycotting, ladies and gentlemen,

all the brands that you buy, all the food that you eat, all the drink that you drink, all the fuel that you pump into your vehicle, all the money that you get, all the stuff you spend on, eventually, if you look at the map of what they're linked to, are going to be tied to

the most powerful and influential people in the world. It all ends up back in the same place. That's why they're the most powerful and influential people in the world. Is it a level of hypocrisy that people are bitching and moaning about what they're going to boycott because of politics? Then they do the complaining on an iPhone on Facebook. I watched former mayor Nakia Walker yesterday, former mayor Nakia Walker, who during her leadership, during her time at the helm of Charlottesville, the city had one of its most embattled periods of its history. And she was bitching and moaning yesterday on Facebook that,

what are we going to do? We're going to boycott Facebook. Posting it on Facebook. Make that make sense. Make it make sense when you're complaining and boycotting or leading a boycott charge and you're doing so by posting on your iPhone through Amazon Web Services while sitting in your Tesla driving around town. It's hard to escape the corporations. I sincerely, I want the viewer and listener of this program to answer that question.

We have a contingent in our community that's saying they're going to boycott everything. And they're going to boycott everything while using their iPhone to post about the boycott, on Facebook to let everyone know about the boycott, on Reddit powered by Amazon Web Services or Jeff Bezos to let everyone know about the boycott, on Reddit powered by Amazon Web Services or Jeff Bezos to let everyone know about the boycott, while sitting inside their Tesla, while parked in front of a Harris Teeter or Kroger, while enjoying a Starbucks latte.

There it is. Help me. Make it make sense. You can't. Make it make sense. You can't. Make it make sense. I sincerely mean that. Help me understand that. Help me understand the former mayor's post from yesterday. What is the plan for Google, she writes.

Its leaders believe the company is essential and too big to fail. Are any of the other companies a better option? Are we going to continue using it like Twitter and Facebook? Posting this on Facebook. Conan Owen watching the program, the owner of Sir Speedy, he says, and if you don't realize you're using a Tesla charger, it tells Elon exactly how many customers he has in town

to justify a showroom. You are just fooling yourself. It's 100% right. Elon doesn't even need to know the Tesla charger, that you're using a Tesla charger to determine how many Teslas that are in the area. He can probably tell by one of 20 other touch points in the Tesla itself how many Teslas are in the area. No doubt. Tyler Berry watching the program. Everyone in Seville drives a Tesla. Tesla will be great for the Seville community. 100% right. Teslas and Porsche Cayennes everywhere in Charlottesville. What are the most prolific model of cars in Charlottesville, Del Mar County? Teslas, Porsche Cayennes, Audi SUVs.

Do you not see Porsches, Audis, and Teslas everywhere, people? Curtis Shaver. Love Curtis Shaver. They're putting in Tesla Chargers in the parking lot of Target. Vanessa Parke, funny, two years ago, locals would have been excited about the Tesla store. Curtis says a tin of Zins are $4, Judah. Maybe you need to make the switch to Zins? Maybe. Or four bucks. There you go. I bet you you would get an extra mortgage payment every year by not smoking cigarettes. He doesn't like when I have this commentary. I'll stop.

I apologize. I'm coming from a place of pure heartedness that is coming across as a bit gruff, perhaps. It's just that you're airing it for people who don't necessarily need to have that stuff aired. I'm okay. Viewer and listener, not named Judah. If you're a viewer and listener, not named Judah,

and you're spending $7 for a pack of cigarettes a day, let's just call it $7 for five packs of cigarettes a week. That is seven times five, $35 a week, times 52 weeks is $1,820. That's an extra $1,820 by not smoking cigarettes. For the viewers and listeners that are watching this program, take that $1,800, split it into three index funds, leave it alone, and you will live longer. You won't hurt your body or your lungs. And that doesn't even include the time to go and buy the cigarettes

or the gas and wear and tear on your car to and from the location to purchase the cigarettes. Just a suggestion for the viewers and listeners watching the show. Not Judah Georgia Gilmer Wonder if all the Musk haters will sell their Teslas I wonder the same Judah

I found it a little I'm not throwing shade on the guy at all Sunshine, the executive director of Piedmont Housing Alliance I believe in a fully loaded Rivian He was, I saw in a fully loaded Rivian. He was. I saw him get into it eventually. Oh, you did?

Yeah. So I was right. Yeah. A fully loaded Rivian. What is fully loaded Rivian SUV cost? No idea. A tricked out Rivian is about $107,000. Wow. $107,700.

The base model is $80,000. Just making an observation. Just an observation, ladies and gentlemen. Just an observation. Next headline, what do you got, Judah Wickher? Next we have... I love Subaru Alpacs. Curtis Shaver.

Civil public schools and neighborhood proximity. Philip Dow of Scottsville. Take that cigarette money and invest it. You wouldn't believe how much money you can make. Just take the money and invest it. Turn it into... Put it in index funds and leave it alone. You would be shocked of what happens.

I also concur. Okay, look, Seville Public Schools. Is it redistricting that's going on, Judah? Rezoning, redistricting of the schools? Rezoning seems to be a problem in this area. In this case, it's schools. And I believe they've come up with several different plans on how to do it, and they've all been rejected. Charlottesville parents are not happy with, maybe they're just not happy with the idea of having to go through rezoning.

I'm going to make this comment. Elementary schools, public elementary schools, should be neighborhood public elementary schools. Okay. It should be close proximity, walking distance, or a single-minute, couple-minute drive to the school. It should be, in extension, the elementary public school of the backyard playtime and a cul-de-sac or someone's house,

where you spend Monday through Friday in the classroom with your friends, and when school is over, you are able to go down the cul-de-sac or in a kid's backyard and consider and continue the playtime. If redistricting is happening and kids are genuinely leaving or having to drive past other neighborhood schools to get to the school they may end up attending, that is wrong. Public schools, elementary ones specifically, should be associated with neighborhoods and the the sense of rite of passage or maturation or youth becoming young adults or youth maturing into middle schoolers. That happens as much in the classroom

as it does in a cul-de-sac or a backyard playing soccer or tag. Gaga ball. Are you familiar with gaga ball? Gaga ball is all the rage now. It's a version of dodgeball. All my first grader and his friends want to ball is all the rage now. It's a version of a dodgeball. All my first grader and his friends want to do is play Gaga ball. Have you ever heard of Gaga, Gaga ball? No. If you're a solicitor, take a look at what Gaga ball is. That's what they're playing.

It's not red Rover, red Rover, send Judah over. And it's not hide and seek. It's not dodgeball. It's gaga ball. They're playing gaga ball. It's a version of dodgeball. But the elementary school should be tied to the neighborhood gaga ball game, where you can learn in a classroom, and then when school is over, you continue that connection with your friends in a neighbor's backyard or in the cul-de-sac down the street. And if the city is not prioritizing elementary schools tied to neighborhoods, they're doing families a disservice and those families should speak up and speak out. Let us know your thoughts, viewers and listeners. That's all the rage right now. Brian Festa, watching the program, talented musician. Nice to see you.

It's been a long time. Regarding cigarettes, people can quit in one session with hypnosis. If you want to quit, Judah, Brian Festa can help you quit with hypnosis. Is he a hypnotist? I would believe. Are you a hypnotist, Brian? I know he's a musician. Yeah.

Are you a hypnotist, Brian? Would you be willing to do? Oh, I got a great idea. Would you be willing to do on the show? We hypnotize you live on air, Judah. It will save you nearly $2,000 that we're then going to put into spread that 2K across three index funds, and you're going to leave it alone. Were you willing to do that? Not on air. if you, not Judas specifically, for the viewers and listeners that are watching the program

that happen to smoke cigarettes or have one room to rent in their individual house that they own, if the viewers and listeners watching the program quit smoking cigarettes and rented the one room that they had to rent in their house

that was not being utilized, the viewers and listeners that meet this criteria would have an additional $16,000 to $20,000 a year at their disposal. That they could then allow to accumulate in index funds or an interest-bearing account associated with one of the many local banks

that are offering 4% or 5% yields and after 18 to 24 months, maybe 36 months, they'd have enough money for the down payment on an investment property or another home where the viewer and listener that's watching the program could take their current home and rent it out and have passive income for life. That's for the viewers and listeners. And Brian said he would be happy to hypnotize you live on air. He is a hypnotist. Neil Williamson, the president of the Free Enterprise Forum, his photo on screen.

We need to add Brian to the I Love Seville family. Brian, the show airs 1230 to 130. You are now one of the key members of the family as the lone hypnotist in our family, Brian Fiesta. Neil Williamson says, for what it's worth, each pack of cigarettes sold in Charlottesville has a 55 cent sin tax associated with it. Gaga ball, that's right, Curtis. Gaga ball. Vanessa Parkell, many parents get very uneasy with the thought of

redistricting. I agree that having students attend their neighborhood school absolutely makes the most sense. 100%. They grow up with these kids. They grow up with these kids. Next headline, Judah Wickower, what do you got? Next up, we have key elements of Seville biz worth reproducing. This was an interesting suggestion. Deep Throat has this stat. By the way, the school system hired a consultant for this. They are talking about overcrowding when Weldon Cooper forecasts that Charlottesville

Public Schools enrollment will drop from 4,200 to 3,700 by 2028-2029. Deep Throat also says the Charlottesville Public Schools consultant, the way they did their forecast made zero sense these people were even worse than HR ampersand a are you talking CR setting. Yeah, that's another thing. Why is Weldon Cooper saying that public school enrollment

is going to drop locally, where the public schools itself are saying that the enrollment is going to expand? Who's right and who's wrong? That's a good question. HR ampersand A. HR and A was the zoning consultant. Family is trending away from Charlottesville.

Genuine question. Genuine question. This comes via Facebook message. While I'm glad to have never tried cigarettes, we all have our vices and should give up and invest instead. Given Judah's work environment, let the man have what he needs to tolerate the weak. Amen. Yes. Judah has a fantastic work environment, let the man have what he needs to tolerate the weak. Judah says yes. Judah has a fantastic work environment. Half the time we have to leave him completely alone.

I don't care if you smoke at all. You could care less. Could absolutely care less. You do you. You do you. You do you. What is the best elements from business that you would take? That you would take and scale into a super business? From Charlottesville businesses?

This was an idea that a local, that a viewer and listener suggested to us. If you could take elements from local businesses that are performing at a very high level, and you could cherry pick these elements, and to create one

super business, what would those elements be? And we're not going to be able to get to all these in one show, so I just kind of want to get the conversation going. If you could cherry pick the best elements of local business in Charlottesville, and make one super business, what would those elements be? First one immediately that came to mind to me would be the efficiency of the Bodo's line. Yeah.

Yeah. And Chick-fil-A. Bodo's and Chick-fil-A lines, their efficiency with managing demand is to be applauded. Some joke that Chick-fil-A and Bodo's should be the ones administering the COVID shots during the pandemic. And how do you like those apples with all the people that took those COVID shots? I'm going to leave it at that. That's a political firestorm right there. But in retrospect, all the people that took those COVID shots, how do you like them apples?

I'm going to leave it alone. But that's a topic we can carry to other shows. The Botos and Chick-fil-A line management. Yeah. I'd say know your core target audience. Who does that well? I would say Jack Brown's is a good. Oh. It's a small place, but they do beer. They do easy-to-make burgers. And the place is, you know, it's got stuff all over the walls.

When it's busy, there's barely room to walk from one end to the other. But it's a fun place to go. And doesn't seem to be having any problems. Same with, what was it? There was, I saw something about, there's a newish business. What is it called? It's, I believe it's a coffee and snacks type place. And they rely on people with Kindness Cafe. Yeah, opening a second location. My wife's been telling me about this. They're opening a second location off of Rugby. You don't open new locations

if your business is in trouble. So I have to imagine, and I've never been there. Isn't Kindness Cafe a non-profit? Isn't Kindness Cafe a non-profit? And if, you know, I need to get... They still have to... Somebody still has to pay for another... Is it not tied to donations?

I don't know. I should look into that. I applaud them for opening a second location. You're the second person that's brought this up to me. I applaud them opening a second location. I will look into that. In fact, I'm happy to host the team from Kindness Cafe on the show. And congratulations on opening a second location.

So we'll save this topic for a different show. Elements of business that are performing at levels that are beyond efficient. Levels of like 1% operation efficiency or output. Bodo's and Chick-fil-A, how they manage a line is in that list. I want to take elements from local business and build a super business. We'll talk about that tomorrow. I think we have one other item out of the notebook, which is the UVA innovators.

Oh, quick one-hitter if you want to get the Yonkin on screen. Yonkin has banned DeepSeek on state devices like computers and cell phones and has extended that ban to state universities as well. I said when DeepSeek came out and when it crushed NVIDIA's market cap, I said, this is TikTok 2.0. If we had issues with TikTok, how are we not going to have issues with deep seek and artificial intelligence, literally being even more influential than a social media platform on our phones, in our houses, in the palm of our hands. And that prediction was right. NVIDIA has recovered, and DeepSeek is not what we initially thought it was two Mondays ago, or about, what, 10 days ago when it crushed the stock market. I said that was

going to happen. And the last topic on the show, we have a meeting coming, an interview coming, is it next Thursday, Judah? Yes. It's next Thursday with the UVA Innovators of the Year. The team of Craig Meyer, Joseph Hart, and Sylvia Blemker were named the University of Virginia Innovators of the Year. And they have new technology called Springbok, Springbok, which brings, I'll let them tell the story, but you're looking at a way to detect athletic injuries,

and I believe the NBA is an investor into their group. So I want to talk, we'll highlight them a week from tomorrow on the I Love Seville show in person. Should be a really good interview. So props to Sam Sanders. Are we going to call him the best dressed man in Charlottesville?

Mike Kotchis is the George Clooney of policing. Is Sam Sanders the best dressed guy in Charlottesville? Could be. I would need some photo evidence. Have you not seen him around town? Not recently. He's flossing.

The dude dresses well. I believe it. He dresses well. Alright, the Wednesday edition of the I Love Seaball show for the fantastic Judah Wickera. My name is Jerry Miller. So long. Thank you for joining us, everybody. Thank you.