The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Spanberger Exec Order Looks To Reshape BOVs; Political Donations Of Spanberger's BOV Nominees

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us. It's a pleasure to connect with you guys through the I Love Seville Network on a Wednesday in downtown in Charlottesville. Evidently, we have a snowpocalypse, snowmageddon on the horizon of, depending on who you follow. Dangerous proportions, historical proportions, generational proportions. This is what we know. There's going to be a boatload of snow this weekend.

I mean, the weather app is suggesting over the course of Saturday. and Sunday that we're going to be hit with nearly 30 inches of snow in the Charlottesville, down Marl County area. If you know anything about Charlottesville and Amaral County, 30 inches of snow, if that does materialize, we're going to be shut down for days. That is not dramatic. That is reality. The only saving grace throughout this entire storyline is the preparation. This is not a surprise snowstorm. We've been a part of the caught off guard snowstorms in the past that literally have disastrous impacts on a community that has not set up to mitigate and manage this kind of inclement weather. The fact that we have runway, you know, four or five days of notice is the only positive

here. There's a lot I'm going to cover on the program. There's some items that did not make my rundown. That's the headlines that you see on screen that I want to relay on air to you, a viewer and listener. I'm going to look at my notebook here, how we prepare for this program as we take phone calls and we make phone calls to people who are connected, people of influence, people of resource. We text message with people, we email with people, sometimes they come in here and talk to us. I take notes, Judah and I prepare, we pass along the headlines we find most compelling. Compelling means entertaining, educating, and lightning. It does not always mean the most, how should I say this, noteworthy. Some noteworthy headlines are boring and are not included in the rundown,

believe it or not. Some items out of my notebook that I want to pass along to you, this Saturday, weather permitting, it should be before the snowstorm. Tony Bennett is honored before the North Carolina basketball game at the John Paul Jones Arena, where he will have his name on the court, his name on the basketball court. The first Virginia coach in the history of the University of Virginia do have their name on a playing field. That's significant. I caught flack yesterday

on the Jerry and Jerry show and then on the I Love Seville show when I said Tony Bennett was the greatest coach in history of the Virginia Athletic Department without mentioning names of other sports teams. So, frankly, I did mention names of other sports teams. Still, those

other sports teams gave me fans of the other sports teams gave me flack. Dom Sarja, Brian O'Connor, Brian Bolan. those guys, Bruce Arena, those guys on the short list of greatest coaches in Virginia sports history. Of course, Todd de Sorbo, the swimming coach, has got to be on there. He's producing Olympians left and right. This is a lot of great coaches. The reason Tony Bennett's number one in my book is because he won a national championship. He won a national title and one of the two revenue sports. That's why he's number one.

Another item that did not make our rundown that I want to pass along to you. There is a congressman out of Texas, and this lawmaker out of Texas has plans, ladies and gentlemen, is currently introducing a new bill. And this new bill that he is introducing, I think, has some potential significance. The new bill is called the Don't Tax the American Dream Bill. basically in a nutshell, I'm going to give you 30 seconds of rundown on what this new bill is about. Congressman out of Texas, the bill's called Don't Tax the American Dream. This congressman wants to eliminate capital gains taxes on the sale of homes.

For those that don't know, capital gains are taxes on profits received from the sale of an asset. Currently with homeownership under current tax policy, an individual homeowner, one person, who has lived in a primary residence for two, at least two out of the last five years, can exclude $250,000 from capital gains taxes on the sale of their home. A married couple can exclude $500,000 in taxes from the sale of their home if they've been there to at least two of the last five years. Some people will say this is significant, $250,000 for an individual, $500,000 for a married couple.

Here's the catch, though. The capital gains exemption has not been updated since 19, So it's been 29 years since this exemption has been updated. Over that 29 year period of time, according to the National Association of Realtors, American home values have escalated 260%. That 250,000 exemption for individuals in today's money is really 600K. And that 500,000 for married couples, and today's money is really a $1.2 million exemption. So this Texas congressman is saying, why don't we eliminate capital gains altogether on the sale of primary residences?

I think this is a brilliant idea. It's a brilliant idea. I've never understood why I'm paying taxes on the sale of my home when I was already taxed on the income that allowed me to purchase the home. Taxed on the income that allowed me to put the down payment on the home. taxed on the income that allowed me to own the home from a county tax standpoint, from an electric bill standpoint, the income allocated to the electric company, or tax left and right, how are you also taxing us on the gains when we exit the home, when you taxed us on the front end and taxed us during the process? Furthermore, I think this bill, if it is approved, will create potential additional inventory or housing stock,

for a throttled American housing market. And that's good news for first-time home buyers. Now, naysayers will say this is only going to benefit the wealthy, because it's only the wealthy that have equity in their home that's north of $500,000, only the wealthy that have equity in their home that's north of $250,000, if they're an individual. And I say, sure, it's going to benefit the wealthy. They made the good decisions to buy their home.

But if the wealthy exit on their house and they sell, that's still going to open up housing inventory for somebody to buy, the wealthy will just climb the ladder. And their current house will be purchasable for someone that's not as wealthy as them potentially. This is good. This is a good story. This is positive.

And frankly, get out of my pocket, government. Goodness gracious. All right, a lot I want to get to on the show. I want to give some love to Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. nearly 62 years in business, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply, John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion. Gentlemen of character, class, and integrity. The Vermilions, their family business, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply is online at Charlestphalentary Supply.com.

You order anything sanitary or cleaning related at Charlestfulanitarysupply.com, anything at all. And it's delivered for free to your doorstep at price points that the big box stores cannot be. There's no reason not to shop at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply and Charlottescentary Supply.com. And they just launched a new company, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company, where they are consultants or concierges for anything swimming pool related. Water testing, pool robots, pool covers, the creation of pools, in ground, above ground, filters, anything swimming pool, you call them, the hop you figure it out, and then you'll have a better swimming pool for you guys to enjoy. Vermilions are A plus people. A plus people. I want to welcome Judah Wickhauer from a studio camera and then a two-shot. Judah Wickhauer is beloved in the community. Judah Wickower has grown and blossomed on this show from what at one time was a fairly quiet chap to now a fellow that has

a lot to offer the talk show, a lot of commentary, a lot of analysis, and a perfect compliment to this eccentric, high-energy personality. of yours truly, the metronome of consistency, the distinguished and dapper gentleman, Judah Wickhauer, ladies, he's single and ready to mingle, and has the best collection of quarter zips I've ever seen anyone ever have in my entire life. I don't know if I'd call it a collection. I mean, I think the only thing of my lead-in for you that was a stretch, the only thing was the quarter-zip reference, because from my count you have, what, maybe four?

No, no. You need more Anne Wick-Cowler originals. ask Anne Wickauer to create more quarter zip and sweaters. It's cold out there. Monday, the low is one degree. Tuesday, it's one degree. It's bananas, Judah. I know.

It's like I'm up in Minnesota again. Well, you grew up in Maine. Yeah, I grew up in Maine. Maine's a little more even keeled than Minnesota. I've got family in Minnesota, and I've been there in the warm months, and I've been there in the really cold months. Olivia Branch, welcome to the program. Tina Wyatt Breedin, welcome to the program.

If you like the show, share the show, hammer the like button, spread the gospel. What headline most intrigues you and why Jude Wickhauer? Well, I'm actually surprised by what the Cavalier Daily has revealed about the political donations of Spanberger's B-O-V nominees.

and that tied with some of what she said in her inauguration speech has me quietly hopeful that she is going, she is going to try to keep her governorship apolitical. In large majority, her nominees for the UVA Board of Visitors financially supported her campaign. Yeah, that's hardly a surprise. Okay. So to say that her efforts are apolitical, I think is a bit disingenuous or certainly ambiguous.

Well, she's called for a removal of politics from universities and from running the state. And if you look at the political, if you look at the political donations, while it's true that a lot of them have donated to her, and that's hardly a surprise, there are also, people in here who have donated to Republicans and some of them almost exclusively to Republicans. Yeah. And that leaves me hopeful that she does not want this to be political,

that she's not going to raise the flag against the federal government and that she just wants to govern. Also an indication that the people appointed to the board are hedging by donating to both parties.

I scratch your back, you scratch my back, they hedge by donating to both and trying to pick two horses in a race. Because if one of those two horses win, then they have leverage with the horse that gets to victory lane. I posted this yesterday, and I'm going to start posting quotes

that I think are significant, that I find significant on the I Love Seville Network on yesterday's, yesterday evening, while having an IPA, watching some television with my wife, I posted this. Every choice has an invoice.

I'll say it again. Every choice has an invoice. And I posted that while also tagging the location, Virginia State Capitol, because every choice has an invoice and how it applies to the University of Virginia. If there's an effort to push it, am I framed the right way? Do you need me to move one way or the other? Am I good here? Yeah, I think you're good there.

I seem to be leaning a little one way in the shot. Am I not? I can push you to the side. And every choice has an invoice, right? If Spamberger's administration does choose to push President Scott Beardsley out of the presidency of the University of Virginia, that invoice is $8.5 million. No doubt. Okay. Every choice has an invoice.

If Spamberger's administration, when Spamberger's administration revamps the UVA Board of Visitors, that invoice is perceived overreach, perceived political leanings of new people on the board tied to Abigail Spamberger. Every choice has an invoice. If Spamberger's administration pushes Beardsley out, you're going to need an interim president and the Provost position, the person who runs the academic side of the university, that continues to stay vacant for longer. That's an extremely important position. Some people say the provost, in a lot of circumstances, even more important than the president position.

The president is the face of the operation. The president is counted on it with fundraising. The provost is running the academic side. And last checked, it was an academic institution. Every choice has an invoice. Okay? I'm going to start relaying what I think is compelling or provocative. That's not just tied to Charlottesville.

County, UVA or Central Virginia, and then tying that in to our community as we look to expand our reach with the I Love Seville Show outside of the Central Virginia region and beyond. Spamberger start the show with the first two headlines. My standpoint, when she puts policy in play that limits governor autonomy or governor decision making on boards of visitors at various institutions across the Commonwealth, what I gather from that, is she's trying to rig the game. She's trying to rig the game to keep what she is doing now

where she's revamping boards all over Virginia. She's doing it all over Virginia, not just UVA, she's revamping boards. And by revamping, I mean nuclear bombing. Okay, you can speak out of one side of your mouth. I'm going to push policy that limits what the governor can do with appointing members to the board of visitors, and I'm going to speak out of one side of my mouth

and say, I'm going to empower faculty and students at individual universities and colleges to have a say on who's on the board of visitors at VMI or at George Mason or at UVA. But on the other side of the mouth, she herself is doing all the appointings of these boards. That's called hypocrisy. She is managing perception by pushing policy that says moving forward, the governor will have less say on what can happen here. here. She's doing that because she saw what happened when a Republican Glenn Yonkin won the governor's mansion. She's uncertain what could happen following her four years in the governor's mansion. So she's rigging the game. That's perception management. And that's speaking out of both

sides of her mouth. Agree or disagree. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Judah Wickhauer, the show is yours. I think you make some interesting points, but in regards to her making the appointments, she had to. I mean, the boards needed to be, what is it? She didn't have to do that. She didn't have to ask five, I apologize for interrupting you, sir.

I apologize. She didn't have to ask, sir, five UVA board members to resign. Right. She didn't. She did not. She threatened Sheridan Wilkinson. Wetmore, Long, and Manning, the five UVA board members who reside. What did she threaten?

She said, I'm calling, asking for your resignation. If the most powerful person in the Commonwealth goes to Judah Wickhauer and asks for his resignation, the implied threat is, if you don't do this, you will be fired. She did not have to do that. She nuclear bombed the UVA board. And now her first day in office before the General Assembly, she's saying, right now the politicization of, you, of us, University and colleges, boards is done, and I'm going to lead that charge. Well, Abigail, you just nuclear bombed the most prestigious one and are revamping a bunch of others.

This is double talk. I mean, no, come on. Push back if you disagree. Viewers and listeners, your thoughts. Put it to the feed. I'll relay it live. Do you think I'm wrong, viewers and listeners? If you think I'm wrong, I will relay your commentary on the show.

If you think I'm right, I will relay your commentary on the show. I'm curious of yours first, Judah. I think there's a lot that remains to be seen that we have to wait and find out about. I think that you may have, you may be correct in some of this. Requiring that the faculty and staff have voting representation on the boards, that they be more active in choosing the members. It could be argued that, that you, universities are largely left-leaning. And so if you're right, if the governor is not

Abigail Spanberger, if the governor is a Republican again, then this could, like you said, take some of the governor's ability to constitute boards. But based on our picks, I don't know. I'm hopeful that what she's trying to do is make it a smoother process. that doesn't see saw back and forth between Republican and Democrat every four or eight years. Props to Judah Wickhauer makes a succinct argument. Look, I have another beef with what Abigail Spanberger is doing. Put your hand in the air and wave it around if you just don't care, viewers and listeners. If you have an issue with the governor saying students, 18, 19, 20, 21-year-olds

are going to have a equal say on who, the men and women are on the board of visitors. Is it going to be an equal say, though? Wave your hand in the end. Put your hand in the air, wave it around if you just don't care. If you have an issue with Spamberger saying faculty and students will have an equivalent say to elected officials on who are on board of visitors. Dude, 18, 19, 20, 21 year olds, no disrespect to the 18, 19, 20, 21 year olds that follow the I Love

Seabell Network. No disrespect. while you are more in tune with the new cycle and more in tune with everything that is going on, your perspective on life is one that is still developing because of your limited time on this planet. Your perspective on life as a student at the University of Virginia, let's use that for example, has been significantly skewed based on your time, on your time, grounds at UVA or the formidable years, your most formidable

years, your high school years at whatever high school you matriculated through. To put the responsibility on undergraduates and students is concerning at best. Furthermore,

faculty, what faculty, what business world, what situation in the world do the employees get to pick their bosses? Those are Both good points. When do employees get to pick their bosses? Does Judah have an issue with me every day, twice on Sunday, half a dozen times a day? Every day.

Would you agree? I'm not going to disagree. Okay? You have issue with me from time to time. But what I have proven to him over 16 or 17 years is I go balls to the wall for this company. Do I not? He gets a raise every year. Do you not?

You got a pretty great. great situation when it comes to advertising as a non-owner in this region, do you not? I'm not really sure what you mean by that. You have a good job. I would compare and contrast it to other advertising agencies or companies of our similarity and what they are offering employees because the reality is they're taking what you are getting and they're chopping it up into two and hiring two 25-year-olds. And I can give you a half a dozen companies that are doing that. That's not how we operate here. okay this is the reality employees do not pick their bosses and that's what they're saying with the faculty

okay and and realize that there's thousands of faculty member in this community that watch and listen to this show and those thousands of faculty members that are watching and listening this show just gave me the one finger salute and just hurled a four-letter word when they said jerry miller but that's the nature of things. I was flabbergasted when I was speaking to the individual who works in humanities at the University of Virginia, who was, he was appalled and disgusted by Scott Beardsley. He said, he snapped back and said, I said, Scott Beardsley's playing chess when everybody else is playing checkers is making eight and a half million if he's fired. And he goes, that guy is no more than a scoundrel who leveraged a vulnerable situation to line his pockets. And I said,

and you wouldn't do the same? And then he made this comment, 75% of the graduates that matriculate from the University of Virginia are not tied to business in any capacity. And then I snap back. How many of those 75% of the graduates that are not tied to business

to matriculate and graduate through the University of Virginia end up funding and donating to the University of Virginia post-graduation during the professional career? And he was silent. Because you look at the money from the alumni at the University of Virginia, the donors of merit,

they are coming from finance, McIntyre, Darden, law, some medicine. It's not coming from the humanities. Okay? And I'm going to catch flack from that. But that's the reality. Why viewers and listeners listen to this show on afraid, on a bash, unfiltered,

unaffiliated? That's the commentary we provide. That's why you listen. This individual, from Humanities, this professor walked out of the conversation with us, tail-tucked between his legs. It was myself,

a McIntyre guy, a McIntyre employee, and this professor, Joshua Batman watching the program. He's a member of the family. He's watching on LinkedIn. We need to get his photo so we can put it on screen when he leaves the comment. Joshua Batman says

Spamberger is trying to rig the game across the spectrum to create a permanent blue state like California. Special Batman, I appreciate the comment. Spamberger, I'll repeat, is trying to rig the game. That is what she's doing here. And she's doing it by talking out both sides of her mouth. Okay. I'm going to take away the power from the governor on who can be board appointed and give it back to the people. But I'm only going to do that after I nuclear bomb all the boards.

We're going to lead a redistricting effort to diminish Republican strangleholds like the fifth. Why are we doing that? You, the viewer, and listener decide. And I'm no Republican, and I'm no Democrat. I'm of the party of common sense that votes on policies and promises and not. on party lines. John Blair's photo on screen, number two in the family.

I think people who opposed this capital gains tax reduction that you started on at the beginning of the show probably are not understanding the current building climate. Builders are more and more looking at the detached single-family space as the cash cow,

and they're focusing on building up-rend products in that category. We long ago lost the idea of a single-family detached starter home with the current interest rate, environment and market dynamics. The throttling really is in the following product category. $400,000 to $700,000 for a 2,000 square foot home in Charleston Almorel. Those homes are getting rare, rare on the market as builders want the higher end profit margin in that category, and those already

in that category aren't selling due to interest rate lock-in. I may not like this reality, and you may not like this reality, but that seems to be more and more of what we're seeing in this area nationwide. If you want to unlock that category and the supply and interest rate levers aren't available, the last lever is changing taxation to incentivize a loosening of the market 100%. The Texas congressman that's trying to eradicate capital gains tied to primary residences altogether, this is a Robert Liberty silver buckshot. There's no silver bullet. It's a silver buckshot.

This is a piece of buckshot that will help unclog a clog a clog housing market. And I'll tell you what. As a guy that has been in business for 18 years in a couple of months and has represented a number of custom home builders and their strategy and their branding and advertising and help them gain market share, you find me a custom home builder that can build a reputable piece of housing for under $300 a foot.

And I'll call into question if that's a promise that can be delivered. Seriously, and that's without the dirt acquisition. that's without the dirt ladies and gentlemen viewers and listeners let us know your thoughts put them in the feed i'll relay them live on air Tina wyand breeden agrees with us constance wyant is watching the program she's the titan of troy's beautiful better half and she says she likes the line every choice has an invoice the queen of earlysville Vanessa park hill is watching the program we'll get to Vanessa park hill's comments in a matter of moment Are students more in the know? I'd say a small group of activists want to have a say. The majority of students are focused on their studies, preparing for their careers, and hopefully having some fun along the way.

They are not necessarily in the know. Vanessa Park Hill, we appreciate those comments. Conan Owen has a comment. He's the owner of Survepedia, Central Virginia. If you have a logo, you need visibility for that logo, whether it's signage, vinyl decals on your storefront windows, the banner behind me, direct mail, trifolds, folders, merchandise, uniforms, stickers, lanyards,

anything tangible with the logo. Curs Media Central Virginia and Conan Owen is who you call. He says, I have an issue with faculty and students being involved. That's like having the customers and employees decide who the CEO of Starbucks should be. Exactly. Exactly. Kevin Yancy and Waynesboro. The bosses are not teaching kids.

No one leaves UVA and has memories of people on the board of visitors. Kevin Yancy, one of the most liberal colleges in America to have the prior administration throw a hand grenade on the previous board and then call foul. That's what he says is happening right here. That's how I feel. That's fair. I mean, it's double talk from Spamberger. It's double talk on Spamberger from the first.

first day. Her first day. Deep throat watching the program. Number one in the family. Forget about $300, $300 a square foot for single family housing. Look at Charlottesville City's affordable housing study and multifamily. They are assuming hard costs in excess of 300 a foot and they show no typology pencil and no typology pencils out now.

Deep Throat sent me a link and DMFAP. And this link is a report on affordable housing incentives, and it has some really interesting data, he says. The economics of multifamily in Charlottesville, if you look at the report from Charlottesville City that the counselors recently reviewed, it shows that almost no development makes any economic sense in Charlottesville City right now. And I got the report in my inbox. No development multifamily-wise makes economic sense right now in the city of Sharles. Charlottesville, according to the report reviewed by city of Charlottesville counselors. I want you to think about that.

Viewers and listeners. When are we going to finally say that the livable Charlottesville, the zoning activists in this community, have failed miserably and their strong arming efforts to influence the micro-acotomy here in this community? They bamboozled. They smoked and mirrored. They pulled the wool over the eyes of counselors. They bullied them. The counselors fell victim to it.

Shame on them. And now we're left in a housing and economic climate, at least tied to where we live. That is, just frankly, not going to get any more affordable anytime soon. And wait until you see what happens in 24 months, 30 months, with the AstraZeneca biotechnology impact. Judah Wickhauer, let's go. Would you say they tried a silver bullet when they should have been using some buckshot?

This is what it's akin to, okay? You want to know what it's akin to? I was a Phi Kappa Sai at the University of Virginia. Okay. So, Phi Kappa Sai at the University of Virginia, there was like 18, 19 guys in my pledge class. Of those 18 or 19 guys, there was like four or five guys that were so effing book smart. I was not one of those guys. Far from it.

But these guys were the guys that showed up to class 10 minutes early, stayed 10 minutes late, read every page of the textbook twice, went to the office hours with the professor. I'm not throwing shade on them. Went to the office hours. Went above and beyond. We're like so effing book smart. They could tell you the line on the page number of the economic theory that Ken Elzinga was asking us about in his lecture. Then there's the middle of the road that did a little bit of that, but had a more balanced life.

Then there was the five guys at the other end. This is where I was. That was not as focused on his academics, but was more focused. on figuring out life. I came from a private school in Williamsburg called Walsingham Academy that was extremely rigorous, extremely difficult and rigorous. Raised it a Southern Baptist household, a Jewish neighborhood, and was very much tied to athletics. When I got to the University of Virginia, it was freedom. It was fantastic. But in that four years, I started doing things that were extremely entrepreneurial, and some of the stuff was gray area. Some of the stuff

was straight up illegal. I won't get into the illegal stuff because eventually my kids will watch this program. One of the things that was kind of in the gray area may be illegal, I will talk about, running a sports book, playing poker three or four nights a week. Toward the end, it was $100 buy-ins. This was 2003, 2004, when $100 had value. Then you could buy back in a few times. At these poker rooms, in these underground poker rooms in Charlottesville, when I was a third or fourth year at the University of Virginia, I legitimately was sitting across from attorneys and bankers and financiers and business owners as the only college student in the room. We would play pool at various private pool table room, various billiard tables, various pool tables in people's houses. Stakes of race to five for two or two, $250. The money was stacked on the table. Running a sports book when you would immediately have to assess risks of people and whether or not they were going to pay the money back. You know what the thing is when you're running a gambling book at the University of Virginia is the third or fourth year

and someone's not going to pay you, you're not going to go break their legs. No five foot eight, 158, 100, 5 foot 8, 150 pound guy like yours truly is going to go chase them down and break their legs. You know what you do? You just chalk it up to a loss and you know, never take their bet again. You know what's worse with someone who has an appetite for gambling? What's even more worse than hurting them? Not letting them gamble. Not letting them bet ever again. And this was the time when there was no other way to bet. You weren't placing bets online. You said, I'm not taking your bet again. Eventually, these people would want it to get beat up. Seriously, you think I'm joking? But in that four-year period of time,

of sitting at a table till three in the morning with four or five other guys that were bankers and finance guys and hedge fund guys and lawyers. There was even a judge or two that would be playing as the only college student or playing in various rooms around rugby road or in Almaro County and shooting pool against people. I grew up with a pool table in my house. Playing for $250 for a first to five, $500 for a first to five. You learn to size people. You learn to size people up. And this is the point I'm making. Those five people that were in my pledge class, they were extremely book smart. If you had them today say, you have to go start a business and figure out a way to make money, drive incremental revenue while keeping your current clients happy,

and you need to do it for 18 years like Jerry has done, they wouldn't know how to get from A to B. They're very, very, very, very good vice presidents of operation. They're very, very, very, very, very very good, you know, right-hand people of the C-E, C-O. They are not C-Suite. They don't have the street smarts. They don't have the savvy. They don't have the personal skills, the gift of human connection, the negotiation ability, the prop skills, the proposition skills,

the hedging skills, the real-time moment risk assessment that you need to do this. And they will tell you that. They will straight up tell you that. Now, not everyone has those skills. those skills are not, you're born, you're not born with them. They're developed. They're developed. It comes down to this.

You speak of, you speak of lines. This one's really resonated with me of late. You know what life is about? Life is about, life is a fight for a knife in the mud. That's what life is about. Life is a fight for a knife in the mud. And the knife is whatever metaphorically you make it out to be. The job, the promotion, the husband or the wife, the investment purchase, it's a fight for a knife in the mud.

And you do whatever it takes for you to get it. One of the most influential teachers I ever had in high school. I had more influence in my life at Wallsingham Academy than I did at the University of Virginia. Mr. Ed Gillespie. He was my algebra teacher, my algebra two trig, teacher and my pre-calculus teacher, three years, he taught me math. And over those three years, over algebra, algebra two-trich and pre-calculus, he had us write the letters D-W-Y-G-D at the top of every test and quiz. And if we wrote D-W-Y-G-D at the top of over a test, every test, and every quiz, he gave

us five points just for putting that acronym on the paper because it was so significant to him. And that acronym stood for, do what you got to do. Do what you got to do. That's effing life. And I'll tell you what, Abigail Spamberger, do what you got to do, she's rigging the game. Whether someone has the cahones to call her out on it besides this show, do what you got to do. Chris Mead's watching the program. He's a Walsingham Academy alum. He remembers Dwight Good with Ed Gillespie. Do you not, Chris Mead? This guy was a year younger than me at Walsam Academy. massive New York Mets fan, massive Seinfeld fan, massive baseball fan, a year younger than me, and all my math classes, and I was on the advanced track in high school and math.

And here was this kid that was a year younger than me performing at the clip of people that were a year older than him. He was extremely intelligent. Can I get an A-man, Chris Mead? Spanberger rigging the game. What else you got on the headlines? It's the 111 marker, and I got a 1-30 phone call with somebody that's looking to sell his business. I got a to figure out of how we're going to sell 50% equity stake in a business. It's going to be a challenging endeavor, but it's Dwight good. Next headline, what do you got? Alpco home assessor presenting data to soups today?

Today at 1.30 p.m., so on 18 minutes, the assessor for Almorel County is presenting to the supervisors of Alamoro the housing data on how much values have gone up or down. Almaro County does its home assessments on a much more regular basis than more of the surrounding counties, which is advantageous to Almaro County, because when homes do go up in value year over year, the county is able to collect that revenue. Fluvana County, for example, I think does it every four years to put it into perspective. This is an extremely important meeting that is flying under the radar with legacy and traditional media.

because this conversation with the county assessor and the supervisors will determine what the supervisors do with a real estate tax rate increase or not. Last year, they increased it four cents. Yeah. The real estate tax rate. And they chalked up a four cent real estate tax rate increase to the grant money during COVID that had expired that was allocated to fire, rescue, and police. And because that COVID released. money was gone, the fire rescue and police people that were hired during the pandemic, they wanted to keep them on board. So they needed to raise the real estate tax rate four cents.

Then they bamboozled the four set real estate tax rate increase by throwing in a little affordable housing into it and perception management saying, we're going to raise your tax rate on your homes to help housing affordability initiatives. The reality was only $1.2 million from that incremental tax base, that incremental tax increase was allocated to housing affordability. 1.2 million. Let me tell you right now, in today's time, 1.2 million for housing affordability, that's going to get you about two dozen Coleman tents and a handful of Yeti coolers for housing affordability. That ain't getting you anything else. It was a smoke and mirrors gimmick by politics and politicians to help swallow you, the constituents, the taxpayers, help swallow your

bitterness and angerness for a four-set role state tax rate increase that is a significant uptick. That's why you watch and listen to the show because we cut through the crap. We also talk about stuff that I don't get why the other media is not covering. Like, why aren't you

covering this? It's disheartening that this stuff isn't being covered because this is the stuff that really matters. The stuff that doesn't matter is the gobbly goop, releases that are set to you. Oh, UVA health system. Look at all the positive we're doing. Gobbly goop. Next headline, what do you got? Judeawick hour. Next, we've got

homeless encampment back at Freebridge. Do you viewers and listeners realize that the homeless encampment by the Rivana River under Free Bridge off of High Street is now back? It was a mere couple of months ago that the Charlottesville Police Department went to the same spot, Judah, and removed the homeless belongings and eradicated the camp. It's back again. And likely bigger. Larger and more significant. And then the city manager, Sam Sanders, says to local BDA, or at least on the dais during yesterday's city council meeting that, you know what, these folks at this encampment, they don't really want to be here. It's not their decision.

And Sam Sanders says on the dais yesterday, you know what? The way we can solve this encampment here is just by building more housing. And these people choose not to be here. They're just here. I mean, dude, what are you doing? What are you doing?

I am all for a hand up, not a handout. A hand up, not a handout. But to say, these folks choose not to be be here. If we want to solve this, we just got to build more housing. It's assonine. If you don't want the folks next to the Rivana Trail, next to the Rivana River, by free bridge, next to the businesses that use the Rivana River, next to the trail that citizens use for quality of life, you enforce the no camping. It's the same situation on the downtown mall.

You cannot not enforce something and expect a different result. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. It's insanity that's happening there. Next headline, what do you got? Next, we have grit expanding at Stonefield. Grit coffee. Conan Owen sent this to us, the owner of Surce Media Central Virginia. Grit coffee is expanding in the shops of Stonefield. They're closed for renovation, and they're doubling in size after taking over the former crate and marrow space next door.

Then I went to the Grit Gauphi Facebook page after getting the tip from Conan. Thank you, Conan, for that. And I went to their Facebook page, and they had a post on there, and I'm going to read the post from Grit Coffee. The Stonefield location will be temporarily closed for renovation, starting to. Monday, January 19th. We're adding seating and updating our interior. The space is going to be something that's truly special. I hope they put down some carpets.

I will also say this. It's not my news to break. Great coffee is opening a new location and a very prominent location in the urban ring right over the city-county line in the county. This is kind of tipping it off. Kind of toward the west.

and I'll leave it at that. That's their news to break. Next headline, Judah Wickhauer, what do you got? Next is Ivy House PlaySpace? They're what, outgrowing themselves? My wife sent me that. She's actually texting me right now. Our son needs to be picked up from school

because he may have a rash. Wonderful. Now I'm texting her back while hosting this show. Hold on. Okay, now I'm done texting with her because we're communicating of one of our two scions. My wife sent me this. Ivy House Playspace, which is a really novel idea, Ivy House Playspace, a small business owner.

This small business owner at Ivy House Playspace has created a play space inside playspace for kids and a home in kind of the Ivy Western side of Almaro County. they have found out that their location for their business is being sold and they just found out evidently the sale of the location literally just find out this is just this is the nature of being a small business owner it's February 8th well we are January 21 so you talk about the most limited notice ever This is what they say. I am worried about him, sweetheart. She's watching the show.

I am very worried about him. I am worried about him. I love him. You know I'm worried about him. I am also doing a show. There's people watching us. I know you're one of them too. I love you and I love him.

I am worried about him. February 8th is when it's going to close. They posted this, or the building, it looks like it's being sold. They posted this 14 hours ago. You talk about such limited notice. No doubt. And this is the nature of being a small business owner right here. This is the nature of what you have to come.

So if you have a space for the Ivy House play space, the Ivy House play space is a gathering spot for parents and their kids. They are looking for a location. We'd love to help them out. Next headline, what do you do with care? And then viewers and listeners will take your comments. Put your comments in the feed, and I will relay them live on it.

What do you got? Number 16 UVA. Yeah, how about this one? The University of Virginia football team, the AP top 25 final rankings are out, and Virginia football finishes 16th in the top 25, ranked number 16 in the nation in the top 25. This is the first time, ladies and gentlemen, since 2004, first time in 21 years that the University of Virginia is ranked in the AP top 25. The last time they were ranked in the AP top 25 was 2004 when they were number 23, 2002 when they were number 22, 1998 when they were number 18, 1995, 16, 94, 15.

So 21 years, for the first time in 21 years, Virginia football has been ranked in the Associated Press top 25. Tony Elliott, ACC coach of the year, a Gator Bowl victory. Virginia football 16, ranked 16 in the top 25. The last time they were ranked higher than 16 was 1994 when they were 15 in the country. There was only one other time when Virginia had a higher national ranking in the top 25, in the AP top 25. 1951, they were ranked 13 in the Associated Press top 25, 1951, and that in 1994 they were ranked 15. This is significant. Well done.

Well done. Tony Elliott. Very, very, very, very well done. Fidessa Parkhill says she loves great coffee. Dozens of people are saying they love the show. Logan Wells-Claelo and Olivia Branch, we appreciate your support. We have print radio and television watching the program yet again. I see six different states watching the show.

Jessica Willard, Barbara Becker-Tilly, Margaret Phillips. Thank you for giving props to us on the show. We appreciate you. Kevin Yancey, Suzanne Coffey. Thank you for watching the program. If you like the show, just spread the gospel for us. Let somebody know about the show. Ginny Who?

for the retweet, let somebody know about the show. Ginny Who says this. I went to Costco for supplies for our homeschool dance, and it felt like my life was in danger the way people were shopping because of Snowmageddon.

I was expecting that. And Ginny Who also said, how about Abigail Spanberger appointing Ralph Northrum, aka, these are her words, Governor Blackface, to the VMI board as Virginia Democrats

threaten to cut off funding because they don't think the school has done enough to root out racist, You know what? I'm going to retweet that, Ginny Who. There's the comment of the day. Abigail Spamberger, who's doing her best to depoliticize BOVs across the Commonwealth.

I am going to create policy and legislation where the governor's not going to have a say on who's going to be on these boards. I'm going to take the politics out of the boards. But before I do that, I'm going to force the resignation of the rector, the vice rector at the University of Virginia, and the $100 million donor, Paul Manning, and two other board members. And then I'm going to put 10 of my own people who all donated to me on the board.

And then I'm going to put Ginny whose words, Ralph Northrum, Governor Blackface on the VMI board, when Virginia Democrats were threatening funding allocation to Virginia Military Institute because they weren't rooting out racism. It Make it make sense. Judah Wickhauer and Jerry Miller, the I Love Sevot Show.