The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Spanberger Political Path Runs Through Trump/UVA; UVA Faculty Worried Won't Be Included In Prez Hire

Episode Date: January 28, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: Spanberger’s Political Path Runs Through Trump & UVA UVA Faculty Worried They Won’t Be Included In Prez Hire Should Schools Go Remote On Consecutive Snow Days? Yale U Honoring Jim Ryan W/ Legend In Leadership Award C-Ville Weekly Hatchet Job On Local Biz, GovSmart UVA Hoops Survives Scare In 2OT Vs Notre Dame City Manager Uses Pink Hammer, Plastic Shovel To Clear Snow The Most Important 3 Minutes Of News Today (1/28/26) Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Good Wednesday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seabill Show. This is the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville across the University of Virginia and Central Virginia, and folks across the Commonwealth of Virginia as well. A lot to cover on the broadcast today. Today's content profile is one of diversification, one of sports, of pop culture, of politics, of business, of entertainment. Our whole premise on this program is to entertain, educate, and enlighten and try to figure out what's going on around here. We'll talk Sam Sanders, our beloved city manager, using a pink hammer. Yes, a pink hammer like the pink band-aid, my three-year-old put on my thumb right here, and a plastic shovel that was probably purchased on TeamU instead of Martin Hardware.

to chisel and chop ice. And no, we're not talking about immigration, but the four to five feet of barricade that is around a 10.2 square mile city that's making, frankly, quality of life, getting to work, walking, extremely difficult for a lot of people, with inclement weather, more snow on the forecast for this weekend, and more snow on the forecast for the middle of next week,

and temperatures, ladies and gentlemen, in the single digits for days to come. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. We're going to talk Abigail Spamberger and how her path to political verticality runs straight through the University of Virginia and is clearly in a collision course with Donald Trump and his administration.

We're going to talk on today's show, Jim Ryan, the former UVA president. How do we characterize Jim Ryan now? Do we characterize Jim Ryan now? Do we characterize Jim Ryan as fallen? Do we characterize Jim Ryan as embattled? Do we characterize Jim Ryan as disgraced? Do we characterize Jim Ryan as esteemed?

I'm curious of Judah Wickhauer's take on that, maybe when we welcome him to start the show. Regardless, Yale University is honoring Jim Ryan with an award. And get this, the award, I'm reading directly from the press release, is the Yale Legend and Leadership Award. I am frankly flabbergasted by the timing of Yale University honoring Jim Ryan with the Legend and Leadership Award as an alleged white-collar racketeering scandal

is ravaging the UVA health system. We'll talk about that timing and the Yale University Award for Jim Ryan. I'm going to ask you, the viewer and listener, how you adjective or describe Jim Ryan right now. We're going to talk on today's program, ladies and gentlemen, about the weekly newspaper in Charlottesville. There is one remaining. It's the Seville Weekly. And they have a report in today's edition that is the definition of a hatchet job.

The title is looking deeper into a Charlottesville business fulfilling ICE contracts. And they're talking U.S. immigration and custom. enforcement here and not the barricades that are all over Market Street and Main Street and Preston Avenue and the city of Charlottesville. The report is specifically tied to GovSmart, a local business in this community that employs nearly a hundred people and interview with its co-founder and its face of the business, Brent Lillard. I am going to analyze this report. I am going to hold the Seville Weekly accountable for what I'm I find to be absolutely disgraceful reporting, including a comparison in this report to GovSmart

and IBM, and they're selling of software to Nazi Germany. Literally reporting in this story in the Sevo Weekly that links GovSmart to IBM and its business relationship with Nazi Germany. This is absolutely insane what the Sevo Weekly has done. I'll talk about that on today's program. On today's show, we will highlight, ladies and gentlemen, public schools and private schools that clearly look like they're going to be closed for the week. Our oldest son is the second grader at a local private school, and we've gotten the notification already that school is closed tomorrow Thursday

because of the dangerous, dangerous, dangerous conditions. And frankly speaking, you know, I mentioned this on yesterday's show. Our family, we live in Ivy. 250 was fine. Ivy Road was fine. but the side streets, the back streets are icy is hell. And I can't even imagine the folks living deep in Alamara County, you know, with plows unable to get to them,

how dangerous and precarious their pathways are. I would imagine schools are going to be closed for the entire week. That's five straight days. And if we get more snow like these weather forecasters are calling for this weekend, does that start impacting availability and school closures come Monday or Tuesday of next week? And if we go five, six, seven days without school, do we start having this conversation? Should remote and hybrid and digital learning return for public and private school kids? Like, we had the infrastructure in place during the pandemic, and it was done decently.

I mean, maybe that's complementary with how remote learning function during the pandemic. It was done serviceably. Why is that not something that's being done now? And before you make the comparisons to me and former Charlottesville mayor, Mike Signer, who threw significant shade on public schools in the city for not encouraging learning during snow days, basically Mike Signer is being labeled or stigmatized by activists in Charlottes as the hater of snow days. That's not what I'm talking about now. I'm all for my seven-year-old and our three-year-old and their chaps and their friends and their fellows and their homies and their pals going sledding for day one, going sledding for day two.

But when you go five consecutive, six consecutive, seven consecutive days without school, does the remote learning not come into the conversation? We'll have that conversation or discuss that topic on today's show. I want to talk that basketball game last night. Our seven-year-old and I stayed up for that basketball game, a double overtime win for Virginia. they erased a, was it a 19 or 23 point deficit for Virginia against Notre Dame on the road in South Bend. The second half for Virginia and then some of the survival in the first overtime period and the second overtime period really showed the chops of Ryan Odom and his ball club. Fantastic win for UVA as they came out flat in the first half against Notre Dame. They respond well in the second half in the two overtime periods.

and what should be a victory that it kind of, you know, puts in the pelt of its belt and utilizes as ammunition come postseason playoff time. We'll talk about that today. And we're going to have a new segment that's introduced on the program, the most important three minutes of news today. You'll see this segment, the most important three minutes of news today on every edition of the I Love Seville show. Then we will edit and produce that three minutes segment into a sizzle reel that. will run in its own accord or in its own entity post show. So we keep kind of the viewers and listeners and, you know, Central Virginians and UVA alumni and Charlestvillians and Virginians in totality

in the new, in the know with what's going on across the Commonwealth. Put your comments in the feed. We'll relay those comments live on air. We want to be the water cooler of content and conversation. That doesn't mean we have to originate the talking points. If you have something that you think is valuable, put them in whatever social media channel chat box you're watching on, and our software will aggregate it at one place, and we will relay it live on air to you, the viewer and listener. I want to highlight a very compelling partnership for our network, the I Love Seville Network, with Stanley Martin Holmes.

Stanley Martin Holmes has built, you know, developed and really been the brainchild, the vision behind a lot of of extremely established neighborhoods in Charlottesville, Almore County, Green County, and across Central Virginia, quality and luxury, Stanley Barton homes. They have folks in this market that will, without question, help bring your dream home to market. More on that partnership, you know, this week, get into next week on the I Love Civo show. Judah Wickhauer is a valued team member here at our firm. He is the director of the show and not just the director, but a trusted voice on the show. If you can go to the studio camera and then a two-shot as we welcome you, Judah Wickower, to the water cooler of content and conversation. There's a lot I want to cover on the show.

We'll lead with a pink hammer and a T-Mew shovel and a quarter million dollar a year plus compensated city manager trying to crack ice barricades of the snow and H2O variety around the city of Charlottesville. Sam Sanders, we kid because we care. And at this point of our life, we need a little bit of levity right now. Before we get to Sam Sanders, and yes, a pink hammer and a TmU plastic shovel that frankly could not chip the plaque between my teeth, let alone an ice barricade on Market Street next to City Hall. My friend, what is tickling your fancy today?

on Wednesday, January 28th in downtown Charlottesville. Oh, that pink hammer. I mean, I got to give props to Sam Sanders. It's rough out there. Everybody knows. There's nobody that is not being affected by this snowpocalypse. It's, I think, would have been a lot worse if we'd gotten freezing rain. We were, I don't know if everybody understands how fortunate we were,

that the snow was followed by sleet. and not freezing rain. We could have easily had hundreds, if not thousands of people without power right now. And so far, the worst is just getting people out. So I'm thankful for that and thankful for, you know, driving around. I've seen people, you know, walking around with shovels and spades. And anyone out there who's helping others get dug out, props to you, Thank you. You are very much appreciated.

You all said Judah Wickhauer comments are coming in already on YouTube, where we have hundreds of thousands of views on our YouTube channel. Dennis Cantonon says on YouTube, Henriko County Schools are already closed for tomorrow Thursday and closed on Friday as well. This is Dennis Kanneton talking about Henrico Schools. Spencer Pushard, his photo on screen. He's commenting on my personal Facebook page.

where we reach hundreds of thousands of people and have hundreds of thousands of views as well. Spencer Pushard says Buckingham County just canceled school on Thursday and Friday, and he said this past Friday, teachers in the school system sent with his kids home a packet for asynchronous learning days. So we may have the return of hybrid, remote, digital learning for kids who clearly are going to be at a school, I would think for the rest of this week. And if the snow hits hard

this weekend, could potentially be Monday or Tuesday of next week. And I'm looking at my Apple forecast, the app on my iPhone 17, the weather app, and it's showing snow in the middle of next week as well with single digits

all through next week, ladies and gentlemen. Albert Graves' photo on screen. He says it's crazy schools in rural areas like Nelson County have remote learning, but a highly, highly affluent county like Almaro does not have remote learning. That's from Albert Graves, whose photos should be on screen. Comments are coming in extremely quickly on the feed right now. We will get to as many of those comments as possible. John Blair's got one on remote learning, his photo on screen. As to remote learning, I think you are correct. I don't really get upset about

a snow day or two here and there. But the fact is this, if schools don't come back this week, that means the kids will have been out of school for three out of the past six weeks. If you recall, there was two weeks at Christmas as well. I'm sorry, but I think an educator would tell you a whole week off in this time frame is really hard for kids to maintain consistency for subjects like math. What's compounding the matter here is the Christmas break, the closeness and proximity for this inclement weather and the damning impact it's having on Charlottesville, Almaro, Central Virginia, frankly, the mid-Atlantic, frankly, a lot of the country. I mean, it hit Texas hard. Yeah, I mean, it went from Texas all the way up to Maine. This is impacting kids right off the Christmas break when they were off for an extended period of time. Fantastic point from John Blair.

That's why we need a little bit of levity. That's why we need a little bit of fun here. How are we going to air the Sam Sanders and Acton-Snyder video over there? Is it going to be with audio or not? Does it need to be audio? I believe it has audio. You have audio on it? How long is the video?

It's about, I think it's half a minute. Okay, why don't we play it with the audio? Sam, City Manager Sanders? 50 seconds. 50 seconds. City Manager Sanders, we kid because we care. Okay. I would bet that city manager Sanders, you did not go into your tool chest or your garage and pull out this pink hammer, nor did you go into your tool chest or your shed, and pull out this plastic shovel that clearly was purchased from a website like TeamU that is so plastic and cheap that I'm quite confident it could not chip away the plaque between my teeth, let alone ice barricades that have been stuck to Market Street and the road.

ways at the city of Charlestville for dates. The nail does not care about the color of the hammer. Notice the ice. Perhaps you're right, Judah. Perhaps you're right. Cut me and I bleed red. Cut you and you bleed red as well.

I literally have an injury on my thumb here that has been bandaded by our three-year-old because of a shoveling incident tied to ice. But here's city manager, Sam Sanders, ladies and gentlemen, I'll give you a three-to-one countdown with Com's director, Afton Snyder, trying to chisel ice that's frozen solid for five consecutive days of single-digit temperatures with a pink hammer and a shovel so cheap in plastic that, frankly speaking,

if we use this to pick up the poo that our German Shepherd leaves each morning outside our house, I'm quite confident that that do your business from Max, our German Shepherd, would break this shovel as well. And three and two and one. Teamwork, right Sam? Yep. So what are we doing out here? So we recognize how hard it is

for people to be able to remove snow, especially when there's ice mixed in with it. And because not everybody can do it, just trying to show we need everybody all hands on deck. And if we can get everybody to help out, it'll be that much easier. We got to get schools open,

so we need kids to be able to walk these sidewalks and get back to school. Call your friends. call your colleagues, call your direct reports, help your neighbors. Let's try to get this done. We know it's hard. We've got to help each other. Absolutely.

It takes all of us to get through this. Also, we're looking for volunteers to help anyone in need. We have a link here where you can sign up via the United Way to help volunteer. Also, if you need someone to help you, please call this number here or email us directly at media at sharletsville.gov. And we'll try to connect you with someone who can help you. Again, we kid because we care. It was social media content. would imagine without question,

Afton's idea, the comms director, to drive home an important point that now our community more than ever needs everyone to help others with the barricades of ice that's around there. It's ice.

I mean, I'm speaking of the color pink after I found the one parking spot in a two-hour, no, in a non-two-hour spot a few blocks away. I passed a woman who I wish I could have been able to help, but she had another probably Timu bought shovel, this with a pink scoop that I think she could probably, she'd probably be better off breaking the scoop off

and just using the wood handle to hammer at the ice. I don't think she's going to get very far. And you know, a lot of what's happened here, and we'll get to Abigail Spamberger in a matter of moments, is the plows that have gone down streets and neighborhoods. And these plows, when clearing the snow from the street, push the snow to the sides of the plows, and barricaded people's driveways.

And then the individuals, whether it's their fault or not, did not clear the barricade that block their driveway in time, and that snow ended up freezing and turning to ice and is now two, three, four feet high in some circumstances. So, you know, we're just highlighting what's happening here. I mean, that's part of life in the snow. I've personally... My wife and I, we cleared it.

It happened to us with the plow that went down our street and pushed the snow in front of our driveway. We cleared the snow away from the mouth of our driveway because we knew that was going to freeze. Some call this Darwinism. Those that do call it Darwinism are perceived to be insensitive SOBs, such as life.

Now, we need to go to topics. As long as you don't say that to people's faces. We just said it. Judah just said it in front of thousands of people over there. It wasn't Judah that said it right there. We need to go to the topic of the show over here and Sam Sanders, we kid because we care. First headline, put it on screen.

Abigail Spamberger, her political path. I talked about this yesterday. is clearly running through the University of Virginia and is clearly running in a collision course with Donald Trump and the DOJ. Oh, it's almost tailor-made. Go! To make her, I mean, not necessarily to make her look good,

but she's got, she's essentially become David. And Trump and ICE and the DOJ are collectively, Goliath. People may disagree with me, but trust me that there are a lot of people that are probably getting that impression from Spanberger's rise to the governor's seat and her, what is looking to be fight with the administration over UVA. And she's, I don't think she's in a whole lot of, how do I put this? Like I said, it's tailor-made to make her look like David against Goliath, and I don't think she's going to have much trouble.

It's essentially, you know, it's a perception game. If anyone does not see the tea leaves or read the tea leaves, I'm going to help you do it. Abigail Spamberger is what? A former congresswoman? Abigail Spamberger is the first governor, female governor in Virginia. Commonwealth history. Abigail Spamberger is young, 46,

ambitious. I believe she was a former was a Marine? CIA and aggressive. Ladies and gentlemen, Abigail Spamberger has her eyes

set on higher office than just the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. You are in four-year, a four-year term with Spamberger. You're not going to do consecutive terms legally with Spamberger and the Commonwealth of Virginia. Immediately, she has completely reimagined the board of visitors at UVA. Someone called that cleaning house. That house cleaning started before she was sworn into office when she asked for the resignations of five people, the rector,

the vice rector, and then three other gentlemen, including Paul Manning, who donated $100 million, to the University of Virginia and Mr. Wetmore, Douglas Wetmore, also a multi-million dollar donor to the University of Virginia. Spamberger is now 10 appointments waiting for the UVA board.

She needs confirmation from the General Assembly, which is going to happen any day now. The Democrats will move swiftly. When those 10 appointments are confirmed by the General Assembly, she, on paper, will match the letter of the law or meet the letter of the law,

of what constitutes a legitimate B.O.V. Her appointments give her majority control. We are hearing Scott Beardsley's days are extremely numbered at the University of Virginia. I reported yesterday on this show and the day before on the I Love Seville Network that there's a shortlist candidate already in place for this position,

and Risa Gobeloff. That reporting has called UBA faculty completely off guard. I've been bombarded with direct messages and emails, text messages, and even an in-person conversation from UVA faculty members

that were stunned, angered, caught off guard about the Risa Goebelov reporting because they were not included Golobov reporting, because they were not included in any kind of short-less process, at least

consulted in any capacity. More on that later. First, the Spamberger, then we weave you into the equation. If Spamberger does this correctly, I'm no Democrat, I'm no Republican, I'm no liberal, I'm no conservative, I'm of the party of common sense, and I just try to read T-Leaves. If she does this correctly, and she's already done the first steps, remove the five board members, appoint 10, get those 10 approved by her friends in the General Assembly, Those 10 can come in, name a new UVA president, figure out some kind of buyout with Beardsley where he's going to walk with millions of dollars. New UVA president gets in.

This new UVA president in conjunction with the General Assembly, in conjunction with the BOV, in conjunction with Abigail Spanberger. They tear up the agreement with the Department of Justice of the Trump administration that Paul Mahoney signed. That torn up agreement, UVA is going to face considerable legal bills tied to battling the DOJ. The DOJ head over there is a UVA law school graduate as well.

Millions of dollars in legal fees. Trump administration will leverage hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly federal funding. He's in office through 2028, so Spamberger only has to wage the war until Trump is out of office. and that scenario, once Trump is out of office, you're probably looking at a Democratic president and a new head of the DOJ. That's when cooler heads would potentially prevail from a Democratic side.

And if she's able to withstand that battle through 2028 and with Trump in office, she's going to look extremely presidential from a conversational standpoint or potentially vice presidential. If she's on a ticket vice president-wise in 2008, ladies and gentlemen, she can be the VP for four years following, and that could platform her into a chance at the White House.

I can assure you Abigail Spanberger has run that scenario through her mind. I can assure you that. She's a measured woman that has forward-thinking talent. Now, this is a perfect segue into the next topic, as you put that lower third on screen, Judah. Our reporting, citing two anonymous sources about former UVA law school dean, Risa Goluboff, on the shortlist as a potential candidate to replace Scott Beardsley, is drawn the ire of many UVA faculty.

I've received dozens, dozens of emails, text messages, direct messages, and one in-person conversation from faculty at the University of Virginia, that feel scorn, that are flabbergasted, that are angered, infuriated, that a potential candidate is on a shortlist of any capacity without the faculty being consulted or included in this turn of events, this shortlist creation. Here's an example. Walter Henneke, who has been bombarding the I Love Seville Network with comments.

Walter Hennikey has literally been living on the I Love Seville Network. This gentleman is a member of the UVA chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Walter Hennocky, let me pull up his bio here. He is an associate professor at the University of Virginia, very active on the I Love Seville Network. He conducts research on technology reform and policy implementation and teacher education and K-12 settings, as well as on citizenship and civic engagement in higher educational settings. He teaches courses on civic engagement and activism at the University of Virginia. He is a very integral cog to the UVA chapter of American Association of University Professors.

Yesterday, he published what appears to be somewhere between 750 and 1,000 words on the Isle of Seville Network. Extremely well written, Walter. And I will paraphrase some of what he's written. You're ready for this? We object and continue to object to the Beardsley Search Committee on the grounds that faculty were not included due to what appeared to be some conditions, some conflicts of interest. We would like the new board to re-examine the previous search and appointment. The idea here that the previous process was overly political and tied to government overreach. A new search avoiding the mistakes of the last process would be essential.

We are all exhausted from political appointments, but we need to have a process that instills confidence among all constituents in the choice. So going forward, we would want to see an earnest search committee that has many more faculty and students and staff members than the previous one. We would like to see a clear set of guidelines agreed upon by those at the table by which the search committee will make its decision. We would like to see a commitment by the board that there will be no appointment over the objections of the faculty on the committee. There cannot be another candidate, yet as those guidelines would have already been violated and will raise doubts about the process at the get-go. That would bring continued instability and no one wants that.

Without a search with such guidelines, the appointment of the new board by a candidate. candidate who has not been vetted would look like one preferred candidate over the other without procedural guidelines. That's what he sends to the island of Seville Network, Walter Hennocky, an associate professor of research at the University School of Education and Human Development. Literally, his specialty in part, Walter Hennocky, is teaching about activism and civic engagement. He is also, perhaps even more significantly, one of the heads of the UVA chapter of American Association of University Professors, which what I can tell is, pretty much the activism, the activist arm or the union arm of professors at the University of Virginia

and beyond. Okay. So I'm left with this for you, Judah, and this for the viewer and listener. The role faculty should play with hiring the next president. The role students should play with hiring the next president. The fact that the Board of Visitors have a shortlist for a replacement with Beardsley. The fact that the Board of Visitors have a shortlist for a replacement for a placement for Beardsley when that board of visitors, at least ten of them have not been approved by the General Assembly yet and are still waiting

GA approval. The collision of all these dynamics into one little nexus, if you may. And us on the show and you, the viewers and listeners, analyzing that nexus or collision Judah Wickhauer.

I mean, we've got we've got quite a few viewers who have made their points very well, I think especially Conan Owen talking about how is this normal that the UVA faculty and students all think that they have a right to decide who the boss is, who the president of UVA. will be is is kind of crazy but uh the last that last sentence that you read uh from uh from walter heinecke uh i i thought was at least um at least sounded rational to me um but um yeah it's it's kind of crazy uh to imagine that a group of people think that oh we get to decide who our boss will be uh for the foreseeable future conan owen is watching the program

his photo on screen. He's the owner of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia, a partner of the show. I want to highlight that Conan Owen and his firm Sir Speedy of Central Virginia literally are doing the signage on the storefront to our studio in downtown Charlottesville. They did the

banner directly behind us in our studio. We have 24 rentals, a lot of them commercial, and the commercial tenants in our portfolio need signage in three different locations, and Sir Spedia Central Virginia is doing that signage. He's also helping tenants, helping clients of ours for our consulting business.

For example, Great Harvest Bread Company, who's opening up a spoke location, a second location on the downtown mall in the old Wells Fargo ATM space. He's doing the signage for them. I trust this guy with signage. I trust this guy with marketing collateral. Direct mail, stickers, lanyard, tri-folds, folders, you name it. I trust him. Darden graduate, locally owned and operated. He says the faculty wants veto power on the president and who the board of visitors hire.

That's absolutely ridiculous. He also says this. So they don't trust the last BOV and they don't trust this BOV and they also want veto power. What's going on around here? Abolish the BOV. That's one of the aspects that I want to highlight of this story. The UVA faculty and there, how many UVA faculty are out there? Thousands.

What's the exact number? Probably. It's got to be a lot. Huge population. I don't know the exact number. I should know that, okay? Maybe you can find that out. Okay? Thousands? They watch and listen to this show. You may not like what I say here, but that's okay. Why this show works is because we're unfiltered,

unaffiliated, unabashed, unafraid. UVA has roughly 3,000 plus academic faculty across us 12 schools. Okay, 3,000 plus academic faculty across 12 schools. Thank you, Judah. They had a problem with Glenn Yonkin's Board of Visitors. They had a problem with Glenn Yonkin's Board of Visitors because maybe they were of MAGA ideology, maybe because they were, you know, conservative in nature,

maybe because they were positioning profits over academics. I don't think it was profits over academics. academics. I think it was prudence over nilly-willy spending, my words, but they had a problem with Yonkin's B-O-V. Now are they also saying they have a problem with Spamberger's B-O-V? These 10 appointments that are waiting confirmation from the General Assembly, they still, by the letter of the law, are able to meet as a board while they wait for confirmation. They're still able to sit at the table. Yeah, which is what happened previously with

with... With Yonkin. Yeah, like with what's his name? Ken Cuchinelli. He was allowed to sit until he was eventually not confirmed by the General Assembly. Exactly. So aren't these folks who Abigail Spanberger has handpicked herself that are

liberal and Democrat? And we all know are going to be confirmed. That are 100% going to be confirmed by a Democratic majority general assembly. The fact that they have a short list for the next UVA president, that's called practical.

Especially knowing what we all know. Four of the ten that are appointed by Spamberger are graduates of the UVA School of Law. The shortlist candidate that we're told as a top the list as a potential candidate, Risa Goloboff, is the former

dean of the law school who had fantastic experience or term or tenure with fundraising and increasing the ranking of the law school from a national standpoint, U.S. News and World Report ranking standpoint. And also helped UVA post A-12. A-11 and A-12. Maybe the darkest days in University of Virginia history when legitimately Nazis were on grounds at Thomas Jefferson's University, carrying lit tiki torches, chanting Nazi slurs.

You have, and here's the craziest thing of it all. You ready for this? Risa. Golubov. Golubov is legitimately the progressive leftist ideology that the faculty who are emailing me and DMing me and texting me should it be embracing. Yeah. She, if anything, is even more left of center.

and progressive than Jim Ryan himself. So you have 3,000 plus people that are just... Never happy. It's like... Chronically disaffected. It's like our 7-year-old. We made, over the snowbreak, chocolate chip cookies with real Hershey kisses.

My wife got a bag of Hershey kisses. Like huge bag of them, right? Then she chopped the Hershey kisses into little chival. chunks. And then the four of us, I was, I was, you know, I was having, I was having a scotch. But the four of us were making Hershey Kiss chocolate chip cookies on snow days. Our seven-year-old was mixing, our three-year-old mixing. My wife was trying to keep everything in order as she always does. She is the lighthouse of our family, legitimately, the North Star of our family. When the cookies are done being made and they come out of the oven before bed, we say to each of them,

you can have two chocolate chip cookies. Our seven-year-old eats the chocolate chip cookies and our three-year-old eats the chocolate chip cookies. Then we say it's time for bed. Our seven-year-old says, what do you mean? I only got two chocolate-chip cookies. I didn't get any of the cookies and cream ice cream that was in the freezer.

He literally was upset because he didn't get any of the cookies and cream. You could not make him happy. With the faculty here, they had beef with the Yonk and Board of Visitors. They have beef with the Spamberger Board of Visitors. They have beef with a shortlist candidate that is more progressive and leftist than Jim Ryan himself. You can't make them happy. But we didn't get to pick her. That's the way it works.

I know. That's right? Yes. Is it not so obvious? Viewers and listeners, put your comments to the feed. I'll relay them live on air. Jason Noble is watching the. photo, the show right now.

He says this, you're wrong if you think cooler heads will prevail if Democrats get back in the White House. They're held hostage by the crazies in their party. The Bill Clinton-type moderate Democrats are a thing of the past. The far left has killed the moderate left. Jason Noble, I completely agree with this.

I'm going to go further and say this. The Democratic Party and the Republican Party are caricatures of their former selves. They are so left and right-leaning in their ideology, they're unrecognizable. And the large portion of the American population, the large portion of the Virginian population, the large portion of the Charlottesville Almoreal population,

and the UVA alumni population are way more centered than the far left-leaning liberals and the far-right leading conservatives that embody these two parties today. I said it on yesterday's show. I'll repeat it again today. I've never felt more polarized or alienated by this two-party system. Frankly, I don't even recognize a lot of what libertarians are doing right now. Oh, yeah. I look at some of the things that get discussed, and I'm like you. I'm like, wait a minute. Why is there like a, why is there just a general acceptance of Trump? Why is nobody pushing back against all this stuff. Yeah.

Like, it's insanity. I pushed back on Joe Biden for a number of reasons and large part who was controlling the puppet and weekend at Bernie's. I push back on Donald Trump for a lot of reasons, frankly, disingenuous, and what is the ulterior motives and a lot of the policy that he is pushing.

Yeah. Okay? I do it with everyone. I think that's why this show works. It doesn't matter if you're black, white, Puerto Rican or Haitian. It doesn't matter if you're Democratic or Republican. We will talk about anything that leads us to the next topic on the show. Is this the Jim Ryan headline?

Let's go to the Jim Ryan headline, put that on screen, then we'll go schools remote. I'm going to spend 90 seconds on the Jim Ryan headline. Are you ready for this? This is insane to me. The Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute presents. Jim Ryan, James E. Ryan, to be exact, the ninth president of the University of Virginia, with the Yale Legend and Leadership Award. This press release came out January 22nd. Jim Ryan will accept the Legend and Leadership Award on January 27th yesterday at the Yale Higher

Education Leadership Summit at the Yale School of Management and New Haven, Connecticut. The award was presented by Morrie McGinnis, Yale's 24th president, Peter, I'm going to butcher his name, Salove, Yale's 23rd president, Valerie Smith, Swarthmore College's 15th president, and Phil Hanlon, Dartmouth University's 18th president. Jim Ryan being honored by presidents of other colleges and universities and being called or recognized as a legend and leadership is the definition. The definition, specifically because of the timing. I was just thinking about the timing.

The timing of out of touch. The timing of this honor and award in the co-tail riding or in the shadows of an alleged white-collar racketeering scandal that is ravaging and raping the UVA health system is... Add to that, the... Disingenuous is... Firely redacted report on the murders of three students. The lack of any leadership during the, what would you call it, the pepper?

The pro-peper-spraying Palestine protest? Yeah. Ryan, there's clear communication and paper trail with this alleged white collar racketeering scandal at UVA Health and Jim Ryan. Then he comes out on record, his first, on-record response was to call the anonymous 128 doctors who are trying to highlight the dangerous conditions and the profits over patients at UVA health system. He goes on record Jim Ryan and says, these anonymous 128 are nothing but bitter malcontents, the guys and gals from a high school

that did not get a prom date for the senior prom, and now are angry because they're not going to get to first base at midnight after the senior prom. That's all they are. That's what he called these people. Then he apologized for it. And we're still in the wake of this scandal. And Yale University and then presidents from a bunch of other colleges and universities are having a black tie event, pinkies up with some champagne and some caviar to honor Jim Ryan with a legend and leadership award. This is what nauseates people. This is called an old boys and old girls club. This nauseates the average Jen

and the average Joe. Okay? And everyone that's watching and listening to the show is nodding their head in agreement with me right now. That happened last night, ladies and gentlemen. Next headline is about hybrid schools.

Put that lower third on screen if you could, please. We'll spend 90 seconds on this for the viewers and listeners judo. I don't want to be labeled Mike Signer. the former mayor of Charlottesville, who has been hung in effigy by Charlottesvillians

for saying on any snow day, kids and the city of Charlottesville need to be in front of their computers learning their ABCs and their one, two, threes, and cannot go sledding or build Frosty the Snowman. That's what Mike Signer said. Don't make me a Mike Signer. I don't want to be Mike Signer.

Don't be a Mike Signer. I don't want to be a Mike Signer. Don't make me a Mike Signer. But it has now been Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, kids out of school. Kids are out of school tomorrow. Kids are going to be out of school on Friday. And we're going to get snow this weekend

and potentially snow in the middle of next week. And the temperatures remain single digits. We may be looking at five, six, seven days of out of snow, out of school because of snow. And as John Blair highlighted, this is on the coattails or riding the heels of Christmas break. Yeah. We ask the question. I pass it to you. Should students of public and private school nature be remote learning because of this consecutive outage? I mean, that's a tough one. I, you know, we've discussed, we've discussed this kind of stuff before.

Most I think people that are listening know that I lived in Portland, Maine when I went to high school, junior high and high school. before that it lived in Los Angeles, hadn't even barely seen snow unless it was on a TV screen, and straight into, you know, main winters, which certainly aren't as bad as they can get in the Midwest. We were close enough to the coast that it tended to ease the effects. But, you know, part of me says, and I get, when it starts to stack days and days and days. So what's your answer? My answer is, I think they would have done it by now if it were easy to do.

You can't just, you either have to give every student their own computer, or you've got to set up, there's got to be like a website that every student has to log into, but then you have to have enough infrastructure on that website to deal with all the different classrooms and the information. The teachers need to be able to know how to, I don't know what it would be, uploading their classes, their syllabus, the work that they want done for the next week or so. I mean, there's a lot more, I think, involved than people understand when they think, oh, well, my kid should be learning right now. It's not just a simple solution to say, okay. This comes from, this is a direct message requesting anonymity. It's a local private school father that I know very well.

He says, my kid's school set home two hours of work for each day this week just in case that seemed appropriate to my wife and I. at San Dan's Bellefield Academy. That's smart. Our son, second grade, goes to a private school locally. He was sent with him in his Friday take-home folder, a second grader. This past Friday, a folder by his teacher that said, here's the work that you will be doing at home with your parents over next week because I doubt we will be in school.

And our second grader was literally, writing stories and reading pages and a book had homework and an assignment. And my wife, who's an amazing woman watching the program right now, is sitting next to him and making sure he's doing the work.

The processes and protocols that cost thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars to implement during the pandemic, during COVID. We're just throwing

and out the window. We graduated a generation of an impressionable minds during COVID in remote and hybrid learning capacities. And now those processes and protocols are stigmatized because of social collateral damage or lack thereof. They're stigmatized because of the, the averageness of their of their results, I'll tell you what's better than what's worse, I'll tell you what's worse than average is nothing. I'll tell you what's significantly more terrible than no social interaction

is spending your entire day for five, six, seven straight school days, doom scrolling YouTube. Okay? So don't make me a Mike Signer, but that's what's happening right now. Next headline, what do you got? Is this the GovSmart one? Please.

Put that on screen. I've been itching to talk about the Seville Weekly. I hope the Seville Weekly watches this show. I hope they're watching right now. Personnel from the Seville Weekly. I hope folks from GovSmart are watching right now. Okay? There's an article in the Seville Weekly today that has got a photo of the founder of the company,

Brent Lillard. and this story by the Seville Weekly and Nathan Alderman, the author, is the definition of the most, it's the definition of a hatchet job. Yeah. GovSmart, ladies and gentlemen, is a government contractor. They essentially are a broker of hardware and software and other. government equipment. They help

government entities buy stuff as a middle person. And get rid of stuff. And sell stuff. Rather than just dumping it. They help government entities buy and sell stuff. This GovSmart company

locally owned and operated has what? Nearly 100 employees, Judah? Yeah. This GovSmart entity, ladies and gentlemen, locally owned and operated, does more than 500 million in orders from local state and federal agencies each year and regularly contributes to a host of local and national charities, including, as the article says,

$13,000 in donation in 2021 to the Haven. Yeah. Okay? We are fortunate to have Brent Lillard and GovSmart work in Charlottesville, operate in Charlottesville, Almore County, and in central Virginia. Yeah, here's the simple breakdown of what they, do. They resell widely used commercial off-the-shelf

software used every day by private companies, hospitals, universities, and civilian agencies. This is not a group, this is not a company that is reading this article, would you think that they're helping ICE to apprehend people or

to go into cities and complete their mandate? Of the more than 500 million in order from local, state and federal agencies, 3,190,000, excuse me, I'm dying here, are tied in some capacity to ice. So we're talking less than 1% are tied to ice. And somehow the CIVO Weekly ran with an agenda, mission story, narrative, that this local company that employs nearly a hundred,

100 locals is the subtitle of the article is orders followed like somehow this company is taking orders from ICE and the president and there's a paragraph in this story that links GovSmart and it's nearly 100 local employees to IBM and Nazi Germany read that to them in the 30s

IBM via a German subsidiary leased early computers and customized punch cards to the Nazi government the data that technology gathered on Germany's Jews and other minorities enabled the Nazis later campaign of mass imprisonment and murder it's a deeply

No no here's the quote Yeah and here's the quote from Lillard The founder Brett Lillard It's a deeply flawed analogy when asked about the potential parallels. Between GovSmart, IBM, and Nazi Germany. We do not control how agencies architect their systems, what data they ingest, or how that data is used. The appropriate debate is about public policy and oversight, not equating suppliers of general purpose software with historical actors who knowingly supported crimes against humanity.

This CIVA Weekly reporter then pulls Facebook posts from Brent's personal Facebook page. leaves them into the story. This Seville Weekly reporter tries to literally get Brett Lillard trap, to trap Brett Lillard with commentary his thoughts on politics. Yeah. And link them to his firm, GovSmart, that has nearly 100 locals on its paycheck supply chain. Buying and selling a software.

They are brokers of stuff for government entities. This reporting. from Nathan Alderman and the Seville Weekly is the most egregious, inflammatory reporting that I have seen in the Charlottesville market and years. Yeah. I'm not even sure who approved this actually being put on the website and possibly in the, I would imagine, in their print copies. I would legitimately question any advertiser, business-wise, local. that considers spending with this publication moving forward after seeing what it's done to this local business.

Yeah. And it's founder. I'll say that again. I would question any local business advertising with this publication moving forward with what it is done to this nearly 100 employee locally owned business, GovSmart. It is gross, gross. Next headline.

Is it the basketball headline? Let's see. Yes. I'll close with the basketball headline, then we'll talk the most important three minutes of news today. Did you watch the Notre Dame UVA game last night, viewers and listeners, and went to double overtime? My seven-year-old and I watched it together. It was infuriating the first half with how flat UVA was playing. The Hoos didn't get off the bus. They looked like they were the same team from the second half against the first.

the North Carolina loss where the Tar Heels hung 50 plus points on the Wahoos in the second half at the John Paul Jones Arena. They played terribly in the first half. The second half, they looked like a completely different team. And then in overtime, the first one, and overtime, the second one, we saw how good this team was. Derritter at the free throw line and derritter in the post. Sam Lewis hitting clutch shots. Chance Mallory, creating for himself and his teammates. haul defensively from time to time.

They were fortunate to get this win, but they were also hardworking in the victory and showed Moxie and resolve. The loss to North Carolina and the following win against Notre Dame and challenging capacity are the type of back-to-back games where Virginia is going to remember in its memory bank

and used to propel itself forward come ACC tournament time and NCAA tournament time. This team is damn good. You think about its losses. What are the losses for Virginia this season? Is it a triple overtime loss to Virginia Tech where they didn't play that well? And they had some terrible, terrible refereeing in that game.

They had a lost North Carolina where they played maybe their worst half of basketball this season, the second half against the North Carolina at Tarils. And what was the first loss? it was so long ago. Memory serves. My memory is somewhat decent. What was that loss, viewer, and listener?

Was it to Butler at the Greenbrier? 73 to 80 to 73 to Butler and the Greenbrier. They've had one really bad loss. That's it. The Butler loss. The North Carolina lost, they played a terrible half. The Virginia Tech loss flat. This team is damn good.

Damn, damn good. All right. One shot me. Over here, tell me when we're on a watch on, I'm going to put it on a timer. All right, guys, these are the most important three minutes of news that you will hear and absorb today. I want to start with Abigail Spamberger, the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Her political path forward clearly goes straight through the University of Virginia and clearly includes a collision with Donald Trump. She's clean house on the UVA board of visitors.

She's remade the board and it is now waiting the General Assembly to confirm her 10 appointments. When that is done, we're being told a new president will be chosen and Scott Beardsley's days are numbered. Once Abigail Spamberger and a new president are in office, ladies and gentlemen, I would expect the University of Virginia to implode that contract with the Department of Justice and the Trump administration that interim president Paul Mahoney signed. She does that. UVA is going to have to be on the fundraising campaign through 2028, as federal funding may be frozen and as jobs may be lost. But the alumni is so deep-pocketed, I would imagine UVA's alumni will be able to make up the hundreds and millions of dollars of federal funding every single year. And speaking of faculty and the University of Virginia, many faculty have reached out to me since Tuesday show angered, infuriated with the news that I remember. reported about a potential candidate hired at the University of Virginia.

The shortlist candidate currently atop the totem pole is Risa Goluboff, the former dean of the law school, the first female dean in UVA law school history. The faculty are infuriated that they are not included, ladies and gentlemen, and this decision right now. We'll talk more about that on the I Love Seville show this week. But my message to faculty is this. you should not be included and who your boss is hired. That's just not the way the world works.

A lot of other things I want to cover on the most important three minutes today. We'll talk about that at a different time as I'm absolutely dying right now. I apologize, but we're going to end the show this way. And my 130 is at the door. I'm Jerry Miller for Judah Wickhauer. So long, everybody.