The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Spanberger V Trump: UVA Inked DEI Contract Under Fire; AlbCo Real Estate Tax Assessments Spike 6.17%

Episode Date: January 22, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. My name is Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on an afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. It's an absolute pleasure to connect with you guys on a Thursday, Thursday, January 22nd. Before Snowmageddon, Snowpocalypse, whatever you want to call it. My wife sent me this text message. She was at Wegman's grocery store with our three-year-old shopping and said the food store was absolute insanity. She calls it the food store. She's a food store. She's a a New Yorker. And the Yankees call the grocery store the food store. They don't call it a grocery cart. They call it a food cart, which sometimes they call it a wagon as well. I've even heard Yankees use the term, get the wagon so we can go shopping in the food store. I said, what did you say? Come again? My wife, the Yankee, just left the food store, our grocery store while pushing the wagon our grocery cart and said wagmans and fifth street station was absolute insanity as snowmageddon and snowpocalypse is uh is upon us i got an email this morning from our hvac provider the fantastic team at clyde smith first time i've ever seen this and and the team at

Clyde Smith sent me a 30-item punch list of what to do, sent it to all their customers, to protect and preserve heat pumps and HVAC units during snow apocalypse in this ice storm. Never seen that before. Prepare yourself, giddy up and get ready. Have some food on hand, gas in the car. I have a feeling we're going to be out of work for some time. I have a feeling the kiddos, especially the public schools. next week are going to be out of school the entire week.

I think you're looking at a Monday to Friday closing next week. The private schools, maybe they return to school on a Thursday. The public schools have to be a little bit more cautious with the bus routes and a lot of these kids traveling from deep in Amarral County. So prepare yourself. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast. Look at today's headlines. We're going to talk, and this is the reason I brought it up on yesterday's show.

I had a feeling it was going to go this way. The Almore County assessor presented data yesterday and pretty much brass tax yesterday to the Almaro County Board of Supervisors. The assessor is Peter Lynch. And yesterday in a meeting with Almore County's supervisors, he explained that across Almore County, real estate tax assessments have increased by 6.17%.

This is the third most, costly spike, third most expensive spike, third most elevated spike in Almaro County over the last 13 years. It's also, it also marks the 13th consecutive year that Almaro County real estate tax assessments have increased. That is a compound number. That is a compound number. To put that in perspective, ladies and gentlemen, for the viewers and listeners, 2014, it was 1.7.7.000. It was 1.7 28%. 2015, 2.64%, 2016, 1.84%,

2017, 2.9%. 2018, 2.2%. Then you saw during COVID, this is the impact of the pandemic. During COVID, 2022, the number spiked 8.4%. 2023, 13.46%. That's people getting priced out of their homes.

And 8.4%. tax assessment increase followed by a 13.46 tax assessment increase, 2022 and 2023, that's gentrification. Then you saw 2024, 4%, 2025, 5%. And this year, more than 6%. People are getting priced out of their homes. Almaro County will have more money at their disposal with the budget without increasing the real estate tax rate. And remember, last year the supervisors in shocking fashion, someone called deplorable fashion. I say flabbergasting and shocking fashion. Raise the real estate tax rate four cents. When you raise the tax rate at the same time

that assessments going up, you're basically adding the rocket fuel to the rocket. Adding the rocket fuel to the rocket. That's a great analogy from Judah Wickauer off camera. The assessments they have to do because it's tied to literally the value of the whole. So the supervisors have no control. They are collecting. more money, but then voting to increase the tax rate, that's pissing in the wind. We'll talk about that on the program today. We'll talk Abigail Spanberger and Donald Trump going toe to toe. Clearly there's a brouhaha of epic proportions about to happen. Somewhere Donald Trump is on the top rope. Abigail Spamberger is entering the ring. I'm curious of what you think

Abigail Spamberger's walk-in music is. I'm curious of what you viewer and listeners think Donald Trump's walk-in music is. Trump is ahead of Spamberger right now, already in the ring. Spamberger's leaving the tunnel at the Coliseum. And as she's walking down the runway to get to the ring, Trump is trying to blindside her by doing a diamond Dallas page off the top rope,

a Ray Mysterio, a Ray Mysterio, a luchador. maneuver off the rope. And he wants the DDP Spamberger as she's getting in the ring. And he's doing it by having his Department of Education taunt, brag, champion, megaphone, the agreement, the DOE signed with the University of Virginia in October of last year, eradicating DEI and offering the Department of Education quarterly accountability, quarterly auditing, quarterly insights. into the University of Virginia.

Spamberger, two days ago, days ago, a few days ago, literally before the General Assembly, Spamberger on the campaign trail, Spamberger, when she's being sworn in, is literally asking why the University of Virginia has signed this agreement with Donald Trump. And now Donald Trump and the DOA are on record saying, thank God we did this. It was great for America. I was smart to do this.

push basically calling Spamberger's bluff here. We're going to talk about that on the show, getting up and get ready, Commonwealth of Virginia, because this is a Diamond Dallas page, a Ray Mysterio off the top rope waiting to happen. A lot we're going to cover on the broadcast, including Michael Payne. Now, for a second, third, fourth, fifth time,

I don't know how many times the Payne Nader has done this, is going on record from the dais, this time last on Tuesday night saying, I don't want a UVA multi-family student housing in historically black neighborhoods. I don't want these real estate conglomerates to build apartment towers that lurk, that leer, that tower over historically marginalized neighborhoods. Shame on these real estate reits, these real estate investment trust and these conglomerates. Shame on the verve and, shame on the larkin, shame on the standard and shame on the flats. Shame on all these people that are building housing in these historically black neighborhoods.

We must do something about it. Damn it! And then we ask Michael Payne, dude, you're a two-term counselor. Dude, you were a part of the counseling crew, the counseling posse that got bullied by the activists to push the new zoning ordinance through. Dude, everyone saw it coming that the multifamily. luxury student housing was going to pursue the most affordable, cheapest dirt possible, the pockets of the community that were historically marginalized to build their $2,000 a month bedrooms for students and their mom and dad's black Amex.

We're going to talk about that on the program today. I'm fired up and ready to go. Dr. Daniel Halpert on tomorrow's show. Dr. Halpert is the owner of Coco's Adventure Factory. I spoke to him again today. I'm in regular contact with Dr. Halpert. He's going to join us on the show tomorrow at 1230. We're going to meet beforehand.

Dr. Halpert is going to be coming from a construction site. This is a medical doctor, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, an educated man who is a serial entrepreneur and a Renaissance individual. He's the vision, the effort, the sweat equity, the money, the risk behind Coco's Adventure Factory. Semino Square Shopping Center, old Big Lots location. He's going to be coming straight from the construction site tomorrow, maybe in construction clothing, to offer you, the viewer and listener, you, the Charlottesvillian,

Almara County, and Central Virginia, and you, the Virginian, and you, the fine and fair viewer and listener of our talk show, an insight and update, progress report on what's going on at Coco's expectation for a grand opening, is late March or April, so right around the corner. Judah Wickcower will give some props to Conan Owen of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia. He is a business owner.

He's a Darden graduate. He's a business development wizard. Conan Owen and Sir Speedy of Central Virginia will assist you in anything you need, anything at all when it comes to having your logo and helping it gain more visibility in a print or tangible real-life capacity. Signage, direct mail, lanyards, stickers, vinyl, lettering on a storefront, you name it, trifolds, pamphlets, folders, uniforms, merchandise. Duke can do it all.

He's a wizard. He's very good at it. He's literally doing it for our 24 tenants for the clients on our roster, and he is a part of this show, the water cooler of content and conversation. And I want to be really straightforward here, and I'm mentioning this extremely humbly. I mentioned this on the I Love Seville Network in commentary form and written form in a comment section. What I am doing here is not journalism. I am not practicing journalism or following APA standards or doing any kind of reporting or journalism.

I am offering my commentary, my analysis. I am choosing my own words. I do not report to an editor. I do not report to a publisher. I am not tied to a health system advertiser like these legacy media outlets. I am unfiltered, unafraid, on a bash, and unwilling to caltale to anyone out there.

We answer to ourselves. And I think that's why you, the viewer and listener, like the show. Judah, studio camera, please. If Trump, viewers and listeners, us pick the song. If Trump was walking out of the locker room at the John Paul Jones Arena, and there was a wrestling rink in the middle of the arena, and it was Donald Trump v. Abigail Spamberger in a heavyweight fight of epic proportions, one that was monikered in build for weeks, if not months to come, because frankly, that's what's happened because we all anticipated Spamberger winning this.

we knew on the campaign trail she was talking about Donald Trump being out of line out of reach she was using those threats to drum up engagement with their campaign and push her to victory lane if there was walkout music for Donald Trump what would that walkout music be interesting question um i mean i think you're on the right trail with the uh with the uh wrestling imagery it's definitely got to be brash it's definitely got to be self-important I see Michael Buffer

let's get ready to rumble and I see that song what's the what's the song by the British duo PJ and Duncan let's get ready to rumble blasting on the loudspeakers at the John Paul Jones Arena as Donald Trump walks out of the locker room

he is wearing a robe colored with the color of money the lettering on his robe is gold. He's got a silk robe. He's got a white collar. It's popped to the top. The wind is blowing in his direction and his comb over is going everywhere. He's got his sandblasted skin that is somewhat in the combo of tan or cheetoed colored. He has a difficult time climbing into the ring when no one's looking. One of his buddies puts him onto the top rope because he's ready to spring and surprise Abigail Spamberger as she trots into the ring. Now, Abigail Spamberger, the Virginia

governor, what's her walkout music? Michael Buffers, let's get ready to rumbo. Just finished. Tag team back again. Spamberger's jumping into the ring right now. She doesn't realize that Donald Trump is on the top rope. And in this scenario, the metaphor is the Department of Education. This week goes on record touting the success that they have had. had in one year under Donald Trump in his second term. And as part of that touting, part of that bragging, if you may, they immediately reference a deal, a contract, a negotiation, documentation signed by interim president Paul Mahoney and the University of Virginia. Trump's administration points to Charlottesville and says, look at what we've done in one year in our second term. We got left

left leading UVA. We got activists leading UVA. We got woke University of Virginia to sign our agreement and to eradicate DEI and somewhere the DOE and somewhere a green silk robing Donald Trump

on the top rope, tanned or Cheetoed in color, his comb over waving in the win as the promo fans pepper him with air doing this as Spamberger enters the ring. All right, I've got,

uh, remember the name by Fort Minor. How does that song go? I don't know. I don't know how I go. I don't know how I go. I certainly don't know. I don't know.

Uh, you ready? Let's go. Yeah, for those of you that want to know what we're all about, it's like this, y'all, come on. This is 10% luck, 20% skill. Oh, yeah. 15% concentrated power of will. 5% pleasure.

Sing it, Judah. 50%. pain and a hundred percent reason to remember the name sing it judah i'm not going to sing the whole thing whose walkout music is that uh that's that's trumps carter shaver vanessa park hill rob neil george and gilmer welcome to the show for spanberger let's go with uh alicia keys girl on fire oh the lyrics for spamburgers walk out music please she's on fire sing it juda wickower no sing it i'm not singing that uh let's see I'll read the lyrics after I get them. And then we'll get to the Department of Education,

ladies and gentlemen, legitimately bragging on what they've accomplished and how it ties to the University of Virginia and an announcement and a press release and some news reporting this week. Stephanie Rhodes is watching the program. She wants to talk the rising assessment. Stephanie, we're going to get to those in a matter of moments.

Almaro County is getting even more expensive to live. And I'll tell you what, when the middle class and when the upper middle class and when the lower upper class are complaining about the assessments pricing them out you know you got something going on here juda wickhauer alicia keys oh man uh let's see uh she's a she's just a girl and she's on fire hotter than a fantasy lonely like a highway i'm not i'm not going to try please do please do i'm not she's living in a world and it's on fire, filled with catastrophe. That sounds about right, but she knows

she can fly away. Oh, she got both feet on the ground, and she's burning it down. Oh, she got her head in the clouds, and she's not backing down. This girl is on fire. That's the only part of that. Spamberger's walkout music. You did it perfectly. Absolutely perfectly right in there.

From Judah Wickcaro. All right, set the stage, DOE, Donald Trump, Abigail Spamberger, and what clearly looks like a brouhaha of significant proportion. coming down the pipe. Oh, they're, I see them at the, at the way in. And they're essentially, you know.

Please don't tell me Donald Trump is in a speedo at the way in. Oh, I hope not. And they're sparring nose to nose. Yeah, they're trying to try to get each other back down. I mean. The DOE press release highlights. a striking that their success is attune or akin to striking historic deals, including one with the University of Virginia that's eradicated DEI. Do you think viewers and listeners, it's a coincidence

that Donald Trump and the Department of Education this week, after Abigail Spamberger was inaugurated and sworn in, after Abigail Spamberger spoke before the General Assembly, then Donald Trump responds by championing or touting or bragging about the UVA agreement that did DOE sign? Definitely not. And it's not a coincidence. We all know that. Now Trump is calling Spamberger's bluff. And now it's going to be up to the first female governor in Commonwealth of Virginia history who is a UVA alum who dominated Winsome Earl Sears in this past governor election, in part because she was going to return the University of Virginia.

to a state that no longer had influence by the federal government, who she said is defining what overreach looks like. Her words, now Spamberger is left to respond. One thing you can say about Trump, and this is not about being a Democrat, this is not about being a Republican, this is just following the news cycle. He understands how to capture the moment. he can capture the moment better than maybe anyone in American history. I'm going to ask you, the viewer and listener,

who's better at capturing the moment in American history than Donald Trump? Few. Maybe you say the Kardashian clan, the entire family. Who's better at capturing the moment in American history, viewers and listeners? Maybe you say, was it, Robert Murdoch? but that was behind the scenes with Fox News. That was in front of the camera. Capturing the moment in front of the camera

with your personal brand, your name, image, and likeness, your NIL. Who can do it better than Trump in American history? Who can do it better than Trump in global history? Sincerely, I'm asking that question. Is there anyone? Because he literally is stealing the fire,

his words, Judah's walkout song words, Alicia Keys, Abigail Spanberger. That girl's not on fire. Donald Trump is saying, I'm the fire. I'm dousing her with fire. And now we'll see how Spanberger responds. Remember the name. Judah Wickhow or anything you want to add.

About what I said earlier. I may have misrepresented a little Spanberger. She does care about what happens to Virginia. She's a UBA alum. But I don't think this is the, I don't think this is the kind of fight where the audience stays free and clear, unaffected. This is one of those fights that moves into the stands and people have to get out of the way or they get crushed. I don't see this going poorly for people in collateral damage range.

and who's in the collateral damage range? All of us. All of us. Geez, Louise, I think you're right. I mean UVA. I think you're right. Sherry Wilcom, what do you think? Randy Clark, what do you think?

Logan Wells, Claylow, what do you think? Damien Milliner, what do you think? Philip Dow, what do you think? Curtis Shaver, Rob Neal, Vanessa Parkhill, Stephanie Wells, Rhodes. What do you think? Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Put them in the feed.

Barbara Becker Tilly, Randy O'Neill, John Blair, Daily Progress, radio, TV, what do you think? Lauren and Ivy, what do you think? I am stunned by the, is the word gravitas? Gravitas? I am stunned by the Cajonis. I shouldn't be, because he's got a history of it. Brashness, ego.

Ego is narcissism. Yeah. 24 to 48 hours after Spamberger swore and inaugurated, right after her first speech to the General Assembly, he literally gives her the one-finger salute and says, look at what I did at your alma mater, leveraging federal funds to get them to sign this and to eradicate what you campaign for

and give me quarterly access into their book. what's up what are you going to do now that's what the DOE just did this week ladies and gentlemen what if she took Yonkin's surplus and said screw your DEI initiative or anti-initiative we've got the we've got the money to back okay she's going to take I'll push back on that she's going to take a surplus that's tied to to the Commonwealth of Virginia? I'm just throwing out there. I'm just thrown out there.

To, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, to, 20, 28 until Trump is out of office. If you have no ties to the University of Virginia, eight, nine million people in the Commonwealth of Virginia, wouldn't they be pissed off by that? I'm not saying she's, just pushing back, respectfully. I'm not saying she's going to do it. I'm just, uh, you know, she's got to be, uh, uh, that's that's akin to, let's used the UVA. endowment.

Okay. That's fair. Any way we want. For folks that, you know, and Judah knows this extremely well, the $14 billion endowment the University of Virginia has, people are donating money to the University of Virginia for specific purposes.

It's not a general slush fund that can be allocated any way the University of Virginia Foundation sees fit. It's probably also doubtful that it's all liquid. No. There's no way. the University of Virginia is sitting on $14 billion in a money market savings account,

accruing 4.2% interest? No, you're right. Very good call. It's absolutely invested. And from what I've been told off the record by very important people, I cannot say who, a lot of the investments the endowment is doing off the record. I've never really covered this story, but I've heard it from a number of people that are in the finance category and sector. a lot of the endowment money is allocated to friends, friends, air quotes, that work in finance, that run and operate hedge funds. And the returns, these friends are earning that own and operate hedge funds

are not returns that are meeting what should be legitimate standards. That it's allocations being given friends of the foundation. That's what I've heard through the grapevine. I've dug deep into it. Just what I've heard from the grapevine. And the expected returns are not what they should be. Just what I've heard through the grapevine. All right.

If you're just tuning into the program, Trump's Department of Education, issues of press release, and on the record statement, touting the agreement, the Trump administration, the Department of Justice, the DOE signed with the University of Virginia,

championing, bragging about it, mere hours after Abigail Spamberger says before the General Assembly, during her inauguration, and certainly prior while on the campaign trail that she was going to return the University of Virginia to its original forum when the federal government did not influence

and overreach here in Charlottesville. We clearly have a Ray Mysterio, luchadores, John Cena, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Diamond Dallas Page, The Undertaker, macho man, Randy Savage, step into a slim gym,

Hulk Hogan, Sergeant Slaughter, situation going on. Any wrestlers you want to add to that? Haxall Jim Duggan. Oh, man. Somewhere my son is extremely proud of me right now. Jake the snake Roberts. Jake the snake Roberts. Give me that python. Step into a slim gym.

Somewhere Curtis Shaver is laughing. Next headline, what do you got? Put the headlines on screen. assessments. Gosh, this is crazy. This is crazy. Are you ready for this? And it's to be expected. This is why I brought it up on yesterday's show. On average, Al Morrow County across the board, 6.17%. Almaro County's tax assessments have jumped. 6.17%. That's the third highest spike, Judah, in the last 13 years. And Judah, here's the true kick in the nuts. Are you ready for the true kick in the nuts? Yeah.

Tax assessments in Almoreau County over the last 13 years, Judah Wickhauer, have increased. 13 consecutive years, we had tax assessment increases. These are compound assessments. Yeah. An assessment increase? Yeah. And then the next year, an assessment increase on last year's assessment increase.

If you had 100%, and you get a 10% increase, the next year, whatever the increase is, is going off of the 110%. We're compound assessments. Mm-hmm. And I want to give you... And then you add in tax rate increases. You add the four cents that went up last year. And you do that all while floating debt is more expensive.

Groceries are more expensive. Costs of goods are more expensive. Gas is spiked. Everything's more expensive. Okay? I'll give you the last four years, Elmoral County tax assessment increases. In 2022, it was 8.4%.

I was during the pandemic. Yeah. 2023, 13.46%, 2024, 4.07%, 2025, 5.09%. And 2026, 6.17%. If I was just doing basic collecting, aggregating math, and this is not how it works, because it's compound,

over the last five years, 8.4, 13.46, plus 4.07, plus 5.09. plus 6.17. 37%. Do it like this. Do 100. We're not going to do it on the talk show, but you could do it. You want to do it that way? You do it that way. Yeah, you do it that way. Absolutely do it that way. Give me the numbers again.

You got 8.4%, 13.46%, 4.07%, 5.09% and 6.17% this year. The Samuel Miller District, which is my district, this is Ivy. went up the most. Samuel Miller district went up 9.8%, a 10% spike in the Samuel Miller district. You had the least, the lowest increase was the Rivana district with a 3.6% increase. Jack Jewett, 8.3%, Scottsville District 5.8%. Whitehall 5.3%, Ryo, 4.5%. Al Morrow County, whether the supervisors do any tax rate increases of any kind. I'm talking real estate, I'm talking meals, I'm talking lodging, personal property, of any kind.

It's going to have a boatload more money just for an uptick, just for the uptick of 6.17%. Now, I'm going to ask you the viewer and listener, what does that do to Almaro County? to help answer that question, I'm going to go to a viewer and listener that I have tremendous trust in, that I've worked alongside for 15, 16 years, who's an incredibly intelligent person. Her name is Stephanie Wells Rhodes.

Do we have a photo for Stephanie that we can put on screen? Yeah. When she offers comments on the show, I listen. She says, it's absolutely insane what's happening. Are they trying to push us out? I'm already paying them $11,000 per year. Stephanie has earned a fantastic living through hard work, her family won of means. When families of means point out the expensive nature of what's going on around here,

imagine the families that are on the poverty line, imagine the families that are one-income households, imagine the households that are retirees, imagine the households that are on Social Security, imagine the households that do not have income coming in that are on disability. So here's what I've got. Compounding all that, and I'm not 100% sure I did this right, but let me know if this sounds right. If you started at $100, if you started at $100 and added each of those increases,

you would end up today paying $142. I will trust your math. is correct. I'm not able to do that math on the fly while monitoring 15 Facebook pages. I understand. 15 Twitter accounts, YouTube, iTunes, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, Apple Fountain, and talking. And let me know if

I've made a mistake. That's right up Deep Throat, who has the ability to solve world peace, negotiate deals in Venezuela while telling us 500 digits of what Pai is at the same time. Dude's a genius. Did he do the numbers right? Deep Throat.

I have no doubt that you did. I'm not going to be able to do but while talking here, Jason Noble is saying his photo on screen that Donald Trump is asserting dominance from day one on Abigail Spanberger as if it was the alpha German Shepherd setting the stage or the tone for the puppy German Shepherd,

welcome to the family saying this is my house. I added some of that. Sounds about right. I added some of that. He said got assert dominance, but I have a feeling Jason Noble would have gone with that as well. Johnny Ornales, welcome to the program, the owner of Mexicale restaurant, Capacichico.

Philip Dow is watching the program, the mayor of Scottsville. Spamberger ran on reducing living costs, but instead is raising taxes, especially at 3.4% on all Amazon purchases. Jason Noble says, Judah, use AI to do the math. I think it's important for everyone to realize that we're hosting a talk show. It was like yesterday. My wife texted me about our son having a rash at school and having to have to go pick him up. Everything's fine. He's a okay.

He had a rash. He had to be picked up from school. I was getting the text messages during the show. I'm on a show. There's thousands of people watching us. I responded to your text messages, sweetheart. I will call you soon thereafter. I appreciate the update.

I love our son dearly. I might only be able to communicate in heart emojis right now. Lonnie Murray is watching the program. Lonnie Murray is offering commentary here as a civilian. He says it used to be that when there was a budget surplus that it was dedicated to water conservation. That's how many popular conservation programs were funded since Virginia often had a budget surplus.

Yonkin apparently ended that tradition, zeroing out the budget of popular conservation programs like the VCAP. I appreciate that comment from Lonnie Murray. I'm going to respond to his comment while hosting a talk show and monitoring 42 social media and broadcasting channels at once. I appreciate your comment friend. Thank you. John Blair, his photo on screen.

John Blair is a gentleman, John, are you Samuel Miller District? You are Samuel Miller District. I used to live in Redfields. Redfield's with Samuel Miller District, right? Yeah, I think it is. He says, I know I'm not the only viewer who lives in Redfields. So maybe someone else in the neighborhood or Oak Hill Farm has seen something different, but I honestly cannot recall the last time I saw a house on the market for more than seven days in Redfields,

and either Oak Hill Farm or my neighborhood, Redfields. The demand is still white-hot in both. Therefore, these assessments don't surprise me for the Samuel Miller District. John Blair, I mentioned this live on air. Bob Yarborough, who routinely watches the program, lives in Redfields, well. Curious of your thoughts, Bob Yarbrough. Regardless, here's the nitty gritty, okay?

Here's the nitty gritty, and then we'll get to your comments. People will be gentrified out. The pandemic continues to impact us here in Charlottesville and Almar County. This is even more collateral damage of COVID. When some politicians wheeled and dealed and saw an opportunity to take in Asian virus and use mom-scare tactics to spook Americans into being recluses, quarantine, demand with the power of the federal government that they stay in their home, then prioritize big box brands at the expense of locally owned and operated,

shovel free money to the monkeys that did this, hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil, and just take the money that came in the mailbox that was directly deposited to you. That's what happened. Inflation got out of control. The small business owner couldn't survive. The small business owners that did racked up massive amounts of debt that they're still paying for now. There's a reason our business brokerage is booming right now because those businesses that took on the debt during COVID cannot manage the debt service. So they're just trying to cut their losses and get something out of it.

The stock market went out of control. and then there's this, what's the, biophicated society? Bifurcated? The rich got richer, while the middle class and lower, got tighter and smaller.

The middle class got narrower. The lower class got bigger. Let's scare them. Let's use mom fear to scare them. Let's let them think that it's on their feet and on the groceries and on the cereal boxes and doorknobs and that you've got to wear a cloth on your fast,

cloth on your face while driving around in the car by yourself by yourself and let's incentivize them to stay home by giving them free money and that'll get them to vote differently and that'll get the interest rates down but they didn't have a DeLorean and they didn't have a flux capacitor and they couldn't go to Hillsdale 2026 because in Hillsdale 2026 they would have seen

assessment increases in gentrification and Hillsdale 2026 they would have seen small businesses closing and in Hillsdale 2026 the small businesses that did survive they would have seen massive amounts of debt In Hillsdale, 2026, they would have seen the downtown mall, a shadow of its former self. In Hillsdale, 2026, they would have seen, while they got what they wanted,

in the immediacy, the election right during COVID, the one after was propelled to the alternative party because of how it was bungled during the pandemic. That's what they would have seen in Hillsdale, 26. What's Hillsdale? Charlottesville, Judah. Charlottesville. Charlottesville. Have you seen back to the future? Yeah. That's where Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown. They go, they live in Hillsdale. There's future Hillsdale with the Doloreans flying around and Marty and Biff fighting at the 80s cafe and Marty stealing the sports almanac. And that sports almanac was leveraged by Biff.

And hoverboards. I'm still waiting for the hoverboards. An alternative Hillsdale that Biff is still waiting for those hoverboards. Then there was back to the future three. before Hillsdale when it was a Western. And Marty was walking around in his Nikes. And the Cowboys were like, what are those Mocketsons on your feet, son? And then he started dancing in the saloon. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Put them in the fee.

We'll relay them live on air. Deep throat, I'm going to get to your comment in a matter of moments. Man, I'm out of breath. Jessica Winkfield, Lily, is watching the program. She says, folks that are still paying on their homes and taxes are rolled into their money.

mortgage payments may not even be able to afford their mortgages because it increases every year. 100% right, Jessica. 100% right. My wife and I saw that. We own a home on four acres in ivy. We bought it in 2024. By 2025, we were pumping a hell of a lot more into our escrow. I look at it to, why is our mortgage payment more?

Why is our escrow more? The insurance is more costly, and the tax base went up on the, the house. Yeah. You're talking a $300 a month increase on the insurance and on the escrow, on the tax base through the escrow. Yeah. I was running those numbers that you gave me through, uh, uh, as compounding, you

end up with, you end up paying 40, almost 43% more. Was your, so was your, you're accurate, were you accurate with your calculations? Yeah. And then you check the, through AI? Yeah. Look at that. Good job. The Wizard over there. Love you, Judah, Wickear. Logan Wells-Cla-Lo.

Let us know what your thoughts are. She works in real estate. Jessica Winfield-Lilly. Every year I have to pay extra into my escrow. 100%. And all that does, this is in all seriousness, and it's really... Oh, it's Hill Valley. Conan Owen, thank you. Hill Valley, not Hillsdale.

Hill Valley, and back to the future. Hill Valley. Elizabeth Shoe was my favorite. supporting actress of all the Back to the Futures. They eventually did away with Elizabeth Shoe. Elizabeth Shue and Back to the Future won. Goodness gracious, she was a cutie pie. That was one of the first crushes I ever had with Tiffany

Amhertheson from Kelly Kapowski. Karate Kid. Elizabeth Shoe. She's fantastic. Topanga, Boy Meets World. And then you got Adventures and Babysitting? Adventures in babysitting. Oh, my goodness gracious. How about, what was your name for Mary with Children?

Christina Applegate. Christina Applegate, goodness gracious. I'm just like. We're really doing this? Oh, man, I'm just, I'm still a young boy at heart. Got my Kelly Kapowski poster, my Christina Applegate poster, my Topanga poster,

my Elizabeth Shoe poster. Pass being the Nintendo, where I can play Super Mario Brothers. Give me a game boy so I can play some Tetris. I love a game boy to play some Tetris. Give me that Tops baseball set from 1988. I might pull a Ryan Sandberg out of there. I might get a Sid Bream or an Albert Bell.

Those are some good times, simpler time. Didn't it seem simpler? It was. Viewers and listeners that are watching the program wasn't like, and this is me, aging myself, wasn't a generation ago just much more simple times? I mean, it's crazy. We're making our living

by monetizing social media, digital media, mobile media, right? It doesn't mean it's a good thing. It doesn't mean it's a good thing. There was a time where little Jennifer and little Jerry, where little Jerry would prank

call little Jennifer on the phone just to hear her breathing on the other line and finally little Jennifer his dad gets the phone in Star 69's, and Big Jerry answers the phone and says, why you prank calling my 12-year-old daughter? Big Jerry says, what the hell are you talking about? That he puts two and two together and screams, Jerry, get your ass over here. Did you prank call? What are you talking about? They have Star 69, son. Oops. Get on the phone and apologize to little Jennifer's father.

Sorry, sir. Sounds like you get your hands full, son. I accept your apology. Hings up the phone. World War III breaks out. Next headline, what do you got you to account? Jason Noble, I had some Tops and Fleer cards tucked away too, my friend. My oldest son is now getting into Tops and Fleer cards. It's wonderful. Got some, a lot of bonding. Barbara Becker-Tilly watching the program. I am not stunned at all by this. 100% expected. Spamberger was a wolf in sheep's clothing and she was primed and trained to do this. Far too many fell for this. The fallout is going to be huge and Yonkin did not leave that much of a surplus. Your pockets are going to bleed. Barbara Becker-Tilly. Cherie Denby Taylor is watching the program. I've never seen you interact with the program. Welcome to the family, Cherie. And thank you kindly for watching the show.

Deep throat. Oh, he's got an Elizabeth shoe comment. As for Elizabeth Shoe, she can. came back to finish her Harvard degree when I was there. Saw her around Harvard a few times. I bet you she captivated Deep Throat. Did she captivate your attention while you were at Harvard? I believe Deep Throat enrolled at Harvard two years early. Does memory serve that you were 16 when you enrolled at Harvard Deep Throat? What is 16-year-old Deep Throat doing when he sees Elizabeth Shoe walking around the square, around Cambridge? Curious of what you did right there. Next, headline what do you got you to work hour i'm very thirsty city council is getting ready to release a resolution on ice presence and for those of you who did not know um ice has been spotted around charlottesville now

recently yeah carol thorpe if you're watching the show she'll jump in on this carol thorpe's under the impression that come february first a deadline imposed by the trump administration on Charlottesville still being recognized as a sanctuary sanctuary city despite calling it something different yeah rebranding the sanctuary city that Donald Trump is going to reign holy hell on charlisville he's got his eye on charlestville why is it everybody does does does trump have his eye on charlisville because of august 11th and 12th a 11 and a 12th and how joe Biden exploded. Biden had his, Biden had his eye on Charlottesville as well. Joe Biden several times.

I think both do extremely dirty and scummy tactics, Biden and Trump. Yeah. Joe Biden exploited A11 and A12 throughout his campaign for presidency and never even stepped foot in Charlottesville. Yeah. I was so nauseated by sleepy Joe Biden or the puppeteers that were making the arms and lips swing of Weaken at Bernie's. constantly referencing A-11 and A-12. I'm like, Bernie, put your shades on, go to the islands,

pretend to drink your Mai-Tai, and take my town out of your mouth, dude. Take my town out of your mouth. I don't think Trump's been to Charlottesville. I doubt it. Probably why would he welcome? Stop him from making an issue. We get at Bernie's constantly bringing up Charlottesville.

Yeah. You tell the story on ice. Then I'm going to get to Lonnie Murray, William McChesney, Philip Dow comments. Literally, we have six different states watching the program on the I Love Sebo Show. Set the stage, Judah Wickear. Mayor Juan Diego Wade read a statement on ICE during the city council meeting. He says they will share a resolution publicly as soon as it is ready. I believe they have three different versions they've been presented with in our deciding between.

And former mayor Lloyd Snook had this to say, we're going to have to do some balancing. We want to be responsive to what folks are saying, and frankly, we want to be able to go on record as having very strong feelings about some of the stuff that's going on in places like Minnesota, but also recognize that we're a relatively small city in a Dillon Rule state where we have very little authority to regulate some of the things folks want us to regulate. Essentially saying what I think we all know, which is that this is just a statement. There's nothing more to it. I doubt it's going to be spread around the United States in any kind of,

oh wow capacity. you know everybody wants their their local their local counselors their local mayors their local whatever it is that the you know the board of supervisors to make statements about what the president about what about whatever political blow up is going on and I'm not just talking about this one I'm talking about in general you always hear about oh somebody is angry that so-and-so didn't make a statement about something completely unrelated to their city or state. This is kind of the same thing. I appreciate that they want to express our collective disgust with what's going on in Minnesota.

Collective or selective? What was the, what word did you? I said collective. I think there are enough people that are discussed it, and I think most of us would agree that the shooting of the woman was egregious. Oh, that whole scene was gross. That whole scene is going to go down as a dark day in American history.

That whole Minnesota murder, and I'm not making this about she should have stopped when law enforcement told her to stop. I think she was in the wrong place. She shouldn't have been there. Law enforcement shouldn't have killed her. Yeah. It was... I understand the law enforcement officer, the LEO, had a past incident where he was dragged by a car.

I get it He's got PTSD for being dragged by a car She didn't stop I get it Activists They were scared That type of extreme

of policing Is going to follow that LEO officer for the rest of his life That's going to follow all of us It's going to follow America Our children My 7 year old When he gets to AP US history

There will be a portion Of There's not even going to be textbooks then there's going to be a digital slide on his contact lens. Digital slide on his, he's just going to touch his temple like this and he's going to be learning about Minnesota

this murder in Minnesota. Gross, horrible, terrible, awful. And now they're in Charlottesville and, you know, I just, I don't know, I'm not going to say anything. Let's get back to Charlottesville and ICE. Okay, I'm going to leave this. and I'll catch some grief for this.

It is a terrifying proposition that $18,000 a year counselors and a $20,000 a year mayor are negotiating, conversating, strategizing, planning, anything about macro-politics.

Yeah. Border enforcement and the reach or overreach tactics used. of federal law enforcement officers. Yeah. Please, dear God, just eat your bacon, egg, and cheese,

bagel from Boto's, and drink your Bagby's coffee. Get me one. And stop talking about law enforcement, border patrol, and federal government nuance. That's not why you're there. I'll catch you for that.

My take. It's not journalism. It's commentary. I don't necessarily disagree. This comes via direct message, not from deep throat. This is from somebody else who's asking for anonymity. My tax payment in Almaro County will have increased 42% over the past 24 months if my assessment only went up one 6% average this cycle. To add to Stephanie Wells-Rhodes' comment, when people like me are looking in my pocket trying to figure out how to pay my taxes, welcome to Minnie Vale and Manhattan.

mini veil oh you're saying this is and I'll I like this is my favorite comparison is it's vulgar it's vulgar and I kind of like it because I'm still somewhat immature at heart

Charlottesville is the monajetois baby of vale Colorado Austin Texas and Greenwich Connecticut with Southampton

New York lurking and creeping in the corner watching them that's what Charlottesville, Virginia is, the menagerie-tois offspring of Vale, Austin, and Greenwich, rendezvousing with Southampton, New York lurking and leering in the corner. Is Southampton, New York sitting in the cut chair? I wasn't going to use that word. That word is so gross. Yeah, that word gives me the creeps, dude. It's horrible. creepy word. It's like right there with the underwear that starts with P that women wear. That's another creepy word. The M-word.

that is a synonym for wet. That's another creepy word. That please, ah, I just get the creeps on that. That's why I was lurking and leering in the corner. But the anonymous commoner is right. And this anonymous commoner, I'm not going to say who it is, but is a man of tremendous means. And is C-suite by title.

Seriously. Yes, Jason, nobody. that word. That's the word. Thank you. Tom Powell, the founder of Toy Lift, says, I agree with you, Jerry. Amen, brother. William McChesney says, we're in the capital

of the resistance. Charlottesville. Deep Throat says, when I attended Charlottesville, when I attended Harvard, I was so young that Elizabeth Shue was not an object of lust because it was more in need of a babysitter at the time.

That's how youthful was. Adventures and babysitting. This one comes in, I don't know how many people continue to make such a big deal about ICE presence in Charlottesville when the feds just indicted two illegals who abducted and sexually abused a teenage girl.

How can they stand up and say they don't want these people out of the community? That's from an anonymous viewer and listener. Yeah. Diane Garrison says, I know how Stephanie feels. The struggle is real.

Janice Boyce Trevillian says, but raiding a church on a Sunday morning is downright awful. Yeah, no doubt. What a mess. Let's give some love to our friends at Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company. Online at Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company.com. It's the sister business to Charlestville Sanitary Supply. At Charlestville Swimming Pool Company,

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It's important to note here that assessments are done independently and aren't political. There's also a process to help you appeal your assessment if you feel it's unfair. My suspicion is that people from outside the county buying up homes that is driving up assessments, It only takes one retiree from NOVA to out bid everyone on a home purchase to blow up prices in a neighborhood. 100%.

That's why when we purchased our home in Ivy and we exited from Glenmore and Keswick, when we purchased in Glenmore and Keswick, it was March of 2020. Maybe the best time in American history to purchase a home. Maybe the only other time that's best to purchase a home in American history is coming out of the Great Depression. We purchased in March of 2020 when we had to wear a hazmat suit to tour a house and we bought a house that had been on the market for two years that was openly in its MLS listing

promoting that you could buy this if you want through seller finance just take it from us and then I lowballed the offer and we got it and then we live there for less than four years, three years and change and the home basically two-xed. It two-xed. So when we went and moved in Ivy, we had dry powder and then some. And when we bought our house in Ivy with dry powder and then some and paid a good price in a coveted neighborhood at a time where people wanted to live here because of the schools.

There's no secret the Samuel Miller District had the biggest uptake of any district in Amarro County. It's got the best school. Elementary, Mary Weather Lewis. Oh, oh, that's a bad word. Ivy Elementary, Henley, Western Almarrow. That's why it's the schools driving it, along with the geographical location, the proximity to UVA and to the epicenter of employment. When we purchased in our neighborhood, there were some neighbors that were giving us the one-finger salute for buying at that price. And I'm like, what did you want me to do?

There was multiple people trying to buy the house, and I wanted it. Tom Powell, founder of Toy Lift, on another note, I just spoke with my brother in Wisconsin, and he said the windchill was 50 degrees below zero. He was asking if I was ready for what's to come. Are you ready, Jerry? One of the best aspects of this home we purchase is a whole house generator. It is a beast that literally runs a 5, 4,5,000 square foot crib. Five beds, four and a half. Thank goodness for that.

My wife was at Wegman's buying up all the perishables. She says it's insanity over there. Deep Throat says, I don't think Charlottesville City will see a bigger, increase in assessments. My repeat sales indices, I have a couple of different techniques, are between down 3% and up 2%. I've talked to many, deep throat says we have a generator too, but we're flying to California tomorrow. Deep throat, to be you. No, not to be deep throat, but to be the prince of deep throat, the two princes of deep throat is who you want to be.

Deep throat, you're living the good life. The princes are living a really good life, deep throat, a really good life for the princess. That's because of your hard work, though, so I salute you. I salute you. I want everyone to be successful. I want everyone to be successful. Comparison is the thief of joy. I want everyone to be successful. Charlottesville City, the realtors I talk to that specialize in the city say,

at best we can expect flat that values are face. Of course, values are facing headwinds. We got, what's Tony Moe and Larry? What are the, curly Moe and Larry? running the city over there. You're talking about the pep shop boys? What about the stooges? Pet boys.

Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. I don't know if you remember pet boys. I remember pep boys, pep boys, pep boys. Why do we still not have a 50-year downtown mall celebration? Why is there no plans allowance for the 50-year anniversary of the downtown mall? Well, friends of downtown is at least prepping for it. They've been sending out... A survey? I love the friends of downtown mall.

We saw Greer this morning. Love Greer. Love friends of downtown Charlottesville. Can we just actionize the anniversary? There's 12 months in the year. After this snowstorm, the snowpocalypse that shuts everything down for a week, we have 11. Philip Dowell says, luckily I have a whole house generac generator as well. You don't lose power where you are at.

Not normally, but this doesn't sound like a normal situation. I'm a little bit worried. Yeah. It's definitely not a normal situation. This is one of those generational snowstorms. Fortunately, I am in a townhouse, so it's, my house leaks less cold air. You preserve heat.

Yeah. To some degree. That doesn't mean it wouldn't get pretty cold. Next headline. Michael Payne, this is a sensitive headline. Michael Payne is now using his platform on the dais as a city councilor of Charlottesville to say, you read the article from Sean Tubbs, right?

Not the whole thing, but they're essentially saying, okay, I know we put out this new zoning ordinance, but we don't want you to build stuff. Yeah, dude, you look like a numb nuts. Does he not? Okay, you are the unemotional. I'll say it a little more,

with a little more, You are the unemotional, even-keeled metronome of consistency. What does that look like to you? Say it again what Michael Payne is saying. He's saying... And he was a part of all of this when they put the new zoning ornets out, Judah. Essentially saying that if you start building on Cherry Avenue and in Fifeville, you're going to change the character of the neighborhoods.

You're going to displace people and cause economic harm to these... poor neighborhoods. Payne said that the development code has made student housing the highest and best use of property in Fifeville and said that wealthier people living there will lead to displacement. But come on, you wrote the development code, and now you're surprised that it's making homes in low-income areas the highest and best use. Literally. I mean, why would the cheapest properties not be the first ones to be poached? I spent effing years talking about this on the I Love Seville Network.

I said, this is what we do. We work in real estate. You're going to make the cheapest dirt, the most important priority, and all you're going to do is target development and marginalized in historically black neighborhoods, black and brown. Because why would someone spend? No one is going to buy a $2 million, $1-acre mansion and the Blue Ridge neighborhood or the rugby neighborhood or in

north downtown and tear it down and build multifamily. They're going to aggregate or assemble a bunch of $250,000 houses that are next to each other and build an apartment tower where they can charge $2,000 a room. John Blair told him that. Deep Throat told him that. I screamed it. We told him that. and now Michael Payne's like oh

we can't do that here despite him setting the rules he he made new rules for the game he made new rules for the game and the new rules for the game that he made does not fit his talent or his skill set

or how he wants the game to be played and now he wants to change the rules on the game again Why would you ever do business in this town from a development standpoint? When they can just change it like this. Unless you've found a way to maximize your profit, which is what they're doing with student high rises. It's honestly, it's insulting. It's insulting.

It's insulting, really. Because you're either hoping we have short memory, or you're hoping we're quick to forgive, or you're hoping we continue to think that you're the smartest person in the room and that we should just coutail to what you say. But either way, what you're doing is treating us with disrespect and marginalizing us.

I understand the idea of making incremental changes to fix issue. You try something, I mean, come on, we do it here. We try something, it doesn't always work out. We make changes or we let it go. But the butt to this is that they went balls to the wall. They didn't just make a small change and see how that affected things. They made a big change. Can I respectfully push back on that?

Yeah. Okay. The analogy you made is a good analogy about throwing something and the spaghetti against the wall here and seeing if the spaghetti is al dente and it sticks. or if it's runny and it just crawls and falls to the floor. The difference is we are basically a venture studio or a small business. Right. I know. We are supposed to try things to see if they work as a venture studio, as a small business.

We playbook for development and housing in Charleston, Virginia. It's not. a piece of paper written in pencil. It's the Bible of building. It's the Bible. It's the, what are some other akin to the Bible? The Torah? The Koran.

Maybe. I'm not sure what you're getting at. It's the Bible of building. You don't write the Bible of building in pencil and then erase it with your number two eraser? And that's what Juan Wayne and Michael Payne are saying. We knew we would, this is a work in progress is a living, breathing document

is that these builders are taking notes, debt service out to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars at interest rates that float that aren't fixed over 30, but are float and tied to prime and to change the playbook,

the Bible of building when developers have floating debt and expectations and deadlines and guidelines is the definition of malpractice. It's the definition of governmental malpractice. And all you're doing is spooking away the people that will do the projects you're trying to incentivize. It is so obvious. Almost like, a couple things I need to get off my radar. And they're watching the show right now. I see them watching the show.

The University of Virginia men's basketball game against North Carolina, this was just announced. Tipoff has been moved up until to 12 p.m. from 2 p.m. And the Tony Bennett court dedication has been postponed until the 21st of February against the Miami Hurricanes. So UVA men's basketball in North Carolina game is tip off Saturdays now noon instead of two because of the snow. Snowpocalypse. Tomorrow, Dr. Daniel Halpert, Seminole Square Shopping Center, Big Lots, converting big lots to Coco's Adventure Factory. This guy has so much skin in the game and so much cohomes.

and so much on the line, Daniel Halper. And he's going to explain the risk he is taking. He's a Harvard-educated, John Hopkins educated doctor, who is a Renaissance serial entrepreneur, who also owns a construction crew that is now getting into the indoor adventure entertainment business. He's on the show tomorrow. We'll show some photos.

We're going to work alongside his business to help him gain share. Don't miss the interview, 1230 on the I Love Seville Show, with what the metrics back this up, ladies and gentlemen, across all platforms in the region, there's no brand that is reaching more people than I Love Seville. It's UVA number one, it's I Love Seville number two. Unfiltered, unafraid, unaffiliated, unabashed.

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