The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Trump's Iran War Is Fracturing Republican Party; Redistricting/Gerrymandering Vote Is 8 Days Away

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

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Right on the set. Good Monday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller, and thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville Show. An absolute pleasure to connect with you guys through the water cooler of content and conversation. In Charlottesville, Elmore County, Central Virginia, the Commonwealth of the country and the world. It's the I Love Seville Show. We encourage you, the viewer and listener, to shape the discussion. Send us your story ideas.

Send us your headline ideas. Send us talking points that you think would keep. cater to our audience. We want to be the water cooler of the conversation and do not want to originate or source the content. But we do it anyway. A lot we're going to cover on the show. I'm going to ask you this question and get ready, viewers and listeners of all political ideologies. The longer Donald Trump's war in Iran goes on. What is the impact the war has on the Republican Party nationally, statewide, and locally.

I want to ask you that question. There is this baseline of conservatives that make up the GOP. And that baseline trends older. And the older trending baseline has a long memory of Iran's threat. its threatening position, its actions, its history as it applies to our country. And that long memory for the older baseline that makes up the GOP is very much committed to the war in Iran. However, there's another portion of the baseline that makes up conservatives, GOP, and Republicans. That is, younger trending. Let's call them old millennials.

and younger. What are you, Gen X? Yeah, I think so. You're Gen X? Young Gen Xers, older millennials, and younger that are conservative, that are Republican. They don't have that institutional memory of Iran's danger. They are more voting by pocketbook household budget and the impact this war is having on their finances. as the war drags on, the Republican Party, from my standpoint, is starting to splinter and fracture. I want to unpack that on the show today.

I want to discuss the gerrymandering vote, sorry, the redistricting vote, whatever your politics are. Eight days removed. Stephanie Wells Rhodes suggested we discussed that today. We value her opinion. It's in the number two slot of the headline. headlines. It's a perfect example of you, the viewer, and listener suggesting storylines. We consider the storylines who they come from. Your ideas. Stephanie's vetted and trusted. It's now in the two-slot of today's show. Eight days removed. I will tell you what,

the Democrats are going balls to the wall with money backing this referendum. Barack Obama is playing everywhere. My son, Doom Scrolls YouTube. do doomscrolls youtube our eight-year-old son our youngest son who's three years old loves curious george we get a boatload of curious george content for our three-year-old on youtube as well every commercial it seems in these youtube breaks these forced ads is barrake obama pimping the upside of this referendum i'm curious of where the gopi money is backing this referendum, this redistricting, this gerrymandering. Why is there such, it appears at least from an I-test, more significant effort resources,

money, effort from the Democratic side as it applies to redistricting as opposed to the GOP with gerrymandering. I want to talk about that today. And I had this conversation on Saturday. Is my wife and I, are my wife and I crazy? we have a wild three-year-old that's on the cusp of almost feral. We love them dearly. I mean, we can't imagine life without him.

He's the pepper to our oldest son's salt. We were at a birthday party on Saturday, my wife and I, for Richard Fox. I hope Richard Fox is watching the program. He kindly invited us to his birthday party. Richard and Alexia have a fantastic farm, Roslyn Farm right in the middle of Almaro County. I mean, you talk about a gift from God. Rosalind Farm is is gorgeous. I mean, it's gorgeous. It's a slice of habit in an urban environment. I mean, it's breathtaking how beautiful it is. And they have horse riding and horseback riding for kids and

campers and summer campers. They have a winery and a vineyard right there. And they have a little short-term rental business where folks can can spend the night on a long weekend and rent rooms and they have a wedding venue and an event's venue. They have a stage. They have just little pockets of beauty everywhere. On Saturday, one of the oyster trucks locally was it salty bottom oysters was posted up and we were celebrating Richard's birthday. And my wife and I we're sitting at Roslin at a little picnic table. And our two sons were running around with some other boys and some other kids around Roslyn Farman.

We look over in our three-year-old, who's pretty close to potty training, but still in the midst of potty training, looks over and screams, Mommy, I have to pee! I have to pee! And next thing we know, in the middle of Richard Fonty training,

Alex's party. Our three-year-old pulls down his green shorts and pulls down his Spider-Man tidy whiteies, drops him to his ankles and just starts peeing on a fence post right in the middle of the party. And my wife and I are like, oh my gosh, what's going on? Pull your shorts up, son. Pull your shorts up. And Richard walks over and he says, hey, it's no big deal. It's outside. Let the boy pee. It's totally fine here. Our kids do it too. Made us feel comfortable. Then we got into conversation with Philip Reese, who happened to be at this party, and had a conversation with Philip and my wife.

Are we making a mistake showing a three-year-old curious George on loop? I mean, he's enchanted with a monkey named Curious George, who is a troublemaker. All this curious monkey does under the guise of being curious is called trouble everywhere he goes. Unfortunately for George, he's adorable, and that allows him to backdoor his way or weasel his way out of trouble. That's the same thing our three-year-old is doing.

Are we showing our three-year-old a roadmap to trouble by letting him watch Curious George and then the commercial breaks that are absolutely dominated by Barack Obama and the Democrats who are pushing redistricting with an effort that is absolutely dominating the resources and the money that the GOP is putting behind gerrymandering. We'll talk about that on the program today.

I also want to discuss on the show this drive-by shooting at the Waffle House. Goodness gracious, could you imagine having some scrambled eggs and some toast and a tall glass of chocolate milk at the Waffle House? Early Sunday morning, late Saturday night, early Sunday morning. You're sitting in the booth at the Waffle House on Route 29. Maybe we're Alexis O'Hanian, the founder of Reddit. was sitting a generation ago as he was starting Reddit with his co-founder. And next thing you know, there's a drive-by shooting at the Waffle House.

Thank God no one was seriously injured. Thank God no one was seriously killed. But I'm going to tell you right now, I'm going to ask you this question. Is the Waffle House on Route 29 the most dangerous spot in all of Charlottesville and Almaro County? Find me a more dangerous spot than the Waffle House on Route 29, drive-by shootings. You didn't get my bacon, egg, and cheese to me on top. time. My chocolate milk has a hair in it. Let me pull out the machine gun. Get in my El Camino and drive off as I pepper it with bullets. Imagine the Almore County Police Department right now

investigating a drive-by shooting at the Waffle House. We'll talk about that on the program today. A lot we're going to cover. I'm going to ask you South Street Brewery. We know it's vacant. We know it's empty. What's the best use for it? It's got to be the most obvious use is brewery, right? I mean, it's set up for a brewery. If you're a, A Route 151 Brewery, do you consider putting a satellite location at South Street Brewery?

Are you discouraged for a satellite location, knowing that Taylor Smack, who owns Blue Mountain Brewery on 150 Fun, just shut down the South Street location. I'm sure he thought about putting a Blue Mountain satellite there. Are you discouraged by that?

We've got to talk to South Street Brewery location, one of the most prime spots for success. that 28-year run of a business there, ladies and gentlemen. We'll talk about that on the program today. And how about my latest prop bet? You viewers and listeners know I have a little gamble to me, right? Conan Owen, who is the owner of Sir Speedy of Central Virginia, Conan and I, he's watching the program right now, we have a prop bet, Judah, viewers and listeners. Here's the prop bet. It's from McCallin 12, a $75 bottle of boots. Our prop bet is very straightforward.

What is the price of gas going to be on Memorial Day? That's May 25th. My bet is that gasoline at the Bel Air Market on Ivy Road will be $2.80 per gallon or more for 87 regular on May 25th. Remember, before the start of this Iranian war, the price of gas was $2.79. So we're saying 279 was a push. $2.80 or more, I win. Conan Owen is betting a bottle of McCallon 12 that gas will be $2 or $78 or less by May 25th. The loser has to pay out the bottle of McAllen 12 within two business days. So by COB May 27th. That's my latest prop bet. I've got three or four prop bets going on right now. McCallin 12 is everywhere.

is getting full of Macallon 12 right now. I love action, viewers and listeners. If you don't know that, you know that now about me. I love action. Hank Martin watching the program. Tina Wyand Breeden watching the program. Logan Wells, Claylow watching the program. Maria Marshall Barnes, Vanessa Parkhill, Sarah Bowling-Hogan watching the program. Jason Noble, Conan Owen, have comments, which we will get to in a matter of moments. I want to give some love to Stanley Martin Holmes, Judah. And then I'm to ask you what intrigued you the most about my monologue are the headlines. Stanley Martin Holmes is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyles. Stanley Martin Holmes build high quality single family homes, town homes, and condominiums,

design and constructed with innovative techniques that ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Stanley Martin Holmes, this team is building some of the best homes everywhere. I mean, it legitimately, you're talking one of the top home builders and developers locally, communities throughout Central Virginia, built with honesty, communication, and innovative techniques. Judah Wickhauer's studio camera. The Jack of All Trades, you've never seen this shirt that Judah's wearing without a sweater over at viewers and listeners on the I Love Seville Show. He is single and ready to mingle. perhaps he's a curious George fan. On your first date, he will not drop trousers, however,

and pee like our youngest son did. He is a gentleman, he is a man of honor, and certainly a charismatic conversationalist, Judah Wickhauer. Monday afternoon, my friend, good Monday to you. Good Monday to you as well. I was going to say something about taking requests, but I don't know how that would go after you talking about me not peeing in the bushes.

I don't think, you don't strike me as a guy who would pee in the bushes. I would 100% pee in the bushes if I was out in, if I was out in the wilderness. You wouldn't pee in the bushes in the middle of Richard's birthday party at Roslyn Farm, though, like our three-year-old son did. Probably not. Okay, that's good to hear. That's literally what our three-year-old son did.

My wife, much to her, embarrassed, but frankly, I was a little embarrassing, but we were reassured by Richard who came by and said, you know what? It's okay, Jer. I got three sons. They do it too. Thank you, Richard. Happy birthday to you. I sincerely mean that.

We had an absolute bless. Headline most intriguing to you and why? This redistricting slash gerrymandering is, you know, I think it's a just a view of how politics is going

and everybody is everybody's pointing fingers, everybody is saying, look what they're doing, we're going to do it too. I'm pretty much, I'm pretty disgusted by it all around. Mid-decade redistricting as a political tool,

I happen to live in Virginia, so I point out the fact that Virginia is doing it, but there are other states doing it as well, and I think it's equally hypocritical. when I think we can all agree that Virginia set up laws specifically to make this a fair process. And the fact that, and I'm not just pointing out Democrats, because I think if the roles were reversed, the Republicans would be just as quick to jump on the redistricting bandwagon.

We talk a lot about hypocrisy, and I see it on both sides. The prediction markets, for those that like to prop, bet, or gamble, the prediction markets are suggesting redistricting will overwhelmingly pass. Polling, traditional polling, suggests that redistricting this referendum on April 21 is just a couple of points in favor of the Democrats, whether you're inclined to believe or trust traditional polling that suggests that Democrats are slightly favored to win this referendum, or you're inclined to trust or follow or believe these prediction markets. And guys, you can gamble on anything and everything. I read a very disturbing story, very disturbing story about oil and trading futures.

and how 15 to 20 minutes before Donald Trump had a press conference a handful of days ago, last week, about a two-week ceasefire. A two-week ceasefire that proved to be absolute baloney. Basically, the war is on ice for two weeks. That lasted about 17 hours, ladies and gentlemen. But in the period prior, about the 15 to 30-minute window, prior to Trump's press conference announcing this ceasefire, there was more than $50 million of betting on one prediction market website, one, one, basically prop bet website, right?

That bet that oil was going to come down. And it has you concern that there's insider trading happening in the circles closest to the president. I'm not suggesting the president is involved with insider trading. That's not my suggestion. I am suggesting that perhaps people close to the president that were aware that he was going to make a two-week ceasefire press conference, passed information along to somebody who then made a ton of money, I was going to use a bad word there, made a ton of money on some prop that websites. Polymarket is a good one. How the hell? would polymarket regulate insider trading tied to the White House? I understand how you can

somewhat regulate insider trading or gambling, illegal sports betting with sports tied to prop betting. We saw this in a gambling scandal that grabbed, that snared Chauncey Billups, for example, the former head coach of the Portland Trailblazers who has since been fired, former NBA champion point guard with the Detroit Pistons. He's linked to mafia into illegal gambling and passing along information so that betters could win prop bets or like betters could win over under bets. I get how you can do it in sports. How can you do it with insider trading on knowledge tied to the White House?

I have no idea how you would do that. How would you investigate it or how would you go about it? How would you regulate it? How would you investigate it? I mean, it would require a government operation that actually cares, and I don't think we've ever seen that. Oh, I mean, there's no, there's no parameters of place. In fact, now the White House has sent out a memorandum via email, which was leaked to the media. And this memorandum, this email, this message from the White House to staffers said verbatim in the email,

you are not permitted to bet on prediction markets on any information you hear. So the White House is very well aware of what's going on. Because it's been going on for as long as there's been governments and betting. We haven't had polymarket, prediction market, websites like this, though. 15 years ago, this type of gambling infrastructure wasn't in play. The extent of what you could do with insider trading with White House knowledge or congressional knowledge was maybe do some stock trading. That is something that you could regulate and track. You can easily track that so-and-so got this information. So-and-so came to office. This is how you track it.

So-and-so, and we all know the politicians who fit this bill, so-and-so came into office, disclosed that this was their net worth. Now after an extended career as a politician, a congressman, state senator, whatever it may be, their net worth is exponentially higher. How does this person's net worth 100x when they're making $300,000 a year? You can easily extrapolate insider trading when it comes to that. I'm talking polymarket and prediction markets, though. Now, I have this topic I want to cover with you, the viewer and listener. I had this conversation over the weekend.

I'll talk about it with you. Put the first lower third on screen, you know. This is going to rile or rattle the old guard and the Republican Party. I'm talking to the older demographic. My take

from an eye test and conversating with a lot of people, and we talk with a lot of people, a lot of people, a lot of different socioeconomic statuses. Right? The longer this war goes on, Judah. The longer Trump's war and Iran

goes on, the more fractured the Republican Party is at a macro level, statewide level, and local level. I believe the old guard in the Republican Party, the older folks,

they understand the absolute implicit threat that's Iran. And they understand that if Iran gets nuclear weapons, what this could mean to United States because they've lived it for 40 or 50 years. The new guard in the Republican Party, I'm talking young Gen Xers, which are you, through the millennials, through the millennials and even younger, they don't have that history of Iranian threat. And they vote pocketbook first. They vote

household budget first. And the longer this war goes on, and the longer that gas is flirting with $4 are up, the more fractured this party is becoming. I am seeing that with talking with folks that are of similar mindset and age is me. Millennials are younger. They're like, what the hell is going on here? This isn't who or what we voted for. Your take that I'll open it up to the viewers and listeners. Viewers and listeners, put your comments in the feed, and I will relay it live on air.

Judah Wickero. My take is, yeah, I'm a little bit, I'm a little bit, uh, on the on the fence about this uh... i'm not happy about the war uh... you know there are but there are also people in iran the iranian people who are cheering for this who are begging for this who want uh... you know who want to get out from under the thumb of the current regime

uh... you know i don't know that we she there are the the libertarian in me if you want to go go uh... no i I just want you to be more succinct. I'm never going to be succinct. The libertarian in me is against, you know, against spending money on foreign wars. It's against going into other countries for whatever reason, whether you believe that we're in there to steal the oil or to liberate the people. But it's rough.

Yeah. I can understand how, you know, as things get worse, people are going to turn against the war. But I guess it all depends on your... What are we? 10 weeks into the war? Is it 10 weeks already? Eight. Let's see.

When did the Iran war start? Well, according to AI, it started in September 1980. There you go. That's what the OG Republicans would say. 47 years. We're eight, nine weeks into this. Ladies and gentlemen, are you alien? by it? Are you turned off by it?

What I'm turned off by are some of the, some of the, you know, the truth social stuff that I've, that I've seen come out, that I've heard come out, some of the language, some of the, it seems like prevarication. I don't know. I'm not close enough to it, but, you know, when we hear that, oh, the, everything's going great, we've almost got a deal, and then, you know,

an hour or a day later, we find out that, oh, that's not true. Or at least it doesn't seem to be true. There's also the terrifying fact that I believe Iran shot a rocket at, I forget the name of the island, but it was twice as far as we believed Iran could get a rocket, which is pretty scary considering that our information. on them may be wrong. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. John Blair's got a comment number two in the family.

John Blair's photo on screen. As someone who's made and lost more money than I'd care to recall on precious metal markets, I followed Polymarket closely. Let's just say that oil markets aren't the only suspicious trades occurring on polymarket. Here's what's even more scary. while polymarket doesn't allow leverage, there are now secondary, decentralized exchanges that allow leverage bets on polymarket bets. This is not a good development, 100%, 100% John Blair.

I was legitimately talking about this while playing squash on Friday on the doubles court. And some of the guys that I were playing doubles with on Friday are in their early 20s. and they were talking about how their friends at the University of Virginia, friends at UVA, regardless of age, are on these polymarket websites, betting as if it was like the YOWOWAS. It is completely unregulated. Completely unregulated. At least like John Blair says,

that the actual polymarket, what is it, market? doesn't allow leverage, though, as you said, you can find the leverage elsewhere to use on polymarket. And what would your, John, what is the collateral on the secondary website that allows you to lever up? Like, what would the collateral be? Are you pumping in a credit card number? Is the collateral up to the credit card balance?

Is that what it is, John? I'm just, I'm genuinely curious on that. I'm just talking out loud here. the ridiculous swings, just talk oil here. The ridiculous swings in oil, is there an opportunity with like one day there's a ceasefire, the next day the ceasefire's gone, next day J.D. Vance is negotiating a potential treaty. Two days after that, J.D. Vance walks out of the negotiating room. There is no treaty. Day after that, oil spikes.

day after that, the U.S. Navy is controlling the straight of. Hormuz. Uncertainty. Uncertainty breeds opportunity in any market. Oh, yeah. Uncertainty and unpredictability is an investors or speculators wet dream. Yeah. Arbitrage. The predictability or the consistency of a metronome is a bettors or investors or speculators nightmare.

You don't want predictability. You want uncertainty. How much money are folks that have knowledge making on these prediction markets? With these types of swings, I mean, you're talking $90 a barrel, over $115 a barrel. You're talking massive deltas here.

And if you're doing this at scale, how much money is there. Very, very curious to that because it's incredibly unreculated. That's right up deep throats alley right there. Now, getting back to comments, I'm going to put, if you have a comment, put them in the feed, I'm going to relay them live on air. My take, the GOP, fracturing right here. You speak to a conservative that's 45 years old and younger.

they're like, what the F is going on here? What the hell? This is not what we voted. You talk to a conservative that's a boomer and older, baby boomer and older. They're like, let's go balls to the wall here. Let's do whatever we can to destroy Iran. Because they have 40 years or 50 years of a threat memory, memory of threats. The 45 and under does not.

And the 45 and under. under is household budgeting. Everybody's household budget. Where the baby boomer and older, they're empty nesters. The baby boomers and older, one of the wealthiest generations of all time. The boomer and older. The boomer and older, in a lot of ways, and I'm not throwing shade on the boomer by any, any, any way. I'm not throwing shade on the boomer.

The boomer and older is, in a lot of ways, is driving a housing crisis. The boomer and older is buying the housing stock that otherwise would have gone to the first-time homebuyer, the second-time homebuyer. The average age, according to the National Association of Realtors in 2025 for first-time homebuyers, was 40 years old. 40 years old, ladies and gentlemen, the average age for first-time homebuyers. That number is expected to go even higher. one of the attributions for the age of first-time homebuyers being that high is the fact that boomers are buying a boat load of homes and that first-time buying homes first time extremely expensive in this climate comments coming in let's go to deep throat number one in the family um deep throat you can compare polls directly to prediction markets polling directly to prediction markets if you have have very reliable polls showing yes at 55% and no at 45% on the referendum, you might see,

yes, contract trading at 90% on the prediction markets. Yeah, the contract will trade directionally with the polls, but not tick for tick because one is an indicator of vote and the other is binary on which side is over 50%. He also says that the prop that my action with Conan is weighed heavily in favor of me. Oh, 100%. He says, retail at $2.80 is not something futures suggests will happen

until November. I am astonished that Cohen went with that. Prop bets are my favorite kind of bets, Judah. Oh, I know that. I love the prop bet. That doesn't have anything to do with Conan's willingness to jump in on that bet.

I'll tell a story. Working my way through UVA as a host at Ruby Tuesdays, then a day bar, then a waiter at Ruby Tuesdays, then a day bartender at Ruby Tuesdays, then a night bartender at

Ruby Tuesdays. Working my way through UVA, hustling pool. I grew up with a pool table in my house. Very, very good at pool. My dad had us, my dad loved pool too, had me playing in pool tournaments when I was 12 or 13 years old at the corner pocket in Williamsburg. Have probably

eight or ten pool trophies. somewhere in a box somewhere that our son Trey loves to play with. He's dying to play pool with me. I will eventually shoot pool with him. But I do like the respite of shooting at my own pool table at my house now. I was what I said?

You got a table in your house. Free of distraction. But there's an escape for dad that can have a beer, go to the basement, shoot pool, not worry about anything with the family. That's just escape. Anyway, I'm getting distracted. Loved, I ran a sports book in college,

played a ton of card. ton of poker, ton of pool. Love to gamble. Was good at it. There was a guy locally named Bobby Anderson. If you know anything about Charlottesville, Virginia, you know Bobby Anderson is for multiple generations the best pool player that's ever come through this town and it's not even close. Bobby Anderson. I wrote a profile on Bobby Anderson for the Daily Progress when I was working there. Bobby Anderson is half black and half white. So Bobby Anderson, at times of segregation, or post-segregation, was not welcomed in the white pool halls, and he was not welcome in the black pool halls. So he had to figure out clearing that segregative hump.

He was literally what he's done for his life is he's a professional gambler. There's probably a couple dozen people locally in Charlottesville that for their career, they are professional gamblers. He used to run in this circle for a long period of time. Bobby Anderson was a professional gambler. He's had success. He's had a lot of downtime as well. And I remember playing pool with Bobby Anderson. This is when I was in my early mid-20s.

And we were at Millers on the third floor. And it was a race to five, nine ball on a seven-foot coin-operated table. and I got a boatload of weight. I negotiated before the game started. In nine ball, you have to make the nine ball to win. I said, I get the breaks, the seven, eight, and nine, and I win. So I can break every single game, we're first to win five games. No matter if I win or lose the game, I break every single one.

And if I pocket the seven ball, the eight ball, and the nine ball, I win. And Bobby had a little bit too much to drink that night. And I posted, we posted the money on the rail. $100 and I ended up beating him, I think it was five games to three. And after that game, I grabbed the $100 because I thought he was going to take the $100. $100 means a lot to Bobby Anderson. Okay? And I said to Bobby, and he goes, I can't believe you beat me. Something like that. And I said, Bobby, every day and twice on Sunday, you will beat me heads up in any game of pool, eight ball, nine ball, straight pool, 10 ball, one pocket.

bank pool. But today, I wasn't the better pool player. I was the better better than you. I was the better gambler than you. And I saw Bobby years after that, and he said to me, I never forgot what you said that day. Never forgot. With the bet with Conan,

we know, I know, that summer going into the holiday season is when gas goes up. on top of that we have an unpredictable president on top of that the negotiation the treaty negotiation with jd vance was going in the crapper we're dealing with radicals in iran that would rather die literally die than end the war all those factors made it very obvious to me that a two dollar and eighty

cent bet with a two seventy nine push was a mccallin twelve winner I wouldn't have needed any of that information. I'm not sure where you were getting $2.80.00. $0.79. Was the gas before the war started at the Beller and Ivy? I have a photo on my screen. In my phone. This is where Judah shoots from the hip eight weeks ago trying to remember what the price of gas was at the Bel Air on Ivy Road, which he does not drive by. Is that what you're going to try to do now? I drive by it quite a bit, actually, right? dropping you off.

Would you say, you remember what the gas was at $2, eight weeks ago? I could pretty honestly say that I haven't seen gas at 280 anywhere. $2.79.

was the push. Yeah, I know, I know. 279's a push. 280's a win. Comets coming in. Jason Noble says, with the White House, with the Waffle House

storyline, stay strapped, folks. Stay strapped. In regards to the referendum viewers and listeners. And we're going to get to comments. Philip Reese's got a comment here. The Amar County Republican chair, he's got a comment. Ray Cadell's got a comment.

Why don't I get to Philip Reese's comment? Do we have a photo for Philip? Smart guy. Super smart guy. Very enjoyable to chat with. Regarding redistricting the hill, regarding redistricting from the hill, this is a quote, Democrats have spent nearly 40 million and there are only up a few points. points in the polls, and he cites the source, the hill.com, and shares a link in the comment section

of the I Love Seville Facebook page. Philip Reese adds, most of the Democratic spending has come from Hakeem Jeffries's PAC because he knows if the yes vote wins. Democrats easily add four seats in Congress, and he increases his chances of becoming Speaker of the House. This is what has surprised me the most. Okay. This is what has surprised me the most. With redistricting, there's been a significant investment from the National Democratic Party here in Virginia. Barack Obama is the spokesman of redistricting in Virginia. Barack Obama, right? The same investment is not happening from Republicans.

We're not seeing the same financial investment from the National Republican Party in Virginia as it applies to redistricting. that leads me to believe the following, are you ready, that the National Republican Party realized that the Commonwealth of Virginia and its Northern Virginia voter base, which dominates the polls, are so fed up and frustrated with Donald Trump because of, what do we call the lockdown of the government, what Elon Musk was trying to do?

The lockdown of the government? The budget cuts with Elon Musk? Doge. Doge and Musk and Trump, with cutting from government, impacted northern Virginia, which was already incredibly Democratic leaning, so much that the Republican National Party said, we are going to hedge investment and states outside of Virginia

because we don't see the Commonwealth going our way when it comes to referendum, this referendum. The Democrats realize that Virginia is their way to try to counter, say, a Texas. I've got a list. Go ahead. There are currently like eight states. What's the list? Some of them are exactly what Texas and Virginia are doing, trying to block each other.

Others like North Carolina. So we've got on the Republican side, these are states that either have already or stand in the future to gain seats for their party. So this is the Republicans. We've got Texas, obviously. Florida is currently working on, I believe, redistricting. And we've got North Carolina.

They redistricted in 2023. And obviously that will continue to have effect on the 26 elections. On the Democrat side, we've got Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Wisconsin. I think they all stand

to gain potentially a seat or more. You've got Ohio that I think had a push. No one really gained Republican or Democrat. And of course you've got Virginia that's going for what? Four new seats. And I think Virginia is definitely the most, the most grandiose about it. What's the word I'm looking for?

doesn't matter. That's what I've got. Clearly the politics are working overtime to in this chess game of seats. Okay, and I'm going to pass you just a basic Google search of what gas was in February. Anyone can do this? So you can read it to the viewers and the search don't track. My trust in MacBook. What does that say at the top in February 2026? Based on reports from February 2026, gas prices in the Charlottesville, Central Virginia area, generally hovered just under or around the 260 to 270 per gallon range for regular unleaded before rising later in the month. There you go. So just a little benchmark for the $2.79 for you.

Okay. We'll segue to the next topic. I'll close on this before I do. Before I segue, the financial contributions from the Democratic Party National, including spokesman Barack Obama, one of the most affable and likable presidents in recent history, shows obvious investment into the importance of redistricting for Democrats in Virginia. The same effort from the Republican Party National is missing. We saw a similar missing effort with this past election cycle.

John Reed claimed and complained. He claimed and complained the lieutenant governor candidate that he was getting no financial contribution for his push for lieutenant governor. And then further claimed and complained that his competitor was getting massive contribution from the national party. We saw it with Winston Burrell Sears.

We saw it with Jason Mierrez. Are we seeing the national party Republicans just chalking Virginia up as a clear-cut loser for the party. Do we see any former Republican conservative president pitching, spokesmaning like Barack Obama is doing? We don't. And I think the political science is Trump, his impact, is impacting Virginia most significantly because of the proximity to where Trump the White House in D.C. is. To the number of workers, Virginia, that are tied to the federal government.

That's my take. All right. Comments coming in. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. We'll relay them live on air. Vanessa Parkhill says, Curious George is fine for your son, Zachary. It's the commercials that I would worry about. Any commercials and not just the redistricting.

100%, Vanessa. What I find unique about the commercial algorithm that's being pushed on our 8-year-old son with YouTube and our 3-year-old son with YouTube is the algorithm, the ad buyers, the ad buyers are extremely sophisticated, and they realize that mom and dad are within earshot of the 3-year-old watching their iPhone

because the 3-year-old doesn't have his own iPhone and the 8-year-old doesn't have his own iPhone. So mom and dad are letting the 3-year-old grab the iPhone and watch YouTube to watch Curious George. And because they're letting their 3-year-old, year old do it. They know that the iPhone is within earshot of mom and dad and the potential voter. So that's the advertising science behind it. Conan Owen watching the program. Tremendous respect for Conan. Conan, we got to get you on the show here to talk about our prop bet.

Just talk about your business and everything that's going on. I do believe knock on wood that a McCallon 12 is coming our way. My wife is like, what is going on with these McCallon 12s here? Judah, you should start doing prop bets. Good way to stock the bar. for. Conan Owen says this. The D.C. area has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country, because of all the layoff government workers, they can't find jobs in the private sector. What does that tell you about their value add to the economy and society? So Conan throwing shade at government workers who he's calling lazy with very little value proposition, and that's why they're unemployed in northern Virginia. Remember, once it's Doge happen, there was a D.C. area, northern Virginia area, housing rushed to list your home. Before the Doge effects went in effect, we were talking about last year when Musk was in the game, Musk is distanced himself from Trump. Why are all these homes listed in D.C.? And it was the Doge impact, the folks that were on the peripheral from an output or production or value proposition standpoint.

we're like, oh my God, Musk is going to figure out with his genius that I'm doing Jack Dutu. I need to list my home, get top dollar, and get the hell out of here. Hank Martin watching the program. Handsome Hank. Let's get his photo on screen. He says, while we are watching inside the Republican Party, what we're watching inside the Republican Party is not normal, isn't normal political disagreement, but rather a full

identity shakeup. Under the POTUS, the GOP has shifted from traditional construction. servitism to a powerful America first populist movement, creating a serious internal divide. Old Guard Republicans versus MAGA loyalists, party leadership versus grassroots base. The strategy win elections versus the ideology, stay pure, is rapidly widening, and it is showing rapidly how deep the split is becoming. Some call it a war on the party, while others call it a takeover. No matter, one thing is undeniable.

The Republican Party is no longer one unit. machine. It's a battleground over what conservatism even means in America. The outcome will shape U.S. politics for a generation. As one who has always recognized that no one party nor one man can truly represent me adequately, the sensation of political homelessness is certainly prevailing currently. The phrase political homelessness is me to a T. Handsome Hank Martin, great comment. He also adds, at 62 years of age, my threat memory is not compromised by present day. empirical evidence of what is now prior to the commencement of the present war. Memory is meant to be one portion of reasoning to real-time realities.

Handsome Hank Martin, you make the program better, my friend. I sincerely mean this. Jason Noble says anyone who calls, anyone that calls a yes vote for redistricting or gerrymandering is an absolute moron. Jason Noble. I appreciate you, Jason Noble over there. Remember, Democrats are early to vote. Democrats vote early, mail-in vote, early vote, early vote.

Republicans vote day of. You're saying typically? Generally, yeah. Yeah. Generally? I think in this case, we've seen a lot of Republicans doing the early voting. And I think we're also seeing a lot of the rural areas mobilizing because they know exactly how little love they get from the Democrats,

no matter which side of the aisle they're on. John Blair says, I was walking West Main Street and noticed that the Board of Architectural Review is going to consider a Padel Court at the old Pregnancy Resource Center on West Main Street. I don't know if you knew that, Jerry. I did know that, John Blair. I'll offer a little bit more color on that.

The Piddle Court is the effort of a friend of mine and business partner of mine. John Terry Hinderman. Terry Hinderman, the owner of the Mori Avenue shopping center. Terry Hinderman, the owner of the Fry Springs gas station where Pineappo is. And Terry Hinderman, the owner of the real estate where Rock Revolution is, a deal that we help broker the Rock Revolution deal with funding, with lease, and with business strategy. Terry's a guy I play Padell with, previously played Squash with, and yes, I did know that,

of Piddell Court was coming to West Main Street. I appreciate you putting that in the comment section. I think it's a great location. Terry's an avid Pidel player. Terry Hinderman. I'm not speaking at a turn because now the trail has been peppered and papered per your notice by walking down West Main Street and seeing the paper notification.

I can offer more color of what's going on there, John Blair and person as well. I think it's a fantastic idea. All right. A lot to cover still on the program at the 128 marker. Sarah Bowling Hogan, thank you for watching the program. Hammer the like button.

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and even pool shade to get you, out of the sun. Charlottesville swimming pool companies are concierge or consultant of anything swimming pool related. Next headline, Judah Wickauer, what is it, my friend? Let's see, if we're going in order, we've got UVA, one of 11 schools, we've got South Street brewery. Okay, I'll spend about 90 seconds or so on UVA. This is from Forbes magazine, and the University of Virginia is touting this as it should. For the third straight year, Forbes magazine has dubbed or monikered the University of Virginia a new Ivy League school. UVA is one of just 11 schools that has made the new ivies list all three years. Peer schools include the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, the rambling wreck of Georgia Tech. Here are the new Ivy public schools. These are the new Ivy public schools, according to Forbes magazine. The United States Air Force Academy, the University of Florida, Georgia Tech, the University of Michigan, UNC Chapel Hill, Purdue University of Texas at Austin, UVA, William and Mary. Ginny Who, jumping for joy over there, William and Mary, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Those are your new Ivy public schools. ladies and gentlemen. Ginny Who says, Judah needs a T-shirt.

I'm never going to be succinct. I literally laughed out loud on that one, she said. That's why we love Judah. Private schools, these are the new Ivy private schools. Okay, you ready? And of course, you have your traditional Ivy League schools. Carnegie Mellon,

Case Western Reserve University, never heard of that school. That's in Cleveland, Ohio. Never heard of that school. But that's a new Ivy private school. Emory University. My brother got his MBA from Emory University. Georgetown University, love Georgetown. Northwestern University. Those are your new Ivy privates. So Forbes magazine is creating this new brand, right? And each of these colleges and universities that have been monikered, new Ivy, are grabbing that brand and becoming evangelist for that brand.

And that evangelizing this new Ivy brand is good for the university because it's a just, justification for tuition increases and more stringent enrollment standards. And that impacts Charlottesville and Almore County because the students admitted to the University of Virginia are coming from wealthier families. And the wealthier families that are admitting their students at UVA are gentrifying Seville and Almore County because they have disposable wealth talking top 10%, top 5%, top 1% wealth at their disposal. Next headline, Judah Wickcarry, what do you got?

Let's see. We've got the South Street Brewery. So, South Street Brewery, I'm going to throw it out there. Is the best use for South Street Brewery, a satellite brewery for another beer brand? Like, if you're the Woodard team and you're marketing South Street Brewery, and it's currently being, you know, advertised and marketed for lease, right? Is your best effort to go to, say, Scott's Edition or Richmond, and say, hey, you have a turnkey, soup to nuts, brewery, ready to go. We want to keep this a brewery because it's going to keep our build-out cost in check, our red abatement in check. We'll hook you up on a sweetheart deal.

come open a satellite brewery here. Kind of like what Hardywood was trying to do on West Main Street. Yeah. Or Stebbels' backbone was trying to do on West Main Street. Both those failed. Yeah. And that would, I think that's a couple marks against... The satellite idea.

Yeah. Another mark against the satellite idea. Taylor Smack, the owner of Blue Mountain Brewery, owns South Street Brewery or owns South Street Brewery, and he did not decide to do this for Blue Mountain. Mountain Brewery. And he's a beer baron. He's a veteran of beer.

That's another mark against it. If I was consulting, advising, driving leasing for this particular location for Anthony and Keith, see Anthony all the time, he's a brick house in the wait room. This guy, I literally saw Anthony Woodard. Anthony, he's, what are you, like, 230? 230 pounds?

I mean, he's jacked. He was doing box jumpers, box jumping in the weight room, like literally jumping on boxes, he turned one of the boxes on its side. So it was not flat like it's normally supposed to be. He turned it on its side and jump to the top of the box at like 230 or 240 pounds. I hope I'm not. I think that's about right. 230, 240, Anthony, wouldn't you say? And there were, I was doing, working one of the machines here on my pea chest, my little like prepubesic chest. I'm trying to get ripped because it's becoming swimming pool season and bathing suit season.

So my prepubescent pee chest, I'm like, okay, let me see if I can get to be a B cup here. Anthony is already jacked. He's doing this in front of me as 13-year-old, 14 and 15-year-old kids are doing it, and they cannot do it. And he goes, watch this guy's humble brag from Anthony Woodard. And he makes the jump, lands it on the box. I'm like, Jesus, that is legit, especially at the man's size. So props to Anthony. If I was offering consultation to you, you watch and listen to the show, and I'm sure you're going to hear about these comments, and I'll probably see you later today.

I try not to bring up work, because frankly, where we're working out and leisure, and I'm there to work out on leisure as well when I'm not doing business. But my suggestion to you would be grind, get one of your team members on the stick and grind, and find. a satellite brewery, find a beer brand that wants to open a satellite brewery there. Because if the game plan is to convert it to any kind of restaurant and away from the beer business, that's going to be a long asshole dude. Man's two cents. Next headline, what do you got, Judah, Wicaharan? Waffle House?

Let's go Waffle House. Put Waffle House on screen. And then we'll get to Ray Cadell's comments and then Jason Howard's comments. Ray Cadell says, I am a regular at the Waffle House, Jerry and Judah. the Waffle House usually in the mornings is how he likes to patronize it. Many, if not most Waffle Houses, have only a pickup window after 11 p.m. So the Waffle House knows it is dangerous, but this particular location has in restaurant dining. Imagine the Waffle House, the drive-by shooting happened in the 4 a.m. hour.

I think it was like 4.30 a.m. Who in their right mind is eating scrambled eggs and toast and drinking chocolate milk at 4.30 in the morning unless they want to get into trouble? I get there's shift workers. I get that there's shift workers that need a place to eat. I get that. But this is 4.30 in the morning in Charlottesville on a Saturday going into Sunday morning. And there's a drive-by shooting. A drive-by shooting, three people sprayed with bullets. One appeared to be a part of the fracas. Fracus, fracas?

Fracus. Fragus. Two people got nicked and hit with bullets that were enjoying their eggs over medium and dipping their toast into the runny yolk. I think only one person was shot. I'm going to read it here. More than one were wounded, but I think only one was actually shot. So how do you get wounded?

The bullets sprayed the toast? and the toast goes flying in the air and catches you in the eye? The bullets spray your scrambled egg yolk and you get a runny egg yolk facial? Yeah, yeah. The runny egg yolk burns your skin? Okay, so am I wrong? I mean, how do you get wounded in a drive-by shooting if you don't get hit by the bullets? Easy.

What? The spraying glass catches you in the face? It could be glass coming from the gunshot. It could be diving for the ground onto. glass after the gunshot. It could be... But John McCain can go to a Christmas Day

massacre shooting without any shoes, walk all over Mikatomi Towers and not bleed to death from glass in the bottom of his feet. He said, McCain. John McCain. I was like, what? It's McLean. John McLean. I was like, is he talking about

a politician? John McLean. Is it Micotomi Towers? And then when I heard the weird pronunciation, he of the towers, I was like, oh, he's trying to do a movie thing. What was the name of the... Nakatomi Plaza. Damn it. Fucking Nakatomi Plaza, you damn Nakatomi.

John McCain can... John McLean. He can run all over in Nakatomi Plaza barefoot and he's fine. Yet two people eating some scrambled eggs, take a yolk facial and have to go to the emergency room. Something like that. dangerous place in Charleston, the Waffle House on Route 29. I don't know about that.

What's the most dangerous spot in Charlestville? Probably just a stone's throw from there behind the old mall. Ginny Who is correcting me. I'm not jumping for joy. Out of the three schools I attended, William and Mary was by far the worst. What were the three schools, Ginny? William and Mary, UVA, and what was the third one? Ginny Who is super smart.

that yolk facial is going to send you to the emergency room. What was the dangerous place of stone throats away from the Waffle House that you said? The apartments behind the old fashion square mall. What are those apartments called? I don't know. I'll have to look them up. While Judo looks that up, Jason Noble says, I agree with the handsome Hank guy except for the fact that the GOP hasn't been unified for a while. Jason Howard's watching the program. He's a super smart guy.

I love Jason Howard watching the show. He says, I have been hearing gerrymandering as bad all my life from high school on. I did a civics unit on it. It's a dishonest practice. It was never in question. Lately seeing politicians on the record as being against it their entire career now coming out in favor because it's being done everywhere else, it reminds me of a quote that stuck with me about power being the ultimate value. Better a prince in hell than a servant in heaven.

Oh, that's good. better a prince in hell than a servant in heaven. I'm going to write that down, Jason Howard. That's what some people say. What was the name in that apartment complex? I'm still looking. Jason Howard says, as for the South Street space, I feel like it's too small a space and too small a market for it to be worth it for

New Belgium or some other large brewery to come in and make it a satellite there. And for a regional to do it, cost per square foot versus market share going to bag doesn't make sense. 100%. 100%. Jason Howard. Westgate, I think, is the one that I hear a lot of the bad stuff. Westgate is on Georgetown Road next to Barclay Place. Well, maybe, I don't know.

Westgate Apartments is the next... There's also Mallside Forest. I think that's the one I think you're looking for. Westgate Apartments is next to Barclay Place. And the only reason I know that is I dated a girl that lived in Barclay Place, and we spent many a days in Barclay Place. drove through Westgate to get to her apartment and Barkley Place. Neil Williamson, the president of the Free Enterprise Forum.

Senator John McCain, Jerry, is very different than John McLean, although Senator John McCain is likely tougher. Jason Noble says, Jason Noble says the runny egg gave someone salmonella. I'm saying the runny egg calls Bert. marks on someone's face from a facial. Judah, what were you saying? I'm saying that I would watch that movie with

John McCain crawling through glass and taking down some some money-grubbing terrorists. Neil Williamson, formerly mallside, it's now called Cobalt Ridge. Cobalt Ridge is the Judah's call for the most dangerous place in

Almaro County. Cobalt Ridge. Remember, this isn't the city of Charlottesville. The most dangerous place in the city of Charlottesville is way more dangerous than the Waffle House on Route 29. And I'm not going to say where the most dangerous place in the city of Charlestville is. Do you want to keep it to yourself? I think the viewers and listeners know where that is. Ginny Who also attended JMU, UVA, and William & Mary, for one of the smartest people in the family here. All right.

It's 145. We've got to go make some money. I got a prop bet with Conan Owen. I'll keep you posted on the prop bet. $2.79 is a push. I'm pushing for $2.80 at the Bel Air on Ivy Road. $2.78 are under. Conan wins.

$2.80 or more, I win. John Blair says the decentralized, leverage polymarket vehicles use crypto as collateral. That makes sense. that totally makes sense that the crypto is the collateral. Yeah, I aired when saying pumping in your credit card. Why would you do that? Because at that point, you're paper trailing yourself with your credit card.

No doubt. So crypto is the collateral. That makes perfect sense. Crypto, the currency of the gray markets and the black markets in illegal activity. Scott Harris, Ray at the Waffle House, cracked me up. One of the most genuine guys I know is Ray Kadeau. Conan, that's actually not true. Depends on the lease you're negotiating.

I've absolutely negotiated that with leases, with tenant improvement. So that is not true. Just a little heads up on that. It depends on what you ask for and the leverage you have. All right. Jerry Rackleff show is tomorrow. The Jerry and Jerry Show is tomorrow. If you're not subscribing to Jerryoracliff.com,

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Looks like it dropped. For Judah Wickhauer, my name is Jerry Miller, and that's the Monday edition of the water cooler of content and conversation. So long.