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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, welcome to bot Bart and Sold and uh man,
We've got a full studio in here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the most crowded it's ever been since I've
been here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Obviously, we got Brad Smith with Cross Country Mortgage bradsmithlans
dot Com. What's up, dude?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm awesome? How about you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm great, I'm great. And we've also got Van Sykes
from Sykes Barbecue Investmer.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
How's it going Van, I'm doing great, right, appreciate you'll
have every Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Man, well, look I am really excited about what you've
got coming up. And so here's what we're going to
do on the show. If you've been listening to our show,
you know, we typically give a little bit of market
update and with and and we'll do our mortgage game,
and we're gonna kind of change things up a little
bit today. We've got you on here, so we're going
to dig in, so what's going on with your festival?
And then we're going to do some market updates, and
(00:47):
then our second segment, we're gonna do our mortgage game
and talk about our open houses and new listings. So
I just want to give our listeners a little heads up,
But all right, this is the fourteenth annual YIX Barbeque
You Blues Festival, fourteen years.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I know I've had to sit and do the math
a couple of times make sure that was correct, because
it seems like it could be the fourth or fifth one.
But actually, if it weren't for the interruption of the pandemic,
we would be on number sixteenth. So but I'm not
counting what you never had. So it's the fourteenth time
that we've done it. We've planned it sixteen times. But
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you know, where this is the fourteenth annual, And as
I always say, and I really mean, this could be
the best one because you learn every year, and we've
learned some stuff and clipped some stuff, added some stuff,
and I think even the regular attendees this year that
have been coming, we're going to see a really probably
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the best show that we've had, because you know, I've
got to trying to change my model a little bit
where I as I go through the day, I actually
get to performers that are like Grammy winning or Grammy
nominated performers that travel the world literally playing blues music
because believe it or not, it's it's big in Europe
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or bigger than it is here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
One thing I've had to learn is there's a blues
season in the in the United States and it's during
the spring, and it's like a trail. So you try
to hire these musicians where they can go and play
close to each other and make it affordable for everybody.
So that's one of the things we've learned through the years,
is to catch the blues trail I like it, so
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to speak, and and then that way we're able to
get these really incredible performers.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Let's talk about who's performing well this year.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm starting out with a local favorite kid Sly and
Miss Hurricane Alene is the scene Lane, absolutely a great local,
local artist. And then I've got Rishad the Blues. This
is a young man who's a blues artist from Laurel, Mississippi,
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and he is in the genre of keeping the blues
music alive, the root of it. Then I've got de
Dre who has performed there before. She's the Alabama blues Queen.
She travels the world. She spends time in Europe, and
her husband, Keith and Ruff, was the guitar player for
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Bobby Rush for many years and so they've performed together
all over the world. They're solid, they're tired, they put
on a great show. And then after that, I got
Southern Avenue that's a Grammy nominated blues and soul group
out of Memphis and they have toured extensively in the
United States and Europe. And then to close the show out,
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I've got Shamika Copeland. She's won many many Blues awards
and she also has her own EXEM radio channel. Yes,
and that Southern Avenue I think has a song on
the blues charts now. So these are like professional people that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are bringing in some top talent.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, if you're a blue if you're a Blue Spaner,
want to get into the blues, things like this is
would be great. Like if you already know about it,
it's awesome, And if you don't, this is a great
intro into it.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
If you it is, because I don't know that you'd
find a better line up for ten dollars. Yeah, so
if you buy your tickets ahead of time, it's ten dollars.
But we're asking everybody to bring a can good because
we're partnered up with a Food Bank of Central Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They've opened a they're opening a facility investment, and I
thought it would be a great time to form a
good partnership with them. So the whole lot is just
let's just fill the park up with people.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so where's it going to be held at?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, it's this is always fun to say, it's the
Bardi Laban Park. Don't ask me how to spell it.
I actually had a news acre one time that just
I can't do it, just to just say the park.
But everybody of those it's the Bartle Abron Park. It's
in the middle of bestmer It's an old park. Number
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one comment every year is, wow, what a beautiful park
I'll have here. It's one of those parks that was built,
Uh when cities built parks like that. And uh, it's
a wonderful venue for an outdoor concert. So yeah, that's
the gates. We're going to open at eleven. We're going
to start the music at twelve. We'll obviously be selling barbecue.
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We have other food vendors.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is all the way delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Thank you. I appreciate that, I really do.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I stopped by about a month ago and and caught
brisket day.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh the fabulous day.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, that was that was pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's my favorite day. It's fun because we sit there
and cut it right there, you know, while everybody's standing
there watching it, and they just fascinated it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
My phone must have been messed up that day or something.
I get the right now.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Starving, But y'all please if you can come out to
the festival. But this year, as in past years, my
presenting sponsors a City Investment and Coke United, and then
I've got community sponsors that have really been fantastic. US
Pipe is a huge employer investment. They're going to be
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a sponsor, Cisco Food, Step one, Chevrolet, UA B Medical
West with the new hospital out there on four fifty nine.
And then I have US Foods and I think I
got all of them in. They've got several other sponsors too.
But it's the kind of deal where you come out
for the day, you bring your chair, planning to stay
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the day. We have kids activities children eight and under free.
And then the great thing about this facility though, see
is it's got trees, so you're not bacon under the
sun while you're watching this good which some venues are
just like that, but in this park, you're able to
find a shady spot see the stage, and we hope
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you just spend the day with allright.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So April twenty six, right, that's a Saturday, right, and
de bartle Abn Park Investment, Right, ten dollars tickets before
the show, before the show and at the at the
at the show, at the gate, they're fifteen fifteen dollars,
and bring at least one can of food for the
Community Bank of Central Bank.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That would be fantastic. Yes, and come out and just
have a great time.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know, I love it. I love it all right.
So you've had this for years? Is there a performance
or a performer in that year span that that's just
like kind of you know, cemented in your mind that
just kind of blew you away.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, absolutely, without a doubt. Bobby Rush. Okay, Bobby Rush
has won three Grammys. He won one actually after he
had performed for us. He's been in several movies. If
you've never seen a Bobby Rush show, I urge you
to catch one. Because we decided what we would do
when we would get Bobby Rush and the Bobby Rush Dancers.
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That was a good call. He puts on a great,
great show. It's just the kind of thing you can't
even describe it. And I think when he performed for
me last time, he was eighty seven years old. Oh my,
and he doesn't stop. He goes the entire time. I
think he played three encores because the people just love him.
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It's a very visual show. That one always sticks out
in my mind because you could just feel that he
was born to do this and he's been doing it
a long time, and it's a craft. He puts nothing
but professionals around him. And then I would say after that,
maybe I think it was last year, you're before we
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had this guy come up from Nashville and he came
up been a tour bus. I mean, we actually had
our first tour bus. Oh man, we're getting there now.
Bobby rolls low. You know he's got the van and
you know the entourage is behind him. But he is
a total one hundred cent professional. That has been one
(09:17):
of the great shows that we had. So something we
learned early on is some people might think, and it
is true, that some blue gendres are just a whole
lot of guitar. And you know, if you're in the
warm sun and a couple of beers, you might take
a nap, and we don't want you to do that.
So we decided to start going after these really performers
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that are visual and get around the stage and keep
people moving and going. And of course we learned that
having Bobby Rush there. So every performer you see this
year will you won't be taking a nap. They're very
exciting to watch. Their music is spot on and whenever
you get ready you can go have a Coke United
(10:01):
product or a Budweiser or whatever else you might enjoy
their so.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Good food, good music, good drinks. April twenty six. It
sounds like the place to be is at De Bartoladen Park.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh it is, it really is. It just gets to
be so much fun. Later in the afternoon, when you
know everybody's settled in, they got their spot, they've gone
got something to eat and you know, had a couple
of beverages of their chores. The kids are occupied. The
kid corner is ran by the legacy ymc AO Bestmers,
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so we got people over there. That's important.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
See, I got two kids and like, if I'm going
to music fester the kids are they good?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's right? Well, you can enjoy yourselven They can do
their thing, enjoy their selven. It's all encompassed, fenced in
in one block. It's this whole city square block and
I'm proud to say it gets more full every year.
So this year I just got a good feeling we're
going to have a really, really good, great festival. I
really do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And so the headliner goes on about what timer can
you use? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, they what we've gotten. There's some of the things
we've kind of learned. At first, you know, it was
like I was doing woodstock, and then I realized, you know,
let's trim it down a bit. And so now we're
spot on because our last performer goes up probably about
four thirty four forty five, and then and then we'll
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end the show and end the day at six, and
we'll just end it with just a hammer, you know,
because in the past, you know, I would have my
perform my last performer would be my big performer. But hey,
they've done I've already been there six hours and eat twice,
and so they're just ready to go. And so we've
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I was paying the most money to the walkout band,
So we kind of rearranged it now to where we're
we're right in the wheel house. You know all the
big performers well.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And if you spend the day there, and if you
have plans at night, you can go do your plans
at night, right, yes, yes, perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Time in this free park in anywhere around the venue
you can park. And when we shut down, man, you
can hit the interstate, go do your thing. And I
like the way we've got this line up. I think
this is the perfect model.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Gotcha awesome? So website where people can go get tickets.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, great, Bob Sykes Blues dot com for all detailed
and other information. You can go to event right purchase tickets.
You can come to the store and purchase tickets. We've
actually been selling a few, but Bob Sykes Blues dot
Com is your information Herearter and.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sykes is spelled s y k E. S all right, Van,
thanks for being here and thanks for sharing about the Sarks,
the Sykes Barbecue and Blues Festival that's going on on
April twenty six. Y'all stay tuned. We're going to take
a quick break. Bob Bart and Sol will be right back.
(13:07):
Welcome back to Bob Barn and Soul. Thanks so much
for joining us hanging out in the studio Cross Country
Mortgage Bradsmith Bradsmithlons dot com and also Van Sykes from
Sykes Barbecue. So gentlemen welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I know we kind of mixed around the show a
little bit today, and so let's let's go ahead and
jump into our mortgage game. So Brad, will you will
you tell our listeners the rules?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, So for anybody's first time listening or just don't remember,
and for the folks that are new in here in studio,
we play the mortgage game. Gus, you'll go through some
open houses or new listings they've got, and he will
give the purchase price of that home. At that point,
I will give a potential down payment that a borrower
may make on that property. At that point, Gusty and
I believe John and I believe Van are all going
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to guess the thirty year fixed principal and interest only
mortgage payment.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
John probably that all that all?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, I wrote it right now. I like to have
them the third get The third is awesome, so harder
with three, though it is harder, These are gonna be
a little closer too, So it's gonna be a little
bit of a cluster but I think it's gonna be
a fun cluster, all right. So then they will guess
the principal interest of the payment on that thirty year
fix once they figured out they do not know the
interest rate, and so they do not know the down
payment yet per property. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So I've got two open houses today, Brad. The first
one we're not going to play the game on. Okay,
and the reason why is it's only six thousand dollars
difference from another one of our listings.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was like, you know, let's call it all right,
But we do have. Our first open house of the
week is thirty one seventeen Ashwood Road in Hueytown, not
too far from from your neck of the woods. Van
is open this afternoon from twelve to two. This is
a five bedrooms, three baths, two thousand and seventy square
feet on the main level, twelve hundred and sixty finished
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in the basement. We're asking two hundred and forty six thousand.
This would be a perfect home where if you wanted
to have like your in law or you know, maybe
your your teenager and want kind of them in a
separate place, because you could theoretically have a three to
two and a two to one right in one whole house.
So anyways, Uh, go see Alita this afternoon from twelve
(15:17):
to two. So I wanted to get that one out
of the way. All right, You all ready to start
the game?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Start those game, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The second first new listing is open this afternoon from
two to four. It's fifteen oh eight Shady Oak Circle.
This is in the Grayson Valley area. Built in nineteen
eighty three. It's three bedrooms, three bass, recently renovated, thirteen
hundred and ninety square feet on the main level and
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approximately one thousand square feet finished in the basement. We
are asking one ninety nine nine, one ninety nine nine.
We're not finding too many houses under two hundred thousand
these days, especially with some renovations done. Screen, porch, fence, yard,
hold a sack lot. Go see Tony McDaniels this afternoon
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two to four. Nine.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
All right, we're gonna start off putting twenty percent down.
We're gonna put twenty percent down. One nine nine. Gus,
do you get to go, We'll go, We'll go.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Gus say, I feel like I need some music in
the background. It is there.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
There's our music, all right, twenty percent down?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
For those in the studio that do not have microphones on,
it's it's uh, we've got some music in there.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And yeah, they're going on.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It may may not be a famous game show, all right,
So all right, one, we're at five percent down?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
How many? How many down? See, nobody will become a
millionaire playing this game.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That's right. Let's go with nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Nine ninety nine. Yeah for mister googless, all right, John,
get to go second.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Ah, I think he's probably all over. I'm gonna go
a little lower. I'm gonna go nine sixty nine sixty
all right, then.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Alright, let's see. So we're gonna find it. It's about
one hundred and sixty I'm thinking. So we got the
low in the middle. So I'm gonna say that it's
gonna be around eleven hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Eleven hundred dollars a month. The actual payment was one
thousand and eleven dollars. Gusty gets round one.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh yeah, baby, he's back.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, twelve dollars different.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
If we could just ifact just moved the one over, man.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Let me just tell you one day, John literally hit
it on the number. Do you remember what the number was?
It was nine to sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
That's why I picked the number again. Yeah, yeah, I
was hoping Whiting strikes twice.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You give me a couple of weeks, the rates come
down a little more, John, and we get you there. Yeah. Hey.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Our next new listening of the week is in Trustful
one ten Cahaba Forest Drive, built in nineteen eighty six
on a third of an acre lot, three bedrooms and
two baths. It's fourteen hundred and twenty eight square feet
on the main level, another two hundred square feet finished
in the basement. And uh, let's see, we've got a
new roof a couple of years ago, water heater a
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couple of years ago. And oh, two car garage. How
about that? Two thirty nine to nine.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And Trustful with a two car garage? Would you look
at that?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Would you look at it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And this listing is courtesy of John Riddle, right right right,
all right? You said two forty two hundred forty thousand.
I'm sure for these purposes, let's do two forty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Okay for two for about I think my notes had
something else good? Yeah, ten percent percent down? Okay, two
we're gonna go two thirty nine to nine, so round
into two forty for John's purposes. Vans over here making
ten sent down. So John will go first this time
in the day, and you'll get to go second, and
Gusty gets to sit in third.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
All right, okay, so ten percent down. So I'm gonna
say twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right, man, all right, I'm up.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Let's say I'm looking at I'm see I'm gonna go one.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Thousand, fourteen hundred, fourteen hundred. The actual payment was thirteen
hundred and sixty five dollars. Gusty gets round two.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
That almost went fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know what's funny is I went ahead and moved
to the next one, and I was looking at that
price and I completely like made that price. Well but
still what you're saying, yeah pretty much. Actually I'm gonna
have to change it now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, well, don't know the down pay me.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's right. Well, good point, valid point. All right.
Our next new listing of the week is in Hayden, Alabama,
sitting on four acres your own farm, maybe fifteen to
fifteen County Highway seven, built in two thousand and six.
Three bedrooms, two baths, fifteen hundred and seventy nine square feet,
and we are asking two hundred and sixty thousand for
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the property two hundred and sixty. It's got a two
car garage and again a four acre lot. How nice
would that be?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
This listing is courtesy of Isaac Mervin. So Isaac, congratulations
on your new listing.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Good job by Isaac. All right, two sixty five percent down,
five percent down, five percent down, two sixty five percent down,
then you get to go first this time.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Five percent down. What was the shell prize to sixty?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, two sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I think that you're going to be. I think you're
gonna be at about sixteen hundred. I would say a month.
I'm gonna go about sixteen hundred a month.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Gotcha, Gusty's back one.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm gonna go fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Eleven, fifteen eleven for Gusty John.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I was gonna say fifteen ten, But you're gonna say
that I was trying to right, What does that say
right there on that show?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'll do it all right? Fifteen ten?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, hey, all that for nothing because it was fifteen
sixty one. So Van gets round.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right? All right?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Van is in the hole, all right, and I think
this is this is our last one of the week.
It is actually also in Hueytown. Look at look at
us go in the western side of things. Three forty
two Scotland Drive, built in two thousand and five on
almost a half acre lot, three bedrooms, two baths, garden
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home twenty twenty two square feet. That's a big old
garden home. Two ninety seven five to ninety seven five
and two Carter Rage. And I love this listing of
this courtesy of Freedom Whitley, and I love I love
her first comment, shut the front door. This one says
as a remark, shut the front door. So she's pretty
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excited about this one, and so should you. Two ninety
seven five to.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Ninety seven five our last property of the day that
we're gonna review, and we're gonna put three percent down,
three percent down. Two ninety seven five, Gusty, it's back
to you.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You said three percent down. Yeah, I did, Kidu ki okay, I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'm gonna go with eighteen seventy nine. Eighteen seventy nine,
it's good year for John. What happened on the I
bet John knows something. Eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm sure something happened.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It had to be going on.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I have a price, is me?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Now it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
John Going nineteen oh three, the year of the Right
Brothers first flight.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
See, we're always going to get some good information out of.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
John nineteen oh three, from John eighteen seventy nine, from
Gusty Van. What you got to ninety seventy five? Three
percent down?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Let's see, I'm gonna go at right, Let's see you
said eighteen, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna say nineteen you
take nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Nineteen even a right square footed man, this is tight.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This's a big house.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The actual payment nineteen hundred and nineteen oh three, eighteen
hundred and twenty four dollars. Gus, he gets round almost yea, yeah,
you're at Van kept it from being a clean sweet
so that.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Was proud to take one out for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah there, yeah, all right, man, All right, time is
already up. Hey, Hey, by the way, we've got we
got some houses coming soon in Bestmer, Birmingham mccallaugh. A
lot of good things happening on the real estate team.
All right, where we need to go from a website.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Bob Sykes Blues dot com will give you all the information, tickets, times, performers,
everything you need to know. Or come down to the
store at Wednesday or any other day but Sunday because
we're not there and I have have some good barbecue
and we can tell you all about it. But uh,
there you go, and tickets are available for sale at
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the restaurant or event bright dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
April twenty six, you want to be at Psychs Barbecue
and Blues Festival. Thanks so much for joining us. You'll
have a great day.
All right, welcome to bot Bart and Sold and uh man,
We've got a full studio in here.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
This is the most crowded it's ever been since I've
been here.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I love it. I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Obviously, we got Brad Smith with Cross Country Mortgage bradsmithlans
dot Com. What's up, dude?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I'm awesome? How about you?
Speaker 1 (00:16):
I'm great, I'm great. And we've also got Van Sykes
from Sykes Barbecue Investmer.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
How's it going Van, I'm doing great, right, appreciate you'll
have every Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Man, well, look I am really excited about what you've
got coming up. And so here's what we're going to
do on the show. If you've been listening to our show,
you know, we typically give a little bit of market
update and with and and we'll do our mortgage game,
and we're gonna kind of change things up a little
bit today. We've got you on here, so we're going
to dig in, so what's going on with your festival?
And then we're going to do some market updates, and
(00:47):
then our second segment, we're gonna do our mortgage game
and talk about our open houses and new listings. So
I just want to give our listeners a little heads up,
But all right, this is the fourteenth annual YIX Barbeque
You Blues Festival, fourteen years.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I know I've had to sit and do the math
a couple of times make sure that was correct, because
it seems like it could be the fourth or fifth one.
But actually, if it weren't for the interruption of the pandemic,
we would be on number sixteenth. So but I'm not
counting what you never had. So it's the fourteenth time
that we've done it. We've planned it sixteen times. But
(01:24):
you know, where this is the fourteenth annual, And as
I always say, and I really mean, this could be
the best one because you learn every year, and we've
learned some stuff and clipped some stuff, added some stuff,
and I think even the regular attendees this year that
have been coming, we're going to see a really probably
(01:46):
the best show that we've had, because you know, I've
got to trying to change my model a little bit
where I as I go through the day, I actually
get to performers that are like Grammy winning or Grammy
nominated performers that travel the world literally playing blues music
because believe it or not, it's it's big in Europe
(02:09):
or bigger than it is here.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Interesting.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
One thing I've had to learn is there's a blues
season in the in the United States and it's during
the spring, and it's like a trail. So you try
to hire these musicians where they can go and play
close to each other and make it affordable for everybody.
So that's one of the things we've learned through the years,
is to catch the blues trail I like it, so
(02:33):
to speak, and and then that way we're able to
get these really incredible performers.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Let's talk about who's performing well this year.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
I'm starting out with a local favorite kid Sly and
Miss Hurricane Alene is the scene Lane, absolutely a great local,
local artist. And then I've got Rishad the Blues. This
is a young man who's a blues artist from Laurel, Mississippi,
(03:05):
and he is in the genre of keeping the blues
music alive, the root of it. Then I've got de
Dre who has performed there before. She's the Alabama blues Queen.
She travels the world. She spends time in Europe, and
her husband, Keith and Ruff, was the guitar player for
(03:26):
Bobby Rush for many years and so they've performed together
all over the world. They're solid, they're tired, they put
on a great show. And then after that, I got
Southern Avenue that's a Grammy nominated blues and soul group
out of Memphis and they have toured extensively in the
United States and Europe. And then to close the show out,
(03:48):
I've got Shamika Copeland. She's won many many Blues awards
and she also has her own EXEM radio channel. Yes,
and that Southern Avenue I think has a song on
the blues charts now. So these are like professional people that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are bringing in some top talent.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, if you're a blue if you're a Blue Spaner,
want to get into the blues, things like this is
would be great. Like if you already know about it,
it's awesome, And if you don't, this is a great
intro into it.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
If you it is, because I don't know that you'd
find a better line up for ten dollars. Yeah, so
if you buy your tickets ahead of time, it's ten dollars.
But we're asking everybody to bring a can good because
we're partnered up with a Food Bank of Central Alabama.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Okay, wonderful.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
They've opened a they're opening a facility investment, and I
thought it would be a great time to form a
good partnership with them. So the whole lot is just
let's just fill the park up with people.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
And so where's it going to be held at?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Well, it's this is always fun to say, it's the
Bardi Laban Park. Don't ask me how to spell it.
I actually had a news acre one time that just
I can't do it, just to just say the park.
But everybody of those it's the Bartle Abron Park. It's
in the middle of bestmer It's an old park. Number
(05:09):
one comment every year is, wow, what a beautiful park
I'll have here. It's one of those parks that was built,
Uh when cities built parks like that. And uh, it's
a wonderful venue for an outdoor concert. So yeah, that's
the gates. We're going to open at eleven. We're going
to start the music at twelve. We'll obviously be selling barbecue.
(05:34):
We have other food vendors.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Is all the way delicious.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Thank you. I appreciate that, I really do.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
I stopped by about a month ago and and caught
brisket day.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
Oh the fabulous day.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yeah, that was that was pretty sweet.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
That's my favorite day. It's fun because we sit there
and cut it right there, you know, while everybody's standing
there watching it, and they just fascinated it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
My phone must have been messed up that day or something.
I get the right now.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Starving, But y'all please if you can come out to
the festival. But this year, as in past years, my
presenting sponsors a City Investment and Coke United, and then
I've got community sponsors that have really been fantastic. US
Pipe is a huge employer investment. They're going to be
(06:26):
a sponsor, Cisco Food, Step one, Chevrolet, UA B Medical
West with the new hospital out there on four fifty nine.
And then I have US Foods and I think I
got all of them in. They've got several other sponsors too.
But it's the kind of deal where you come out
for the day, you bring your chair, planning to stay
(06:47):
the day. We have kids activities children eight and under free.
And then the great thing about this facility though, see
is it's got trees, so you're not bacon under the
sun while you're watching this good which some venues are
just like that, but in this park, you're able to
find a shady spot see the stage, and we hope
(07:10):
you just spend the day with allright.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
So April twenty six, right, that's a Saturday, right, and
de bartle Abn Park Investment, Right, ten dollars tickets before
the show, before the show and at the at the
at the show, at the gate, they're fifteen fifteen dollars,
and bring at least one can of food for the
Community Bank of Central Bank.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
That would be fantastic. Yes, and come out and just
have a great time.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
You know, I love it. I love it all right.
So you've had this for years? Is there a performance
or a performer in that year span that that's just
like kind of you know, cemented in your mind that
just kind of blew you away.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Yes, absolutely, without a doubt. Bobby Rush. Okay, Bobby Rush
has won three Grammys. He won one actually after he
had performed for us. He's been in several movies. If
you've never seen a Bobby Rush show, I urge you
to catch one. Because we decided what we would do
when we would get Bobby Rush and the Bobby Rush Dancers.
(08:11):
That was a good call. He puts on a great,
great show. It's just the kind of thing you can't
even describe it. And I think when he performed for
me last time, he was eighty seven years old. Oh my,
and he doesn't stop. He goes the entire time. I
think he played three encores because the people just love him.
(08:34):
It's a very visual show. That one always sticks out
in my mind because you could just feel that he
was born to do this and he's been doing it
a long time, and it's a craft. He puts nothing
but professionals around him. And then I would say after that,
maybe I think it was last year, you're before we
(08:56):
had this guy come up from Nashville and he came
up been a tour bus. I mean, we actually had
our first tour bus. Oh man, we're getting there now.
Bobby rolls low. You know he's got the van and
you know the entourage is behind him. But he is
a total one hundred cent professional. That has been one
(09:17):
of the great shows that we had. So something we
learned early on is some people might think, and it
is true, that some blue gendres are just a whole
lot of guitar. And you know, if you're in the
warm sun and a couple of beers, you might take
a nap, and we don't want you to do that.
So we decided to start going after these really performers
(09:39):
that are visual and get around the stage and keep
people moving and going. And of course we learned that
having Bobby Rush there. So every performer you see this
year will you won't be taking a nap. They're very
exciting to watch. Their music is spot on and whenever
you get ready you can go have a Coke United
(10:01):
product or a Budweiser or whatever else you might enjoy
their so.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Good food, good music, good drinks. April twenty six. It
sounds like the place to be is at De Bartoladen Park.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Oh it is, it really is. It just gets to
be so much fun. Later in the afternoon, when you
know everybody's settled in, they got their spot, they've gone
got something to eat and you know, had a couple
of beverages of their chores. The kids are occupied. The
kid corner is ran by the legacy ymc AO Bestmers,
(10:35):
so we got people over there. That's important.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
See, I got two kids and like, if I'm going
to music fester the kids are they good?
Speaker 3 (10:43):
That's right? Well, you can enjoy yourselven They can do
their thing, enjoy their selven. It's all encompassed, fenced in
in one block. It's this whole city square block and
I'm proud to say it gets more full every year.
So this year I just got a good feeling we're
going to have a really, really good, great festival. I
really do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And so the headliner goes on about what timer can
you use? Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, they what we've gotten. There's some of the things
we've kind of learned. At first, you know, it was
like I was doing woodstock, and then I realized, you know,
let's trim it down a bit. And so now we're
spot on because our last performer goes up probably about
four thirty four forty five, and then and then we'll
(11:30):
end the show and end the day at six, and
we'll just end it with just a hammer, you know,
because in the past, you know, I would have my
perform my last performer would be my big performer. But hey,
they've done I've already been there six hours and eat twice,
and so they're just ready to go. And so we've
(11:51):
I was paying the most money to the walkout band,
So we kind of rearranged it now to where we're
we're right in the wheel house. You know all the
big performers well.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
And if you spend the day there, and if you
have plans at night, you can go do your plans
at night, right, yes, yes, perfect.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Time in this free park in anywhere around the venue
you can park. And when we shut down, man, you
can hit the interstate, go do your thing. And I
like the way we've got this line up. I think
this is the perfect model.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Gotcha awesome? So website where people can go get tickets.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Yeah, great, Bob Sykes Blues dot com for all detailed
and other information. You can go to event right purchase tickets.
You can come to the store and purchase tickets. We've
actually been selling a few, but Bob Sykes Blues dot
Com is your information Herearter and.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sykes is spelled s y k E. S all right, Van,
thanks for being here and thanks for sharing about the Sarks,
the Sykes Barbecue and Blues Festival that's going on on
April twenty six. Y'all stay tuned. We're going to take
a quick break. Bob Bart and Sol will be right back.
(13:07):
Welcome back to Bob Barn and Soul. Thanks so much
for joining us hanging out in the studio Cross Country
Mortgage Bradsmith Bradsmithlons dot com and also Van Sykes from
Sykes Barbecue. So gentlemen welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
All right.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
I know we kind of mixed around the show a
little bit today, and so let's let's go ahead and
jump into our mortgage game. So Brad, will you will
you tell our listeners the rules?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Yeah, So for anybody's first time listening or just don't remember,
and for the folks that are new in here in studio,
we play the mortgage game. Gus, you'll go through some
open houses or new listings they've got, and he will
give the purchase price of that home. At that point,
I will give a potential down payment that a borrower
may make on that property. At that point, Gusty and
I believe John and I believe Van are all going
(13:55):
to guess the thirty year fixed principal and interest only
mortgage payment.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
John probably that all that all?
Speaker 2 (14:02):
No, I wrote it right now. I like to have
them the third get The third is awesome, so harder
with three, though it is harder, These are gonna be
a little closer too, So it's gonna be a little
bit of a cluster but I think it's gonna be
a fun cluster, all right. So then they will guess
the principal interest of the payment on that thirty year
fix once they figured out they do not know the
interest rate, and so they do not know the down
payment yet per property. All right.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
So I've got two open houses today, Brad. The first
one we're not going to play the game on. Okay,
and the reason why is it's only six thousand dollars
difference from another one of our listings.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I was like, you know, let's call it all right,
But we do have. Our first open house of the
week is thirty one seventeen Ashwood Road in Hueytown, not
too far from from your neck of the woods. Van
is open this afternoon from twelve to two. This is
a five bedrooms, three baths, two thousand and seventy square
feet on the main level, twelve hundred and sixty finished
(14:55):
in the basement. We're asking two hundred and forty six thousand.
This would be a perfect home where if you wanted
to have like your in law or you know, maybe
your your teenager and want kind of them in a
separate place, because you could theoretically have a three to
two and a two to one right in one whole house.
So anyways, Uh, go see Alita this afternoon from twelve
(15:17):
to two. So I wanted to get that one out
of the way. All right, You all ready to start
the game?
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Start those game, all right.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
The second first new listing is open this afternoon from
two to four. It's fifteen oh eight Shady Oak Circle.
This is in the Grayson Valley area. Built in nineteen
eighty three. It's three bedrooms, three bass, recently renovated, thirteen
hundred and ninety square feet on the main level and
(15:44):
approximately one thousand square feet finished in the basement. We
are asking one ninety nine nine, one ninety nine nine.
We're not finding too many houses under two hundred thousand
these days, especially with some renovations done. Screen, porch, fence, yard,
hold a sack lot. Go see Tony McDaniels this afternoon
(16:05):
two to four. Nine.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
All right, we're gonna start off putting twenty percent down.
We're gonna put twenty percent down. One nine nine. Gus,
do you get to go, We'll go, We'll go.
Speaker 1 (16:16):
Gus say, I feel like I need some music in
the background. It is there.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
There's our music, all right, twenty percent down?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
For those in the studio that do not have microphones on,
it's it's uh, we've got some music in there.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And yeah, they're going on.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
It may may not be a famous game show, all right,
So all right, one, we're at five percent down?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
How many? How many down? See, nobody will become a
millionaire playing this game.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
That's right. Let's go with nine ninety nine.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Nine ninety nine. Yeah for mister googless, all right, John,
get to go second.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
Ah, I think he's probably all over. I'm gonna go
a little lower. I'm gonna go nine sixty nine sixty
all right, then.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Alright, let's see. So we're gonna find it. It's about
one hundred and sixty I'm thinking. So we got the
low in the middle. So I'm gonna say that it's
gonna be around eleven hundred dollars a month.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Eleven hundred dollars a month. The actual payment was one
thousand and eleven dollars. Gusty gets round one.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Oh yeah, baby, he's back.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
Yeah, twelve dollars different.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
If we could just ifact just moved the one over, man.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Let me just tell you one day, John literally hit
it on the number. Do you remember what the number was?
It was nine to sixty.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
That's why I picked the number again. Yeah, yeah, I
was hoping Whiting strikes twice.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
You give me a couple of weeks, the rates come
down a little more, John, and we get you there. Yeah. Hey.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Our next new listening of the week is in Trustful
one ten Cahaba Forest Drive, built in nineteen eighty six
on a third of an acre lot, three bedrooms and
two baths. It's fourteen hundred and twenty eight square feet
on the main level, another two hundred square feet finished
in the basement. And uh, let's see, we've got a
new roof a couple of years ago, water heater a
(18:24):
couple of years ago. And oh, two car garage. How
about that? Two thirty nine to nine.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Wow?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And Trustful with a two car garage? Would you look
at that?
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Would you look at it?
Speaker 1 (18:37):
And this listing is courtesy of John Riddle, right right right,
all right? You said two forty two hundred forty thousand.
I'm sure for these purposes, let's do two forty.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Okay for two for about I think my notes had
something else good? Yeah, ten percent percent down? Okay, two
we're gonna go two thirty nine to nine, so round
into two forty for John's purposes. Vans over here making
ten sent down. So John will go first this time
in the day, and you'll get to go second, and
Gusty gets to sit in third.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
All right, okay, so ten percent down. So I'm gonna
say twelve hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
All right, man, all right, I'm up.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Let's say I'm looking at I'm see I'm gonna go one.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
Thousand, fourteen hundred, fourteen hundred. The actual payment was thirteen
hundred and sixty five dollars. Gusty gets round two.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
That almost went fifteen hundred.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
You know what's funny is I went ahead and moved
to the next one, and I was looking at that
price and I completely like made that price. Well but
still what you're saying, yeah pretty much. Actually I'm gonna
have to change it now.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Yeah, well, don't know the down pay me.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Yeah, that's right. Well, good point, valid point. All right.
Our next new listing of the week is in Hayden, Alabama,
sitting on four acres your own farm, maybe fifteen to
fifteen County Highway seven, built in two thousand and six.
Three bedrooms, two baths, fifteen hundred and seventy nine square feet,
and we are asking two hundred and sixty thousand for
(20:25):
the property two hundred and sixty. It's got a two
car garage and again a four acre lot. How nice
would that be?
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Right?
Speaker 1 (20:34):
This listing is courtesy of Isaac Mervin. So Isaac, congratulations
on your new listing.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Good job by Isaac. All right, two sixty five percent down,
five percent down, five percent down, two sixty five percent down,
then you get to go first this time.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
Five percent down. What was the shell prize to sixty?
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Yeah, two sixty.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
I think that you're going to be. I think you're
gonna be at about sixteen hundred. I would say a month.
I'm gonna go about sixteen hundred a month.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Gotcha, Gusty's back one.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I'm gonna go fifteen.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Eleven, fifteen eleven for Gusty John.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
I was gonna say fifteen ten, But you're gonna say
that I was trying to right, What does that say
right there on that show?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
I'll do it all right? Fifteen ten?
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Well, hey, all that for nothing because it was fifteen
sixty one. So Van gets round.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
All right? All right?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Van is in the hole, all right, and I think
this is this is our last one of the week.
It is actually also in Hueytown. Look at look at
us go in the western side of things. Three forty
two Scotland Drive, built in two thousand and five on
almost a half acre lot, three bedrooms, two baths, garden
(22:00):
home twenty twenty two square feet. That's a big old
garden home. Two ninety seven five to ninety seven five
and two Carter Rage. And I love this listing of
this courtesy of Freedom Whitley, and I love I love
her first comment, shut the front door. This one says
as a remark, shut the front door. So she's pretty
(22:23):
excited about this one, and so should you. Two ninety
seven five to.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Ninety seven five our last property of the day that
we're gonna review, and we're gonna put three percent down,
three percent down. Two ninety seven five, Gusty, it's back
to you.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You said three percent down. Yeah, I did, Kidu ki okay, I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I'm gonna go with eighteen seventy nine. Eighteen seventy nine,
it's good year for John. What happened on the I
bet John knows something. Eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I'm sure something happened.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
It had to be going on.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I have a price, is me?
Speaker 2 (23:15):
Now it's up to you.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
John Going nineteen oh three, the year of the Right
Brothers first flight.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
See, we're always going to get some good information out of.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
John nineteen oh three, from John eighteen seventy nine, from
Gusty Van. What you got to ninety seventy five? Three
percent down?
Speaker 3 (23:33):
Let's see, I'm gonna go at right, Let's see you
said eighteen, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna say nineteen you
take nineteen nineteen.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Nineteen even a right square footed man, this is tight.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
This's a big house.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Eighteen seventy nine.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
The actual payment nineteen hundred and nineteen oh three, eighteen
hundred and twenty four dollars. Gus, he gets round almost yea, yeah,
you're at Van kept it from being a clean sweet
so that.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Was proud to take one out for sure.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Yeah there, yeah, all right, man, All right, time is
already up. Hey, Hey, by the way, we've got we
got some houses coming soon in Bestmer, Birmingham mccallaugh. A
lot of good things happening on the real estate team.
All right, where we need to go from a website.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Bob Sykes Blues dot com will give you all the information, tickets, times, performers,
everything you need to know. Or come down to the
store at Wednesday or any other day but Sunday because
we're not there and I have have some good barbecue
and we can tell you all about it. But uh,
there you go, and tickets are available for sale at
(24:55):
the restaurant or event bright dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
April twenty six, you want to be at Psychs Barbecue
and Blues Festival. Thanks so much for joining us. You'll
have a great day.
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