Business Happy Hour 2025-01-26 Podcast

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Business Happy Hour radio show with your
host Frank the Bank Koto, president of Lincoln Lending Group
and he won three mortgage for twenty years right here
in Tampa Bay, joined by his incredible co host Rosa
Bahiti and Sinia Akishna, top producing real estate agents with
Mahara and Associates. These three bring nearly five decades of

(00:21):
experience in the local real estate market. If you're looking
for real estate or business advice, no matter what your
experience level, the Business Happy Hour team has been there
for you for almost a decade right here on news
radio WFLA. Now sit back, relax, and get ready for
some serious real estate and business talk with three of
Tampa Bay's top experts.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
Here's Frank the Bank. All right, guys, welcome back to
the Business Happy Are, your number one show for all
things business and entrepreneurial. I am at your host, Frank
Thebank COODO. That's right, guys. You can check me out
at Contact Frank the Bank or Reverse Guru if you
do over sixty two and you need a reverse mortgage,
or you can just always call or text me eight
one three mortgage dot com in studio with my amazing

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co host Sandia A Keisha, How you doing? Hello?

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Oh man, if it wasn't for this.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Weather man, right, yeah, I was like getting here, I
missed a turn, got me all dishoveled calls.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
She's like, I'm running late. I'm like, that's okay, that's
the first time, and I'm late every time, so you're
good for once. I'm actually on time, Senia. We have
I mean, this is the fullest our studio's ever been. Yes,
what do you think she walked in today? Did you
realize what you were walking into?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
I did not. I literally fun.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
We have seven guests in here today. We have a
whole bunch of fighters. That's right. These are not the
guys who knocked my ass out a couple a week
ago over here. That was a huge, huge dude named
an armoire, and I ran my freaking face into it.
So stop making fun of you, guys. But this is
perfect timing because the guy who you see on the screen,

(01:52):
By the way, your instan is not on.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
I said you a request a few times because you
didn't invite me.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Oh again, it didn't work. There it goes. You can
see my buddy on the screen here, mister Brandon Lee,
one of my oldest friends. He's actually the guy who
I picked up and called first thing in the morning
after I did this to myself and my exact words,
I'm like, all right, Brandon, what the hell do I
do with this thing? And what'd you tell me?

Speaker 5 (02:15):
Gotta go straight down to CBS and get that rubber
cement for you right out. Don't worry about your only
ohen One. We'll get you back on that.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
I know.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I'm owen one. At least I have vigilant MMA on
here with me today, so maybe I'll get some tips
on what to do. You can see some of my
videos I put out. I did try to fight back,
but I almost broke my finger punching the damn thing.
So either way, note to self, watch out for doors
and dressers when you get up at five in the
morning and don't walk your ass into them. That's much smarter.

Speaker 5 (02:43):
Or punch inanimate objects.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
Or punch inanimate objects, that's right. We were not going
to do either one. So it's gonna be a great
show as normal. We're gonna start with our market update.
Sinny and I are going to talk about the real
estate market and what the heck is going on. We've
got some other big news that just happened yesterday. Do
you know what happened yesterday?

Speaker 3 (02:59):
So it happened yesterday.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Well, the Golden Age of America started again.

Speaker 4 (03:04):
Oh that news, Oh gosh, everybody knows.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
That's the only thing that was on TV, running all day.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
For seven hours straight. Donald Trump was on TV. I mean,
that guy was talking, he was interviewing. Probably one of
my favorite parts of it, and Brandon's a big trumper
as well, is the guy sitting there signing two hundred
executive orders and taking questions from the.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Press right the whole time, right while Biden is over
there signing off for the crime family as he's walking
out the door exactly.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
I mean, listen, I will say this pardon thing, all right,
it might be a little out of hand. I think
maybe Congress needs to kind of look at it and
be like, ah, I'm not a big fan of these
preemptive pardons where they pardon like Fauci for ten years
back and ten years four or something crazy thing or
something like that. I mean, listen, the whole thing about
partnering his son. I'm not a hater, all right, I

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would pardon my son all right, I'm gonna let that go.
But pardoning people for crimes from going back ten years
and then and then future, how can you pardon.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Somebody if they haven't done anything, not even been charged,
i mean, not even been accused yet.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Supposedly, right, So what that kind of tells me.

Speaker 5 (04:13):
Is guilty as hem.

Speaker 2 (04:17):
What do you think? Then I'll go with him.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I mean, yeah, it's a little it's a little odd.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
It's a little odd.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
Yeah, I mean go back to twenty twenty CNN, MSNBC.
They all talked about as Trump was going out of office,
they were so scared that he was going to blanket
part in his family for all of these crimes that
they did, put it right that they didn't do, and
then he went out office, nothing happened. Now you go
back and play those videos and it's like, well, this
is you're doing the exact thing that you're saying no
one should do.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Oh it's hilarious, it is. But I'm very positive. I'm
you know, Senny and I in real estate. She's with
the Mahara and associates, which talk about a great team.
These guys are, Oh, you know, we're got to start
doing it. We'll start in February talking about where Mahara is.
Do you know what you guys closed out with at
the end of the year. How many millions or transactions?

Speaker 4 (04:59):
It was around I think three hundred and forty million,
maybe a little over.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That, but many million.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
I mean, considering that, you know, it was kind of
just the worst year.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Nothing was going on for a good couple of months
because of the hurricane and everything.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
So no, we did well.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
We have, you know, even higher goals for next year
or this year, shoot this year.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, yeah, So that's it's gonna be exciting. I'm looking
forward to a big year, you know. Bring up you
know MLK Day was yesterday. Great. I mean, how amazing
was that you had the inauguration on MLK Day. I
saw thing. It was like Loretta King or somebody was
chiming in on it. I thought it was amazing. But anyway,
super excited to get into it. Sinny and I obviously
are looking for some positive things happening in the real
estate market. So I'm going to defer to Cinya and

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see if we have any new stats. I don't know
if it's a good day or bad day until I
sit down with her.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
Well, my days My good days are when I get
the new stats.

Speaker 4 (05:51):
So I'm like, I can't wait to see, you know,
how we closed out December, which hopefully on the next show,
I will have.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Those numbers perfect. I'm holding you to that.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
But you know things are they're they're hopefully picking up.
We have, you know, high hopes for this year. You know,
things are steady. Yeah, you know I personally, you know,
I'm starting off the year pretty okay, good, no complaints then,
but we're like, you know, we've got our engines revved up.
So Bahara and Associates, We've got lots of new things,
you know, going on, lots of new marketing things we

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want to try.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
So yeah, we want to make it a great year.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah. We had a great meeting myself Sinian Ray last
week and talking about what's going to happen in the
key is you have you know, a few business owners
here who are collaborating and we are looking to the
future and we were making the right moves. So Maharan Associates,
you're going to have to reach out to Sennya if
you want to talk about finding a home, and then
of course you've got to get preapproved over here with
Frank de Bake, Senya. What's the best way to find you?

Speaker 4 (06:44):
Give me a call at eight one three seven five
five reel, or you can just go online Tampa real Estate.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Dot pro, Tampa real Estate dot pro very easy, and
you can check out the houses they have for sale
over there as well. And if you need help with
the numbers, you're going to go to eight one threege
or just find me on one of the social media channels.
By the way, guys, if you're watching this right now,
like and share, send that thing out there. Let's get
more friends to check it out. In a minute, tier
we're going to get in with my buddy Brandon Lee.

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He is the founder and matchmaker for Vigilant Vigilant MMA.
You can find them at vigilantmma dot co. That's dot
co dot com, vigilantmma dot co and that's where you
can get the tickets to what number event is.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
This, Brandon Combat Quest thirty nine.

Speaker 2 (07:27):
Thirty not dude, I was there for number one.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Correct. Actually you were there before it was even combat Quest.
You came to the very first show I was ever
involved with out there in Newport, Ritchie. Yeah, yes, and
you actually sponsored that show I did, and then after
that was when I was like, you know what, I
think I can do this all on my own. And
that's when we founded Vigilant.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I love it, and you know, I'll we'll talk a
little bit more about our real estate and then I'm
gonna I want people to hear your story because you
have a story of vigilance, vigilance and perseverance. I think
now that's why you named it, isn't it absolutely exactly?
I just figure that out. But perseverance like like no other.
We'll get to that in a minute. It's a story
where Brandon actually was paralyzed, but he is still here

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today and he actually got up to the studio on
his own power today, which when you hear the story,
it's gonna blow your mind. And then on the second
half of the show, guys, get ready, we have four
fighters in this room right now. That not no fighting,
no fighting in here. This is Oh that's that what
they did. That's where Sennia is from, so she knows,

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she knows she walked. That's why she was a little
scared when she walked in.

Speaker 4 (08:29):
That's why I'm here Florida, the US of A.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
Yeah, I've never been a fighter.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
How about real estate prices. Do you think they're going
to go up my beach condo on the Gulf of
America on.

Speaker 3 (08:40):
The Gulf of America. Yeah, I do. I definitely do. I.

Speaker 5 (08:46):
By the way, Cort, go ahead, yeah, yeah da. Let
me introduce. This is my cohort, my business partner, my promoter,
dB Ferira, dB.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
How you doing today.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
I'm doing really well. Thank you for having us man.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
So dB, what do you do with Vigilant?

Speaker 6 (08:59):
Well, we we're excited about what we have, We're excited
about the brand. I help Brandon actually, you know, get
that to meet the road with the fighters. I get
everybody pumped up. I make sure that all their needs
have met. We want fighters to fight for us, that
want to fight for us, and so I agreet everyone.
Anytime belts exchange, I'm up there on the on the
on the cage stage. We like to call it uh

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And in particular this next fight we have coming up,
I'll have my son with me. It's his birthday, so
we'll have him dressed up, you know, in the same
suits and the red and black Vigilant colors.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
Now you're putting the belts on him too.

Speaker 6 (09:30):
Yeah, we can it all depends on what we work
out with, the work with the with the fighters. Some
of them you don't want to touch when they're done.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
With so TV Brandon, I would. I don't know what
number it was. I went to like a year or
something like that, and he's like, dude, he's like, come
up there, we'll announce you. You're a big sponsor. He's like,
and you can put the belt on the champion. And
I'm over here like, dude, that sounds awesome, right, I'm
gonna put the belt on the champion. A Nobody showed
me how to put the belt on. Okay, never put
a freaking belt boxing or mm A belt right on myself,

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much less another dude. And this guy was like seventy
or something. I couldn't even get my first all. I
did it wrong, but I couldn't get my freaking arms
around it. And I'm like, face, face back, sweat on
the dude.

Speaker 5 (10:08):
I'm like, have you ever seen along came Polly?

Speaker 7 (10:10):
Oh?

Speaker 5 (10:11):
That's what it was.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
It was horrendous, And I'm wearing this nice jacket in
If you see the video, I mean, you see my
face and I don't remember if I gave up or
what happened. I'm just like, all right, bro, here's your belt, right,
somebody getting a rag?

Speaker 5 (10:24):
That was exactly what happened. You said, nope, nope, no, in.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Order to avoid that.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Now, that's why I meet with the guys they come
in for the way in the day before, we talked
to him and say, listen, you're gonna be excited. You're
not gonna remember. Let's try to get this downpack from now.
Make it good for you, good for me, good for
the show, good for the promotion. That's really what we
care about.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
See, I should have had that pre fight meeting. That
would have worked out really well.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
That was way back. Let me defend myself here. That
was way back at like Combat Quest nine. We're now
at like thirty nine, so we've we've definitely upgraded our staff,
our procedure, and DB's being humble. He does a lot
of stuff behind the scenes. Man, he's really he's the
anchor for me that gets a lot of things done
that my crippled ask probably could.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
All right, well, I get I look at the fighters
in here, and this isn't take away from because they
could all kick my ass, but I'm I think one
of them. No, no, I could get the belt around
two of you for sure. Maybe definitely not Freaka, all right,
definitely not. I'm not I'm not doing that. So anyway,
let's see a little more about we got another minute
in our first segment. What else I'm feeling it, Senia,

(11:20):
I'm feeling the pop like you know, what are you.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Feel it with interest rates?

Speaker 4 (11:23):
Like, I'm curious about that because I don't think we
started off the year like we were.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
Expecting with that.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
No, no, we didn't. But I'm gonna say this, we
I think in the next month we're gonna see something
happen because I think I think Trump really does have
something in store for us, and he's talking about working
with certain organizations that are tied to that, one of
them being the CFPB. If they can deregulate interest rates
may not even be as much of a conversation. If
they can pull back regulations on loans, it could change

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the market. That way, got twenty seconds, so I'm gonna
throw it. I'll pick this up in the next segment
for you guys will talk more about interest rates in
the beginning of the second but I will say this,
FHA and v A. Your government rates right now are
in the high fives. They are not in the high sixes.
So that's where we have to start, is by educating
people where they really are and what you can qualify for.
We'll take a break here and be back in just
a minute with Vigilant Mma, dB and Brandon. Don't forget

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to go to Vigilant MMA dot Co. Would be back
in just a minute.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Now. We're back with some serious real estate and business
talk with three of Tampa Bay's top experts, your host
of the Business Happy Hour, Frank Debangkoto, Rosa Biti and Senya.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
All right, Tampa Bay, We're gonna get right into it
today because we have so many guests that we want
you to meet with a want of guys to be
able to meet these fighters. We appreciate dB coming in
the promoter here for Vigilant MMA, right hand man for
mister Brandon Lee, the founder and the matchmaker. I like
that matchmaker founding you. That's nice. You gotta hear Brandon's

(12:48):
story though I've known this guy since nineteen ninety five.
Holy Crab ninety three. Yeah, ninety three has good points.
I mean, I guess we have like an anniversary coming
up here, like thirty years. I cannot believe we are
that old, but that's when we got to know each other.
He's always been one of the toughest guys I've ever known.
He's the guy that I would call if I had
had a little kerfuffle that I had to deal with

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in the alley or anything. But we're gonna finish with
rates really quick, and the we're gonna find out Brandon's
story because this man went from lying in a bed
in the hospital. I was there the day after his
accident and he could not even move a pinky and
I stood there. I get emotional to talk about this,
but I stood there crying next to you. They can
I'm never going to see this guy stand up ever again,

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ever again. And he's in my studio right now, and
he made it here on his own accord. So we're
going to find out how the hell did that happen.
I'll leave you guys with this with rates. Rates are
way better than what people are telling you they are
right now. Rates are in the high fives on government
and conventional. We just locked five point seven to five
on a VA loan. We locked five point seven on
an FAHA loan. So do not listen to the news media.

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Like Sinnya said, what's going on with rates? We don't
have to wait for them to follow though. It's going
to happen. But you need to marry the house and
date the rate and get yourself in the fives, not
in the sixes like everybody's advertising. The big banks are greedy.
Contact frankdbank dot com. We'll get in touch with you
on that. Brandon. Just let's tell your story something. What
you got. You were paralyzed back. I don't remember how

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long ago, just go.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
So yeah, man, well we graduated jesuit together, back to
ninety seven. I went to Florida, you know, real college.
Frank went to Florida State.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
All right, another dig yep.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
And you know after college, I bounced around doing different
things and just really never really found my pace. And
eventually I'd gotten myself into some trouble with the law.
I'd gotten myself into some trouble some other things, and
I just said, you know what, I've always enjoyed fighting.
I've always enjoyed the competition of it, even though most
of it was done illegitimately.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
I didn't get paid for it.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
No, it didn't get paid a dollar but I enjoyed
the heck out of it, and so I was like,
I'm really going to make a run at this, and
I started really getting serious. I first I did boxing,
I went twenty four and five. Then I moved on
to kickboxing. I went eleven and four one an hour
national title. Then I got into MMA, won my first two.
Then I lost a title fight, and right after that
title fight, me and the girl I had been dating

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at that time. She and I had a very volatile relationship,
and on July sixth, twenty eleven, a couple of weeks
before I was going to defend that national title, me
and her got into a car wreck. We were screaming
and yelling and arguing with each other and you know,
the FUI hate you kind of stuff, and it just
kept escalating, and I said, you know what, that's it.
We're done. And she looked at me with some big

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old eyes and she said, oh, we're done. And I
just went underneath my throat like this, and she floored
it and ran us. Took us off the road into
the trees, going seventy eighty miles an hour. The car
flipped a bunch of times, and yeah, when it stopped flipping,
I fell to the bottom of the car. My neck
was broken, all of my ribs on my right side

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were punctured, and from that point on July six, twenty eleven,
I've been an incomplete quadriplegic.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Jesus. And then that's when I got to see A
couple days later, which was one of the most emotional
experiences of my life. I feel like I got, you know,
trauma from being in there, nothing like you. But how
did you? How did you get back on your feet?
How did you do that? And then to go on
to start this organization vigilant MMA and be on your
thirty what thirty ninth fight.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
And well and then when you include all the other
spin off shows that we've done, we're actually on number
fifty one in total. Wow, because we've done six jiu
jitsu shows, six boxing shows, and it'll be our second
influencer card as well.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
So how did you? I mean I saw you laying
there in the hospital. How do you go from literally
not being able to move a finger to being here
with us today?

Speaker 5 (16:38):
God got me yep? And being vigilant and being vigilant, yes, sir,
it takes both. It's not you can't you can have
all the faith in the world, but you still got
to put in the work.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
How long before you could even sit up, or even
stand or anything.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
I mean it was months. Nothing worked in my whole
body for months. And I remember when the doctors came in,
the two surgeons and operated on me, came in and
told my family, Hey, look, you know, he's not moved
any thing. It's just his eyeballs in his mouth. Nothing
else is functioning. You guys are gonna have to accept this.
Start thinking about medical equipment to have at the house,
Start thinking about your caretaker situation. Who's going to be

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on shifts, who are you guys going to hire? You know,
all these things. And I'm just sitting there listening to
this thinking man. Not even four months ago, I was
preparing to kickbox three fights in one day because the
tournament that I won the year before that, I was
a national champion. I fought three times in one day
to win. So I had been murdering myself training and
then it was like all of a sudden boom, the
lights flash, And now four months has gone by and

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nothing in my entire body works. And I'll never forget
that day because I had a you know, divine moment
with the Lord. And I was laying there in the
hospital bed after the doctors had told us this, and
I just felt this warmth and this this energy come
into the room that night while I was I was
laying there crying. I'm being honest, I was cursing God.

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I was sitting there cursing him and blaming him for
what the bad decisions I had made. They got me there,
and I was cursing him and blaming him and felt
this warmth and this energy come into the room. It
wasn't like an old white guy with a staff and
a beard or anything like that. I just felt this
warmth and energy and then like a James Earl Jones
kind of voice, he just asked me. He said, so
you're just going to give up? And you know me, Frank,

(18:14):
I'm not a quitter. So I was crying and I
was no, and he said, well, you sound like a quitter, Brandon.
Are you a quitter? And so when he said my name,
it kind of really no. And he said, okay, okay,
I can work with this, so you want to walk again?
And it was all in my head. None of this
happened in real life. It was all in my thought process,

(18:35):
and I said no. I put my fists up and
I said I want to fight again. And then the
voice said to me, we'll see, we'll see. And I
laid there and meditated and thought on that for so long,
and I felt like that was the divine challenging me
and saying, you know, do you have it in you
to overcome this? We'll see, We'll see if you actually
have it in you. Because the words were very short

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and very brief, but I took a lot from it,
and I swear to God on everything all my daughter's life.
You know, my daughter is my motivation. My daughter is
what drives me to do everything that I do. Gabriella Edie.
But when I came out of my meditation after what
happened with that little divine moment that I had, I
swear to God on everything I love. My big toe
on my left foot started wiggling and I could feel it,

(19:18):
and I was like, what is that? And then I
felt it again and I'm like, wait, that's a I
feel something. Then I look down and I seen that
my big toe was just wiggling a little bit, and
I'm like, wait a minute, am I doing this and
I was like stop and the toe stopped. And then
I was like wiggle, and the toe wiggled. I was
like Mom, Mom, because my mom was laying there, stricken

(19:38):
with cancer, sleeping in a chair next to me, and
I woke her up and told her what had happened,
and you know, she just she couldn't believe it. She
went and got the doctor, screaming and yelling. And I've
just been on a steady path to recovery every day
from that moment on.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Man, Jim Brandon, I know that is a very very
short version of this story. I can't think of it
because I every time I think, I think a in
there crying next to you, that brings back these emotions.
I'm like, okay, I'll punch myself here, but anyway, amazing,
I'm so happier here with us. What you've persevered and
done and what you've built is nothing short of amazing.
We're gonna get into the second half of the show here, guys,

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in just a minute. We're going to meet some of
these fighters, and we're going to see what happens when
you are vigilant and you persevere here with vigilant MMA,
stay tuned, we'll be right back in just a moment.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Welcome to the Business Happy Hour radio show with your host,
Frank the bang Kodo, President of Lincoln Lending Group and
eight Won three mortgage for twenty years right here in
Tampa Bay, joined by his incredible co host Rosa Bahiti
and Sinia Akishna, top producing real estate agents with Mahara
and Associates. These three bring nearly five decades of experience

(20:44):
in the local real estate market. If you're looking for
real estate or business advice, no matter what your experience level,
the Business Happy Hour team has been there for you
for almost a decade right here on news radio WFLA. Now,
sit back, relax, and get ready for some serious real
estate and business talk with three of Tampa Bay's top experts.

Speaker 5 (21:02):
Here's Frank the Bank.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
All right, guys, welcome back to the Business Happy Our man.
We were having a bit of an emotional show there
and the last one with my good buddy Brandon Lee.
He's the matchmaker and founder of Vigilant Mma in studio
with dB his partner and promoter of Vigilant Mma. Guys, Uh,
you're gonna hear from the fighters today. When's the last
time you're on the radio show or podcast and you
get to hear from three highly experienced fighters, and we're

(21:28):
gonna start getting them on right now. Don't forget to
go to vigil Vigilant MMA dot co dot com. Go
to Vigilant mma dot co so you can buy tickets
to the thirty ninth presentation or whatever for any night
fight quest gat colmback Quest and I was there for
number one. I was there for a number negative three. Hi, right, thanks,

(21:48):
but and this is Brandon. Anything else we want to say, Oh,
let me say when and where it is real quick,
We've got to do that. The fight night is going
to be on February first, right around the corner here
at five pm. The doors open. It's at the occ
Roadhouse in Clearwater, just ten minutes up the road here
from my.

Speaker 5 (22:04):
Heart, Yes, sir, right across the bridge, man, everybody from
Tampa the no excuse not to hop right across the
Howard Franklin and then you're there in five minutes.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
That's exactly right. So again, you get your tickets on
Vigilant MMA dot co. It's on February first at five pm.
And guys, I have been to these this is the
real deal. This is not a backyard fight. This is
not somebody throwing a cage up. This is a real event.
I've put the belt on the guys. Trust me. They
really are bleeding, they really are sweating. Blood really does splatter.

(22:31):
If you're in the front row, and you might be
able to still get some VIP seats, which I highly recommend.
The front by the way, you can smell them and
hear them and everything. It's awesome. So let's introduce our
first fighter, Brandon, you want me to introduce her, it's oh,
do let me do it. I'm gonna do it. It's Jonathan
Bama Sanchez. That's our first fight. Welcome to the show.

(22:52):
How you doing doing good? Bam? I gotta ask you,
how'd you get that name?

Speaker 8 (22:55):
Man?

Speaker 9 (22:55):
I had that name for a while, actually, man I
had it says I was a kid.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I was up from the South.

Speaker 9 (22:59):
I'm from Florida, from town of Country, and we always
growing up, we always said, like when we refer to
hitting somebody.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
It's like we're gonna bam them. I bam no more.
You know.

Speaker 9 (23:09):
I slammed them. I bammed them on his floor. And
I always talked with that sling when I was younger,
and it just stuck with me. Just eventually just called
me Bam. I leave Bam.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
Yes, sir, it works out well. And you're one of
the two that I probably can't get the belt around.
At least I'm not gonna try. Ain't that big?

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now?

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Man? You're tall? How are you six? I'm about two
twenty five right now? Okay? That's is that fighting weight?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (23:31):
What? Yeah? Yeah?

Speaker 5 (23:31):
Heavyweight?

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Yes, sir, heavyweight. Okay, and I see here on my
notes you're gonna be fighting in the featured bouts, yes, sir. Time?
So what does it started?

Speaker 5 (23:40):
Again?

Speaker 2 (23:41):
The main car started? The main cards started?

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Okay, yeah, sir, it's one of the three big fights
at the end. Okay, BAM's fighting another local guy at
a UFC GYM Panela's Park and Battle Zone Boxing. I
think that guy coach trains at both.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Okay. Have you ever ran into your opponent before? Is
this the first time? I never seen him, never heard him? No? Yeah,
I just seem yeah nice. But it don't matter. It
doesn't matter matter either way them up.

Speaker 9 (24:05):
It never matter how long you've been fighting since twenty eighteen,
I started training in twenty eighteen. I have my first
fight in twenty nineteen. I fought at the POW. I
used to fight for USA Boxing when I first started,
So I fought at the POW and then I also
did a tournament to Sugar Birt tournament.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
I won both of those. So your your fight is
boxing then, yes, sir, So I mean, can you hit
the ground on this or is it illegal? Yeah? You
can knock them out, knock them down, knock them out,
hit the ground. Yeah, you're to hit the ground. I'm
not hitting the ground.

Speaker 5 (24:36):
City.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I know you've got questions for these You're just sitting
here taking this in.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
Well, I think I want to go to this.

Speaker 4 (24:41):
Oh I fight, but I mean, I you know, I
watch them on TV sometimes and you know, it's.

Speaker 3 (24:47):
Fun to watch.

Speaker 5 (24:48):
And now we switch it up. We have a little
bit of mma, we'll have some boxing, we'll have some kickboxing,
and then occasionally we even sprinkle in some combat jiu
jitsu where that's jiu jitsu where they slap each other
in the face.

Speaker 3 (25:01):
How long is the event like? So it starts at five.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
It's at five o'clock and this thing is gonna run
until about midnight. Okay, we've got almost thirty fights lined up.
Oh wow, Yeah, we have a lot of fights lined up,
so we're expecting to help be a great night.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
Be a great night.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
And Bam being modest over here, BAM's in a title eliminator.
So if Bam wins his fight, his next fight is
for the title.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh okay, do you have you have an official record
or anything.

Speaker 9 (25:26):
Or is it on my tapology online topology dot com?
Three and oh But like I said, I fought for
us A boxing as well, so I have two fights
in that so technically five and oh.

Speaker 2 (25:35):
God, yeah, I love it.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
Oh man, So everybody hit the floor. Then when they yeah,
five and oh two knockouts?

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Do you gut an think you want to say to
your opponent? Man, I'm I'm humble, man, I'm at the
end of the day.

Speaker 9 (25:46):
Listen, I'm not I don't play this is this is life, man,
and just you don't play boxing. I'm coming in and
do what I do, and what I do is win,
So just bring it. I'm just hoping for a good night.
I'm hoping for a good fight, not the personal. But
I ain't about to lose, man, I'm gonna lose.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
I don't think he's gonna lose it.

Speaker 3 (26:02):
Makes me think of that one song.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
I'm like, I was like James, where where is all
all I do is win? Man?

Speaker 10 (26:08):
Perfect that?

Speaker 9 (26:09):
I work too hard. I work very hard for this man.
I'm probably the best heavyweight in Tampa.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
I put that.

Speaker 9 (26:14):
I put that on everything, the best heavyweight walking in Tampa.
In the boxing game, I love it.

Speaker 2 (26:18):
I started in eighteen, so shoot, you've only you haven't
even been doing it seven years. But I guarantee that
what was in your first fight that was like your
first real sanction. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
I've actually been in the underground game too, in the
backyard boxing game, and I've been fighting.

Speaker 2 (26:29):
I just I fight, man.

Speaker 9 (26:31):
At this point, like I tell my coach, I tell Brandon,
it don't matter who it is. I go to different
gyms all the time, sparred different faces.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
It's no different in the ring.

Speaker 9 (26:40):
Just bring it, let's get it.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
I love it. I love it.

Speaker 10 (26:42):
Well.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
You guys need to come out and see Jonathan Bam
Sanchez on February first. Don't forget Vision Village, Vigilant, MMA,
dot co O is what you're gonna check out. Bam,
thank you for coming in. Hang in here so we
can get you can listen to the rest of the guys.
But we're gonna bring up our next fighter. Now it's
going to be Greg the Greek Jesus Calavius. Am I

(27:03):
saying that right? Caloris Calwis ca Lewis calvi Is And
now I'm gonna get my ass beat. You're perfectly fine.
What's popping?

Speaker 5 (27:10):
All right?

Speaker 2 (27:10):
How are we doing? Greg?

Speaker 7 (27:12):
I'm doing absolutely fantastic. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Absolutely So where'd that name come? Greg the Greek Jesus?
I know where it came from because I'm looking at him.

Speaker 7 (27:20):
Yeah, obviously, like my hair, my look, my demeanor and everything.
It started as a nickname in the gym and around
like my first fight when they asked me if I
had a fire nickname. I was still shy at the time.
I said like, nah, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (27:33):
I don't know if my coach went up and talked
to the announcer. I don't know if they found my
social media or whatever. It's like, okay, introducing to the stage,
Greg the Greek Jesus. I'm just shaking my head thinking, well,
that's gonna stick. That's not going anywhere.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
That is hilarious. You got your nickname much How I
got mine turned into Frank the Bank. It was like
six seven years ago, and this guy introduces me on stage,
is like, I'm bringing up Frank the Bank and I'm like, dude,
that's not my name. I was like, and I actually
hated it in the beginning. I think you took it.
You took to it. I didn't like it. And then
make a real long story short, he died right and
then when he died, it was like everybody started calling

(28:09):
me Frank the Bank and I was like, Okay, he
didn't have to.

Speaker 3 (28:10):
Die for that to happen, but I didn't know that story.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
Yeah, thanks for sharing longer story. I'll tell you.

Speaker 10 (28:15):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (28:16):
I don't want to take up the fighters time right now,
but we'll do that in the next year. We'll tell
the real how Frank the Bank became Frank the Bank story.
But Greg the Greek Jesus. So you're from us UFC
Jim in Clearwater and you are in a four fight
wind streak right now. Yeah, that's a good thing, I guess.

Speaker 7 (28:32):
Yep, that's right. When I finally made the switch to
decide that I wanted to do this full time around
late twenty twenty two and all of twenty twenty three
and put all my effort into it. I just took off.
I have a lot of the same guys in the
same coaches and people around me. When I first started
it as a hobby back in twenty sixteen, I never
imagined it would elevate to this level. But they've been

(28:54):
pushing me and pushing me and pushing me to be
the best I could possibly be.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
So I saw something in you. They saw something and said, dude,
stop wasting the talent. Let's go right Yeah.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
And I couldn't see in myself, And I couldn't be
more grateful.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
Man that that right there said something about coaches, uh,
and about the support that we have for each other.
You know, people, there are so many talented people out there,
and it's funny how sometimes we don't recognize it, but
you had somebody else recognize it now four and oh
and you're by the way your freestyle MMA, What does
that mean? Does that mean you can you can bam
bam if you want, or you can you can drop

(29:28):
this guy on his head? Like, what does that mean?

Speaker 7 (29:30):
Even though it's war, it's also a chess game too.
I knew how to move all the pieces where they
need to be. That's it. Just play the game anywhere
it needs to go.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Anywhere. You can stand up and punch, you can throw
a kick, you can drop them on their head, all
of that.

Speaker 7 (29:42):
I gotta do a backflip too.

Speaker 5 (29:44):
But what's your what's your jiu jitsu belt rank? Greg?

Speaker 7 (29:47):
It's a purple belt.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
That sounds like a good one. That's probably what like
one cup, one two off black or something.

Speaker 7 (29:53):
It's halfway to block belt. And it's not like a
kid's karate program. It's like, Okay, two years, here's your
block whatever. We call our jiu jitsu coaches professor because
on average, it takes about eight to ten years, which
is pretty much like a full college education to get
your Brazilman jiu jitsu block belt.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
That's like an education, a doctorate, and then like another major.
That's like if you're in college ten years under duress. Yeah,
and while you're getting punched at the same time, and so, yeah, man, Greg,
who are you fighting? Greg? Who's right here?

Speaker 7 (30:27):
Dante Frigo right there in the background.

Speaker 2 (30:29):
I knew the answer, but I'm Dante. Slide over a little.
They can see you in the background. We're gonna have Dante.
Oh man, I love it. I love it, dude. This
is great. We're gonna have you on here in the
next segment. But it's great to have the tuoy on here.
And it's funny like you guys don't hate each other.
You guys aren't. This isn't like Tyson and what's his name?

Speaker 5 (30:47):
Well, the reason that I chose these guys to come in,
the reason these guys are the main event, is because
they're both consummate professionals, right. They both have exciting futures
ahead of them. You're gonna see both these guys on
the professional level. Almost certainly're going to see both these
guys in the UFC. So that's why I chose specifically
to have them come in today.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
I love it.

Speaker 5 (31:04):
Bam Bam was the wild card. BAM's the guy you
don't know somebody might get bammed still.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Bad, I don't know, so Greg. Where are you from?
I knew BAM's from town and country. That's freaking awesome
right here. Where are you from? So?

Speaker 7 (31:18):
I was born and raised in Harpenswings, Florida, which is
not even like thirty forty minutes north of here.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Yep, yep, I'm very familiar with the sponge docks over there. Yeah,
I buy my soap over there. Actually I like that
place a little.

Speaker 7 (31:29):
I can hook you up. I know quite a few
of them.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
I figured you did you seem yeah, you like are
related to some of them over there. I'm sure right
on the Greek community. So you got anything you want
to say to Frigga before we get.

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Him on here in a minute.

Speaker 7 (31:41):
Nothing, We're just going to have a great show. This
is going to be a great event. Fighting with Brandon
has always been the best time for me. Great events,
great fights, and always brings a talent. That's my favorite thing.
It's a lot of build up, a lot of build up,
a lot of build up just to this big bang
at the end. Yeah, I'm so excited.

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Maybe a bam too. You never know a bang and
a bam. Guys. The other thing that I don't think
we're stressing enough is this is not just an MMA fight.
This is just this is not if you like boxing,
if you like seeing men slap the crap out of
each other and you think that's a joke. First time
I saw the Slappy and I was like, that's the
last thing I'm ever doing. Like unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (32:21):
Who would ever let another grown man slap the piss
out of them in front of their family.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
It's yeah, it's real slapping, let's put it that way.
But you guys got to come and check it out.
It's Vigilant MMA dot Co. It's on February first, five pm.
You're gonna get to see Jonathan Bam Sanchez. You just
see Greg the Greek Jesus, and in a minute, you're
gonna meet the opponent. Stay tuned, we'll be here, be
right back on the Business Happy Hour.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Now we're back with some serious real estate in business
talk with three of Tampa Bay's top experts. Your host
of the Business Happy Hour, Frank the Bangkodo.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Hey, Tampa Bay, welcome back to the Business Happy Hoo.
Sor I'm having too much fun in a studio full
of fighters over here. Funny is it is so ironic
that I have a cracked eye and I'm having all
these MMA guys. It's like I fit right in. I
was gonna. I was saying, Jesus and I over here
look like brothers. You know, it's not two bads. So
they didn't actually split your eye that way.

Speaker 5 (33:12):
Well, I mean I've heard Nicole tell you not to
talk back before.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
The running joke, that's my wife. Everybody. The running joke
is is everybody's like, oh, what to cold do I go?
She's a lefty. So if you guys see it on
this side, call somebody. This is where all my furniture
is on the right. I ain't gonna hit it on
this naturally. This is anyway, guys, is our last segment
in the show. I don't want to waste any time.
We have another fighter from Vigilant MMA. Don't forget. The

(33:37):
event is February first at five pm right around the
corner here in Clearwater. Go to Vigilant MMA dot Co
to get your tickets. It sounds like Citi is going
so I got to text my wife now and say like, all, well,
can I get you to one for once? She hates
the blood splatter. I love the blood splatter. So she'll
be in the back. I'll be in the front. It'll
be awesome. You guys got to check it out though.

(33:58):
Our last fighter of the day to have on Dante
the Phantom Frigga undefeated four and oh you have won
your last three fights by submission. Uh and you're number
nine in the state. Sir, good to meet you.

Speaker 10 (34:13):
Nice to meet you. I'm glad to be here. I'm excited.
This is fun, man, I.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
Know, I know. I'll let you start with your question.
That's impressive.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
Yeah, I walked in. I just figured, you know, he's
probably a little brother, you know, just here for the show.
So Ki wow, Yeah, well yeah, tell us. I guess
how long have you been doing this?

Speaker 10 (34:30):
And I've been on and off my whole life. My
mom she always is like, ever since I was like
three years old, she was like, dang, you got angry.
She's dude, you go do something. So she threw me
into actually karate when I first started, and then it
went back and forth between that and like playing football,
and then let's say maybe when I was like fourteen fifteen,

(34:52):
I found my gym Futures Mma, and ever since then
it just fell in love and started really getting into
it and having fights with vigilant vigilance. I've only fought
for vigilance so far my first fight, and up till
then up till now.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (35:05):
Wow, are you from here?

Speaker 8 (35:07):
I'm from Fort Myers what.

Speaker 10 (35:09):
I was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but I've been raised
in Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Florida area.

Speaker 5 (35:13):
Poor guy's a Browns fan.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
We'll pray for him, you know, so I gotta win.
How how old are you?

Speaker 7 (35:20):
Can?

Speaker 2 (35:20):
I ask?

Speaker 8 (35:21):
Nineteen?

Speaker 2 (35:23):
It's like all right, all right? Well if not, baby face,
if he was like thirty, it's like, dude, nineteen, God
for real, you you are off off to the races
over here.

Speaker 3 (35:33):
Yeah, it seems pretty serious, like for a nineteen year old.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Well, when you're in a business where you get your
head pounded in, if you don't win, then I'd probably
pretty pretty.

Speaker 8 (35:39):
So I guess.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
I mean, if he's been training since he was like
three of them.

Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah, exactly. All right. So, so how did you get
the nickname the Phantom?

Speaker 10 (35:48):
I mean, well, my brother he came in the gym
one day and came to watch, and I kind of
like my style. I don't I don't like to get
hit in the head too much, so I'm trying to
move all the time, and you know, people say it's
really hard to hit me. It's like I'm not really there.
So he called me the Phantom one day and it
just stuck ever since then.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
Oh man, and he's again being modest. His brother is
a street ball freaking legend. By the way, guy's got
like five hundred thousand organic followers. He's created his own
platform that is now international. Tell him about it.

Speaker 10 (36:17):
Yeah, I don't want to crack anybody, but he just
hit a million on YouTube.

Speaker 8 (36:24):
Davonte Friga.

Speaker 10 (36:24):
If you guys want to go check it out, or
if you guys want to go see his new new
YouTube channel as the next chapter.

Speaker 8 (36:31):
I know it's it's getting big right now.

Speaker 10 (36:33):
I think he just hit five hundred thousand followers on
that too, So yeah, that's hard doing great.

Speaker 5 (36:38):
That's yeah. No, his street ball, his street ball is amazing. No,
his brother can, Like I think his brother could play
Steph Curry one on one and give him a run
for his money. Dude, And I'm not even.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
What is say it again so people can look it up.

Speaker 10 (36:49):
It's Davonte Frigga or the next chapter on YouTube. I
think they're both reaching a million right now, So yeah,
I go check it out.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
I'm gonna go check it out with Stella tonight, just
picking to basketball that's her sport.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
There we go, Oh, this is awesome. So I'm glad
you got to give him a shout out and help
him out. I mean, well, he named you, So now
can he fight or no?

Speaker 8 (37:09):
No, Actually, we're gonna figure that out.

Speaker 10 (37:10):
We were planning on doing a little sneak, a little
I probably shouldn't be talking about it, but you know,
I'll drop something. We're playing on doing a little something
for YouTube. So yeah, brother.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Bro, don't like break his thumb or something like that.

Speaker 5 (37:24):
Right, and let me provide the vigilant gear for that too.
Let's get head gear, big shint guards.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
Yeah, you guys, I might put some Lincoln gear on
that for YouTube, why not? Or some business happy hour
gear we could, we could maybe we sponsored something for you.
I'm trying, listen, I'm trying to get the YouTube channel going.
We just said half a million, like that's I mean
a million okay, one thing like on instant and stuff.
Half a minute on YouTube. That's a lot of followers
because that is hard to crack into that and that's
where everybody everything's going. So good job on that. Well

(37:53):
for your brother too. So number nine in the state, man,
hold on, I gotta go back to this because you
may not understand what do you mean you won the
lie three by submission?

Speaker 8 (38:01):
Uh man?

Speaker 10 (38:02):
Just finishing people, man, I I told Brandon actually after
the first fight, I told him, I said no more
to decision. I was tired of it. Everyone arguing this,
like oh, rig.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
This, rigged that.

Speaker 10 (38:13):
Said fine, I'll really prove to you with what true
skill is, and so sore.

Speaker 5 (38:18):
In his first MMA fight, he fought a kid from
here in Tampa. I won't leave his name out. And
these two guys did a lot of jawing back and forth,
and the other the other side really more than than
than Dante in his side. And then it went a
three round fight. It was three rounds back and forth,
really good entertaining fight. However, it was clear after three
rounds that Dante had won. All three judges unanimously picked Dante,

(38:42):
and one of those judges particularly doesn't particularly care for
the Friggas and still picked Frigga. So he definitely won
the fight. But there was just a lot of crying
and whining from the other side afterwards. So Ever since then,
he's just been a net collector.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
So you're basically choking Hi out. These guys are tapping
huh ye, or you're knocking them to sleep. Yes, you're
putting them to sleep.

Speaker 5 (39:05):
He definitely put one to sleep. Yeah, we got the footage.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
You have to teach me that. I just want to
know how to put him asleep and they'll still wake up.

Speaker 5 (39:12):
It doesn't work. It doesn't work on armwads though.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
I actually consider doing a video of me with a
sledge hammer on it, but with the wife's like, I
am not buying another one anyway.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
I don't need one of those.

Speaker 2 (39:24):
Probably not sledge hammer.

Speaker 6 (39:26):
Yes, a lot of these guys are being modest tonight.
A lot of these guys just as hard as day
work and just as hard as day train. It's all
the work and effort that goes into Vigilant MMA dot co.
I want to thankfully heal dynamic health and wellness and
go fifty four realty. But again, that's just this is
what we're bringing because these are the type of fighters.
You know, he's got three by submission. Don't be fooled.
He's an excellent fighter. All these guys are up to

(39:48):
the same, I would say, brand as we are at
Vigilant dot com, and that keeps us excited and looking
forward to the next fight.

Speaker 2 (39:54):
dB, thank you for jumping in there. This guy has
made for radio because he saw my signal and he
I'm the right in I freaking love it, guys. Thank
you all for coming on. Dante. I can't wait to
see somebody get choked out, knocked out. I can't wait
to see somebody bammed. And I know this one over here,
he's sending somebody to talk to Jesus. So we're to
find out who the real Jesus is when this guy

(40:15):
goes up top after he fights you. So now I'm
so damn excited. I'm gonna have to go. You're going
with me? This is so exciting.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
Yeah, the whole show today, I was so thank you guys.

Speaker 2 (40:25):
Yes, Brandon and dB, thank you so much for bringing
all these guys in here.

Speaker 6 (40:29):
To you, brother, thank you so much for having us.
We're really excited about the event again. It's on February
the first. Get your tickets now, Vigilan dot Co. You
know we do have plenty of VIP tables. Don't wait,
don't get bought out. We'd love to see everybody there.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
I love you guys, perfect timing. Brandon, We'll have you
on again. Thank everybody. We'll see you at the fight.