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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here's Frank de Bank and at.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Sennia Hey, Tampa Bay, Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business and entrepreneurial.
And man, we have a great show scheduled for you
guys today. That's right, Sinnia Akishaa, my co hosts from
Malhara and Associates, is in studio with me how along
with our good friend Brandon Lee from Combat Quest to
(01:08):
Combat Quest forty one and forty two are on the horizon,
coming up right around the corner here, Brandon, I think,
what have we got them? Are they next two weeks?
Are they in a row?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. This weekend we're in Fort Myers
for Combat Quest forty one at the Sydney and Burne
Davis Arts Center. And then next Saturday, turn right around,
we're back at the OCC Roadhouse in Clearwater for Combat
Quest forty two.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Man, I mean, who puts on back to back MMA event?
Turned out your volume on your phone? Back to back
MMA events? I mean that that is out of this world.
I don't think the WWF or the WWE ever put
on back to back events? Did they?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
No, It's it's damn near gonna kill me, But it's
all right. I think I'll come through a little bit
more gray than I already am. But sorry, you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Are starting to get a little gray man taking over
the con. As long as you're gonna start using touch
of gray, you got to promise me you're not going
to use that.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So I'm going to doctor Sebbi's Batana oil anybody know
about this.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, actually, before you do that, go to your phone
and just click down your volume all the way because
it's coming through your speaker and you're getting a little
echo through the radio. There, you go much better. Who
is this doctor and what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Doctor sebby Man. Our government killed him back in the
sixties because he cured cancer. He found all these holistic
remedies for the human body. And you can regenerate your
hair and get your hair back to its original color
with batana oil.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I know you hear that said said, I think
your color's looking just fine.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I think you've got nothing to worry about what you're
talking about over here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I think she's doing good on the color on
the hair. But you and I am. I'm looking in
this Instagram video right now and I'm like, man, this
is a little grayer than normal. But then I look
over yours and I'm like that Mustasha is pretty gray.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
George Clooney is doing better than me right now?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Okay, Well on the bright side, I mean, guys with
the gray, I just I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Thank you? Sin you know, so is it think it's.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
A good thing?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Are you gonna be honest? If I ask you this question, sure, okay,
is it true that as men age they get better looking?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think it's true, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, Well you heard it from a real woman over here.
A real girl just answered that question.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Gives us single guys in forties hope. You know, it's funny,
you know, I have.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's weird. I have a lot of single ish or
about to be single, you know, forty forties for it.
Not me, not me, guys A bunch you know, a
bunch of them, and they're they're telling me it's it's
not that that much. It's not that hard to uh
to to you know, find a girl these I think
it's easier.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I think women appreciate just the maturity factor, you know,
plus the looks.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
The gray. A lot of women are into the gray hair. Yeah,
silver foxes. Oh use silver fox I say that sometimes.
So do they like the speckle of the brown and
the gray or do they want it? Do we have
to go straight gray?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Is that what we gotta do? Or do we have
is it? Okay? I have a little color with the gray.
You know what?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think A different mixture is you know, whatever, however
it comes through for you like, I was watching there's
a new movie with what's that actor? Oh, man, he's
in all the comedy stuff. It's a new movie about
like the billionaires that are no, no, no, what's his name,
Steve Carell?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, Steve Carrell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Like, man, his hair just always looks good. But even
if it's you know, gray or whatever with the goatee,
you know, Steve Carrell hair lighter there. But you know
he's he's actually getting better looking as he is aging that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You heard it here on the Business Happy Hour. Men,
you start looking better the older you get. It's crazy. Yeah,
I was. I was at the mall the other day
and I was sitting there having having lunch with my son,
and I was just you know, people watching, you know,
and you see people walking by, and this is gonna
sound terrible, but I think you kind already proved the point.
(04:49):
I see a lot of like really good looking men
in their middle ages with it's gonna sound terrible with
women who don't take care of themselves, and I and
if this sounds bad, but I looked at it and
I'm just like thinking, what you said. I like men,
you know, get and I'm not saying women don't age well.
But I just look and I'm like, how does that
(05:10):
dynamic work? Right? They It's like in any marriage and
any relationship, one side lets themselves go and the other
like what this guy was like ripped that. I see
him and it's clearly his wife he's walking with, And
I'm just like, dude, why don't you, like, you know,
get into the gym with your wife and help her out?
And I don't know, I'm gonna sign it's usually the.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Other way around.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm surprised. But my thing is, I'm starting to see
this more often. Now, what about you? You're in the Brandon,
You're in the fitness world. You guys are you know? Mma?
I mean, you guys are the pinnacle of fitness of
Sunny and I think we're in good shape. I mean,
you guys are you know, cracking boards over your heads
and stuff?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well these fighters not so much my fat ass, but but.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
True, you know you're not that fat? What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
One ninety bro? This was my walk around. Wait before
I broke my neck as a fighter, I was bulked
up at one ninety. Now I've got a belly at
one ninety, So you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Carry it carries it. Well, yeah, I'm gonna give you
a little compliment on and you got the silver box.
So what do you think, Sam, the silver box takes
off ten pounds.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Sure sounds good.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So I'm back down one of the best guy, right,
the best cost average. He's like, yeah, sure, yeah, you
guys look real good, trust me.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Anyway, I don't know, I'm the fighters. I mean, these
guys are in the pinnacle. Let me ask you this,
what's the oldest MMA fighter you've ever worked with.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we don't take guys on the amateur level after
thirty nine because once they hit forty, then they have
to get all these extra tests. It's my phone, all
these extra tests, all this extra testing done, MRI cat
scan of the brain. Well, because you got a lot
more chances of brain injury, concussion, things like that's a
lot more prevalent at the older you get. And then
generally you got to think that you've been through more
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damage the older you get, so it's a lot more
easier to happen. So yeah, we stick to guys thirty
nine and under, and we get guys all the way.
We got a guy on the next show coming up
in clear Water thirty nine years old, making his debut.
Former military guy been begging me for the opportunity for months,
and I finally broke and given him the outportunity. So
let's see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
This is his first fight, first fight.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, and I give the listen. I always give these
guys fair warning too, man, I warned them. Listen, man,
your opponent's training with a solid team. You better have
a solid team around you. This is going to be
a real deal event. There's going to be smoke and
lights and a big crowd. And this is not This
is not you know, a backyard, real cage fighting in
a wrestling matt. This is real deal, holy field stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh like, I love what he said. There's gonna be
smoking lasers and that's what makes the fight real. If
it doesn't have smoke in lasers, those punches are just fake.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Bottom line is and you definitely look you could pass
for thirty nine, but you are too old to decide
that you want to be a fighter.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You know, we had a guy start not vigilant, but
there was a guy that started his amateur career at
fifty two. Oh wow, he fought till he was fifty
eight and he fought like forty times. He was I
believe he was like thirty and ten or thirty thirty
two and ten or something like that, fighting from fifty
two to fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So he did well.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
He did well, man. I mean obviously, I don't think
they put him in there with Camerou Ousman or you know,
one of these killers. Yeah, but he went he went
around on the regional circuit and did well in his fifties.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Man. Man, so I want to I want to ask
before so Senya, by the way, we're going to do
If you guys didn't know, that's Brandon Lee. He's a
great friend of the show. He's the guy who started
Combat Quest. And they are on forty freaking two, well,
forty one and then forty two back to back. I
don't know how this guy does it, to be honest.
He puts on these amazing events. So we like having
them on here, like having the fighters on here, showcasing
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these guys. And I got to say, man, I'm one
of my favorite fighters and I'm yet to get to
see him in person. Mister Frigga, mister Frigga. And he
was supposed to be here today, but he had something
else he had to do.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, man, I mean it's a three hour drive one
way for them to get up here from Fort Meyers.
So it's six hours just in the commute, and you
got to think about, you know, all the in betweens
and ups and down, so that she just he literally
he's a general contractor. So he's a general contractor by
day and then fighter with all the rest of his
free time. He's now six and zero. He's finished his
last five opponents, meaning none of his last five opponents
(09:00):
made it to the end of the fight. Oh, he's
now ranked number twelve in the United States of America.
Wow what yep? At one thirty five he is the
number twelve ranked bantamweight MMA competitor in the nation. Vigilant
actually now has three competitors that are ranked in the
top twelve of the country, three of our champions, and
we have two more that if they just get a
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couple more wins, they'll be right there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So how does that work? I mean, do they get
to go pro at some point?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
How does it?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well, absolutely? What you want to build in your amateur career, right,
you want to fight until your your coaches tell you
that you're ready to make the jump. Usually the fighter
doesn't make that decision. That's the coach and the management
team that get together and say, okay, he's got the
skill set to be successful on the pro level. Now. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of coaches out there that take advantage
of fighters and just want to say I have a
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pro fighter now when they would just want to say
they have a pro fighter. As soon as you've got
five fights, you can turn pro.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, you just answer my next question. So you have
to fight minimum five.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Fight, minimum five sanction fights. And there's a lot of
backyard fire. There's a lot of commissions out here, or
I mean, excuse me, a lot of promotions out here
that they won't even hire a commission. They'll just have
the event and then the fighters don't get credit for
the event. Oh god, could you imagine go through a
training camp, all the sacrifice, time, effort and energy, and
then you go and fight and then nothing shows on
your record and they're like, oh, yeah, sorry, we didn't
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have the sanctioning body there so it didn't count.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh my god, sorry, your brain got beaten and you
get nothing for that.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I don't know how those guys don't get assaulted in publics,
to be honest, because if I weren't disabled and someone
did that to me, they would catch an ass whipping
at you know, at PDQ or wherever we were at.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
See, this is the life of a fighter.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Now when we are going to take a break here
in just a minute, and Senny and I promise to
do some real estate updates. Senia, you didn't know this,
but today is the summer market update.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Perfect, I've got some stats for us.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, it's because we've officially started summer. Now, your kids,
you have a kid in school or nine?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You have one of kindergarteners, Well, no, I have a
twelve year old. Oh yeah, she just finished sixth grade.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh god, I'm so far so off.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, oh congratulations, thank she's excited. Oh man, kids just
love summertime. Huh, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So your kids out of school?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
She's out of school? Yeah, the little one, the three
year old, I mean he's standing all summer.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, he's like, I'll keep that one in daycare forever.
They should have daycare for the ones in summer. I
think it's called camp, but they only do it for
a week. But anyway, So are you excited, like, are
you are you sleeping in a little bit now?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah? Well she just finished on Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Okay, oh so you have only experienced two days.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Yeah, actual, yeah, really so.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But well, guys, summer has started, so welcome to summer.
If all you parents are out there taking the kids
to school, waking up early, you get to sleep in
just a little bit, except you probably have.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
To go here.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Traffic.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
This is one of my favorite parts. I just noticed
the difference in traffic.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I drove all the way. Actually we got to take
a break care. When we get back, we'll talk about
how far we drove, and how happy we are to
be able to sleep in and not have so much
traffic in the summer, and how great the weather is
in Florida. On the Business Happy Hour, we'll be back
in just a minute with Frankencinia State Uned.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All the best mortgage are real estate advice from Tampa
Bay's top experts. It's the Business Happy Hour with Frank, Debankkoto,
and Senia.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Hey Tampa Bay. Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business and entrepreneurial.
And I hope you're having a great day like we are.
It is like the I mean, for real, I feel
it's the second day of summer because it's the second
day that we haven't taken had to take kids to school.
And it was really weird, you know, waking up to
a different alarm clock and not to have like your
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son be like, come on, you're making me late. You're
making me late. I'm like, bro, you're not even dressed.
You are literally pantless, and you're telling me I'm making
you late. So maybe by next year when my summer's
when my son is a sophomore, I won't have to
hear that. But Senia, you just said something before the break.
Traffic amazing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh man?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, I love by multiple school zone. So yes, it
is nice that you don't have to time the routes.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah. I went all the way from like almost Saint
Pete Beach all the way to downtown Tampa in thirty
three minutes. It was amazing. So anyway, we love summer.
Summer's here. The weather is beautiful. You live in Florida,
you live in Paradise. Get your butt out there and
enjoy it. And if you need a new home, you
have come to the right place, because Senia can find
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you that home that you're looking for, wherever you want it.
There's lots of great deals out there. It is a
buyer's market right now. It is going to be a
seller's market as soon as rates keep coming down. And
I know I keep saying it, but guys, it's going
to happen, and the day it happens, it's going to
be over for you. So you got to get in now.
The rates are still good. Yesterday we locked a VA
loan under six percent, so it's still not that bad.
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It was in the high fives that we locked a
VA loan with no points to the veteran. If that
veteran wanted to pay a point, he'd probably be in
the maybe mid to high fives. Okay, so the rates
are nowhere near as bad as you think they are,
but you do have to work with a wholesale person.
Go to contact frankdbank dot com. That's contact frankdbank dot
com and we'll get you taken care of. And of course,
if you need to talk to Sinny to find a
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house or to see what's available in the inventory, you're
gonna call.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
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Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's it. Eight one three seven five to five are
reel and that's how you get in touch with a
real realtor to find what real houses are available for you.
Right now, so we're going to jump in. We have
one of our fighters from Combat Quest was it forty two?
Forty two, which is in a couple of weeks, it's
going to be up here in our neck of the woods.
He is on the line right now. I'm going to
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let Brandon introduce him. He was not able to come
into the studio. Then we're going to do our summer
real estate recap of what's going on, and then we're
going to have a couple guys in studio here from
Combat Quest. So let's do it. Brandon, Who do we
have on the line?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
All right? We have the brand new light middleweight Vigilant Champion,
Muy Thai Champion Alex Farfan, a thirteen fight veteran out
of freestyle Mui Thai coming off of a killer five
round unanimous decision victory over our good friend De Nuosu,
who was in studio.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He bet D, he b D.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
He gave D the business. D's coming back though, D
will be back. It was a great fight. It was
a great back.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
How many rounds?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Was it five rounds back and forth all the way
to the oh yeah, elbows, flying man?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It was?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And now he's getting ready to fight our current super
welterweight champion at one fifty three, Dyce san Lee Esteverne,
who's coming up to one fifty nine. These guys have
already fought ten full rules Muay Thai rounds. I mean
it's ten rounds with elbows and all rules already, back
and forth. Killer fight. That's going to be our main
event in two weeks at the OCC Roadhouse in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Guaranteed to be bloody.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh yeah, Garrett blood.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Let's ask Alex, Alex, you tell us are we getting
guaranteed blood on this fight?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Oh? For sure, for sure. Thank you guys for having
me on. Good to be here, and for sure. As
Brendan mentioned before, I've already fought that Stanley twice. Both
were really good fights, especially the last one, really close
fight that you know, me and my coaches believe should
have went my way. So I am very excited to
have this opportunity to leave no question in two weeks.
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On Combat Quest forty.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Seconds, it sounds like you've got a little revenge in
your voice.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Is it for sure? For sure? Usually, I mean, I'm
very respectful to all my opponents. I don't, you know,
talk trash, and all my opponents have been the same way.
No one has pushed the line, including that stand that
we know each other and he was actually at the
last fight. But there's definitely a little bit of a
personal element, no question, and it has come out in
my train and I've been training hard and it will
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come out again for sure on the fight on the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now, let me tell you that's scary to hear him say,
because I used to see a chiropractor there where freestyle
was at, and when I pulled up in the parking lot,
I knew if Alex was training by the sound of
the muy type pads getting kicked. Oh, I would be like, oh,
I can hear that from the parking lot. Yep, that's Alex.
And then when I would hit the room, ow, there
he is kicking the MUYT type pads.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So if he's training even harder than that, I hope
my boy dies. Sanley's down there in the hot box
getting ready.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh man, Sin, do you know what freestyle muy Thai is?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Not really this is full rules muy Thai, meaning that
so in modified muy Thai, you can only hold the
person for so long to separate you after a short
amount of time. You're not allowed to throw elbows, you're
not allowed to throw knees to the head. So it's
a it's a watered down version for guys that are
just starting out. You don't want to give everyone all
the weapons right away, especially when they're green. You know
you could really hurt each other. So you give them
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a couple fights, let them get used to the to it,
and then you expand to the full rules. And that's
where Alex is at. Alex and Di Sanley both you know,
they got twenty one fights between them.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Alex, how long how long have you been practicing muy thai.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I've been training muy thai for about three and a
half years and fightings for about two and a half.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Got it. So, was that the first martial arts that
you got into?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, it was the first one walked into.
I got lucky. I walked into freestyle Muytai, which is
the name of the gym that I train at down
in Loots, and there was a great gym, walked in
there and initially didn't even really have thoughts of competing,
just thoughts of training and bettering myself, and then fell
in love with it, wanted to test myself and then
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here I am. It's been thirteen fights now, so thirteen
fights later and no plans on stop.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So did you ever think you'd be a fighter.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Originally? I mean, you know, I knew I was going
to train, So there's that small possibility like, oh, this
is like you aspire to be like what the cop
people are. But I've never really had any serious I'm
going to fight, any any serious commitment to that. It
was just purely to train and to find a community,
which is something that everyone benefits training. Marshall Art, especially
Moreta and.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You hear that how similar to de Nuosu's story. Yeah,
just went in and that's how I find a lot
of people, a lot of fighters now, especially on the
amateur level. This is their story that they just went
to go train. They just went to get in there,
sweat it out, you know, feel a little bit better
about themselves, maybe learn a little personal defense. Yeah, and
then you fall in love with it because martial arts
it's a way of life. Guys, I recommend all my
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friends' kids, anybody listening, get your kids into martial arts
because it teaches them discipline, teaches them respect, It teaches
them self respect, which you can't respect anybody else if
you don't respect yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yes, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
These kids learn self respect in martial arts. And then
above all of that, if none of those other things
interest you, once they learn martial arts, I wish a
bully would put their hands on your kid, because then
they're gonna find out what time it is. So make
your kids bully proof. You improve their self esteem, you
improve their self worth, you improve their you know, their
self respect, and then that in turn, those things combined, man,
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it really multiplies.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So we only got twenty seconds left, Alex, I want
to thank you for coming on. We wish you luck, man.
I hope this is your revenge fight. I know you've
guaranteed us blood. Let's hope it's blood of the other guy.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Yeah, sure, thank you. Yeah we'll be bloody and my
head we'll be raised on the forty second. Look forward
to it. Thank you, guys, I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We will see you there. Thanks Alex. We're gonna take
a break here on the Business Happy When we get back,
we're gonna our summer market real estate update and we'll
have some more fighters. Stay tuned, we'll be back in
just a minute.
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right here in Tampa Bay for twenty three years, joined
by his incredible co host, Senia Akishna, realtor with Mahara
and Associates.
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Speaker 2 (20:51):
Here's Frank the Bank and Senia.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
All right, guys, welcome back to the Business Happy Hour.
As promised, we are going to talk about our summer
market real estate update, and we're gonna have a couple
of fighters on. But I've gotta say same. I'm a
little sad our Jesuit boys are not here. Oh, I
just realize that. I'm like, where are all these crazy
comments that we would see during the show and Lander
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and all his butt from school because we're always on
during their lunch break and there's a whole crew of them,
and they would all like us and comments, say funny
things and get landing in trouble and stuff, and it
was great.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
It's good to have that kid momentum behind you because
us adults, we don't really do it like that us
eighties babies and stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Is matter of fact, there's some good memes. You guys
go on Instagram and type in like what it was
like in the eighties. There's a lot of really really
fun for you. Sen it's going to be nineties, late nineties.
We're old over here, silver Foxes. And I will say
this coming out of the break, I was telling the
guys on the on the backside, when we get back
into the fighting, there's one thing my dad taught me
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many many years ago, and every fight ends up on
the ground, so you have to know what to do
when you're on the ground. So when we get back
in with the fighters, we're going to talk about what
are they going to do when they hit the ground.
I'm going to ask some of the fighters what happens
when when you hit the ground. What's the first thing
that goes through your mind? But before that, the summer
real estate market update. We're putting Senya Akishna from Mahara
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and Associates on the spot right now. She had no
idea that that's what she was going to do today,
but we're going to talk to you about the market. Gohesen.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know, I had no idea, but I'm glad because
normally we just you know, monthly, you know, I pull
our stats from the month before yeap from our local board.
But we've actually got the first quarter of twenty twenty
five report that came out that they make available to
us on our MLS. It's from doctor Ellie Eisenberg. He's
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an economist that's you know, all over the real estate arena.
So I just highlighted some things that I thought we
should start this office. So nationally, the median sale price
rose two point seven percent year every year, okay, to
four oh three seven hundred right, and then the portion
I highlight it's although inventory is taken up wor, it
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still falls short of long term averages, which I always
bring up when we talk about inventory and things like that.
So here he is saying that, So even nationally, yes,
inventory is definitely on the rise, but it still falls short.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So I watched something have to Cut You Off on
Fox News Business the other day, and it was the
first time, at least that I've noticed in the last
I don't know, six months, that we had somebody on
there that literally says exactly what you say and exactly
what I say, almost verbatim. She it's almost like she
stole your stats. And she was talking about home prices up.
She started talking about inventory, and when she started, I said, God,
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please say how inventory is affected by interest rates? And
she said it like exactly what you and I talk about.
And this lady's on National Fox News, right, I mean, we're,
you know, nine to seventy and news radio and stuff's
kind of cool, but we're not National Fox. And she
said when the rates drop, and they will, we do
not have enough inventory to support therefore prices will go up.
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And I loved hearing that. So anyway, back to your stats.
I just want to tell you what you say is
now national news good?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Continuing that on, we did have existing home sales did
fall about five point nine percent year ofvery year, which
for our local stats that kind of you know, goes
along with the trend. But the current national inventory sets
up four months supply interesting, it's actually closer to a balance,
but like we've said, the balance is usually between like
five six months.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right right now, don't you find it a little interesting
that the prices went up two point seven percent but
these sales went down five point nine that well.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is also like the first quarter report because my
April numbers, you know, they showed it up. But still
this is all signals that there is some correction going on,
but nothing drastic. Like what I'm confused about is when
we see those headlines and I think they try to
pick out like some number, yeah, which a lot of
times I'm like, where did they even get that? You know,
But it's just the you know, clickbait. Maybe click on this,
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and I don't know, people just like the stuff more.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Shocking is falling, you know, people are like click.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well and it is not so that was national now,
for the Florida market overview, the median single family home
price only went down point one percent every year for
the first quarter, okay, and the closed sales activity for
single family down one point nine percent.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The closed is down one point nine and the price
is down overall.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And I highlighted his little quote here and it says,
the Florida housing market is really doing remarkably. Well, oh okay,
all those stuff, you know, that's not me saying it.
That's this economist that you know does this for a living.
So I think that's great. The other one that I
did get excited about is that even regionally, not just Florida,
like Tampa is picked out and we have some of
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the tightest inventory in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
What does that mean you have less inventory?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
We do. So even if Florida is about five point
five months and Tampa it is not that it's actually
my Hillsborough County number I know is four months. This
is saying four point two, you know, so for first quarter.
I think that's actually accurate. But his quote for that
is Tampa's market stands out for its efficiency and balance,
even amid broader softening.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Efficiency in balance, you guys, hear that I don't know
if at you random, but I think I feel people
want to come here. I see more and more memes
and posts about people just saying how amazing Tampa is.
What can you do? You have the water, you have,
the beaches, you have sports.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Nobody listened to Frank We're full.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Ha ha, he's got one of those shirts. I guarantee it,
this as Florida is full.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But you know what, Frank's right, it is we're still
the more. I think that one the migration trend thing
we had a few weeks ago. I mean, we are
by far the destination state for people relocating.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, and I think in Florida, I think our central
West Florida is kind of the destination area right now.
I mean we're getting expensive, but overall we're not as
expensive going to be.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
It's so great here. I really I love it, you know.
And I've into Miami and Orlando and you know the
different parts. I love where we're at.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But like Brandon said, the gates are closed.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We are sorry, we are totally fool. In fact, we're
looking to deport like Ice right now.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Wait, are we asking for self deportations?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah? Right, yeah, we'll take those first.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
So what we want you to do is call Senia
first because she'll list your house. And what number do
they call?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
You send eight one three seven five five reel.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So you're gonna call eight one three seven five five
reels so she can list your house for sale.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And can get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But here's what frank the bank wants you to do.
I want you to buy still in Florida, just not Tampa,
all right, So go to contact Frankiebank dot com and
I'll help you get a mortgage anywhere besides Hillsboro, Panellas
in Pasco County. Actually, I'll let you go to Pasco.
That's fine. Just I'm gonna get such hate mail listeners.
I'm I'm joking. If Pasco is awesome, everywhere around here
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is awesome. But if Brandon's asking you, he said get
the hell out of here, that's right? Oh god, what
else said anything else?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Well, let's see. I guess I know we're going to
be running short on time here. So the absorption rate
is not it's something we bring up all the time,
but for our local numbers, and this is to put
in perspective. So the absorption rate. It's kind of just
the same thing as like the month supply of inventory,
but just expressed as a percentage. Okay, So for Hillsborough County,
the current absorption rate was twenty eight percent, Panela is
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twenty four percent. In pass Go thirty percent.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
I mean, so.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Anything over twenty percent. I know everybody's like buyer's market.
Buyer's market. Technically, it's not.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It's really and I.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Really think that our sales activity is down because of
the interest rates, because of the uncertainty in the market.
So I do urge buyers get off that fence, yes,
with sitting on it, get your home now, because if
you look at those numbers, by the time that the
interest rates do drop, we just you know, you don't
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want to find yourself in that situation where you're competing,
where you're in multiple offers and prices.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Will go up. Right, it happened. This is weird, Senny,
And I'm not talking about something that might happen. This
is an absolute guarantee. It is not an if.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
It is a butt win, and it's all relative, right,
I mean, if you're waiting for that, you know, another
quarter percent and half a percent, what what's it worth
to you? What's an extra twenty grand the you know
the house is going to increase, So I mean you
really got to weigh out you know those numbers.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's She's exactly right, because you cannot refinance and get
the twenty thousand that you overpaid for the house back.
You can absolutely refinance. Contact frankdbank dot com and you
can lower your rate.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Well and call me at eight one, three, seven five
five reel so we can negotiate. This is a great
market to negotiate the price that you want, get the terms,
get some closing costs paid. This is the time to
do it.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It is this is the time the seller will work
with you. Eight eight one three seven five to five
reel is how you find somebody to really work on
your behalf. By the way, our producer James just sent
me this article while we were chit chatting. This is funny.
This is one of those that you were talking about. Said,
but this is interesting. It says, according to the company pop,
it's that company that moves your stuff. They said. Tampa
Bay is one has now shown up on the list
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as one of the most moved out areas in America.
Brandon he got his wish. Jesus. Matter of fact, combat
Quest just offered to buy your pod if you're moving
out of Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's gonna buy a very small pod. If you do
a mortgage with Lincoln Lending Group and Sennia sells your house,
well that's not a bad idea. Tell you what you
guys are interested in that you call Senia, we might
just actually get you a pod. No joke, This could
be something fun that we could do. So check that out.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Little incentive bonus, man, little incentive bonus.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You want to pod, we got you. So when we
get back for the last segment of the show, we're
gonna have some great fighters on. For sure. We're gonna
have on Right.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Now we have Lewis Chico Bautista.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Lewis Chico cheek go. What's what? What do you?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
When you come in the ring?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I come out. I try to put in our show.
I love putting on some Hispanic music some right now,
Vincent for nine, Eddie Garrol. I've been walking out to
Eddie Guerrero. Yeah, my last like three fights and that's
been that's been my thing. That's got it gets me going,
I get the crowd going to I put in our
little flare, little sombrero.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We gotta get a picture that we're gonna put up
on Instagram. Brandon, if you want to send that to me,
we'll put that on up on Instagram so you can
see Chico in person. When we get back. We're gonna
ask Chico some questions. I'm gonna prepare you for this.
I'm gonna ask you when we get back about your
fighting style. I'm gonna ask, at what point does the
fight hit the ground.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
And he's a boxer.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh oh wait a minute, does that mean he never
hits the ground?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yea, yeah, I never hit the ground. He never No
knockdowns yet, right none? Yeah, no knockdowns in six fights,
no knockdowns. He's seven.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well, I tell you what, he's gonna be my friend
because I don't know what to do when I hit
the ground. So I'm just gonna learn what this guy
tells me to do and never hit the ground. We're
gonna be back in the.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Business up here.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Just stand up, he said, and move like a butterfly.
Seeing that's it. We'll be back with with Chico in
just a minute on the Business Happy Hour with Combat
Quest forty two. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Let's get back to the Business Happy Hour radio show
with your host Frank the Bank Koto, owner of Lincoln
Lending Group, and.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
His co host Senia Akishna.
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Riltor with Mahara and associates.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
All right, Tampa Bay, welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business an entrepreneurial
and I see Sey Chico just join the show. Soy
if you want to Chico, Sorry, if you want to
request to be on video, you're welcome to and you
can put your phone out there and be on the
video with everybody. I'm sorry I didn't offer that earlier.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
He's at Soy Understore Boxing.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Now, Soy Underscore Chico Boxing.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Correct, Soy Underscore Chico Boxing on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's it. Soy Underscore Chico Boxing. And we believe we
have another fighter in the elevator room, so hopefully we
can get him in here in a couple of minutes.
We've got about eight minutes left in the show. Cheico,
I learned a second ago you're just a boxer, so
you don't hit the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Well, I'm just a boxer now, but I've trained I'm
in May for the past eleven years too.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Oh okay, okay, so I can ask you this question.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
We've got it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
We got a few minutes. So when you're doing the MMA,
and you know, like my dad told me, every fight
hits the ground. I mean, what happens? What goes through
your mind when you hit the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
You know you're underground. What's gonna happen in a street fighter? Like,
are they gonna stop on my head? Are they what
are they gonna do? Are they gonna are they gonna
pull out a weapon? What are they gonna do? You know,
you gotta find a way to defend yourself. You pull guard,
try to take out the legs, try to stand up
right away, something and get yourself out of that trouble.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You know, right, good point. You gotta get yourself out
of trouble. I mean, I wouldn't know. I mean, I
know a little bit about jiu jitsu, but I'm I'm
by far not that good that I think I get
myself out of trouble. To you guys on the Instagram,
just turning to turn down your volumes all the way
on your phone, you won't get any of that feedback.
Oh now I got you on there, cheeko. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Now Luis is fighting an undefeated fighter. I'm up here
in two weeks at Combat Cost forty two in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
He's got an undefeated op Okay, so what are you
thinking of that? This guy's never how many times he
has he fights?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
He's want to know, one and no, still undefeated?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Man, I have a feeling this guy is gonna probably
get something. On the other side, is going to get
a one and one? What do you think?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Well, let's see, We'll see you up. Yes, so it
says yeah, So Lewis is actually fighting on both shows. Guys,
I didn't even mention that to you. Lewis is fighting
this weekend in for Myers, then turning around and fighting
next weekend in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Back to back weekends, man, I mean, is that enough
time to recover?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Is that I've done it. I've done it before, I've
done it where I've fought back to back days, so
back to back weeks.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Real fighters can do this stuff. You know. There's a
lot of guys that they find an excuse, they find
a way not to compete, and then there's a few guys.
There's a handful of guys like Luis and like the
guy standing behind him right now, US Marine Sammy de Lao.
These guys will fight anybody, and we'll explain that with
Sam here in a minute too. But these guys will
fight anybody pretty much whatever weight is relative to their
walking weight, and they'll do it on back to bag weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I love it now, Chico. How many fights have you done?
Speaker 7 (35:05):
You said, well, I've done six, and then I've done
also I think three USA boxing, so I'm about nine total.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
So is boxing your favorite sport? Are your your favorite discipline?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Now? It has to be, you know, it has to be. Now,
that's the only thing I can do. I've done. I did,
like I said, for eleven years and injuries took me out.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So right, man, that's MMAS probably gives you a good
setup for boxing, though, I mean you basically figured it out.
I don't want to hit the ground at this point.
I want to put the other guy on the ground absolutely, man.
That's if there's anything that you get me into, Brandon
one day, it'll probably be boxing. I am interested in
picking that up as a little discipline. But we're gonna
have to get a little time first, Frank, the bank
has to get off the dang radio to have time
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to punch it one of those have you thought about boxing? No,
you don't want.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
To get I have never been in a fight in
my life. I mean even as a kid. It's just
that's never happened. Probably never taken a hit.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I'll take it.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yes, I don't want to get hit.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I don't blame you. I don't blame you. I'm on
the other end of the spectrum. I like a good
sock to the face that kind of.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Wakes me up and makes I mean, sometimes I think
about throwing a punch that sounds like it could be exhilarating,
but I definitely don't want to take one.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Gets you a cardio kickboxing class. Think Sam Ronzo's Largo.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
We're gonna get We're gonna get Sety out of one
of those weeks. We gotta get us to one to
one of the events too together, all right, So I
want to make sure I leave enough time for Sam Chico.
Thank you for coming on the show. I wish you
luck man. Hopefully you are not the one hitting that
in Matt and the other guy is. I just want
you to give me one. Guarantee, guarantee me blood.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
I'll guarantee you a Mexican style.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Mexican style blood.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
There you go. Can't get much better. Guarantee.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
It's like the Mexican coke. It's better than one here
you get, I mean Coca cola.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
We're talking.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Frank the Make does not get his energy from anything. Okay,
I was born with this. Uh, let's you got to.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Sign off with that. Call'll call you make.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
Was that the thing?
Speaker 8 (37:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I want to hear you do it though.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
God, you guys got to come to comeback Quest forty
two if you want to hear that one in person. Uh?
Now is it Sam? We're bringing on.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, we're bringing in former US marine Sam de Lau.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
All right, Sam, we're gonna we're gonna give you Chico's
stuff over there real quick and get you in here.
We still have three minutes left in the show, so
we get to interview Sam. I understand you're a marine, Yes, sir,
an always marine, right, that's it? Who Rah? My father
was a marine and uh, sadly I learned what it
was what happens when you retire a marine. And I
did not know that until his funeral. How that went?
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And I tell you there wasn't a dry eye in
the room. Weren't you there? I think you were there absolutely,
And that was when when his fellow marine got up
there and retired him. And wow, that was that was something,
let me tell you. So, So congratulations, thank you for
your service. Obviously, from what Brandon tells me, is this
the guys, this is first fight?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
No, no, no, this guy is four in one box.
He's undefeated in kickboxing as well. Okay, he normally fights
at like one eighty five and he's going all the
way up to heavyweight for a heavyweight title fight first
Saturday in clear Water.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
Yeah, the last fight was actually like catch weight right
around like two hundred and two o five. But you know,
I'm the guy everybody wants to be, just the guy
that everyone can't beat. So whatever weight class they got, man,
I'll go twenty pounds up, twenty pounds down.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
I'm here to fight.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
First of all, how do you put on twenty good pounds? Pizza, pasta,
chicken nuggets? So exactly what we were taking. So basically
we're pros. I I'm a total pro when it comes
to the weight gain side.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
There you go. Yeah, I got that angle covered.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I got that cover, and then we got a drop weight.
Now you worried about going up and weight and going
against a bigger opponent who's already big or.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
No, no, man, the power I got in my hands
is just too much for anybody, even at two fifty
two sixty to deal with. You know, I've got a
ton of power. I've got a ton of speed, and
I can I can hit like a two to fifty
pounds and I can move like a one to fifty
five or so.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm good to go.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh man, yeah, I'm gonna love it. So which one
are you gonna be in? Forty one or forty two?
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Forty two, forty two and fourteenth at occ roadhouse. I'm
gonna comin event.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Okay, June fourteenth cent. We gotta try. I know we
say it every time and something happened, but we gotta
try you in town. That one, well you know what
I was. It was your fault. Well, the first job,
I was so excited. We'll actually no, I lie.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
First time I did get sex, but no, the last
one I was ready to go and then you forgot.
You're out of town, third times the charm.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yes, I'm gonna have to figure this out. We're gonna
look at the calendar as soon as we hang up
and see if I'm disappointing everybody or not. Sam, What
else do you have to say to your competitors or
you know out there? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Pretty much? Right now?
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Man, Florida is running scared for me. Man, So I'm
looking for anybody, whether they're in Florida or not.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
One hundred and.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Eighty five pounds, two hundred five pounds, two hundred and
fifteen ten, whatever it's at Man, one seventy one seventy five.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
I'm here to take every belt, every name I can.
Oh my god, I'm gonna keep this guy busy. Man,
he's got he's got a June fourteenth here in clear Water.
Then he's got July twenty sixth No calla shout out,
American FC. He's gonna be competing on that car. Then
turn around August thirtieth, pip here and Clearwater, and then
I think he's probably gonna make the pro jump after
that because we can't find anyone to fight this guy
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in the continental United States.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Oh Man, all right, Well, that said, we got to
get off the air, but we're gonna stay on Instagram
for a couple more minutes. Sam, good luck in your fight.
I hope we see it. Can we can? You guarantee blood.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Absolutely and a knockout.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Blood and a knockout are guaranteed by Sam. This is
happy our thanks for listening. We're going to stay on
Instagram for a couple of minutes and we'll see you
guys next week.
Welcome to the Business Happy Hour radio show with your host,
Frank Debank Coodo, the owner of Lincoln Lending Group right
here in Tampa Bay for twenty three years, joined by
his incredible co host, Senia Akishna, realtor with Mahara and Associates.
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Speaker 2 (00:44):
Here's Frank de Bank and at.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Sennia Hey, Tampa Bay, Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business and entrepreneurial.
And man, we have a great show scheduled for you
guys today. That's right, Sinnia Akishaa, my co hosts from
Malhara and Associates, is in studio with me how along
with our good friend Brandon Lee from Combat Quest to
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Combat Quest forty one and forty two are on the horizon,
coming up right around the corner here, Brandon, I think,
what have we got them? Are they next two weeks?
Are they in a row?
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir. This weekend we're in Fort Myers
for Combat Quest forty one at the Sydney and Burne
Davis Arts Center. And then next Saturday, turn right around,
we're back at the OCC Roadhouse in Clearwater for Combat
Quest forty two.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Man, I mean, who puts on back to back MMA event?
Turned out your volume on your phone? Back to back
MMA events? I mean that that is out of this world.
I don't think the WWF or the WWE ever put
on back to back events? Did they?
Speaker 4 (01:46):
No, It's it's damn near gonna kill me, But it's
all right. I think I'll come through a little bit
more gray than I already am. But sorry, you.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Are starting to get a little gray man taking over
the con. As long as you're gonna start using touch
of gray, you got to promise me you're not going
to use that.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So I'm going to doctor Sebbi's Batana oil anybody know
about this.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, actually, before you do that, go to your phone
and just click down your volume all the way because
it's coming through your speaker and you're getting a little
echo through the radio. There, you go much better. Who
is this doctor and what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Doctor sebby Man. Our government killed him back in the
sixties because he cured cancer. He found all these holistic
remedies for the human body. And you can regenerate your
hair and get your hair back to its original color
with batana oil.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
But I know you hear that said said, I think
your color's looking just fine.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
I think you've got nothing to worry about what you're
talking about over here.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Yeah, I think she's doing good on the color on
the hair. But you and I am. I'm looking in
this Instagram video right now and I'm like, man, this
is a little grayer than normal. But then I look
over yours and I'm like that Mustasha is pretty gray.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
George Clooney is doing better than me right now?
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Okay, Well on the bright side, I mean, guys with
the gray, I just I like it.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Thank you? Sin you know, so is it think it's.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
A good thing?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Are you gonna be honest? If I ask you this question, sure, okay,
is it true that as men age they get better looking?
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I think it's true, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Okay, Well you heard it from a real woman over here.
A real girl just answered that question.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Gives us single guys in forties hope. You know, it's funny,
you know, I have.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's weird. I have a lot of single ish or
about to be single, you know, forty forties for it.
Not me, not me, guys A bunch you know, a
bunch of them, and they're they're telling me it's it's
not that that much. It's not that hard to uh
to to you know, find a girl these I think
it's easier.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I think women appreciate just the maturity factor, you know,
plus the looks.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
You know.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
The gray. A lot of women are into the gray hair. Yeah,
silver foxes. Oh use silver fox I say that sometimes.
So do they like the speckle of the brown and
the gray or do they want it? Do we have
to go straight gray?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Is that what we gotta do? Or do we have
is it? Okay? I have a little color with the gray.
You know what?
Speaker 5 (03:59):
I think A different mixture is you know, whatever, however
it comes through for you like, I was watching there's
a new movie with what's that actor? Oh, man, he's
in all the comedy stuff. It's a new movie about
like the billionaires that are no, no, no, what's his name,
Steve Carell?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Oh, Steve Carrell. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I'm.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
Like, man, his hair just always looks good. But even
if it's you know, gray or whatever with the goatee,
you know, Steve Carrell hair lighter there. But you know
he's he's actually getting better looking as he is aging that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
You heard it here on the Business Happy Hour. Men,
you start looking better the older you get. It's crazy. Yeah,
I was. I was at the mall the other day
and I was sitting there having having lunch with my son,
and I was just you know, people watching, you know,
and you see people walking by, and this is gonna
sound terrible, but I think you kind already proved the point.
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I see a lot of like really good looking men
in their middle ages with it's gonna sound terrible with
women who don't take care of themselves, and I and
if this sounds bad, but I looked at it and
I'm just like thinking, what you said. I like men,
you know, get and I'm not saying women don't age well.
But I just look and I'm like, how does that
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dynamic work? Right? They It's like in any marriage and
any relationship, one side lets themselves go and the other
like what this guy was like ripped that. I see
him and it's clearly his wife he's walking with, And
I'm just like, dude, why don't you, like, you know,
get into the gym with your wife and help her out?
And I don't know, I'm gonna sign it's usually the.
Speaker 5 (05:29):
Other way around.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I'm surprised. But my thing is, I'm starting to see
this more often. Now, what about you? You're in the Brandon,
You're in the fitness world. You guys are you know? Mma?
I mean, you guys are the pinnacle of fitness of
Sunny and I think we're in good shape. I mean,
you guys are you know, cracking boards over your heads
and stuff?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Well these fighters not so much my fat ass, but but.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
True, you know you're not that fat? What are you talking?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
One ninety bro? This was my walk around. Wait before
I broke my neck as a fighter, I was bulked
up at one ninety. Now I've got a belly at
one ninety, So you.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Carry it carries it. Well, yeah, I'm gonna give you
a little compliment on and you got the silver box.
So what do you think, Sam, the silver box takes
off ten pounds.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Sure sounds good.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
So I'm back down one of the best guy, right,
the best cost average. He's like, yeah, sure, yeah, you
guys look real good, trust me.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Anyway, I don't know, I'm the fighters. I mean, these
guys are in the pinnacle. Let me ask you this,
what's the oldest MMA fighter you've ever worked with.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Well, we don't take guys on the amateur level after
thirty nine because once they hit forty, then they have
to get all these extra tests. It's my phone, all
these extra tests, all this extra testing done, MRI cat
scan of the brain. Well, because you got a lot
more chances of brain injury, concussion, things like that's a
lot more prevalent at the older you get. And then
generally you got to think that you've been through more
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damage the older you get, so it's a lot more
easier to happen. So yeah, we stick to guys thirty
nine and under, and we get guys all the way.
We got a guy on the next show coming up
in clear Water thirty nine years old, making his debut.
Former military guy been begging me for the opportunity for months,
and I finally broke and given him the outportunity. So
let's see what happens.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
This is his first fight, first fight.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
Yeah, and I give the listen. I always give these
guys fair warning too, man, I warned them. Listen, man,
your opponent's training with a solid team. You better have
a solid team around you. This is going to be
a real deal event. There's going to be smoke and
lights and a big crowd. And this is not This
is not you know, a backyard, real cage fighting in
a wrestling matt. This is real deal, holy field stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh like, I love what he said. There's gonna be
smoking lasers and that's what makes the fight real. If
it doesn't have smoke in lasers, those punches are just fake.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
But I think.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Bottom line is and you definitely look you could pass
for thirty nine, but you are too old to decide
that you want to be a fighter.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
You know, we had a guy start not vigilant, but
there was a guy that started his amateur career at
fifty two. Oh wow, he fought till he was fifty
eight and he fought like forty times. He was I
believe he was like thirty and ten or thirty thirty
two and ten or something like that, fighting from fifty
two to fifty eight.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
So he did well.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
He did well, man. I mean obviously, I don't think
they put him in there with Camerou Ousman or you know,
one of these killers. Yeah, but he went he went
around on the regional circuit and did well in his fifties.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Man. Man, so I want to I want to ask
before so Senya, by the way, we're going to do
If you guys didn't know, that's Brandon Lee. He's a
great friend of the show. He's the guy who started
Combat Quest. And they are on forty freaking two, well,
forty one and then forty two back to back. I
don't know how this guy does it, to be honest.
He puts on these amazing events. So we like having
them on here, like having the fighters on here, showcasing
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these guys. And I got to say, man, I'm one
of my favorite fighters and I'm yet to get to
see him in person. Mister Frigga, mister Frigga. And he
was supposed to be here today, but he had something
else he had to do.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, man, I mean it's a three hour drive one
way for them to get up here from Fort Meyers.
So it's six hours just in the commute, and you
got to think about, you know, all the in betweens
and ups and down, so that she just he literally
he's a general contractor. So he's a general contractor by
day and then fighter with all the rest of his
free time. He's now six and zero. He's finished his
last five opponents, meaning none of his last five opponents
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made it to the end of the fight. Oh, he's
now ranked number twelve in the United States of America.
Wow what yep? At one thirty five he is the
number twelve ranked bantamweight MMA competitor in the nation. Vigilant
actually now has three competitors that are ranked in the
top twelve of the country, three of our champions, and
we have two more that if they just get a
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couple more wins, they'll be right there.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
So how does that work? I mean, do they get
to go pro at some point?
Speaker 4 (09:26):
How does it?
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Well, absolutely? What you want to build in your amateur career, right,
you want to fight until your your coaches tell you
that you're ready to make the jump. Usually the fighter
doesn't make that decision. That's the coach and the management
team that get together and say, okay, he's got the
skill set to be successful on the pro level. Now. Unfortunately,
there's a lot of coaches out there that take advantage
of fighters and just want to say I have a
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pro fighter now when they would just want to say
they have a pro fighter. As soon as you've got
five fights, you can turn pro.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Okay, you just answer my next question. So you have
to fight minimum five.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Fight, minimum five sanction fights. And there's a lot of
backyard fire. There's a lot of commissions out here, or
I mean, excuse me, a lot of promotions out here
that they won't even hire a commission. They'll just have
the event and then the fighters don't get credit for
the event. Oh god, could you imagine go through a
training camp, all the sacrifice, time, effort and energy, and
then you go and fight and then nothing shows on
your record and they're like, oh, yeah, sorry, we didn't
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have the sanctioning body there so it didn't count.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Oh my god, sorry, your brain got beaten and you
get nothing for that.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I don't know how those guys don't get assaulted in publics,
to be honest, because if I weren't disabled and someone
did that to me, they would catch an ass whipping
at you know, at PDQ or wherever we were at.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
See, this is the life of a fighter.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Now when we are going to take a break here
in just a minute, and Senny and I promise to
do some real estate updates. Senia, you didn't know this,
but today is the summer market update.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Perfect, I've got some stats for us.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Well, it's because we've officially started summer. Now, your kids,
you have a kid in school or nine?
Speaker 5 (10:55):
You have one of kindergarteners, Well, no, I have a
twelve year old. Oh yeah, she just finished sixth grade.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh god, I'm so far so off.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Yeah, oh congratulations, thank she's excited. Oh man, kids just
love summertime. Huh, I can't wait.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
So your kids out of school?
Speaker 5 (11:09):
She's out of school? Yeah, the little one, the three
year old, I mean he's standing all summer.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Yeah, he's like, I'll keep that one in daycare forever.
They should have daycare for the ones in summer. I
think it's called camp, but they only do it for
a week. But anyway, So are you excited, like, are
you are you sleeping in a little bit now?
Speaker 5 (11:25):
Yeah? Well she just finished on Friday.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Okay, oh so you have only experienced two days.
Speaker 5 (11:31):
Yeah, actual, yeah, really so.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
But well, guys, summer has started, so welcome to summer.
If all you parents are out there taking the kids
to school, waking up early, you get to sleep in
just a little bit, except you probably have.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
To go here.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Traffic.
Speaker 5 (11:43):
This is one of my favorite parts. I just noticed
the difference in traffic.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I drove all the way. Actually we got to take
a break care. When we get back, we'll talk about
how far we drove, and how happy we are to
be able to sleep in and not have so much
traffic in the summer, and how great the weather is
in Florida. On the Business Happy Hour, we'll be back
in just a minute with Frankencinia State Uned.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All the best mortgage are real estate advice from Tampa
Bay's top experts. It's the Business Happy Hour with Frank, Debankkoto,
and Senia.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Hey Tampa Bay. Welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business and entrepreneurial.
And I hope you're having a great day like we are.
It is like the I mean, for real, I feel
it's the second day of summer because it's the second
day that we haven't taken had to take kids to school.
And it was really weird, you know, waking up to
a different alarm clock and not to have like your
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son be like, come on, you're making me late. You're
making me late. I'm like, bro, you're not even dressed.
You are literally pantless, and you're telling me I'm making
you late. So maybe by next year when my summer's
when my son is a sophomore, I won't have to
hear that. But Senia, you just said something before the break.
Traffic amazing, right.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
Oh man?
Speaker 5 (12:51):
Yeah, I love by multiple school zone. So yes, it
is nice that you don't have to time the routes.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah. I went all the way from like almost Saint
Pete Beach all the way to downtown Tampa in thirty
three minutes. It was amazing. So anyway, we love summer.
Summer's here. The weather is beautiful. You live in Florida,
you live in Paradise. Get your butt out there and
enjoy it. And if you need a new home, you
have come to the right place, because Senia can find
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you that home that you're looking for, wherever you want it.
There's lots of great deals out there. It is a
buyer's market right now. It is going to be a
seller's market as soon as rates keep coming down. And
I know I keep saying it, but guys, it's going
to happen, and the day it happens, it's going to
be over for you. So you got to get in now.
The rates are still good. Yesterday we locked a VA
loan under six percent, so it's still not that bad.
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It was in the high fives that we locked a
VA loan with no points to the veteran. If that
veteran wanted to pay a point, he'd probably be in
the maybe mid to high fives. Okay, so the rates
are nowhere near as bad as you think they are,
but you do have to work with a wholesale person.
Go to contact frankdbank dot com. That's contact frankdbank dot
com and we'll get you taken care of. And of course,
if you need to talk to Sinny to find a
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house or to see what's available in the inventory, you're
gonna call.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
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Speaker 3 (14:10):
That's it. Eight one three seven five to five are
reel and that's how you get in touch with a
real realtor to find what real houses are available for you.
Right now, so we're going to jump in. We have
one of our fighters from Combat Quest was it forty two?
Forty two, which is in a couple of weeks, it's
going to be up here in our neck of the woods.
He is on the line right now. I'm going to
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let Brandon introduce him. He was not able to come
into the studio. Then we're going to do our summer
real estate recap of what's going on, and then we're
going to have a couple guys in studio here from
Combat Quest. So let's do it. Brandon, Who do we
have on the line?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
All right? We have the brand new light middleweight Vigilant Champion,
Muy Thai Champion Alex Farfan, a thirteen fight veteran out
of freestyle Mui Thai coming off of a killer five
round unanimous decision victory over our good friend De Nuosu,
who was in studio.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
He bet D, he b D.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
He gave D the business. D's coming back though, D
will be back. It was a great fight. It was
a great back.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
How many rounds?
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Was it five rounds back and forth all the way
to the oh yeah, elbows, flying man?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
It was?
Speaker 4 (15:16):
And now he's getting ready to fight our current super
welterweight champion at one fifty three, Dyce san Lee Esteverne,
who's coming up to one fifty nine. These guys have
already fought ten full rules Muay Thai rounds. I mean
it's ten rounds with elbows and all rules already, back
and forth. Killer fight. That's going to be our main
event in two weeks at the OCC Roadhouse in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Guaranteed to be bloody.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Oh yeah, Garrett blood.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Let's ask Alex, Alex, you tell us are we getting
guaranteed blood on this fight?
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Oh? For sure, for sure. Thank you guys for having
me on. Good to be here, and for sure. As
Brendan mentioned before, I've already fought that Stanley twice. Both
were really good fights, especially the last one, really close
fight that you know, me and my coaches believe should
have went my way. So I am very excited to
have this opportunity to leave no question in two weeks.
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On Combat Quest forty.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Seconds, it sounds like you've got a little revenge in
your voice.
Speaker 6 (16:13):
Is it for sure? For sure? Usually, I mean, I'm
very respectful to all my opponents. I don't, you know,
talk trash, and all my opponents have been the same way.
No one has pushed the line, including that stand that
we know each other and he was actually at the
last fight. But there's definitely a little bit of a
personal element, no question, and it has come out in
my train and I've been training hard and it will
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come out again for sure on the fight on the fourteenth.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Now, let me tell you that's scary to hear him say,
because I used to see a chiropractor there where freestyle
was at, and when I pulled up in the parking lot,
I knew if Alex was training by the sound of
the muy type pads getting kicked. Oh, I would be like, oh,
I can hear that from the parking lot. Yep, that's Alex.
And then when I would hit the room, ow, there
he is kicking the MUYT type pads.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Man.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
So if he's training even harder than that, I hope
my boy dies. Sanley's down there in the hot box
getting ready.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Oh man, Sin, do you know what freestyle muy Thai is?
Speaker 5 (17:08):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Not really this is full rules muy Thai, meaning that
so in modified muy Thai, you can only hold the
person for so long to separate you after a short
amount of time. You're not allowed to throw elbows, you're
not allowed to throw knees to the head. So it's
a it's a watered down version for guys that are
just starting out. You don't want to give everyone all
the weapons right away, especially when they're green. You know
you could really hurt each other. So you give them
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a couple fights, let them get used to the to it,
and then you expand to the full rules. And that's
where Alex is at. Alex and Di Sanley both you know,
they got twenty one fights between them.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Alex, how long how long have you been practicing muy thai.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
I've been training muy thai for about three and a
half years and fightings for about two and a half.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Got it. So, was that the first martial arts that
you got into?
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Yes, sir, Yes, sir, it was the first one walked into.
I got lucky. I walked into freestyle Muytai, which is
the name of the gym that I train at down
in Loots, and there was a great gym, walked in
there and initially didn't even really have thoughts of competing,
just thoughts of training and bettering myself, and then fell
in love with it, wanted to test myself and then
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here I am. It's been thirteen fights now, so thirteen
fights later and no plans on stop.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
So did you ever think you'd be a fighter.
Speaker 6 (18:21):
Originally? I mean, you know, I knew I was going
to train, So there's that small possibility like, oh, this
is like you aspire to be like what the cop
people are. But I've never really had any serious I'm
going to fight, any any serious commitment to that. It
was just purely to train and to find a community,
which is something that everyone benefits training. Marshall Art, especially
Moreta and.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
You hear that how similar to de Nuosu's story. Yeah,
just went in and that's how I find a lot
of people, a lot of fighters now, especially on the
amateur level. This is their story that they just went
to go train. They just went to get in there,
sweat it out, you know, feel a little bit better
about themselves, maybe learn a little personal defense. Yeah, and
then you fall in love with it because martial arts
it's a way of life. Guys, I recommend all my
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friends' kids, anybody listening, get your kids into martial arts
because it teaches them discipline, teaches them respect, It teaches
them self respect, which you can't respect anybody else if
you don't respect yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Yes, that's exactly.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
These kids learn self respect in martial arts. And then
above all of that, if none of those other things
interest you, once they learn martial arts, I wish a
bully would put their hands on your kid, because then
they're gonna find out what time it is. So make
your kids bully proof. You improve their self esteem, you
improve their self worth, you improve their you know, their
self respect, and then that in turn, those things combined, man,
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it really multiplies.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So we only got twenty seconds left, Alex, I want
to thank you for coming on. We wish you luck, man.
I hope this is your revenge fight. I know you've
guaranteed us blood. Let's hope it's blood of the other guy.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
Yeah, sure, thank you. Yeah we'll be bloody and my
head we'll be raised on the forty second. Look forward
to it. Thank you, guys, I love it.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
We will see you there. Thanks Alex. We're gonna take
a break here on the Business Happy When we get back,
we're gonna our summer market real estate update and we'll
have some more fighters. Stay tuned, we'll be back in
just a minute.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
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Frank the Bank Coodo, the owner of Lincoln Lending Group
right here in Tampa Bay for twenty three years, joined
by his incredible co host, Senia Akishna, realtor with Mahara
and Associates.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
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Speaker 2 (20:51):
Here's Frank the Bank and Senia.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
All right, guys, welcome back to the Business Happy Hour.
As promised, we are going to talk about our summer
market real estate update, and we're gonna have a couple
of fighters on. But I've gotta say same. I'm a
little sad our Jesuit boys are not here. Oh, I
just realize that. I'm like, where are all these crazy
comments that we would see during the show and Lander
(21:13):
and all his butt from school because we're always on
during their lunch break and there's a whole crew of them,
and they would all like us and comments, say funny
things and get landing in trouble and stuff, and it
was great.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
It's good to have that kid momentum behind you because
us adults, we don't really do it like that us
eighties babies and stuff.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Is matter of fact, there's some good memes. You guys
go on Instagram and type in like what it was
like in the eighties. There's a lot of really really
fun for you. Sen it's going to be nineties, late nineties.
We're old over here, silver Foxes. And I will say
this coming out of the break, I was telling the
guys on the on the backside, when we get back
into the fighting, there's one thing my dad taught me
(21:50):
many many years ago, and every fight ends up on
the ground, so you have to know what to do
when you're on the ground. So when we get back
in with the fighters, we're going to talk about what
are they going to do when they hit the ground.
I'm going to ask some of the fighters what happens
when when you hit the ground. What's the first thing
that goes through your mind? But before that, the summer
real estate market update. We're putting Senya Akishna from Mahara
(22:11):
and Associates on the spot right now. She had no
idea that that's what she was going to do today,
but we're going to talk to you about the market. Gohesen.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
You know, I had no idea, but I'm glad because
normally we just you know, monthly, you know, I pull
our stats from the month before yeap from our local board.
But we've actually got the first quarter of twenty twenty
five report that came out that they make available to
us on our MLS. It's from doctor Ellie Eisenberg. He's
(22:39):
an economist that's you know, all over the real estate arena.
So I just highlighted some things that I thought we
should start this office. So nationally, the median sale price
rose two point seven percent year every year, okay, to
four oh three seven hundred right, and then the portion
I highlight it's although inventory is taken up wor, it
(23:00):
still falls short of long term averages, which I always
bring up when we talk about inventory and things like that.
So here he is saying that, So even nationally, yes,
inventory is definitely on the rise, but it still falls short.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
So I watched something have to Cut You Off on
Fox News Business the other day, and it was the
first time, at least that I've noticed in the last
I don't know, six months, that we had somebody on
there that literally says exactly what you say and exactly
what I say, almost verbatim. She it's almost like she
stole your stats. And she was talking about home prices up.
She started talking about inventory, and when she started, I said, God,
(23:35):
please say how inventory is affected by interest rates? And
she said it like exactly what you and I talk about.
And this lady's on National Fox News, right, I mean, we're,
you know, nine to seventy and news radio and stuff's
kind of cool, but we're not National Fox. And she
said when the rates drop, and they will, we do
not have enough inventory to support therefore prices will go up.
(23:58):
And I loved hearing that. So anyway, back to your stats.
I just want to tell you what you say is
now national news good?
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Continuing that on, we did have existing home sales did
fall about five point nine percent year ofvery year, which
for our local stats that kind of you know, goes
along with the trend. But the current national inventory sets
up four months supply interesting, it's actually closer to a balance,
but like we've said, the balance is usually between like
five six months.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Right right now, don't you find it a little interesting
that the prices went up two point seven percent but
these sales went down five point nine that well.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
This is also like the first quarter report because my
April numbers, you know, they showed it up. But still
this is all signals that there is some correction going on,
but nothing drastic. Like what I'm confused about is when
we see those headlines and I think they try to
pick out like some number, yeah, which a lot of
times I'm like, where did they even get that? You know,
But it's just the you know, clickbait. Maybe click on this,
(24:55):
and I don't know, people just like the stuff more.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
Shocking is falling, you know, people are like click.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well and it is not so that was national now,
for the Florida market overview, the median single family home
price only went down point one percent every year for
the first quarter, okay, and the closed sales activity for
single family down one point nine percent.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The closed is down one point nine and the price
is down overall.
Speaker 5 (25:27):
And I highlighted his little quote here and it says,
the Florida housing market is really doing remarkably. Well, oh okay,
all those stuff, you know, that's not me saying it.
That's this economist that you know does this for a living.
So I think that's great. The other one that I
did get excited about is that even regionally, not just Florida,
like Tampa is picked out and we have some of
(25:48):
the tightest inventory in Tampa.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
What does that mean you have less inventory?
Speaker 5 (25:53):
We do. So even if Florida is about five point
five months and Tampa it is not that it's actually
my Hillsborough County number I know is four months. This
is saying four point two, you know, so for first quarter.
I think that's actually accurate. But his quote for that
is Tampa's market stands out for its efficiency and balance,
even amid broader softening.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Efficiency in balance, you guys, hear that I don't know
if at you random, but I think I feel people
want to come here. I see more and more memes
and posts about people just saying how amazing Tampa is.
What can you do? You have the water, you have,
the beaches, you have sports.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Nobody listened to Frank We're full.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Ha ha, he's got one of those shirts. I guarantee it,
this as Florida is full.
Speaker 5 (26:35):
But you know what, Frank's right, it is we're still
the more. I think that one the migration trend thing
we had a few weeks ago. I mean, we are
by far the destination state for people relocating.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, and I think in Florida, I think our central
West Florida is kind of the destination area right now.
I mean we're getting expensive, but overall we're not as
expensive going to be.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
It's so great here. I really I love it, you know.
And I've into Miami and Orlando and you know the
different parts. I love where we're at.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
I do too.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
I do too.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
But like Brandon said, the gates are closed.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
We are sorry, we are totally fool. In fact, we're
looking to deport like Ice right now.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Wait, are we asking for self deportations?
Speaker 4 (27:16):
Yeah? Right, yeah, we'll take those first.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
So what we want you to do is call Senia
first because she'll list your house. And what number do
they call?
Speaker 5 (27:21):
You send eight one three seven five five reel.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
So you're gonna call eight one three seven five five
reels so she can list your house for sale.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
And can get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
But here's what frank the bank wants you to do.
I want you to buy still in Florida, just not Tampa,
all right, So go to contact Frankiebank dot com and
I'll help you get a mortgage anywhere besides Hillsboro, Panellas
in Pasco County. Actually, I'll let you go to Pasco.
That's fine. Just I'm gonna get such hate mail listeners.
I'm I'm joking. If Pasco is awesome, everywhere around here
(27:53):
is awesome. But if Brandon's asking you, he said get
the hell out of here, that's right? Oh god, what
else said anything else?
Speaker 5 (28:00):
Well, let's see. I guess I know we're going to
be running short on time here. So the absorption rate
is not it's something we bring up all the time,
but for our local numbers, and this is to put
in perspective. So the absorption rate. It's kind of just
the same thing as like the month supply of inventory,
but just expressed as a percentage. Okay, So for Hillsborough County,
the current absorption rate was twenty eight percent, Panela is
(28:22):
twenty four percent. In pass Go thirty percent.
Speaker 7 (28:24):
I mean, so.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
Anything over twenty percent. I know everybody's like buyer's market.
Buyer's market. Technically, it's not.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
It's really and I.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
Really think that our sales activity is down because of
the interest rates, because of the uncertainty in the market.
So I do urge buyers get off that fence, yes,
with sitting on it, get your home now, because if
you look at those numbers, by the time that the
interest rates do drop, we just you know, you don't
(28:53):
want to find yourself in that situation where you're competing,
where you're in multiple offers and prices.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Will go up. Right, it happened. This is weird, Senny,
And I'm not talking about something that might happen. This
is an absolute guarantee. It is not an if.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
It is a butt win, and it's all relative, right,
I mean, if you're waiting for that, you know, another
quarter percent and half a percent, what what's it worth
to you? What's an extra twenty grand the you know
the house is going to increase, So I mean you
really got to weigh out you know those numbers.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
That's She's exactly right, because you cannot refinance and get
the twenty thousand that you overpaid for the house back.
You can absolutely refinance. Contact frankdbank dot com and you
can lower your rate.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Well and call me at eight one, three, seven five
five reel so we can negotiate. This is a great
market to negotiate the price that you want, get the terms,
get some closing costs paid. This is the time to
do it.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
It is this is the time the seller will work
with you. Eight eight one three seven five to five
reel is how you find somebody to really work on
your behalf. By the way, our producer James just sent
me this article while we were chit chatting. This is funny.
This is one of those that you were talking about. Said,
but this is interesting. It says, according to the company pop,
it's that company that moves your stuff. They said. Tampa
Bay is one has now shown up on the list
(30:06):
as one of the most moved out areas in America.
Brandon he got his wish. Jesus. Matter of fact, combat
Quest just offered to buy your pod if you're moving
out of Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4 (30:16):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
He's gonna buy a very small pod. If you do
a mortgage with Lincoln Lending Group and Sennia sells your house,
well that's not a bad idea. Tell you what you
guys are interested in that you call Senia, we might
just actually get you a pod. No joke, This could
be something fun that we could do. So check that out.
Speaker 4 (30:34):
Little incentive bonus, man, little incentive bonus.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
You want to pod, we got you. So when we
get back for the last segment of the show, we're
gonna have some great fighters on. For sure. We're gonna
have on Right.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Now we have Lewis Chico Bautista.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Lewis Chico cheek go. What's what? What do you?
Speaker 4 (30:52):
What do you do?
Speaker 3 (30:53):
When you come in the ring?
Speaker 7 (30:54):
I come out. I try to put in our show.
I love putting on some Hispanic music some right now,
Vincent for nine, Eddie Garrol. I've been walking out to
Eddie Guerrero. Yeah, my last like three fights and that's
been that's been my thing. That's got it gets me going,
I get the crowd going to I put in our
little flare, little sombrero.
Speaker 3 (31:12):
I love it.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
We gotta get a picture that we're gonna put up
on Instagram. Brandon, if you want to send that to me,
we'll put that on up on Instagram so you can
see Chico in person. When we get back. We're gonna
ask Chico some questions. I'm gonna prepare you for this.
I'm gonna ask you when we get back about your
fighting style. I'm gonna ask, at what point does the
fight hit the ground.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
And he's a boxer.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Oh oh wait a minute, does that mean he never
hits the ground?
Speaker 2 (31:37):
Right? Right?
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Yea, yeah, I never hit the ground. He never No
knockdowns yet, right none? Yeah, no knockdowns in six fights,
no knockdowns. He's seven.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Well, I tell you what, he's gonna be my friend
because I don't know what to do when I hit
the ground. So I'm just gonna learn what this guy
tells me to do and never hit the ground. We're
gonna be back in the.
Speaker 7 (31:58):
Business up here.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Just stand up, he said, and move like a butterfly.
Seeing that's it. We'll be back with with Chico in
just a minute on the Business Happy Hour with Combat
Quest forty two. Stay tuned.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Let's get back to the Business Happy Hour radio show
with your host Frank the Bank Koto, owner of Lincoln
Lending Group, and.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
His co host Senia Akishna.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Riltor with Mahara and associates.
Speaker 3 (32:22):
All right, Tampa Bay, welcome back to the Business Happy Hour,
your number one show for all things business an entrepreneurial
and I see Sey Chico just join the show. Soy
if you want to Chico, Sorry, if you want to
request to be on video, you're welcome to and you
can put your phone out there and be on the
video with everybody. I'm sorry I didn't offer that earlier.
Speaker 4 (32:40):
He's at Soy Understore Boxing.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Now, Soy Underscore Chico Boxing.
Speaker 4 (32:46):
Correct, Soy Underscore Chico Boxing on Instagram.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
That's it. Soy Underscore Chico Boxing. And we believe we
have another fighter in the elevator room, so hopefully we
can get him in here in a couple of minutes.
We've got about eight minutes left in the show. Cheico,
I learned a second ago you're just a boxer, so
you don't hit the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:02):
Well, I'm just a boxer now, but I've trained I'm
in May for the past eleven years too.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Oh okay, okay, so I can ask you this question.
Speaker 7 (33:10):
We've got it.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
We got a few minutes. So when you're doing the MMA,
and you know, like my dad told me, every fight
hits the ground. I mean, what happens? What goes through
your mind when you hit the ground.
Speaker 7 (33:19):
You know you're underground. What's gonna happen in a street fighter? Like,
are they gonna stop on my head? Are they what
are they gonna do? Are they gonna are they gonna
pull out a weapon? What are they gonna do? You know,
you gotta find a way to defend yourself. You pull guard,
try to take out the legs, try to stand up
right away, something and get yourself out of that trouble.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
You know, right, good point. You gotta get yourself out
of trouble. I mean, I wouldn't know. I mean, I
know a little bit about jiu jitsu, but I'm I'm
by far not that good that I think I get
myself out of trouble. To you guys on the Instagram,
just turning to turn down your volumes all the way
on your phone, you won't get any of that feedback.
Oh now I got you on there, cheeko. I love it.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Now Luis is fighting an undefeated fighter. I'm up here
in two weeks at Combat Cost forty two in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
He's got an undefeated op Okay, so what are you
thinking of that? This guy's never how many times he
has he fights?
Speaker 4 (34:09):
He's want to know, one and no, still undefeated?
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Man, I have a feeling this guy is gonna probably
get something. On the other side, is going to get
a one and one? What do you think?
Speaker 4 (34:18):
Well, let's see, We'll see you up. Yes, so it
says yeah, So Lewis is actually fighting on both shows. Guys,
I didn't even mention that to you. Lewis is fighting
this weekend in for Myers, then turning around and fighting
next weekend in Clearwater.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
Back to back weekends, man, I mean, is that enough
time to recover?
Speaker 7 (34:35):
Is that I've done it. I've done it before, I've
done it where I've fought back to back days, so
back to back weeks.
Speaker 4 (34:42):
Real fighters can do this stuff. You know. There's a
lot of guys that they find an excuse, they find
a way not to compete, and then there's a few guys.
There's a handful of guys like Luis and like the
guy standing behind him right now, US Marine Sammy de Lao.
These guys will fight anybody, and we'll explain that with
Sam here in a minute too. But these guys will
fight anybody pretty much whatever weight is relative to their
walking weight, and they'll do it on back to bag weeks.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
I love it now, Chico. How many fights have you done?
Speaker 7 (35:05):
You said, well, I've done six, and then I've done
also I think three USA boxing, so I'm about nine total.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
So is boxing your favorite sport? Are your your favorite discipline?
Speaker 7 (35:19):
Now? It has to be, you know, it has to be. Now,
that's the only thing I can do. I've done. I did,
like I said, for eleven years and injuries took me out.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
So right, man, that's MMAS probably gives you a good
setup for boxing, though, I mean you basically figured it out.
I don't want to hit the ground at this point.
I want to put the other guy on the ground absolutely, man.
That's if there's anything that you get me into, Brandon
one day, it'll probably be boxing. I am interested in
picking that up as a little discipline. But we're gonna
have to get a little time first, Frank, the bank
has to get off the dang radio to have time
(35:49):
to punch it one of those have you thought about boxing? No,
you don't want.
Speaker 5 (35:54):
To get I have never been in a fight in
my life. I mean even as a kid. It's just
that's never happened. Probably never taken a hit.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I'll take it.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
Yes, I don't want to get hit.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
I don't blame you. I don't blame you. I'm on
the other end of the spectrum. I like a good
sock to the face that kind of.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
Wakes me up and makes I mean, sometimes I think
about throwing a punch that sounds like it could be exhilarating,
but I definitely don't want to take one.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Gets you a cardio kickboxing class. Think Sam Ronzo's Largo.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
We're gonna get We're gonna get Sety out of one
of those weeks. We gotta get us to one to
one of the events too together, all right, So I
want to make sure I leave enough time for Sam Chico.
Thank you for coming on the show. I wish you
luck man. Hopefully you are not the one hitting that
in Matt and the other guy is. I just want
you to give me one. Guarantee, guarantee me blood.
Speaker 7 (36:40):
I'll guarantee you a Mexican style.
Speaker 3 (36:41):
Mexican style blood.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
There you go. Can't get much better. Guarantee.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
It's like the Mexican coke. It's better than one here
you get, I mean Coca cola.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
We're talking.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
Frank the Make does not get his energy from anything. Okay,
I was born with this. Uh, let's you got to.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Sign off with that. Call'll call you make.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 7 (37:02):
Was that the thing?
Speaker 8 (37:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (37:04):
I want to hear you do it though.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
God, you guys got to come to comeback Quest forty
two if you want to hear that one in person. Uh?
Now is it Sam? We're bringing on.
Speaker 4 (37:14):
Yeah, we're bringing in former US marine Sam de Lau.
Speaker 3 (37:17):
All right, Sam, we're gonna we're gonna give you Chico's
stuff over there real quick and get you in here.
We still have three minutes left in the show, so
we get to interview Sam. I understand you're a marine, Yes, sir,
an always marine, right, that's it? Who Rah? My father
was a marine and uh, sadly I learned what it
was what happens when you retire a marine. And I
did not know that until his funeral. How that went?
(37:39):
And I tell you there wasn't a dry eye in
the room. Weren't you there? I think you were there absolutely,
And that was when when his fellow marine got up
there and retired him. And wow, that was that was something,
let me tell you. So, So congratulations, thank you for
your service. Obviously, from what Brandon tells me, is this
the guys, this is first fight?
Speaker 4 (37:57):
No, no, no, this guy is four in one box.
He's undefeated in kickboxing as well. Okay, he normally fights
at like one eighty five and he's going all the
way up to heavyweight for a heavyweight title fight first
Saturday in clear Water.
Speaker 7 (38:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (38:12):
Yeah, the last fight was actually like catch weight right
around like two hundred and two o five. But you know,
I'm the guy everybody wants to be, just the guy
that everyone can't beat. So whatever weight class they got, man,
I'll go twenty pounds up, twenty pounds down.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
I'm here to fight.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
Dude.
Speaker 4 (38:26):
How do you do?
Speaker 3 (38:27):
First of all, how do you put on twenty good pounds? Pizza, pasta,
chicken nuggets? So exactly what we were taking. So basically
we're pros. I I'm a total pro when it comes
to the weight gain side.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
There you go. Yeah, I got that angle covered.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
I got that cover, and then we got a drop weight.
Now you worried about going up and weight and going
against a bigger opponent who's already big or.
Speaker 8 (38:47):
No, no, man, the power I got in my hands
is just too much for anybody, even at two fifty
two sixty to deal with. You know, I've got a
ton of power. I've got a ton of speed, and
I can I can hit like a two to fifty
pounds and I can move like a one to fifty
five or so.
Speaker 4 (39:02):
I'm good to go.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Oh man, yeah, I'm gonna love it. So which one
are you gonna be in? Forty one or forty two?
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Forty two, forty two and fourteenth at occ roadhouse. I'm
gonna comin event.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Okay, June fourteenth cent. We gotta try. I know we
say it every time and something happened, but we gotta
try you in town. That one, well you know what
I was. It was your fault. Well, the first job,
I was so excited. We'll actually no, I lie.
Speaker 5 (39:22):
First time I did get sex, but no, the last
one I was ready to go and then you forgot.
You're out of town, third times the charm.
Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yes, I'm gonna have to figure this out. We're gonna
look at the calendar as soon as we hang up
and see if I'm disappointing everybody or not. Sam, What
else do you have to say to your competitors or
you know out there? What's your thoughts?
Speaker 4 (39:39):
Pretty much? Right now?
Speaker 8 (39:40):
Man, Florida is running scared for me. Man, So I'm
looking for anybody, whether they're in Florida or not.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
One hundred and.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Eighty five pounds, two hundred five pounds, two hundred and
fifteen ten, whatever it's at Man, one seventy one seventy five.
Speaker 4 (39:50):
I'm here to take every belt, every name I can.
Oh my god, I'm gonna keep this guy busy. Man,
he's got he's got a June fourteenth here in clear Water.
Then he's got July twenty sixth No calla shout out,
American FC. He's gonna be competing on that car. Then
turn around August thirtieth, pip here and Clearwater, and then
I think he's probably gonna make the pro jump after
that because we can't find anyone to fight this guy
(40:11):
in the continental United States.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Oh Man, all right, Well, that said, we got to
get off the air, but we're gonna stay on Instagram
for a couple more minutes. Sam, good luck in your fight.
I hope we see it. Can we can? You guarantee blood.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Absolutely and a knockout.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Blood and a knockout are guaranteed by Sam. This is
happy our thanks for listening. We're going to stay on
Instagram for a couple of minutes and we'll see you
guys next week.
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