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Are you eager to hear some interesting and entertaining conversations about the real estate industry? The Real Estate Sessions with your host, Bill Risser, has got you covered! In this episode, Bill interviews Joe Rand, Chief Creative Officer for Howard Hanna Rand Realty, and invites listeners to call in with their own questions or comments. Rand doesn't see the questions ahead of time, leading to spontaneous and entertaining conversations. The show starts with some playful banter about editing before diving into more serious topics, including throwing axes as a leisurely skill, entertaining solutions like Rate My Agent, and the possibility of reopening countries as COVID-19 begins to diminish. You'll hear about the challenges of a career in theatre and recommendations for musicals to watch over the summer. Finally, Rand receives an unusual question from a Rate My Agent product ambassador asking if he'd prefer to fight one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses. What would you choose? Tune in to find out!
00:26
Hey everybody. Welcome to another this episode of Randing and Raving. We are back with Joe Rand, chief creative officer for Howard Hanna Realty, and real estate rack and tour. The premise of this series is very simple. We have listeners call in to 480-270-4590, and leave a question or a comment for Joe to respond to.
Bill Risser
00:39
Joe has no idea which voice mail is going to play for him, and we just sit back, relax, and let Joe go. So let's get this show on the road. Hey, Joe. Great to see you. How are you doing?
Joe Rand
00:50
I am great, Bill. Thank you for having me. Thank you as always for hosting these and moderating this little 10 minutes of fun that we get to have every week. I really appreciate it.
Bill Risser
00:52
Well More like 10.
Joe Rand
00:53
Supposed to be
Bill Risser
00:53
10.
Joe Rand
01:09
I mean, listen. Well, what you clearly, what you're not doing is is doing your editing. So, like, you're doing a great job moderating, but, like, You're not editing me down after I do this where you're lopping up all the boring parts to leave only the gold. You gotta just leave the gold, Bill. Lop everything yourself.
Joe Rand
01:11
Chop it all down in 10 minutes. I'm giving you
Bill Risser
01:11
15
Joe Rand
01:17
minutes because I want you to I want you to pick up the best stuff. You know? I am just kidding. You know? I gotta be careful when
Bill Risser
01:22
you have when when you get people the okay to edit what say? because a lot of a lot of weird stuff can happen.
Joe Rand
01:33
That's I don't well, I don't care. The what are the what are the Russian bots gonna do? But, you know, you're right, Bill, because I think last week's thing when we talked about Jay Thompson's question about the the NAR lawsuit.
Bill Risser
01:34
Yeah.
Joe Rand
01:39
That that was, like, 45 minutes long, but I'm forever. I felt like I
Bill Risser
01:39
was -- -- quite that.
Joe Rand
01:42
I felt like I was going through -- -- quite that long.
Bill Risser
01:54
It was an important it was an important topic. You know? And It was important. Hey. I I, you know, I was telling you a couple weeks ago that I had a a meeting coming up in San Diego, a team building meeting for the rate my agent employees in the US.
Bill Risser
01:58
Nice. and that was last that was last weekend. It was or last week.
Joe Rand
02:00
San Diego. Very well. San Diego.
Bill Risser
02:13
Yeah. It went really well. You know, to to be able to see everybody for first time in person after being on Zooms for a year, it was really cool. And we'd we've brought some new people on board so they got to kind of understand them. the culture.
Bill Risser
02:28
Molly and I had a great time kind of, you know, facilitating some sessions. And and then I wanna tell you what I did for the first time. We we had a team building, you know, outing on Friday afternoon, and we went ax throwing.
Joe Rand
02:31
Have you had axe throwing?
Bill Risser
02:32
Have you done that?
Joe Rand
02:34
I've never done that. No. I've never I've never thrown an axe.
Bill Risser
02:52
Yeah. It's it's You know, my my first thought was, you know, if you had like a heated session right before you left the office to go back throwing, and then you're just gonna go put axes in everybody's hands? That's that doesn't seem -- No. No. -- doesn't seem like the best idea.
Bill Risser
02:52
Right?
Joe Rand
03:03
I gotta be honest with you. I'm trying to figure out the appeal of throwing axes. Like like, it just seems like a lot of work. I mean, what are you aiming? You're aiming at, like, targets and stuff?
Bill Risser
03:12
Yeah. There's a bullseye, and and you're you're doing your best. First of all, you're trying just to figure out how to get it to rotate, the right number of rotations to actually have the blade hit the wood. Yeah.
Joe Rand
03:21
I understand. I I yeah. And and so but that seems like information that I don't need to have on a daily basis. Yeah. Like, you know, I if I'm asking like, put it this way.
Joe Rand
03:33
if I if it turned out I had an enormous skill. Like, great I was just a natural at throwing an axe. What exactly am I gonna do with that, Bill? Where am I? Am I gonna go on tour?
Joe Rand
03:36
What do I do with the fact that I'm a natural axe thrower?
Bill Risser
03:45
Here's what you do. You you set up your tent at your your vent in your community that you do regularly. Yeah. And you got tons of trees in the park. Big trees.
Joe Rand
03:45
Yeah.
Bill Risser
03:49
and and you you do some axe throwing demonstrations.
Joe Rand
03:49
Was the
Bill Risser
03:50
you know? Everyone.
Joe Rand
03:57
Yeah. Okay. I could do that. But I don't necessarily wanna do that. Like, that doesn't seem like something that would be a lot of fun.
Joe Rand
04:18
I'm gonna go throw the axe in front of people, and it's not like it's a practical skill Like, how about shots you don't chop down trees by throwing axes at them. You have to actually chop them. You can't, like this is like and what am I I'm gonna I'm gonna use it to like, as home protection, keep an axe by my bedside. Someone walks in. I need so much clearance.
Joe Rand
04:30
I would lift the axe up, hit my wife in the head, I kill her with the back of the ass. Then I'm trying to throw with yeah. How am I gonna hit some guy moving target with an axe even if I'm good at it? This seems like
Bill Risser
04:37
One thing one thing you learn at the axe throwing place is, first of all, you're drinking while you're doing it. So that's kinda cool, you know, and you learn.
Joe Rand
04:43
That seems like a good mix. Yeah. That seems like a good idea. It should be the the actual bucket. They don't you don't actually do that.
Joe Rand
04:54
They don't listen great. I'm I'm I'm my guess is they wouldn't let you drink alcohol anymore than they let you drink alcohol. You know, I get the when you do the gun things in in Vegas, and let's just fire off, like, AK 47s and stuff.
Bill Risser
04:56
Oh, when you're on the desert and have fun and blow steam.
Joe Rand
05:05
When you go well, when you go to Rob Hans house, and he's like, a whole armoring in his basement. Crop's basically he's like a survivalist now. Yeah.
Bill Risser
05:06
His basement's a shooting room.
Joe Rand
05:13
Oh, yeah. He's he's not. He's He's all set up for the for the revolution. He's ready to go. He's ready to go.
Joe Rand
05:29
Alright. So I will say the one thing is when you live in Tampa Bay, like, going to San Diego is not a big deal. For me, San Diego is wonderful because I get out of the New York weather, but for, like, Tampa Bay to San Diego is the same thing. It would have been great. Why couldn't why couldn't rate my agents sprint for you guys to go to, like, Melbourne?
Joe Rand
05:33
Yeah. Go down under. They should run the barbie in the whole bit.
Bill Risser
05:38
That's later. Right? They're still so locked down down there. No foreigners are coming in.
Joe Rand
05:41
Oh, that's true. They don't want you in your disease. No.
Bill Risser
05:42
They don't. They they don't want Americans --
Joe Rand
06:10
I I won't one last point I wanna make is you you when you said about, like, getting together, have you found what I have found and I'll I'll share this with you. Because in the experience I've had, we're like, we had a a birthday party last month for my wife. Right? Mhmm. And during the party, a number of people remarked that it was the first time they'd been to a like a party, like an adult party Like, with drinks on a we were on, like, this nice deck in Westchester overlooking the Hudson.
Joe Rand
06:30
And said it was the first time they've done it in, like, 15 or 16 months. Right? And -- Yeah. -- what was interesting about is that we all kind of agreed that it came back quickly. Like, All these concerns that people had, like, in the winter about, like, when we finally are able to get in the same room, is are we gonna know how to talk anymore?
Joe Rand
06:41
it came back. It's like riding a bike. Like, interacting with other people is a very natural thing to do. So it wasn't like we forgot how to do it because we were cooped up inside for a year and a couple of months.
Bill Risser
06:52
No. It same thing. It you know, look, these are all people who who daily interact with each other anyways on screens. Yeah. it was really nice to be all sitting in the same room.
Bill Risser
06:58
You know, just sharing stories, doing some work. I mean, it it it it it came back.
Joe Rand
07:04
We also have really nice people. I rate my agent. It's a lot of great people. I'm Molly, and and you working there. There's a bunch of other people there that I think are really terrific.
Joe Rand
07:15
So I'm glad you had it good. I'm glad you enjoyed the axe throwing and all the alcohol. And and and even though I think it's pointless activity. I'm glad you did it. Welcome back.
Joe Rand
07:22
And good luck this week. I know you're going to Kiwi Island to play golf with your son, which is awesome. So have a great time doing that as well.
Bill Risser
07:24
We'll talk about that on the next episode.
Joe Rand
07:29
Yeah. Tell me how it went when. How how your how your round went. Alright. Let's get to some questions.
Joe Rand
07:30
We have we Okay.
Bill Risser
07:36
Here's the here's here's today's question. Short and sweet. That's what I'm gonna call. I'll give this one up. Maybe I'll start giving them titles.
Joe Rand
07:38
Short and sweet. Here we go.
Kristi McNeely
07:56
Hey there, Joe. This is Christie Kneeley, product ambassador for rate, my agent, and my question for you is, Would you rather fight 1 horse sized duck or a 100 duck sized horses? Thank you.
Joe Rand
08:14
Well, how awesome? We actually were talking about rate my agent, your company that you work with now, and and we get a question from one of your colleagues who I know a little bit. I don't know her very well. The one thing I know about her I know she does your product demos and things like that. She's worked in the industry for a while.
Joe Rand
08:19
very nice woman, but comes from a theater background. She was Bill, you know this. Right? But she was on -- Yeah.
Bill Risser
08:19
--
Joe Rand
08:27
she was on Broadway for, like, like, 10 years or so. And she was I forget what the show she was on. Do you know what show she was in that, like, was good? Yeah. A little little
Bill Risser
08:29
tiny one called cap
Joe Rand
08:35
Oh, she was in cats. Oh my god. I that's that's did you ever see cats, Bill?
Bill Risser
08:38
No. I'm not an Andrew Lloyd Weber fan.
Joe Rand
08:39
I It
Bill Risser
08:41
I don't see his stuff.
Joe Rand
09:05
Even though you don't like Andrew Ledewebber, and I I promise you this. We know we I know you still not have you still not gone to see Amadeus, and I still haven't seen a baseball game. So we're still we have all summer to get this done, so we're waiting for the We're both gonna be up late night on, like, Labor Day. I'll be watching the game, and you'll be watching Amadeus so we get this done by the end of this secular summer.
Bill Risser
09:06
Right.
Joe Rand
09:24
But one thing I think you actually would like is Jesus Christ superstar. Gdiscount superstar is an Andrew Lloyd Weber show, but it's not Broadway ish. It's I think I think it's his best show. and I it's the one I enjoy the most. So just a little recommendation for you.
Joe Rand
09:45
She was in cats, though, which I do not necessarily recommend, because cats is really an acquired taste. You have to be really into musical theater to like cats. And and I it because I actually had a friend in it. I used to date a woman who was years ago years and years ago. I dated a woman who was on Broadway, and she was in cats for about 6 months when I dated her.
Joe Rand
10:07
So I got to, you know, pick her up after the show and stuff like that. It was a really interesting time. I like to meet all these people in theater and get to see how the theater life is, and that's a that's a tough life. I mean, those those those people work really hard, and they they don't they don't, like there's a lot of people who are who like like, like Christy who are in theater, and they, you know, they strike it rich. They make it big.
Joe Rand
10:29
They're on a Broadway show, but, you know, they have short careers. You know? It's really tough to maintain there there are very few, like, you know, choice upper level roles available at any given time. And, like, they just they they cycle through. And there's always a every year, there's a new batch of and a young man that are waiting to, you know, jump into the chorus.
Joe Rand
10:41
So it's a tough that's a tough racket, man. That's a tough racket. Alright. Apologies to everybody, especially to Bill. My airbuds are so old, and they have kicked out now, like, three times during this recording.
Joe Rand
11:01
Until finally, we can't use So I might sound different than I sound a few minutes ago because I'm now just using the microphone on my laptop. So my apologies to that. it's it's Bill in in Broadway, they call this going up. Like, if you get you want forget your line and you end up being a sequence So I went up on this in this call.
Bill Risser
11:06
Yeah. Yeah. So you want your line? Is that what you're asking for? Line.
Bill Risser
11:19
Line. I gotta before before I let you continue, I gotta give you one other show she was in. She actually got to kiss Matthew Brodrick multiple times. How how to succeed in business without even trying?
Joe Rand
11:39
That's awesome. And I I haven't talked about that because I'm I saw that show in its initial run And I saw it, like, early in the run because I saw Matthew Broderick in it. So I'm sure she was in it when I saw it either doing the lead or doing or, you know, maybe she was even in that role when she went there. So that's great. She yeah.
Joe Rand
11:48
She's great. So her question is this. the the horse and the ducks I don't know who came up with this question. I've heard this before. The would you rather fight a
Bill Risser
11:48
100
Joe Rand
12:01
duck sized horses. So they're small horses. They're little tiny horses. Or would you rather fight a 1 giant duck? And and let's let's go through each of the options.
Joe Rand
12:04
Like, here's the problem with the 100 you take a
Bill Risser
12:05
100
Joe Rand
12:25
duck sized horses, and you have to fight them, is that that's a lot of duck sized horses, Bill. I mean, a 100. Think about a 100 docs would be. I don't know sure I would fight a 100 duck sized docs bill. The 100 duck sized ducks could probably kick my ass on their...
