{"id":1914,"date":"2007-09-11T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2007-09-11T05:45:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:45:23","slug":"think-fast-would-you-trust-this-man-with-your-most-precious-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1914\/think-fast-would-you-trust-this-man-with-your-most-precious-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Would you trust this man with your most precious investment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/t_craig.jpg\" align = \"left\" hspace=\"6\"\/>Four hundred families a year do. Believe it or not, that&#8217;s our own Russell Shaw in his salad days as a radio comedian in Phoenix in the mid-seventies.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Bostrom, of the band The Meat Puppets, maintains <a href=\"http:\/\/derrickbostrom.com\/bostrom\/love-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">a virtual shrine to a radio show called Love Workshop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLove Workshop\u201d was a fifteen-minute comedy program that ran on KDKB-FM radio in Phoenix, Arizona for most of 1976. The show was always somewhat of a mystery to me. During its brief life, \u201cLove Workshop\u2019s\u201d hosts, Vern &#038; Craig (Todd Carroll and \u201cWonderful\u201d Russ Shaw) were my heroes, They just seemed to appear out of nowhere all of a sudden, offering the kind of savage humor I idolized in the \u201cNational Lampoon,\u201d only they were right in my own backyard. And then it disappeared just as quickly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The site is a weblog, of course, and <a href=\"http:\/\/derrickbostrom.com\/bostrom\/2007\/09\/11\/love-workshop-the-wonderful-russ-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\">today Bostrom reprints an old interview with Russ<\/a>. Bostrom has also managed to <a href=\"http:\/\/derrickbostrom.com\/bostrom\/love-workshop\/\" target=\"_blank\">collect recordings of Love Workshop episodes<\/a>, which you can use to spice up your Russell Shaw MP3 collection.<br \/>\n<!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px;\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/arizona\" rel=\"tag\">arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/phoenix\" rel=\"tag\">phoenix<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate\" rel=\"tag\">real estate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/real estate marketing\" rel=\"tag\">real estate marketing<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred families a year do. Believe it or not, that&#8217;s our own Russell Shaw in his salad days as a radio comedian in Phoenix in the mid-seventies. Derrick Bostrom, of the band The Meat Puppets, maintains a virtual shrine to a radio show called Love Workshop: \u201cLove Workshop\u201d was a fifteen-minute comedy program that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-real-estate","10":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2971,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2971\/a-special-sunday-session-at-bloodhoundblog-unchained-russell-shaw-unplugged-and-why-im-going-to-win-my-pricing-battle-with-greg\/","url_meta":{"origin":1914,"position":0},"title":"A Special Sunday Session at BloodhoundBlog Unchained: Russell Shaw UNPLUGGED (And: Why I&#8217;m Going to Win My Pricing Battle With Greg)","author":"Brian Brady","date":"April 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Call me a shrewd negotiator or color me lucky but I pulled off a coup for the folks coming in for the Sunday session of the BloodhoundBlog Unchained Social Media Marketing Conference, brought to you by Zillow.com. 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Russell is talking about pricing homes in a buyer's market, and it might be worthwhile to share this podcast with your listing clients to help them understand the marketplace.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marketing&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marketing","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/marketing\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":979,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/979\/russell-shaw-interview-exploring-the-mind-of-a-mega-producer\/","url_meta":{"origin":1914,"position":4},"title":"Russell Shaw interview: Exploring the mind of a mega-producer . . .","author":"Russell Shaw","date":"February 1, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is Greg Swann writing in Russell Shaw's behalf: Appended below you will find an hour-long interview by Tim Harris with mega-producing Phoenix Realtor Russell Shaw. 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