A Chat with Love Hotel's Earl the Pearl Thompson

James Lott Jr chats Love Hotel's Earl the Pearl Thompson! Follow on IG @earlthepearl35.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Extra Connections here
on Jail J Media. I'm James Laugeria with Jail J
and I love connecting with people and doing this show.
I need to meet all kinds of folks, some that
you know and like this person you probably do know
and know some of you guys watched the show. But
he also has a life outside of the show. Of course,
no one's fully formed on a reality show.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
He is a vocasional expert, has his own company, like
nearly the last twenty some years at this point, and
it's called let's see that, it's called Integrity Rehabilitation and Testing, Inc.
So he doesn' we're gonna talk about what that means
and what all that stuff goes with that I used
to speaker herself.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
But he also was on a show a Bravo.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Called Love Hotel and it was a dating reality show.
And then between all of that he has he's come
from humble beginnings, you know, like he's like me, we
come from your self made people. So I'm very excited
to have him on my show. And that's mister Erle
all the Pearl Thompson hi earl oh No, my guy

(01:08):
he's frozen. Yeah, the intro is great, So we'll leave
that on there and just now I can start talking
to you.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So that's for you. Can you clip that and take
that with wherever you go.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
How are you sir?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
I'm doing great, James. How are you doing?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'm good good. I do once want the show first
that I'm gonna kind of go backwards. Okay, because a
lot of folks I work in Hollywood, I work, I
know how. I've been on reality show sets and things.
I don't think it's going but for you, because you
are you are a businessman, a speaker. You had a
whole life, I mean like completely before this first love Hotel, come.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
In to your orbit. One of that first I didn't
come to your orbit.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So I had a friend who knew about my wife
passing and knew me pretty well, my boat several times.
And then she got married in a really great marriage,
met a great guy, and then now the clear blue sky.
She sent me a message a messenger saying, I have
a friend who is a casting director and they're doing

(02:13):
this new show with women who are successful. They need him.
They don't need a man, they want a man, and uh,
She's like, I think you'd be perfect for it, and
I said no, thank you, And so she houed me
about a week and finally I put up an application
with some pictures and then from there, within a month,
I'm flying to Cabo for the Love Hotel.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Hey, first of all, I mean, I see why, I
see why she.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
Thought that, of course, but all seriousness, again, you had,
you had your you had a life. You also lost
your wife, which I'm so sorry to hear about that now,
she lost her leukemia. So it makes you rest in peace,
and I'm sorry for that. But you're like, you're probably
thinking you're living your life right now, You're working, you
got friends, you ain't like So.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
What do you say, said no? What were some of
the reasons why you were like? Real dat? So?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, first of all, you know, I really don't watch
a lot of that stuff, so I didn't know much
about it, and just the idea of it, I don't,
I don't know. I just you know, I was I
had a whole trip planned to Europe with a friend
from high school, and you know, I planned on taking
an acting class down the street from my house, and

(03:27):
you know, then I had you know, it was still
going to be the end of the summer. So I
have a lot of boating, and I have seats and
tickets to the Falcons that was coming up, and you know,
and you know, I just had so many things going
on in my life and my job, my career, my business.
I just I was like, there's no time for that.

(03:49):
And then, uh, but she, you know, she planted a
seed and she kept kind of nudging the seed, and
I started thinking about it and telling my friends about it.
You know, I'm guess who talked to me and you know,
what she wants me to do? Go on to show.
And they're like, man, that would be awesome. And I go,
there's no shot at me get on the show. You know,

(04:10):
my guy from Lawrenceville, who's originally from Chicago, and you know,
I'm sixty years old, you know, and I was just
coming off a knee replacement surgery. So I was like,
I don't know. And but then I, you know, I
went ahead and posted it and the application. Next thing,
you know, casting director's given me a call, and then

(04:32):
a producer, then executive producer and so on. And then
I get this text on a Thursday saying you've been
selected for this show and you're leaving on Sunday. And
even then, I'm like, I don't think I really want
to do this. This is too real now, you know.
And I actually made the decision after talking to probably
about seven of my friends on a Saturday afternoon. I

(04:55):
decided to go on Sunday. And so I just threw
to the wind. And I've always kind of lived my life,
you know, going with my gut, and my gut said,
you know, give this a shot. And I didn't know why,
but I listened to it, and again it's Cobo. I've
never been to Cabo, never been on any show, you know.

(05:19):
So I figured, hey, at least i'll meet some really
cool people and give it my best shot and might
be home in a few days, who knows, you know.
And I wound up being there from the beginning all
the way to the end.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
So well, you give me some cool people. About that
in a second.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
But okay, So, so I want to say that you
are an example because I'm right behind you in age,
only a few years behind you. So I know how
that is where opportunities still can come at our age.
They're really I mean, nowadays my TV, it's not just
all twenty year olds and thirty year olds.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
I mean, if they are expanding it the reach, yes
they yeah, you're I think two. But you know, at
our age, you know, fear comes into it, you know,
the unknown and being uncomfortable with change. And you know,

(06:13):
I've always been the person if I see a door
cracked a little bit, I'm going to look inside instead
of walking by it. And this was one of those
times I said, let's see where this goes. Who knows.
I mean, at the very least, I'm going to meet
some amazing people. I'm going to be in an amazing hotel.
I'm gonna be in Cabo. I mean, you know, so

(06:35):
even if it lasts for two days, it'll be a
really cool experience, you know, whatever happened. So, so, how long.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Were you on? How many days of filling were you
on there? Do you remember? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:45):
It was twenty one days.

Speaker 3 (06:47):
Yeah a long time.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, there were days, yeah, very long days. I mean
it was really cool that it was the first show
that ever allowed laptops and cell phones, and I I
think the reason for that was because we're all professionals,
we have businesses at home, and taking that much time
away it would have been real difficult. So people noticed
on a lot of the morning segments they don't see

(07:11):
me because I'm up there working and testifying on cases
for Social Security all the way on the East coast.
So I five while everyone's still sleeping and me working
till like nine or ten or eleven, and then I
would join everybody and then we'd work all the way
up till eleven or twelve. So I was exhausted, like
all the time.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
How did you get used to the cameras?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
You know what I mean. My background's in counseling, and
you know, people always coming in my life for many
different reasons, but they really open up to me pretty easily.
And one of the things about me is when you
talk to me, I'm always looking at you. I'm not
looking at my phone, I'm not looking around. My eyes
are in your eyes. And when so on the show,

(07:58):
when something happened and I'm talking, so I couldn't see
anything else, you know, because I'm so focused on what
the other person is saying. So the cameras kind of
disappeared for me right away. And I think I was
lucky in that regard. And because I testifying in front
of jurys and I testify in front of judges. It's
an expert witness. You know, I'm comfortable with my words

(08:20):
and I'm comfortable explaining myself. Although on a show like this,
you're putting situations and predicaments that really catch you off
guard and you get kind of anxious and nervous. And
it's already a dating pressure cooker, so it makes it
a lot harder. But at the same time, you know,
I've been through worse and I knew it, so when

(08:41):
something would pop up, I try to resolve it and
de escalate it and take explain to the person my
part in whatever happened. And that was pretty effective.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
How do you think you were portrayed? Wow?

Speaker 2 (08:57):
So kind of a goofball. I've always been a goofball,
kind of a ham you know. I love making people laugh.
I mean, it's just it brings me so much joy.
So I didn't know how I would be portrayed when
the show. I saw some of the clips and stuff
before the show started, and I'm like, oh my god,

(09:17):
did I say that?

Speaker 3 (09:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Because you know or you give a look that you
don't know you're given right, Yes, yes, but you know
you're in this pressure cooker with a lot of chaos
and a lot of emotions and situations you just not
used to being in. Like, if you like a girl,
you go on a date with a girl you don't have,
you don't go get a cocktail and come back. And

(09:43):
there's fifty guys that you know, or thirty guys or
ten guys that are you know, all around her, buying
for attention, and you respect them. So you got to
take a step back and say it's okay, you know,
she either likes them or she likes me, and put
my best spoot forward and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (10:01):
Oh, nussy, you know, earl for me is the ego.
I'm a man. I have an ego. I know I do.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
I always want how that ego gets bounced around the shows.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
It's about the women like the men too. I'm sure, Like,
I mean, you're you have.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
We may show it differently than women do, but I'm like,
is your ego slapped upside the head a couple of times?

Speaker 2 (10:21):
Well I had to be slapped or redirected, let's put
it that way, by a few of the guys a
few times because we were really close. The first eight guys, Okay,
we called each other. The Elite eight, you know, that
first eight that came in. Yeah, and uh so we
bonded pretty strongly there. And they would come up and
I do it to them, and I could tell when

(10:41):
they needed a breather and say, hey, take a walk
with me, you know, because it gives you a little
bit right, Yeah, yeah, And they would say that to me.
Ralph came up to me one time and he goes, Earl,
you're showing it all over your face, and I go
what He goes, just that you're not happy, go back
to the Earl of Pearl. So I do my little
Earl of Pearl dance and I'd be back to Earl

(11:03):
the Pearl. You know everything, you know, but yeah, you
get caught up in it a little bit, and you're
only human and none of the guys had ever been
through like any of this before, so this is just
us really winging it.

Speaker 1 (11:19):
I gues it's kind of cool. Then you guys bonded.
I always wondering when the situations because you're the minority
in the group. Obviously, you guys are the minorities so
of the numbers, so it's like, that's kind of cool
that you guys actually bonded through the experience.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yeah, we did. And we welcome the new guys too.
You know, they're pretty cool. Like I would pull them
to the side and kind of give them orientation.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
You know, here's us over here, that's over here, they
do this.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
This is where that's that's where you get a cocktail.
This is where we eat. You know, the pool's great.
You got to check that out. You know. Here, here's
the beach. This where the sunscreen is. You know, here's
the update on you know, the guys and stuff like that.
And you know, I think they did that. So yeah,

(12:04):
I mean we really all the guys really got along,
which was amazing. Until this day, we still do. Like
going to New York. I'm I'm staying at Mark's place
and I'm gonna see THEO and and then uh, you know,
I'm gonna I think in December, I'm going to uh
what is it, Puerto Rico, and I'll see Jerry and
Mick and j JB. Loves is going to try to

(12:27):
make it and a few other guys. So you know,
wherever we're at, if we can stop off and see someone,
even if it's for a cocktail or lunch or something,
we're not going to miss that opportunity. We really became
close friends.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
Well, I think it's one of the things you guys
have experience, shared experience that's unique yours.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
We called it trauma body.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Well I believe it.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
I mean that, I mean, you know I would I
think i'd feel the same way.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
I'm sure, oh it. And you know it's hard on
the women too. I mean, thank you new people have
going to say the same thing all over and over
and over again and trying to be polite even though
you have no interest, right. And but the guys, like
I said, the first eight we were really respectful of
each other. And I can't tell you almost I think

(13:15):
every guy came up and said, I can see what
you have going with Shannon and how she smiles around you,
and I'm not even going there, go ahead explore your
ol And I thought that was so cool and kind
of you know, because they could see it because we
we we had all sorts of chemistry and emotions, and
that's what I was leaning towards.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Yeah, So, I mean, you guys became very close. Guys
became very close Shadna door as we're talking about it,
became very close she's also but she's a veteran of
obviously reality television. We loved on The Real Housewives. I mean,
but you guys really, so you're saying, and even in
this situation, you guys really did bond and at least

(14:00):
as friends, you bonded at.

Speaker 2 (14:01):
Least, right, Oh yeah, and not everyone did? Is close?
I mean I was close with everybody, you know, And
I've always been that guy where, you know, I always
want to get to know someone more than a just
superficial level. So we talk about all sorts of stuff,
and really I want to know about their kids, their family,
their job, all sorts of stuff. So I got really

(14:22):
close with everyone.

Speaker 3 (14:23):
That's very cool. Sex see you that kind of guy,
of course.

Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yes, So I mean so, I mean you and Shannon,
what's what like in the end, what was kind of
the deal for you guys?

Speaker 3 (14:33):
And in your opinion of the deal for you guys.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
What caused us to be together?

Speaker 1 (14:38):
You mean, yeah, it's kind of like because you went
on a reality show, right, didn't want to go on
in the first place. We know how these things can
be because of other things. Sometimes it does really work.
We've done to people in a long time, and sometimes
it's a throwaway, right, So I'm just for you. Why
do you think you guys worked.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
I think the reason we worked is because we really
enjoyed each other's company. And they didn't show a lot
of it on the show because there's only so much
they can show. But I mean we'd laughed hern I
all the time, and we'd look for each other and
you know, talk about our days, and because you know,
I'd come, you know, around eleven or twelve and they'd

(15:20):
already been seeing everyone for four hours. So when I'd
show up, they'd be like, so, how to go today?
And you know, so we always had stuff talking about.
And then Shannon and the girls, they you know, they
had stuff going out with their shows. So I talked
to her about that, and and I watched a few
episodes with Shannon. Of the first two episodes, I think
of that season where she had the dui and that

(15:41):
was oh yeah, yeah. I was there when she was
actually watching it for the first time, and that was
I'm so glad I was, because that was a tough
thing to see, you know, with the sirens and the
pictures and the headlines, and I mean, I think anyone
that goes through something like that, that's going to be
a really tough day to watch it for the first time.
Kind of like me watching some of these episodes, I was.

Speaker 3 (16:08):
Just calling it no, I mean, it is it is you,
but things too, but it is you that's presented.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
Just call me Earl. The cliffhanger.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
It was like a cliffhanger, I think five times, you know,
so I think to go back to your question, though,
I think we really enjoyed each other's company. And when
you when you're laughing with someone all the time over
twenty one days, I mean, you know that that causes
a unique bond, you know. And so we were friends

(16:40):
as well as we wanted to get each other get
to know each other better, and uh, you know, we
had a few there were a few other guys that
were interested in and I knew there would be. I mean,
she's very welcoming and and fun to be around. So
but in the end I kept making it through eliminations
with my white crocodile shoes, you know.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
So love a pair of crocodile scenes. Love it, love it.
I love it, love it, I love it. I do
I love it.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
I look at you and just talking to you earlier
today seeing you on screen all this stuff, I feel like,
as we would saying in my hood, you have some
flavor to you. I just feel like, because I do.
I've read your bio, so I know that you have
grown up. We were some rough conditions, yeah, and you know,
and just for folks that don't may not know this,

(17:28):
give me a little overview, because because you had an
older brother, there was some like living arrangement. I mean,
there's all kinds like a give me like an abridge version,
a little bit of kind of how you how you
grew up.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, it was I don't think every parent uh should
be a parent, you know, but uh in the end,
there's no there's no manual for it. So they do
the best they can. And so that's how I was
able to forgive, like my parents and what we went
through and stuff. But the kids were pretty close and
my brother he's eleven months older, so were Irish twins,

(17:59):
and uh so we all left at a minimum age
of seventeen. I think my sister left when she was
sixteen to move in with my brother, and so you know,
and then I went to college and so that was
my escape, and that's where I healed from it all,
and you know, every life lesson, even if it hits

(18:21):
you in the gut and it's easy, you're able to
share it with other people who life and so you
have if they're going through something similar. You get some
street cred just by what you've gone through yourself. And
so every bad experience I've ever had and everything every

(18:42):
stumble I've had in my life, it's brought me to
this point of who I am and how I could
be of service to other people and help them through
some difficult times just because I know what they're going
through on a personal level.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah, you're able to offer empathy, you know, sympathy connection
took you because you have.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
Been through it.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
You're like, I understand, I understand you because I've been there.
I felt that, right, Yeah, that's what It's really interesting.
But I mean, I mean, you know, you're another example
of someone who has pushed through it and you're not
still fighting against the tide like you was, like, Okay,
you understand where you came from and you still made

(19:23):
success for yourself.

Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
I think I figured it out about especially forgiving when
I was like twenty four and let go of it
pretty early and realize they just did the best they could.
I mean, they came from worse backgrounds, you know, so
it kind of like pushing it forward, and I just
didn't want to. I didn't want to bring it with me,

(19:47):
you know. So, but it literally I look back on
everything that occurred, and it makes me who I am today.
You know, I'm resilient. You can throw anything at me
and I'll be fine. You know, yeah, I'll sweat it out,
but I'll think about it and calm down and handle it.

Speaker 3 (20:07):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
So I think it was a blessing in a way.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, you know, lady, you went into you got a
bachelors degree in psychology, Yeah, rehabilitation counseling, Like you really
fully went into this field of service.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Well, you know, it's interesting. I was left of you
through ninety five miles an hour, and I could throw
a football seventy five to eighty. And so my whole
thought process was to become a professional athlete. And then
my I think it was my junior senior year, I
tore my shoulder and then I tore it again and again,
and now I'm thrown in the low eighties, and I go,

(20:44):
I'm not going to make it as a pro baseball player,
you know. So I decided to go into my master's
program and rehabilitation counseling and I've worked with people with
injuries and disability for twenty seven years.

Speaker 3 (20:56):
So that was my path.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
But I tell you, I mean, high school, it was
all about sports for me. And then when I tore it,
you know, it was it was tough on me. That's
a tough injury because it changes your whole life. But
it taught me another thing too, to close the door
of who you were and open the door of who
you're going to become. And I've used that over and

(21:20):
over again with my clients with disabilities and some with
horrendous disabilities, because you got to leave that life behind
because you're never going to be that person again, but
you can find the joy in your next life. And
from this moment on, and I kind of preach that.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
I agree with that also, I know that you can't too.
I mean, it's you know, life presents challenges. It does
for everybody.

Speaker 3 (21:41):
It just it just does.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
And it's how we handle them and walk through them.
Like you're saying that you have to walk through them.
How that's that That builds character. That's what builds what
you're gonna.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
Mean, it really does. And everyone has their own story,
you know, And that's what's so amazing. Every time you
meet a person and they open up to you, Uh,
they're opening up to you because you're probably one of
the few people that are listening and not talking, you know.
And plus they can they can feel your empathy. And so,

(22:12):
I mean, I love helping people. And I think one
of the great things coming out of me beyond love Hotel,
is that I've met so many wonderful people who write
me privately and I'm able to help them or put
put them in the right direction of where they need
to go to get some answers about some of the
tough stuff they're going through. If I can't help them.

Speaker 1 (22:32):
I'm gonna say that. Obviously, the platform you gink gets
a little larger, and that's always good. That's always good.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
It is.

Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, that's one of the great side effects of being
on something that's bigger than you, you know, bigger on
the sense of culture and stuff.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
It can it can widen your reach, of your of
your message.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
It really can. But you know, I didn't know how
big it was, right And my assistant who done with
me for like four years. She's a huge Bravo fan.
And she's giving me a haircut one day and over
my shoulders she saw me texting Shannon with the picture
up there, and she's like, oh my god, because we

(23:15):
couldn't tell anybody, right, okay, right, this is before the
show came out, right, So she's cutting my hair and
I wasn't thinking I'm texting her. And afterwards she stopped
everything and said, oh my god, you have to tell
me what's going on here?

Speaker 3 (23:30):
And I go what.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
She goes, You're talking to Shannon Starms with door on
your phone one cutting your hair. I'm like, oh, you
saw that. But she's the one that because you know, literally,
I don't think how big things are. And she's like,
do you have any idea what's about to happen in
your life? And I'm like, oh god, you know, no.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
No, you don't. You really don't know what's not happens.
You just don't, not really.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
But being in the Brow universe, I guess I'm overse.
I didn't know how big it was. I really had
huge And there's so many fans and so many people
that just love the franchise. I think it's pretty awesome.

Speaker 1 (24:14):
Yeah, it's huge, and it's funny because as the whole
thing folks at home, we don't know this.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
They feel a certain time. It comes out afterwards.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
So the outcomes are done, they're all Usually for most
shows it to may maybe a few live ones, and
most time it's already seasons done, it's been filmed. They
go back to their lives. You go back to your
life right now. You have to why we have a
long the show is on. You gotta be careful. You
can't they slip.

Speaker 3 (24:40):
You can't like your.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Instagram page show a picture all of a sudden, So
on the back you came and you so how hard
besides that little slip up, how hard was that?

Speaker 2 (24:49):
It was tremendously hard, especially with that one cliffhanger about
Shannon giving me my son's step son's information. That lasted
two cliffhangers. Right, I can't tell you. My sister, my
close friends, they're all like going, what happened, what happened?

(25:10):
What's in that letter? What's in that scarlet letter? And
I'm like, I can't tell you. And my sister actually goes,
is she pregnant? I'm like, I can't tell you. Anything, okay,
So it was just that was the hard part is silence.
I mean, I'm good to keeping a secret, but when
you're being portrayed a certain way over the course of

(25:32):
a week and you're getting hammered by people about maybe
you were yelling at her or something like that. I mean,
those two arguments we had were very small, and they
not and I'm not talking that they were insignificant. I
mean small, like it only lasted a short while before
we found our way back and then again twelve hour days,

(25:55):
twenty one days and two blips. Right, So on the show,
it looks like it's happening all the time, but you know,
I knew it wasn't. So had I had to keep
my mouth shut and just go play it out see
what happens, you know, But you could tell from that
when I saw that and I read what that letter said,
that was probably my favorite point on the show. When

(26:18):
I came she told me everyone knew about it and
were waiting for me, and I came around that corner.
I don't know if the last time I felt that
much emotion of happiness, where feel the love from everybody
and they're all coming up and they got tears coming
down their eyes and they're hugging me and like real
big strong bear hugs from the guys, you know. And

(26:42):
I'll tell you that was one of the best moments
of my life.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Oh, I love that. What would you be what?

Speaker 1 (26:51):
What would your general advice be for someone to do
a reality dating show?

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Be authentic, going for the right reasons. Don't be afraid
to share. You know what you're feeling at any moment.
Sure who you are and what makes you you. Several
of the guys and the ladies talked about things that
were not easy to talk about, which allows other people

(27:21):
to talk about some things that they might have never
brought up. And it was pretty amazing to watch that.
On the shows. I saw some things I didn't even
know about, but then it was happening all around me too,
And I think I gave license for everyone to open
up about things they probably wouldn't have talked about on

(27:43):
the show because I started talking about things pretty early.
So that's the advice I would get. Be authentic, be kind,
be respectful. It's either going to work out with someone
or not. Just enjoy the experience. Yeah, and and don't
be afraid to open up a little bit.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, that's good advice. That's really good advice. Would you
do it again?

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I don't know. I don't think. I mean, I'll never
say never. Right, Maybe with enough time, I might do
something again. Okay, okay, but you know, I really love
my life and I just don't know. I mean when
I do something different. Maybe you know I love dancing.

(28:32):
You never know dancing with the stars, you know.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Or you know, so you never dance with your stars?
Get them. I've been to those tapings. I love it.
That's so funny. That'd be funny. Have you on there
doing that? No, both of us, come on, I'll do James.
I've always wanted to. I want my fans go ahead
and tell them James was to go and dance with

(28:56):
the stars. I want you. I want you so bad.
I mean, I heard this amazing experience for I have
friends who've done it.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
We have we'd have to have a dance off, buddy,
we would ready.

Speaker 3 (29:07):
I'm ready.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
No, Yeah, you're great, and you know we should keep
in touch. And I just think I just think that
you are. You're a great television and you're a great
guy just in regular life. You're just like a great guy.
Just you've been through You've been through a lot, but
you are wearing it in a way that's just like,
this is life and I'm here to experience more. And
that's how you see mine. You just hear, experience more stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Live, laugh and love and live like to the fullest.
I mean, that's my philosophy. And uh and and don't
be afraid of something new. Change is inevitable, give it
a shot. I mean I'm doing I'm taking my first
uh comedy class this Saturday, good improv class. And then

(29:54):
I find out after I sign up that we're going
to put on a show for everybody at the end
of it.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
I love so.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
I mean again, it's just something to do on a
Saturday night, you know, meet new people who cares where
it goes. It's just fun, you know, have fun, have
fun folks.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
I agree with that completely. If they want to find
you on social media, where can I find you?

Speaker 2 (30:18):
On Instagram at TikTok, I'm Earl the Pearl thirty five
and then Facebook Earl Thompson and then parentheses says Earl
to Pearl.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
So yeah, I love it. I know you need T shirts.
I don't know something I need to parts somewhere. Folks,
It's Earl Thompson and I'm thinking for being on the show.
I'm glad we connected here on Extra Connections, our pages
on Facebook. I'm everywhere, jail j Juice everywhere you want
to be, just just looking out of where. This show
is on every streeting service platform except for Google. Google

(30:49):
has no podcasts anymore, but every other one. iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple,
We're on all those Audible and of course the granddaddy
of them all, my channel jail JMD on YouTube. So
it makes you subscribe, follow, follow him, follow his exploits
and his shenanigans, and he's opted doing stuff. Uh and everyone,
have a great, great week. We here on Wednesdays. See

(31:10):
you next time.

Speaker 2 (31:11):
Bye, everyone,