Just when you thought you knew your favorite bloggers, along comes the Bubble Gum Interviews.  We ask the really tough questions about things like food preferences, high school stories and favorite hair products.  In true RE Revealed form, we went to Jay Thompson, The Phoenix Real Estate Guy to kick this new series off.

***This gunk was always there, but we just stepped in it- now YOU have to read about it:

Do you share your name with anyone that you’ve met?  Is there another Jay Thompson of fame or infamy that we should watch out for?

I’ve met a few Jay’s, and many Thompson’s, but I’ve never met another Jay Thompson. There are Jay Thompson’s that are actors, musicians and one Jay Thompson that’s a 22 year old surfer in Australia. When I lived in Austin, there was an attorney named Jay Thompson. We never met, but I did get several calls from his clients. Usually it was at 2:00am and they were looking for someone to bail them out of jail.

What food allergies do you have (so I can “avoid” them when I see you next)?

I’m deathly allergic to mornings, but that’s not really food. I don’t particularly care for most green vegetables. I am allergic to coconut. It makes my lips and forehead swell up to grotesque proportions, giving me a striking resemblance to a Neanderthal man. It’s not pretty. I have had “friends” in the past that attempted to slip me some coconut just to watch the transformation.

What was your first car?  Any favorite memories of your first car?  Keep it clean…

My first car was a 1970 Volkswagen Beetle. It was mostly red, though one fender was primer gray and another one was green. Favorite memories…. keep it clean….  Probably my senior year in High School when my all-time best bud Roy and I drove the Bug down to Port Aransas with two girls (they were FRIENDS, that’s all). 4 of us packed in a VW with three days worth of stuff. On our last day there just hours before departure, I was driving entirely too fast and slammed into a ditch some knucklehead had dug into the beach, basically ripping the front tires off the car. There were no open repair shops, so we were stranded.

Turns out both of the girls had somehow neglected to inform their parents that they were going to the beach with two guys…. Unbeknown  to Roy and I, they had concocted some elaborate ruse about how they were getting to and from the beach — that involved some made-up girl’s parents. Faced with reality, they had to call their parents to explain they were stranded. The ruse unraveled and both fathers were there several hours later to pick up their daughters. I thought the fathers were going to kill us. Roy and I stayed behind to frolic another day on the beach while the car was fixed.

How did you meet your wife, Francy?

I was in my corporate life at the time starting up a new semiconductor manufacturing plant in Austin. The company sent me to Phoenix for two months of training. The first day there, I went into the “Fab” — where workers are covered from head to toe in cleanroom suits. All you can see is a person’s eyes. I was working on a piece of processing equipment and some girl walks up and says, “Who the heck are you and what are you doing to this equipment?!” All I saw was this chick who had these *amazing* blue eyes…  I stumbled and stammered and sounded like a fool.

A couple of hours later, I see her name on the “birthday list”. I say, “Hey Francy, Happy late Birthday! How old are you?” “29″ she says (turns out that wasn’t quite true… but who was I to even ask?)

We chatted every day and I wanted to ask her out SO BAD. But I was recently divorced and thought all women were evil. Besides, I was only going to be there a few weeks.  Well, as it turns out the project in Austin was delayed and I wound up staying in Phoenix for nine months. Francy finally caved and asked me to a baseball spring training game. That date lasted 12 hours. As I was driving away I said to myself, “Self, that girl is WAY too scary. Do NOT get involved. DANGER!”. We didn’t go out on another date for over two months, but during that time we became the best of friends. Once that second date happened, it was over. I was head-over-heels in love and the rest is history.

Have you ever bailed anyone out of jail?

No, I haven’t. I’ve been bailed out of jail, does that count? I was young and stupid. Alcohol was involved. Me and some buddies were on the Riverwalk in San Antonio. I had to pee, couldn’t find a bathroom…. you can see where this is going…. for whatever reason (see young, stupid and alcohol) we thought it would be funny to pee in the river. San Antonio’s finest failed to see the humor. I spent 5 hours in the Bexar County holding pen. Haven’t come *close* to jail since…

List the cities you’ve lived in and the cities you’ve visited.  I hope Dimebox, Texas or Ashfork, Arizona make the list…

No can do. I’m an Army brat. Places I’ve lived (in order): 1) Charlottesville, VA; 2) Ft. Hood -  Kileen, TX; 3) Tullahoma, TN (while dad was in Korea): 4) Ft. Knox, KY; 5) Back to Tullahoma (dad in Vietnam); 5) Ft. Hamilton - Brooklyn, NY; 6) Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center - Denver, CO (Go Broncos!); 7) Ft. Sam Houston - San Antonio, TX; Galveston, TX - never go to college on the beach; 9) Austin, TX - never go to college in Austin; 10) Gilbert, AZ.

I also spent 3 months in Burlington, VT working on a Motorola/IBM Joint Venture.

I’ve visited a bunch of cities. My favorites are Beijing, Rome, and Paris. Kalispell, Montana was *gorgeous*.

I’ve got something like 91 cities I’ve visited identified in an application on my Facebook profile, but it’s not a complete list.

And I HAVE been to Dimebox, Texas! I haven’t been to Ashfork, AZ, but I’ve been to Snowflake, Arizona. In a couple of weeks I’ll be adding Puerto Penasco, Mexico to my list!

Tell me about your pets that are currently rooming with you

We’ve got a zoo. In addition to two teenagers, there are two mutt dogs named Trudy and Reilly. Two cats named Fluffy and Buzz. A Bearded Dragon lizard named Spike and a Ball Python named Osirus. Trudy is the smartest dog on the planet. Reilly? Well let’s just say that averages have a way of working out and between our two dogs, they are almost of average intelligence. Fluffy is a bitch. Buzz is a very cool cat. He likes to play fetch and climb ladders. Spike and Osirus just eat and poop. But it is entertaining to watch Osirus swallow mice whole.

What is the strangest non-food item you’ve eaten- glue, play dough, gasoline?

My former company was opening a plant in China and we were going to transfer there. So they sent Francy and I over for a week to check things out. We were wined and dined a lot. I ate chicken feet, baked pigeon and fish eyes. I suppose technically those are not “non-food items” but they were pretty weird, particularly the fish eyes. Sadly, the project was postponed and we were unable to transfer there. It would have been interesting.

I did accidentally get a mouthful of gasoline once when I was trying to siphon some gas out of the car into a lawnmower. I don’t recommend drinking gasoline. It’s nasty.

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So there you have it.  Jay is a fish-eye eatin’, VW crashin’ Army brat who has a head that swells not only from flattery but from coconut and shares his name with a DUI attorney.  Now that you really know Jay, what do you think?