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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth. All Right, my friend, I got a question for you.

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Speaker 2: He it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: I do decapitation like as in yeah, really yeah, decapitation.

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Speaker 4: Of a boy? What?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like when someone hits a fire hydrant in the

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Speaker 3: fire hydrant like in their car, right, yeah, and they

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Speaker 3: lose control and the fire hydrant flies through the air

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Speaker 3: and it decapitates the boy.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? That ridiculous? We had a

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Speaker 2: head wound.

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Speaker 4: But you know what makes it super ridiculous is this?

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Speaker 2: Is there a follow up to that hereditary heredity? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. Isn't that the movie where the girl gets

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Speaker 2: her head on the driving in the car? I don't

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Speaker 2: speak anyah.

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Speaker 3: No, what makes this ridiculous is that it's.

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Speaker 4: The boy is Bob's big Boy?

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Speaker 3: Not talking about a real human boy, of course, I'm

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Speaker 3: talking about the statue.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Bob's big giant figurine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and so in Downey, California, I got this article.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: First of all, this was recommended to us by Kathleen

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Speaker 3: mccauliffe on Instagram. Are you always just good looking?

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Speaker 4: Out?

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Speaker 3: So?

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Speaker 4: Anyway?

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Speaker 3: KTLA the most unhinged television station in the world. Every

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Speaker 3: time I have to go down to Los Angeles. Like,

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Speaker 3: when I'm traveling, I find myself. If I'm staying in

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Speaker 3: a hotel, I always watch morning news, which I don't

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Speaker 3: mean to do here in Oakland, California, A But when

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Speaker 3: I'm on the road, I like to do that and

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Speaker 3: kind of get a sense of like what's happening, what's

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, KTLA.

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Speaker 2: Amazing crazy I all the time.

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Speaker 4: So anyways, the best good day La, Oh god, it's wild.

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Speaker 3: So KTLA has this story about how this happened. August

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Speaker 3: twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Special day.

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Speaker 4: It's a very special day.

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Speaker 3: So it's said a Bob statue outside of Bob's Big

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Speaker 3: Boy in Downey lost his head after a violent crash

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Speaker 3: early Wednesday. So this lady, she goes out of control.

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Speaker 3: She hits a fire hydrant. It flips up, it like

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Speaker 3: shears off most of the head.

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Speaker 2: There's great for car just launched off the fire hydrant.

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Speaker 4: No, no, she hits the fire hydrant.

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Speaker 3: The fire hydrant flies through the air, yeah yeah, and

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Speaker 3: then hits the Bob's Big Boys exactly yeah, and floods

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Speaker 4: The lady was.

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Speaker 3: Trapped in the vehicle underneath going Yeah, for a very

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Speaker 3: long time. They'd use the jaws of life to get

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Speaker 3: her out, damn. And I don't know what her condition was.

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Speaker 3: But there's actual living footage of this.

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Speaker 2: Did anyone come up and steal the jaws of life?

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Speaker 3: No, that happens in Oakland though, saw that the news. Right,

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Speaker 3: that's also ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: Someone stole Oh I love my hometown so much. They

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Speaker 4: make it so hard.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, someone stole the jaws of life.

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Speaker 4: And anyway, there's footage of the crack the.

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Speaker 2: Person had been rescued. We should point that out. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: set it down and then it turned around and you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, that's a doubles there you go. That is what

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Speaker 2: But I'm so glad you asked, because you know you

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Speaker 2: you have a home, right, you in a house, you

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Speaker 2: live indoors. I do imagine someone trying to steal your home, right,

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Speaker 2: but doing it like without like a gun. Right, they

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Speaker 2: do it just with paperwork, so not like not.

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Speaker 4: Like a big flatbed truck.

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Speaker 2: They didn't like lift it up like Russian style. No.

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Speaker 2: So this person, by the way, the person who owns

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Speaker 2: a home, not you, But I'm talking about the actual factual,

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Speaker 2: the intended victim was famous. Someone tried to steal a

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Speaker 2: famous person's home, but not only that, this person was

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Speaker 2: one of the most famous persons to ever live.

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Speaker 4: Interesting.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and

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Speaker 5: outrageous capers, heists, and cons It's always ninety nine percent

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Speaker 4: Ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Oh, Isabeth, Oh Saron. Today, I want to tell you

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Speaker 2: about Graceland. You ever heard of it?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: You know what is grace like?

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Speaker 4: You know, it's Elvis Presley's house in God, what's in Memphis?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Where is it?

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Speaker 2: A lot of people make this mistake. I was doing research,

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Speaker 2: and Graceland is actually it's the home of Elvis.

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Speaker 4: Oh really.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what I was thinking, And I

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Speaker 2: understand Also you probably didn't know this as well. Graceland

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Speaker 2: is actually the seventh solo album from Paul Simon.

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Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's such a good run.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of people get those confused and they're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Graceland. I'm like, that's an album.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I know where it is it is

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Speaker 3: a good ALB.

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Speaker 2: So you've heard of it, you're familiar.

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Speaker 4: I own it?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean digitally.

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Speaker 4: I think I used to have it on CD.

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Speaker 4: Does that make me like a boomer boomer?

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Speaker 2: Light l t E light Yeah, like light. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: what's up with Graceland? The album?

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Speaker 4: The album?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 2: Why did Paul Simon name his album after Elvis's house?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have an answer. The album came out with.

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Speaker 3: His little commodification of culture totally South Africa.

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Speaker 2: What is it? Right? The Appropriation of So album comes

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Speaker 2: out August twenty fifth, nineteen eighty six. Right, it's famous for,

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Speaker 2: as you point out, how it incorporated the South African

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Speaker 2: I believe or may maybe pronouncing those it wrong. But

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Speaker 2: Paul Simon he hears this music Smith Lady Smith's Black

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Speaker 2: He picks a bunch of different South African musicians among

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Speaker 2: he's like, oh, I want to play with them, but

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Speaker 2: South Africa denied travel to black musicians, right, They could

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Speaker 3: Also, Paul Simon's like, I ain't going to play some

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I wish that was the case. But

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Speaker 2: instead Warner Brothers exactly like, hey, Paul, babe, we work

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Speaker 2: with a bunch of South African artists. Rather than just

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Speaker 2: South Africa. So he goes to South Africa, does a

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Speaker 2: I'll get that later. Yeah, But the result is the

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Speaker 2: Graceland album. Right. So the story is that Paul Simon

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Speaker 2: going through it as an artist. He'd had a bad album,

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Speaker 2: me how a folk singer like Paul Simon was able

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Speaker 2: Then he hears this tape of South African music and

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Speaker 2: Who knows why? Right, and then he releases this. What's

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Speaker 4: It was a big hit right.

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Speaker 2: Well, for one, I remember I said apartheid was still

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Speaker 2: along to like, hey, Paul Simon, you're appropriating the music

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Speaker 2: of those South African musicians, which you kind of mentioned before.

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Speaker 2: Paul Simon's like, duh, folk singer, what I do songs?

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Speaker 2: I'm just not limiting who those people are. And he

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Speaker 2: Ye you remember that one? Okay, yeah, this is back

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Speaker 2: when MTV played music videos. Do you remember that music video.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, with Chevy Chase.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and totally Now the videos just the two of

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Speaker 2: It goes right through, right. Chevy's mouthing the words hammating

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Now this is also I think before everyone knew, he

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they it wasn't publicly known. How absolutely horrible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you remember the video right, how charming he was.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's just sitting there and he's like all big.

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Speaker 4: But they like in linen suits.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, yeah, like matching kind of like jeans

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Speaker 2: and linen suit jackets. Do you remember? Also, did you

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Speaker 2: know he was in a band Chevy Chase. No, yeah,

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Speaker 2: Like I think the band is called Leather Canary.

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Speaker 4: Wait are you making this up?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: You sound like me.

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Speaker 2: Called clear Leather. Yeah, no leather. I think it's Leather Canary.

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Speaker 4: And his uh he won't like I gross you out.

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Speaker 2: Never forgetting that one he he had his other partners

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Speaker 2: in this progressive rock band that he was in. They

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Speaker 2: Good for him. He goes SNL. The other two they quit,

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Speaker 2: and they start their own band. That band becomes Steely.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry. I got some lyrics. So this one is

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Speaker 4: I also remember how you said something about someone steal

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm getting there, don't worry. She makes an

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean she was. I guess it's really common

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Speaker 4: This is so eighties, heavy eighties Elizabeth.

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Speaker 2: Love from Graceland. My traveling companion is nine years old.

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Speaker 2: reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to Graceland, Graceland.

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Speaker 3: No, it's it's beautiful, right, because you have if you

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Speaker 2: Take your child there. Yeah, it's beautiful, and you can

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Speaker 2: So also, I said, he direct quoted Carrie Fisher earlier,

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Speaker 2: in your heart. Everybody sees you're blown apart. Everybody sees

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Speaker 2: the wind blow. I'm going to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: See this is why you're like, Okay, I can see

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Speaker 4: Fishers this guy.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's beautify see why he loves carry Fisher.

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Speaker 3: Well, sure, of course questions quoting him, that's true, that's true.

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Speaker 2: But it's like she's a badass, word all around bad ass.

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Speaker 4: Oh god, she's a great she was a great writ.

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Speaker 3: You know, I just to be so moved by words,

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Speaker 2: So anyway, I brought all this up to say, Elizabeth today,

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Speaker 2: just like my man Paul Simon, we're going down to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Have you ever been? I never have.

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Speaker 4: I've never been to the parking lot of Graceland.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, you went to the parking lot? What were

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Speaker 2: you guys? Were you guys barred from going in?

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Speaker 4: It's a long kind of it's a long story.

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Speaker 2: Were you wearing punk rockettire? Like you can't come in?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: Were you like, like what happened is.

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Speaker 4: Talk about it?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm gonna ask you this later. But okay,

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Speaker 2: I haven't been either inside. I been to the parking lot.

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Speaker 2: I'd like to go, mostly because you know, I want

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently it's still like a million visitors go there

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Speaker 2: People are they still love hitting up Graceland. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 4: Imagine, I want to the other give me the three

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Speaker 2: I'm sure the Vanderbilt House, you know, yeah, right, and

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Speaker 4: Come on, the full house houses.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't really visit the houses. You just

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Speaker 4: You just stare up there.

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Speaker 2: The painted ladies ladies. Okay, So Graceland brings in one

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Speaker 2: about it? Did you know? All White Southern mansion? The truth?

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Speaker 3: I was driving across country and I had my I

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Speaker 3: Wo check this place out. And then I was like,

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Speaker 4: I'm like, do I really.

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Speaker 3: Give a toss about it? Like not really, It's just

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Speaker 4: I've been there. I'm going to Graceland Graceland.

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Speaker 2: To see No.

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Speaker 4: So I just peeled out.

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Speaker 2: Dogs, let the glass dogs, let's roll. Yeah. So at

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Speaker 2: this point, Elizabeth, I'll just tell you a little bit

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Speaker 2: about it, since you haven't seen it, Nora have Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Savannah and the Sea. Grace Land was built in nineteen

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Speaker 2: Thomas D. Moore. They named the mansion after her aunt Grace,

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Speaker 4: Oh really.

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Speaker 2: Elvis bought the mansion in nineteen fifty seven. You see,

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Speaker 2: We'll get into it. You can find it located at

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Speaker 2: three seven sixty three Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Bring your family.

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Speaker 4: I like Memphis.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've enjoyed it Deel Street. Yeah, Elizabeth, now

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Speaker 2: that we've kind of sorted out Graceland from Graceland and

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Speaker 2: we got to know the lay of the land, take

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Speaker 2: a little break for something warm, delicious, ads, and I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you about the ridiculous crimes that went down to Graceland.

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Speaker 6: Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, and we're back.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth. Hey, buddy, now I promised you a trip down

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Speaker 2: to Graceland.

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Speaker 4: You certainly did.

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Speaker 2: With or without Paul Simon. Okay, we're going without. Okay. Now,

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Speaker 2: I gotta say, I'm kind of surprised we have yet

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Speaker 4: I'm well, oh yeah, I was gonna say up until

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Speaker 3: Then yeah, no, I mean I feel like he's got

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, dude, the Memphis Mafia boys who basically

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Speaker 4: Really?

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Speaker 2: He named his dog Elvis, like he loves him a

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Speaker 2: black hound dogs. I named him Elvis's interesting. So I

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Speaker 2: My black nationalist father. So I watched his movies, listen

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Speaker 2: and the gospel albums. I know him both. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: When he has like the jumpsuit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And he's also like on the stage that's

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was born in the South, right, so

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Speaker 2: the King, Yeah, whether I liked it or not. Now,

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Speaker 3: I never really got into Elvis, I mean way before

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Speaker 2: Well yeah, but like growing up as a figure.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't he wasn't Like no one in my family

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and no one in college wanted to go watch

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Speaker 4: No, though, there's probably like some rockabilly folks.

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Speaker 2: Who it's kind of guessing, but you gotta have to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.

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00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:42,800
Speaker 3: Know, it's just sort of like I'm aware of Elvis,

440
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:44,600
Speaker 3: you know, just in terms of the history of rock

441
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,119
Speaker 3: and roll and speaking of cultural.

442
00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:54,040
Speaker 4: And say hound dog. Yeah, but no, I just I've

443
00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:54,879
Speaker 4: always kind of thought.

444
00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:57,840
Speaker 2: He was a little corny, really corny. Yeah, it's not

445
00:19:57,880 --> 00:19:59,439
Speaker 2: the word I'd used for it, but I totally can

446
00:19:59,480 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 2: see that from you guys would have that. I imagine, not

447
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,959
Speaker 2: like a looking down on the South, but he's very

448
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,520
Speaker 2: much that South. Like he is corny as you would say. Yeah,

449
00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:11,439
Speaker 2: I mean he's not like corny, you know, like how

450
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,159
Speaker 2: there's a lot more this is beneath Elvis. There's plenty

451
00:20:14,200 --> 00:20:14,960
Speaker 2: of corn.

452
00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:18,359
Speaker 4: There's a lot of merchandise around Elvis.

453
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:20,440
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they just the whole thing about the malls.

454
00:20:20,480 --> 00:20:21,879
Speaker 2: I'll tell you all about it in a second. Do you

455
00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,360
Speaker 2: know about the time that Elvis showed up that Nixon's

456
00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:26,680
Speaker 2: White House is zooted out of his mind on Doctor

457
00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:28,160
Speaker 2: feel Good's Finest Wonder Pills.

458
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:29,679
Speaker 4: I feel like I have a vague notion of it.

459
00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,480
Speaker 2: And Elvis he goes there because he wants to meet

460
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,560
Speaker 2: the president, and he goes there because he wants to

461
00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,360
Speaker 2: become an official federal agent at large.

462
00:20:36,440 --> 00:20:38,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, he wanted to like be a dea.

463
00:20:38,359 --> 00:20:41,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a rock and roll g man. Basically, the

464
00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:43,520
Speaker 2: story goes a few days. It's a few days before Christmas,

465
00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,520
Speaker 2: December twenty first, nineteen seventy, Elvis Presley, he goes to

466
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,600
Speaker 2: the White House for a noontime meeting with President Richard Nixon.

467
00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,520
Speaker 2: Now at this point, you got to keep this in mind.

468
00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 2: These are two of the most powerful and famous men

469
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:56,520
Speaker 2: in the world, and neither has like anything tarnishing them.

470
00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 2: At this point, Nixon is elected with a mandate to

471
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:01,159
Speaker 2: calm down the widening divisions in the violence in the

472
00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 2: US falling sixty eight. Elvis is coming off his comeback

473
00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 2: special also sixty eight. So now he's doing a comeback tour,

474
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:10,280
Speaker 2: selling out concerts everywhere. They're both cresting, is what I'm

475
00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:14,399
Speaker 2: trying to say. Yeah, so both men beloved Americans nineteen seventy.

476
00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 2: Now this lead for the normy. So let's just say

477
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 2: right now, things are never what the normies believe them

478
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,200
Speaker 2: to be. Because when Elvis shows up at the White

479
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:24,640
Speaker 2: House for a noon exactly, he's armed with a cult

480
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 2: forty five pistol.

481
00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:28,600
Speaker 4: He's warning brought a gun into the White House, totally wearing.

482
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 2: A full on purple velvet jumpsuit but decked with enormous

483
00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 2: gold belt that looks like he's just won the Intercontinental

484
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 2: Championship of the WWE.

485
00:21:35,480 --> 00:21:37,200
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Velvet jumpsuit.

486
00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 2: He walks into the Elvis and he hands President Nixon

487
00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:43,000
Speaker 2: a personal letter that explains his visit. And it's written

488
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,159
Speaker 2: in like child script, like child handwriting. Oh my god, Yes,

489
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,400
Speaker 2: he's thirty five years old at point. Elvis is thirty

490
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:51,639
Speaker 2: five years old right now, he said, and I quote

491
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,399
Speaker 2: in the letter, I've done an in depth study of

492
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:57,800
Speaker 2: drug use and communist brainwashing techniques, and I'm right in

493
00:21:57,840 --> 00:21:59,520
Speaker 2: the middle of the whole thing where I can and

494
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:00,680
Speaker 2: we'll do the most good.

495
00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:01,840
Speaker 4: He is right in the middle.

496
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 2: He's got the control.

497
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 4: Now, mister, like you know, pharmacy rolls up.

498
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 2: Exactly I got. I want to get the I want

499
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 2: to keep the kids off of the drugs I need.

500
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,000
Speaker 2: So Elvis shows up asking if he can get a

501
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,199
Speaker 2: real de A badge, but the DEA didn't exist at

502
00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,159
Speaker 2: this time. Is called the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

503
00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 2: So Elvis he wants to be named an official federal

504
00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 2: Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drum. Yeah,

505
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,160
Speaker 2: So why did Elvis want to be official drug cops

506
00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:32,680
Speaker 2: so bad? Did he want early access to the drugs.

507
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,360
Speaker 2: Did you want to be able to confiscate drugs, like.

508
00:22:34,560 --> 00:22:37,040
Speaker 4: Give me those drugs, like I'll just bust like the

509
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 4: big drug dens.

510
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:44,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then just take their bugis boys, Elvis came

511
00:22:44,119 --> 00:22:47,600
Speaker 2: through and seized my drugs, flashed the badge.

512
00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:49,560
Speaker 4: Drug velvet jumps Did he.

513
00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,359
Speaker 2: Want to get out of jail free card? Is that

514
00:22:51,400 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 2: where he could say, oh, these drugs that I have

515
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 2: it for research? Like say he gets popped, right, wink wink,

516
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 2: you go on, officer one of you guys.

517
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,720
Speaker 4: You we went commando in the jumps in the velvet.

518
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 2: You're stuck jumpsuit. Yeah, I'm thinking he probably wore underwear

519
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:05,000
Speaker 2: with his name on it.

520
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:06,280
Speaker 4: It had to be so sweaty.

521
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:10,160
Speaker 2: Oh it's open, so it's open chest. Remember these are

522
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,200
Speaker 2: like open chests like he's got Yeah, like it it's

523
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:14,720
Speaker 2: a jumpsuits. It's not like skin tight. I don't want

524
00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:16,399
Speaker 2: I want you to think it more like how James

525
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,760
Speaker 2: brownl No.

526
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 3: No, it's kind of think of its velvet.

527
00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 2: Think of it like a Sanza belt suit, you know,

528
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:27,760
Speaker 2: like the seventies, So like it's all one connected. Yeah,

529
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:29,960
Speaker 2: and then the v's out from like the belly button.

530
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:32,560
Speaker 2: And goes up to the lapels, so you kind of

531
00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,359
Speaker 2: got an open chest area to ventilate. I got and

532
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 2: then also to show off your like plumage or whatever

533
00:23:38,720 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 2: you want or like probably a big medallion most like.

534
00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,119
Speaker 4: It makes sense. Yeah, all right, can they get you

535
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 4: one of those jumpsuits?

536
00:23:45,320 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 2: I have an Elvis jumpsuit that I ordered online that

537
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:51,280
Speaker 2: I wear around the house. No, it's two pieces. I

538
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 2: need to get one. I need to get one piece.

539
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,920
Speaker 2: That the only thing I could find online.

540
00:23:53,960 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 4: The butt flap like a union. Anyway, I'm sorry.

541
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: The reason why Elvis wanted his badge is he really

542
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,360
Speaker 2: liked badges.

543
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 4: Stinking badges.

544
00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,719
Speaker 2: I need those stinking badges. It's Accordion's ex wife, Priscilla Presley.

545
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,200
Speaker 2: She wrote a memoir about their life together called Fittingly

546
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,880
Speaker 2: Elvis and Me, and she said in it, I quote,

547
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 2: the nark badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him.

548
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 2: So there was another part, though, the part I suspected

549
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,120
Speaker 2: Elvis wanted to get out of jail free card right. So,

550
00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 2: as Priscilla Presley also put in her memoir and I quote,

551
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 2: once again, with the federal narcotics badge, he believed he

552
00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 2: could legally enter any country, both wearing guns and carry

553
00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 2: any drugs.

554
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,439
Speaker 3: He wished, Well, you know I have a badge.

555
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,439
Speaker 2: I know you do. You got a special investigator badge.

556
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,800
Speaker 4: It's like a real badge. Yeah, investigator.

557
00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,560
Speaker 3: Someday I'm gonna whip it out at like a crime

558
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 3: scene and be like, all right, tell me everything.

559
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:49,919
Speaker 2: I can't believe. It'll carry around you, on you all

560
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:51,360
Speaker 2: the time, just floating.

561
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:52,680
Speaker 4: I'll get arrested.

562
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,640
Speaker 2: As long as you don't say I'm a cop. Okay, yeah,

563
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:56,119
Speaker 2: you're fine.

564
00:24:56,119 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 4: People like what what's happening here?

565
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:02,800
Speaker 2: Just don't say I'm a copper, I'm an officer of law,

566
00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: or I'm with the police, any of that you're asking.

567
00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,720
Speaker 2: Just start asking questions like your Columbo just come in, Yeah,

568
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:09,920
Speaker 2: yeah those listen.

569
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:10,520
Speaker 4: Do you this?

570
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 2: This is what worked for me. I can't pull it

571
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,840
Speaker 2: would work. So at this point we got Elvis. He

572
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:17,800
Speaker 2: comes into Nixon, right, he goes to Nixon. He's in

573
00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:20,000
Speaker 2: his office. He's in the Oval office in his purple

574
00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 2: jumpsuit with his forty five pistol, and he says, can

575
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:25,960
Speaker 2: the King get a badge or what? Now? We've already

576
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,440
Speaker 2: covered Watergate, and so do you remember how he said,

577
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 2: Nixon was recording everything in his oval office. Well, this

578
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 2: happened to be just before the tape system was secretly

579
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:37,159
Speaker 2: installed all the things from Nixon's hitehouse. We do not

580
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,000
Speaker 2: have transcripts of Elvis and Nixon meeting. All we have

581
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 2: is one aid wrote down a memo and records all

582
00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: the events. So I'm going to read quotes from the memo, right, please,

583
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:49,320
Speaker 2: the Elvis. According to this aid, Elvis was bragging about

584
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,960
Speaker 2: his powers to affect and persuade the youth of America.

585
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,239
Speaker 2: He wanted President Nixon, who he didn't think understood who

586
00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 2: he really was, Yeah, to understand his powers. Right. Yeah,

587
00:25:57,280 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 2: he may be president, but I'm Elvis. Yeah, exactly, And

588
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 2: I quote Presley responded that he did his thing just

589
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:05,760
Speaker 2: boss singing. He said that he could not get to

590
00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:07,719
Speaker 2: the kids if he made a speech on the stage,

591
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:09,359
Speaker 2: that he had to reach them in his own way.

592
00:26:09,480 --> 00:26:12,840
Speaker 2: The President nodded in agreement. Now we also know Elvis

593
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 2: bad mouth the Beatles to Nixon. I think it's to

594
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 2: getting Nixon's good side. I don't know. Apparently, he said

595
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:19,320
Speaker 2: he thought the Beatles had been a real force for

596
00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 2: anti American spirit. He said that the Beatles came to

597
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 2: this country, made their money, and then returned to England,

598
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 2: where they promoted an anti American theme. The President nodded

599
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 2: in agreement and expressed some surprise whatever, yeah, all right,

600
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 2: But I like, how if you read this moment makes

601
00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 2: it sounds like Elvis is in there just flying high,

602
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:39,320
Speaker 2: grinding his jaw sideways, and Nixon's the reasonable one, just

603
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:41,639
Speaker 2: nodding along with well, of course, Elvis, of course el

604
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 2: el of a sudden, he's trapped in a men's room

605
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: with a cooke head, and it was like, oh, Elvis,

606
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 2: you know anyway, Nixon he lays out his plan for

607
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,840
Speaker 2: criminalizing drugs and associating them with the student protesters, the

608
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 2: urban youth, the black kids who were also protesting, for

609
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 2: like basically all the kids of color are protesting, and

610
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, if I get all of them tarnished

611
00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: with drugs, we could come in.

612
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:01,719
Speaker 3: Right.

613
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 2: He's telling this the Elvis before he's become national policy.

614
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: He's like, what do you think, Elvis? Now, Elvis is

615
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,359
Speaker 2: going a my limit at this point, right, So he

616
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:12,720
Speaker 2: sticks to his old anti American screed, the aid documented

617
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 2: in the memo, and I quote again Pressley indicated to

618
00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 2: the President in a very emotional manner that he was

619
00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: on your side. Presley kept repeating that he wanted to

620
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 2: be helpful, and he added that he was quote just

621
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,120
Speaker 2: a poor boy from Tennessee who had gotten a lot

622
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 2: from this country, which in some ways he wanted to repay.

623
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,480
Speaker 2: So other than doing drugs legally with his special badge

624
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 2: and carrying guns through airports, how did Elvis want to

625
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 2: repay the country? Elizabeth?

626
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 4: Very good question.

627
00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:38,160
Speaker 2: It's a great question. I'm asked that totally.

628
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 4: It was like on the tip of my tongue for

629
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 4: the lot, like for days.

630
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:42,679
Speaker 2: I saw it there like ring, like it's.

631
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 4: Going to getting in the way of a lot.

632
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 2: Well, Elvis told Nixon he was particularly skilled at spotting

633
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 2: a commie. Yeah, the memo says, and I quote Elvis

634
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 2: quote also mentioned that he is studying communist brainwashing in

635
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,359
Speaker 2: the drug culture for over ten years, and he brags

636
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:59,200
Speaker 2: how the hippie kids love him. He said he could

637
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 2: go right into like with young people or hippies and

638
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: he'd be accepted, which he felt could be helpful to

639
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 2: him in his drug drive. The President indicated again his

640
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 2: concern that Presley retained his credibility. No, Elvis, Come on,

641
00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 2: Elvis is so high talking that the President of the

642
00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,760
Speaker 2: United States at noon a couple of days before Christmas,

643
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 2: and Nixon's like, I don't want you to lose your

644
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 2: cool with the kids. Elvis, Yeah, exactly. So when Elvis

645
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 2: then surprises Nixon, he puts his arm around him, kind

646
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 2: of half hugging him.

647
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 4: The sweats sweat stain.

648
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 2: Can you imagine? He flashes at ten thousand Vegas, comeback mego,

649
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 2: Watts smile right. Photographer snaps a photo. That photo, Elizabeth

650
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 2: is the most requested photograph ever from the entire US archive. Really, yes,

651
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 2: and Elvis did indeed get his badge to be a

652
00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,440
Speaker 2: federal agent at large. However, the badge was not official,

653
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:52,480
Speaker 2: It was purely honorary, but Elvis was convinced it was real,

654
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 2: so he acted as if he was now state sponsored

655
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:59,040
Speaker 2: rock and roll karate master and freelance federal drug agent.

656
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,840
Speaker 2: By the way, there's a movie of the infamous meeting

657
00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 2: between Michael between Elvis and Nixon. It stars Michael Shannon

658
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,920
Speaker 2: as Elvis, which if you can stomach the Kevin Spacey

659
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 2: as Nixon, then it's worth the price of admission alone.

660
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a scales there on that one. Anyway,

661
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 2: he plays Michael Shannon's amazing. He plays Elvis as this

662
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 2: feral rock star with like a kid's mind and a

663
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 2: man's gun collection. It's really wild, right. So anyway, this

664
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,880
Speaker 2: brings us to the crimes Elvis committed at Graceland. You'd

665
00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:28,479
Speaker 2: wait as long enough, Elizabeth, Yes, if you didn't know it.

666
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 2: The parties at Graceland are somewhat legends. I can imagine, right,

667
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 2: the stories told. They made a series of memoirs from

668
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 2: anyone who seemed to be there at the time. There

669
00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 2: are so many books about Elvis from people who are

670
00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 2: like I was there, I was a secretary, I was

671
00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 2: a neighbor, I was a barber. I used to give

672
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:45,120
Speaker 2: them drugs, you know, like whoever did anything. But his

673
00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:49,120
Speaker 2: main circle was called the Memphis Mafia. This was primarily

674
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 2: a group of cousins, like Elvis's cousins and friends that

675
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:53,959
Speaker 2: he grew up with that surrounded the king. These are

676
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 2: the ones who would go out and they would buy

677
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 2: like ten cadillacts because Elvis wanted a new car. They

678
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: would go out and get drugs from the Memphis scene,

679
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 2: go get girls, from the club. One of them is

680
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 2: like a radio DJ, so they're all like able to

681
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 2: work their different angles.

682
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 4: Yeah.

683
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 2: And also at this point he also has his wife

684
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,240
Speaker 2: Priscilla because he gets married young so or relatively young.

685
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 2: And they're also all the women who are around him,

686
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 2: all the secretary. So all these people are writing books, right,

687
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 2: So according to all of them, the party start in

688
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: fifty seven when he buys Graceland and George Klein he's

689
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 2: the radio DJ. He wrote a memoir in twenty ten

690
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 2: called Elvis My best Man. I guess he was the

691
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:29,000
Speaker 2: best man at his wedding. Is my guest? I guess

692
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:31,680
Speaker 2: that's probably the cover photo book. Look into it. I

693
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 2: didn't care anyway. It's George Clin radio DJ. So he

694
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 2: has the angles on the girls, right, So he was

695
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 2: responsible for bringing them to Graceland. And as he writes,

696
00:30:40,120 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 2: Elvis and his boys may have liked to be surrounded

697
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 2: by beautiful girls, but boys being boys, they often played

698
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,360
Speaker 2: with each other. What I mean by that is Elvis

699
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 2: may have liked pills. He did, but he didn't like

700
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 2: to smoke, pod or get drunk. They didn't keep any

701
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 2: booze in the house for the most part. There was

702
00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 2: no beer, no wine, no liquor. I yeah, no pot,

703
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: no booze, no liquor. So George Klein put it, quote,

704
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 2: there were nights where the oldest thing that happened was

705
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 2: having Elvis lead us through a game of Name that Tune,

706
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 2: wild parties Elizabeth. Now, these guys weren't choir boys, though,

707
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 2: they were still the entourage of a very famous man,

708
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,560
Speaker 2: so they would act out accordingly. And that also meant

709
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,560
Speaker 2: they would bring folks to Graceland. And then they had

710
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 2: to lay down the rules of like how to act

711
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 2: around Elvis. So the DJ amateur matchmaker, George Klein, he said,

712
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,640
Speaker 2: and I quote, I told them to keep things positive.

713
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:25,600
Speaker 2: I'd seen people try to act cool around Elvis by

714
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,280
Speaker 2: having a negative, critical attitude. He never responded well to that. Also,

715
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:31,160
Speaker 2: you would tell him, don't assume you can. You can't

716
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 2: say anything nice to him because you think he's probably

717
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 2: heard it before. He didn't want to hear anything phony.

718
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 2: But he was only human and was always enjoying hearing compliments.

719
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: So there you go a bunch of fawning like Siica fans,

720
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 2: hanging around, not drunk, not doing anything, playing Name that

721
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 2: Tune and going girls, are you having a fun time?

722
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 2: So Graceland, right, the gates of the mansion, they had

723
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 2: this very famous iconic guitar themed iron gates like music notes,

724
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 2: and yeah, exactly music notes. So, according to one of

725
00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 2: the Memphis Mafia, this dude, Marty Lacker, one day Elvis

726
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 2: decided he'd do some redecorating. Right, So the year's nineteen

727
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 2: sixty two at this point, still very young man. Elvis

728
00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: hired his cousin. Because he's hired all of his cousins.

729
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 2: They all live in the area from Tupelo, Mississippi, so

730
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, come on up to Memphis. So he's

731
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: hired one of his cousins to work the gate as

732
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 2: a security guard on the night shift. So it's a

733
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 2: warm summer night Elvis in the Memphis Mafia. They went

734
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 2: to town to watch a movie. They come back to

735
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,719
Speaker 2: Graceland around three four in the morning. Must have been

736
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 2: a long movie. So the cousin isn't there, right, he

737
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 2: isn't manning the gate. At this point, Elvis has yet

738
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 2: to switch to Cadillacs. He's now driving a sixty three

739
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,960
Speaker 2: Buick Riviera. Okay, beautiful convertible car. Behind the wheel Elvis

740
00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 2: gets impatient, so he lays on the horn right, And

741
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 2: I forgot to tell you it wasn't just Elvis and

742
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 2: the Memphis Mafia in his convertible Buick Riviera. I don't

743
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: want you to picture the wrong thing. There were some

744
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 2: other people with them. There was a train of fifteen

745
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 2: cars behind Elvis's car, a convoy, all waiting to get

746
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: into Graceland. He brought back fifteen car. Yeah, they went

747
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 2: out to a movie back with fifteen cars. Elvis gonna

748
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:03,719
Speaker 2: starts to get irritated because he's showing off for these

749
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:08,080
Speaker 2: fifteen cars and nobody's opening up grace exactly. So what's

750
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,160
Speaker 2: he do? He backs that Buick Riviera up with the

751
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 2: boys in the Memphis Mafia. And apparently there's a highway

752
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: that used to runs right there in front of the gate,

753
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 2: or like a big Southern high So yeah, so he runs,

754
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 2: he backs up and then floors it. Elvis floors it.

755
00:33:24,760 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 2: Oh you better believe it. Has lacquer recalled it. Quote

756
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: Elvis tore the hell out of those gates. He also

757
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 2: damages up the hell out of that Buick Rivierra. And

758
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 2: I quote because as the gates swung open, hit the curb.

759
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: They flew back and slapped the sides of the buick.

760
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 2: Hearing all this commotion, the cousin wakes up, comes running down,

761
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 2: and Elvis yells at him, from now on, those gates

762
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 2: better open when I get there. So new, Now we

763
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: got vehicular mayhem. Right, that's just one thing. Boys being boys.

764
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:53,959
Speaker 2: I told you, right. What about Elvis in all those guns? Elizabeth? Yeah,

765
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 2: he like the Thankfully these guys don't drink so anyway,

766
00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 2: that's true. But they are boys. They had guns, so

767
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: they said, let's do some shooting practice. Now. Becky Yancey,

768
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 2: she was a secretary. He used to answer Elvis Presley's

769
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 2: fan mail. She did that job for thirteen years, starting

770
00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 2: in March of sixty two, lasting until July seventy five.

771
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 2: He dies in seventy seven.

772
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:14,959
Speaker 4: This stuff she must have read.

773
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 2: Oh my god. She also wrote a book, so if

774
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: you want to read about it, Elizabeth, really, but my goodness,

775
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,040
Speaker 2: my life with my life with Elvis, with Elizabeth.

776
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 4: My life, that's your book.

777
00:34:24,520 --> 00:34:29,239
Speaker 2: That's my book. Yes, so we found this. I guess

778
00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 2: this is another surefire way to become an author. You

779
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 2: do a crime, go to prison, come out a writer. Yeah,

780
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,399
Speaker 2: or the friend, assumeer super famous person and then tell

781
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 2: all their dirt and slicious gossip. Well, whatever it is, you.

782
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 4: Have be a snitch.

783
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyways, she, as you put it, saw it all. Now,

784
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 2: what was all, Elizabeth?

785
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 3: I am terrified, like just a bunch of guys running around,

786
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 3: all alluded to the gills.

787
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 4: Exactly, firing guns in their underpants.

788
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 2: So one day it works, She and another secretary they

789
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,799
Speaker 2: hear this quote a series of short, sharp explosions. Now

790
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 2: the two women they leap for the floor, They hide

791
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 2: under their desk. Then the walls around them start to deteriorate.

792
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 2: Women suspect his gunfire. They're from the South, They're like, oh,

793
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 2: these are bullet holes.

794
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 3: Right.

795
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:13,080
Speaker 2: So, as she put it, quote, ragged chips, some as

796
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 2: large as dollar bills, other the size of needles, and

797
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:19,680
Speaker 2: equally sharp showered the room like so much wooden confetti.

798
00:35:20,120 --> 00:35:21,280
Speaker 2: What was the deal, Elizabeth?

799
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 4: What was the deal?

800
00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:25,520
Speaker 2: Elizabeth? Elvis and the Memphis Mafia had pulled out their

801
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 2: three fifty seven magnum and were shooting it at the

802
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,040
Speaker 2: old Well House, which happened to be right connected to

803
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: where the secretary's office was.

804
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:32,840
Speaker 4: Oh my god, they could have killed that.

805
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had. The boys had slapped up a target

806
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 2: that she had the shape of a man, and they

807
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 2: were dotting the man with holes and they were not

808
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: apparently the best shots.

809
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

810
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the adjoining secretary's office just starts getting peppered

811
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: with bullets. If they had been in the bathroom at

812
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,280
Speaker 2: the time, mm hmm. Elvis's game fun with gun ranges,

813
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,279
Speaker 2: it would have probably ventilated either woman, right, Oh, no,

814
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 2: one of them. Her husband. She he came to Graceland

815
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 2: to pick her up, right, he said, If you were

816
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,760
Speaker 2: paul Lette had been hit by one of those bullets,

817
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 2: your head would have exploded like watermelons. Those guys had

818
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 2: to be crazy to be doing that with two women

819
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:04,839
Speaker 2: in there.

820
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 4: Did you go and yell at Elvis about it?

821
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: Then? Didn't do that? I didn't even see that in

822
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 2: the story. Now, Elvis and his boys did not stop

823
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 2: this because in New Year's Eve, Elvis fired so many

824
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 2: bullets at that same wellhouse that the damn thing caught

825
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,479
Speaker 2: fire the house.

826
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:19,440
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

827
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 2: Just before midnight in New Year's Eve, Elvis sent one

828
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,040
Speaker 2: of the Memphis Mafia into the main house to get

829
00:36:24,080 --> 00:36:28,239
Speaker 2: the big guns. Right as Becky the Secretary's puts it.

830
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 2: They're Baars Browning automatic rifles. They're in the next big thing,

831
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 2: the machine guns. So right at the stroke of midnight,

832
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:37,000
Speaker 2: elvis fire is the first shot with the Browning, and

833
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,719
Speaker 2: then all the others in Memphis Mafia they follow suit

834
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 2: and they all unload on this well house together. Becky

835
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 2: watches the gunfire from the safety of a window view

836
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:49,320
Speaker 2: as she tells Elizabeth, Elvis, his body bucking and jerking

837
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 2: as he held the bar under one arm, fired twenty

838
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 2: five or thirty rounds into the Whitehouse in less than

839
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 2: a minute. Chunks of the clay targets flew in every direction,

840
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,520
Speaker 2: and the White House started to burn. Stop don't burn

841
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 2: the office down. I need my job now. At this point,

842
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: Elvis's father, Vernon runs out of the house because he

843
00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 2: lives there, and he tries to put out the fire

844
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: with his that his full grown son is lit with

845
00:37:12,239 --> 00:37:14,360
Speaker 2: his buddies. He doesn't bring any water with him, so

846
00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 2: what does he do? He also doesn't turn on the hose. Nope,

847
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 2: what do you do? He takes off his jacket and

848
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: starts slapping at the flames with his jacket. It's like

849
00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 2: a truck driver's idea. I don't know his son, Elvis

850
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 2: yells at him. Oh, hell, daddy, let it burn. It's

851
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: only money. Oh my goodness, So the well house that

852
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: was just the price to pay for Elvis and his

853
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 2: boys have some semi sober fun on Near's eve. Elizabeth, Okay,

854
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 2: now that we've covered a little semi yeah, the mostly

855
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,160
Speaker 2: legal fund that Elvis had. Agree, let's take a little break,

856
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 2: crack open some fresh ads. When we get back, I'll

857
00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:47,720
Speaker 2: tell you about Elvis shooting TVs and uh oh yeah,

858
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 2: someone trying to steal Graceland.

859
00:37:55,280 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 7: Oh Elizabeth, Hey, buddy, you ready for some more Elvis

860
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 7: and Graceland.

861
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: Yes, no, Paul Simon. Sorry, anyway, we've been talking Elvis, Graceland.

862
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 2: They have the best for last. Yes.

863
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 4: Please.

864
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard stories that Elvis kept a wall

865
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 2: of TVs in Graceland, that sometimes he'd watch them at once,

866
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 2: and then if he didn't like somebody, he'd shoot out

867
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 2: the TV. It's a very famous story, right. Is this

868
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 2: story true? Is it fact? Is it fiction? Is it

869
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,200
Speaker 2: part of the legend.

870
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 4: I say it's true.

871
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 2: I looked into it. I have answers for you, and Elizabeth.

872
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 2: I'd like you to close your up my eyes, and

873
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:46,080
Speaker 2: I'd like you to picture it. Elizabeth. It's a warm

874
00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 2: spring night. The date is May twenty fifth, nineteen sixty five,

875
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 2: and at the moment, you're seated on a white leather couch,

876
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 2: sipping on a sweet tea as you watch at the

877
00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 2: time large screen twenty five inch TV. It's not your choice,

878
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:03,280
Speaker 2: but you're watching the heavyweight boxing championship rematch between Muhammad

879
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:06,359
Speaker 2: Ali and Sonny Listen, and you're not alone. There are

880
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 2: a few friends and hangers on with you. They like

881
00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,319
Speaker 2: you are the guests of the King. And by the king,

882
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 2: of course, I mean Elvis Presley. That's right, Elizabeth. You're

883
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 2: watching one of the most famous fights in boxing history,

884
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 2: and you're watching it with Elvis at Graceland. You are

885
00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:22,680
Speaker 2: living a peak moment of the twentieth century. As the

886
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 2: hangers on giggle and laugh and the boys from the

887
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 2: Memphis Mafia laugh and get not drunk. You notice Priscilla Presley,

888
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 2: Elvis's wife, come into the room with their young daughter,

889
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 2: Lisa Marie, the five year old. The heavyweight fight has

890
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 2: yet to start. At the moment, the actor singer Robert

891
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,239
Speaker 2: Goulai is singing The Star Spangled banner and it's not

892
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 2: going well watching it. Elvis speaks up and says, you

893
00:39:43,239 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 2: got a lovely voice, but there's no feeling there. It's

894
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,960
Speaker 2: like vocally, you can sing an opera and you have

895
00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 2: to have feelings in your voice like you're talking. You're

896
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 2: not along. Elvis makes good points. The Memphis Mafia Boys

897
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,080
Speaker 2: offers him Hallelujahs to the King, seconding his opinion. You

898
00:39:58,120 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 2: sort of humble along in your head as you listen

899
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 2: to Robert Gulay croon the tune of the National anthem.

900
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,879
Speaker 2: Then he gets to the words by the Don's Early Light,

901
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 2: and you hear him sing by the Downs early night

902
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 2: night that doesn't even make sense, By the Dons Early Night.

903
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 2: You see Elvis grumble to himself too. You seem to

904
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 2: both agree he's just as annoyed by the mistake and

905
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 2: lyrics as you are. Then Robert Gulay does it again.

906
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 2: Instead of singing Gave Proof through the Night, Gulay sings

907
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,359
Speaker 2: gave Proof through the Fight. You roll your eyes at

908
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:31,279
Speaker 2: that one. Elvis grumbles. Now he's pissed off and he

909
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: isn't letting it go. You see a flash of metal.

910
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 2: Elvis whips out a three point fifty seven magnum handgun,

911
00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:39,880
Speaker 2: and he shouts at the TV, you learn the words

912
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,800
Speaker 2: of our national anthem usob and he squeezes the trigger.

913
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 2: The gun dark explames, A bullet screams through the air,

914
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 2: and he shatters the TV. A couple of young women

915
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: seated with the Memphis Mafia boy scream startled by the gunfire.

916
00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 2: You saw it coming, so you're not as terrified. But

917
00:40:56,880 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 2: you notice Priscilla and Lisa Marie are entirely non played.

918
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 2: They have seen this plenty of times. It's like it's

919
00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 2: a remote control for him. Elvis says to his Memphis

920
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 2: Mafia boys, take it to the graveyard. One of the

921
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:12,279
Speaker 2: boys dutifully hops up unplugs the TV. A second guy

922
00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 2: brings in a fresh twenty five inch TV and plugs

923
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: it in. He changes the channel and finds the muhammadad

924
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 2: Li Sonny Liston fight. Thankfully, Robert hu Leigh is gone.

925
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 2: The boxers are being introduced silently. You make a little

926
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 2: wish that muhammadad Lee and Sonny Liston don't do anything

927
00:41:27,000 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 2: to piss off Elvis. And then you hear little Lisa

928
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 2: Marie ask her daddy why he shot out the TV

929
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 2: and Elvis says in a soft voice to his daughter,

930
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 2: I didn't want to stand up and turn it off.

931
00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:42,960
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there you go, Elizabeth. That was the

932
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: most famous thing, since he did this multiple times, but

933
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,319
Speaker 2: this is my favorite and the most famous. He did

934
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,279
Speaker 2: this in hotels. He got into Vegas, he stayed on Yeah,

935
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 2: I stayed in a hotel and he'd shoot TVs. He

936
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 2: did this like this happens a bunch. It was like

937
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 2: it literally was like, I don't have a remote control,

938
00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 2: so I've got a gun replace it. So anyway, and

939
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 2: all those these are all direct quotes. I pulled that

940
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,919
Speaker 2: from multiple stories of people who were there, and those

941
00:42:04,920 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 2: are all there a recollection. So wow, that story of

942
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 2: Elvis shooting out the TV because of Robert Gulay flubbing

943
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 2: the national anthem was a very famous story at the time.

944
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: It had to annoy Gulay, right because this guy is

945
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 2: also a star. Now decades later, in two thousand and four,

946
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 2: he was still having the answer to it. A local

947
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 2: Memphis newspaper. He was in town at the time the

948
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,280
Speaker 2: commercial appeal. They had the local newspaper. They asked Gulay

949
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 2: about Elvis shooting his TV rather than listen to Gulay

950
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,720
Speaker 2: sing asked the man to his face. Yeah, and Gulay defends,

951
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 2: of course he's a good name. But I love how

952
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,280
Speaker 2: he throws Frank Sinatra under the bus to clear himself.

953
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:40,560
Speaker 2: Wait what Yes, according to Gulay, and I quote when

954
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 2: he shot the television set, he also shot fifty other people.

955
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 2: He told me that he had about one hundred sets

956
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 2: in the basement and he'd shoot the damn thing out.

957
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 2: You know, he was on pills and he didn't know

958
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 2: quite what he was doing, and he'd bang, and then

959
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:54,880
Speaker 2: he'd look at each other and say, get another set.

960
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: They mentioned me all the time. I don't know why

961
00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:00,439
Speaker 2: the point is. I know he was not done self,

962
00:43:00,520 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 2: so therefore it wasn't anything to do with me. He

963
00:43:02,840 --> 00:43:05,719
Speaker 2: shot out miltur May, he shot out Frank Sinatra, but

964
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 2: I get all the credit. So the story is apparently,

965
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: when Milt Turmae was on one time, he shot it.

966
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: When Frank Sinatra was on one time, he shot it.

967
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 2: But everyone knows Gulet he shot it because he don't

968
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: like Gulet. Right.

969
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 4: The best Robert Gulay is will Ferris Robert.

970
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 2: Robert check it on. Now, when you have someone who's

971
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,319
Speaker 2: dispensing firearms inside the house. It often means you'll need

972
00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 2: to do some home repair time, right, which certainly did.

973
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,759
Speaker 4: They'll like plasters, spackle.

974
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 2: House spinders would hate him. Bill, you got to show

975
00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 2: up on Monday again after long weekend standing.

976
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:45,879
Speaker 3: Order at the local hardware store where they just drop

977
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 3: off crates of this stuff to patch up the water.

978
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 2: Sackle, plaster, pain. Here's some prime. We do it again, boy.

979
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 2: So uh at this point, let's see, as I told

980
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,280
Speaker 2: you elvious, he bought Graceland fifty seven. Well, he immediately

981
00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 2: set to put his stamp on his new home. Elvis,

982
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 2: at the time, a very young man, said, I will

983
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 2: probably have a black bedroom, sweet trimmed in white leather

984
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 2: with a white rug alost knew what he liked. So

985
00:44:07,080 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 2: his last decorator, she wrote a book because she was

986
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:12,000
Speaker 2: his decorator, such as like Elvis and me and holding

987
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 2: a spackle. I don't know, because of course she did

988
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 2: all right, and so in her case it was an

989
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 2: autobiography though, so we'll give her some slack. Who woman's

990
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,360
Speaker 2: name is Linda Thompson. She worked with Elvis until nineteen

991
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 2: seventy four. So as Linda Thompson recalled, Elvis would tell

992
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:25,720
Speaker 2: her his plans.

993
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 8: Right.

994
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, you know, I want I want a

995
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: jungle room. She's like, Elvis, what do you mean a

996
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,319
Speaker 2: jungle room. He's like, you know that basement room I have.

997
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 2: I want it to open out to the outside, but

998
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,680
Speaker 2: I want the outside to be on the inside. And

999
00:44:36,719 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 2: they're like, we take this screened in porch, right, and

1000
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 2: then just enclose it, make it. Make it a jungle room.

1001
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 2: They're quite You're like, yeah, lots of plants, right. She's like, Elvis,

1002
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 2: are you serious? He said, and I quote, Honey, I

1003
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,319
Speaker 2: want this to look like you're in the jungle. And

1004
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:51,439
Speaker 2: we're gonna put green carpet up the wall. I want

1005
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:54,360
Speaker 2: green carpet to climb the wall like moss is climbing

1006
00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:54,760
Speaker 2: the wall.

1007
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm live Tiger.

1008
00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: I knew you would love that wall carpet. I mean, thick, rich,

1009
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 2: green shag carpet gone.

1010
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 4: Halfway up the wall.

1011
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 3: All these tropical plants and it's the South mustiness in

1012
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:08,520
Speaker 3: that carpet jungle room.

1013
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 2: Also, by the way, they went to one of your

1014
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:15,840
Speaker 2: favorite spots, peer One Import. They bought up some chairs,

1015
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,239
Speaker 2: not just any chairs, these chairs had fake fur on them.

1016
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,839
Speaker 2: They were fake fur chairs chairs. They went fog while

1017
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 2: and peer one import. It's all wicker, odd furniture.

1018
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 4: So much wicker, so many campbells.

1019
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 2: Now, what colors do you think he decorated his bedroom

1020
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 2: black and white, red and black with touches of gold. Oh,

1021
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 2: the dining room living and what colors are those?

1022
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 4: Uh?

1023
00:45:34,880 --> 00:45:40,239
Speaker 2: Blue, red and black with touches, with huge, oversized high

1024
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 2: backed chairs like you were just dining with bales above.

1025
00:45:43,200 --> 00:45:44,600
Speaker 2: Elvis was a bit of a goth in case you

1026
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,960
Speaker 2: didn't know that now, as the decorator Linda Thompson remembered, quote,

1027
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 2: everything was exaggerated over the top. It looked like a bordello.

1028
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 2: It truly did. It wouldn't have been my taste, but

1029
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 2: it was totally all this. Now, Elizabeth, I'd like you

1030
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 2: to imagine what the pool room looked like, where Elvis

1031
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,919
Speaker 2: and the Memphis Mafia would hang out table or yeah,

1032
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 2: pool table and they'd shoot pool and not drink.

1033
00:46:03,640 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 4: I think it was red black with touches of gold.

1034
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 2: No, it had a tent like feel, got the circus

1035
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 2: tent like, Yeah, you had like fabric going up to

1036
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 2: a point.

1037
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 4: Oh and I'm sure that was awesome.

1038
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And then there was the TV room that

1039
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 2: had all the wall of TVs so that way one

1040
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,560
Speaker 2: could watch CBS, NBC, and ABC all at the same time.

1041
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:24,600
Speaker 2: Because remember there's only like so many five channels. You

1042
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,040
Speaker 2: got that PBS and a uh chef channel. So yeah,

1043
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 2: so if unless you wanted to watch my mother the car,

1044
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,640
Speaker 2: he was probably watching NBC. Now in this TV room,

1045
00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: Elvis also had design touches like quote, lightning bolts zinging

1046
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 2: through the clouds on the back wall. Elvis apparently also

1047
00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,520
Speaker 2: quote wanted mirrors on the ceiling to make the room

1048
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 2: appear higher and more open, and she also bought him

1049
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 2: ceramic monkeys to just place around wherever he thought ceramic

1050
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 2: monkey should go.

1051
00:46:49,480 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 3: Mirrors on the ceilings, ceramic monkeys, clouds with lightning bolts

1052
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 3: coming out of them on the.

1053
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:56,760
Speaker 2: Back carpet on the walls.

1054
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 4: Oh my god.

1055
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 2: Yeah. So sadly much of this design work was time

1056
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 2: in the living rooms and the dining room. They were

1057
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 2: repainted white like his mother preferred them, because his mother

1058
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,080
Speaker 2: and father lived with him when he first got the house.

1059
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 2: Then they tried to slow this down, and then when

1060
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 2: they like passed away, and he's like, all right, red

1061
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 2: and black walls, sorry, daddy. Now the jungle room boat, though,

1062
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 2: has remained unchanged. So when we go to Graceland.

1063
00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should have recorded the first.

1064
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 2: Thing going to Jungle Room, just as Elvis intended it. Now,

1065
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 2: Elvias says, you probably may know, don't know, I don't know.

1066
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: Died on August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, Elvis is

1067
00:47:29,600 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 2: no longer with us. Elizabeth, he was, however old somebody

1068
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 2: would be when they died nineteen seventy seven. I don't

1069
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 2: know what he was. I could pro he's in his forties.

1070
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 4: He was between fifteen eighty six.

1071
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 2: I think he's in his early forties. I don't I

1072
00:47:44,960 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: don't quite know.

1073
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,879
Speaker 4: He was more than five and less than one hundred.

1074
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's like in his early twenties. Stories,

1075
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,320
Speaker 2: so yeah, he's in his mid forties. So anyway, quite famously,

1076
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 2: he died on the toilet. Five years later, Graceland opened

1077
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 2: to the public as a museum. Why would they do

1078
00:48:00,719 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 2: that because the house now belonged to Priscilla, and she

1079
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 2: was the heir when Elvis passed. Yeah, and she was

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Speaker 2: also the daughter Lisa Marie and so when Elvis died,

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00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,200
Speaker 2: he left them with a half million dollar a year

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00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,879
Speaker 2: bill for the taxes and the maintenance of the home.

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00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 2: They're like, I'm not getting it on stage, and so

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00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 2: I'm not Elvis. I don't have a comeback special. So

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00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 2: they opened the doors of the public. They said, come

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00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: on in, look at it. Give me five dollars. So

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00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:25,480
Speaker 2: visitors they go crazy and they go there. They told

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00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,040
Speaker 2: you by the millions, right, and then didn't they start

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00:48:28,080 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 2: adding attractions they had like they had lost things over

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Speaker 2: the years. So like apparently some of the had family jets.

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00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:35,719
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, jets. They had their

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00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 2: own jets, like the Elvis Presley family owned a jet.

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00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 2: They didn't say it was Elvis's jets, like a family jet,

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00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,040
Speaker 2: because there was one. Elvis's personal jet was called the

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00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,360
Speaker 2: Lisa Marie, named after his daughter. And then there was

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Speaker 2: his other plane, the hound Dog two, right, which I

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00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 2: have to assume as a play on Air Force one,

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Speaker 2: Like I was like, well, nick'son era right. So according

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00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,279
Speaker 2: to the official Graceland website, the next major development was

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00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,279
Speaker 2: the purchase of an existing nearby hotel property, renovating it

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00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: and renaming it Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel. Oh god, yeah,

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00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:04,880
Speaker 2: Heartbreak Hotel. Thought you liked that one because you have

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00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,000
Speaker 2: to have a heartbreak hotel. But then the Elvis fans

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00:49:08,040 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 2: were forced to find a new place to go when

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00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 2: the Heartbreak Hotel shut its doors in twenty sixteen. So now,

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Speaker 2: at first, after Elvis passed his father, who's in charge

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Speaker 2: of Graceland Vernon?

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00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 8: Right?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Then it was Priscilla, And then when Lisa Marie turned

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00:49:20,680 --> 00:49:24,400
Speaker 2: twenty five, she inherits Graceland. And then after Lisa Marie

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00:49:24,920 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 2: passes away in twenty twenty three, the Presley family home

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00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 2: now gets left to her daughter, Riley Keo, who's now

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00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,520
Speaker 2: the current owner of Graceland. And almost as soon as

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00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 2: that poor girl in harted grace Land, along came a

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00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 2: scammer to try to steal it away from her. Oh no, yeah,

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00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 2: the story goes. The court document gets filed on behalf

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00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 2: of Nausony Investments. The company claims that they are holding

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00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:48,640
Speaker 2: a loan dating back to twenty eighteen. The loan is

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00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 2: the amount of three point eight million dollars. They say

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Speaker 2: the loan is from Lisa Marie Presley, her mother. Now

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00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,799
Speaker 2: when fifty four year old Lisa Marie Presley passed away

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Speaker 2: in January of twenty twenty three. Hard document claim she

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Speaker 2: left behind the sizeable debt right, specifically the three point

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Speaker 2: eight million dollars. Yeah, and since Lisa Marie had failed

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Speaker 2: to pay the loan, the plaintiff claimed in their court

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00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 2: documents that Lisa Marie had put up Graceland as collateral

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Speaker 2: the whole thing. Yeah, So now the plaintiff wants to

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Speaker 2: legally claim what's rightfully theirs, namely Graceland. So they file paperwork,

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Speaker 2: the court honors it and starts to process like the

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00:50:21,239 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 2: transfer of Graceland the new owner, Elvis's granddaughter, Riley Cooe.

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00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 2: Here's about this because it gets like updates and then

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00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 2: has to go into court to fight these claims. Yeah,

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00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 2: the foreclosure is granted at first, as I said, right,

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00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 2: they start foreclosing.

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Speaker 4: Out, you're gonna auction it on the courthouse stead.

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00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 2: They're gonna sell Graceland, do whatever, right Keo's lawyers, they

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00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,879
Speaker 2: argue in a Tennessee court, this is Elvis's granddaughter. That

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00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 2: loan paperwork was fraudulent. Her mother, Lisa Marie, never signed

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Speaker 2: this paperwork. Oh, this is clearly not her signature. Here's

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00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:52,520
Speaker 2: what her signature looks like. Here's another example. Does that

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00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,480
Speaker 2: look like it? The judge's like, oh, you make good points.

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00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 2: So the mother's signature was designated to be faked, clearly forged.

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00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 2: So what happened now, well, they stopped the foreclosure of

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00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 2: Graceland obviously, right yeah. So then the court investigates Keo's claims,

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00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:07,839
Speaker 2: you know, and they go, okay, let's let's look into this.

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00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:11,360
Speaker 2: And at this point the scams averted. The ring leader emerges,

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00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 2: they get discovered and it's this guy from behind Nauseny Investments, right.

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00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,480
Speaker 2: So his name is Gregory Nauseny and Elizabeth. He was

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00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 2: a Nigerian scammer.

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00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 4: Oh no way, Oh that's so good.

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00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:25,799
Speaker 2: He sent emails bragging boasting about how he and his

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00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: gang of fellow Nigerian scammers almost pulled off the impossible

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00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 2: stealing Graceland, which is some paperwork. As Gregoradion Nauseny boasted

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00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: in his email, we sit back and laugh at you

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00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 2: idiots and watch you make fools of yourself. Come find

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00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 2: us in Nigeria. So that was a tall order, right,

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00:51:41,600 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 2: good luck with that, and even more impossible than stealing

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00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 2: Graceland with just some paperwork. By the way, Yeah, his

1160
00:51:46,200 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 2: email had all these like grammatical errors one would expect

1161
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 2: from a Nigerian scammer. But turns out, Elizabeth, that was

1162
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:55,440
Speaker 2: on purpose, because you see, the Nigerian scammer, Gregory Naseny

1163
00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 2: was also a fraud.

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00:51:57,480 --> 00:51:58,520
Speaker 4: Wait, what a fake?

1165
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 2: A mask for an American gammer to wear, and because

1166
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 2: just like how you leapt to believe it was a

1167
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 2: Nigerian scammer, everybody else you told me, I know, that's what,

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00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 2: that's all. That's all anybody ever does they go, hey,

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00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 2: this guy he told me this thing, or that guy

1170
00:52:12,080 --> 00:52:15,560
Speaker 2: lives there. It's called lying, Elizabeth, What you then choose

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00:52:15,560 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 2: to believe the lie based on the gulbibility of you

1172
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 2: or the culpability of my life sounding real and like

1173
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 2: what weight it can carry? Anyway, The emails, the court documents,

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00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 2: they all get traced back to a woman named Lisa

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00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:31,399
Speaker 2: Janine Finley. Was she some secret Elvis daughter trying to

1176
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 2: finiss her way into the inheritance? No, nope, nope, nope.

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00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,280
Speaker 2: She was just a great I know, guys, it should

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00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,600
Speaker 2: be should be definitely skeptical of this one. She was

1179
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 2: a grade eight uncut American scammer. Elizabeth homegrown fifty three

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00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Speaker 2: year old fraudster was a woman with six aliases known

1181
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 2: as Carolyn Williams, Kisa Holden, Lisa Janine soulland Gregory Nawsony

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00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 2: and Kurt Nawseny. She was not from Nigeria, she was

1183
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:02,800
Speaker 2: from Missouri. Her rap sheet was impressive, Elizabeth. She was

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00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 2: no criminal spring chicken this one. She had busts for fraud,

1185
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:09,360
Speaker 2: forged checks, scams going back decades decades. Frederic grand Jury

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00:53:09,480 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 2: easily persuaded to bring charges against her. They're like, just

1187
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,040
Speaker 2: where do we sign I got? I wanted my parking validated?

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00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 4: Now this was to be her magnum opens.

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00:53:17,840 --> 00:53:21,200
Speaker 2: Totally, really was she got real close if the lawyers

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00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 2: have been a little slower, or if the news headlines

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00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 2: hadn't bust broken because people notice the court documents and

1192
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:29,440
Speaker 2: the news is really what broke out anyway. Former roommates

1193
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:32,320
Speaker 2: testified about how old Lisa Jeanine had bragged them about

1194
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 2: her plans to foreclose on Graceland and steal it with

1195
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,000
Speaker 2: just a stroke of a pen and a judge's gavel.

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00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:41,000
Speaker 4: And then Lisa Janine is actually of cover for someone up.

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00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,400
Speaker 2: No, she was. Really she's the one because she was

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00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:47,920
Speaker 2: arrested charged with aggravated identity theft and mail fraud. Ooh,

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00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:48,520
Speaker 2: mail fraud.

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00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 4: That's a tough one to every.

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00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 2: Mail fraud telling it's a banker, because you'll get twenty

1202
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 2: years for each charge. Each single incident is a charge.

1203
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,000
Speaker 2: So family, she's convicted, and if she gets convicted, she's

1204
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 2: right now in federal corre. The conviction rate is about

1205
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:06,960
Speaker 2: ninety eight percent. Get invested anyway. The expected sentence is

1206
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 2: a maximum of twenty years. All her an attempt to steal, Well,

1207
00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 2: that's what that's what What are you in here for?

1208
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:16,400
Speaker 2: I tried to steal Elvis's house? Seriously, what are you

1209
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,960
Speaker 2: in here for? I tried to steal Graceland White two

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00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:22,879
Speaker 2: copies of the album. How many copies of the album

1211
00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:25,720
Speaker 2: do you try to No? I tried to steal Graceland anyway,

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00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:27,320
Speaker 2: it was already take away here, Elizabeth.

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00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:28,759
Speaker 4: I don't steal Graceland, right.

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00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 2: That's if you do only steal the album, it's much

1215
00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:33,880
Speaker 2: easier to get away with and the punishment is much less.

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00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 3: You hear about people stealing homes and where they kind

1217
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 3: of get was get someone to sign over like McCart.

1218
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 2: I told you a story of the guys stealing home.

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00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but this that's that's but.

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00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,600
Speaker 2: They were yeah, they were abandon not abandon but you

1221
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,920
Speaker 2: know under like those they are vacated homes, right, nobody

1222
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 2: living in the home.

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00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,439
Speaker 4: Do it like out from under like an elder.

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00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,960
Speaker 2: Families completely, But you're not going to do it through

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00:54:57,080 --> 00:54:59,759
Speaker 2: like you know Elvis's granddaughter and his legal team. Yeah

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00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 2: oh wow yeah, so.

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00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:03,800
Speaker 4: Uh that's your ridiculous takeaway.

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00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: The fact I was able to scam you so quickly

1229
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,719
Speaker 2: with a Nigerian woo, that's my ridiculous a right, good

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00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:12,320
Speaker 2: for you in the move for talk about just to

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00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:27,480
Speaker 2: clear the palate, get some of that feeling. Yes, oh god, Hello.

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00:55:27,320 --> 00:55:30,200
Speaker 8: Elizabeth and Zaren. This is Vanessa in Texas. And you

1233
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 8: know what's ridiculous the idea that nobody has yet made

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00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:39,240
Speaker 8: the animated version of Mob Barker Gang Adventures as envisioned

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00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,839
Speaker 8: by young Zaren, with characters such as Joe Beagle, Al

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00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 8: the Bone, Braby's Face, Nelson Machine, and Jay Edgar Rover.

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00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 8: Is somebody out there who can make it? As listening, please.

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00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:52,360
Speaker 3: Make this happen.

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00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:58,439
Speaker 4: It is genius. I love that this is so good.

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00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 2: I also gotta say I missed a talk that was uh.

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00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 2: They had the talkback where the guy did specifically for

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00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:06,839
Speaker 2: me and I wasn't here, and I said, I wanted

1243
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:09,919
Speaker 2: to say that was dope. I listened on the road.

1244
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:13,760
Speaker 2: I was like, y'all killing it. So yeah, I've always

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00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,080
Speaker 2: thank you for listening, and we will catch you next crime.

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00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 2: And until then, you can find us online at Ridiculous

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00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:23,840
Speaker 2: Crime on social media's and the website ridiculous Crime dot coms.

1248
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:26,880
Speaker 2: And we love your talkbacks obviously, so please go to

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00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,680
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00:56:29,680 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 2: hear your voice here, or you can go old school.

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00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:34,040
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Speaker 2: at gmail dot com and please write dear producer d

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Speaker 2: all right, thanks again for listening. We'll catch you next crime.

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Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton Fans and I'm

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00:56:49,719 --> 00:56:53,520
Speaker 2: produced and edited by Elvis Presley's plant guy Dave Kustin

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Speaker 2: and starring Anaalice Rutger as Judith. Research is by Elvis

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Speaker 2: impersonators to the Stars MRSA Brown and Andrea Song Sharpened

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Speaker 2: to You. Our theme song is by Thomas Elves, the

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Speaker 2: Mexican Elvis Lee, and Travis I don't really like Elvis Dutton.

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