Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth. All Right, my friend, I got a question for you.
Speaker 2: He it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: I do decapitation like as in yeah, really yeah, decapitation.
Speaker 4: Of a boy? What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, like when someone hits a fire hydrant in the
Speaker 3: fire hydrant like in their car, right, yeah, and they
Speaker 3: lose control and the fire hydrant flies through the air
Speaker 3: and it decapitates the boy.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? That ridiculous? We had a
Speaker 2: head wound.
Speaker 4: But you know what makes it super ridiculous is this?
Speaker 2: Is there a follow up to that hereditary heredity? I
Speaker 2: don't know. Isn't that the movie where the girl gets
Speaker 2: her head on the driving in the car? I don't
Speaker 2: speak anyah.
Speaker 3: No, what makes this ridiculous is that it's.
Speaker 4: The boy is Bob's big Boy?
Speaker 3: Not talking about a real human boy, of course, I'm
Speaker 3: talking about the statue.
Speaker 2: Yes, Bob's big giant figurine.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so in Downey, California, I got this article.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 3: First of all, this was recommended to us by Kathleen
Speaker 3: mccauliffe on Instagram. Are you always just good looking?
Speaker 4: Out?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 4: Anyway?
Speaker 3: KTLA the most unhinged television station in the world. Every
Speaker 3: time I have to go down to Los Angeles. Like,
Speaker 3: when I'm traveling, I find myself. If I'm staying in
Speaker 3: a hotel, I always watch morning news, which I don't
Speaker 3: mean to do here in Oakland, California, A But when
Speaker 3: I'm on the road, I like to do that and
Speaker 3: kind of get a sense of like what's happening, what's
Speaker 3: Oh my god, KTLA.
Speaker 2: Amazing crazy I all the time.
Speaker 4: So anyways, the best good day La, Oh god, it's wild.
Speaker 3: So KTLA has this story about how this happened. August
Speaker 3: twenty eighth, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Special day.
Speaker 4: It's a very special day.
Speaker 3: So it's said a Bob statue outside of Bob's Big
Speaker 3: Boy in Downey lost his head after a violent crash
Speaker 3: early Wednesday. So this lady, she goes out of control.
Speaker 3: She hits a fire hydrant. It flips up, it like
Speaker 3: shears off most of the head.
Speaker 2: There's great for car just launched off the fire hydrant.
Speaker 4: No, no, she hits the fire hydrant.
Speaker 3: The fire hydrant flies through the air, yeah yeah, and
Speaker 3: then hits the Bob's Big Boys exactly yeah, and floods
Speaker 3: the street.
Speaker 4: The lady was.
Speaker 3: Trapped in the vehicle underneath going Yeah, for a very
Speaker 3: long time. They'd use the jaws of life to get
Speaker 3: her out, damn. And I don't know what her condition was.
Speaker 3: But there's actual living footage of this.
Speaker 2: Did anyone come up and steal the jaws of life?
Speaker 3: No, that happens in Oakland though, saw that the news. Right,
Speaker 3: that's also ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Someone stole Oh I love my hometown so much. They
Speaker 4: make it so hard.
Speaker 3: Yeah, someone stole the jaws of life.
Speaker 4: And anyway, there's footage of the crack the.
Speaker 2: Person had been rescued. We should point that out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: set it down and then it turned around and you.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's a doubles there you go. That is what
Speaker 4: else is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: But I'm so glad you asked, because you know you
Speaker 2: you have a home, right, you in a house, you
Speaker 2: live indoors. I do imagine someone trying to steal your home, right,
Speaker 2: but doing it like without like a gun. Right, they
Speaker 2: do it just with paperwork, so not like not.
Speaker 4: Like a big flatbed truck.
Speaker 2: They didn't like lift it up like Russian style. No.
Speaker 2: So this person, by the way, the person who owns
Speaker 2: a home, not you, But I'm talking about the actual factual,
Speaker 2: the intended victim was famous. Someone tried to steal a
Speaker 2: famous person's home, but not only that, this person was
Speaker 2: one of the most famous persons to ever live.
Speaker 4: Interesting.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and
Speaker 5: outrageous capers, heists, and cons It's always ninety nine percent
Speaker 5: murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Oh, Isabeth, Oh Saron. Today, I want to tell you
Speaker 2: about Graceland. You ever heard of it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: You know what is grace like?
Speaker 4: You know, it's Elvis Presley's house in God, what's in Memphis?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Where is it?
Speaker 2: A lot of people make this mistake. I was doing research,
Speaker 2: I was looking into it. I looked it up online
Speaker 2: and Graceland is actually it's the home of Elvis.
Speaker 4: Oh really.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know what I was thinking, And I
Speaker 2: understand Also you probably didn't know this as well. Graceland
Speaker 2: is actually the seventh solo album from Paul Simon.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it's such a good run.
Speaker 2: Yeah. A lot of people get those confused and they're like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'm going to Graceland. I'm like, that's an album.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how I know where it is it is
Speaker 3: a good ALB.
Speaker 2: So you've heard of it, you're familiar.
Speaker 4: I own it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean digitally.
Speaker 4: I think I used to have it on CD.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Does that make me like a boomer boomer?
Speaker 2: Light l t E light Yeah, like light. So anyway,
Speaker 2: what's up with Graceland? The album?
Speaker 4: The album?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: So good?
Speaker 2: Why did Paul Simon name his album after Elvis's house?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a really good question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't have an answer. The album came out with.
Speaker 3: His little commodification of culture totally South Africa.
Speaker 2: What is it? Right? The Appropriation of So album comes
Speaker 2: out August twenty fifth, nineteen eighty six. Right, it's famous for,
Speaker 2: as you point out, how it incorporated the South African
Speaker 2: music styles of em but Coonga and is said Katha Mia.
Speaker 2: I believe or may maybe pronouncing those it wrong. But
Speaker 2: Paul Simon he hears this music Smith Lady Smith's Black
Speaker 2: Mombasa is the band. So those are two genres of
Speaker 2: South African music. Yeah, and then Lady Smith's Black Mambaso
Speaker 2: is the very famous band that is predominantly the band.
Speaker 2: He picks a bunch of different South African musicians among
Speaker 2: them anyway. He's like he hears them, right, He's like,
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, I want to play with them, but
Speaker 2: apartheid's on, right, so he's like, oh, this isn't easy
Speaker 2: to pull off. So this is what this means is
Speaker 2: South Africa denied travel to black musicians, right, They could
Speaker 2: not leave the country, so that often meant people couldn't
Speaker 2: go to the country.
Speaker 3: Also, Paul Simon's like, I ain't going to play some
Speaker 3: city exactly.
Speaker 2: No, I mean I wish that was the case. But
Speaker 2: instead Warner Brothers exactly like, hey, Paul, babe, we work
Speaker 2: with a bunch of South African artists. Rather than just
Speaker 2: getting you one band, Let's hire a bunch of musicians
Speaker 2: and it's cheaper. We'll get them over come over here
Speaker 2: or you go over there. He's like, I'll go to
Speaker 2: South Africa. So he goes to South Africa, does a
Speaker 2: bunch of research, listen to a bunch of bands, writes
Speaker 2: down a bunch of lyrics, ends up only using one
Speaker 2: line from all the lyrics he writes while he's there.
Speaker 2: I'll get that later. Yeah, But the result is the
Speaker 2: Graceland album. Right. So the story is that Paul Simon
Speaker 2: makes the album because you know he was he was
Speaker 2: going through it as an artist. He'd had a bad album,
Speaker 2: his previous album had kind of bonked, and then he'd
Speaker 2: also recently broken up with Kerry Fisher. Now don't ask
Speaker 2: me how a folk singer like Paul Simon was able
Speaker 2: to pull Princess Leah, but I guess carry Fisher like smart, sensitive, funny,
Speaker 2: he writes egotistical men, yes exactly, and professionally, you know,
Speaker 2: as I said, And he was coming off a failed album.
Speaker 2: So maybe she liked him because he was like in
Speaker 2: like a phase of like I need to get back
Speaker 2: on it. Yeah exactly. Who knows, but there he is
Speaker 2: at this point. He's broken up with her, he's split
Speaker 2: up with Art Garfunkel. He's ego brews from his career.
Speaker 2: Then he hears this tape of South African music and
Speaker 2: he listened to it. He starts thinking about Elvis Presley, Okay,
Speaker 2: and his own son where and also where he was
Speaker 2: in his life, and then decides, I'm gonna write some
Speaker 2: songs about this, and he hires him as they told
Speaker 2: you South African musicians. Then he brings in other bands
Speaker 2: not from South Africa, like Los Lobos Mexican band, totally
Speaker 2: big fans, Linda Ronstadt another one also the Everly Brothers.
Speaker 2: Who knows why? Right, and then he releases this. What's
Speaker 2: the reaction it was?
Speaker 4: It was a big hit right.
Speaker 2: Well, for one, I remember I said apartheid was still
Speaker 2: going on, right, So this is at the time when
Speaker 2: the United Nations led a cultural boycott against the Nation
Speaker 2: of South Africa. So what that means for Paul Simon
Speaker 2: is people were big mad at him for working with
Speaker 2: South Africans. Paul Simon was like, they're black, the black ones,
Speaker 2: the ones who were being oppressed. How was this a
Speaker 2: bad thing? Yeah? So people are like, okay, well, maybe
Speaker 2: we'll forgive them. And then some of the people came
Speaker 2: along to like, hey, Paul Simon, you're appropriating the music
Speaker 2: of those South African musicians, which you kind of mentioned before.
Speaker 2: Paul Simon's like, duh, folk singer, what I do songs?
Speaker 2: I'm just not limiting who those people are. And he
Speaker 2: was like, people like, oh, he's got us. And so
Speaker 2: then the album Gracelind comes out becomes a huge success.
Speaker 2: Ye you remember that one? Okay, yeah, this is back
Speaker 2: when MTV played music videos. Do you remember that music video.
Speaker 4: Yeah, with Chevy Chase.
Speaker 2: Yes, and totally Now the videos just the two of
Speaker 2: them sitting there. They got two chairs, a drum stand
Speaker 2: next to Chevy Chase. He does the whole thing. He
Speaker 2: tries to put the glass on it and there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: It goes right through, right. Chevy's mouthing the words hammating
Speaker 2: up like we're talking peach peak Chevy Chase.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now this is also I think before everyone knew, he
Speaker 2: was like a kind of you know, like only Hollywood
Speaker 2: people knew it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they it wasn't publicly known. How absolutely horrible.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you remember the video right, how charming he was.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's just sitting there and he's like all big.
Speaker 4: But they like in linen suits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're like, yeah, like matching kind of like jeans
Speaker 2: and linen suit jackets. Do you remember? Also, did you
Speaker 2: know he was in a band Chevy Chase. No, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like I think the band is called Leather Canary.
Speaker 4: Wait are you making this up?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: You sound like me.
Speaker 2: Called clear Leather. Yeah, no leather. I think it's Leather Canary.
Speaker 4: And his uh he won't like I gross you out.
Speaker 2: Never forgetting that one he he had his other partners
Speaker 2: in this progressive rock band that he was in. They
Speaker 2: he left. He's like, I'm gonna go off and do comedy.
Speaker 2: Good for him. He goes SNL. The other two they quit,
Speaker 2: and you know, they leave the band that he's quit
Speaker 2: and they start their own band. That band becomes Steely.
Speaker 2: Dan chevy Chase was in the O G Steely, so
Speaker 2: chevy Chase anyway. Paul Simon writing songs for this album,
Speaker 2: Braceland album, right. It wasn't easy for Paul Simon, right,
Speaker 2: especially the title song, Braceland Guess song. It took him
Speaker 2: to write the forty years four months, but not quite
Speaker 2: that long. Boy in the Bubble another one took a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 4: Oh that's such a good song, yeah.
Speaker 2: Which is not based on the nineteen seventy six John
Speaker 2: Travolta TV movie Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which I
Speaker 2: had to look up anyway, So I just want to
Speaker 2: clear that up for you, Elizabeth. I know how your
Speaker 2: mind goes. So now you take that song, the Boy
Speaker 2: in the Bubble, do you know? It features a line
Speaker 2: that was inspired by the assassination of JFK and the
Speaker 2: attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan one line.
Speaker 4: I'm trying to think, but right now I've just got
Speaker 4: the line. She makes a sign of a tea spoon,
Speaker 4: she makes a sign of a wave. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 4: get that out of my head right now.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I got some lyrics. So this one is
Speaker 2: the way the camera follows him in slow mo, the
Speaker 2: way he smiled at us all. So that one hits
Speaker 2: it from Boy in the Bubble, right. It was a
Speaker 2: mix of as Paul Simon said, and I quote hope
Speaker 2: and dread. That's right. That's the way I see the world,
Speaker 2: a balance between the two, but coming down on the
Speaker 2: side of hope. That's my world food too, Elizabeth, you
Speaker 2: know that. I mean Paul Simon, who knew Paul Simon
Speaker 2: and I had the same worldview. Anyway, Now, I remember
Speaker 2: remember how I said earlier, but Paul Simon was married
Speaker 2: to Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I also remember how you said something about someone steal
Speaker 4: in the house.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm getting there, don't worry. She makes an
Speaker 2: appearance on the album Graceland. Yeah, okay, on the title
Speaker 2: song Graceland Really Yeah, this line goes she comes back
Speaker 2: to me to tell me she's gone, as if I
Speaker 2: didn't know that, as if I didn't know my bed,
Speaker 2: as if i'd ever noticed the way she'd brushed her
Speaker 2: hair from her fore head right. So, I guess Carrie
Speaker 2: Fisher used to brush her hair at the foot of the.
Speaker 4: Best the only person in the world who.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean she was. I guess it's really common
Speaker 2: for anyway, whatever, who knows. So at this point we
Speaker 2: got apartheid South Africa, Princess Leah, Ronald Reagan, the assassination
Speaker 2: of JFK, and Chevy Chase. This album is so eighties.
Speaker 4: This is so eighties, heavy eighties Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: I forgot to tell you why Paul Simon called the
Speaker 2: album Graceland. I didn't have an answer. I lied, I
Speaker 2: do have an answer. So while he recorded the album,
Speaker 2: he used to write random words like he liked phrases
Speaker 2: that sounded good, and he hopes some connecting theme for
Speaker 2: the album would emerge from his like yo legal pad phrases,
Speaker 2: shout out yo legal pads right now, the phrase Elizabeth
Speaker 2: was driving through wasteland, that's the phrase he loved, and
Speaker 2: so over the course of the recording the album, he
Speaker 2: changes that to going to Graceland and boom for real.
Speaker 2: That was the magic phrase, just like that History's main album.
Speaker 2: I'm like, you know, we've been talking about the lyrics,
Speaker 2: so you've had some in your head, the ones I
Speaker 2: Love from Graceland. My traveling companion is nine years old.
Speaker 2: He is the child of my first marriage. But I've
Speaker 2: reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: I'm going to Graceland, Graceland.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's beautiful, right, because you have if you
Speaker 3: take it out of context of Elvis, you know, just
Speaker 3: the whole notion of grace first of fall. Linguistically it
Speaker 3: sounds total, but the concept is beautiful, the whole land
Speaker 3: of grace that can be bestowed upon you and you
Speaker 3: can bestow upon you.
Speaker 2: Take your child there. Yeah, it's beautiful, and you can
Speaker 2: guarantee he will be received there too. I mean yeah.
Speaker 2: So also, I said, he direct quoted Carrie Fisher earlier,
Speaker 2: I kind of mentioned I forgot to tell you she's
Speaker 2: got the best line in his song. Right. So the
Speaker 2: section goes the way she brushed her hair from her
Speaker 2: forehead and she said, losing love is like a window
Speaker 2: in your heart. Everybody sees you're blown apart. Everybody sees
Speaker 2: the wind blow. I'm going to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 3: See this is why you're like, Okay, I can see
Speaker 3: why Carrie.
Speaker 4: Fishers this guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's beautify see why he loves carry Fisher.
Speaker 3: Well, sure, of course questions quoting him, that's true, that's true.
Speaker 2: But it's like she's a badass, word all around bad ass.
Speaker 4: Oh god, she's a great she was a great writ.
Speaker 2: Writers, amazing writing, right r I p Kerry Fisher.
Speaker 3: You know, I just to be so moved by words,
Speaker 3: it's like such a gift, you know.
Speaker 2: It recommends the sensitivity.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, I brought all this up to say, Elizabeth today,
Speaker 2: just like my man Paul Simon, we're going down to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been? I never have.
Speaker 4: I've never been to the parking lot of Graceland.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, you went to the parking lot? What were
Speaker 2: you guys? Were you guys barred from going in?
Speaker 4: It's a long kind of it's a long story.
Speaker 2: Were you wearing punk rockettire? Like you can't come in?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Were you like, like what happened is.
Speaker 4: Talk about it?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I'm gonna ask you this later. But okay,
Speaker 2: I haven't been either inside. I been to the parking lot.
Speaker 2: I'd like to go, mostly because you know, I want
Speaker 2: to see the people who go to Graceland.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently it's still like a million visitors go there
Speaker 2: every Yeah, that's like three thousand that is a day, basically.
Speaker 2: People are they still love hitting up Graceland. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: one of the five most visited homes in the US,
Speaker 2: second only to the White the White House.
Speaker 4: Imagine, I want to the other give me the three
Speaker 4: four and five.
Speaker 2: I'm sure the Vanderbilt House, you know, yeah, right, and
Speaker 2: San Simeon I figet that's got to be up there,
Speaker 2: and Falling Rock, you know, oh, the Franklin right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: like I figured some Lloyd Wright house has got to
Speaker 2: be up there. These are just guesses. I didn't check
Speaker 2: out house from Friday, of course. Yeah, house for Friday.
Speaker 4: Come on, the full house houses.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you don't really visit the houses. You just
Speaker 2: at them.
Speaker 4: You just stare up there.
Speaker 2: The painted ladies ladies. Okay, So Graceland brings in one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy five million
Speaker 2: dollars a year to the greater Memphis area. It was
Speaker 2: the first thing to really bring attention to Memphis apparently. Anyway,
Speaker 2: do you know what it looks like? I'm just talking
Speaker 2: about it? Did you know? All White Southern mansion? The truth?
Speaker 3: I was driving across country and I had my I
Speaker 3: was moving, I had my dogs in the car, and
Speaker 3: it like didn't dawn on me till I got in
Speaker 3: the parking lot. I can't leave these dogs in the car.
Speaker 3: Wo check this place out. And then I was like,
Speaker 3: had this moment where I just like rethought things.
Speaker 4: I'm like, do I really.
Speaker 2: Do I even care about going to.
Speaker 3: Give a toss about it? Like not really, It's just
Speaker 3: sort of something that you're suppo to.
Speaker 4: I've been there. I'm going to Graceland Graceland.
Speaker 2: To see No.
Speaker 4: So I just peeled out.
Speaker 2: Dogs, let the glass dogs, let's roll. Yeah. So at
Speaker 2: this point, Elizabeth, I'll just tell you a little bit
Speaker 2: about it, since you haven't seen it, Nora have Yeah,
Speaker 2: the place. It was built after the Civil War. So,
Speaker 2: and it was also not built to replace some plantation
Speaker 2: mansion that General Sherman burned down on his way to
Speaker 2: Savannah and the Sea. Grace Land was built in nineteen
Speaker 2: thirty nine. Yeah. Original owners were Ruth Brown Moore and
Speaker 2: Thomas D. Moore. They named the mansion after her aunt Grace,
Speaker 2: the woman who'd owned the land. Thus Grace.
Speaker 4: Oh really.
Speaker 2: Elvis bought the mansion in nineteen fifty seven. You see,
Speaker 2: Elvis was in the family at this point. He had
Speaker 2: a young wife, Priscilla, Yeah, and a young daughter, Lisa Marie,
Speaker 2: and together they made Graceland into the landmark that it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: today you don't have like gardens and arts and stuff.
Speaker 2: We'll get into it. You can find it located at
Speaker 2: three seven sixty three Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 2: Bring your family.
Speaker 4: I like Memphis.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've enjoyed it Deel Street. Yeah, Elizabeth, now
Speaker 2: that we've kind of sorted out Graceland from Graceland and
Speaker 2: we got to know the lay of the land, take
Speaker 2: a little break for something warm, delicious, ads, and I'll
Speaker 2: tell you about the ridiculous crimes that went down to Graceland.
Speaker 6: Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, and we're back.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth. Hey, buddy, now I promised you a trip down
Speaker 2: to Graceland.
Speaker 4: You certainly did.
Speaker 2: With or without Paul Simon. Okay, we're going without. Okay. Now,
Speaker 2: I gotta say, I'm kind of surprised we have yet
Speaker 2: to recover Elvis Presley on Ridiculous Crime.
Speaker 4: I'm well, oh yeah, I was gonna say up until
Speaker 4: now and.
Speaker 3: Then yeah, no, I mean I feel like he's got
Speaker 3: all sorts of like a satellite system of crimes around him.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, dude, the Memphis Mafia boys who basically
Speaker 2: are always like getting his drugs, his women buying Cadillacs
Speaker 2: for him. They're just like a floating ring of crime. Anyway, Uh,
Speaker 2: the dude, as they pointed out, ridiculous criminal. My pop
Speaker 2: loves Elvis. Do you know this?
Speaker 4: Really?
Speaker 2: He named his dog Elvis, like he loves him a
Speaker 2: black hound dogs. I named him Elvis's interesting. So I
Speaker 2: know me some. Elvis is what I'm trying to tell you.
Speaker 2: My black nationalist father. So I watched his movies, listen
Speaker 2: to his albums, the rock ones, the rock and roll albums,
Speaker 2: and the gospel albums. I know him both. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: and I've watched Elvis's comeback Special in Vegas multiple times.
Speaker 4: When he has like the jumpsuit.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. And he's also like on the stage that's
Speaker 2: singing to the girls.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I was born in the South, right, so
Speaker 2: you know, Elvis has long been a presence in my
Speaker 2: life much since I was been born. Elvis has been
Speaker 2: the King, Yeah, whether I liked it or not. Now,
Speaker 2: growing up out here in the West, far from Graceland's
Speaker 2: advertising and the legend of the King, what do you
Speaker 2: know about Elvis as a cultural presence, influence, movie star,
Speaker 2: og rock star, and all around cultural force.
Speaker 3: I never really got into Elvis, I mean way before
Speaker 3: my time.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but like growing up as a figure.
Speaker 3: It wasn't he wasn't Like no one in my family
Speaker 3: listened to Elvis and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and no one in college wanted to go watch
Speaker 2: like one of his old movies on a lark.
Speaker 4: No, though, there's probably like some rockabilly folks.
Speaker 2: Who it's kind of guessing, but you gotta have to
Speaker 2: age into rockabilly, I think totally did you start punking
Speaker 2: age into rock?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Know, it's just sort of like I'm aware of Elvis,
Speaker 3: you know, just in terms of the history of rock
Speaker 3: and roll and speaking of cultural.
Speaker 4: And say hound dog. Yeah, but no, I just I've
Speaker 4: always kind of thought.
Speaker 2: He was a little corny, really corny. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 2: the word I'd used for it, but I totally can
Speaker 2: see that from you guys would have that. I imagine, not
Speaker 2: like a looking down on the South, but he's very
Speaker 2: much that South. Like he is corny as you would say. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean he's not like corny, you know, like how
Speaker 2: there's a lot more this is beneath Elvis. There's plenty
Speaker 2: of corn.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of merchandise around Elvis.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, they just the whole thing about the malls.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you all about it in a second. Do you
Speaker 2: know about the time that Elvis showed up that Nixon's
Speaker 2: White House is zooted out of his mind on Doctor
Speaker 2: feel Good's Finest Wonder Pills.
Speaker 4: I feel like I have a vague notion of it.
Speaker 2: And Elvis he goes there because he wants to meet
Speaker 2: the president, and he goes there because he wants to
Speaker 2: become an official federal agent at large.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he wanted to like be a dea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like a rock and roll g man. Basically, the
Speaker 2: story goes a few days. It's a few days before Christmas,
Speaker 2: December twenty first, nineteen seventy, Elvis Presley, he goes to
Speaker 2: the White House for a noontime meeting with President Richard Nixon.
Speaker 2: Now at this point, you got to keep this in mind.
Speaker 2: These are two of the most powerful and famous men
Speaker 2: in the world, and neither has like anything tarnishing them.
Speaker 2: At this point, Nixon is elected with a mandate to
Speaker 2: calm down the widening divisions in the violence in the
Speaker 2: US falling sixty eight. Elvis is coming off his comeback
Speaker 2: special also sixty eight. So now he's doing a comeback tour,
Speaker 2: selling out concerts everywhere. They're both cresting, is what I'm
Speaker 2: trying to say. Yeah, so both men beloved Americans nineteen seventy.
Speaker 2: Now this lead for the normy. So let's just say
Speaker 2: right now, things are never what the normies believe them
Speaker 2: to be. Because when Elvis shows up at the White
Speaker 2: House for a noon exactly, he's armed with a cult
Speaker 2: forty five pistol.
Speaker 4: He's warning brought a gun into the White House, totally wearing.
Speaker 2: A full on purple velvet jumpsuit but decked with enormous
Speaker 2: gold belt that looks like he's just won the Intercontinental
Speaker 2: Championship of the WWE.
Speaker 4: Elizabeth Velvet jumpsuit.
Speaker 2: He walks into the Elvis and he hands President Nixon
Speaker 2: a personal letter that explains his visit. And it's written
Speaker 2: in like child script, like child handwriting. Oh my god, Yes,
Speaker 2: he's thirty five years old at point. Elvis is thirty
Speaker 2: five years old right now, he said, and I quote
Speaker 2: in the letter, I've done an in depth study of
Speaker 2: drug use and communist brainwashing techniques, and I'm right in
Speaker 2: the middle of the whole thing where I can and
Speaker 2: we'll do the most good.
Speaker 4: He is right in the middle.
Speaker 2: He's got the control.
Speaker 4: Now, mister, like you know, pharmacy rolls up.
Speaker 2: Exactly I got. I want to get the I want
Speaker 2: to keep the kids off of the drugs I need.
Speaker 2: So Elvis shows up asking if he can get a
Speaker 2: real de A badge, but the DEA didn't exist at
Speaker 2: this time. Is called the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Speaker 2: So Elvis he wants to be named an official federal
Speaker 2: Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drum. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So why did Elvis want to be official drug cops
Speaker 2: so bad? Did he want early access to the drugs.
Speaker 2: Did you want to be able to confiscate drugs, like.
Speaker 4: Give me those drugs, like I'll just bust like the
Speaker 4: big drug dens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then just take their bugis boys, Elvis came
Speaker 2: through and seized my drugs, flashed the badge.
Speaker 4: Drug velvet jumps Did he.
Speaker 2: Want to get out of jail free card? Is that
Speaker 2: where he could say, oh, these drugs that I have
Speaker 2: it for research? Like say he gets popped, right, wink wink,
Speaker 2: you go on, officer one of you guys.
Speaker 4: You we went commando in the jumps in the velvet.
Speaker 2: You're stuck jumpsuit. Yeah, I'm thinking he probably wore underwear
Speaker 2: with his name on it.
Speaker 4: It had to be so sweaty.
Speaker 2: Oh it's open, so it's open chest. Remember these are
Speaker 2: like open chests like he's got Yeah, like it it's
Speaker 2: a jumpsuits. It's not like skin tight. I don't want
Speaker 2: I want you to think it more like how James
Speaker 2: brownl No.
Speaker 3: No, it's kind of think of its velvet.
Speaker 2: Think of it like a Sanza belt suit, you know,
Speaker 2: like the seventies, So like it's all one connected. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and then the v's out from like the belly button.
Speaker 2: And goes up to the lapels, so you kind of
Speaker 2: got an open chest area to ventilate. I got and
Speaker 2: then also to show off your like plumage or whatever
Speaker 2: you want or like probably a big medallion most like.
Speaker 4: It makes sense. Yeah, all right, can they get you
Speaker 4: one of those jumpsuits?
Speaker 2: I have an Elvis jumpsuit that I ordered online that
Speaker 2: I wear around the house. No, it's two pieces. I
Speaker 2: need to get one. I need to get one piece.
Speaker 2: That the only thing I could find online.
Speaker 4: The butt flap like a union. Anyway, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: The reason why Elvis wanted his badge is he really
Speaker 2: liked badges.
Speaker 4: Stinking badges.
Speaker 2: I need those stinking badges. It's Accordion's ex wife, Priscilla Presley.
Speaker 2: She wrote a memoir about their life together called Fittingly
Speaker 2: Elvis and Me, and she said in it, I quote,
Speaker 2: the nark badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him.
Speaker 2: So there was another part, though, the part I suspected
Speaker 2: Elvis wanted to get out of jail free card right. So,
Speaker 2: as Priscilla Presley also put in her memoir and I quote,
Speaker 2: once again, with the federal narcotics badge, he believed he
Speaker 2: could legally enter any country, both wearing guns and carry
Speaker 2: any drugs.
Speaker 3: He wished, Well, you know I have a badge.
Speaker 2: I know you do. You got a special investigator badge.
Speaker 4: It's like a real badge. Yeah, investigator.
Speaker 3: Someday I'm gonna whip it out at like a crime
Speaker 3: scene and be like, all right, tell me everything.
Speaker 2: I can't believe. It'll carry around you, on you all
Speaker 2: the time, just floating.
Speaker 4: I'll get arrested.
Speaker 2: As long as you don't say I'm a cop. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: you're fine.
Speaker 4: People like what what's happening here?
Speaker 2: Just don't say I'm a copper, I'm an officer of law,
Speaker 2: or I'm with the police, any of that you're asking.
Speaker 2: Just start asking questions like your Columbo just come in, Yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah those listen.
Speaker 4: Do you this?
Speaker 2: This is what worked for me. I can't pull it
Speaker 2: would work. So at this point we got Elvis. He
Speaker 2: comes into Nixon, right, he goes to Nixon. He's in
Speaker 2: his office. He's in the Oval office in his purple
Speaker 2: jumpsuit with his forty five pistol, and he says, can
Speaker 2: the King get a badge or what? Now? We've already
Speaker 2: covered Watergate, and so do you remember how he said,
Speaker 2: Nixon was recording everything in his oval office. Well, this
Speaker 2: happened to be just before the tape system was secretly
Speaker 2: installed all the things from Nixon's hitehouse. We do not
Speaker 2: have transcripts of Elvis and Nixon meeting. All we have
Speaker 2: is one aid wrote down a memo and records all
Speaker 2: the events. So I'm going to read quotes from the memo, right, please,
Speaker 2: the Elvis. According to this aid, Elvis was bragging about
Speaker 2: his powers to affect and persuade the youth of America.
Speaker 2: He wanted President Nixon, who he didn't think understood who
Speaker 2: he really was, Yeah, to understand his powers. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he may be president, but I'm Elvis. Yeah, exactly, And
Speaker 2: I quote Presley responded that he did his thing just
Speaker 2: boss singing. He said that he could not get to
Speaker 2: the kids if he made a speech on the stage,
Speaker 2: that he had to reach them in his own way.
Speaker 2: The President nodded in agreement. Now we also know Elvis
Speaker 2: bad mouth the Beatles to Nixon. I think it's to
Speaker 2: getting Nixon's good side. I don't know. Apparently, he said
Speaker 2: he thought the Beatles had been a real force for
Speaker 2: anti American spirit. He said that the Beatles came to
Speaker 2: this country, made their money, and then returned to England,
Speaker 2: where they promoted an anti American theme. The President nodded
Speaker 2: in agreement and expressed some surprise whatever, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: But I like, how if you read this moment makes
Speaker 2: it sounds like Elvis is in there just flying high,
Speaker 2: grinding his jaw sideways, and Nixon's the reasonable one, just
Speaker 2: nodding along with well, of course, Elvis, of course el
Speaker 2: el of a sudden, he's trapped in a men's room
Speaker 2: with a cooke head, and it was like, oh, Elvis,
Speaker 2: you know anyway, Nixon he lays out his plan for
Speaker 2: criminalizing drugs and associating them with the student protesters, the
Speaker 2: urban youth, the black kids who were also protesting, for
Speaker 2: like basically all the kids of color are protesting, and
Speaker 2: he's like, oh, if I get all of them tarnished
Speaker 2: with drugs, we could come in.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: He's telling this the Elvis before he's become national policy.
Speaker 2: He's like, what do you think, Elvis? Now, Elvis is
Speaker 2: going a my limit at this point, right, So he
Speaker 2: sticks to his old anti American screed, the aid documented
Speaker 2: in the memo, and I quote again Pressley indicated to
Speaker 2: the President in a very emotional manner that he was
Speaker 2: on your side. Presley kept repeating that he wanted to
Speaker 2: be helpful, and he added that he was quote just
Speaker 2: a poor boy from Tennessee who had gotten a lot
Speaker 2: from this country, which in some ways he wanted to repay.
Speaker 2: So other than doing drugs legally with his special badge
Speaker 2: and carrying guns through airports, how did Elvis want to
Speaker 2: repay the country? Elizabeth?
Speaker 4: Very good question.
Speaker 2: It's a great question. I'm asked that totally.
Speaker 4: It was like on the tip of my tongue for
Speaker 4: the lot, like for days.
Speaker 2: I saw it there like ring, like it's.
Speaker 4: Going to getting in the way of a lot.
Speaker 2: Well, Elvis told Nixon he was particularly skilled at spotting
Speaker 2: a commie. Yeah, the memo says, and I quote Elvis
Speaker 2: quote also mentioned that he is studying communist brainwashing in
Speaker 2: the drug culture for over ten years, and he brags
Speaker 2: how the hippie kids love him. He said he could
Speaker 2: go right into like with young people or hippies and
Speaker 2: he'd be accepted, which he felt could be helpful to
Speaker 2: him in his drug drive. The President indicated again his
Speaker 2: concern that Presley retained his credibility. No, Elvis, Come on,
Speaker 2: Elvis is so high talking that the President of the
Speaker 2: United States at noon a couple of days before Christmas,
Speaker 2: and Nixon's like, I don't want you to lose your
Speaker 2: cool with the kids. Elvis, Yeah, exactly. So when Elvis
Speaker 2: then surprises Nixon, he puts his arm around him, kind
Speaker 2: of half hugging him.
Speaker 4: The sweats sweat stain.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine? He flashes at ten thousand Vegas, comeback mego,
Speaker 2: Watts smile right. Photographer snaps a photo. That photo, Elizabeth
Speaker 2: is the most requested photograph ever from the entire US archive. Really, yes,
Speaker 2: and Elvis did indeed get his badge to be a
Speaker 2: federal agent at large. However, the badge was not official,
Speaker 2: It was purely honorary, but Elvis was convinced it was real,
Speaker 2: so he acted as if he was now state sponsored
Speaker 2: rock and roll karate master and freelance federal drug agent.
Speaker 2: By the way, there's a movie of the infamous meeting
Speaker 2: between Michael between Elvis and Nixon. It stars Michael Shannon
Speaker 2: as Elvis, which if you can stomach the Kevin Spacey
Speaker 2: as Nixon, then it's worth the price of admission alone.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like a scales there on that one. Anyway,
Speaker 2: he plays Michael Shannon's amazing. He plays Elvis as this
Speaker 2: feral rock star with like a kid's mind and a
Speaker 2: man's gun collection. It's really wild, right. So anyway, this
Speaker 2: brings us to the crimes Elvis committed at Graceland. You'd
Speaker 2: wait as long enough, Elizabeth, Yes, if you didn't know it.
Speaker 2: The parties at Graceland are somewhat legends. I can imagine, right,
Speaker 2: the stories told. They made a series of memoirs from
Speaker 2: anyone who seemed to be there at the time. There
Speaker 2: are so many books about Elvis from people who are
Speaker 2: like I was there, I was a secretary, I was
Speaker 2: a neighbor, I was a barber. I used to give
Speaker 2: them drugs, you know, like whoever did anything. But his
Speaker 2: main circle was called the Memphis Mafia. This was primarily
Speaker 2: a group of cousins, like Elvis's cousins and friends that
Speaker 2: he grew up with that surrounded the king. These are
Speaker 2: the ones who would go out and they would buy
Speaker 2: like ten cadillacts because Elvis wanted a new car. They
Speaker 2: would go out and get drugs from the Memphis scene,
Speaker 2: go get girls, from the club. One of them is
Speaker 2: like a radio DJ, so they're all like able to
Speaker 2: work their different angles.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also at this point he also has his wife
Speaker 2: Priscilla because he gets married young so or relatively young.
Speaker 2: And they're also all the women who are around him,
Speaker 2: all the secretary. So all these people are writing books, right,
Speaker 2: So according to all of them, the party start in
Speaker 2: fifty seven when he buys Graceland and George Klein he's
Speaker 2: the radio DJ. He wrote a memoir in twenty ten
Speaker 2: called Elvis My best Man. I guess he was the
Speaker 2: best man at his wedding. Is my guest? I guess
Speaker 2: that's probably the cover photo book. Look into it. I
Speaker 2: didn't care anyway. It's George Clin radio DJ. So he
Speaker 2: has the angles on the girls, right, So he was
Speaker 2: responsible for bringing them to Graceland. And as he writes,
Speaker 2: Elvis and his boys may have liked to be surrounded
Speaker 2: by beautiful girls, but boys being boys, they often played
Speaker 2: with each other. What I mean by that is Elvis
Speaker 2: may have liked pills. He did, but he didn't like
Speaker 2: to smoke, pod or get drunk. They didn't keep any
Speaker 2: booze in the house for the most part. There was
Speaker 2: no beer, no wine, no liquor. I yeah, no pot,
Speaker 2: no booze, no liquor. So George Klein put it, quote,
Speaker 2: there were nights where the oldest thing that happened was
Speaker 2: having Elvis lead us through a game of Name that Tune,
Speaker 2: wild parties Elizabeth. Now, these guys weren't choir boys, though,
Speaker 2: they were still the entourage of a very famous man,
Speaker 2: so they would act out accordingly. And that also meant
Speaker 2: they would bring folks to Graceland. And then they had
Speaker 2: to lay down the rules of like how to act
Speaker 2: around Elvis. So the DJ amateur matchmaker, George Klein, he said,
Speaker 2: and I quote, I told them to keep things positive.
Speaker 2: I'd seen people try to act cool around Elvis by
Speaker 2: having a negative, critical attitude. He never responded well to that. Also,
Speaker 2: you would tell him, don't assume you can. You can't
Speaker 2: say anything nice to him because you think he's probably
Speaker 2: heard it before. He didn't want to hear anything phony.
Speaker 2: But he was only human and was always enjoying hearing compliments.
Speaker 2: So there you go a bunch of fawning like Siica fans,
Speaker 2: hanging around, not drunk, not doing anything, playing Name that
Speaker 2: Tune and going girls, are you having a fun time?
Speaker 2: So Graceland, right, the gates of the mansion, they had
Speaker 2: this very famous iconic guitar themed iron gates like music notes,
Speaker 2: and yeah, exactly music notes. So, according to one of
Speaker 2: the Memphis Mafia, this dude, Marty Lacker, one day Elvis
Speaker 2: decided he'd do some redecorating. Right, So the year's nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty two at this point, still very young man. Elvis
Speaker 2: hired his cousin. Because he's hired all of his cousins.
Speaker 2: They all live in the area from Tupelo, Mississippi, so
Speaker 2: he's like, yeah, come on up to Memphis. So he's
Speaker 2: hired one of his cousins to work the gate as
Speaker 2: a security guard on the night shift. So it's a
Speaker 2: warm summer night Elvis in the Memphis Mafia. They went
Speaker 2: to town to watch a movie. They come back to
Speaker 2: Graceland around three four in the morning. Must have been
Speaker 2: a long movie. So the cousin isn't there, right, he
Speaker 2: isn't manning the gate. At this point, Elvis has yet
Speaker 2: to switch to Cadillacs. He's now driving a sixty three
Speaker 2: Buick Riviera. Okay, beautiful convertible car. Behind the wheel Elvis
Speaker 2: gets impatient, so he lays on the horn right, And
Speaker 2: I forgot to tell you it wasn't just Elvis and
Speaker 2: the Memphis Mafia in his convertible Buick Riviera. I don't
Speaker 2: want you to picture the wrong thing. There were some
Speaker 2: other people with them. There was a train of fifteen
Speaker 2: cars behind Elvis's car, a convoy, all waiting to get
Speaker 2: into Graceland. He brought back fifteen car. Yeah, they went
Speaker 2: out to a movie back with fifteen cars. Elvis gonna
Speaker 2: starts to get irritated because he's showing off for these
Speaker 2: fifteen cars and nobody's opening up grace exactly. So what's
Speaker 2: he do? He backs that Buick Riviera up with the
Speaker 2: boys in the Memphis Mafia. And apparently there's a highway
Speaker 2: that used to runs right there in front of the gate,
Speaker 2: or like a big Southern high So yeah, so he runs,
Speaker 2: he backs up and then floors it. Elvis floors it.
Speaker 2: Oh you better believe it. Has lacquer recalled it. Quote
Speaker 2: Elvis tore the hell out of those gates. He also
Speaker 2: damages up the hell out of that Buick Rivierra. And
Speaker 2: I quote because as the gates swung open, hit the curb.
Speaker 2: They flew back and slapped the sides of the buick.
Speaker 2: Hearing all this commotion, the cousin wakes up, comes running down,
Speaker 2: and Elvis yells at him, from now on, those gates
Speaker 2: better open when I get there. So new, Now we
Speaker 2: got vehicular mayhem. Right, that's just one thing. Boys being boys.
Speaker 2: I told you, right. What about Elvis in all those guns? Elizabeth? Yeah,
Speaker 2: he like the Thankfully these guys don't drink so anyway,
Speaker 2: that's true. But they are boys. They had guns, so
Speaker 2: they said, let's do some shooting practice. Now. Becky Yancey,
Speaker 2: she was a secretary. He used to answer Elvis Presley's
Speaker 2: fan mail. She did that job for thirteen years, starting
Speaker 2: in March of sixty two, lasting until July seventy five.
Speaker 2: He dies in seventy seven.
Speaker 4: This stuff she must have read.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. She also wrote a book, so if
Speaker 2: you want to read about it, Elizabeth, really, but my goodness,
Speaker 2: my life with my life with Elvis, with Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: My life, that's your book.
Speaker 2: That's my book. Yes, so we found this. I guess
Speaker 2: this is another surefire way to become an author. You
Speaker 2: do a crime, go to prison, come out a writer. Yeah,
Speaker 2: or the friend, assumeer super famous person and then tell
Speaker 2: all their dirt and slicious gossip. Well, whatever it is, you.
Speaker 4: Have be a snitch.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyways, she, as you put it, saw it all. Now,
Speaker 2: what was all, Elizabeth?
Speaker 3: I am terrified, like just a bunch of guys running around,
Speaker 3: all alluded to the gills.
Speaker 4: Exactly, firing guns in their underpants.
Speaker 2: So one day it works, She and another secretary they
Speaker 2: hear this quote a series of short, sharp explosions. Now
Speaker 2: the two women they leap for the floor, They hide
Speaker 2: under their desk. Then the walls around them start to deteriorate.
Speaker 2: Women suspect his gunfire. They're from the South, They're like, oh,
Speaker 2: these are bullet holes.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So, as she put it, quote, ragged chips, some as
Speaker 2: large as dollar bills, other the size of needles, and
Speaker 2: equally sharp showered the room like so much wooden confetti.
Speaker 2: What was the deal, Elizabeth?
Speaker 4: What was the deal?
Speaker 2: Elizabeth? Elvis and the Memphis Mafia had pulled out their
Speaker 2: three fifty seven magnum and were shooting it at the
Speaker 2: old Well House, which happened to be right connected to
Speaker 2: where the secretary's office was.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, they could have killed that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had. The boys had slapped up a target
Speaker 2: that she had the shape of a man, and they
Speaker 2: were dotting the man with holes and they were not
Speaker 2: apparently the best shots.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the adjoining secretary's office just starts getting peppered
Speaker 2: with bullets. If they had been in the bathroom at
Speaker 2: the time, mm hmm. Elvis's game fun with gun ranges,
Speaker 2: it would have probably ventilated either woman, right, Oh, no,
Speaker 2: one of them. Her husband. She he came to Graceland
Speaker 2: to pick her up, right, he said, If you were
Speaker 2: paul Lette had been hit by one of those bullets,
Speaker 2: your head would have exploded like watermelons. Those guys had
Speaker 2: to be crazy to be doing that with two women
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 4: Did you go and yell at Elvis about it?
Speaker 2: Then? Didn't do that? I didn't even see that in
Speaker 2: the story. Now, Elvis and his boys did not stop
Speaker 2: this because in New Year's Eve, Elvis fired so many
Speaker 2: bullets at that same wellhouse that the damn thing caught
Speaker 2: fire the house.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Just before midnight in New Year's Eve, Elvis sent one
Speaker 2: of the Memphis Mafia into the main house to get
Speaker 2: the big guns. Right as Becky the Secretary's puts it.
Speaker 2: They're Baars Browning automatic rifles. They're in the next big thing,
Speaker 2: the machine guns. So right at the stroke of midnight,
Speaker 2: elvis fire is the first shot with the Browning, and
Speaker 2: then all the others in Memphis Mafia they follow suit
Speaker 2: and they all unload on this well house together. Becky
Speaker 2: watches the gunfire from the safety of a window view
Speaker 2: as she tells Elizabeth, Elvis, his body bucking and jerking
Speaker 2: as he held the bar under one arm, fired twenty
Speaker 2: five or thirty rounds into the Whitehouse in less than
Speaker 2: a minute. Chunks of the clay targets flew in every direction,
Speaker 2: and the White House started to burn. Stop don't burn
Speaker 2: the office down. I need my job now. At this point,
Speaker 2: Elvis's father, Vernon runs out of the house because he
Speaker 2: lives there, and he tries to put out the fire
Speaker 2: with his that his full grown son is lit with
Speaker 2: his buddies. He doesn't bring any water with him, so
Speaker 2: what does he do? He also doesn't turn on the hose. Nope,
Speaker 2: what do you do? He takes off his jacket and
Speaker 2: starts slapping at the flames with his jacket. It's like
Speaker 2: a truck driver's idea. I don't know his son, Elvis
Speaker 2: yells at him. Oh, hell, daddy, let it burn. It's
Speaker 2: only money. Oh my goodness, So the well house that
Speaker 2: was just the price to pay for Elvis and his
Speaker 2: boys have some semi sober fun on Near's eve. Elizabeth, Okay,
Speaker 2: now that we've covered a little semi yeah, the mostly
Speaker 2: legal fund that Elvis had. Agree, let's take a little break,
Speaker 2: crack open some fresh ads. When we get back, I'll
Speaker 2: tell you about Elvis shooting TVs and uh oh yeah,
Speaker 2: someone trying to steal Graceland.
Speaker 7: Oh Elizabeth, Hey, buddy, you ready for some more Elvis
Speaker 7: and Graceland.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, Paul Simon. Sorry, anyway, we've been talking Elvis, Graceland.
Speaker 2: They have the best for last. Yes.
Speaker 4: Please.
Speaker 2: Have you ever heard stories that Elvis kept a wall
Speaker 2: of TVs in Graceland, that sometimes he'd watch them at once,
Speaker 2: and then if he didn't like somebody, he'd shoot out
Speaker 2: the TV. It's a very famous story, right. Is this
Speaker 2: story true? Is it fact? Is it fiction? Is it
Speaker 2: part of the legend.
Speaker 4: I say it's true.
Speaker 2: I looked into it. I have answers for you, and Elizabeth.
Speaker 2: I'd like you to close your up my eyes, and
Speaker 2: I'd like you to picture it. Elizabeth. It's a warm
Speaker 2: spring night. The date is May twenty fifth, nineteen sixty five,
Speaker 2: and at the moment, you're seated on a white leather couch,
Speaker 2: sipping on a sweet tea as you watch at the
Speaker 2: time large screen twenty five inch TV. It's not your choice,
Speaker 2: but you're watching the heavyweight boxing championship rematch between Muhammad
Speaker 2: Ali and Sonny Listen, and you're not alone. There are
Speaker 2: a few friends and hangers on with you. They like
Speaker 2: you are the guests of the King. And by the king,
Speaker 2: of course, I mean Elvis Presley. That's right, Elizabeth. You're
Speaker 2: watching one of the most famous fights in boxing history,
Speaker 2: and you're watching it with Elvis at Graceland. You are
Speaker 2: living a peak moment of the twentieth century. As the
Speaker 2: hangers on giggle and laugh and the boys from the
Speaker 2: Memphis Mafia laugh and get not drunk. You notice Priscilla Presley,
Speaker 2: Elvis's wife, come into the room with their young daughter,
Speaker 2: Lisa Marie, the five year old. The heavyweight fight has
Speaker 2: yet to start. At the moment, the actor singer Robert
Speaker 2: Goulai is singing The Star Spangled banner and it's not
Speaker 2: going well watching it. Elvis speaks up and says, you
Speaker 2: got a lovely voice, but there's no feeling there. It's
Speaker 2: like vocally, you can sing an opera and you have
Speaker 2: to have feelings in your voice like you're talking. You're
Speaker 2: not along. Elvis makes good points. The Memphis Mafia Boys
Speaker 2: offers him Hallelujahs to the King, seconding his opinion. You
Speaker 2: sort of humble along in your head as you listen
Speaker 2: to Robert Gulay croon the tune of the National anthem.
Speaker 2: Then he gets to the words by the Don's Early Light,
Speaker 2: and you hear him sing by the Downs early night
Speaker 2: night that doesn't even make sense, By the Dons Early Night.
Speaker 2: You see Elvis grumble to himself too. You seem to
Speaker 2: both agree he's just as annoyed by the mistake and
Speaker 2: lyrics as you are. Then Robert Gulay does it again.
Speaker 2: Instead of singing Gave Proof through the Night, Gulay sings
Speaker 2: gave Proof through the Fight. You roll your eyes at
Speaker 2: that one. Elvis grumbles. Now he's pissed off and he
Speaker 2: isn't letting it go. You see a flash of metal.
Speaker 2: Elvis whips out a three point fifty seven magnum handgun,
Speaker 2: and he shouts at the TV, you learn the words
Speaker 2: of our national anthem usob and he squeezes the trigger.
Speaker 2: The gun dark explames, A bullet screams through the air,
Speaker 2: and he shatters the TV. A couple of young women
Speaker 2: seated with the Memphis Mafia boy scream startled by the gunfire.
Speaker 2: You saw it coming, so you're not as terrified. But
Speaker 2: you notice Priscilla and Lisa Marie are entirely non played.
Speaker 2: They have seen this plenty of times. It's like it's
Speaker 2: a remote control for him. Elvis says to his Memphis
Speaker 2: Mafia boys, take it to the graveyard. One of the
Speaker 2: boys dutifully hops up unplugs the TV. A second guy
Speaker 2: brings in a fresh twenty five inch TV and plugs
Speaker 2: it in. He changes the channel and finds the muhammadad
Speaker 2: Li Sonny Liston fight. Thankfully, Robert hu Leigh is gone.
Speaker 2: The boxers are being introduced silently. You make a little
Speaker 2: wish that muhammadad Lee and Sonny Liston don't do anything
Speaker 2: to piss off Elvis. And then you hear little Lisa
Speaker 2: Marie ask her daddy why he shot out the TV
Speaker 2: and Elvis says in a soft voice to his daughter,
Speaker 2: I didn't want to stand up and turn it off.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there you go, Elizabeth. That was the
Speaker 2: most famous thing, since he did this multiple times, but
Speaker 2: this is my favorite and the most famous. He did
Speaker 2: this in hotels. He got into Vegas, he stayed on Yeah,
Speaker 2: I stayed in a hotel and he'd shoot TVs. He
Speaker 2: did this like this happens a bunch. It was like
Speaker 2: it literally was like, I don't have a remote control,
Speaker 2: so I've got a gun replace it. So anyway, and
Speaker 2: all those these are all direct quotes. I pulled that
Speaker 2: from multiple stories of people who were there, and those
Speaker 2: are all there a recollection. So wow, that story of
Speaker 2: Elvis shooting out the TV because of Robert Gulay flubbing
Speaker 2: the national anthem was a very famous story at the time.
Speaker 2: It had to annoy Gulay, right because this guy is
Speaker 2: also a star. Now decades later, in two thousand and four,
Speaker 2: he was still having the answer to it. A local
Speaker 2: Memphis newspaper. He was in town at the time the
Speaker 2: commercial appeal. They had the local newspaper. They asked Gulay
Speaker 2: about Elvis shooting his TV rather than listen to Gulay
Speaker 2: sing asked the man to his face. Yeah, and Gulay defends,
Speaker 2: of course he's a good name. But I love how
Speaker 2: he throws Frank Sinatra under the bus to clear himself.
Speaker 2: Wait what Yes, according to Gulay, and I quote when
Speaker 2: he shot the television set, he also shot fifty other people.
Speaker 2: He told me that he had about one hundred sets
Speaker 2: in the basement and he'd shoot the damn thing out.
Speaker 2: You know, he was on pills and he didn't know
Speaker 2: quite what he was doing, and he'd bang, and then
Speaker 2: he'd look at each other and say, get another set.
Speaker 2: They mentioned me all the time. I don't know why
Speaker 2: the point is. I know he was not done self,
Speaker 2: so therefore it wasn't anything to do with me. He
Speaker 2: shot out miltur May, he shot out Frank Sinatra, but
Speaker 2: I get all the credit. So the story is apparently,
Speaker 2: when Milt Turmae was on one time, he shot it.
Speaker 2: When Frank Sinatra was on one time, he shot it.
Speaker 2: But everyone knows Gulet he shot it because he don't
Speaker 2: like Gulet. Right.
Speaker 4: The best Robert Gulay is will Ferris Robert.
Speaker 2: Robert check it on. Now, when you have someone who's
Speaker 2: dispensing firearms inside the house. It often means you'll need
Speaker 2: to do some home repair time, right, which certainly did.
Speaker 4: They'll like plasters, spackle.
Speaker 2: House spinders would hate him. Bill, you got to show
Speaker 2: up on Monday again after long weekend standing.
Speaker 3: Order at the local hardware store where they just drop
Speaker 3: off crates of this stuff to patch up the water.
Speaker 2: Sackle, plaster, pain. Here's some prime. We do it again, boy.
Speaker 2: So uh at this point, let's see, as I told
Speaker 2: you elvious, he bought Graceland fifty seven. Well, he immediately
Speaker 2: set to put his stamp on his new home. Elvis,
Speaker 2: at the time, a very young man, said, I will
Speaker 2: probably have a black bedroom, sweet trimmed in white leather
Speaker 2: with a white rug alost knew what he liked. So
Speaker 2: his last decorator, she wrote a book because she was
Speaker 2: his decorator, such as like Elvis and me and holding
Speaker 2: a spackle. I don't know, because of course she did
Speaker 2: all right, and so in her case it was an
Speaker 2: autobiography though, so we'll give her some slack. Who woman's
Speaker 2: name is Linda Thompson. She worked with Elvis until nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy four. So as Linda Thompson recalled, Elvis would tell
Speaker 2: her his plans.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 2: He's like, oh, you know, I want I want a
Speaker 2: jungle room. She's like, Elvis, what do you mean a
Speaker 2: jungle room. He's like, you know that basement room I have.
Speaker 2: I want it to open out to the outside, but
Speaker 2: I want the outside to be on the inside. And
Speaker 2: they're like, we take this screened in porch, right, and
Speaker 2: then just enclose it, make it. Make it a jungle room.
Speaker 2: They're quite You're like, yeah, lots of plants, right. She's like, Elvis,
Speaker 2: are you serious? He said, and I quote, Honey, I
Speaker 2: want this to look like you're in the jungle. And
Speaker 2: we're gonna put green carpet up the wall. I want
Speaker 2: green carpet to climb the wall like moss is climbing
Speaker 2: the wall.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, I'm live Tiger.
Speaker 2: I knew you would love that wall carpet. I mean, thick, rich,
Speaker 2: green shag carpet gone.
Speaker 4: Halfway up the wall.
Speaker 3: All these tropical plants and it's the South mustiness in
Speaker 3: that carpet jungle room.
Speaker 2: Also, by the way, they went to one of your
Speaker 2: favorite spots, peer One Import. They bought up some chairs,
Speaker 2: not just any chairs, these chairs had fake fur on them.
Speaker 2: They were fake fur chairs chairs. They went fog while
Speaker 2: and peer one import. It's all wicker, odd furniture.
Speaker 4: So much wicker, so many campbells.
Speaker 2: Now, what colors do you think he decorated his bedroom
Speaker 2: black and white, red and black with touches of gold. Oh,
Speaker 2: the dining room living and what colors are those?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 2: Blue, red and black with touches, with huge, oversized high
Speaker 2: backed chairs like you were just dining with bales above.
Speaker 2: Elvis was a bit of a goth in case you
Speaker 2: didn't know that now, as the decorator Linda Thompson remembered, quote,
Speaker 2: everything was exaggerated over the top. It looked like a bordello.
Speaker 2: It truly did. It wouldn't have been my taste, but
Speaker 2: it was totally all this. Now, Elizabeth, I'd like you
Speaker 2: to imagine what the pool room looked like, where Elvis
Speaker 2: and the Memphis Mafia would hang out table or yeah,
Speaker 2: pool table and they'd shoot pool and not drink.
Speaker 4: I think it was red black with touches of gold.
Speaker 2: No, it had a tent like feel, got the circus
Speaker 2: tent like, Yeah, you had like fabric going up to
Speaker 2: a point.
Speaker 4: Oh and I'm sure that was awesome.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, And then there was the TV room that
Speaker 2: had all the wall of TVs so that way one
Speaker 2: could watch CBS, NBC, and ABC all at the same time.
Speaker 2: Because remember there's only like so many five channels. You
Speaker 2: got that PBS and a uh chef channel. So yeah,
Speaker 2: so if unless you wanted to watch my mother the car,
Speaker 2: he was probably watching NBC. Now in this TV room,
Speaker 2: Elvis also had design touches like quote, lightning bolts zinging
Speaker 2: through the clouds on the back wall. Elvis apparently also
Speaker 2: quote wanted mirrors on the ceiling to make the room
Speaker 2: appear higher and more open, and she also bought him
Speaker 2: ceramic monkeys to just place around wherever he thought ceramic
Speaker 2: monkey should go.
Speaker 3: Mirrors on the ceilings, ceramic monkeys, clouds with lightning bolts
Speaker 3: coming out of them on the.
Speaker 2: Back carpet on the walls.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So sadly much of this design work was time
Speaker 2: in the living rooms and the dining room. They were
Speaker 2: repainted white like his mother preferred them, because his mother
Speaker 2: and father lived with him when he first got the house.
Speaker 2: Then they tried to slow this down, and then when
Speaker 2: they like passed away, and he's like, all right, red
Speaker 2: and black walls, sorry, daddy. Now the jungle room boat, though,
Speaker 2: has remained unchanged. So when we go to Graceland.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we should have recorded the first.
Speaker 2: Thing going to Jungle Room, just as Elvis intended it. Now,
Speaker 2: Elvias says, you probably may know, don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Died on August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, Elvis is
Speaker 2: no longer with us. Elizabeth, he was, however old somebody
Speaker 2: would be when they died nineteen seventy seven. I don't
Speaker 2: know what he was. I could pro he's in his forties.
Speaker 4: He was between fifteen eighty six.
Speaker 2: I think he's in his early forties. I don't I
Speaker 2: don't quite know.
Speaker 4: He was more than five and less than one hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he's like in his early twenties. Stories,
Speaker 2: so yeah, he's in his mid forties. So anyway, quite famously,
Speaker 2: he died on the toilet. Five years later, Graceland opened
Speaker 2: to the public as a museum. Why would they do
Speaker 2: that because the house now belonged to Priscilla, and she
Speaker 2: was the heir when Elvis passed. Yeah, and she was
Speaker 2: also the daughter Lisa Marie and so when Elvis died,
Speaker 2: he left them with a half million dollar a year
Speaker 2: bill for the taxes and the maintenance of the home.
Speaker 2: They're like, I'm not getting it on stage, and so
Speaker 2: I'm not Elvis. I don't have a comeback special. So
Speaker 2: they opened the doors of the public. They said, come
Speaker 2: on in, look at it. Give me five dollars. So
Speaker 2: visitors they go crazy and they go there. They told
Speaker 2: you by the millions, right, and then didn't they start
Speaker 2: adding attractions they had like they had lost things over
Speaker 2: the years. So like apparently some of the had family jets.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, jets. They had their
Speaker 2: own jets, like the Elvis Presley family owned a jet.
Speaker 2: They didn't say it was Elvis's jets, like a family jet,
Speaker 2: because there was one. Elvis's personal jet was called the
Speaker 2: Lisa Marie, named after his daughter. And then there was
Speaker 2: his other plane, the hound Dog two, right, which I
Speaker 2: have to assume as a play on Air Force one,
Speaker 2: Like I was like, well, nick'son era right. So according
Speaker 2: to the official Graceland website, the next major development was
Speaker 2: the purchase of an existing nearby hotel property, renovating it
Speaker 2: and renaming it Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel. Oh god, yeah,
Speaker 2: Heartbreak Hotel. Thought you liked that one because you have
Speaker 2: to have a heartbreak hotel. But then the Elvis fans
Speaker 2: were forced to find a new place to go when
Speaker 2: the Heartbreak Hotel shut its doors in twenty sixteen. So now,
Speaker 2: at first, after Elvis passed his father, who's in charge
Speaker 2: of Graceland Vernon?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Then it was Priscilla, And then when Lisa Marie turned
Speaker 2: twenty five, she inherits Graceland. And then after Lisa Marie
Speaker 2: passes away in twenty twenty three, the Presley family home
Speaker 2: now gets left to her daughter, Riley Keo, who's now
Speaker 2: the current owner of Graceland. And almost as soon as
Speaker 2: that poor girl in harted grace Land, along came a
Speaker 2: scammer to try to steal it away from her. Oh no, yeah,
Speaker 2: the story goes. The court document gets filed on behalf
Speaker 2: of Nausony Investments. The company claims that they are holding
Speaker 2: a loan dating back to twenty eighteen. The loan is
Speaker 2: the amount of three point eight million dollars. They say
Speaker 2: the loan is from Lisa Marie Presley, her mother. Now
Speaker 2: when fifty four year old Lisa Marie Presley passed away
Speaker 2: in January of twenty twenty three. Hard document claim she
Speaker 2: left behind the sizeable debt right, specifically the three point
Speaker 2: eight million dollars. Yeah, and since Lisa Marie had failed
Speaker 2: to pay the loan, the plaintiff claimed in their court
Speaker 2: documents that Lisa Marie had put up Graceland as collateral
Speaker 2: the whole thing. Yeah, So now the plaintiff wants to
Speaker 2: legally claim what's rightfully theirs, namely Graceland. So they file paperwork,
Speaker 2: the court honors it and starts to process like the
Speaker 2: transfer of Graceland the new owner, Elvis's granddaughter, Riley Cooe.
Speaker 2: Here's about this because it gets like updates and then
Speaker 2: has to go into court to fight these claims. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the foreclosure is granted at first, as I said, right,
Speaker 2: they start foreclosing.
Speaker 4: Out, you're gonna auction it on the courthouse stead.
Speaker 2: They're gonna sell Graceland, do whatever, right Keo's lawyers, they
Speaker 2: argue in a Tennessee court, this is Elvis's granddaughter. That
Speaker 2: loan paperwork was fraudulent. Her mother, Lisa Marie, never signed
Speaker 2: this paperwork. Oh, this is clearly not her signature. Here's
Speaker 2: what her signature looks like. Here's another example. Does that
Speaker 2: look like it? The judge's like, oh, you make good points.
Speaker 2: So the mother's signature was designated to be faked, clearly forged.
Speaker 2: So what happened now, well, they stopped the foreclosure of
Speaker 2: Graceland obviously, right yeah. So then the court investigates Keo's claims,
Speaker 2: you know, and they go, okay, let's let's look into this.
Speaker 2: And at this point the scams averted. The ring leader emerges,
Speaker 2: they get discovered and it's this guy from behind Nauseny Investments, right.
Speaker 2: So his name is Gregory Nauseny and Elizabeth. He was
Speaker 2: a Nigerian scammer.
Speaker 4: Oh no way, Oh that's so good.
Speaker 2: He sent emails bragging boasting about how he and his
Speaker 2: gang of fellow Nigerian scammers almost pulled off the impossible
Speaker 2: stealing Graceland, which is some paperwork. As Gregoradion Nauseny boasted
Speaker 2: in his email, we sit back and laugh at you
Speaker 2: idiots and watch you make fools of yourself. Come find
Speaker 2: us in Nigeria. So that was a tall order, right,
Speaker 2: good luck with that, and even more impossible than stealing
Speaker 2: Graceland with just some paperwork. By the way, Yeah, his
Speaker 2: email had all these like grammatical errors one would expect
Speaker 2: from a Nigerian scammer. But turns out, Elizabeth, that was
Speaker 2: on purpose, because you see, the Nigerian scammer, Gregory Naseny
Speaker 2: was also a fraud.
Speaker 4: Wait, what a fake?
Speaker 2: A mask for an American gammer to wear, and because
Speaker 2: just like how you leapt to believe it was a
Speaker 2: Nigerian scammer, everybody else you told me, I know, that's what,
Speaker 2: that's all. That's all anybody ever does they go, hey,
Speaker 2: this guy he told me this thing, or that guy
Speaker 2: lives there. It's called lying, Elizabeth, What you then choose
Speaker 2: to believe the lie based on the gulbibility of you
Speaker 2: or the culpability of my life sounding real and like
Speaker 2: what weight it can carry? Anyway, The emails, the court documents,
Speaker 2: they all get traced back to a woman named Lisa
Speaker 2: Janine Finley. Was she some secret Elvis daughter trying to
Speaker 2: finiss her way into the inheritance? No, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 2: She was just a great I know, guys, it should
Speaker 2: be should be definitely skeptical of this one. She was
Speaker 2: a grade eight uncut American scammer. Elizabeth homegrown fifty three
Speaker 2: year old fraudster was a woman with six aliases known
Speaker 2: as Carolyn Williams, Kisa Holden, Lisa Janine soulland Gregory Nawsony
Speaker 2: and Kurt Nawseny. She was not from Nigeria, she was
Speaker 2: from Missouri. Her rap sheet was impressive, Elizabeth. She was
Speaker 2: no criminal spring chicken this one. She had busts for fraud,
Speaker 2: forged checks, scams going back decades decades. Frederic grand Jury
Speaker 2: easily persuaded to bring charges against her. They're like, just
Speaker 2: where do we sign I got? I wanted my parking validated?
Speaker 4: Now this was to be her magnum opens.
Speaker 2: Totally, really was she got real close if the lawyers
Speaker 2: have been a little slower, or if the news headlines
Speaker 2: hadn't bust broken because people notice the court documents and
Speaker 2: the news is really what broke out anyway. Former roommates
Speaker 2: testified about how old Lisa Jeanine had bragged them about
Speaker 2: her plans to foreclose on Graceland and steal it with
Speaker 2: just a stroke of a pen and a judge's gavel.
Speaker 4: And then Lisa Janine is actually of cover for someone up.
Speaker 2: No, she was. Really she's the one because she was
Speaker 2: arrested charged with aggravated identity theft and mail fraud. Ooh,
Speaker 2: mail fraud.
Speaker 4: That's a tough one to every.
Speaker 2: Mail fraud telling it's a banker, because you'll get twenty
Speaker 2: years for each charge. Each single incident is a charge.
Speaker 2: So family, she's convicted, and if she gets convicted, she's
Speaker 2: right now in federal corre. The conviction rate is about
Speaker 2: ninety eight percent. Get invested anyway. The expected sentence is
Speaker 2: a maximum of twenty years. All her an attempt to steal, Well,
Speaker 2: that's what that's what What are you in here for?
Speaker 2: I tried to steal Elvis's house? Seriously, what are you
Speaker 2: in here for? I tried to steal Graceland White two
Speaker 2: copies of the album. How many copies of the album
Speaker 2: do you try to No? I tried to steal Graceland anyway,
Speaker 2: it was already take away here, Elizabeth.
Speaker 4: I don't steal Graceland, right.
Speaker 2: That's if you do only steal the album, it's much
Speaker 2: easier to get away with and the punishment is much less.
Speaker 3: You hear about people stealing homes and where they kind
Speaker 3: of get was get someone to sign over like McCart.
Speaker 2: I told you a story of the guys stealing home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but this that's that's but.
Speaker 2: They were yeah, they were abandon not abandon but you
Speaker 2: know under like those they are vacated homes, right, nobody
Speaker 2: living in the home.
Speaker 4: Do it like out from under like an elder.
Speaker 2: Families completely, But you're not going to do it through
Speaker 2: like you know Elvis's granddaughter and his legal team. Yeah
Speaker 2: oh wow yeah, so.
Speaker 4: Uh that's your ridiculous takeaway.
Speaker 2: The fact I was able to scam you so quickly
Speaker 2: with a Nigerian woo, that's my ridiculous a right, good
Speaker 2: for you in the move for talk about just to
Speaker 2: clear the palate, get some of that feeling. Yes, oh god, Hello.
Speaker 8: Elizabeth and Zaren. This is Vanessa in Texas. And you
Speaker 8: know what's ridiculous the idea that nobody has yet made
Speaker 8: the animated version of Mob Barker Gang Adventures as envisioned
Speaker 8: by young Zaren, with characters such as Joe Beagle, Al
Speaker 8: the Bone, Braby's Face, Nelson Machine, and Jay Edgar Rover.
Speaker 8: Is somebody out there who can make it? As listening, please.
Speaker 3: Make this happen.
Speaker 4: It is genius. I love that this is so good.
Speaker 2: I also gotta say I missed a talk that was uh.
Speaker 2: They had the talkback where the guy did specifically for
Speaker 2: me and I wasn't here, and I said, I wanted
Speaker 2: to say that was dope. I listened on the road.
Speaker 2: I was like, y'all killing it. So yeah, I've always
Speaker 2: thank you for listening, and we will catch you next crime.
Speaker 2: And until then, you can find us online at Ridiculous
Speaker 2: Crime on social media's and the website ridiculous Crime dot coms.
Speaker 2: And we love your talkbacks obviously, so please go to
Speaker 2: the iHeart app downloaded, leave a talkback and maybe we'll
Speaker 2: hear your voice here, or you can go old school.
Speaker 2: You can email us if you like a Ridiculous Crime
Speaker 2: at gmail dot com and please write dear producer d
Speaker 2: all right, thanks again for listening. We'll catch you next crime.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous Crime is hosted by Elizabeth Dutton Fans and I'm
Speaker 2: produced and edited by Elvis Presley's plant guy Dave Kustin
Speaker 2: and starring Anaalice Rutger as Judith. Research is by Elvis
Speaker 2: impersonators to the Stars MRSA Brown and Andrea Song Sharpened
Speaker 2: to You. Our theme song is by Thomas Elves, the
Speaker 2: Mexican Elvis Lee, and Travis I don't really like Elvis Dutton.
Speaker 2: The host wardrobe provided by Body five hundred, Guest Harry,
Speaker 2: makeup by Sparkle Shot and mister Andre. Executive producers are
Speaker 2: Ben Robert Goulay was Innocent Bowlin and Noel So was
Speaker 2: Meltourmet Brown.
Speaker 4: Crime Say It One More Time, Geek.
Speaker 1: Cry Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio four more podcasts.
Speaker 1: My heart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to your favorite shows.