WEBVTT - We're Going to Graceland: Elvis Does Crime 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.400 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:09.039 Elizabeth. All Right, my friend, I got a question for you. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:10.480 He it's ridiculous. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.440 I do decapitation like as in yeah, really yeah, decapitation. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.239 Of a boy? What? 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:21.520 Yeah, like when someone hits a fire hydrant in the 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.200 fire hydrant like in their car, right, yeah, and they 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:26.640 lose control and the fire hydrant flies through the air 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:28.240 and it decapitates the boy. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.080 What are you talking about? That ridiculous? We had a 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:31.640 head wound. 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:34.519 But you know what makes it super ridiculous is this? 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:38.360 Is there a follow up to that hereditary heredity? I 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:39.960 don't know. Isn't that the movie where the girl gets 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.519 her head on the driving in the car? I don't 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.239 speak anyah. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.160 No, what makes this ridiculous is that it's. 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.000 The boy is Bob's big Boy? 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.480 Not talking about a real human boy, of course, I'm 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.320 talking about the statue. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.880 Yes, Bob's big giant figurine. 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:05.639 Yeah, and so in Downey, California, I got this article. 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:05.920 Okay. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.760 First of all, this was recommended to us by Kathleen 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.280 mccauliffe on Instagram. Are you always just good looking? 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:12.520 Out? 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:13.399 So? 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:13.880 Anyway? 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.600 KTLA the most unhinged television station in the world. Every 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.640 time I have to go down to Los Angeles. Like, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.880 when I'm traveling, I find myself. If I'm staying in 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.759 a hotel, I always watch morning news, which I don't 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:30.440 mean to do here in Oakland, California, A But when 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:32.120 I'm on the road, I like to do that and 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.039 kind of get a sense of like what's happening, what's 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.320 Oh my god, KTLA. 0:01:38.440 --> 0:01:41.480 Amazing crazy I all the time. 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:46.520 So anyways, the best good day La, Oh god, it's wild. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.480 So KTLA has this story about how this happened. August 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:53.120 twenty eighth, twenty twenty four. 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:53.920 Special day. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:55.080 It's a very special day. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:59.200 So it's said a Bob statue outside of Bob's Big 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.320 Boy in Downey lost his head after a violent crash 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.280 early Wednesday. So this lady, she goes out of control. 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.640 She hits a fire hydrant. It flips up, it like 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.640 shears off most of the head. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.200 There's great for car just launched off the fire hydrant. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:16.959 No, no, she hits the fire hydrant. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.880 The fire hydrant flies through the air, yeah yeah, and 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:26.520 then hits the Bob's Big Boys exactly yeah, and floods 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:27.000 the street. 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:27.840 The lady was. 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:32.240 Trapped in the vehicle underneath going Yeah, for a very 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.079 long time. They'd use the jaws of life to get 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.920 her out, damn. And I don't know what her condition was. 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.320 But there's actual living footage of this. 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.880 Did anyone come up and steal the jaws of life? 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.799 No, that happens in Oakland though, saw that the news. Right, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:50.520 that's also ridiculous. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.560 Someone stole Oh I love my hometown so much. They 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:56.800 make it so hard. 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:02.359 Yeah, someone stole the jaws of life. 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:05.200 And anyway, there's footage of the crack the. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.399 Person had been rescued. We should point that out. Yeah, 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.040 set it down and then it turned around and you. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:18.720 Yes, that's a doubles there you go. That is what 0:03:18.760 --> 0:03:19.679 else is ridiculous. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.720 But I'm so glad you asked, because you know you 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.200 you have a home, right, you in a house, you 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.240 live indoors. I do imagine someone trying to steal your home, right, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.640 but doing it like without like a gun. Right, they 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:34.840 do it just with paperwork, so not like not. 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:36.800 Like a big flatbed truck. 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.560 They didn't like lift it up like Russian style. No. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:42.040 So this person, by the way, the person who owns 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:44.960 a home, not you, But I'm talking about the actual factual, 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.040 the intended victim was famous. Someone tried to steal a 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:50.920 famous person's home, but not only that, this person was 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:53.440 one of the most famous persons to ever live. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:54.960 Interesting. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:04:19.960 Yeah, this is Ridiculous Crime A podcast about absurd and 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:25.520 outrageous capers, heists, and cons It's always ninety nine percent 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:29.839 murder free and one hundred percent ridiculous. 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:31.200 Ridiculous. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.440 Oh, Isabeth, Oh Saron. Today, I want to tell you 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.000 about Graceland. You ever heard of it? 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:36.880 Yeah? 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.360 You know what is grace like? 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:44.080 You know, it's Elvis Presley's house in God, what's in Memphis? 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:45.200 Yeah? 0:04:45.360 --> 0:04:45.920 Where is it? 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.839 A lot of people make this mistake. I was doing research, 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:50.799 I was looking into it. I looked it up online 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:56.039 and Graceland is actually it's the home of Elvis. 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:57.159 Oh really. 0:04:57.600 --> 0:04:59.240 Oh, I don't know what I was thinking, And I 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.960 understand Also you probably didn't know this as well. Graceland 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.960 is actually the seventh solo album from Paul Simon. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.720 Oh my god, it's such a good run. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.640 Yeah. A lot of people get those confused and they're like, oh, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.480 I'm going to Graceland. I'm like, that's an album. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.719 Yeah, that's how I know where it is it is 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.680 a good ALB. 0:05:19.720 --> 0:05:21.040 So you've heard of it, you're familiar. 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:21.840 I own it? 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.640 Yeah, well, I mean digitally. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.240 I think I used to have it on CD. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:25.880 I don't know. 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.719 Does that make me like a boomer boomer? 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.839 Light l t E light Yeah, like light. So anyway, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:35.920 what's up with Graceland? The album? 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:36.520 The album? 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:36.920 Right? 0:05:37.120 --> 0:05:37.520 So good? 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.480 Why did Paul Simon name his album after Elvis's house? 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:42.960 Yeah, that's a really good question. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.360 Yeah, I don't have an answer. The album came out with. 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.560 His little commodification of culture totally South Africa. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.680 What is it? Right? The Appropriation of So album comes 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.880 out August twenty fifth, nineteen eighty six. Right, it's famous for, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:57.400 as you point out, how it incorporated the South African 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:02.039 music styles of em but Coonga and is said Katha Mia. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.359 I believe or may maybe pronouncing those it wrong. But 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.560 Paul Simon he hears this music Smith Lady Smith's Black 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.159 Mombasa is the band. So those are two genres of 0:06:10.279 --> 0:06:13.320 South African music. Yeah, and then Lady Smith's Black Mambaso 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.520 is the very famous band that is predominantly the band. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.480 He picks a bunch of different South African musicians among 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.080 them anyway. He's like he hears them, right, He's like, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.000 he's like, oh, I want to play with them, but 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.560 apartheid's on, right, so he's like, oh, this isn't easy 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:28.719 to pull off. So this is what this means is 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:31.880 South Africa denied travel to black musicians, right, They could 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.920 not leave the country, so that often meant people couldn't 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:36.680 go to the country. 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.680 Also, Paul Simon's like, I ain't going to play some 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:39.839 city exactly. 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.400 No, I mean I wish that was the case. But 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.400 instead Warner Brothers exactly like, hey, Paul, babe, we work 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.440 with a bunch of South African artists. Rather than just 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.520 getting you one band, Let's hire a bunch of musicians 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:51.640 and it's cheaper. We'll get them over come over here 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.919 or you go over there. He's like, I'll go to 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.240 South Africa. So he goes to South Africa, does a 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.479 bunch of research, listen to a bunch of bands, writes 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.600 down a bunch of lyrics, ends up only using one 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:02.880 line from all the lyrics he writes while he's there. 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.400 I'll get that later. Yeah, But the result is the 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.760 Graceland album. Right. So the story is that Paul Simon 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.600 makes the album because you know he was he was 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:13.720 going through it as an artist. He'd had a bad album, 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:16.040 his previous album had kind of bonked, and then he'd 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.480 also recently broken up with Kerry Fisher. Now don't ask 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.560 me how a folk singer like Paul Simon was able 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.120 to pull Princess Leah, but I guess carry Fisher like smart, sensitive, funny, 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:29.680 he writes egotistical men, yes exactly, and professionally, you know, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.800 as I said, And he was coming off a failed album. 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:33.200 So maybe she liked him because he was like in 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.120 like a phase of like I need to get back 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:37.880 on it. Yeah exactly. Who knows, but there he is 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.800 at this point. He's broken up with her, he's split 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.440 up with Art Garfunkel. He's ego brews from his career. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.800 Then he hears this tape of South African music and 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:48.640 he listened to it. He starts thinking about Elvis Presley, Okay, 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:51.320 and his own son where and also where he was 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:52.960 in his life, and then decides, I'm gonna write some 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.600 songs about this, and he hires him as they told 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.440 you South African musicians. Then he brings in other bands 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:01.520 not from South Africa, like Los Lobos Mexican band, totally 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.120 big fans, Linda Ronstadt another one also the Everly Brothers. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.440 Who knows why? Right, and then he releases this. What's 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:09.960 the reaction it was? 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:11.960 It was a big hit right. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.360 Well, for one, I remember I said apartheid was still 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:16.120 going on, right, So this is at the time when 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.840 the United Nations led a cultural boycott against the Nation 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.600 of South Africa. So what that means for Paul Simon 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.800 is people were big mad at him for working with 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.760 South Africans. Paul Simon was like, they're black, the black ones, 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:30.680 the ones who were being oppressed. How was this a 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:32.840 bad thing? Yeah? So people are like, okay, well, maybe 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:34.360 we'll forgive them. And then some of the people came 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.320 along to like, hey, Paul Simon, you're appropriating the music 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:39.760 of those South African musicians, which you kind of mentioned before. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:45.040 Paul Simon's like, duh, folk singer, what I do songs? 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.800 I'm just not limiting who those people are. And he 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.000 was like, people like, oh, he's got us. And so 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.440 then the album Gracelind comes out becomes a huge success. 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.880 Ye you remember that one? Okay, yeah, this is back 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.959 when MTV played music videos. Do you remember that music video. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.200 Yeah, with Chevy Chase. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.599 Yes, and totally Now the videos just the two of 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:07.280 them sitting there. They got two chairs, a drum stand 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:09.280 next to Chevy Chase. He does the whole thing. He 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.080 tries to put the glass on it and there's nothing there. 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.280 It goes right through, right. Chevy's mouthing the words hammating 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 up like we're talking peach peak Chevy Chase. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:17.960 Yeah. 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.400 Now this is also I think before everyone knew, he 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.640 was like a kind of you know, like only Hollywood 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:24.200 people knew it. 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.280 Yeah, they it wasn't publicly known. How absolutely horrible. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.199 Yeah, but you remember the video right, how charming he was. 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.440 Oh yeah, he's just sitting there and he's like all big. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:33.840 But they like in linen suits. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.280 Yeah, they're like, yeah, like matching kind of like jeans 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.440 and linen suit jackets. Do you remember? Also, did you 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:43.000 know he was in a band Chevy Chase. No, yeah, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.840 Like I think the band is called Leather Canary. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:46.400 Wait are you making this up? 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:47.520 No? 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:48.840 You sound like me. 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.840 Called clear Leather. Yeah, no leather. I think it's Leather Canary. 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:57.960 And his uh he won't like I gross you out. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:02.320 Never forgetting that one he he had his other partners 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:05.199 in this progressive rock band that he was in. They 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.200 he left. He's like, I'm gonna go off and do comedy. 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.000 Good for him. He goes SNL. The other two they quit, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:11.839 and you know, they leave the band that he's quit 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.960 and they start their own band. That band becomes Steely. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.680 Dan chevy Chase was in the O G Steely, so 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.800 chevy Chase anyway. Paul Simon writing songs for this album, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.600 Braceland album, right. It wasn't easy for Paul Simon, right, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.600 especially the title song, Braceland Guess song. It took him 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:35.760 to write the forty years four months, but not quite 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.800 that long. Boy in the Bubble another one took a 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:38.199 long time. 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:39.679 Oh that's such a good song, yeah. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:41.880 Which is not based on the nineteen seventy six John 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.920 Travolta TV movie Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which I 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.559 had to look up anyway, So I just want to 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:49.160 clear that up for you, Elizabeth. I know how your 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.240 mind goes. So now you take that song, the Boy 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:53.840 in the Bubble, do you know? It features a line 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.679 that was inspired by the assassination of JFK and the 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.360 attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan one line. 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.480 I'm trying to think, but right now I've just got 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.720 the line. She makes a sign of a tea spoon, 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:06.600 she makes a sign of a wave. Yeah, I can't 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:07.800 get that out of my head right now. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.520 Don't worry. I got some lyrics. So this one is 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.320 the way the camera follows him in slow mo, the 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:16.600 way he smiled at us all. So that one hits 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:17.960 it from Boy in the Bubble, right. It was a 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.560 mix of as Paul Simon said, and I quote hope 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.840 and dread. That's right. That's the way I see the world, 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.960 a balance between the two, but coming down on the 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:27.920 side of hope. That's my world food too, Elizabeth, you 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.040 know that. I mean Paul Simon, who knew Paul Simon 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.600 and I had the same worldview. Anyway, Now, I remember 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.079 remember how I said earlier, but Paul Simon was married 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.000 to Carrie Fisher aka Princess Leah. Yeah. 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:40.240 I also remember how you said something about someone steal 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:40.760 in the house. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.960 Yeah, and I'm getting there, don't worry. She makes an 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.880 appearance on the album Graceland. Yeah, okay, on the title 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.959 song Graceland Really Yeah, this line goes she comes back 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.120 to me to tell me she's gone, as if I 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.280 didn't know that, as if I didn't know my bed, 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:55.480 as if i'd ever noticed the way she'd brushed her 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.960 hair from her fore head right. So, I guess Carrie 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.200 Fisher used to brush her hair at the foot of the. 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.280 Best the only person in the world who. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:04.480 Well, I mean she was. I guess it's really common 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.560 for anyway, whatever, who knows. So at this point we 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:10.160 got apartheid South Africa, Princess Leah, Ronald Reagan, the assassination 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:13.280 of JFK, and Chevy Chase. This album is so eighties. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.079 This is so eighties, heavy eighties Elizabeth. 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.199 I forgot to tell you why Paul Simon called the 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.559 album Graceland. I didn't have an answer. I lied, I 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.920 do have an answer. So while he recorded the album, 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.520 he used to write random words like he liked phrases 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.880 that sounded good, and he hopes some connecting theme for 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.720 the album would emerge from his like yo legal pad phrases, 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.760 shout out yo legal pads right now, the phrase Elizabeth 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.880 was driving through wasteland, that's the phrase he loved, and 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.960 so over the course of the recording the album, he 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:43.120 changes that to going to Graceland and boom for real. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.200 That was the magic phrase, just like that History's main album. 0:12:46.440 --> 0:12:48.520 I'm like, you know, we've been talking about the lyrics, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.200 so you've had some in your head, the ones I 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.160 Love from Graceland. My traveling companion is nine years old. 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.280 He is the child of my first marriage. But I've 0:12:56.360 --> 0:13:01.840 reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:03.640 I'm going to Graceland, Graceland. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.160 No, it's it's beautiful, right, because you have if you 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.920 take it out of context of Elvis, you know, just 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.040 the whole notion of grace first of fall. Linguistically it 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.760 sounds total, but the concept is beautiful, the whole land 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.640 of grace that can be bestowed upon you and you 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:22.480 can bestow upon you. 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.360 Take your child there. Yeah, it's beautiful, and you can 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.040 guarantee he will be received there too. I mean yeah. 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.800 So also, I said, he direct quoted Carrie Fisher earlier, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.680 I kind of mentioned I forgot to tell you she's 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.520 got the best line in his song. Right. So the 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.439 section goes the way she brushed her hair from her 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.600 forehead and she said, losing love is like a window 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:45.160 in your heart. Everybody sees you're blown apart. Everybody sees 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.680 the wind blow. I'm going to Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee. 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:51.000 See this is why you're like, Okay, I can see 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:51.760 why Carrie. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:52.920 Fishers this guy. 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.320 I mean, it's beautify see why he loves carry Fisher. 0:13:55.440 --> 0:14:00.360 Well, sure, of course questions quoting him, that's true, that's true. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.240 But it's like she's a badass, word all around bad ass. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.160 Oh god, she's a great she was a great writ. 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.640 Writers, amazing writing, right r I p Kerry Fisher. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.800 You know, I just to be so moved by words, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.840 it's like such a gift, you know. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:14.719 It recommends the sensitivity. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:15.080 Yeah. 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.880 So anyway, I brought all this up to say, Elizabeth today, 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:22.760 just like my man Paul Simon, we're going down to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee. 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.920 Have you ever been? I never have. 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.520 I've never been to the parking lot of Graceland. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:32.880 Yeah, wow, you went to the parking lot? What were 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.400 you guys? Were you guys barred from going in? 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.800 It's a long kind of it's a long story. 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.120 Were you wearing punk rockettire? Like you can't come in? 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:39.560 No? 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:41.600 Were you like, like what happened is. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:43.360 Talk about it? 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:46.520 Oh my god, I'm gonna ask you this later. But okay, 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:50.360 I haven't been either inside. I been to the parking lot. 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.160 I'd like to go, mostly because you know, I want 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.640 to see the people who go to Graceland. 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:53.880 Now. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.840 Yeah, apparently it's still like a million visitors go there 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.400 every Yeah, that's like three thousand that is a day, basically. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.800 People are they still love hitting up Graceland. Yeah, it's 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.360 one of the five most visited homes in the US, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:07.880 second only to the White the White House. 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:11.200 Imagine, I want to the other give me the three 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:11.840 four and five. 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.480 I'm sure the Vanderbilt House, you know, yeah, right, and 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.320 San Simeon I figet that's got to be up there, 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.600 and Falling Rock, you know, oh, the Franklin right, Yeah, 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.160 like I figured some Lloyd Wright house has got to 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:26.720 be up there. These are just guesses. I didn't check 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.040 out house from Friday, of course. Yeah, house for Friday. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:32.880 Come on, the full house houses. 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.320 Yeah, but you don't really visit the houses. You just 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:36.880 at them. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.640 You just stare up there. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:42.280 The painted ladies ladies. Okay, So Graceland brings in one 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.080 hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy five million 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.200 dollars a year to the greater Memphis area. It was 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:49.120 the first thing to really bring attention to Memphis apparently. Anyway, 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:50.800 do you know what it looks like? I'm just talking 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.960 about it? Did you know? All White Southern mansion? The truth? 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:58.400 I was driving across country and I had my I 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.520 was moving, I had my dogs in the car, and 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.240 it like didn't dawn on me till I got in 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.560 the parking lot. I can't leave these dogs in the car. 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.920 Wo check this place out. And then I was like, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.360 had this moment where I just like rethought things. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:10.560 I'm like, do I really. 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:11.520 Do I even care about going to. 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.840 Give a toss about it? Like not really, It's just 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.000 sort of something that you're suppo to. 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.760 I've been there. I'm going to Graceland Graceland. 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:18.720 To see No. 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.200 So I just peeled out. 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:28.000 Dogs, let the glass dogs, let's roll. Yeah. So at 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:29.880 this point, Elizabeth, I'll just tell you a little bit 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.840 about it, since you haven't seen it, Nora have Yeah, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.320 the place. It was built after the Civil War. So, 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:36.800 and it was also not built to replace some plantation 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.240 mansion that General Sherman burned down on his way to 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.080 Savannah and the Sea. Grace Land was built in nineteen 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.320 thirty nine. Yeah. Original owners were Ruth Brown Moore and 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.720 Thomas D. Moore. They named the mansion after her aunt Grace, 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.080 the woman who'd owned the land. Thus Grace. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.080 Oh really. 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:55.800 Elvis bought the mansion in nineteen fifty seven. You see, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.400 Elvis was in the family at this point. He had 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:00.200 a young wife, Priscilla, Yeah, and a young daughter, Lisa Marie, 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:04.159 and together they made Graceland into the landmark that it is. Yeah, 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.639 today you don't have like gardens and arts and stuff. 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.560 We'll get into it. You can find it located at 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.040 three seven sixty three Elvis Presley Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee. 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:14.080 Bring your family. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:15.040 I like Memphis. 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.359 Oh yeah, I've enjoyed it Deel Street. Yeah, Elizabeth, now 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.399 that we've kind of sorted out Graceland from Graceland and 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.000 we got to know the lay of the land, take 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:25.680 a little break for something warm, delicious, ads, and I'll 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.160 tell you about the ridiculous crimes that went down to Graceland. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:51.560 Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee, and we're back. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.360 Elizabeth. Hey, buddy, now I promised you a trip down 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:54.920 to Graceland. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:55.840 You certainly did. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:59.560 With or without Paul Simon. Okay, we're going without. Okay. Now, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.040 I gotta say, I'm kind of surprised we have yet 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:03.359 to recover Elvis Presley on Ridiculous Crime. 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:05.280 I'm well, oh yeah, I was gonna say up until 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:05.640 now and. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:10.119 Then yeah, no, I mean I feel like he's got 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.840 all sorts of like a satellite system of crimes around him. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.760 Oh my god, dude, the Memphis Mafia boys who basically 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.600 are always like getting his drugs, his women buying Cadillacs 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.199 for him. They're just like a floating ring of crime. Anyway, Uh, 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:26.040 the dude, as they pointed out, ridiculous criminal. My pop 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:27.359 loves Elvis. Do you know this? 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:28.639 Really? 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.320 He named his dog Elvis, like he loves him a 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.119 black hound dogs. I named him Elvis's interesting. So I 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:36.040 know me some. Elvis is what I'm trying to tell you. 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.880 My black nationalist father. So I watched his movies, listen 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.439 to his albums, the rock ones, the rock and roll albums, 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:45.159 and the gospel albums. I know him both. Oh yeah, 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:49.040 and I've watched Elvis's comeback Special in Vegas multiple times. 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:50.000 When he has like the jumpsuit. 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.639 Yeah yeah. And he's also like on the stage that's 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:54.359 singing to the girls. 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:54.920 Yeah yeah. 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.320 Yeah. So I was born in the South, right, so 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.639 you know, Elvis has long been a presence in my 0:18:59.680 --> 0:19:02.240 life much since I was been born. Elvis has been 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.480 the King, Yeah, whether I liked it or not. Now, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.240 growing up out here in the West, far from Graceland's 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:09.760 advertising and the legend of the King, what do you 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:12.400 know about Elvis as a cultural presence, influence, movie star, 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.119 og rock star, and all around cultural force. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.960 I never really got into Elvis, I mean way before 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:18.560 my time. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.520 Well yeah, but like growing up as a figure. 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:25.080 It wasn't he wasn't Like no one in my family 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:26.720 listened to Elvis and. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.960 Yeah, and no one in college wanted to go watch 0:19:29.040 --> 0:19:30.600 like one of his old movies on a lark. 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.080 No, though, there's probably like some rockabilly folks. 0:19:33.840 --> 0:19:35.960 Who it's kind of guessing, but you gotta have to 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.760 age into rockabilly, I think totally did you start punking 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:39.520 age into rock? 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:40.720 Yeah, I don't know. 0:19:40.720 --> 0:19:42.800 Know, it's just sort of like I'm aware of Elvis, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.600 you know, just in terms of the history of rock 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:48.119 and roll and speaking of cultural. 0:19:50.200 --> 0:19:54.040 And say hound dog. Yeah, but no, I just I've 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:54.879 always kind of thought. 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.840 He was a little corny, really corny. Yeah, it's not 0:19:57.880 --> 0:19:59.439 the word I'd used for it, but I totally can 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:02.800 see that from you guys would have that. I imagine, not 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:04.959 like a looking down on the South, but he's very 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:08.520 much that South. Like he is corny as you would say. Yeah, 0:20:08.560 --> 0:20:11.439 I mean he's not like corny, you know, like how 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.159 there's a lot more this is beneath Elvis. There's plenty 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:14.960 of corn. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.359 There's a lot of merchandise around Elvis. 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:20.440 Oh my god, they just the whole thing about the malls. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:21.879 I'll tell you all about it in a second. Do you 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:24.360 know about the time that Elvis showed up that Nixon's 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.680 White House is zooted out of his mind on Doctor 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:28.160 feel Good's Finest Wonder Pills. 0:20:28.160 --> 0:20:29.679 I feel like I have a vague notion of it. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.480 And Elvis he goes there because he wants to meet 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:33.560 the president, and he goes there because he wants to 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.360 become an official federal agent at large. 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:38.520 Yeah, he wanted to like be a dea. 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:41.320 Yeah, like a rock and roll g man. Basically, the 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:43.520 story goes a few days. It's a few days before Christmas, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:46.520 December twenty first, nineteen seventy, Elvis Presley, he goes to 0:20:46.520 --> 0:20:49.600 the White House for a noontime meeting with President Richard Nixon. 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:51.520 Now at this point, you got to keep this in mind. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.080 These are two of the most powerful and famous men 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.520 in the world, and neither has like anything tarnishing them. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.879 At this point, Nixon is elected with a mandate to 0:20:58.920 --> 0:21:01.159 calm down the widening divisions in the violence in the 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.480 US falling sixty eight. Elvis is coming off his comeback 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.359 special also sixty eight. So now he's doing a comeback tour, 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.280 selling out concerts everywhere. They're both cresting, is what I'm 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:14.399 trying to say. Yeah, so both men beloved Americans nineteen seventy. 0:21:14.440 --> 0:21:16.800 Now this lead for the normy. So let's just say 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.160 right now, things are never what the normies believe them 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:21.200 to be. Because when Elvis shows up at the White 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.640 House for a noon exactly, he's armed with a cult 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:25.560 forty five pistol. 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.600 He's warning brought a gun into the White House, totally wearing. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.120 A full on purple velvet jumpsuit but decked with enormous 0:21:31.160 --> 0:21:33.680 gold belt that looks like he's just won the Intercontinental 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:36.040 Championship of the WWE. 0:21:35.480 --> 0:21:37.200 Elizabeth Velvet jumpsuit. 0:21:38.040 --> 0:21:40.280 He walks into the Elvis and he hands President Nixon 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:43.000 a personal letter that explains his visit. And it's written 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.159 in like child script, like child handwriting. Oh my god, Yes, 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:48.400 he's thirty five years old at point. Elvis is thirty 0:21:48.400 --> 0:21:51.639 five years old right now, he said, and I quote 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.399 in the letter, I've done an in depth study of 0:21:54.480 --> 0:21:57.800 drug use and communist brainwashing techniques, and I'm right in 0:21:57.840 --> 0:21:59.520 the middle of the whole thing where I can and 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:00.680 we'll do the most good. 0:22:00.920 --> 0:22:01.840 He is right in the middle. 0:22:02.440 --> 0:22:03.560 He's got the control. 0:22:03.840 --> 0:22:07.000 Now, mister, like you know, pharmacy rolls up. 0:22:07.440 --> 0:22:10.760 Exactly I got. I want to get the I want 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:12.360 to keep the kids off of the drugs I need. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.000 So Elvis shows up asking if he can get a 0:22:16.040 --> 0:22:18.199 real de A badge, but the DEA didn't exist at 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:22.159 this time. Is called the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:24.760 So Elvis he wants to be named an official federal 0:22:24.760 --> 0:22:27.960 Agent at Large for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drum. Yeah, 0:22:28.000 --> 0:22:30.160 So why did Elvis want to be official drug cops 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:32.680 so bad? Did he want early access to the drugs. 0:22:32.720 --> 0:22:34.360 Did you want to be able to confiscate drugs, like. 0:22:34.560 --> 0:22:37.040 Give me those drugs, like I'll just bust like the 0:22:37.119 --> 0:22:38.359 big drug dens. 0:22:38.400 --> 0:22:44.080 Yeah, and then just take their bugis boys, Elvis came 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:47.600 through and seized my drugs, flashed the badge. 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:49.560 Drug velvet jumps Did he. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:51.359 Want to get out of jail free card? Is that 0:22:51.400 --> 0:22:53.000 where he could say, oh, these drugs that I have 0:22:53.040 --> 0:22:55.720 it for research? Like say he gets popped, right, wink wink, 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:57.720 you go on, officer one of you guys. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.720 You we went commando in the jumps in the velvet. 0:23:00.400 --> 0:23:04.200 You're stuck jumpsuit. Yeah, I'm thinking he probably wore underwear 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:05.000 with his name on it. 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:06.280 It had to be so sweaty. 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:10.160 Oh it's open, so it's open chest. Remember these are 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:12.200 like open chests like he's got Yeah, like it it's 0:23:12.200 --> 0:23:14.720 a jumpsuits. It's not like skin tight. I don't want 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:16.399 I want you to think it more like how James 0:23:16.400 --> 0:23:18.760 brownl No. 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:22.439 No, it's kind of think of its velvet. 0:23:22.560 --> 0:23:24.600 Think of it like a Sanza belt suit, you know, 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.760 like the seventies, So like it's all one connected. Yeah, 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:29.960 and then the v's out from like the belly button. 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.560 And goes up to the lapels, so you kind of 0:23:32.560 --> 0:23:35.359 got an open chest area to ventilate. I got and 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:38.480 then also to show off your like plumage or whatever 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:41.880 you want or like probably a big medallion most like. 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:44.119 It makes sense. Yeah, all right, can they get you 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:45.320 one of those jumpsuits? 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:47.600 I have an Elvis jumpsuit that I ordered online that 0:23:47.640 --> 0:23:51.280 I wear around the house. No, it's two pieces. I 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:52.600 need to get one. I need to get one piece. 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:53.920 That the only thing I could find online. 0:23:53.960 --> 0:24:00.000 The butt flap like a union. Anyway, I'm sorry. 0:23:59.920 --> 0:24:02.240 The reason why Elvis wanted his badge is he really 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:03.360 liked badges. 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:04.920 Stinking badges. 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:08.719 I need those stinking badges. It's Accordion's ex wife, Priscilla Presley. 0:24:08.800 --> 0:24:11.200 She wrote a memoir about their life together called Fittingly 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.880 Elvis and Me, and she said in it, I quote, 0:24:14.119 --> 0:24:17.320 the nark badge represented some kind of ultimate power to him. 0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:20.720 So there was another part, though, the part I suspected 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:23.120 Elvis wanted to get out of jail free card right. So, 0:24:23.400 --> 0:24:26.359 as Priscilla Presley also put in her memoir and I quote, 0:24:26.359 --> 0:24:29.520 once again, with the federal narcotics badge, he believed he 0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:32.760 could legally enter any country, both wearing guns and carry 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:33.359 any drugs. 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:36.439 He wished, Well, you know I have a badge. 0:24:36.520 --> 0:24:38.439 I know you do. You got a special investigator badge. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:43.800 It's like a real badge. Yeah, investigator. 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:46.560 Someday I'm gonna whip it out at like a crime 0:24:46.600 --> 0:24:48.000 scene and be like, all right, tell me everything. 0:24:48.119 --> 0:24:49.919 I can't believe. It'll carry around you, on you all 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:51.360 the time, just floating. 0:24:51.800 --> 0:24:52.680 I'll get arrested. 0:24:53.119 --> 0:24:55.640 As long as you don't say I'm a cop. Okay, yeah, 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:56.119 you're fine. 0:24:56.119 --> 0:25:00.880 People like what what's happening here? 0:25:00.960 --> 0:25:02.800 Just don't say I'm a copper, I'm an officer of law, 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:04.960 or I'm with the police, any of that you're asking. 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:08.720 Just start asking questions like your Columbo just come in, Yeah, 0:25:08.800 --> 0:25:09.920 yeah those listen. 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:10.520 Do you this? 0:25:10.440 --> 0:25:11.840 This is what worked for me. I can't pull it 0:25:12.040 --> 0:25:15.840 would work. So at this point we got Elvis. He 0:25:15.920 --> 0:25:17.800 comes into Nixon, right, he goes to Nixon. He's in 0:25:17.840 --> 0:25:20.000 his office. He's in the Oval office in his purple 0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:23.080 jumpsuit with his forty five pistol, and he says, can 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:25.960 the King get a badge or what? Now? We've already 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.440 covered Watergate, and so do you remember how he said, 0:25:28.520 --> 0:25:31.399 Nixon was recording everything in his oval office. Well, this 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:33.920 happened to be just before the tape system was secretly 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:37.159 installed all the things from Nixon's hitehouse. We do not 0:25:37.280 --> 0:25:40.000 have transcripts of Elvis and Nixon meeting. All we have 0:25:40.160 --> 0:25:43.199 is one aid wrote down a memo and records all 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:46.280 the events. So I'm going to read quotes from the memo, right, please, 0:25:46.359 --> 0:25:49.320 the Elvis. According to this aid, Elvis was bragging about 0:25:49.320 --> 0:25:51.960 his powers to affect and persuade the youth of America. 0:25:52.000 --> 0:25:54.239 He wanted President Nixon, who he didn't think understood who 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:57.240 he really was, Yeah, to understand his powers. Right. Yeah, 0:25:57.280 --> 0:26:00.320 he may be president, but I'm Elvis. Yeah, exactly, And 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.240 I quote Presley responded that he did his thing just 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:05.760 boss singing. He said that he could not get to 0:26:05.800 --> 0:26:07.719 the kids if he made a speech on the stage, 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:09.359 that he had to reach them in his own way. 0:26:09.480 --> 0:26:12.840 The President nodded in agreement. Now we also know Elvis 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:14.720 bad mouth the Beatles to Nixon. I think it's to 0:26:14.760 --> 0:26:17.200 getting Nixon's good side. I don't know. Apparently, he said 0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:19.320 he thought the Beatles had been a real force for 0:26:19.359 --> 0:26:21.840 anti American spirit. He said that the Beatles came to 0:26:21.920 --> 0:26:24.439 this country, made their money, and then returned to England, 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:27.800 where they promoted an anti American theme. The President nodded 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:32.520 in agreement and expressed some surprise whatever, yeah, all right, 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:34.000 But I like, how if you read this moment makes 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.080 it sounds like Elvis is in there just flying high, 0:26:36.080 --> 0:26:39.320 grinding his jaw sideways, and Nixon's the reasonable one, just 0:26:39.400 --> 0:26:41.639 nodding along with well, of course, Elvis, of course el 0:26:42.440 --> 0:26:44.520 el of a sudden, he's trapped in a men's room 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:46.560 with a cooke head, and it was like, oh, Elvis, 0:26:46.600 --> 0:26:49.199 you know anyway, Nixon he lays out his plan for 0:26:49.280 --> 0:26:52.840 criminalizing drugs and associating them with the student protesters, the 0:26:52.960 --> 0:26:55.520 urban youth, the black kids who were also protesting, for 0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:58.399 like basically all the kids of color are protesting, and 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:00.280 he's like, oh, if I get all of them tarnished 0:27:00.280 --> 0:27:01.480 with drugs, we could come in. 0:27:01.600 --> 0:27:01.719 Right. 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:05.080 He's telling this the Elvis before he's become national policy. 0:27:05.320 --> 0:27:07.560 He's like, what do you think, Elvis? Now, Elvis is 0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:09.359 going a my limit at this point, right, So he 0:27:09.400 --> 0:27:12.720 sticks to his old anti American screed, the aid documented 0:27:12.720 --> 0:27:15.679 in the memo, and I quote again Pressley indicated to 0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:18.000 the President in a very emotional manner that he was 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:20.879 on your side. Presley kept repeating that he wanted to 0:27:20.920 --> 0:27:22.960 be helpful, and he added that he was quote just 0:27:23.000 --> 0:27:25.120 a poor boy from Tennessee who had gotten a lot 0:27:25.119 --> 0:27:27.679 from this country, which in some ways he wanted to repay. 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:30.480 So other than doing drugs legally with his special badge 0:27:30.480 --> 0:27:33.119 and carrying guns through airports, how did Elvis want to 0:27:33.119 --> 0:27:34.520 repay the country? Elizabeth? 0:27:34.600 --> 0:27:35.280 Very good question. 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:38.160 It's a great question. I'm asked that totally. 0:27:38.240 --> 0:27:39.560 It was like on the tip of my tongue for 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:40.600 the lot, like for days. 0:27:40.640 --> 0:27:42.679 I saw it there like ring, like it's. 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:44.320 Going to getting in the way of a lot. 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:47.320 Well, Elvis told Nixon he was particularly skilled at spotting 0:27:47.320 --> 0:27:50.760 a commie. Yeah, the memo says, and I quote Elvis 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:54.199 quote also mentioned that he is studying communist brainwashing in 0:27:54.240 --> 0:27:57.359 the drug culture for over ten years, and he brags 0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:59.200 how the hippie kids love him. He said he could 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:01.399 go right into like with young people or hippies and 0:28:01.440 --> 0:28:03.440 he'd be accepted, which he felt could be helpful to 0:28:03.520 --> 0:28:06.359 him in his drug drive. The President indicated again his 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.480 concern that Presley retained his credibility. No, Elvis, Come on, 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:13.359 Elvis is so high talking that the President of the 0:28:13.440 --> 0:28:16.760 United States at noon a couple of days before Christmas, 0:28:16.800 --> 0:28:18.359 and Nixon's like, I don't want you to lose your 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:23.600 cool with the kids. Elvis, Yeah, exactly. So when Elvis 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:26.280 then surprises Nixon, he puts his arm around him, kind 0:28:26.280 --> 0:28:27.080 of half hugging him. 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:28.840 The sweats sweat stain. 0:28:29.640 --> 0:28:34.760 Can you imagine? He flashes at ten thousand Vegas, comeback mego, 0:28:34.880 --> 0:28:38.360 Watts smile right. Photographer snaps a photo. That photo, Elizabeth 0:28:38.440 --> 0:28:44.080 is the most requested photograph ever from the entire US archive. Really, yes, 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:46.680 and Elvis did indeed get his badge to be a 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:49.440 federal agent at large. However, the badge was not official, 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:52.480 It was purely honorary, but Elvis was convinced it was real, 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:55.600 so he acted as if he was now state sponsored 0:28:55.680 --> 0:28:59.040 rock and roll karate master and freelance federal drug agent. 0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:01.840 By the way, there's a movie of the infamous meeting 0:29:01.880 --> 0:29:05.200 between Michael between Elvis and Nixon. It stars Michael Shannon 0:29:05.200 --> 0:29:08.920 as Elvis, which if you can stomach the Kevin Spacey 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:11.520 as Nixon, then it's worth the price of admission alone. 0:29:11.560 --> 0:29:14.200 It's kind of like a scales there on that one. Anyway, 0:29:14.240 --> 0:29:16.800 he plays Michael Shannon's amazing. He plays Elvis as this 0:29:17.000 --> 0:29:20.000 feral rock star with like a kid's mind and a 0:29:20.040 --> 0:29:23.360 man's gun collection. It's really wild, right. So anyway, this 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:25.880 brings us to the crimes Elvis committed at Graceland. You'd 0:29:25.880 --> 0:29:28.479 wait as long enough, Elizabeth, Yes, if you didn't know it. 0:29:28.520 --> 0:29:31.680 The parties at Graceland are somewhat legends. I can imagine, right, 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:34.920 the stories told. They made a series of memoirs from 0:29:35.040 --> 0:29:36.960 anyone who seemed to be there at the time. There 0:29:36.960 --> 0:29:39.000 are so many books about Elvis from people who are 0:29:39.040 --> 0:29:40.640 like I was there, I was a secretary, I was 0:29:40.680 --> 0:29:42.680 a neighbor, I was a barber. I used to give 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:45.120 them drugs, you know, like whoever did anything. But his 0:29:45.240 --> 0:29:49.120 main circle was called the Memphis Mafia. This was primarily 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:51.720 a group of cousins, like Elvis's cousins and friends that 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:53.959 he grew up with that surrounded the king. These are 0:29:53.960 --> 0:29:55.480 the ones who would go out and they would buy 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:58.160 like ten cadillacts because Elvis wanted a new car. They 0:29:58.200 --> 0:29:59.880 would go out and get drugs from the Memphis scene, 0:30:00.160 --> 0:30:01.840 go get girls, from the club. One of them is 0:30:01.880 --> 0:30:03.840 like a radio DJ, so they're all like able to 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:04.920 work their different angles. 0:30:05.000 --> 0:30:05.320 Yeah. 0:30:05.320 --> 0:30:07.320 And also at this point he also has his wife 0:30:07.320 --> 0:30:10.240 Priscilla because he gets married young so or relatively young. 0:30:10.640 --> 0:30:12.520 And they're also all the women who are around him, 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.960 all the secretary. So all these people are writing books, right, 0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:17.320 So according to all of them, the party start in 0:30:17.400 --> 0:30:21.160 fifty seven when he buys Graceland and George Klein he's 0:30:21.160 --> 0:30:24.320 the radio DJ. He wrote a memoir in twenty ten 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:27.400 called Elvis My best Man. I guess he was the 0:30:27.400 --> 0:30:29.000 best man at his wedding. Is my guest? I guess 0:30:29.040 --> 0:30:31.680 that's probably the cover photo book. Look into it. I 0:30:31.680 --> 0:30:35.360 didn't care anyway. It's George Clin radio DJ. So he 0:30:35.400 --> 0:30:37.280 has the angles on the girls, right, So he was 0:30:37.320 --> 0:30:39.959 responsible for bringing them to Graceland. And as he writes, 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:42.360 Elvis and his boys may have liked to be surrounded 0:30:42.360 --> 0:30:44.720 by beautiful girls, but boys being boys, they often played 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:47.360 with each other. What I mean by that is Elvis 0:30:47.360 --> 0:30:49.120 may have liked pills. He did, but he didn't like 0:30:49.160 --> 0:30:51.480 to smoke, pod or get drunk. They didn't keep any 0:30:51.520 --> 0:30:53.120 booze in the house for the most part. There was 0:30:53.120 --> 0:30:56.240 no beer, no wine, no liquor. I yeah, no pot, 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:58.840 no booze, no liquor. So George Klein put it, quote, 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:01.000 there were nights where the oldest thing that happened was 0:31:01.000 --> 0:31:03.280 having Elvis lead us through a game of Name that Tune, 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:08.920 wild parties Elizabeth. Now, these guys weren't choir boys, though, 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:11.160 they were still the entourage of a very famous man, 0:31:11.240 --> 0:31:13.560 so they would act out accordingly. And that also meant 0:31:13.600 --> 0:31:15.560 they would bring folks to Graceland. And then they had 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:17.160 to lay down the rules of like how to act 0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:21.240 around Elvis. So the DJ amateur matchmaker, George Klein, he said, 0:31:21.240 --> 0:31:23.640 and I quote, I told them to keep things positive. 0:31:23.680 --> 0:31:25.600 I'd seen people try to act cool around Elvis by 0:31:25.600 --> 0:31:29.280 having a negative, critical attitude. He never responded well to that. Also, 0:31:29.320 --> 0:31:31.160 you would tell him, don't assume you can. You can't 0:31:31.240 --> 0:31:33.280 say anything nice to him because you think he's probably 0:31:33.360 --> 0:31:35.640 heard it before. He didn't want to hear anything phony. 0:31:35.840 --> 0:31:38.920 But he was only human and was always enjoying hearing compliments. 0:31:39.640 --> 0:31:42.440 So there you go a bunch of fawning like Siica fans, 0:31:42.480 --> 0:31:45.320 hanging around, not drunk, not doing anything, playing Name that 0:31:45.360 --> 0:31:46.960 Tune and going girls, are you having a fun time? 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:51.200 So Graceland, right, the gates of the mansion, they had 0:31:51.200 --> 0:31:56.240 this very famous iconic guitar themed iron gates like music notes, 0:31:56.280 --> 0:31:59.600 and yeah, exactly music notes. So, according to one of 0:31:59.600 --> 0:32:02.040 the Memphis Mafia, this dude, Marty Lacker, one day Elvis 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:05.200 decided he'd do some redecorating. Right, So the year's nineteen 0:32:05.240 --> 0:32:07.400 sixty two at this point, still very young man. Elvis 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:09.640 hired his cousin. Because he's hired all of his cousins. 0:32:09.680 --> 0:32:12.120 They all live in the area from Tupelo, Mississippi, so 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:14.040 he's like, yeah, come on up to Memphis. So he's 0:32:14.080 --> 0:32:16.280 hired one of his cousins to work the gate as 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.080 a security guard on the night shift. So it's a 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:21.720 warm summer night Elvis in the Memphis Mafia. They went 0:32:21.760 --> 0:32:24.280 to town to watch a movie. They come back to 0:32:24.320 --> 0:32:26.719 Graceland around three four in the morning. Must have been 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:30.040 a long movie. So the cousin isn't there, right, he 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:32.200 isn't manning the gate. At this point, Elvis has yet 0:32:32.200 --> 0:32:34.680 to switch to Cadillacs. He's now driving a sixty three 0:32:34.760 --> 0:32:38.960 Buick Riviera. Okay, beautiful convertible car. Behind the wheel Elvis 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:41.880 gets impatient, so he lays on the horn right, And 0:32:41.880 --> 0:32:44.280 I forgot to tell you it wasn't just Elvis and 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:47.040 the Memphis Mafia in his convertible Buick Riviera. I don't 0:32:47.080 --> 0:32:48.800 want you to picture the wrong thing. There were some 0:32:48.840 --> 0:32:51.800 other people with them. There was a train of fifteen 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:55.960 cars behind Elvis's car, a convoy, all waiting to get 0:32:55.960 --> 0:32:59.320 into Graceland. He brought back fifteen car. Yeah, they went 0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:02.000 out to a movie back with fifteen cars. Elvis gonna 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:03.719 starts to get irritated because he's showing off for these 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:08.080 fifteen cars and nobody's opening up grace exactly. So what's 0:33:08.120 --> 0:33:11.160 he do? He backs that Buick Riviera up with the 0:33:11.200 --> 0:33:13.680 boys in the Memphis Mafia. And apparently there's a highway 0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:15.360 that used to runs right there in front of the gate, 0:33:15.440 --> 0:33:20.240 or like a big Southern high So yeah, so he runs, 0:33:20.400 --> 0:33:23.720 he backs up and then floors it. Elvis floors it. 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:27.240 Oh you better believe it. Has lacquer recalled it. Quote 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:30.440 Elvis tore the hell out of those gates. He also 0:33:30.640 --> 0:33:33.000 damages up the hell out of that Buick Rivierra. And 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:35.800 I quote because as the gates swung open, hit the curb. 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.160 They flew back and slapped the sides of the buick. 0:33:38.520 --> 0:33:41.160 Hearing all this commotion, the cousin wakes up, comes running down, 0:33:41.200 --> 0:33:43.560 and Elvis yells at him, from now on, those gates 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:46.760 better open when I get there. So new, Now we 0:33:46.840 --> 0:33:49.680 got vehicular mayhem. Right, that's just one thing. Boys being boys. 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:53.959 I told you, right. What about Elvis in all those guns? Elizabeth? Yeah, 0:33:54.000 --> 0:33:57.240 he like the Thankfully these guys don't drink so anyway, 0:33:57.280 --> 0:33:59.600 that's true. But they are boys. They had guns, so 0:33:59.640 --> 0:34:03.000 they said, let's do some shooting practice. Now. Becky Yancey, 0:34:03.080 --> 0:34:05.600 she was a secretary. He used to answer Elvis Presley's 0:34:05.600 --> 0:34:08.920 fan mail. She did that job for thirteen years, starting 0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:11.839 in March of sixty two, lasting until July seventy five. 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:13.000 He dies in seventy seven. 0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:14.959 This stuff she must have read. 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:16.600 Oh my god. She also wrote a book, so if 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:19.120 you want to read about it, Elizabeth, really, but my goodness, 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:23.040 my life with my life with Elvis, with Elizabeth. 0:34:22.680 --> 0:34:24.719 My life, that's your book. 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:29.239 That's my book. Yes, so we found this. I guess 0:34:29.239 --> 0:34:32.120 this is another surefire way to become an author. You 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.399 do a crime, go to prison, come out a writer. Yeah, 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:37.399 or the friend, assumeer super famous person and then tell 0:34:37.440 --> 0:34:40.399 all their dirt and slicious gossip. Well, whatever it is, you. 0:34:40.400 --> 0:34:41.360 Have be a snitch. 0:34:41.440 --> 0:34:44.000 Yeah. Anyways, she, as you put it, saw it all. Now, 0:34:44.080 --> 0:34:45.400 what was all, Elizabeth? 0:34:45.880 --> 0:34:49.120 I am terrified, like just a bunch of guys running around, 0:34:49.160 --> 0:34:50.920 all alluded to the gills. 0:34:50.800 --> 0:34:53.480 Exactly, firing guns in their underpants. 0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:55.600 So one day it works, She and another secretary they 0:34:55.600 --> 0:34:58.799 hear this quote a series of short, sharp explosions. Now 0:34:58.840 --> 0:35:01.200 the two women they leap for the floor, They hide 0:35:01.280 --> 0:35:04.680 under their desk. Then the walls around them start to deteriorate. 0:35:05.120 --> 0:35:07.719 Women suspect his gunfire. They're from the South, They're like, oh, 0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:08.480 these are bullet holes. 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:08.640 Right. 0:35:09.000 --> 0:35:13.080 So, as she put it, quote, ragged chips, some as 0:35:13.160 --> 0:35:15.799 large as dollar bills, other the size of needles, and 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.680 equally sharp showered the room like so much wooden confetti. 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:21.280 What was the deal, Elizabeth? 0:35:21.520 --> 0:35:22.239 What was the deal? 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:25.520 Elizabeth? Elvis and the Memphis Mafia had pulled out their 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:27.680 three fifty seven magnum and were shooting it at the 0:35:27.719 --> 0:35:30.040 old Well House, which happened to be right connected to 0:35:30.080 --> 0:35:31.560 where the secretary's office was. 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:32.840 Oh my god, they could have killed that. 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:35.600 Yeah, they had. The boys had slapped up a target 0:35:35.600 --> 0:35:36.920 that she had the shape of a man, and they 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:38.880 were dotting the man with holes and they were not 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:40.120 apparently the best shots. 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:41.120 Oh my god. 0:35:41.280 --> 0:35:44.440 Yeah, so the adjoining secretary's office just starts getting peppered 0:35:44.440 --> 0:35:46.799 with bullets. If they had been in the bathroom at 0:35:46.800 --> 0:35:50.280 the time, mm hmm. Elvis's game fun with gun ranges, 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:53.279 it would have probably ventilated either woman, right, Oh, no, 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.920 one of them. Her husband. She he came to Graceland 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:57.839 to pick her up, right, he said, If you were 0:35:57.880 --> 0:35:59.760 paul Lette had been hit by one of those bullets, 0:35:59.760 --> 0:36:02.680 your head would have exploded like watermelons. Those guys had 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:04.520 to be crazy to be doing that with two women 0:36:04.560 --> 0:36:04.839 in there. 0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:07.160 Did you go and yell at Elvis about it? 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:09.000 Then? Didn't do that? I didn't even see that in 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:11.560 the story. Now, Elvis and his boys did not stop 0:36:11.600 --> 0:36:14.120 this because in New Year's Eve, Elvis fired so many 0:36:14.160 --> 0:36:16.719 bullets at that same wellhouse that the damn thing caught 0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:18.479 fire the house. 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:19.440 Oh my god. 0:36:19.840 --> 0:36:22.120 Just before midnight in New Year's Eve, Elvis sent one 0:36:22.120 --> 0:36:24.040 of the Memphis Mafia into the main house to get 0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:28.239 the big guns. Right as Becky the Secretary's puts it. 0:36:28.680 --> 0:36:32.239 They're Baars Browning automatic rifles. They're in the next big thing, 0:36:32.280 --> 0:36:35.000 the machine guns. So right at the stroke of midnight, 0:36:35.040 --> 0:36:37.000 elvis fire is the first shot with the Browning, and 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:39.719 then all the others in Memphis Mafia they follow suit 0:36:39.760 --> 0:36:42.480 and they all unload on this well house together. Becky 0:36:42.560 --> 0:36:45.000 watches the gunfire from the safety of a window view 0:36:45.280 --> 0:36:49.320 as she tells Elizabeth, Elvis, his body bucking and jerking 0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:52.720 as he held the bar under one arm, fired twenty 0:36:52.760 --> 0:36:55.120 five or thirty rounds into the Whitehouse in less than 0:36:55.120 --> 0:36:57.920 a minute. Chunks of the clay targets flew in every direction, 0:36:57.960 --> 0:37:01.520 and the White House started to burn. Stop don't burn 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:05.560 the office down. I need my job now. At this point, 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:08.120 Elvis's father, Vernon runs out of the house because he 0:37:08.120 --> 0:37:09.759 lives there, and he tries to put out the fire 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:12.160 with his that his full grown son is lit with 0:37:12.239 --> 0:37:14.360 his buddies. He doesn't bring any water with him, so 0:37:14.440 --> 0:37:16.960 what does he do? He also doesn't turn on the hose. Nope, 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:18.759 what do you do? He takes off his jacket and 0:37:18.800 --> 0:37:21.759 starts slapping at the flames with his jacket. It's like 0:37:21.800 --> 0:37:23.920 a truck driver's idea. I don't know his son, Elvis 0:37:24.000 --> 0:37:26.319 yells at him. Oh, hell, daddy, let it burn. It's 0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:29.759 only money. Oh my goodness, So the well house that 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:31.520 was just the price to pay for Elvis and his 0:37:31.560 --> 0:37:34.600 boys have some semi sober fun on Near's eve. Elizabeth, Okay, 0:37:34.680 --> 0:37:39.240 now that we've covered a little semi yeah, the mostly 0:37:39.320 --> 0:37:42.160 legal fund that Elvis had. Agree, let's take a little break, 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:44.520 crack open some fresh ads. When we get back, I'll 0:37:44.520 --> 0:37:47.720 tell you about Elvis shooting TVs and uh oh yeah, 0:37:47.800 --> 0:37:49.239 someone trying to steal Graceland. 0:37:55.280 --> 0:38:14.160 Oh Elizabeth, Hey, buddy, you ready for some more Elvis 0:38:14.200 --> 0:38:14.800 and Graceland. 0:38:14.960 --> 0:38:18.520 Yes, no, Paul Simon. Sorry, anyway, we've been talking Elvis, Graceland. 0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:20.120 They have the best for last. Yes. 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:20.440 Please. 0:38:20.520 --> 0:38:22.520 Have you ever heard stories that Elvis kept a wall 0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:25.359 of TVs in Graceland, that sometimes he'd watch them at once, 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:26.879 and then if he didn't like somebody, he'd shoot out 0:38:26.880 --> 0:38:30.440 the TV. It's a very famous story, right. Is this 0:38:30.480 --> 0:38:32.480 story true? Is it fact? Is it fiction? Is it 0:38:32.480 --> 0:38:33.200 part of the legend. 0:38:33.280 --> 0:38:34.120 I say it's true. 0:38:34.160 --> 0:38:37.480 I looked into it. I have answers for you, and Elizabeth. 0:38:37.480 --> 0:38:39.960 I'd like you to close your up my eyes, and 0:38:40.000 --> 0:38:46.080 I'd like you to picture it. Elizabeth. It's a warm 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:49.560 spring night. The date is May twenty fifth, nineteen sixty five, 0:38:49.719 --> 0:38:52.680 and at the moment, you're seated on a white leather couch, 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:55.759 sipping on a sweet tea as you watch at the 0:38:55.840 --> 0:38:59.360 time large screen twenty five inch TV. It's not your choice, 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:03.280 but you're watching the heavyweight boxing championship rematch between Muhammad 0:39:03.320 --> 0:39:06.359 Ali and Sonny Listen, and you're not alone. There are 0:39:06.360 --> 0:39:09.120 a few friends and hangers on with you. They like 0:39:09.200 --> 0:39:11.319 you are the guests of the King. And by the king, 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:14.279 of course, I mean Elvis Presley. That's right, Elizabeth. You're 0:39:14.320 --> 0:39:17.000 watching one of the most famous fights in boxing history, 0:39:17.000 --> 0:39:19.560 and you're watching it with Elvis at Graceland. You are 0:39:19.600 --> 0:39:22.680 living a peak moment of the twentieth century. As the 0:39:22.719 --> 0:39:24.680 hangers on giggle and laugh and the boys from the 0:39:24.680 --> 0:39:29.120 Memphis Mafia laugh and get not drunk. You notice Priscilla Presley, 0:39:29.160 --> 0:39:31.160 Elvis's wife, come into the room with their young daughter, 0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:34.080 Lisa Marie, the five year old. The heavyweight fight has 0:39:34.160 --> 0:39:36.720 yet to start. At the moment, the actor singer Robert 0:39:36.719 --> 0:39:40.239 Goulai is singing The Star Spangled banner and it's not 0:39:40.400 --> 0:39:43.160 going well watching it. Elvis speaks up and says, you 0:39:43.239 --> 0:39:45.839 got a lovely voice, but there's no feeling there. It's 0:39:45.920 --> 0:39:47.960 like vocally, you can sing an opera and you have 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:51.560 to have feelings in your voice like you're talking. You're 0:39:51.560 --> 0:39:54.759 not along. Elvis makes good points. The Memphis Mafia Boys 0:39:54.800 --> 0:39:58.080 offers him Hallelujahs to the King, seconding his opinion. You 0:39:58.120 --> 0:39:59.839 sort of humble along in your head as you listen 0:39:59.880 --> 0:40:03.120 to Robert Gulay croon the tune of the National anthem. 0:40:03.360 --> 0:40:05.879 Then he gets to the words by the Don's Early Light, 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:08.680 and you hear him sing by the Downs early night 0:40:09.680 --> 0:40:12.680 night that doesn't even make sense, By the Dons Early Night. 0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:16.200 You see Elvis grumble to himself too. You seem to 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:18.400 both agree he's just as annoyed by the mistake and 0:40:18.520 --> 0:40:21.160 lyrics as you are. Then Robert Gulay does it again. 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:25.240 Instead of singing Gave Proof through the Night, Gulay sings 0:40:25.280 --> 0:40:28.359 gave Proof through the Fight. You roll your eyes at 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.279 that one. Elvis grumbles. Now he's pissed off and he 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:33.880 isn't letting it go. You see a flash of metal. 0:40:34.040 --> 0:40:36.960 Elvis whips out a three point fifty seven magnum handgun, 0:40:37.160 --> 0:40:39.880 and he shouts at the TV, you learn the words 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:43.800 of our national anthem usob and he squeezes the trigger. 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:47.279 The gun dark explames, A bullet screams through the air, 0:40:47.320 --> 0:40:50.560 and he shatters the TV. A couple of young women 0:40:50.840 --> 0:40:54.160 seated with the Memphis Mafia boy scream startled by the gunfire. 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.799 You saw it coming, so you're not as terrified. But 0:40:56.880 --> 0:41:00.000 you notice Priscilla and Lisa Marie are entirely non played. 0:41:00.360 --> 0:41:02.839 They have seen this plenty of times. It's like it's 0:41:02.840 --> 0:41:05.240 a remote control for him. Elvis says to his Memphis 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:09.319 Mafia boys, take it to the graveyard. One of the 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:12.279 boys dutifully hops up unplugs the TV. A second guy 0:41:12.360 --> 0:41:15.120 brings in a fresh twenty five inch TV and plugs 0:41:15.120 --> 0:41:18.120 it in. He changes the channel and finds the muhammadad 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:21.279 Li Sonny Liston fight. Thankfully, Robert hu Leigh is gone. 0:41:21.480 --> 0:41:24.319 The boxers are being introduced silently. You make a little 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:27.000 wish that muhammadad Lee and Sonny Liston don't do anything 0:41:27.000 --> 0:41:29.960 to piss off Elvis. And then you hear little Lisa 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:33.120 Marie ask her daddy why he shot out the TV 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:35.920 and Elvis says in a soft voice to his daughter, 0:41:36.400 --> 0:41:38.359 I didn't want to stand up and turn it off. 0:41:39.160 --> 0:41:42.960 Oh my god, there you go, Elizabeth. That was the 0:41:43.040 --> 0:41:45.480 most famous thing, since he did this multiple times, but 0:41:45.520 --> 0:41:47.319 this is my favorite and the most famous. He did 0:41:47.320 --> 0:41:50.279 this in hotels. He got into Vegas, he stayed on Yeah, 0:41:50.280 --> 0:41:52.000 I stayed in a hotel and he'd shoot TVs. He 0:41:52.040 --> 0:41:54.040 did this like this happens a bunch. It was like 0:41:54.200 --> 0:41:56.560 it literally was like, I don't have a remote control, 0:41:56.640 --> 0:42:00.319 so I've got a gun replace it. So anyway, and 0:42:00.360 --> 0:42:02.120 all those these are all direct quotes. I pulled that 0:42:02.200 --> 0:42:04.919 from multiple stories of people who were there, and those 0:42:04.920 --> 0:42:07.640 are all there a recollection. So wow, that story of 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:10.000 Elvis shooting out the TV because of Robert Gulay flubbing 0:42:10.040 --> 0:42:12.680 the national anthem was a very famous story at the time. 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:15.480 It had to annoy Gulay, right because this guy is 0:42:15.520 --> 0:42:18.480 also a star. Now decades later, in two thousand and four, 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.800 he was still having the answer to it. A local 0:42:20.800 --> 0:42:22.680 Memphis newspaper. He was in town at the time the 0:42:22.680 --> 0:42:25.280 commercial appeal. They had the local newspaper. They asked Gulay 0:42:25.680 --> 0:42:29.280 about Elvis shooting his TV rather than listen to Gulay 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:32.720 sing asked the man to his face. Yeah, and Gulay defends, 0:42:32.800 --> 0:42:34.600 of course he's a good name. But I love how 0:42:34.600 --> 0:42:37.280 he throws Frank Sinatra under the bus to clear himself. 0:42:37.360 --> 0:42:40.560 Wait what Yes, according to Gulay, and I quote when 0:42:40.560 --> 0:42:43.520 he shot the television set, he also shot fifty other people. 0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:46.040 He told me that he had about one hundred sets 0:42:46.040 --> 0:42:47.839 in the basement and he'd shoot the damn thing out. 0:42:47.880 --> 0:42:50.400 You know, he was on pills and he didn't know 0:42:50.480 --> 0:42:52.719 quite what he was doing, and he'd bang, and then 0:42:52.760 --> 0:42:54.880 he'd look at each other and say, get another set. 0:42:55.160 --> 0:42:57.160 They mentioned me all the time. I don't know why 0:42:57.360 --> 0:43:00.439 the point is. I know he was not done self, 0:43:00.520 --> 0:43:02.759 so therefore it wasn't anything to do with me. He 0:43:02.840 --> 0:43:05.719 shot out miltur May, he shot out Frank Sinatra, but 0:43:05.960 --> 0:43:09.320 I get all the credit. So the story is apparently, 0:43:09.320 --> 0:43:11.200 when Milt Turmae was on one time, he shot it. 0:43:11.200 --> 0:43:13.239 When Frank Sinatra was on one time, he shot it. 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:16.759 But everyone knows Gulet he shot it because he don't 0:43:16.800 --> 0:43:17.520 like Gulet. Right. 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:22.200 The best Robert Gulay is will Ferris Robert. 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:29.759 Robert check it on. Now, when you have someone who's 0:43:29.760 --> 0:43:32.319 dispensing firearms inside the house. It often means you'll need 0:43:32.360 --> 0:43:36.080 to do some home repair time, right, which certainly did. 0:43:36.160 --> 0:43:38.759 They'll like plasters, spackle. 0:43:38.480 --> 0:43:41.080 House spinders would hate him. Bill, you got to show 0:43:41.160 --> 0:43:43.680 up on Monday again after long weekend standing. 0:43:43.520 --> 0:43:45.879 Order at the local hardware store where they just drop 0:43:45.960 --> 0:43:48.120 off crates of this stuff to patch up the water. 0:43:48.000 --> 0:43:51.200 Sackle, plaster, pain. Here's some prime. We do it again, boy. 0:43:51.440 --> 0:43:53.680 So uh at this point, let's see, as I told 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:56.280 you elvious, he bought Graceland fifty seven. Well, he immediately 0:43:56.360 --> 0:43:58.360 set to put his stamp on his new home. Elvis, 0:43:58.400 --> 0:44:00.200 at the time, a very young man, said, I will 0:44:00.239 --> 0:44:03.120 probably have a black bedroom, sweet trimmed in white leather 0:44:03.200 --> 0:44:06.200 with a white rug alost knew what he liked. So 0:44:07.080 --> 0:44:09.480 his last decorator, she wrote a book because she was 0:44:09.480 --> 0:44:12.000 his decorator, such as like Elvis and me and holding 0:44:12.040 --> 0:44:13.759 a spackle. I don't know, because of course she did 0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:15.480 all right, and so in her case it was an 0:44:15.520 --> 0:44:18.680 autobiography though, so we'll give her some slack. Who woman's 0:44:18.719 --> 0:44:21.360 name is Linda Thompson. She worked with Elvis until nineteen 0:44:21.360 --> 0:44:25.080 seventy four. So as Linda Thompson recalled, Elvis would tell 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:25.720 her his plans. 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:25.880 Right. 0:44:26.040 --> 0:44:28.080 He's like, oh, you know, I want I want a 0:44:28.160 --> 0:44:30.080 jungle room. She's like, Elvis, what do you mean a 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:32.319 jungle room. He's like, you know that basement room I have. 0:44:32.640 --> 0:44:34.759 I want it to open out to the outside, but 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:36.680 I want the outside to be on the inside. And 0:44:36.719 --> 0:44:39.319 they're like, we take this screened in porch, right, and 0:44:39.360 --> 0:44:41.799 then just enclose it, make it. Make it a jungle room. 0:44:41.800 --> 0:44:44.400 They're quite You're like, yeah, lots of plants, right. She's like, Elvis, 0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:47.239 are you serious? He said, and I quote, Honey, I 0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:49.319 want this to look like you're in the jungle. And 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:51.439 we're gonna put green carpet up the wall. I want 0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:54.360 green carpet to climb the wall like moss is climbing 0:44:54.360 --> 0:44:54.760 the wall. 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:56.600 Oh my god, I'm live Tiger. 0:44:56.680 --> 0:45:00.319 I knew you would love that wall carpet. I mean, thick, rich, 0:45:00.400 --> 0:45:02.040 green shag carpet gone. 0:45:01.880 --> 0:45:02.680 Halfway up the wall. 0:45:02.760 --> 0:45:06.600 All these tropical plants and it's the South mustiness in 0:45:06.640 --> 0:45:08.520 that carpet jungle room. 0:45:09.440 --> 0:45:10.759 Also, by the way, they went to one of your 0:45:10.760 --> 0:45:15.840 favorite spots, peer One Import. They bought up some chairs, 0:45:15.840 --> 0:45:18.239 not just any chairs, these chairs had fake fur on them. 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:20.839 They were fake fur chairs chairs. They went fog while 0:45:20.880 --> 0:45:23.400 and peer one import. It's all wicker, odd furniture. 0:45:23.120 --> 0:45:24.719 So much wicker, so many campbells. 0:45:24.760 --> 0:45:27.080 Now, what colors do you think he decorated his bedroom 0:45:27.560 --> 0:45:31.600 black and white, red and black with touches of gold. Oh, 0:45:31.719 --> 0:45:33.520 the dining room living and what colors are those? 0:45:34.160 --> 0:45:34.680 Uh? 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:40.239 Blue, red and black with touches, with huge, oversized high 0:45:40.239 --> 0:45:42.640 backed chairs like you were just dining with bales above. 0:45:43.200 --> 0:45:44.600 Elvis was a bit of a goth in case you 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:47.960 didn't know that now, as the decorator Linda Thompson remembered, quote, 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:51.319 everything was exaggerated over the top. It looked like a bordello. 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:53.239 It truly did. It wouldn't have been my taste, but 0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:55.719 it was totally all this. Now, Elizabeth, I'd like you 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:58.000 to imagine what the pool room looked like, where Elvis 0:45:58.000 --> 0:46:00.919 and the Memphis Mafia would hang out table or yeah, 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:03.600 pool table and they'd shoot pool and not drink. 0:46:03.640 --> 0:46:06.200 I think it was red black with touches of gold. 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:09.840 No, it had a tent like feel, got the circus 0:46:09.880 --> 0:46:12.080 tent like, Yeah, you had like fabric going up to 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:12.480 a point. 0:46:12.640 --> 0:46:14.760 Oh and I'm sure that was awesome. 0:46:14.520 --> 0:46:16.239 Right, Yeah, And then there was the TV room that 0:46:16.320 --> 0:46:18.640 had all the wall of TVs so that way one 0:46:18.640 --> 0:46:21.560 could watch CBS, NBC, and ABC all at the same time. 0:46:21.840 --> 0:46:24.600 Because remember there's only like so many five channels. You 0:46:24.640 --> 0:46:28.040 got that PBS and a uh chef channel. So yeah, 0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:30.000 so if unless you wanted to watch my mother the car, 0:46:30.040 --> 0:46:32.640 he was probably watching NBC. Now in this TV room, 0:46:32.680 --> 0:46:36.400 Elvis also had design touches like quote, lightning bolts zinging 0:46:36.440 --> 0:46:39.080 through the clouds on the back wall. Elvis apparently also 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:41.520 quote wanted mirrors on the ceiling to make the room 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:45.279 appear higher and more open, and she also bought him 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:48.640 ceramic monkeys to just place around wherever he thought ceramic 0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:49.319 monkey should go. 0:46:49.480 --> 0:46:53.960 Mirrors on the ceilings, ceramic monkeys, clouds with lightning bolts 0:46:53.960 --> 0:46:54.920 coming out of them on the. 0:46:54.840 --> 0:46:56.760 Back carpet on the walls. 0:46:56.960 --> 0:46:57.520 Oh my god. 0:46:57.600 --> 0:47:00.560 Yeah. So sadly much of this design work was time 0:47:01.680 --> 0:47:03.960 in the living rooms and the dining room. They were 0:47:03.960 --> 0:47:06.239 repainted white like his mother preferred them, because his mother 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:08.080 and father lived with him when he first got the house. 0:47:08.400 --> 0:47:10.000 Then they tried to slow this down, and then when 0:47:10.000 --> 0:47:11.680 they like passed away, and he's like, all right, red 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:15.239 and black walls, sorry, daddy. Now the jungle room boat, though, 0:47:15.280 --> 0:47:19.400 has remained unchanged. So when we go to Graceland. 0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:20.480 Yeah, we should have recorded the first. 0:47:20.400 --> 0:47:23.480 Thing going to Jungle Room, just as Elvis intended it. Now, 0:47:23.520 --> 0:47:26.360 Elvias says, you probably may know, don't know, I don't know. 0:47:26.600 --> 0:47:29.600 Died on August sixteenth, nineteen seventy seven. Yeah, Elvis is 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:32.640 no longer with us. Elizabeth, he was, however old somebody 0:47:32.640 --> 0:47:36.120 would be when they died nineteen seventy seven. I don't 0:47:36.160 --> 0:47:41.040 know what he was. I could pro he's in his forties. 0:47:41.080 --> 0:47:43.239 He was between fifteen eighty six. 0:47:43.280 --> 0:47:44.920 I think he's in his early forties. I don't I 0:47:44.960 --> 0:47:45.520 don't quite know. 0:47:45.800 --> 0:47:48.879 He was more than five and less than one hundred. 0:47:49.000 --> 0:47:52.080 Yeah, I mean he's like in his early twenties. Stories, 0:47:52.280 --> 0:47:55.320 so yeah, he's in his mid forties. So anyway, quite famously, 0:47:55.320 --> 0:47:58.279 he died on the toilet. Five years later, Graceland opened 0:47:58.320 --> 0:48:00.640 to the public as a museum. Why would they do 0:48:00.719 --> 0:48:03.719 that because the house now belonged to Priscilla, and she 0:48:03.840 --> 0:48:05.960 was the heir when Elvis passed. Yeah, and she was 0:48:06.080 --> 0:48:09.200 also the daughter Lisa Marie and so when Elvis died, 0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:11.200 he left them with a half million dollar a year 0:48:11.320 --> 0:48:13.879 bill for the taxes and the maintenance of the home. 0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:16.520 They're like, I'm not getting it on stage, and so 0:48:16.680 --> 0:48:18.839 I'm not Elvis. I don't have a comeback special. So 0:48:18.880 --> 0:48:20.759 they opened the doors of the public. They said, come 0:48:20.800 --> 0:48:22.640 on in, look at it. Give me five dollars. So 0:48:22.800 --> 0:48:25.480 visitors they go crazy and they go there. They told 0:48:25.520 --> 0:48:28.040 you by the millions, right, and then didn't they start 0:48:28.080 --> 0:48:30.600 adding attractions they had like they had lost things over 0:48:30.640 --> 0:48:33.600 the years. So like apparently some of the had family jets. 0:48:33.719 --> 0:48:35.719 I don't know what that means, jets. They had their 0:48:35.760 --> 0:48:38.120 own jets, like the Elvis Presley family owned a jet. 0:48:38.360 --> 0:48:40.279 They didn't say it was Elvis's jets, like a family jet, 0:48:40.360 --> 0:48:43.040 because there was one. Elvis's personal jet was called the 0:48:43.080 --> 0:48:45.360 Lisa Marie, named after his daughter. And then there was 0:48:45.400 --> 0:48:48.000 his other plane, the hound Dog two, right, which I 0:48:48.040 --> 0:48:49.520 have to assume as a play on Air Force one, 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.640 Like I was like, well, nick'son era right. So according 0:48:52.680 --> 0:48:56.279 to the official Graceland website, the next major development was 0:48:56.320 --> 0:48:59.279 the purchase of an existing nearby hotel property, renovating it 0:48:59.320 --> 0:49:02.680 and renaming it Elvis Presley's Heartbreak Hotel. Oh god, yeah, 0:49:02.760 --> 0:49:04.880 Heartbreak Hotel. Thought you liked that one because you have 0:49:04.880 --> 0:49:08.000 to have a heartbreak hotel. But then the Elvis fans 0:49:08.040 --> 0:49:10.239 were forced to find a new place to go when 0:49:10.239 --> 0:49:14.440 the Heartbreak Hotel shut its doors in twenty sixteen. So now, 0:49:14.440 --> 0:49:16.680 at first, after Elvis passed his father, who's in charge 0:49:16.680 --> 0:49:17.600 of Graceland Vernon? 0:49:17.680 --> 0:49:17.799 Right? 0:49:17.960 --> 0:49:18.160 Yeah? 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:20.640 Then it was Priscilla, And then when Lisa Marie turned 0:49:20.680 --> 0:49:24.400 twenty five, she inherits Graceland. And then after Lisa Marie 0:49:24.920 --> 0:49:28.000 passes away in twenty twenty three, the Presley family home 0:49:28.080 --> 0:49:31.319 now gets left to her daughter, Riley Keo, who's now 0:49:31.360 --> 0:49:34.520 the current owner of Graceland. And almost as soon as 0:49:34.520 --> 0:49:36.320 that poor girl in harted grace Land, along came a 0:49:36.360 --> 0:49:39.239 scammer to try to steal it away from her. Oh no, yeah, 0:49:39.239 --> 0:49:41.600 the story goes. The court document gets filed on behalf 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:45.560 of Nausony Investments. The company claims that they are holding 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:48.640 a loan dating back to twenty eighteen. The loan is 0:49:48.680 --> 0:49:51.920 the amount of three point eight million dollars. They say 0:49:52.040 --> 0:49:55.160 the loan is from Lisa Marie Presley, her mother. Now 0:49:55.160 --> 0:49:57.799 when fifty four year old Lisa Marie Presley passed away 0:49:57.880 --> 0:50:00.440 in January of twenty twenty three. Hard document claim she 0:50:00.560 --> 0:50:03.560 left behind the sizeable debt right, specifically the three point 0:50:03.560 --> 0:50:06.320 eight million dollars. Yeah, and since Lisa Marie had failed 0:50:06.320 --> 0:50:08.959 to pay the loan, the plaintiff claimed in their court 0:50:09.000 --> 0:50:11.480 documents that Lisa Marie had put up Graceland as collateral 0:50:11.520 --> 0:50:14.080 the whole thing. Yeah, So now the plaintiff wants to 0:50:14.239 --> 0:50:18.080 legally claim what's rightfully theirs, namely Graceland. So they file paperwork, 0:50:18.160 --> 0:50:21.200 the court honors it and starts to process like the 0:50:21.239 --> 0:50:25.160 transfer of Graceland the new owner, Elvis's granddaughter, Riley Cooe. 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:27.279 Here's about this because it gets like updates and then 0:50:27.320 --> 0:50:30.000 has to go into court to fight these claims. Yeah, 0:50:30.080 --> 0:50:33.400 the foreclosure is granted at first, as I said, right, 0:50:33.480 --> 0:50:34.840 they start foreclosing. 0:50:34.360 --> 0:50:36.360 Out, you're gonna auction it on the courthouse stead. 0:50:36.200 --> 0:50:39.440 They're gonna sell Graceland, do whatever, right Keo's lawyers, they 0:50:39.520 --> 0:50:42.879 argue in a Tennessee court, this is Elvis's granddaughter. That 0:50:42.920 --> 0:50:46.240 loan paperwork was fraudulent. Her mother, Lisa Marie, never signed 0:50:46.239 --> 0:50:50.000 this paperwork. Oh, this is clearly not her signature. Here's 0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:52.520 what her signature looks like. Here's another example. Does that 0:50:52.560 --> 0:50:55.480 look like it? The judge's like, oh, you make good points. 0:50:56.239 --> 0:50:59.360 So the mother's signature was designated to be faked, clearly forged. 0:50:59.400 --> 0:51:01.680 So what happened now, well, they stopped the foreclosure of 0:51:01.719 --> 0:51:05.800 Graceland obviously, right yeah. So then the court investigates Keo's claims, 0:51:05.880 --> 0:51:07.839 you know, and they go, okay, let's let's look into this. 0:51:07.880 --> 0:51:11.360 And at this point the scams averted. The ring leader emerges, 0:51:11.400 --> 0:51:15.359 they get discovered and it's this guy from behind Nauseny Investments, right. 0:51:15.440 --> 0:51:18.480 So his name is Gregory Nauseny and Elizabeth. He was 0:51:18.480 --> 0:51:19.760 a Nigerian scammer. 0:51:20.360 --> 0:51:23.120 Oh no way, Oh that's so good. 0:51:23.400 --> 0:51:25.799 He sent emails bragging boasting about how he and his 0:51:25.880 --> 0:51:29.520 gang of fellow Nigerian scammers almost pulled off the impossible 0:51:29.560 --> 0:51:33.520 stealing Graceland, which is some paperwork. As Gregoradion Nauseny boasted 0:51:33.560 --> 0:51:35.759 in his email, we sit back and laugh at you 0:51:35.880 --> 0:51:38.680 idiots and watch you make fools of yourself. Come find 0:51:38.760 --> 0:51:41.560 us in Nigeria. So that was a tall order, right, 0:51:41.600 --> 0:51:44.000 good luck with that, and even more impossible than stealing 0:51:44.040 --> 0:51:46.160 Graceland with just some paperwork. By the way, Yeah, his 0:51:46.200 --> 0:51:49.000 email had all these like grammatical errors one would expect 0:51:49.040 --> 0:51:52.000 from a Nigerian scammer. But turns out, Elizabeth, that was 0:51:52.040 --> 0:51:55.440 on purpose, because you see, the Nigerian scammer, Gregory Naseny 0:51:55.600 --> 0:51:56.840 was also a fraud. 0:51:57.480 --> 0:51:58.520 Wait, what a fake? 0:51:58.600 --> 0:52:01.560 A mask for an American gammer to wear, and because 0:52:01.840 --> 0:52:03.680 just like how you leapt to believe it was a 0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:07.319 Nigerian scammer, everybody else you told me, I know, that's what, 0:52:07.400 --> 0:52:10.200 that's all. That's all anybody ever does they go, hey, 0:52:10.320 --> 0:52:12.040 this guy he told me this thing, or that guy 0:52:12.080 --> 0:52:15.560 lives there. It's called lying, Elizabeth, What you then choose 0:52:15.560 --> 0:52:18.200 to believe the lie based on the gulbibility of you 0:52:18.480 --> 0:52:21.440 or the culpability of my life sounding real and like 0:52:21.480 --> 0:52:25.440 what weight it can carry? Anyway, The emails, the court documents, 0:52:25.440 --> 0:52:27.280 they all get traced back to a woman named Lisa 0:52:27.360 --> 0:52:31.399 Janine Finley. Was she some secret Elvis daughter trying to 0:52:31.440 --> 0:52:34.680 finiss her way into the inheritance? No, nope, nope, nope. 0:52:34.880 --> 0:52:38.280 She was just a great I know, guys, it should 0:52:38.320 --> 0:52:41.600 be should be definitely skeptical of this one. She was 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:45.920 a grade eight uncut American scammer. Elizabeth homegrown fifty three 0:52:46.000 --> 0:52:49.000 year old fraudster was a woman with six aliases known 0:52:49.080 --> 0:52:54.640 as Carolyn Williams, Kisa Holden, Lisa Janine soulland Gregory Nawsony 0:52:54.800 --> 0:52:58.239 and Kurt Nawseny. She was not from Nigeria, she was 0:52:58.280 --> 0:53:02.800 from Missouri. Her rap sheet was impressive, Elizabeth. She was 0:53:02.880 --> 0:53:05.480 no criminal spring chicken this one. She had busts for fraud, 0:53:05.680 --> 0:53:09.360 forged checks, scams going back decades decades. Frederic grand Jury 0:53:09.480 --> 0:53:11.960 easily persuaded to bring charges against her. They're like, just 0:53:12.000 --> 0:53:15.040 where do we sign I got? I wanted my parking validated? 0:53:15.120 --> 0:53:18.080 Now this was to be her magnum opens. 0:53:17.840 --> 0:53:21.200 Totally, really was she got real close if the lawyers 0:53:21.239 --> 0:53:23.440 have been a little slower, or if the news headlines 0:53:23.440 --> 0:53:26.160 hadn't bust broken because people notice the court documents and 0:53:26.200 --> 0:53:29.440 the news is really what broke out anyway. Former roommates 0:53:29.440 --> 0:53:32.320 testified about how old Lisa Jeanine had bragged them about 0:53:32.320 --> 0:53:35.040 her plans to foreclose on Graceland and steal it with 0:53:35.120 --> 0:53:37.000 just a stroke of a pen and a judge's gavel. 0:53:37.080 --> 0:53:41.000 And then Lisa Janine is actually of cover for someone up. 0:53:42.440 --> 0:53:44.400 No, she was. Really she's the one because she was 0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:47.920 arrested charged with aggravated identity theft and mail fraud. Ooh, 0:53:48.040 --> 0:53:48.520 mail fraud. 0:53:48.560 --> 0:53:50.160 That's a tough one to every. 0:53:50.040 --> 0:53:51.960 Mail fraud telling it's a banker, because you'll get twenty 0:53:52.080 --> 0:53:55.400 years for each charge. Each single incident is a charge. 0:53:56.239 --> 0:53:59.000 So family, she's convicted, and if she gets convicted, she's 0:53:59.080 --> 0:54:01.640 right now in federal corre. The conviction rate is about 0:54:01.719 --> 0:54:06.960 ninety eight percent. Get invested anyway. The expected sentence is 0:54:06.960 --> 0:54:11.880 a maximum of twenty years. All her an attempt to steal, Well, 0:54:12.200 --> 0:54:14.040 that's what that's what What are you in here for? 0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:16.400 I tried to steal Elvis's house? Seriously, what are you 0:54:16.440 --> 0:54:20.960 in here for? I tried to steal Graceland White two 0:54:20.960 --> 0:54:22.879 copies of the album. How many copies of the album 0:54:22.880 --> 0:54:25.720 do you try to No? I tried to steal Graceland anyway, 0:54:25.719 --> 0:54:27.320 it was already take away here, Elizabeth. 0:54:27.360 --> 0:54:28.759 I don't steal Graceland, right. 0:54:28.920 --> 0:54:31.480 That's if you do only steal the album, it's much 0:54:31.480 --> 0:54:33.880 easier to get away with and the punishment is much less. 0:54:34.080 --> 0:54:37.640 You hear about people stealing homes and where they kind 0:54:37.640 --> 0:54:41.080 of get was get someone to sign over like McCart. 0:54:41.040 --> 0:54:42.480 I told you a story of the guys stealing home. 0:54:42.560 --> 0:54:44.520 Yeah, yeah, but this that's that's but. 0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:47.600 They were yeah, they were abandon not abandon but you 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:50.920 know under like those they are vacated homes, right, nobody 0:54:51.160 --> 0:54:51.680 living in the home. 0:54:51.840 --> 0:54:54.439 Do it like out from under like an elder. 0:54:54.520 --> 0:54:56.960 Families completely, But you're not going to do it through 0:54:57.080 --> 0:54:59.759 like you know Elvis's granddaughter and his legal team. Yeah 0:55:00.000 --> 0:55:01.080 oh wow yeah, so. 0:55:01.239 --> 0:55:03.800 Uh that's your ridiculous takeaway. 0:55:03.600 --> 0:55:05.480 The fact I was able to scam you so quickly 0:55:05.520 --> 0:55:10.719 with a Nigerian woo, that's my ridiculous a right, good 0:55:10.719 --> 0:55:12.320 for you in the move for talk about just to 0:55:12.360 --> 0:55:27.480 clear the palate, get some of that feeling. Yes, oh god, Hello. 0:55:27.320 --> 0:55:30.200 Elizabeth and Zaren. This is Vanessa in Texas. And you 0:55:30.239 --> 0:55:34.359 know what's ridiculous the idea that nobody has yet made 0:55:34.480 --> 0:55:39.240 the animated version of Mob Barker Gang Adventures as envisioned 0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:42.839 by young Zaren, with characters such as Joe Beagle, Al 0:55:42.960 --> 0:55:48.080 the Bone, Braby's Face, Nelson Machine, and Jay Edgar Rover. 0:55:49.000 --> 0:55:51.880 Is somebody out there who can make it? As listening, please. 0:55:51.560 --> 0:55:52.360 Make this happen. 0:55:53.200 --> 0:55:58.439 It is genius. I love that this is so good. 0:55:58.640 --> 0:56:01.239 I also gotta say I missed a talk that was uh. 0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:05.279 They had the talkback where the guy did specifically for 0:56:05.320 --> 0:56:06.839 me and I wasn't here, and I said, I wanted 0:56:06.840 --> 0:56:09.919 to say that was dope. I listened on the road. 0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:13.760 I was like, y'all killing it. 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