1 00:00:00,920 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: This is gem Nations woman as. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:11,320 Speaker 2: I Gotta Feeling in my body look musical. 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 3: That is actually that is a track I found because 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 3: I've got a label house of I owned with R. C. A, 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 3: and I was able to go through They owned all 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Speaker 3: of Elvis's recordings and I was able to go through 7 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,440 Speaker 3: nine hundred of them, like one hundred takes of you know, 8 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 3: suspicious minds or whatever. But I found his one that 9 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 3: he did at STATS called I Got a Feeling in 10 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,320 Speaker 3: my body, This will be my lucky day. 11 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:31,000 Speaker 2: It's a gospel. 12 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 3: So I go down with Dave Cobb and we record 13 00:00:34,159 --> 00:00:37,480 Speaker 3: all these gospel singers in churches, and to me, it's 14 00:00:37,520 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 3: the big disco banger. 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:39,960 Speaker 2: You should play that track. 16 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 4: It's it's a I'm waiting for the soundtrack to come out, 17 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 4: trying it's coming. 18 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 3: We've got the doja cat out the clip dropping as 19 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 3: I'm speaking. 20 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:50,560 Speaker 2: To you in one hour's time. 21 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:55,960 Speaker 3: Elvis is from Tupelo, Sway Lee is from Tupelo, dip 22 00:00:56,040 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 3: Low is from Tupelo. And on the Empty V Awards, Riley, 23 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:03,480 Speaker 3: Elvis's granddaughter, is about to introduce in about an hour 24 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,440 Speaker 3: this song called Tibelo Shuffle, in which Austin sings that's 25 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:10,120 Speaker 3: all right, Mamascra's right. 26 00:01:10,840 --> 00:01:13,440 Speaker 4: We spoke to Austin and I could not rave enough 27 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 4: about how captivated I was by him and the concert scenes. 28 00:01:18,760 --> 00:01:21,880 Speaker 4: I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was seeing el 29 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:24,200 Speaker 4: And it's so important. As you said, you didn't want 30 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 4: an impersonator, this wasn't an impersonator movie. He had to 31 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 4: go deep. 32 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 33 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the difference between he's the most impersonated person 34 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,120 Speaker 3: on the planet, Elvis to an extent that he's a 35 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: Halloween costume. Let's be honest, under like thirty five kids 36 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 3: just think he's in Lillo and Stitch or something. He's 37 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: the funny guy in the white suit. But I think 38 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:49,800 Speaker 3: what Austin's great achievement is partially because he's like that himself, 39 00:01:49,800 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 3: and partially of this just insane level of two years 40 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 3: of living as Elvis is he humanizes him. And I've 41 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 3: had other artists, very well known see it and go 42 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 3: I'm not into Elvis and come out and go I 43 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Speaker 3: felt like I. 44 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 2: Met someone I didn't know. I met someone I didn't know, 45 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 2: and I think that's his great achiete. 46 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 1: And that's what I found in the movie as well. 47 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,520 Speaker 1: And like I read in an interview, you said you 48 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: were a big Elvis fan, but you said he's the 49 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:14,920 Speaker 1: original punk. 50 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:16,399 Speaker 2: I was as a kid. 51 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 3: You know, we had the little cinema and we played 52 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 3: all the sort of movies, and I think, like easy 53 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:21,920 Speaker 3: companies to go with kills men in the world. But 54 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:24,320 Speaker 3: I very quickly went on to Bowie and Elton and 55 00:02:24,320 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. 56 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:27,640 Speaker 2: But when I started to go. 57 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 3: Back, and I was living in the South and I 58 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 3: had this space at Graceland, and you know, and you 59 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:36,359 Speaker 3: start peeling back the layers, you realize, well, first of all, 60 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 3: he's a truck driver at. 61 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:41,160 Speaker 2: Like nineteen one year one half. 62 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 3: His lage is the richest, most famous personal planet that 63 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 3: had not happened before. 64 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 2: And he's rebelling and he's like a punk. 65 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 3: Like his relationship to the fact that he grows up 66 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: in one of the few white houses in the black community, 67 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 3: his relationship to B. B. King Beale Street, all of that. 68 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 3: They wanted to put him in jail, you know, like 69 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 3: he was thumbing him. He wasn't political, but what he 70 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 3: was doing was getting him do a lot of political 71 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,040 Speaker 3: hot water. And then the Colonel never, Colonel never, Tom 72 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:15,440 Speaker 3: never Parker right, mystery man plot twist, but he goes, oh, 73 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:17,400 Speaker 3: I was selling this, but now I'm going to sell 74 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 3: the family friendly guy. And to a certain extent, he 75 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,399 Speaker 3: only rebels once again, which is when he come back. 76 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: And because Tom in this is as Colonel Tom Parker 77 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: is a bad guy in a way like a lot. 78 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 2: Of people buy yeah. 79 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,799 Speaker 1: But the last time I saw him as a bad 80 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 1: guy was when he beat up the Fonds in Happy Days. 81 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,240 Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember that, Tom. 82 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,160 Speaker 2: I thought I knew every episode of Happy Days. 83 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 3: It's funny, you know, because Tom was talking about Ron 84 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 3: Howard's a picture which is beautiful. I hear, and Ron 85 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 3: was in Happy Days and then Tom was in Happy Days. 86 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: I don't know why they just don't reboot Happy Days. 87 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 2: I don't know. 88 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:56,360 Speaker 4: I don't know if you could have someone one of 89 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 4: the lead characters whose office is in the toilet anymore. 90 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:00,000 Speaker 2: I don't know if people would. 91 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 3: Joe Side that was, like said the seventies right, because 92 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 3: I grew up it you think of it. That was 93 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 3: a take on the fifties and the fans is a 94 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:08,800 Speaker 3: take on Elvis. 95 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 2: He really is, you know what I mean? 96 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,520 Speaker 3: The cool that's him doing Elvis sort of Elvis Marlin, 97 00:04:14,880 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: you know, definitely. And so what happens is when we're 98 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,279 Speaker 3: growing up, like the fifties, you think Greece, but we 99 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,040 Speaker 3: only did the fifties. 100 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:23,840 Speaker 2: Ironically. We did it with. 101 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 3: Kind of a bit tongue in cheek. You know, it 102 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 3: was fun and it was clean. You get down into 103 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 3: it with Elvis and you realize it wasn't fun. I mean, 104 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,280 Speaker 3: they were going to kill him in the fifties, you know. 105 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:38,640 Speaker 1: And he's very brave, really, and that's what you find 106 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:42,040 Speaker 1: on this journey with him. The bravery like to go 107 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:45,320 Speaker 1: into the colored parts of town and you know, not just. 108 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 3: Go into I mean, yeah, he loved it, he lived it. 109 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,880 Speaker 3: But I think then you get look, he's not a saying. 110 00:04:49,960 --> 00:04:52,120 Speaker 3: He's like all great eyes is flawed. So then he 111 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:55,000 Speaker 3: gets in the bubble and then he doesn't know why 112 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:57,520 Speaker 3: he never sings outside of America. 113 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 2: He always wants to keep moving forward. 114 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 3: And he's called in a trap and the trap is 115 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 3: said bye, never a colonel time Never Parker. 116 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 2: I said that. 117 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,680 Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, And the thing is 118 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 3: I tease something about Australia. 119 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 2: Elvis was such a big. 120 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 3: Phenomena here that the Colonel things are going to come 121 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,160 Speaker 3: to him too and say they send the gold Cadillac here, 122 00:05:17,920 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 3: and the gold Cadillac has more people lining up than 123 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:22,080 Speaker 3: the Queen of England's tourist stuff. 124 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,200 Speaker 2: And it's so successful. And he I only learned this 125 00:05:25,240 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 2: yesterday Elvis. 126 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,719 Speaker 3: Sent it, but he filled it full of toys for children, 127 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 3: for needy children. 128 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: You know. 129 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: So the thing I learned about him in the allly. 130 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 3: Years I've worked on it is above and beyond everything else, 131 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:39,240 Speaker 3: this big hole in his heart because. 132 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,640 Speaker 2: The mum, his mom dies and all that is. 133 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 3: He's a spiritual guy, you know, like he was a 134 00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 3: united and he was always trying to make it right, 135 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 3: you know, like loss, He's trying to make it light right, 136 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:52,200 Speaker 3: but you can never do it. 137 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: You know. That's where his soul was coming from. 138 00:05:55,640 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 3: Now, that doesn't mean he wasn't addicted to opioids and 139 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 3: flawed and did crazy. 140 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 2: He mad dumb thing he was. 141 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 4: Also, he loved his music. 142 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: He was a great musician. 143 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,040 Speaker 4: You forget about that if you grew up in the 144 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 4: era where he was doing the Midday movie. And also 145 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 4: you know about the human the civil rights movement, all 146 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 4: that stuff. I didn't realize that was a part of it. 147 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 3: He's a thing he I mean, that's why we have 148 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:18,919 Speaker 3: Mahalia saying come and join in the civil rights and 149 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 3: he goes, I can't do it the colonel, and she says, well, 150 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,240 Speaker 3: you're a man, make your own decision. Now he let 151 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 3: himself down somewhat, et cetera. But by then he's actually 152 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:31,719 Speaker 3: an addict locked inside. 153 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,640 Speaker 2: He's like how it's used. I mean, he's locked inside 154 00:06:33,680 --> 00:06:34,520 Speaker 2: that hotel. 155 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,280 Speaker 3: He doesn't understand while every time they're supposed to go overseas, 156 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,679 Speaker 3: something happens. When you see the movie, you realize why 157 00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 3: something happens. 158 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 2: Now. 159 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 3: The colonel, who is a bad guy but complicated but 160 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 3: really charismatic, is also a genius. That's why he invents 161 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 3: the satellite concert. So Elvis never leaves the country. So 162 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 3: everything that the colonel does is a sort of brilliant 163 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 3: plot twist to keep back. 164 00:06:57,480 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 2: I mean, I mean the. 165 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 3: Colonel I heard take he had to take my machines. 166 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,760 Speaker 3: So in the research, I've heard tapes and stuff no 167 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 3: one's ever heard. And the reason Tom sounds so funny 168 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:07,000 Speaker 3: is the conel to change his voice like he was 169 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:09,960 Speaker 3: such a giant character, like if he's in his room. 170 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:11,080 Speaker 2: None of us would. 171 00:07:11,280 --> 00:07:17,160 Speaker 3: He'd be funny, I don't jokes and charming, charming, but 172 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: you would never feel settled. 173 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:21,040 Speaker 4: Part of his thing is he did create Elvis. 174 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:21,440 Speaker 2: He did. 175 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, Chicken in the egg is Elvis. Colonel Colonel Elvis. 176 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 3: There's no doubt about it. 177 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 2: Though. 178 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 3: Together they were this kind of toxifying marriage that just grew, 179 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 3: flew to the sun and both their wings melted and 180 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 3: both of them crashed to the ground. The only difference 181 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:45,400 Speaker 3: is that Elvis leaves behind through song, his spirit, in 182 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 3: his real heart. 183 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:47,800 Speaker 2: I think there's a lot of metaphors. 184 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: There isn't there to get through chicken egg us. It's 185 00:07:50,120 --> 00:07:50,480 Speaker 1: all there. 186 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,320 Speaker 2: That's what it's about. 187 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: A big sandwich and fry it up. 188 00:07:56,760 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 2: Well, I didn't do I didn't do it as a biopic. 189 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 2: I love it now. Is Amadas about Mozart? It was 190 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 2: about jealousy? 191 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 3: By the way, is Ama days Mozart story? Or is 192 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: it a guy called Saliary who no one's heard of. 193 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 3: It's Sallyary tells the story. He says, let me tell 194 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 3: my story. I was me and God we made a deal. 195 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 3: I was the most famous composer of the world. 196 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 2: Here's my tunes. Ever heard of it? 197 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:16,240 Speaker 4: Now? 198 00:08:16,280 --> 00:08:21,360 Speaker 3: I heard this one, you know Mozart? Yeah, God, I 199 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 3: hate you. 200 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,600 Speaker 2: That's about jealousy. If only we had more time in 201 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: life and time with you. 202 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:30,640 Speaker 1: Now this is great bad Thanks. 203 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,480 Speaker 4: Cruise from I could listen to this for ten thousand hours. 204 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:37,240 Speaker 4: I found the film fascinating. I find your brain fascinating 205 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 4: and thank you. 206 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:38,839 Speaker 2: So it's good to talk to you. 207 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,240 Speaker 4: Barry Manilow's stories up next to Shore. 208 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,719 Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, Barry Manilow was, I had to 209 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:47,160 Speaker 3: go and check out the theater that Els played on. 210 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 3: Barry Mano was playing out stage. That stage in the 211 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 3: movie is still there in that hotel. It's called Something Else. 212 00:08:52,720 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 3: And Barry let me walk to me around the stage 213 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 3: exactly so I could get. 214 00:08:57,640 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: The design to see him exactly. 215 00:08:59,160 --> 00:08:59,360 Speaker 3: Ryan. 216 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: Wow.