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Speaker 1: My Heart podcasts here, more Gold one on one point

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Speaker 3: And Amanda jam Nason.

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Speaker 2: Our next guest needs no introduction. Priscilla Presley has entered

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Speaker 2: the building. Hello there, this is Jonesy, and over there

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Speaker 2: is Amanda.

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Speaker 1: Well, hello and good morning.

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Speaker 3: I Amanda. Good morning to you. We're in the afternoon

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Speaker 3: right now.

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Speaker 2: I have a first name, It's actually Brendan, but many

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Speaker 2: years of commercial radio have worn it away, so I'm

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Speaker 2: just known as Jones.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Well that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Jones is different, Jonesy is different.

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Speaker 1: It's lovely to talk to you. I devoured an early

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Speaker 1: advanced copy of your memoir softly as I leave you,

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Speaker 1: and I thought I knew most of your story, but

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Speaker 1: it was an extraordinary read, and there was so much

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.

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Speaker 1: It was an amazing read. Obously, we all know that

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Speaker 1: you married Elvis early and you were swept into his world.

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Speaker 1: Did it ever feel like it was just the two

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Speaker 1: of you? You were always surrounded by so many people.

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Speaker 1: Did it ever feel like a normal marriage?

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Speaker 3: No, That's why I cherished, That's why I cherished the

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Speaker 3: evenings after we would go to the theater, as would

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Speaker 3: always rent the theater every night, and he'd get choices

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Speaker 3: of what movies he wanted to watch, and we'd usually

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Speaker 3: get back home around three o'clock four o'clock in the morning,

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Speaker 3: and that was the time that we would sit talk

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Speaker 3: about the movie, what we thought, talk about the actors,

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Speaker 3: and just sit down without all the guys around, and

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Speaker 3: just you know, just kind of you know, get into

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Speaker 3: each other's world. And that's what I look forward.

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Speaker 2: To because it would have been hard to get a

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Speaker 2: time with him because the Memphis Mafia, the boys were

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Speaker 2: always there.

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Speaker 3: They were they were, but I honestly got used to it.

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Speaker 3: You know. The times that I had alone with him

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Speaker 3: was when we went into the theater, because he would

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Speaker 3: run the Amphi Theater every pretty much every night. We'd

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Speaker 3: get all the first you know, look at all the

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Speaker 3: new new movies that were coming in, and we would

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Speaker 3: pretty much, you know, sometimes we'd see three in a night.

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Speaker 3: We'd start about ten o'clock, ten thirty after Johnny Carson's show,

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Speaker 3: and then we would head on to the theater and

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Speaker 3: come home sometimes five o'clock, five thirty in the morning,

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Speaker 3: nocturnal exhaust.

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Speaker 2: You must have a good bladder. Your bladder must have

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Speaker 2: had a young bladd It.

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Speaker 3: Was wait, no, was a movie theater.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, still they do have facilities, facilities, but I wa,

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Speaker 2: I get a third of the way in The Fast

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Speaker 2: and the Furious. I'm off to the loo.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't cover that in the book.

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Speaker 3: I would never think of such a thing. Was pretty good.

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Speaker 1: There were so many beats to your life and your

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Speaker 1: family tree that I'd forgotten about, and obviously Lisa's marriage

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Speaker 1: to Michael Jackson. But it was such an insight as

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Speaker 1: to how your feelings about him. You questioned his motives

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Speaker 1: right from the beginning.

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Speaker 3: I did, I did. I knew enough of you know

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Speaker 3: about him, About Michael, you loved, you know, people in

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Speaker 3: the business. You loved actors, you love people who were famous.

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Speaker 3: And I was just really concerned about because my daughter

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Speaker 3: was famous and with the daughter of what, you know,

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Speaker 3: the most famous man really, you know, in rock and roll.

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Speaker 3: So I was very concerned about about my daughter and

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Speaker 3: his you know, and his situation with hers. And she

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Speaker 3: knew it, she knew I you know, I wasn't for it,

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Speaker 3: but you know what, I had to back off you've.

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Speaker 1: Only shared two sentence was with him in their entire

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Speaker 2: And that's the thing because a lot of people said

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Speaker 2: Michael used to adapt that sort of girlish, little high voice,

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Speaker 2: but in reality he speak like it sounded like chef

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Speaker 2: you clarify that.

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Speaker 3: For us, Priscilla, Well, well, he always had that high

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Speaker 3: voice with me as well. You know, yes, I mean

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Speaker 3: he didn't let go of that, and I heard and

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Speaker 3: I did hear a little bit when we were at

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Speaker 3: at his home when he was talking to a guy

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Speaker 3: who took care of him and you know, did errands

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Speaker 3: for him, and he did have another voice. So it

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Speaker 3: was I don't know where that came from. I think

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Speaker 3: it was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, luck, we'll see how that sort of ended

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Speaker 1: up there. It's heartbreaking to read about you losing losing Lisa,

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Speaker 1: but you say in the book, from the moment that

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Speaker 1: she lost her son Ben, there was a terrible inevitability

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Speaker 1: to her not being able to hold on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true, absolutely, and that was my biggest fear

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Speaker 3: because I knew that she she adored him so much.

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Speaker 3: I mean, she was she was the love of her life.

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Speaker 3: And when he passed a bit of her past, you know,

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Speaker 3: every day, and she just did she wanted she didn't

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Speaker 3: want to be she didn't want to be here any longer.

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Speaker 3: And that was my biggest fear, knowing that she had

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Speaker 3: sunk so low and missed him so much. She knew

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Speaker 3: that she had her twins, but she just couldn't take

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Speaker 3: a loss of Ben.

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Speaker 2: We spoke to Lyssa Marie a few years ago, and she.

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Speaker 1: Was so funny, lovely funny.

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Speaker 2: And we really enjoyed talking to consolation.

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Speaker 1: That made yes as you say that she she was

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Speaker 1: funny and feisty in this beautiful, deep voice. We we

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Speaker 1: just loved her. You say at the end of the

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Speaker 1: book that people think that the Presleys are like the

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Speaker 1: Kennedy's and that they've had to bury their children. The

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Speaker 1: overview of your story, does it feel tragic? Does your

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Speaker 1: life feel tragic at times?

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Speaker 3: At times? I mean, don't get me wrong, I've had

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Speaker 3: great times, but you know, the ending is not so great.

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Speaker 3: And I have a lot of memories, Thank god, I

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Speaker 3: do have my days, There's no doubt. I don't know

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Speaker 3: how how that stops it, because I you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: reminded pretty much every day I go and hear the

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Speaker 3: music and hear Elvis's music, and meaning if I go

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Speaker 3: somewhere or people think it's funny, you know, to put

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Speaker 3: the music on, you know, they hear his voice, and

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Speaker 3: you know, it just brings me right back to, you know,

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Speaker 3: my life back then. But I am coping. I have

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Speaker 3: to cope. Am I have a son and I have

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Speaker 3: to think about him and make sure he's okay. And

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Speaker 3: that's pretty much where my life is right now.

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Speaker 1: Said that, one of the most common questions you get asked,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask it now too, is was

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Speaker 1: Elvis a good kisser?

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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to give you the answer, No doubt

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Speaker 3: he was.

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Speaker 1: I can tick that off that list question.

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Speaker 2: I thought the question you would have been most asked

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Speaker 2: was when was the last time you boiled a roast?

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Speaker 3: Let's just way I never try it again. I never was.

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Speaker 2: Asked, Well, Priscilla, we could talk to you forever. It's

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Speaker 2: so fantastic to actually talk to you at last, and

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Speaker 2: you can have an audience with Priscilla Presley. That's Tuesday,

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Speaker 2: the twenty fifth of November at the State Theater. Tikes

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Speaker 2: are available via fane dot com dot au and the

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Speaker 2: memoir comes out on September twenty three.

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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. I've read it.

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Speaker 2: It's Fmanda's got the PDF copy of it. No, she's

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Speaker 2: got a handprints all over it. I want the I

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Speaker 2: want the hard baand thing.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 1: I did very much. It was lovely to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you when you get to Australia.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thanks, bye bye,