1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:08,000 Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight? 2 00:00:09,040 --> 00:00:17,040 Are you? Sorry We Drifted apart Does your 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:26,160 welcome to the podcast. I am Mel and I'm Kel and 4 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:30,320 thinking we're cousins. We're cousins and best friends. 5 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:32,960 Sometimes starting the episode is the hardest. 6 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,280 I know. And I if there's new listeners, 7 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:37,680 I want them to know that we're cousins. 8 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:40,720 Yeah, I know. I think that that is so 9 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:44,440 endearing about the podcast. This is a family run podcast. 10 00:00:44,640 --> 00:00:46,360 Yeah. It is family run business. 11 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,320 Yeah. Thank you for joining us. 12 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,440 Thank you for joining us. So Kelly Kelly is really nervous 13 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,960 about this episode. I am so this is a big couple 14 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:01,520 flagship. It's a very famous flagship 15 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:06,320 couple, but it's also quite controversial. 16 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:13,120 This is Elvis Presley and Priscilla Bolio or Priscilla 17 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:15,680 Presley. Elvis and Priscilla, you know, 18 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:21,080 everybody knows them. Their big hair and her eye 19 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,920 makeup and everything. But if you know anything more 20 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:27,240 about them, you probably know that they met when Priscilla was 21 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:31,120 only 14 years old. And how old was he? 22 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:36,800 He was 24. Bad, that is. 23 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,800 So that's what we're dealing with today in a time. 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,840 I'm nervous because I don't want to romanticize that, but I also 25 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,480 don't want to be too serious and. 26 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,800 It's all about it. You know, I want us. 27 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,280 We we usually have a good time on this podcast. 28 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,160 So yeah, it is. I I don't know what line to walk 29 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,720 here. I know it's really tough because 30 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:04,120 also I feel like a lot of people do love them. 31 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:07,160 If you guys saw Elvis last summer and and we're recording 32 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,479 this I think a little bit before Priscilla came out, the movie 33 00:02:11,039 --> 00:02:14,840 about her. But the Elvis movie, we know 34 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,800 that she's young in it, but they don't treat it like it's 35 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,160 something bad. I think the movie is very 36 00:02:22,160 --> 00:02:25,520 sympathetic to Elvis. Obviously he's the hero 37 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:28,800 character in it, like the tragic hero, so. 38 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:33,080 Yes, it's interesting because like we do sometimes Goss over 39 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,240 things as a society and why? I'm not sure. 40 00:02:37,320 --> 00:02:41,160 And then sometimes we then revisit things and then get 41 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,800 really focused on it. And this is obviously nowadays, 42 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,520 if someone was to be 24, dating a 14 year old, that's the child. 43 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:53,400 It's really bad. But I don't. 44 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:57,840 I don't know. Sometimes as a society we look 45 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,760 the other way and sometimes we come back and don't. 46 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:01,640 I don't know. It's weird. 47 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:05,720 Yeah, yeah, well, we'll get more into it. 48 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:09,720 But yeah, actually the the day after this episode is supposed 49 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,800 to air is when the Priscilla movie comes out. 50 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:17,920 Oh, great timing. I know, directed by Sofia 51 00:03:17,920 --> 00:03:20,040 Coppola. And that wasn't really 52 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:22,200 intentional. I was thinking about what do I 53 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,920 want to do next? I want to do something kind of 54 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:27,200 classic, something kind of retro. 55 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,160 And I thought about them. And then I just looked up when 56 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:31,640 the movie was coming out and I was like, oh, perfect. 57 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,760 So yeah, that movie is definitely, I mean, it's called 58 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,280 Priscilla. It's based on Priscilla's memoir 59 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:41,560 Elvis and Me. So that's going to be way more 60 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,760 about her. I think that the Elvis movie 61 00:03:43,760 --> 00:03:50,280 with Austin Butler. Really skimmed over it, so how 62 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:53,080 interesting. But yeah, bear with me, guys. 63 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,480 Don't judge me. And yeah, this is actually not 64 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,480 my first time researching Elvis, but it's my first time doing it 65 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:03,760 super in depth. I don't know if you did anything 66 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:06,680 like this in high school, Mel, but I think senior year, like 67 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,800 one of our last history projects, we all picked a person 68 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:14,720 and did like a big. Research project on them and had 69 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:19,240 to present to the class. And I actually chose Elvis. 70 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,960 And I remember that's when I learned that he dated a 14 year 71 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:25,720 old. And I was like, oh, I didn't 72 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:29,200 know that. Yeah, I was like so excited to 73 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:30,520 get up there and talk about Elvis. 74 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:34,440 I still had a good time, but yeah, that was shocking to me. 75 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:37,840 That's so young. That is crazy. 76 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,080 So did you do keep any of the same research that you got did 77 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:45,240 for that project or no? Is this all new? 78 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,480 No, no. I don't even know where all that 79 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,200 is. But it's fun to revisit. 80 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:51,920 I mean, I always liked Elvis growing up. 81 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,760 My dad's a big fan. Even when I was in elementary 82 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:59,600 school, I made a Valentine box that had like, Burn and Love and 83 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:03,560 Elvis lyrics on it. So what's your favorite? 84 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:07,800 Like a little bit of a fan Elvis song maybe? 85 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,600 Suspicious mind. I was going to say the same 86 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:12,560 thing. I love that one. 87 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,200 That's a good one. Maybe. 88 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:24,640 Aren't you lonesome tonight? Oh yes, he does a cover of our 89 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,520 theme song. Yeah, insert clip. 90 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,960 Are you lonesome? Tonight. 91 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:44,720 Do you miss me tonight? Are you sorry we drifted apart? 92 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:49,000 That was so exciting in the Elvis movie. 93 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:54,040 I know our most most Elvis songs are covers, right? 94 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:56,640 Like. Yeah, a lot of them are. 95 00:05:56,640 --> 00:05:58,320 He actually did not write his songs. 96 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,840 He was. He was a performer, yeah. 97 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,760 Not a songwriter. Jailhouse Rock. 98 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:05,960 That's a good 1MM. Hmm. 99 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:08,680 You know who would love this episode? 100 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:12,760 Uncle Jesse. Yes, he would. 101 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,000 So yeah, it. Would be my teddy bear. 102 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,880 Well yeah, we have a big couple, so we should probably get into 103 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:28,760 it. 3 words I would use to describe Priscilla and Elvis are 104 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:30,040 intense. Mm hmm. 105 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:39,640 Unpredictable and confusing? Yes, not a good recipe. 106 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,040 No, no, no. My main sources for this, in 107 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:49,320 case anyone's curious, I listened to Priscilla's memoir 108 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:52,840 Elvis and Me, which was published in 1985. 109 00:06:52,840 --> 00:06:55,760 I listened to the audio book and it wasn't that long. 110 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:57,960 I basically listened to it back and forth. 111 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:02,360 I was visiting my friend last weekend on long drive. 112 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:03,920 Does she narrate it so? Sweet. 113 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,880 She Yeah, she narrates it and her voice is so sweet. 114 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,840 She really sounds like Marilyn Monroe or Lana Del Rey or 115 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,640 something. She just has that voice and she 116 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:15,840 would do these, like, little laughs whenever she thought 117 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:17,360 something was funny. It was really cute. 118 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:21,000 That's cute. Also, I read a little bit of the 119 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:26,440 book Last Train to Memphis by Peter Gwarlnick to get more info 120 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,600 on Elvis. And elvispresleymusic.com and 121 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:33,160 then some other places. But yeah, Elvis. 122 00:07:33,160 --> 00:07:36,600 I mean, you might think you know a lot about him, but I was 123 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:42,960 surprised by what I learned. He was born January 8th, 1935 in 124 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,360 East Tupelo, Ms. Elvis Aaron Presley. 125 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,760 His parents were Gladys and Vernon and he actually had a 126 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,800 twin brother when he was born. Jesse Garin Presley. 127 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:58,720 But sadly, he was born stillborn. 128 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:01,960 I know. So sad. 129 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:06,160 Elvis actually mentioned in reference to his twin his whole 130 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,280 life, even though he never really knew him, you know, he 131 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,960 still talked about him. That's sweet. 132 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,920 Yeah. And Elvis is actually Vernon, 133 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:18,520 his dad's middle name. That's where that name came 134 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:20,760 from. So Elvis grew up as an only 135 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:23,120 child. And his mother, Gladys, was 136 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,360 extremely protective of him. Some might say overprotective 137 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,680 People said that he was unusually close to his mother 138 00:08:31,680 --> 00:08:34,640 and that they would talk in pet names and baby talk. 139 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:36,880 And he's really attached to his father as well. 140 00:08:37,159 --> 00:08:38,960 He was, he was a total mama's boy. 141 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,559 Like that term is used all the time to describe him. 142 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:44,120 She really did give him so much special attention. 143 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:48,160 Like if company came over, she'd say that's Elvis's cup or that's 144 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,320 Elvis's special plate. Don't use it. 145 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,960 And. She definitely babied him a lot 146 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:57,360 and it's understandable since they lost their other son. 147 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:00,920 But I do think that some of the babying that Elvis experienced 148 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:05,400 kind of may have led to his coping issues as an adult. 149 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,760 Oh, I feel that. Which we'll get into, yeah. 150 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:13,800 I think he was used to being treated as a baby and being very 151 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:15,200 taken care of. Yes. 152 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:19,680 And I think that that's what he expected when he was older. 153 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,320 Both of his parents had very odd jobs, this and that. 154 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,480 They moved a lot. Not different towns, but like 155 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,440 around town like to different houses. 156 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:37,000 We take a drink I guess. I guess moved to different 157 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:40,160 houses isn't the same as moving around a lot you're. 158 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:41,960 Right. Oh, yeah, guys. 159 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:43,320 Oh. Well, I already took a drink, 160 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,360 Kelly Kelly. In the last Patreon episode, she 161 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:51,960 read the rules of our new drinking game, and that's one of 162 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:53,320 them. Every time someone moves around 163 00:09:53,320 --> 00:09:57,040 a lot, take a drink. Should I read the other ones? 164 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:01,000 Yeah, why not? OK, these are the rules so far. 165 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,680 If you have any recommendations, send them in. 166 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,640 But don't make the recommendations be about us and 167 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,840 the things we say a lot, 'cause I know we repeat ourselves 168 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,520 sometimes, but OK, these are the rules. 169 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:16,920 John Mayer makes an appearance. Someone opens up on Howard 170 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,400 Stern. An Australian journalist asks a 171 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,000 brazing question. A man cheats on his wife slash 172 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:26,880 girlfriend. We have to keep in mind that 173 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:31,280 times are different back then and someone moves around a lot, 174 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,520 That's. And that's the drinking game so 175 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,440 far. I'm sure we'll come up with some 176 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:40,600 more just reoccurring themes. I love that. 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,120 Yeah, we're going to. We should post this and ask for 178 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:46,920 suggestions. We should, but I don't want it 179 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:51,200 to be like, oh, Cal always goes, oh, I know, yeah, yeah, 'cause 180 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:54,040 that's something that I would get to in my head about. 181 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:00,280 I know. Anyway, the Presley's they were 182 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:02,360 very poor. They lived in public assisted 183 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:04,560 housing and that's part of the reason why they were moving 184 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:07,760 around so much. And E Tupelo was known as a very 185 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:12,160 rough town at the time. In 1937, Elvis's dad, Vernon, 186 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:14,520 actually went to prison for eight months. 187 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,400 For forging a fake check. Oh, wow. 188 00:11:17,560 --> 00:11:19,320 I'm trying to cash it. Yep. 189 00:11:20,680 --> 00:11:23,800 And weirdly, after his dad got out, the whole family started 190 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,200 experiencing sleepwalking episodes. 191 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:34,160 Oh my God, the whole family. Yeah, I know it's Elvis got his 192 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,280 first guitar at age 11 and he was a quiet and sort of unusual 193 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,840 kid. He brought his guitar to school 194 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,080 every day, every single day, one year and. 195 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:48,120 Kid said that he's saying hillbilly music and I don't 196 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,040 know, I think they thought he was strange. 197 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,800 He learned guitar from the new pastor at church, 20 year old 198 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:59,280 Frank Smith, who had actually married Elvis's 15 year old 199 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:01,840 neighbor. Oh God, the pastor. 200 00:12:01,960 --> 00:12:03,600 I know. Oh my God. 201 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,240 So I just mentioned that because. 202 00:12:09,040 --> 00:12:12,280 You know, we gotta keep in mind that things were different, 203 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:15,120 different back then. Yeah, Drink. 204 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:19,400 And that was something that Elvis, you know, witnessed. 205 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:24,760 So I'm not saying everybody did that, but but yeah, if it's 206 00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,880 like, oh, if like, my pastor did it, then it's normal. 207 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:28,960 Yeah. Yeah. 208 00:12:29,880 --> 00:12:32,240 Wow. Elvis likes to play guitar for 209 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,000 people, but he was really shy about it and sometimes he would 210 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,280 only. Play when all the lights were 211 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:41,120 turned out so no one could see him, which is cute. 212 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:46,640 He was 13 years old. The family moved to Memphis and 213 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,200 so then he had to attend a new school. 214 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:52,360 And as a teenager he started dressing strangely fancy. 215 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:54,040 When everybody else was wearing jeans. 216 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,240 He'd show up to school and dress pants, a coat, fashion his scarf 217 00:12:58,240 --> 00:13:01,240 into an Ascot. So people thought he was kind of 218 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:04,640 weird. I feel like we had some kids 219 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,880 like that in my school that would like, dress up. 220 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:08,440 Oh, yeah, we had kids. Suit. 221 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:10,440 There was always like one suit kid. 222 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,320 Yeah, yeah, every. Day. 223 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:18,000 That was Elvis, yeah, about young Elvis. 224 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,920 The author Alana Nash, who's a total Elvis expert, I like came 225 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:24,720 across her many times. She said that Elvis was a late 226 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,800 blooming mama's boy, a flop with girls and super religious, I 227 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,040 know. After Elvis graduated in 1953, 228 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:37,080 he began exploring singing professionally. 229 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,640 In July he went to Sun Records in Memphis, which was this is in 230 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,160 the Elvis movie If you guys saw it, where you can walk in and 231 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:50,000 for 398 you could record your own 2 sided record of your own 232 00:13:50,000 --> 00:13:53,960 performance. Oh, so he went in there and the 233 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,160 boss of some Sun Records, Sam Phillips, asked. 234 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:02,040 A guy to note down Elvis's name because he thought he was good 235 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,040 and wrote good ballad singer Hold Elvis. 236 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,400 So he left and then he was trying out for other things and 237 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,480 he tried out for a quartet and he didn't get in. 238 00:14:11,480 --> 00:14:16,520 And he started working actually for a electric company as a 239 00:14:16,520 --> 00:14:20,040 truck driver. And he tried out for a band 240 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:22,040 during this time. And the leader of the band said 241 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,680 you should stick to truck truck driving because you're never 242 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:29,240 going to make it as a singer. There's always stories like I 243 00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:35,520 know, maybe we can add that. Yeah, somebody, somebody tells 244 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:36,840 them they're never going to make it. 245 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,600 I don't know what the word is. Oh, wait, we need to add to the 246 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:47,120 drink, to the drinking thing. Somebody says like, I'm going to 247 00:14:47,120 --> 00:14:49,840 marry that person. Yeah, and then they. 248 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:52,360 Do. I'm going to marry that person. 249 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:58,360 Someone has a prophecy, yes. Before they've ever met. 250 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:00,920 Yes. That's the key thing. 251 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:08,680 Before they've ever met. OK, so yeah, Elvis, he's just 252 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:13,200 being a truck driver. And then back to that guy at Sun 253 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:19,000 Records, Sam Phillips. He had some song that was going 254 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,680 to a music publisher that needed a singer because they couldn't 255 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:24,600 find the person that originally recorded the demo. 256 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,000 I don't know how that happens, but they just. 257 00:15:26,560 --> 00:15:29,720 Is couldn't trace him down And he remembered Elvis and he 258 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,320 called him into the studio and had Elvis sing this song And 259 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,560 Elvis couldn't really get it right at first, but they kept 260 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:38,960 going And then he sang for some other people and they agreed to 261 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:43,960 record this song with Elvis and the song was called That's All 262 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:48,480 Right. And Sam ended up calling up. 263 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:52,080 After Elvis recorded it and left, he called up this radio DJ 264 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:55,080 and played it to him over the phone and the radio DJ said, 265 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,320 hey, can I have a copy of that? He sent it to him and then he 266 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:02,040 played it on the radio and then the rest is history really, 267 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:05,120 because all these people started calling in like crazy to hear it 268 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:09,600 again. And yeah, that was the start of 269 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:11,040 Elvis. That's all right. 270 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,040 I don't know if that's how. You got. 271 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:18,240 That's all right, Mama. The crazy thing is the first 272 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:22,080 time he performed for, you know, a real crowd, he was still using 273 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:24,520 his child size guitar. Oh wow. 274 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,720 A month later. OK, And I'm sorry this happened 275 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:31,200 last week, but I feel like Elvis's back story is so much 276 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,440 longer. Yeah. 277 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,280 I mean, it just makes sense. He's the more famous one. 278 00:16:35,960 --> 00:16:37,920 Yeah, part of that is because he's Elvis. 279 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,400 Other is her story ends when she's 14. 280 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:46,680 Her back story. So oh that's true. 281 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:51,760 There's like nothing to say. Oh God oh. 282 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:55,840 So, you know, he started performing. 283 00:16:56,200 --> 00:17:00,640 And I guess the combination of his strong response to rhythm 284 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,880 and nervousness at playing before a large crowd led him to 285 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:07,359 shake his legs as he performed. And his wide cut pants 286 00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:10,319 emphasizes movements, causing young women in the audience to 287 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:12,960 scream. Oh yes, that was in the movie. 288 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,160 Yeah. So gyrations. 289 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:20,880 And in the movie Colonel Parker, he was introduced to him and 290 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,800 because he had managed some other musicians and he became 291 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:28,240 Elvis's manager. And I won't really talk about 292 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,800 him too much because this is about Priscilla, but Colonel 293 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:38,160 Parker was a scumbag really, and took advantage of Elvis and made 294 00:17:38,160 --> 00:17:40,720 a lot of bad decisions for him and took a lot of a lot of his 295 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:43,520 money and some people think he may have. 296 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:48,080 Murdered someone back in the Netherlands and that's why he he 297 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:53,040 was an illegal immigrant in the US and he was really shifty 298 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:56,680 about his past and he never left because he didn't want anyone to 299 00:17:57,000 --> 00:17:59,560 know. He was, you know, who he really 300 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,520 was, like his real name. And some people think he may 301 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:03,240 have been a murderer. It's just a theory. 302 00:18:03,240 --> 00:18:05,880 But so he wouldn't let Elvis leave too, right? 303 00:18:06,760 --> 00:18:08,640 Yeah. Wow, that's crazy. 304 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:12,800 I know, but anyway. So when he was 20 years old, 305 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,000 Elvis, he signed to RCA. He released the single 306 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,600 Heartbreak Hotel. They began promoting their new 307 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,560 singer Elvis Presley like crazy and he became a phenomenon. 308 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:28,400 His debut album was March 19561956. 309 00:18:28,400 --> 00:18:30,200 I feel like was totally Elvis's year. 310 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,320 He had like all these TVTV appearances, Hound Dog, Blue 311 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:36,960 Suede's Shoes, Don't Be Cruel, Love Me Tender. 312 00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:40,840 Like he was just crazy. And he started doing films, too. 313 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:46,160 Acting Then he had this performance on the Milton Berle 314 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,600 show where he abruptly stopped an up tempo rendition of Hound 315 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,440 Dog and he started doing a slow grinding version of his body 316 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:55,600 movements. Oh my God. 317 00:18:55,600 --> 00:19:00,080 And I guess people went crazy. All the girls were screaming and 318 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:04,840 the newspapers were outraged, you know, saying that he was the 319 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:10,320 devil and turning all the teenagers super sexual and. 320 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,160 His reputation. Even though he was incredibly 321 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,880 popular, he had kind of a bad reputation now. 322 00:19:15,960 --> 00:19:20,320 Yeah, before meeting Priscilla, he definitely had many 323 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,480 girlfriends, too many to talk about, honestly. 324 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,120 He definitely slept around. But it's interesting because 325 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:34,120 some of the girls he dated, like Judy Spreckels and June Monaco, 326 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:35,920 have said that they never slept with him. 327 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:42,840 Oh, interesting. And it's kind of a common So 328 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,280 what they did. I guess, I mean, I think they 329 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:51,000 would do other things, but they would never have like 330 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:53,560 penetration. Interesting. 331 00:19:53,960 --> 00:19:56,160 I get it. Maybe he just wasn't into it. 332 00:19:56,360 --> 00:19:59,080 I don't know. The author, Albert Goldman, 333 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:03,280 speculated the Elvis preferred voyeurism over normal sexual 334 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:07,640 relations with women and suggested that he had an intense 335 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:10,680 fear of STD's. Yeah. 336 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,200 I mean, that makes sense. I mean, I think that's good if 337 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:14,640 you're going to be sleeping around with that many. 338 00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:20,560 But wait, you can get CDs from like going down on somebody. 339 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:24,640 I know, OK, he probably. Don't know. 340 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,440 Interesting. Before he became really famous, 341 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:31,560 I would say that Elvis was very polite. 342 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:35,280 He had impeccable manners. He's very old fashioned 343 00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,360 Southern. Him and his family were very 344 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,640 insular. They just like. 345 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:43,440 Being together at home, he definitely was a homebody, but 346 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:45,920 he likes to be with people all the time. 347 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:49,640 He really didn't like being alone and he was very 348 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,160 particular. He liked things his way, you 349 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,240 know, I think he would like to. He's the kind of person that 350 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:56,920 would be like come to my house, you know, like he doesn't want 351 00:20:56,920 --> 00:20:59,560 to go to other people's houses. He wants you to come to his 352 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,560 house. And I do think he was caring 353 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:03,680 with people though. He wanted to be liked by 354 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:07,080 everyone and he's pretty spiritual, but he definitely had 355 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:10,000 a temper. And I think as he got older, he 356 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,720 became a lot more troubled and even more of a control freak. 357 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,320 Yeah, OK, so we're almost, we're almost getting there. 358 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,080 We're almost getting there. He, you know, dated a couple 359 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:26,720 girls. In 1957, he was dating Anita 360 00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:33,040 Wood, that TV performer. And then January 8th, 1956, his 361 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,200 birthday, his 21st birthday, he became eligible for the draft. 362 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:42,520 And Colonel Parker had written to the Pentagon requesting that 363 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,400 Elvis be considered for this special service, which would 364 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,680 allow him to do only six weeks of basic training and then 365 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:54,000 resume life as normal. But apparently Colonel had no 366 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,000 intention of allowing Presley to sign up for the special services 367 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,240 because he wouldn't receive any compensation for those 368 00:22:00,240 --> 00:22:04,840 performances he would do. And so over the next 12 months, 369 00:22:04,840 --> 00:22:07,000 Colonel Parker LED Elvis to believe that. 370 00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:10,000 It would be possible to avoid the draft completely while 371 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,960 secretly planning to allow it. Oh my God, that's crazy. 372 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,200 I. Know because in his eyes, he 373 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:19,840 thought that after all the negative publicity Elvis had 374 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:23,360 gotten for being too sexual in his performances, that this 375 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:27,400 would be the perfect chance to make older Americans see him as 376 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:31,520 like an all American boy. So there's like a year between 377 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,440 the draft and him actually joining the military. 378 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:36,800 But. During that year, he was still 379 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:40,000 acting in movies and had all this music come out all shook 380 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:41,920 up. Blue Christmas, Here Comes Santa 381 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,480 Claus. All those Christmas songs. 382 00:22:44,120 --> 00:22:46,800 Love them. Jailhouse Rock, Let Me Be Your 383 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:51,160 Teddy Bear. And he bought his mansion in 384 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:55,680 Memphis, famously known as Graceland, was on 13 acres of 385 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,760 land. But then he got the news that he 386 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,240 would have to serve as a regular soldier, and he's furious that 387 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:06,000 Colonel Parker. Didn't get him out of the draft, 388 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:10,840 but he promised him that if he worked hard for those two years, 389 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,200 because it's going to be two years in the military, he would 390 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,680 turn a bigger star than when he left. 391 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,840 Yep. I know that's crazy that they 392 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,280 even had a draft, but wow, I mean, good thing they didn't 393 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,760 prioritize like celebrities. Yeah, I'm sure. 394 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,480 Actually, they probably did. That's like, I bet they did, 395 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,200 but. I think they could have is the 396 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:37,640 thing I think they offered to. Let him just do six weeks of 397 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:40,160 training and then he would be able to just perform for the 398 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:43,240 soldiers. But Colonel Parker was like, no 399 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,640 is going. I don't know if this is like 400 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:51,040 victim blaming of me, but is this like part of like him being 401 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,520 so baby growing up? Because I am wondering like why 402 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:56,800 did he need somebody to get him out of it, his manager, like 403 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,880 couldn't he have been doing negotiations himself or 404 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:02,480 something? Exactly. 405 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,200 I think that he was pretty babied. 406 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:09,520 And then once he became famous, Elvis really just let other 407 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,720 people handle things for him. He didn't look at his finances 408 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,560 or anything. He didn't handle his money. 409 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,400 He just let other people do all of it, which is kind of his 410 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,480 fault. Yeah, You know? 411 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,360 And then he just didn't even know how to take care of himself 412 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:25,200 at all. Yeah, that's pretty sad. 413 00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:31,200 Yeah, so after he finished his movie, King Creole. 414 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:35,720 He reported for induction on March 24th, 1958. 415 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:40,120 His fans were very upset. He said goodbye to his family 416 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:45,840 and friends and then he was taken by bus to Fort Chaffee, 417 00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:49,080 Arkansas and then he was transferred to Fort Hood, TX for 418 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:52,200 military training. While he was in Texas, his 419 00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:57,640 mother Gladys sadly felt I'll with liver complications and she 420 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,800 collapsed and was hospitalized. Elvis requested leave from his 421 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,760 training. And then August 14th, his mother 422 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:09,520 died sadly of late stage liver disease and Elvis and his father 423 00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:14,760 Vernon lost it. They were crying their eyes out 424 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:17,880 and screaming. During his mother's funeral. 425 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,760 Elvis collapsed several times and he kept kissing her all over 426 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,160 her body and his friend Lamar said. 427 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,960 We got off the elevator at the hospital and I could hear Elvis 428 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:30,520 and Vernon wailing. I never heard anything like it 429 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,880 before in my life. It was like a scream. 430 00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:40,080 So he was just devastated, like his mom was everything to him. 431 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,000 I feel like this was a big turning point in his life. 432 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,120 And then a month later, after that, he was stationed in West 433 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:52,080 Germany and headed out to Germany. 434 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,480 And that's where he met Priscilla Bollieu Bollie. 435 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:02,680 Beal i.e. U So she was living over in West 436 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:04,920 Germany with her family at the time, 'cause? 437 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:10,680 She was living in West Germany. OK, so who is Priscilla? 438 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:15,800 She was born May 24th, 1945 at Brooklyn Navy Hospital. 439 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:21,760 Her father, James Wagner, was AUS Navy pilot and her mother 440 00:26:22,360 --> 00:26:25,080 had her at 19 years old. James was 23. 441 00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:29,480 And when Priscilla was only six months old, her father actually 442 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:32,160 died in a plane crash. Oh, wow. 443 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,760 Just so sad. Priscilla was three years old 444 00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:39,600 when her mother remarried an Air Force officer named Paul Bollier 445 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,920 Bollier. I feel like I had it down. 446 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:44,440 How to say it. And now I'm forgetting I know 447 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,080 that was. Paul Bollier Paul Bollier from 448 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:52,320 Quebec. Paul and her mother and had four 449 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:54,880 other children. And the crazy thing is, 450 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:00,360 Priscilla grew up thinking that Paula Bollier was her biological 451 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:03,720 father. Oh my God, that's pretty bad. 452 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,560 She. Had no I know she had no idea 453 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,400 about her biological dad names until she was older. 454 00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:14,640 That's so disrespectful to the biological father, like he he 455 00:27:15,720 --> 00:27:20,360 was cheated out of like a full life and died tragically. 456 00:27:20,360 --> 00:27:24,720 And for her to, like, not even know he existed is so awful. 457 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,040 How could a parent keep a secret like that? 458 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,000 I know, it's crazy. People scare me. 459 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,680 People truly scare me. How deceptive people are? 460 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:37,840 We were talking about that earlier, Yeah. 461 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,320 Yeah, of someone of mine. I I couldn't. 462 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:44,000 There's like, no reason Her mom said that. 463 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:47,560 She kept it a secret from her so that she would fit in more with 464 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:49,760 the whole family. It's like, in a way, I 465 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:51,320 understand that. But you know what? 466 00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,560 Sometimes there's going to be families and not everything's 467 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,120 going to always fit in most families, you know. 468 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:00,000 Priscilla discovered this because she was looking through 469 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:05,040 her mom's things and found a picture of her as a baby with 470 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:11,000 her mother and her father and was like, who is that Guy Says 471 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:13,920 Says Dad. But I don't know who that is. 472 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,560 And the crazy thing, too, is that her mom asked her to keep 473 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,480 the secret from the rest of her siblings. 474 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:24,440 Oh my God, Mom, do better this. That's awful. 475 00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,720 That is awful. People. 476 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,640 I. Know are sociopaths like I don't 477 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:33,040 understand stuff like that. God, I'm guessing she told her 478 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,160 siblings eventually, because it's in her memoir. 479 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,080 Burden. A child with something like 480 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,080 that? That's so. 481 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:43,600 Crazy. So they moved around a lot. 482 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:51,600 Take a drink because Paul Paul Bollier was in the Air Force. 483 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,120 They lived in Connecticut, New Mexico, Maine, Texas. 484 00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,040 Apparently Priscilla felt very shy and uneasy about moving 485 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,280 every time, But she was very beautiful and when they were 486 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,160 living in Texas, she won a competition and became Queen of 487 00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:10,520 Del Valley High in the beginning of high school. 488 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:13,240 That's when her family got the news that they'd be moving to 489 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,200 West Germany for the Air Force, which crushed Priscilla. 490 00:29:17,200 --> 00:29:19,960 She was so upset to believe, being her new friend she'd made 491 00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:22,120 and, you know, she was queen of Delaware Valley High. 492 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,360 She was leaving behind a good thing. 493 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,600 Her friend in Texas, though, told her that Elvis was 494 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,640 stationed in West Germany, and Priscilla said she was 495 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:36,280 determined to meet him. She liked Elvis, but she wasn't, 496 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:37,880 she said. She wasn't as obsessed as her 497 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:39,320 other friend, like she didn't have. 498 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:43,040 Elvis T-shirts or whatever. But she did have a Elvis fan 499 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:47,520 club magazine, OK? Which is crazy, I know. 500 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:51,880 Imagine you have a fan club magazine of somebody and then 501 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,040 you go on to marry them. It's just Oh my. 502 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:58,000 Gosh. So she's in West Germany, She's 503 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,520 living there. She's going to school there. 504 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,960 She's hanging out at this place called the Eagle's Nest, which I 505 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,560 think. It's kind of like a diner. 506 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:08,080 It was a place where American families hung out. 507 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:11,920 She was hanging out there listening to the the, the 508 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,040 jukebox. She's listening to the jukebox 509 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,760 and this guy approaches her, who I think was maybe in his 20s. 510 00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:23,800 His name was Curry Grant and he invited her to go to a party at 511 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:29,440 Elvis's, which is very strained. Curry Grant was married, so he I 512 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:32,040 don't think he was interested in Priscilla, but I don't know if 513 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,760 he. Was scouting a girl for Elvis or 514 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,000 something like I don't know why he no girls over there. 515 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:42,840 I think so, yeah. I mean, yeah, Elvis was in the 516 00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:46,680 military. All he really did was go to his 517 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,280 service and then go home. So I don't know if he was trying 518 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,640 to just find some cool girls to bring over, but. 519 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,480 He asked Priscilla if she'd go. She said. 520 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:57,960 I don't think my parents will let me. 521 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:01,440 So Curry Grant actually went to her house and talked to her 522 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,720 parents and assured them it would be fine. 523 00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:07,640 Oh my God, everything I'm learning about these parents is 524 00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,160 terrible. Like the age gap I'm honestly 525 00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:13,160 blaming on the parents. I know. 526 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,120 There's really nobody else to blame. 527 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,640 Oh my gosh. But yeah, her parents agreed. 528 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,680 They're like, OK, you're going to pick her up? 529 00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:24,680 Bring her back by this time. All right, you can go. 530 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:29,880 So then on September 13th, 1959, Curry Grant picked up 14 year 531 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:34,800 old Priscilla Bollier Bollier and brought her to Elvis's house 532 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,360 in bad new I'm Germany, where he was renting while doing military 533 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,240 service. And yeah, he's 24. 534 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,040 How could the parents say yes or that like Oh yeah, like this a 535 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:49,200 grown adult man is gonna pick up our 14 year old daughter and 536 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:53,560 bring her to a party in order to meet another 24. 537 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,160 It's just cause Elvis was a celebrity so they were like yes, 538 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,080 yes, God, totally the parents fault she. 539 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:05,200 Said that that, like his fame did make her parents loosen up 540 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,840 their morals. Yeah, a bit. 541 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:11,000 I mean, yeah, that happens. So at the house. 542 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,520 There was a lot of people there. And interestingly, Elvis's dad 543 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:18,640 and his grandma were there. So it wasn't actually a crazy 544 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,200 party. It sounded kind of wholesome. 545 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:26,000 Curry introduced her to Elvis, and when he heard that she was 546 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:30,640 in the ninth grade, he said, what, you're just a little baby. 547 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:35,400 And then there's small talking. And he played the piano and 548 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:39,840 sang, I will say. Sort of. 549 00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:43,600 I mean, it doesn't make it OK, but I do think she looked a lot 550 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,440 older for her age. When I look at pictures of her, 551 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:48,800 feels very mature back then did, right? 552 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,400 I don't. Know. 553 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,840 Yeah. Maybe that's just us because we 554 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:55,920 think their hair. Yeah, exactly. 555 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,480 Actually, we're older looking. Or if we just think they do. 556 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,800 But she did look like a mature woman. 557 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,480 But so she she hung out there. And then she didn't get home 558 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:10,080 till 2:00 AM. Which was way past the curfew 559 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,200 and her parents were very upset and said that she couldn't go 560 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,720 again and she was in huge trouble. 561 00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:20,800 And then a few days later, Curry Grant called again and said 562 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,400 Elvis would like you to come again next time. 563 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,160 Her parents are really uneasy about this, so Elvis actually 564 00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:32,680 came to meet her parents and tell them that I'll get her home 565 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,840 at a reasonable time and everything. 566 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,360 Her dad said, what exactly are your intentions here? 567 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:43,720 Like what is the deal? And Elvis said that he was just 568 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:47,640 lonesome and it was nice to meet someone from back home and that 569 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,480 he just liked talking to their daughter. 570 00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,160 Is it talking all that you're doing? 571 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:56,080 I think that the first party, yeah. 572 00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:02,280 But no, they eventually would. Basically, she started going to 573 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,320 Elvis's house. Multiple times a week. 574 00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,480 And every time she went there, there was a ton of people there 575 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:12,840 and they'd all be listening to the piano and music playing and 576 00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:16,000 talking and grandma's there and dad's there and whatever. 577 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:21,520 But Elvis do this thing where he would like make a face like a 578 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:25,000 little hint at her and whisper to her like I'll meet you in my 579 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,600 room and she would go meet him in his room and then. 580 00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,040 They would make out and talk, yeah. 581 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,880 Why would her parents let her do this? 582 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:41,560 I think that Priscilla and her parents, even though she was 583 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,080 only 14, so it seems like it would be way too early to be 584 00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,760 thinking about this. But I think they felt kind of 585 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,360 like flattered that Elvis was interested in their daughter and 586 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:54,320 felt like he could provide for her and could be good marriage 587 00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:58,120 material or something. Yeah, it's it's in a way lucky 588 00:34:58,120 --> 00:34:59,520 that they ended up getting married. 589 00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:04,080 Because what most likely happens probably in that situation is he 590 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,280 just like fucks around with her and like messes her up and 591 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,280 damages her for life. And then like it's a Trump, like 592 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,920 traumatizing experience for a 14 year old. 593 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:19,080 It's lucky in a way that like they had a relationship because. 594 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,680 I know. God it is. 595 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,400 That's risky of them and just stupid. 596 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:27,160 It is. And also, like you said, you're 597 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:28,760 supposed to provide for your own. 598 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:33,960 Child like you provide for her. God, I know. 599 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:38,080 I do think it wasn't quite as easy as it might sound like. 600 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:39,720 I think that her and her parents fought. 601 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,160 All the time about this, they would say like, no, you're not 602 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:44,560 going. And she'd be like screaming and 603 00:35:44,560 --> 00:35:47,720 crying and saying you're ruining my life and that kind of thing. 604 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:50,920 And then they would just give in and say, OK, I don't think they 605 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:52,480 were just saying, like, Oh yeah, go ahead. 606 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,800 They were not happy about it, but they just gave into it. 607 00:35:57,240 --> 00:35:59,200 Yeah. And Priscilla said in her book 608 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:02,120 that she felt like her parents were almost worried To let her 609 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,640 miss this opportunity that like. If they stopped her from dating 610 00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,240 Elvis Presley that she would hate them. 611 00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:11,320 And I think sometimes parents want their kids to like them so 612 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,160 much that they let them do things that are not really good 613 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:18,280 for them. But they didn't want her to miss 614 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,080 the chance to be with Elvis. Oh God, yeah. 615 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:27,520 OK, but The thing is, Elvis was still technically I'm pretty 616 00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,720 sure with Anita Wood. Oh God. 617 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:37,400 As if this can't get any worse. I think that they were still 618 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,160 talking. I don't know if they had an 619 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,120 agreement or something because he was there for two years, but 620 00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:45,120 I'm pretty sure he was still talking to Anita during this 621 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:47,880 time. And so Priscilla was going there 622 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,880 multiple times a week and there was this whole ordeal about how 623 00:36:50,880 --> 00:36:53,400 she would get to Elvis's house because I think it was like a 45 624 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,680 minute drive away or something. So all of us would have to pick 625 00:36:56,680 --> 00:36:59,720 her up and drop her off. Or if he's getting back late 626 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:03,080 from service, one of his friends or his dad would pick her up. 627 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,920 It was a whole thing. She actually started failing 628 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:11,080 school because she was staying up so late at Elvis's during the 629 00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,040 school week. That's not good, Yeah. 630 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:18,920 One night Elvis's friend was driving her to the house in bad 631 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:23,280 New I'm and hid. The friend tried to like make a 632 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:28,160 move on her and basically assaulted her and she told Elvis 633 00:37:28,160 --> 00:37:31,560 and he was furious and apparently cut him out of his 634 00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,520 life but. No, it was scary, like she was 635 00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:37,720 just being driven by these random people that were way 636 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:39,560 older than her. That's terrifying, yeah. 637 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:46,160 I know, baby. So I know it was 8 months that 638 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,520 they were together in Germany. During this time, and the whole 639 00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:53,440 time that they were seeing each other, she didn't really know 640 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,960 where she fit into his life. She was suspicious that some of 641 00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,640 the other girls are at his house. 642 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,480 We're seeing him too, like one girl one time knew. 643 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,600 That his guitar pick was by his bedside table and she was like, 644 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,520 huh, How did he, how did she know that? 645 00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:10,880 Oh, gosh. So I don't think they were 646 00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:16,880 officially exclusive. Yeah, but when you're 14, she's 647 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:19,760 not going to know to like ask and stuff. 648 00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,840 Gosh, she really took advantage. That's really fucked up. 649 00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:23,120 I. Know. 650 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,520 But then he had to go back to the States. 651 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:29,920 His two years in service were over. 652 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,080 And before he left, apparently. This is according to her memoir. 653 00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:39,120 Apparently she begged him to sleep with her, but he said no, 654 00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:43,040 not yet. You're too young, I said in my 655 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:44,520 notes. What's going on here? 656 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,960 I mean, that's a good thing, but I find it hard to believe. 657 00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,800 Yeah, I know he was. I know he was really religious. 658 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:56,720 But I also read that he did sleep with girls, So I was 659 00:38:56,720 --> 00:39:03,680 trying to figure this out. So he was leaving Germany. 660 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,600 She went with him to the airport. 661 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,360 She actually drove in the car with him and said goodbye. 662 00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:12,360 But then she was lost in the crowd of screaming fans. 663 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,560 And they're actually photos of her, I think, from Life magazine 664 00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,480 waving in the crowd. Wow. 665 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,000 She was apparently so depressed after he left. 666 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,240 She cried and didn't eat for days, and she didn't hear from 667 00:39:27,240 --> 00:39:29,880 Elvis for three weeks until he called. 668 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,720 And said, like, how are you doing? 669 00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:38,240 And over the next two years, she would sporadically hear from him 670 00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:43,960 just like every couple months or every few weeks he would call 671 00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,640 and she had no idea where she fit into his life. 672 00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:49,480 That's anxiety. Back to living. 673 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,840 I feel like you. I know, like on edge. 674 00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:56,120 Like waiting for that call and then waiting for the next one. 675 00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:59,080 And oh, I feel like that would take over your whole high 676 00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,000 school. I know. 677 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,520 And she was inundated with requests for interviews from 678 00:40:07,720 --> 00:40:10,200 magazines. And there's a famous article 679 00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,200 about her called The Girl He Left Behind with those pictures 680 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,800 from the crowd around the airport. 681 00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:19,760 And Elvis actually asked about the girl he left behind in an 682 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:22,400 interview. And I have a clip I want to show 683 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,160 you. Elvis, there have been a lot of 684 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,280 rumors about your love life. Did you meet anyone special in 685 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:33,400 Germany? Not any special one. 686 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:38,480 There was a little girl that I was, I was seeing quite often 687 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:43,480 over there that her father was in the Air Force and actually 688 00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:45,520 they only got over there about two months before I left. 689 00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:48,240 And I was seeing her and she was at the train at the airport when 690 00:40:48,240 --> 00:40:54,200 I left, and there was some pictures made of her, but there 691 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:56,600 was no big, there was no big romance, I mean. 692 00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:02,640 The stories came out. The girl he left behind and all 693 00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:03,400 that. It wasn't. 694 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:08,280 It wasn't like that. I mean, I had to be careful when 695 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:14,560 I answer a question. Oh my God, that's so me. 696 00:41:14,560 --> 00:41:17,840 Like at work when people ask like about my love life and I'm 697 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,480 like, I literally am like. Oh, I don't know. 698 00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,920 There was someone and I got no big. 699 00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:27,920 Romance. No big romance. 700 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:29,480 And I got to be careful what I say. 701 00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:35,040 I start over sharing way too much. 702 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:39,360 Yeah, wow. Austin Butler did a great job 703 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,040 because that did. Was like, uncanny into Austin 704 00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:46,040 Butler's performance. Wow. 705 00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:51,480 He truly did an amazing job. I was watching all these clips 706 00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,080 of Elvis and even older Elvis and I just feel like, wow, 707 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:57,600 Austin nailed it. He really. 708 00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,080 Like that was that props to him. I I saw that clip and I was like 709 00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:03,280 wow, that's awesome, Butler. That's crazy. 710 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:06,080 I know. But. 711 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:11,720 OK, I had to say that was if it wasn't like Priscilla was 14, 712 00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:14,720 that was kind of cute. Like if it's just like the if. 713 00:42:14,720 --> 00:42:17,040 I didn't know anything. I know that was cute. 714 00:42:17,360 --> 00:42:24,120 But damn it, Elvis, we want a root for you, but you make it so 715 00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,600 hard. Rooting for you, God. 716 00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:31,360 So he's back in the US. He's back to recording. 717 00:42:31,360 --> 00:42:35,040 He's back to making movies. All this, he's back on his thing 718 00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:39,280 and unbeknownst to Priscilla, I think, although she had her 719 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:44,200 suspicions, I think Elvis was back with Anita Wood and Anita 720 00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,800 was even living at Graceland. But while he's with Anita, he 721 00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:53,320 still is calling Priscilla every couple weeks or once in a while, 722 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,280 which is not cool Elvis. And there were all these rumors 723 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:00,040 of him with his Co stars and stuff, so it's kind of unclear 724 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:04,280 what was going on here. Also, crazy enough Priscilla. 725 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:08,400 I don't know how she would know this, but she claimed that Elvis 726 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,440 and Anita never went all the way. 727 00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:16,720 So. What I almost wonder. 728 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,680 Maybe this isn't my place to speculate, but if he had 729 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:21,800 erectile dysfunction or something? 730 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,400 Because there are like guys, should I should I not say this? 731 00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:29,720 There are guys who can't. They can't stay hard. 732 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,120 If someone's not going down on them or something, once they try 733 00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:37,560 to like, put it in, they can't. I know that's kind of vulgar. 734 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,280 He had some kind of issue, for sure. 735 00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:42,640 He did. I mean, I was even questioning, 736 00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,360 like, was he into women? And I was trying to Google it 737 00:43:45,360 --> 00:43:48,480 and I couldn't, Yeah, find anything about that. 738 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,920 But I think he was. But there was something odd 739 00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,120 going on there. Yeah. 740 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:57,680 And already at this time in his life, Elvis is taking a lot of 741 00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,480 pills. Oh, Oh yeah. 742 00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,040 He's taking pills to be awake. Yeah, he's taking pills to be 743 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:05,240 awake. He's taking pills to go to 744 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,760 sleep. He, like, lives on these pills. 745 00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:09,720 So I think that was messing with him. 746 00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:12,680 Yeah, definitely. That would be a huge factor. 747 00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:18,640 So that summer in 1962, Elvis and Anita broke up and she left 748 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:22,120 Graceland. And then Elvis called Priscilla 749 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,960 and asked her to come visit him in LA and now she's, yeah, 750 00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:27,840 sorry. How old is she? 751 00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:33,160 She's 17 now. After a lot of begging and 752 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,880 crying and pleading, Priscilla's parents agreed to let her visit 753 00:44:37,000 --> 00:44:43,640 him in LA for two weeks. They allowed her to go on the 754 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:47,080 condition that Elvis I know. Did they go with her pay for a 755 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:52,480 first no. My God, I know they allowed her 756 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,240 to go on the condition that Elvis pay for a first class 757 00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:58,520 round trip and arrange for her to be chaperoned at all times. 758 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:00,360 By that, she right home every day. 759 00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,200 Who is the Chaperone by? I don't know. 760 00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:03,920 Like his dad or something? I don't know. 761 00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,480 Oh my God, these parents. We all knew people like this in 762 00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:09,320 high school, though, whose parents would let them do 763 00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,000 anything. It's like you idiots. 764 00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:17,480 God, it's crazy. And it was really naive of them 765 00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:22,560 because the first she went to LA and the first night there, well, 766 00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,000 I guess nothing really happened the first night, but the second 767 00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,800 night, he said. Let's go to Vegas. 768 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:33,560 Oh my God, what? I'm supposed to write my parents 769 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,960 every day from LA? They'll notice if it says the 770 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:40,200 stamp is from Vegas. And so they came up with a plan 771 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:44,160 where she wrote all her letters in advance and someone on his 772 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,280 team sent them every day. So sketchy. 773 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:50,840 Oh my God, Make it look like she was in LA the whole time. 774 00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,240 I know. But the first night she got 775 00:45:54,240 --> 00:45:57,680 there, so she hadn't seen Elvis in years, actually, she was 776 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,560 really nervous. She walked into his house. 777 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,480 I don't know why he didn't pick her up, but like somebody else 778 00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:07,720 picked her up from the airport. And yeah, and she walked in and 779 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:09,640 he was playing pool with a bunch of people. 780 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:11,280 And she said that he looked really different. 781 00:46:11,280 --> 00:46:14,440 He had his hair dyed black. Now he seemed a lot more 782 00:46:14,440 --> 00:46:18,680 confident, and when he saw her in the doorway, he went to hug 783 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:22,760 her and was all she's here, and everybody seemed all happy for 784 00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:26,160 her, but she felt uneasy because there were a bunch of girls 785 00:46:26,320 --> 00:46:31,240 there too, and she didn't know them and just felt out of place, 786 00:46:31,240 --> 00:46:34,480 you know? And I feel like when you're 1714 787 00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:38,280 is forever you know like that's yeah, so long ago. 788 00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,000 So that's that must have been scary. 789 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,040 They're not nuts. Yeah, that they stayed in touch 790 00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,360 and that this even happened. That is cleared. 791 00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:52,520 Yeah, I mean, they didn't even have cell phones or social media 792 00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,680 or e-mail or anything, I know. That's so true. 793 00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,720 And it was only like, I guess it was like, what, eight months, 794 00:46:58,720 --> 00:47:01,080 was it? No, it meant two years. 795 00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,000 Wait, what do you mean 8? Months. 796 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,080 Eight months that they were talking. 797 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:04,320 Oh, that they made it. Yeah. 798 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:07,000 Yeah. Eight months, yeah. 799 00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,520 But still like and then and he lives such a fast life that it's 800 00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,920 like, I feel like he'd meet so many other people in that time 801 00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:17,440 period, but she must have such a deep impression on him. 802 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:23,040 God, I know That first night she wanted to sleep with Elvis, but 803 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:28,360 he said no, not yet. And he actually had her sleep in 804 00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,880 another bedroom, which seems nice. 805 00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,680 But Priscilla said later in life she found out that he might have 806 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:38,640 been getting on call from Anita, which is maybe why he wanted his 807 00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:45,360 own you God this. So they went to Vegas. 808 00:47:45,360 --> 00:47:47,400 They were partying and going to casinos. 809 00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:52,800 And as I said that he's taking a ton of pills to go to sleep and 810 00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,640 to be awake. First of all, he had a super 811 00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:57,760 fast lifestyle. Like you said. 812 00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:03,520 He had to do all this work and performing and you know, he had 813 00:48:03,520 --> 00:48:06,320 trouble letting go at night and going to sleep. 814 00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,760 And he also had a huge fear of insomnia and sleepwalking 815 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:12,680 because remember, his whole family started sleepwalking, 816 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:14,600 really. So that's part of the reason why 817 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,320 he was so into sleeping pills. And he took these super high 818 00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:22,000 dosage pills. And so when they were in Vegas, 819 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:26,000 she started to notice that that like every night, she expected 820 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:29,320 it to be like romantic around bedtime, but he would be like, 821 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:34,440 already slurring his words and falling asleep, you know, And 822 00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:35,960 there's actually, I put it in my notes. 823 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,280 I don't know why I got so interested in this facet, but a 824 00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:42,160 lot of women said that Elvis wasn't interested in having sex 825 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,320 with them. It probably was because of all 826 00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,560 the pills he was taking, yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. 827 00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,320 I mean maybe he won't read it but I have like 3 women quotes 828 00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:55,400 here just saying how he he didn't seem that interested I. 829 00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:59,800 Believe it, yeah. And on this trip, this is the 830 00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,240 first time Priscilla took amphetamines and sleeping pills 831 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:06,280 to keep up with Elvis's lifestyle. 832 00:49:06,320 --> 00:49:10,720 That's fucked up that he was like, I know, giving her that 833 00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,800 God. So she went back to Germany and 834 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:17,880 then he invited her to come back to Graceland for Christmas, 835 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,520 which was months away because it was summertime now. 836 00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,080 But he said that he would be busy filming movies and stuff 837 00:49:24,080 --> 00:49:27,600 and it would be nice to see her at Christmas time. 838 00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,000 So she waited for the right moment to suggest it to her 839 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,600 parents. And then when she did, they were 840 00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:35,560 so upset and said that Christmas was her family. 841 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:40,320 How could you say that? But they did agree to let her go 842 00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:46,320 to Graceland for Christmas. Oh my God, these parents get a 843 00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:48,680 backbone. Jesus Christ. 844 00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:56,480 So she flew to Memphis, Graceland, Tennessee, and she 845 00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:01,240 went for the the week. Her first night there, Elvis 846 00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:06,960 gave her sleeping pills and they knocked her out for literally 2. 847 00:50:07,040 --> 00:50:13,480 Days. Oh my God, that's a two days. 848 00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:15,200 I don't. Worry that someone died if they 849 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:21,360 were passed out for two days. That's crazy, I guess, because 850 00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:24,160 that's the amount that he took and he didn't realize that he 851 00:50:24,160 --> 00:50:27,920 had such a high tolerance. So yeah, and then I guess 852 00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:31,840 because she was gone for two days he didn't like, but now 853 00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:33,600 there's only 5 days of Priscilla. 854 00:50:33,600 --> 00:50:37,360 So then he asked her if she could ask her parents to stay 855 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,080 longer. And I bet they said yes. 856 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:40,440 They said no, Oh. OK. 857 00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:42,920 They actually said no. OK, good, good, good. 858 00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,640 This is the crazy thing though. What then? 859 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,520 He suggested. What if you moved to Graceland 860 00:50:50,520 --> 00:50:53,280 and just go to school here? And I hope they said no. 861 00:50:55,200 --> 00:50:59,800 They said yes. Oh my God, I. 862 00:50:59,880 --> 00:51:02,840 Know they're they're trying so much to secure the bag. 863 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:06,200 Like it's ridiculous. It's, it's. 864 00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,600 They should provide. Still 17. 865 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:12,160 Yeah. He's like a musician, a famous 866 00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,200 musician. So, like, he's obviously not 867 00:51:14,200 --> 00:51:17,760 even living like the normal lifestyle of a regular guy. 868 00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,360 That's ridiculous. It's really sad, 'cause I feel 869 00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:24,160 like she was robbed of, like a young person's experience. 870 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,560 Like, he's not even a good boyfriend. 871 00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,960 He's a bad lover. He's not good. 872 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:31,760 It's he's just famous. But he's not. 873 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,680 He's not even, like providing anything. 874 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,920 I mean she was in love with him and they she does say that they 875 00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,920 had a very special bond and they could talk about things. 876 00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:45,040 And I don't think it was just like, oh, he's total shit. 877 00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,640 Like, I think she did think that they had a romance. 878 00:51:47,640 --> 00:51:50,320 Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I don't think 879 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,920 her parents, again, I don't think they liked the idea. 880 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,320 And I think they said no at first. 881 00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,240 But then she kept begging and they said yes. 882 00:51:57,240 --> 00:52:00,560 And part of the agreement was that they would eventually 883 00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,880 marry, that she would finish her senior year at an all girls 884 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:08,400 Catholic school, and that she would live with Elvis's father 885 00:52:08,400 --> 00:52:11,400 and stepmother in a separate house, which was a few streets 886 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:14,360 away. Weird until she graduated. 887 00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,360 Weird. But according to her 888 00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,360 autobiography, because she did move there and she moved into 889 00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,880 Elvis's dad's house, she had gradually moved her things into 890 00:52:23,880 --> 00:52:27,320 Graceland, and it's believed that she had been living there 891 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:35,120 full time as early as May 1963. OK, when she was 18, but she was 892 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:39,760 not actually doing the living at Dad's house thing, Yeah. 893 00:52:40,840 --> 00:52:43,240 Wow. But she would expect. 894 00:52:43,240 --> 00:52:46,160 I mean, why? Why would Elvis Presley? 895 00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,720 Yeah, just like, yeah, you my girlfriend is going to live a 896 00:52:49,720 --> 00:52:51,040 couple streets away. Like, no. 897 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,760 Yeah. Wait one SEC. 898 00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:54,960 I'm just going to. My door is like half open. 899 00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,040 I'm just going to close it. All right, I'm back. 900 00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:58,800 OK, A couple, A couple more pages. 901 00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:03,720 This is this is this. Is a riveting episode. 902 00:53:03,840 --> 00:53:07,680 I'm like, on that. OK, oh, someone's like, rubbing 903 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:09,360 their engine. OK, keep going. 904 00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:11,200 So now she's living at Graceland. 905 00:53:11,480 --> 00:53:13,160 I actually kind of want to go to Graceland now. 906 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,600 I never I really wanted to before this, but now. 907 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:20,920 I want to go to Tennessee. Me too, Mel. 908 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,080 I never have. Yeah, that's a like, that's like 909 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,960 a central state to go to. We should go. 910 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:30,360 Yeah, I want to go to Chattanooga. 911 00:53:30,360 --> 00:53:34,080 I mean, that's a cool place. I would be down. 912 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:35,960 I'd go. I'd go anywhere. 913 00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:40,520 Seriously. Anyway, she's living at 914 00:53:40,520 --> 00:53:43,000 Graceland. Her life is totally merged with 915 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,520 Elvis's. He chose her clothes, her 916 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:50,160 makeup, her hair, her big hair. Wait, He chose it. 917 00:53:50,160 --> 00:53:53,000 She spent, yeah. I mean, it was like his 918 00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:56,040 suggestion, you know, they'd go shopping together and he'd be 919 00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:00,160 like, Oh yeah, wear this. He basically shaped her whole 920 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,080 look, the one with the big hair and the dramatic eye makeup. 921 00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:09,160 According to her, she spent all her time with his family and his 922 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,840 whole entourage. Thing about Elvis is he always 923 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,520 had all his guys around, like his friends that worked for him. 924 00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,680 They were constantly there and he had a totally crazy life. 925 00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,600 He had access to anything he wanted. 926 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:27,320 I mean, he had so much money, like they would rent out the 927 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:31,160 entire movie theater whenever he wanted or the whole amusement 928 00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,560 park. And when something would annoy 929 00:54:34,560 --> 00:54:38,440 him on TV, he would take out his gun and shoot the TV. 930 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:44,080 I know. Handed over my face right now. 931 00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:51,360 Yeah. God that he would stay up all 932 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:55,120 night long and would sleep till 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. 933 00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,280 Oh my God, he was not a good lover. 934 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:03,360 Like, I feel bad for her that this scary, the love of her 935 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,120 life. Like he's terrible. 936 00:55:07,240 --> 00:55:11,080 Oh, and Priscilla would still. She was still in school. 937 00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,400 So she would go to school and then she would get back and he 938 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,760 would just be waking up and ready to start his crazy day. 939 00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,720 Elvis would obsessively This is this isn't bad, but it's just 940 00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:22,840 weird. He would obsessively eat this 941 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:25,360 name foods over and over until he got bored of it. 942 00:55:25,720 --> 00:55:28,360 Oh yeah, somewhat do that, but but not as dramatic. 943 00:55:28,360 --> 00:55:31,200 Wasn't he really obsessed with peanut butter or banana 944 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,960 sandwiches? Yes. 945 00:55:33,160 --> 00:55:36,160 That's what I specifically Peanut butter banana bacon 946 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:38,960 sandwich. OK, wow. 947 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:44,360 And Priscilla said that Elvis enjoyed meatloaf and mashed 948 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,040 potatoes so much that he ate it every day for dinner for six 949 00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,320 months. That was like, wasn't he? 950 00:55:51,440 --> 00:55:53,520 Didn't he have a lot of bowel issues, too? 951 00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,920 Like, that's good. Not gonna help? 952 00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:56,520 I think so. He. 953 00:55:57,120 --> 00:55:59,000 Yeah. He did not take care of himself. 954 00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:00,680 Yeah. And. 955 00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,880 And and he started to gain weight but then he got really 956 00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:08,000 into karate and then he got more slim and he was always like back 957 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:08,280 and. Forth. 958 00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:11,040 But that probably the not taking care of himself speaks to him 959 00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:15,040 being baby his whole life. So it's like he didn't have any 960 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,480 form of autonomy or maturity whatsoever. 961 00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:23,320 God, OK. And he did have a temper, as 962 00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:27,280 they mentioned in the beginning. And she said that in the house 963 00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:30,320 in Graceland, everyone's mood kind of depended on Elvis's. 964 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,160 You know, like when he would come out in the morning, or I 965 00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,880 guess it would be the afternoon. Like everyone would wait to see 966 00:56:35,880 --> 00:56:40,560 how he felt because like he was in a bad mood, wouldn't want to 967 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:43,600 take him off. Yeah, he had too much power. 968 00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,440 God, she said. One time he asked her what she 969 00:56:47,440 --> 00:56:51,920 thought about a song and she said that he that he had 970 00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,920 recorded and she said that she didn't really like it and he 971 00:56:54,920 --> 00:56:58,080 threw a chair and he didn't throw it at her. 972 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,440 But there was like a stack of records on it and they all went 973 00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,320 everywhere and like hit her. And she said it was really 974 00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:05,160 scary. That is really scary. 975 00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,920 Oh, I feel really bad for her. I know it. 976 00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,720 Makes me sad. It makes because I was thinking 977 00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:12,600 in the beginning of this episode, I was like, I don't 978 00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:16,920 know, like how critical to be of this relationship, because I 979 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,880 think that, like, to this day, she still seems to have an 980 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:24,000 undying love for Elvis. But it makes me really sad 981 00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:29,280 because I think so much of it is probably because of how he 982 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:36,120 treated her and he created this dynamic that was really not OK. 983 00:57:36,160 --> 00:57:39,600 And I don't know, I feel like you cheated at her out of 984 00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:41,960 experiences that she could have had. 985 00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:44,680 I know. That makes me sad. 986 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:49,240 But you do have to remember times were different back then. 987 00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:54,720 A lot of women weren't expected to have that many experiences. 988 00:57:54,960 --> 00:57:57,240 A lot of women did just get married after high. 989 00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:02,000 School. In a way, she did get to 990 00:58:02,000 --> 00:58:04,720 experience more than the average. 991 00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:10,440 Woman just like travelling and all the things she had, but she 992 00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,240 definitely wasn't treated that well. 993 00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:17,200 And yeah, I don't know, I think that she really, really did love 994 00:58:17,200 --> 00:58:19,920 him. And I think in a way jumping 995 00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:22,640 ahead, I think the relationship got was one of those where it 996 00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:24,560 got better after they weren't together anymore. 997 00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:28,880 But it's upsetting. I mean, she she definitely had 998 00:58:28,880 --> 00:58:31,680 good memories with him, but he was a very hard person. 999 00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,000 I feel like if you get with somebody at that age, when 1000 00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:39,880 you're that young, you don't know anything differently so. 1001 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:43,600 You're going to always be very forgiving and understanding and 1002 00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,320 loyal to them because that's all you know. 1003 00:58:46,440 --> 00:58:49,640 And like it's it's so intertwined. 1004 00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:51,520 Your brain is not even fully developed. 1005 00:58:51,520 --> 00:58:56,080 So it's so intertwined with your sense of self that like even 1006 00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:02,400 when she's 6570, she's not going to even be able to be mad at 1007 00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,120 Elvis because Elvis is a part of her. 1008 00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:09,320 You know, it's kind of sad. It's true, she finally graduated 1009 00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:13,880 high school and Elvis was excited for it. 1010 00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:17,240 He wanted to go, but she said she asked him not to go because 1011 00:59:17,240 --> 00:59:20,240 he thought that he would. She thought he would distract 1012 00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,440 from all the graduates and he said, oh, he understood. 1013 00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,800 So he waited outside for her to come out. 1014 00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:28,560 That's crazy. I mean, he was like the most 1015 00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,200 famous person in the world, probably. 1016 00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,520 Can you imagine someone in your? Oh my God. 1017 00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:35,920 Boyfriend's outside and it's like. 1018 00:59:36,120 --> 00:59:38,440 Especially in all girls school. Like what? 1019 00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:44,000 I know it's crazy. But she did graduate, so that's 1020 00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:47,440 good because I know her grades weren't doing so well And Elvis 1021 00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:50,520 would leave often to go to Hollywood to make movies and he 1022 00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:56,840 would leave her at Graceland and there were a lot of rumors about 1023 00:59:56,840 --> 01:00:01,160 him and his Co star and Margaret getting together and. 1024 01:00:01,520 --> 01:00:05,840 And Margaret even told the press that they were engaged and 1025 01:00:06,160 --> 01:00:09,480 Priscilla confronted Elvis and said what the heck is this? 1026 01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:12,640 And Elvis like freaked out and said that Ann Margaret made it 1027 01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:14,760 up. But I do think that there could 1028 01:00:14,760 --> 01:00:19,320 be some truth to it, because some a letter or a Telegraph or 1029 01:00:19,320 --> 01:00:22,920 something got sent to the house from Ann Margaret that said, I 1030 01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,880 can't remember exactly what it said, but it said like I'm 1031 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,400 confused what happened or something. 1032 01:00:27,440 --> 01:00:34,520 Oh my God, this dog. He is a dog and two I know, and 1033 01:00:34,520 --> 01:00:37,280 two weeks later he told Priscilla it was all over with 1034 01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:41,160 her. Him and Anne did keep in touch 1035 01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:46,000 the rest of his life. Oh Oh my God, I don't trust him 1036 01:00:46,000 --> 01:00:48,200 at all. I don't not trust him. 1037 01:00:48,200 --> 01:00:50,160 You can't. You can't trust him. 1038 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:56,040 Even though I'm describing Elvis in a very negative way, he could 1039 01:00:56,040 --> 01:00:59,040 be very caring of everyone. Like all the people that lived 1040 01:00:59,040 --> 01:01:02,720 at Graceland, all his friends and everything, Whenever they 1041 01:01:02,720 --> 01:01:05,240 asked something from from him, he would give it to them. 1042 01:01:05,240 --> 01:01:07,880 And he always supported people like help them put a down 1043 01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,720 payment on a house or whatever, and like he was super loyal to 1044 01:01:11,320 --> 01:01:14,440 everybody in his life. Yeah, people are so complicated. 1045 01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,960 Almost. Yeah, because people did really 1046 01:01:17,960 --> 01:01:19,640 take advantage of him. And it's weird because we're 1047 01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,640 saying like he has too much power. 1048 01:01:21,640 --> 01:01:26,320 But then his manager for some reason had such a hold over him 1049 01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:30,040 and like somehow made him do all these bad movies. 1050 01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:34,360 And at one point later in his life, he was taking away 1051 01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:38,360 depending like on certain projects, he was taking like 80% 1052 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:42,320 of Elvis's money or like sometimes usually was like 50%. 1053 01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:45,240 But it's just no. It's like he was almost too 1054 01:01:45,240 --> 01:01:48,760 trusting with some people, but you also couldn't trust him so. 1055 01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:50,200 Exactly. Yeah. 1056 01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:53,280 It's like he was like, he's a super confusing person. 1057 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:57,040 He let people be the alpha in so many different situations and 1058 01:01:57,040 --> 01:02:00,120 then like this, when he had the opportunity, he had to be the 1059 01:02:00,120 --> 01:02:03,240 alpha. Yeah, yes, yes, yes. 1060 01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:07,880 But I think that he had at the end of the day he kind of did 1061 01:02:07,880 --> 01:02:12,040 have low self esteem, like he was very sensitive to criticism 1062 01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,360 and. You know who that's reminding me 1063 01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:16,440 of? My old friend Megan from Colin. 1064 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:23,400 All this was troubled, though. Like he he really was. 1065 01:02:23,400 --> 01:02:25,360 I think he was depressed at some point. 1066 01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:28,680 And he was also very spiritual. He held Bible readings at 1067 01:02:28,680 --> 01:02:32,240 Graceland and he was also exploring Eastern spirituality. 1068 01:02:32,240 --> 01:02:35,800 He was. He's very into stuff like that. 1069 01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:39,560 And he tried to get Priscilla to be into it, too, but she wasn't. 1070 01:02:39,560 --> 01:02:40,480 Really. Yeah. 1071 01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,440 So now she's been living at Graceland for three years. 1072 01:02:44,560 --> 01:02:50,760 And apparently Colonel Parker, his manager, reminded Elvis of 1073 01:02:50,760 --> 01:02:55,280 RC as moral clause because it didn't look good that him and 1074 01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,960 Priscilla were living together and that they weren't married. 1075 01:02:58,400 --> 01:03:01,440 And he had. He had promised Priscilla's dad 1076 01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:04,760 that he would marry her. And both Priscilla's dad and 1077 01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:07,400 Colonel Parker were really putting the heat on him about 1078 01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:08,680 it. Like, you have to marry her. 1079 01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:13,160 You can't just keep doing this. And apparently part of the 1080 01:03:13,160 --> 01:03:16,640 reason Colonel Parker was so stressed about this was recently 1081 01:03:16,640 --> 01:03:21,560 the singer Jerry Lee Lewis had recently married his 13 year old 1082 01:03:21,640 --> 01:03:22,360 cousin. Oh. 1083 01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:23,160 What? What? 1084 01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:27,920 Yeah, cousin. Yeah. 1085 01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,040 And it had been a huge scandal and kind of ruined his career. 1086 01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:36,400 And they didn't want that to happen to Elvis. 1087 01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,400 Oh. My God, I'm disgusted. 1088 01:03:41,640 --> 01:03:45,800 And fun fact, later in life, like in the 70s, Jerry Lee Lewis 1089 01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:49,320 showed up at Graceland, it was throwing bottles at the entrance 1090 01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,800 and Elvis was watching from the security camera and told the 1091 01:03:52,800 --> 01:03:55,840 staff to call the police. What? 1092 01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:58,080 Why? How did he even get there? 1093 01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,800 That's crazy. I never heard even heard. 1094 01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,280 I heard that about him. That is weird. 1095 01:04:04,600 --> 01:04:07,560 I actually heard about it because when I was researching 1096 01:04:07,560 --> 01:04:12,200 the Winona Ryder episode, she was in a movie called Great 1097 01:04:12,200 --> 01:04:17,440 Balls of Fire and she played Jerry Lee Lewis's 13 year old 1098 01:04:17,800 --> 01:04:22,360 bride in the movie depiction of it. 1099 01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:26,960 Wait, he was so creepy looking. I'm looking at him up right now. 1100 01:04:27,240 --> 01:04:31,160 His wife looks like she really looked 13 too. 1101 01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:33,000 It's not even like I know she looks. 1102 01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:35,320 Old for her age, which no matter what. 1103 01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:38,360 No, no, no. You yuck. 1104 01:04:38,360 --> 01:04:41,360 So yeah, they they really didn't want APR disaster like that. 1105 01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:45,160 And she was 21 now, and I don't know. 1106 01:04:45,160 --> 01:04:47,320 I don't. I think Elvis did love her and I 1107 01:04:47,320 --> 01:04:48,880 think he did always want to get married. 1108 01:04:48,880 --> 01:04:51,320 But it does kind of sound like he was pressured a little bit. 1109 01:04:52,000 --> 01:04:58,400 And shortly before Christmas 1966, he proposed to her, Just 1110 01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:02,360 at home in her dressing room, apparently, and she said yes. 1111 01:05:02,440 --> 01:05:05,800 Oh wow. And later, Priscilla told Ladies 1112 01:05:05,800 --> 01:05:09,640 her home journal that her and Elvis were happy to just live 1113 01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,400 together. But she said at the time it 1114 01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:14,840 wasn't nice for people to just live together. 1115 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:19,200 Yeah, so. Yeah, I think she was dying to 1116 01:05:19,200 --> 01:05:21,520 marry him either. But it was because it was 1117 01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:23,000 social. It would have been more socially 1118 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:25,720 acceptable to get married. Yeah, that makes sense. 1119 01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,280 There's a lot of conflicting stories about this. 1120 01:05:28,280 --> 01:05:33,080 Like, some sources say that he was so happy to marry her and he 1121 01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:35,400 was in love. And some say that he felt 1122 01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:39,960 trapped and was forced to. So I don't know. 1123 01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:41,600 I think maybe it was a little bit of both. 1124 01:05:45,120 --> 01:05:47,000 All right. She's been living in Graceland 1125 01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,280 for years. According to Priscilla, in her 1126 01:05:50,280 --> 01:05:52,720 memoir, they still had not slept together. 1127 01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:56,040 What? That's She said that Elvis told 1128 01:05:56,040 --> 01:05:58,880 her they had to wait until they were married, he said. 1129 01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:01,400 I'm not saying we can't do other things, it's just the actual 1130 01:06:01,400 --> 01:06:04,960 encounter I want to save. It so maybe that's a part of it 1131 01:06:04,960 --> 01:06:08,520 too is he was very religious like some people do or just buy 1132 01:06:08,520 --> 01:06:11,680 the book or like we can literally do anything but like 1133 01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:16,680 we cannot have. He was very religious but I 1134 01:06:16,680 --> 01:06:20,480 don't think he was a virgin so. That's weird, you know? 1135 01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,080 Yeah. But maybe, maybe he had. 1136 01:06:23,560 --> 01:06:26,080 He wanted to start over or. Something I don't know. 1137 01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:27,080 Yeah. Wow. 1138 01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:31,720 Yeah, she and Priscilla's wears by it like she's been asked 1139 01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:35,840 about it many times. To this day, she swears that 1140 01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,440 they never had sex until her wedding night. 1141 01:06:39,840 --> 01:06:42,920 Honestly, I kind of believe her. If there's so many testaments 1142 01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:47,520 from other women about, like the fact that he wasn't having sex 1143 01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:52,080 and he was on all these pills, probably wasn't that capable of 1144 01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,840 it, to be honest with you. I know I didn't believe it at 1145 01:06:55,840 --> 01:06:59,320 first, but then the more I was looking into it and all of his 1146 01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:02,600 exes, a lot of they pretty much all said the same thing. 1147 01:07:02,680 --> 01:07:07,400 So I think it was true, kind of random, but Elvis started 1148 01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:12,640 getting super into horses. Oh, and he bought horses for 1149 01:07:12,640 --> 01:07:17,600 everybody, all his friends and Priscilla and riding gear and 1150 01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:20,800 clothing and built the stable and like all this thing. 1151 01:07:20,800 --> 01:07:26,320 And he got Priscilla. Yeah, very expensive. 1152 01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:30,240 And he got Priscilla Horse for Christmas that year. 1153 01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,600 And then actually it's OK if I go to the. 1154 01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:34,760 Bathroom. I have to go to the bathroom. 1155 01:07:34,760 --> 01:07:36,200 Really too. I was just going to say that. 1156 01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:37,920 OK, perfect. Let's do it. 1157 01:07:38,000 --> 01:07:44,280 OK, let's take a break and we're back, OK? 1158 01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:51,800 He had just gotten her horse and then the couple married on May 1159 01:07:51,800 --> 01:07:56,840 1st, 1967 at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas. 1160 01:07:57,560 --> 01:08:02,320 The wedding was arranged by that horrible Colonel Parker to 1161 01:08:02,480 --> 01:08:06,680 maximize publicity and featured very few guests. 1162 01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,360 And it was only 8 minutes long the whole service. 1163 01:08:09,360 --> 01:08:11,560 Oh wow. Were her parents there? 1164 01:08:11,600 --> 01:08:13,200 I bet. I bet they were probably right. 1165 01:08:14,600 --> 01:08:16,359 They were. But it was. 1166 01:08:16,439 --> 01:08:21,359 It was very small, and it actually caused a lot of rifts 1167 01:08:21,359 --> 01:08:25,920 between Elvis and many of his closest friends because they 1168 01:08:25,920 --> 01:08:32,120 were not invited to wedding ceremony, because the Colonel 1169 01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:33,720 wanted to keep it really small for some reason. 1170 01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:37,560 And then afterward, there was a breakfast reception and a 1171 01:08:38,160 --> 01:08:42,520 publicity What's it called? A oh, press conference. 1172 01:08:43,760 --> 01:08:46,000 Like, what's the word? It's followed by a press 1173 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:48,760 conference. So it was kind of like all 1174 01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,479 business, in a way. Then Elvis and Priscilla boarded 1175 01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:55,200 Private Jet and they had a short honeymoon in Palm Springs. 1176 01:08:56,000 --> 01:08:59,560 Same honeymoon spot as Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. 1177 01:08:59,560 --> 01:09:03,319 I remembered. So did he request ATV and the. 1178 01:09:06,359 --> 01:09:07,920 And then he shoots it with his gun? 1179 01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:08,840 Yeah. Yeah. 1180 01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:11,920 Yeah. Like what? 1181 01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:17,240 Apparently. Remember Ann Margaret who said 1182 01:09:17,240 --> 01:09:19,120 that they were engaged? Yes. 1183 01:09:19,120 --> 01:09:22,720 She got married just one week after this. 1184 01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:24,319 OK. I'm happy she found love. 1185 01:09:24,319 --> 01:09:25,080 She was moving. Yeah. 1186 01:09:25,640 --> 01:09:27,520 Yeah. And then, in the attempts to 1187 01:09:27,640 --> 01:09:31,520 heal riffs with their friends, Elvis and Priscilla had another 1188 01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:35,640 reception at Graceland on May 29th and invited all the people 1189 01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:38,319 that weren't able to attend the original ceremonies. 1190 01:09:39,479 --> 01:09:43,080 That's nice, Yeah. Soon after, Priscilla found out 1191 01:09:43,080 --> 01:09:48,240 that she was pregnant, which she was upset about because she felt 1192 01:09:48,240 --> 01:09:51,600 like it was too soon. She's so young. 1193 01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:53,240 How? How old is she at this point? 1194 01:09:53,240 --> 01:10:00,160 Like 2120, I think 21. Yeah. 1195 01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,960 So she's pregnant. And then I could not believe 1196 01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,280 this. I was guys, I was listening to 1197 01:10:05,280 --> 01:10:08,320 her memoir while I was driving. It was actually dark at this 1198 01:10:08,320 --> 01:10:12,240 point. I was in the woods and I heard 1199 01:10:12,240 --> 01:10:15,760 that when she was seven months pregnant, Elvis suggested that 1200 01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:21,040 they take a break. Oh my God, I was at the wheel 1201 01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:23,480 and I just couldn't believe it. I was like, are you kidding? 1202 01:10:23,960 --> 01:10:28,480 Elvis, you cannot get any lower right now. 1203 01:10:28,480 --> 01:10:31,920 Like, I was so mad at him. Oh my God. 1204 01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:37,240 But basically the next day he actually, like, he never said it 1205 01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:38,560 and they just kept being together. 1206 01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:39,440 Oh. My. 1207 01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:43,160 God, he probably. He probably was super fucked up 1208 01:10:43,160 --> 01:10:47,440 like on pills and stuff and was like pissed at her for probably 1209 01:10:47,440 --> 01:10:51,600 being pissed at him about how shitty of a boyfriend or husband 1210 01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:56,560 he was and Oh my God, but like that. 1211 01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,960 That's the thing that makes you feel so bad for Priscilla 1212 01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,560 though. It's like she she was so 1213 01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:05,840 beautiful and she was so loving, loving and forgiving and was 1214 01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:08,840 understanding and like her whole like. 1215 01:11:09,400 --> 01:11:14,920 Young life was taken over and stolen by this guy who just 1216 01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,280 didn't deserve her at all. But just because he was famous, 1217 01:11:18,280 --> 01:11:20,880 like it's so fucked up. Oh God. 1218 01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:25,360 But they stayed together. February 1st, 1968, she gave 1219 01:11:25,360 --> 01:11:30,640 birth to Lisa Marie Presley. She was born exactly nine months 1220 01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:32,080 after their wedding. Wow. 1221 01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:35,720 Wow. Sometimes I feel like I sound 1222 01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:43,080 like Owen Wilson on this podcast with the with the Like 2 1223 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:47,560 accidental impersonations. As if you couldn't feel bad 1224 01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:51,360 enough for Priscilla. And yes, OK, she has all the 1225 01:11:51,360 --> 01:11:53,760 money and all, you know she can do whatever she wants. 1226 01:11:53,760 --> 01:11:55,880 But still, I feel really bad for her. 1227 01:11:56,400 --> 01:11:59,760 And I feel even more bad for her, because after she had Bliss 1228 01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:02,400 and Marie, Elvis apparently became less and less sexually 1229 01:12:02,400 --> 01:12:05,880 interested in her, and he once told her that he couldn't be, 1230 01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,120 like, sexually attracted to a mother. 1231 01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:15,280 Oh. My God, I know he, he really, 1232 01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:19,160 he's like a psychologist dream because he he had so much stuff 1233 01:12:19,160 --> 01:12:21,240 going on. He totally had that Madonna 1234 01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:24,080 horror complex, you know? I don't. 1235 01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:25,040 I don't think I know what that is. 1236 01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:29,600 Something about his mom. Oh, that's like when somebody 1237 01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:35,960 has trouble seeing women as more than stereotypes. 1238 01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:40,080 Like Madonna, meaning like the Heavenly Mother, you know, or 1239 01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:43,520 the whore, the sexual one. And like they can't see a woman 1240 01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:46,520 as somehow being both. I feel like you know neither or 1241 01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:49,320 whatever, but. Yeah, a lot of guys like that. 1242 01:12:49,360 --> 01:12:52,320 Oh my God. I know. 1243 01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:55,320 Oh, I feel so bad for her. I feel so. 1244 01:12:55,320 --> 01:12:58,360 But if you think about it, if you think about it, she only 1245 01:12:58,440 --> 01:13:01,120 really had sex with Elvis for like 9 months. 1246 01:13:02,160 --> 01:13:05,320 I shouldn't be laughing. Maybe a little bit longer than 1247 01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:08,800 that, but really it wasn't that long because he wouldn't have 1248 01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:13,680 sex with her before their wedding and then after he was 1249 01:13:13,680 --> 01:13:17,280 not interested anymore. And it's like he, I feel like he 1250 01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:20,960 made her feel so important and then like would discard her. 1251 01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,360 And she's a mother because you knocked her up. 1252 01:13:23,360 --> 01:13:29,400 Like, that's awful. I mean they still they still 1253 01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:32,800 spent time together like they were still a family. 1254 01:13:32,800 --> 01:13:37,280 It's not like he was just gone. But yeah, he you know, he wasn't 1255 01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:40,360 seeming as attracted to her, even though she if you see 1256 01:13:40,360 --> 01:13:42,080 pictures of her, she was gorgeous. 1257 01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:44,000 Yeah, like that. One of the most gorgeous people 1258 01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:45,560 ever. Yeah. 1259 01:13:45,960 --> 01:13:50,960 Actually reminds me of Breaking Dawn because there were stories 1260 01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:54,360 about her, like dressing up in lingerie and, you know, going to 1261 01:13:54,360 --> 01:13:58,400 lie down next to Elvis and he was already falling asleep 1262 01:13:58,400 --> 01:14:02,560 because of his sleeping pills. Oh my God, yeah, that's very 1263 01:14:02,640 --> 01:14:09,120 breaking down part one. So man, there's so many 1264 01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:12,800 connections to everything, You know, life is just a tapestry 1265 01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:16,400 and all the strings connect. Because this reminds me so much 1266 01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,880 of the F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald episode, 1267 01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,080 because she, you know, she's going through a hard time and 1268 01:14:21,080 --> 01:14:26,120 she starts taking dance lessons and she starts getting so into 1269 01:14:26,120 --> 01:14:30,240 it. And she starts going multiple 1270 01:14:30,240 --> 01:14:31,880 times a day. Like, who does that? 1271 01:14:31,880 --> 01:14:33,240 I don't know. Anybody that does that. 1272 01:14:33,560 --> 01:14:35,280 Like an adult? Yeah, multiple. 1273 01:14:35,360 --> 01:14:38,480 Times a day I want to do that. That'd be so fun. 1274 01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:40,400 I know. Oh my. 1275 01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,480 I guess if you don't have a job and you have all the money in 1276 01:14:43,480 --> 01:14:45,960 the world, you can. That'd be my dream life, 1277 01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:47,760 actually. Yeah, yeah. 1278 01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:53,600 So she started dancing every day, just like Zelda, and she 1279 01:14:53,600 --> 01:14:56,560 actually had a brief affair with her dance instructor Mark. 1280 01:14:56,560 --> 01:14:58,800 Good for her, Yeah, good for her. 1281 01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:05,640 But he was 45. Oh, but whatever. 1282 01:15:07,360 --> 01:15:10,320 Yeah. I mean, at this point, at this 1283 01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:14,040 point, though, she needs a little, like, intimacy. 1284 01:15:14,040 --> 01:15:16,000 And yeah, she's done. Yeah. 1285 01:15:16,640 --> 01:15:19,040 And he's been cheating on her, so. 1286 01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:21,600 He has been. We we need to take a drink for 1287 01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,800 that. Oh yes. 1288 01:15:24,640 --> 01:15:29,320 So then Elvis had been in a slump recently, career wise. 1289 01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:33,160 All his movies were kind of silly and very similar to each 1290 01:15:33,160 --> 01:15:35,800 other and people were starting to say they were a joke. 1291 01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:39,560 I think that's part of the reason he was being so terrible 1292 01:15:39,560 --> 01:15:44,080 to Priscilla is he really felt down in the dumps about himself. 1293 01:15:44,440 --> 01:15:51,280 But then he had his comeback special on TV, which was a huge 1294 01:15:51,280 --> 01:15:53,920 hit. He hadn't been on TV in years, 1295 01:15:54,200 --> 01:15:56,920 and he had kind of stepped away from music, just doing his silly 1296 01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:58,920 movies. But then when the special came 1297 01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:01,200 out, people were just wowed about IT. 1298 01:16:01,440 --> 01:16:05,240 People loved him again. I mean, I don't, I don't know 1299 01:16:05,240 --> 01:16:08,560 what we can compare this to in recent times. 1300 01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:10,400 I'm kind of. I almost feel like it reminds me 1301 01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,240 of like Lady Gaga and choosing A Star is Born like. 1302 01:16:14,040 --> 01:16:16,160 I mean, no, she had, she had a good reputation. 1303 01:16:16,160 --> 01:16:19,040 She, it hadn't been a negative reputation, but people were 1304 01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:24,040 like, Oh my God, it was she was back in the spotlight, you know, 1305 01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:27,520 who was reminding me of less So because I feel like she's never 1306 01:16:27,520 --> 01:16:29,680 been the way that she was in the beginning. 1307 01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:35,040 But Britney Spears where like people love Britney Spears. 1308 01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,040 And then obvious. And then she was like a joke 1309 01:16:37,040 --> 01:16:40,600 like. To people like, it was like it 1310 01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:45,160 was very unpopular to look like Britney Spears, and then now 1311 01:16:45,160 --> 01:16:49,080 people are very sympathetic to her, obviously, but that's true. 1312 01:16:49,120 --> 01:16:52,440 People really, Britney and Elvis have so many similarities. 1313 01:16:52,640 --> 01:16:55,880 Yeah, they really do. Because also like her 1314 01:16:55,880 --> 01:16:59,680 conservatorship, I mean, it's not the same, but I feel like 1315 01:16:59,680 --> 01:17:03,600 Elvis wasn't in control. I mean, in the beginning it was 1316 01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:06,200 kind of his fault, but then I think it kind of like got out to 1317 01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:10,760 the point where he just had no control over his finances and 1318 01:17:11,440 --> 01:17:15,920 both of Elvis and Brittany did the Vegas residency. 1319 01:17:16,320 --> 01:17:18,720 That's true, yeah. And they both came from, like, 1320 01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:21,360 pretty Southern religious families as well. 1321 01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:24,840 Yes. So yeah, the comeback special 1322 01:17:24,840 --> 01:17:27,840 was a huge hit. And then he was invited to 1323 01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,800 perform at the International Hotel in Vegas, which was his 1324 01:17:31,800 --> 01:17:33,560 first. So this is 1969. 1325 01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,880 It was his first live performance in nearly eight 1326 01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:37,360 years. Wow. 1327 01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:41,040 And he was super nervous. And there's actually this really 1328 01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:45,400 cute footage of him backstage before the show that, you know, 1329 01:17:45,400 --> 01:17:48,160 I was so angry at Elvis. And then I watched this footage 1330 01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:52,600 and I was like, oh, yeah, because he was like, blowing out 1331 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:54,160 a puff of air. And he was like, I hope I don't 1332 01:17:54,160 --> 01:17:57,000 forget the lurk because I'm like, he was practicing. 1333 01:17:57,000 --> 01:18:00,040 And you could see that he was really nervous and. 1334 01:18:00,800 --> 01:18:03,000 Well, let's see. I feel like that is very 1335 01:18:03,000 --> 01:18:07,640 validating to Priscilla because it's like we can see why she was 1336 01:18:07,720 --> 01:18:12,560 head over heels for this man. Like it's He does have charm, so 1337 01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:16,480 he does. He does so both his TV comeback 1338 01:18:16,480 --> 01:18:19,840 special and his return to the stage where immense successes 1339 01:18:20,120 --> 01:18:23,920 and he felt way more confident in in higher spirits. 1340 01:18:23,920 --> 01:18:27,800 And I guess it improved their relationship for a little while. 1341 01:18:28,920 --> 01:18:31,800 He continued to do more shows in Vegas. 1342 01:18:31,800 --> 01:18:36,560 They came up with a deal where he would like twice a year do a 1343 01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:41,280 number of shows there and he started to, you know, he would 1344 01:18:41,440 --> 01:18:44,080 their relationship was better because of his success. 1345 01:18:44,080 --> 01:18:48,400 But then the success started to take away from the relationship 1346 01:18:48,400 --> 01:18:53,240 because he wanted to keep up the old lifestyle and she didn't. 1347 01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,240 And then she eventually just said, you know what, you can 1348 01:18:56,240 --> 01:19:00,360 just go out with the boys. Like, I I don't want to come 1349 01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:02,320 anymore. Like, I I can't do this anymore. 1350 01:19:02,320 --> 01:19:06,240 So started spending less time together while he was busy off 1351 01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:09,560 of his shows and everything. She started to get a lot more 1352 01:19:09,560 --> 01:19:14,280 into karate, which was something that Elvis was into too. 1353 01:19:14,720 --> 01:19:16,440 He was actually a black belt. I didn't know that. 1354 01:19:16,440 --> 01:19:21,400 And apparently his, like his jumpsuit outfits that he would 1355 01:19:21,400 --> 01:19:24,640 wear was kind of inspired from the karate outfit. 1356 01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:29,120 I know I didn't know that. So she's getting really into 1357 01:19:29,120 --> 01:19:34,680 karate and also Taekwondo and she's starting to feel a lot 1358 01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:37,880 more confident about herself and she's making new friends through 1359 01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:43,520 it, meeting other couples. She started to not wear as much 1360 01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,120 make up and started dressing how she wanted to. 1361 01:19:46,120 --> 01:19:49,200 And she started to realize that her relationship wasn't that 1362 01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:50,680 healthy. Like as she was starting to 1363 01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:55,160 spend more time with adult couples that were, I don't know, 1364 01:19:55,160 --> 01:19:58,520 in the karate community. And she started taking lessons 1365 01:19:58,520 --> 01:20:03,200 from Mike Stone, a Hawaiian karate instructor she met in 1366 01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:08,120 1972, actually backstage at one of Elvis's concerts, and she 1367 01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:11,120 soon soon began an affair with him. 1368 01:20:12,760 --> 01:20:17,520 Couple months after this affair started, she said that Elvis 1369 01:20:18,160 --> 01:20:21,520 asked to see her in his hotel suite, and she wrote in her 1370 01:20:21,520 --> 01:20:25,000 memoir that he forcefully made love to me. 1371 01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:29,000 And said this is how a real man makes love to his woman. 1372 01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,960 But then later Priscilla said she regretted her choice of 1373 01:20:32,960 --> 01:20:38,000 words and said that it was an overstatement and said that what 1374 01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:41,320 really hurt was that he was not sensitive to me as a woman and 1375 01:20:41,320 --> 01:20:45,520 his attempt at reconciliation had come too late, suggesting 1376 01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:49,240 that he was deliberately trying to compensate for his lack of 1377 01:20:49,240 --> 01:20:52,720 sexual interest. But it was too late. 1378 01:20:52,720 --> 01:20:54,840 So basically he was like, oh, you're with another man, like, 1379 01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,680 let me show you. But, you know, he hadn't been 1380 01:20:58,280 --> 01:21:00,920 interested in her sexually in like, years, basically. 1381 01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:03,240 So. Wait, but so who did? 1382 01:21:03,240 --> 01:21:05,800 Too late? Who did she originally use those 1383 01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,920 words with? Like the forcibly sexual with 1384 01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,400 that was in her book Elvis and Me and. 1385 01:21:14,400 --> 01:21:19,440 Then she later said that she she said she regretted writing it 1386 01:21:19,440 --> 01:21:20,680 that way. Well, yeah. 1387 01:21:20,680 --> 01:21:25,000 Because, I mean, it sounds like, you know, the worst that it 1388 01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:29,880 could be, like that's that it does is awful. 1389 01:21:30,320 --> 01:21:33,520 I know. So she's seeing Mike Stone. 1390 01:21:34,320 --> 01:21:37,680 He's kind of doing his thing. He's also deteriorating. 1391 01:21:37,680 --> 01:21:42,920 He's on pills and everything, and eventually she told him that 1392 01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:46,000 she's leaving him. Leaving Elvis. 1393 01:21:46,480 --> 01:21:48,480 Yep, Yep. And he was shocked. 1394 01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:53,160 But then eventually he seemed to understand and he agreed to the 1395 01:21:53,160 --> 01:21:57,280 separation and Elvis and Priscilla separated on February 1396 01:21:57,280 --> 01:22:03,520 24th, 1972, filed for legal separation on July 26th. 1397 01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:06,640 And this is 1 nice thing Elvis did. 1398 01:22:06,640 --> 01:22:12,640 Well, not the only nice thing, but he to protect Priscilla and 1399 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:16,600 Lisa Marie because whoever filed, I guess their address 1400 01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,640 would become available on public records. 1401 01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:23,720 Oh yeah, so he filed for a divorce to keep them, even 1402 01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:25,360 though he didn't want to. But he did it. 1403 01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:28,720 And then it was on his 30th birthday, actually. 1404 01:22:28,720 --> 01:22:29,680 Oh. Oh wow. 1405 01:22:29,680 --> 01:22:31,600 He filed for divorce. That's the least he can do, I 1406 01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:33,400 guess. Yeah, I know. 1407 01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:36,320 But then, oh, Elvis. Later that month. 1408 01:22:36,520 --> 01:22:40,400 Apparently he became paranoid about Mike Stone, the karate 1409 01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:45,040 instructor that Lisa left him for, and said he said there's 1410 01:22:45,040 --> 01:22:51,040 too much pain in me, Stone must die, but he didn't actually do 1411 01:22:51,040 --> 01:22:52,880 anything. They're getting divorced. 1412 01:22:52,880 --> 01:22:55,080 Like, what is he like? It's not his place. 1413 01:22:55,080 --> 01:22:58,440 I know, I know. I think he's just having an 1414 01:22:58,640 --> 01:23:01,120 outburst. But yeah. 1415 01:23:01,120 --> 01:23:04,480 Then their divorce was finalized October 9th, 1973. 1416 01:23:04,520 --> 01:23:09,080 Their marriage ended after only six years of marriage, but they 1417 01:23:09,080 --> 01:23:10,720 they actually ended on good terms. 1418 01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,600 They left the courthouse walking hand in hand. 1419 01:23:13,800 --> 01:23:18,000 Oh wow. And I know, consciously 1420 01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,680 uncompleting I I had no. Idea. 1421 01:23:20,680 --> 01:23:22,640 They were only married for six years. 1422 01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:25,880 Like I feel like there's such an iconic couple in history. 1423 01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:31,000 I know, that's crazy. I also thought that I was so 1424 01:23:31,000 --> 01:23:33,560 ignorant I thought they were married for 20 years or 1425 01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:37,080 something like years. Until like like, I mean, they 1426 01:23:37,080 --> 01:23:41,920 didn't date for a long time, but yeah, and they they did keep in 1427 01:23:41,920 --> 01:23:45,040 touch. They always talked and he would 1428 01:23:45,040 --> 01:23:47,960 still spend time with Lisa Marie and when they were together as a 1429 01:23:47,960 --> 01:23:51,160 family, they would still be arm in arm like they were. 1430 01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:55,080 One of those really feel good. Separated families. 1431 01:23:55,080 --> 01:24:00,200 But he died only like Lisa Marie was like a very young child when 1432 01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:01,920 he died, right? Yes. 1433 01:24:02,640 --> 01:24:04,560 So she, you know, she was with Mike Stone. 1434 01:24:05,840 --> 01:24:08,720 After the divorce, Elvis started seeing somebody else. 1435 01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:10,920 He started seeing the actress Sheila Ryan. 1436 01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:13,600 And I thought it was interesting. 1437 01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:18,800 I have another clip to send you. Elvis was doing a show 1974, so 1438 01:24:18,800 --> 01:24:21,960 this would be like a year after their divorce, and he called out 1439 01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:26,800 Priscilla and Lisa Marie and his new girlfriend oh during the 1440 01:24:26,800 --> 01:24:28,400 show. I want us. 1441 01:24:28,440 --> 01:24:31,480 I want to make one thing clear. Let me make something clear. 1442 01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:34,520 I've been singing that song for a long, just a minute here. 1443 01:24:35,400 --> 01:24:39,360 I've been singing that song for a long time and a lot of people 1444 01:24:39,360 --> 01:24:41,440 kind of got it associated with me because I think it's a 1445 01:24:41,440 --> 01:24:43,000 personal name. It is not. 1446 01:24:43,000 --> 01:24:45,280 It's a beautiful song written by Marty Robbins. 1447 01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:48,800 And I heard Frankie Lane do it. I think it was. 1448 01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,200 And I just love the song and has nothing to do with me personally 1449 01:24:54,800 --> 01:24:56,880 or my my, my ex-wife, Priscilla. She's right here. 1450 01:24:56,880 --> 01:25:00,160 I need to stand up. Come out, Johnny. 1451 01:25:03,120 --> 01:25:04,000 Come out. Come on out. 1452 01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:07,960 Turn around and let them see you. 1453 01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:19,720 Let them see you. Well, she's she's she's a 1454 01:25:19,720 --> 01:25:21,760 beautiful chick. And I'll tell you for sure, boy. 1455 01:25:23,840 --> 01:25:26,360 Well, I, I, I know that when I picked someone, you know. 1456 01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:28,960 God damn. Now show up. 1457 01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:30,920 My little daughter, Lisa, she's six years old. 1458 01:25:30,960 --> 01:25:31,760 Look at her. Jump up. 1459 01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:37,840 Pull your dress down, Lisa. You pull your dress down where 1460 01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:39,360 you jump up like that again, young lady. 1461 01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:45,000 And then at the same boat as my girlfriend, Sheila. 1462 01:25:45,560 --> 01:25:50,280 Sign up, Sheila. Turn around. 1463 01:25:50,520 --> 01:25:52,760 Turn around. Completely around, Sheila. 1464 01:25:52,920 --> 01:25:54,600 Straight up. Hold the ring up. 1465 01:25:54,840 --> 01:25:57,040 Hold the ring up the ring your right hand. 1466 01:25:57,480 --> 01:26:02,280 Look at that son of a bitch. Now the thing I'm trying to get 1467 01:26:02,280 --> 01:26:06,200 across is we're the very best of friends, and we always have 1468 01:26:06,200 --> 01:26:07,640 been. Our divorce came about not 1469 01:26:07,640 --> 01:26:11,280 because of another man or another woman, but because of 1470 01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,600 the circumstances involving my career. 1471 01:26:14,080 --> 01:26:16,440 I was travelling too much. I was gone too much. 1472 01:26:17,120 --> 01:26:20,120 And it was just an agreement that I didn't think it was fair 1473 01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:24,080 to her because I was gone so much and and everything. 1474 01:26:24,480 --> 01:26:28,560 So I therefore as decently as you can do that type of thing. 1475 01:26:29,760 --> 01:26:34,040 We just made an agreement to her to always be friends and be 1476 01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:36,920 close and care because we have a daughter to raise. 1477 01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:42,040 He's such an over share. Oh my God, he did over. 1478 01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:44,840 Imagine being at that concert. That would be so exciting. 1479 01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:47,040 Actually, yeah. Whoa. 1480 01:26:47,360 --> 01:26:50,000 You know, we broke up. But also be wait, what's the new 1481 01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:51,600 girlfriend's name? Sheila. 1482 01:26:51,800 --> 01:26:53,200 Yeah. And are they engaged at this 1483 01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,480 time? I don't think so. 1484 01:26:56,480 --> 01:26:57,880 Why was he like the ring? The ring. 1485 01:26:57,880 --> 01:26:59,600 Show them the ring. I know, I know. 1486 01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:01,680 I don't know. I don't think it's just a ring. 1487 01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,640 Yes, so that's weird. So. 1488 01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:07,400 I imagine being hurt at this concert. 1489 01:27:07,400 --> 01:27:10,480 And he's like, we broke up just because of schedules. 1490 01:27:10,480 --> 01:27:12,800 Like, you know, we're still best friends. 1491 01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:16,560 Like, oh God. So he, you know, he's doing all 1492 01:27:16,560 --> 01:27:21,040 his Vegas residency shows over and over and over and over 1493 01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:22,840 again. And his mental health was 1494 01:27:22,840 --> 01:27:26,320 horrible. He's all bloated from drugs. 1495 01:27:27,320 --> 01:27:30,520 He's totally being taken advantage of of by the Colonel's 1496 01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:34,040 just kind of like, you know, every night put out on stage and 1497 01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:37,480 he was really going downhill. And it's sad, like Elvis 1498 01:27:37,480 --> 01:27:39,600 actually said to a friend that he wished he could walk away 1499 01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,400 from his life, but he couldn't because too many people depended 1500 01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:47,960 on. And oddly, Priscilla and Elvis 1501 01:27:47,960 --> 01:27:51,880 still talked about maybe their time would be someday some other 1502 01:27:51,880 --> 01:27:54,440 time. They said stuff like that all 1503 01:27:54,440 --> 01:27:58,160 the time. But when he was 42 years old, on 1504 01:27:58,160 --> 01:28:04,160 August 16th, 1977, Elvis died of a heart attack likely brought on 1505 01:28:04,160 --> 01:28:09,320 by his addiction to barbiturates, which also is what 1506 01:28:09,320 --> 01:28:11,240 likely killed Marilyn Monroe. So. 1507 01:28:11,960 --> 01:28:16,200 Yeah, terrible, terrible addiction. 1508 01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:21,680 Priscilla in her book was super confused and it almost seemed 1509 01:28:21,680 --> 01:28:24,960 like she was questioning his death and she was like it didn't 1510 01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:27,200 make sense. He was rarely left alone. 1511 01:28:27,200 --> 01:28:28,640 Like how could this have happened? 1512 01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:31,240 I mean, she didn't have any other explanation, but she 1513 01:28:31,240 --> 01:28:33,040 seemed like unable to believe it. 1514 01:28:33,960 --> 01:28:36,960 She she was actually devastated to hear that Elvis had died, 1515 01:28:36,960 --> 01:28:39,560 like she was in total shock. He was still a central part of 1516 01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:43,520 her life and Lisa Marie was only nine years old. 1517 01:28:43,520 --> 01:28:48,400 Oh, that's so that's so tragic. Yeah, and that the girl and 1518 01:28:48,400 --> 01:28:52,200 Margaret that X. She attended the funeral with 1519 01:28:52,200 --> 01:28:54,800 her husband. Priscilla said she actually felt 1520 01:28:54,800 --> 01:28:59,360 a bond with her and didn't feel resentful anymore. 1521 01:28:59,400 --> 01:29:02,880 Yeah, Priscilla in her book, said that she had heard that 1522 01:29:02,880 --> 01:29:07,200 Elvis's mood was down and that he at this point was dating 1523 01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:10,760 somebody else. Ginger Alden, and he'd been 1524 01:29:10,760 --> 01:29:12,720 contemplating breaking up with her. 1525 01:29:13,280 --> 01:29:16,760 They talked about it, but the last very last time she talked 1526 01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:18,920 to him on the phone, she said that he was in pretty high 1527 01:29:18,920 --> 01:29:23,120 spirits and was laughing and she thought he was going to be OK, 1528 01:29:23,120 --> 01:29:29,360 but it's a total shock. So Elvis was gone. 1529 01:29:29,360 --> 01:29:33,320 Elvis. Elvis had officially left the 1530 01:29:33,320 --> 01:29:40,040 building and. Oh God, she she she had had a 1531 01:29:40,040 --> 01:29:43,960 lot of other relationships after after the divorce and after he 1532 01:29:43,960 --> 01:29:47,120 died. Yeah, she even dated Robert 1533 01:29:47,120 --> 01:29:49,600 Kardashian, right? She did. 1534 01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:51,880 She did, yes. Oh, my gosh. 1535 01:29:51,880 --> 01:29:54,800 I mean, she, she's still alive. So, like, she's had a lot of 1536 01:29:54,800 --> 01:29:58,600 relationships. She dated A photographer, Terry 1537 01:29:58,600 --> 01:29:59,480 O'Neill. Yeah. 1538 01:29:59,480 --> 01:30:03,440 She dated Robert Kardashian. She dated A hairdresser, Eli 1539 01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:08,920 Serzer, another guy, like so many people, Richard Gere. 1540 01:30:10,160 --> 01:30:14,640 But for 22 years, she was with someone named Marco Antenna, 1541 01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:17,600 Antonio Garcia. And she did have a son with him. 1542 01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:20,800 So that was a significant relationship in her life. 1543 01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:25,520 And Priscilla, really, you know, she she did grow into herself. 1544 01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:30,280 I think she started acting. She was in Naked Gun, the movies 1545 01:30:30,280 --> 01:30:34,040 and on the hit TV show Dallas. That's good. 1546 01:30:34,040 --> 01:30:37,760 But weirdly, after Elvis's death, she got into Scientology. 1547 01:30:37,760 --> 01:30:44,280 Oh, I didn't know that me. Yep, she might still be in it. 1548 01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:47,640 I was reading articles that said that she had left it, but then I 1549 01:30:47,640 --> 01:30:49,760 read articles said no, she's still in it. 1550 01:30:50,640 --> 01:30:54,400 So I feel a little suspicious of her 'cause right after Lisa 1551 01:30:54,400 --> 01:30:57,800 Marie died, I remember seeing articles that she was like suing 1552 01:30:58,480 --> 01:31:01,200 in order to get like the inheritance or whatever. 1553 01:31:01,200 --> 01:31:04,360 Like, rather than Lisa Marie's kids getting the inheritance. 1554 01:31:06,400 --> 01:31:09,560 Yeah, I don't know how to feel about Priscilla because 1555 01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:13,200 listening to her read her memoir, I thought she seemed so 1556 01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:20,400 sweet and I felt very fond of her hearing her younger story. 1557 01:31:20,400 --> 01:31:25,320 But I do think that she is a little money driven. 1558 01:31:25,600 --> 01:31:30,920 And one other thing about that is that after her and Elvis 1559 01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:36,160 divorce, she changed her name back to Bollier, but then she 1560 01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:38,520 changed it back to Presley. Oh. 1561 01:31:38,520 --> 01:31:41,120 Wow. And when she was trying to get 1562 01:31:41,440 --> 01:31:43,880 control over Graceland and people thought that was 1563 01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:47,120 suspicious because it's like, OK, you're just trying to do 1564 01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:50,960 that because it makes you have a connection to Elvis and. 1565 01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,640 Yeah, you know, you change your name, especially like, you might 1566 01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:57,400 think like, oh, it's because, you know, she wants to be close 1567 01:31:57,400 --> 01:31:59,880 with her daughter, but she had a son, like another son from a 1568 01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:05,160 different relationship. So yeah, she did successfully 1569 01:32:05,160 --> 01:32:08,640 turn Graceland into big tourist attraction. 1570 01:32:08,640 --> 01:32:11,000 Like she she kind of is responsible for that. 1571 01:32:11,000 --> 01:32:15,520 But I know, I know, she is a little bit opportunistic to be 1572 01:32:15,520 --> 01:32:18,960 opportunistic. Yeah, I do have a clip I want to 1573 01:32:18,960 --> 01:32:19,920 show you. I know this is getting really 1574 01:32:19,920 --> 01:32:23,320 long, but just to hear Priscilla, she talked to Barbara 1575 01:32:23,320 --> 01:32:27,440 Walters about her book Elvis and Me. 1576 01:32:28,440 --> 01:32:33,560 Elvis's way of of dealing with problems were not confronting 1577 01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,920 the problems and if there was a problem, he would buy. 1578 01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:38,680 Or to make it all right and go right for you. 1579 01:32:39,320 --> 01:32:40,920 Make it better. He'd buy you a gift. 1580 01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,680 He would leave you. He would go off to make 1581 01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:47,000 pictures. He would go off to Las Vegas. 1582 01:32:47,480 --> 01:32:50,960 And you heard about other women. How'd you feel? 1583 01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:52,520 What'd you do about it? I felt horrible. 1584 01:32:53,400 --> 01:32:56,600 It was almost a part of it was the fear that I had, too. 1585 01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:57,920 I didn't want him to leave my sight. 1586 01:32:58,080 --> 01:33:00,760 I wanted to be with him. Because if I left him again, 1587 01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:02,760 that fear always came in. I'm going to lose him. 1588 01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:06,080 You wrote in your book that one of your greatest worries was 1589 01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:10,080 about his Co star Ann Margaret. Yes, that's true. 1590 01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:12,560 I knew there was a fair an affair. 1591 01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:16,720 And if you confronted him, if I confronted him, you'd deny it. 1592 01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:20,880 I'll get mad. Well, that's usually what 1593 01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:23,920 happens when you're caught. So you live with that? 1594 01:33:24,400 --> 01:33:27,800 Yes. You wrote all of his controlled 1595 01:33:27,800 --> 01:33:30,480 your looks, your clothes, your hair, your makeup. 1596 01:33:30,640 --> 01:33:35,560 He controlled you totally. Is that accurate? 1597 01:33:36,640 --> 01:33:41,800 I was definitely under a spell of of what I thought was love. 1598 01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:45,160 And I I had to take responsibility for that too. 1599 01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:47,880 But you were 1617 years old. But what did I know? 1600 01:33:47,880 --> 01:33:50,040 I knew nothing else. I had nothing else. 1601 01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:53,800 I had. I had no experience, not even in 1602 01:33:53,800 --> 01:33:56,560 life, but with other people. And even though he wanted you 1603 01:33:56,560 --> 01:34:00,000 virginal and pure, he dressed you sequin. 1604 01:34:00,040 --> 01:34:04,640 Shiny material, low cut. Slid up the side. 1605 01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:11,560 Why? I think maybe it was his way of 1606 01:34:11,560 --> 01:34:13,800 showing sophistication. I maybe. 1607 01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:19,560 Maybe making me appear older. I don't know. 1608 01:34:19,560 --> 01:34:22,960 There's some kind of a an appeal that men like with a trashy kind 1609 01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:27,760 of look. Maybe that's what turned him on. 1610 01:34:29,320 --> 01:34:32,440 Six years you lived there before he decided to marry you. 1611 01:34:33,680 --> 01:34:37,920 In those six years of sleeping with him every night, he never 1612 01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:41,480 had intercourse with you. You wrote in your book that 1613 01:34:41,480 --> 01:34:43,440 there were times when you begged him. 1614 01:34:43,920 --> 01:34:46,280 I even wrote it down. You said I'm a woman who needs 1615 01:34:46,280 --> 01:34:48,800 to Make Love to feel desired by her man. 1616 01:34:48,800 --> 01:34:55,440 Please don't make me beg six years of Priscilla. 1617 01:34:55,440 --> 01:34:57,400 Why? Well. 1618 01:34:58,280 --> 01:35:02,080 Again, you know, I can only go back to what his concept was as 1619 01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:09,560 what he wanted in a woman and somewhere he along in his past 1620 01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:15,200 he said that he wanted a virgin. That is really sad, but I feel 1621 01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:17,920 like Barbara Walters is like what Diane Sawyer wishes she 1622 01:35:17,920 --> 01:35:21,360 was. Yeah, I know. 1623 01:35:22,160 --> 01:35:25,960 She was grilling her, though. Yeah, not in a bad way. 1624 01:35:25,960 --> 01:35:29,760 But it's it's less like, scary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1625 01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:31,520 It's not. Yeah, it's not as scary. 1626 01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:33,720 Something about it does feel cozier. 1627 01:35:34,200 --> 01:35:37,960 Yeah, it's interesting that, I mean, that was 1985, but 1628 01:35:39,320 --> 01:35:41,840 Priscilla, throughout that whole interview, she is very 1629 01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:45,120 sympathetic to Elvis. But Barbara, the whole time is 1630 01:35:45,120 --> 01:35:48,200 like saying the things that we're saying, like your parents 1631 01:35:48,200 --> 01:35:51,040 let you do. That he did what? 1632 01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:55,400 Like she's incredulous about it. And Priscilla in this calm voice 1633 01:35:55,400 --> 01:35:56,680 is like, well. Priscilla. 1634 01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:58,640 Really. She was so beautiful. 1635 01:35:59,680 --> 01:36:02,640 Oh my gosh, she's so beautiful. Insane. 1636 01:36:02,640 --> 01:36:05,880 It's like, it's, it is. I remember the first time I 1637 01:36:05,880 --> 01:36:10,480 heard of you, Priscilla, was, I was, I must have been like seven 1638 01:36:10,480 --> 01:36:13,000 or eight or something. And I saw her on the news and I 1639 01:36:13,000 --> 01:36:15,840 remember hearing that she was 60 years old, but she looked about 1640 01:36:15,840 --> 01:36:19,120 30 years old like and obviously she's had plastic surgery, but 1641 01:36:19,120 --> 01:36:22,760 like, it was so high opening to me that someone of that age 1642 01:36:22,760 --> 01:36:25,600 could looks like as young as she did. 1643 01:36:25,800 --> 01:36:28,960 I know. I was looking at pictures of her 1644 01:36:28,960 --> 01:36:33,760 and Elvis earlier and some of the pictures, she really looked 1645 01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:35,640 like a Barbie to me. Like, I just. 1646 01:36:35,640 --> 01:36:38,960 I couldn't believe it. I was like, wait, it's like, is 1647 01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:40,200 that real? What the heck? 1648 01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:42,840 Yeah. It's like, you know, she's 1649 01:36:42,840 --> 01:36:46,680 human, but yeah, she's she's still with us. 1650 01:36:46,680 --> 01:36:50,920 Lisa Marie, sadly, is not. But Priscilla is the grandmother 1651 01:36:50,920 --> 01:36:54,120 to four and great has great grandchild. 1652 01:36:54,120 --> 01:36:56,800 Because Riley, how do you say her last name? 1653 01:36:57,080 --> 01:36:58,040 Kia. I think Kia. 1654 01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:03,760 Yeah, Riley Kia. Her granddaughter recently had a 1655 01:37:03,760 --> 01:37:06,120 daughter, so. She's great, She's a great 1656 01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:11,360 grandmother. And coming out soon is the movie 1657 01:37:11,360 --> 01:37:14,280 about her, Priscilla, directed by Sofia Coppola. 1658 01:37:14,800 --> 01:37:19,800 Which crazy enough. Sofia Coppola's cousin is 1659 01:37:20,160 --> 01:37:23,080 Nicolas Cage, who was married to Lisa Murray. 1660 01:37:23,080 --> 01:37:26,960 Oh my God, her cousin. And I'm. 1661 01:37:27,120 --> 01:37:31,440 I'm intrigued to see this movie and see how accurate it is and 1662 01:37:32,000 --> 01:37:33,920 you know. I had no idea that everything's 1663 01:37:33,920 --> 01:37:35,560 in there. I didn't know that Nicolas Cage 1664 01:37:35,560 --> 01:37:37,760 and Lisa Murray were married. That's crazy. 1665 01:37:38,520 --> 01:37:40,360 We're gonna have to cover them someday. 1666 01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:42,640 So many. There's so many people. 1667 01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,200 And I I would actually like to learn more about Elvis and and 1668 01:37:46,200 --> 01:37:51,280 Margaret. So maybe someday I was actually 1669 01:37:51,280 --> 01:37:54,600 going to do that originally because my dad suggested it, but 1670 01:37:54,600 --> 01:37:59,320 then I learned that, well, he knew Priscilla first, so I feel 1671 01:37:59,320 --> 01:38:00,880 like I should do Priscilla first. 1672 01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:04,520 Yeah, but that is like that relationship that's in the 1673 01:38:04,520 --> 01:38:07,280 wings, you know what I mean? And like, he always, like, kept 1674 01:38:07,280 --> 01:38:11,200 her waiting, probably. And she's always the other 1675 01:38:11,200 --> 01:38:14,120 woman. But oh wow. 1676 01:38:14,680 --> 01:38:17,040 I have to say, after all of this, like I thought I was going 1677 01:38:17,040 --> 01:38:19,880 to be a little bit more sympathetic to Elvis, but I'm 1678 01:38:19,880 --> 01:38:25,520 actually less Oh no, but I hope my research didn't. 1679 01:38:25,560 --> 01:38:29,320 Skew No, no, no, no. I mean it's like it's just 1680 01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:33,840 objectively, it's like objectively pretty bad for him. 1681 01:38:33,840 --> 01:38:37,480 But but I it's a it's complicated because there's so 1682 01:38:37,480 --> 01:38:39,760 many different things like he was also at the same time being 1683 01:38:39,760 --> 01:38:45,560 taken advantage of and. Yeah, gosh, it's very troubled. 1684 01:38:45,560 --> 01:38:51,120 And it is interesting like I was listening to, well, because I 1685 01:38:51,120 --> 01:38:53,720 went basically to the same place two weekends a row. 1686 01:38:53,720 --> 01:38:56,400 I went to like the Vermont, New Hampshire line. 1687 01:38:56,800 --> 01:39:00,040 It's like 2 hours away. So I drove like 8 hours 1688 01:39:00,040 --> 01:39:02,120 recently. So I was listening to a lot of 1689 01:39:02,160 --> 01:39:05,160 Elvis stuff while I was driving and I was listening to a lot of 1690 01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:06,760 Elvis experts. And it's interesting. 1691 01:39:06,760 --> 01:39:09,200 It's like a lot of them are obsessed with Elvis. 1692 01:39:09,200 --> 01:39:11,720 You know, they like some people have dedicated their lives to 1693 01:39:11,720 --> 01:39:15,240 research Elvis and interview people and stuff, but they 100% 1694 01:39:15,240 --> 01:39:19,800 acknowledge all his flaws and how problematic he could be. 1695 01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:25,720 So he's a very interesting person, but he definitely did 1696 01:39:25,720 --> 01:39:28,640 people dirty too. Wow. 1697 01:39:29,680 --> 01:39:32,320 That was a riveting episode. Kelly, thank you so much. 1698 01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:39,520 I'm the edge of my seat. So who who we talk about next 1699 01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:46,760 week, next week, next week? We are talking about another 1700 01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:49,480 historical couple. We've had a couple in a row now 1701 01:39:50,360 --> 01:39:56,880 and one of the people is also known for their big hair. 1702 01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:02,240 OK. And the couple is also known for 1703 01:40:02,240 --> 01:40:06,200 people that know known for having issues in the bedroom as 1704 01:40:06,200 --> 01:40:14,520 well. What I. 1705 01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:16,160 Don't that's. All I'll say. 1706 01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:22,800 OK, I don't. Know if I know that one, but I'm 1707 01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:26,160 excited about that. All right. 1708 01:40:26,160 --> 01:40:28,160 Well, thank you guys. Do you have anything else to 1709 01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:30,760 add, Kel? No, that's it. 1710 01:40:30,760 --> 01:40:34,360 Thank you so much for listening and we'll get back together next 1711 01:40:34,360 --> 01:40:40,600 week. Is your heart filled with pain? 1712 01:40:42,360 --> 01:40:52,320 Shall I Come Back Again? 10 Medium.