SALLY HOEDEL, the Elvis author, joins us to discuss her books, her research, and next project!

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  • @betsyjonex9364
    @betsyjonex9364 Год назад +16

    Girls I am a fan since 1956 I am 80 years old. I was and still are a Elvis fanatic. I have every thing written and recorded about him. I want to thank you for your wonderful book. It was a profound revelation to me. I had felt there was so much more to his story. He went through a lot he was so misjudged. I can't thank you enough for what you have done he deserved your book, you have given us a gift, God Bless.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      Thank you Betsy!! I absolutely love that you've been a fan since 1956!! Did you ever get to see him perform??

    • @gracieg7601
      @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад

      I’m 77, just turned this week. I’ve been a fan since my sister brought home a record of Elvis when I was 13. I loved going to his movies. I used to get mad at the movies when the girls would scream cause I wanted to hear his voice.

  • @paulasmith3179
    @paulasmith3179 Год назад +22

    I grew up a Beetles fan I discovered Elvis on youtube. Once i started watching Elvis i was no longer interested in any other singer. I started watching every interview he ever did and everything written about him. He really got into my soul. Everyday i look for you ladies, thank you so much for your love of Elvis

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +3

      Hi Paula! We so know the feeling - once you find Elvis, nothing else compares!! Much love to you!!

    • @gracieg7601
      @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад +2

      I just love Sally Hoedel. I do love that she wrote the book so you can understand what happened to Elvis health. I think every fan should read her book.

    • @hpel1241
      @hpel1241 Месяц назад

      You just described my experience perfectly!

  • @synchronicity1470
    @synchronicity1470 Год назад +11

    It is always reassuring to hear Elvis supported and understood by sensitive, intuitive people - both women and men alike!
    Most of his devoted fans 'got' him and we will always promote him and share with others all the exemplary and noble qualities Elvis personified. He was not a complainer. Nor did he blame others for his plight. He stoically carried on, even when his body was failing and his spirit was defeated.
    The world used him up. He reveled in his fame for most of the twenty short years his star shone but life got the best of him.
    Actually, his broken body failed him.
    His story is still not completely told.
    Sally is to be commended for her well-researched book on Elvis' health. It explains so much.
    You ladies are correct. He was so much more than a joke in a cloak who died in a way that should have been kept private.
    So MUCH of the life Elvis strove to keep private should not have been revealed by his MM associates and his ex girlfriends.
    Privacy and loyalty are the only two things Elvis demanded and I understand why. He gave ALL of himself without reservation.
    There's been no one like him before or since and there never will be another like Elvis again.
    I am happy Sally Hoedel plans on documenting Elvis' generosity.
    The one remaining unexplored aspect of Elvis that needs to be told is just how intelligent Elvis was.
    He was not an ill-educated hillbilly hick. He graduated high school. But continued feeding his keen mind with information on a wide range of topics all the way up until his untimely death.
    He was a thoughtful articulate speaker, yet was discouraged from publicly speaking by the cretin manager!
    It is reported Elvis had a photographic memory. He knew thousands of songs.
    His skill at producing music has also not fully been explored.
    He would astutely memorize every movie script, not just his parts. His thirst for knowledge was endless. To think he did not have the world of resources at his fingertips as we do today. He had to buy his books. It is disturbing knowing that his people were so threatened by Elvis spiritual seeking, they stole his books and burned them, rather than allow this bright man to broaden his mind!!!
    Elvis was a man afr better than the small-minded and insensitive circle that surrounded him. Even they all deserted him in the last three years. He was so sad about how all the brightness had gone away. And yes, he was responsible for much of the change and isolation. But his life was more than a story of a self indulgent pill popper.
    Anyway, thank you lovely ladies for doing your part in raising Elvis up. He was so much more than his reputation.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +3

      Thank you so much!!

    • @synchronicity1470
      @synchronicity1470 Год назад +1

      @@ThoseElvisGirls💓

    • @Elvista
      @Elvista 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@synchronicity1470bravo, my friend....absolutely nothing but the truth. Well said 👏🏼💯⚡❤

  • @JulieSuzanneYoga
    @JulieSuzanneYoga Год назад +9

    THIS is my favorite interview so far!!! Excellent questions asked, immeasurable camaraderie between you all, and such respect talking about a very difficult topic for all of us. Sally’s book is phenomenal . At first it was not for me , I didn’t want to hear that that Elvis would have died anyway. After reading the book I realized Elvis was always the guy that I thought he was . He didn’t OD. He was trying to manage a rigorous career while dealing with a bad hand of genetics. Sally has opened our eyes to this and confirmed what our boy was and always was . She’s completely instrumental is his legacy . She is so approachable and genuine too. You girls did your homework. You are extremely professional , very humbling, and immensely respectful. I feel the world on its axis moved a little with this interview. Well done❤❤❤ BTW Those Elvis Girls looked hot too as well as Sally ⚡️⚡️⚡️Just saying 💅🏻

  • @cynthiacudmore7265
    @cynthiacudmore7265 11 месяцев назад +5

    What a great interview and so wonderful to hear the great positive love for Elvis. I have been a fan since 1957, I was six.

  • @sallyhoedel
    @sallyhoedel Год назад +15

    Thank you!! It was so great to chat with all of you. Appreciate the opportunity so much. Can't wait to sit down with all of you in person one of these days!!

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +2

      Absolutely loved this!! Can't wait to chat in person SOON!!

    • @evearcana2392
      @evearcana2392 Год назад

      @@debra2700 Elvis’s relatives married other people… meaning they do not have the same genetic makeup as Elvis. Meaning they could have gotten healthier genes from their other half parent and their genetics. Some died young and some didn’t… but ALL didn’t have the grueling schedule Elvis did either. Also, Sally’s book came out at the almost same time that Benjamin, Lisa Marie’s son, passed away and Lisa Marie was extremely reclusive during that time so that also doesn’t fit your narrative. Lisa Marie is Elvis’s daughter and could have also had a long life but didn’t…. She died at 54 & medical treatments, life and genetics played a role in that. Sally is just trying to shed some light on Elvis’s case as well.

    • @keithp115
      @keithp115 Год назад +2

      I was fortunate to meet Sally in person. She is a wonderful gal and always looking forward to her next project!

    • @sallyhoedel
      @sallyhoedel Год назад +2

      @@ThoseElvisGirls "Debra" has been harassing me and others via social media for years. I will not reply to her. I would suggest blocking her. She's a troll and has a reputation.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад

      @@sallyhoedel ok will do! thank you Sally!!

  • @neilc.2045
    @neilc.2045 8 месяцев назад +4

    I just read Sallys Biography on Elvis. What an excellent job she did! Very in depth and well paced.

  • @clairedubery1056
    @clairedubery1056 9 месяцев назад +4

    Wow i loved hearing about sally's research and wow, what good decent and humble people his parents were. Truly gifted and a grateful person Elvis was. Having God in his life early surely helped keep him centred!

  • @gracieg7601
    @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад +4

    I’ve read this book and I’ve given it as a gift. I just think it’s awesome. I want to get the book about Ron. He is such a awesome man. Love his stories.

  • @MaaikevanBroekhovenIBCLC
    @MaaikevanBroekhovenIBCLC 11 месяцев назад +5

    I have to get her books soon! Hopefully it's on kindle. Great to hear you discus our dear Elvis in a lovely way. ❤

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  11 месяцев назад

      Yes I think it's available as an E-book!!

  • @susyq810
    @susyq810 Год назад +6

    Thank you very much for sharing so much information with us. His fans miss him and love him so much.

  • @Sivan0608
    @Sivan0608 7 месяцев назад +3

    Fantastic interview, thank you!

  • @Sivan0608
    @Sivan0608 7 месяцев назад +2

    Fantastic interview, thank you. I’m on book 40, and will definitely read this one next. ❤

  • @brendastonitsch1952
    @brendastonitsch1952 9 месяцев назад +4

    I am loving all of this interview

  • @kats72951
    @kats72951 9 месяцев назад +3

    I love your podcast, and I loved this book which I had already read before let’s speak in the podcast. I appreciate about all of you so much is the compassion, the willingness to let him have his basic human dignity. It seems like so many people during his life, and all these years after are unwilling to Allow him that.

  • @VegasVixen
    @VegasVixen 9 месяцев назад +3

    Sally’s smile is mesmerizing ❤great interview ! I was always the weird chick that didn’t know any of the new stars , 1800s-1970s is my musical jam .

  • @marigreecher
    @marigreecher 8 дней назад +1

    This book is so important! I will always praise Sally for this. Grateful for the clarification on all the myths about Gladys and Elvis heath ! 🙏🙏🙏

  • @joyintheholyspirit7830
    @joyintheholyspirit7830 Год назад +7

    Elvis suffered from disease in nine of eleven bodily systems, five of which were present from birth. It's a miracle he lived to the age of 42. He accomplished so much in the short time he was with us. Enjoyed reading this book via library loan from Illinois!

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      Yes us too!!! Thanks for watching Joy! We appreciate it so much!

    • @vickyclausen4631
      @vickyclausen4631 Год назад

      BS .he wouldn't of been able to function ,SH also said she didn't understand why the mm lived a longer life as they were taking the same meds as Elvis, she's so naive ,elvus was getting more from various doctors in large quanties ,clueless

  • @papichulo-DK
    @papichulo-DK Год назад +6

    It’s easy to take for granted how far medicine and science behind diets and sleep have advance. Great show!

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      You're so right!! If only they knew what we know now 🥹

  • @WandaG.-lq7vf
    @WandaG.-lq7vf Год назад +8

    I have read Destined to Die Young. And, knowing a little bit about health, I am impressed with her putting forward complicated medical information that was not commonly known then, and is not even now, all while managing to humanize Elvis. This is a sad story, but Sally did a great job with sensationalizing it.

    • @WandaG.-lq7vf
      @WandaG.-lq7vf Год назад +2

      Without, I meant

    • @WandaG.-lq7vf
      @WandaG.-lq7vf Год назад +1

      Without

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад

      Yes we so agree Wanda! Thank you! It was a huge task that Sally took on, and spent years researching and giving us the best information that she could, and she did it with care and integrity! We are so lucky to have Sally in our corner!!

  • @keithp115
    @keithp115 8 месяцев назад +1

    Sally is awesome. I met her when the Spa guy and Trey were interviewing Johnny Lang a few years back. Her book is incredible and worth your time to read. Great job Elvis gals!!

  • @gracieg7601
    @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад +3

    That’s the reason I love Destined to die young. It tells you exactly how and why it all happened. I love that sally told Elvis truth & it is what he deserved. So people realize how hard Elvis had to live in pain.

  • @scottcarpenter2580
    @scottcarpenter2580 Год назад +5

    Loved the interview with Sally, ladies. Its great that she sourced basically everything (32 pages worth). Looking forward to her new book. Hopefully in the future she'll write a book called Destined To Rock The World.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад

      Scott, I absolutely love that idea!! Lol Such a cute title!!! Thank you as always for your support. We love you!

  • @JamieRose89
    @JamieRose89 Год назад +5

    Love this so so much!

  • @jaseagnew6789
    @jaseagnew6789 Год назад +4

    Great interview Ladies was well worth the wait,real interesting and can't wait untill next one,Elvis got his three "⚡Elvetts ⚡" Taking Care IOf Business ⚡🤪

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      Awwww omg Elvis did get us, and we owe SO much to him! This is Kristen btw - I found Elvis at a time in my life when I needed him, and he pulled me back from the darkness 💕 I will always work to show the world who he really is!

    • @jaseagnew6789
      @jaseagnew6789 Год назад +2

      @@ThoseElvisGirls Hi Kristen,been an Elvis fan since i was a kid,love your channel and won't be missing an episode,so glad i found it TCB⚡

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      @@jaseagnew6789 truly so happy you're here!!!!! Sending so much love your way!!!

    • @jaseagnew6789
      @jaseagnew6789 Год назад

      @@ThoseElvisGirls😁

  • @barbarahatfield8027
    @barbarahatfield8027 Год назад +5

    Where can I buy the book you made . I want to buy on line . Love love what all you girls said . 😊

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад

      Hi Barbara! We linked to the books in the description!! Www.elvisauthor.com

  • @brendastonitsch1952
    @brendastonitsch1952 9 месяцев назад +2

    I'm looking forward to the audio version

  • @kathy-t5q
    @kathy-t5q Год назад +5

    George Klein said on the air in 1989, that Gladys told him that Elvis would sleepwalk, and that when they were on the road if Elvis did sleepwalk to just talk to him very calmly and very softly..Elvis come on back and to go back to sleep. She worried about him 😢 Also, after seeing Lorenzo’s Oil, who is diagnosed with a rare and incurable disease, and the parents researched themselves to find the cure which saves their boy and re-writes medical history, that they (doctors) are not the end all.

  • @Dru-h6n
    @Dru-h6n 6 месяцев назад +2

    You could by dexadrine over the counter in the 70s, being thin was stressed! I had insomnia as a child, still do and I'm in my 60s! Didn't want to sleep alone if I didn't have to. Having someone there would help me sleep better. Did sleep walk as a child, my parents put chairs in front of our doors so I wouldn't out. I also have colitis! They are linking these syndromes together instead of looking at them separately. Because of my own issues I feel for Elvis having to care for so many people and to be Elvis, I'm shocked he lived as long as he did! The gut pain must have been tremendous and why he needed pain medication. He probably took less than he needed to keep the pain at bay. Very sad...

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  6 месяцев назад +1

      Thanks for watching!! 🕊️⚡💖

  • @joyintheholyspirit7830
    @joyintheholyspirit7830 Год назад +4

    Globetrotting with Trey was interviewing Jimmie Rodgers Snow on Oct. 3, 2023 at the "Just Pretend Mansion Summer Bash". It's on youtube. Jimmie mentioned in Jan. 1958 he had spent the night at Graceland. It was 2 in the afternoon when he came down the backstairs and seen Gladys at the kitchen counter. She was sitting there with a beer. She died Aug. 1958 of that same year. Jimmie was called to preach at Graceland in Jan. 1958. He is a very interesting nice guy to listen to! He is 87 years old.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      Hi Joy! Yes, we love Jimmie too! Another interesting perspective to consider in all of this ❤️🙏 thank you for listening!!

    • @joyintheholyspirit7830
      @joyintheholyspirit7830 Год назад +1

      With Elvis getting that draft notice from the army on December 20, 1957, right before Christmas, Gladys needed something to calm her nerves in Jan. 1958.

    • @sallyhoedel
      @sallyhoedel Год назад

      There is no dispute that she drank at Graceland in the last year of her life. It's prior to that which get exaggerated. What Jimmie Rodgers Snow said is in line with my research as well. @@joyintheholyspirit7830

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      ​@@joyintheholyspirit7830yes! Sally does mention Gladys was drinking that year.

    • @evearcana2392
      @evearcana2392 Год назад +3

      Gladys would have an occasional beer but she was not an alcoholic

  • @SharonMatthews-h3w
    @SharonMatthews-h3w 7 месяцев назад +3

    Have you girls ever discussed his illnesses with any member of his family? Close friends like Jerry Schilling? His nurse? Someone must have known something

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  7 месяцев назад +1

      We hope to go more in depth about it!!

  • @davidlunn1608
    @davidlunn1608 Год назад +4

    Thankyou sally and girls for protecting elvis image. What a pity elvis privacy even in death wasn't, we didn't need to know did we so who let it out??? Where he exactly died they could have said atop the stairs ?

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +2

      Yes thank you David! We have to work to share the truth, we are the keepers of his legacy ❤️⚡ much love to you!

    • @davidlunn1608
      @davidlunn1608 Год назад +1

      @@ThoseElvisGirls well im 64 years old and glad to see that your all so mature in your understanding of him, tce , andove to you all! i thought that all a new fan was about was kissing ass but when im gone i know hes in good hands,xxxx

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      @@davidlunn1608 means so much to us!! Thank you!

    • @shellbigpineapple1322
      @shellbigpineapple1322 10 месяцев назад

      Lol.. protecting Elvis image with BS, it's a hypothesis. Ask her for proof E had Alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency there is none y'all. Sally's tapped a market of romantics who don't want to think of Elvis a certain way. Utter rubbish. Read Anita Wood's book and see how he was into those pills as early as '57, people think he got hooked in the army. He loved the feelin', and didn't realize the dangers. Body shutdown from abuse, fatty liver, intestines stopped working to digest food properly. Exactly what too many opioids over a long time do to ya. Don't get sucked in to this Elvis fans. The TRUTH is in first hand accounts over a long period of time. They're all their if you look for 'em on YT. Elvis wouldn't stop taken 'em.

  • @DEFENDINGELVISPRESLEY
    @DEFENDINGELVISPRESLEY 7 месяцев назад +2

    Interesting

  • @carolhayar3037
    @carolhayar3037 2 месяца назад +2

    Regarding "processed food" -- people have been eating processed food going back many generations; people were ignorant of how the food they bought was made & processed. And the food industry wanted to keep it that way. Trans fats were invented in the 1890s and entered the food supply in the 1910s & World War I brought about new methods of food processing, including canned and frozen foods. Government subsidies for corn and soy led to a food industry with a financial incentive to use high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, modified corn starches, & to produce lots of highly processed (and unhealthy) foods. Packaged bread, processed meat, cookies, canned pork & beans, various cheeses, TV dinners, & a very long list of other foods. Processed food ads promised to save time for housewives, fast food restaurants were everywhere, and processed foods were mass distributed. So don't think that "back then" or "years ago" there were no processed foods. We were saturated with it. And I am not inferring that a healthier diet would have changed any of Elvis genetically inherited issues, but truth be told, the Southern diet is very unhealthy. And let's not forget about the spraying of crops with DDT!!

  • @barbarahatfield8027
    @barbarahatfield8027 Год назад +2

    Where else did Elvis lived after the little house I know he lived at relative but after that … do they have photos

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      Hi Barbara! do you mean in Tupelo?

    • @evearcana2392
      @evearcana2392 Год назад +2

      Elvis lived in many places when he was young with his family, they moved almost every year. They lived at Lauderdale Courts the longest during his childhood- then Audubon house, then Graceland as an adult

  • @beckyblevins3107
    @beckyblevins3107 7 месяцев назад +2

    There’s a diet with female urine - HCG which implements 500 cal.

  • @nancyericson4263
    @nancyericson4263 Год назад +3

    What was the platelet disorder Gladys had?

  • @trevorthompson330
    @trevorthompson330 Год назад +3

    Sally seems like a nice lady and a big Elvis fan, and there are many citations, but many medical people believe she came to the wrong conclusions medically. I also believe her background is in journalism and not medicine. For instance, the drinking with Gladys is incorrect. Billy Smith said she started drinking more when Elvis first became famous. And then she had 2 to 3 drinks per week when he went into the Army until he died, but Billy said he never saw her tipsy or falling down drunk. Elvis did eat junk food; the cooking was greasy Southern, even at home, and they went and got crystal burgers. Elvis loved banana splits, cheeseburgers, and fudgsicles, he drank pop and he ate candy, especially when he went to the Theatre. Also, he slept walked when he got older; some of the guys slept with him on the road but stopped because he was a violent sleeper. One of the guys got attacked, so they started sleeping in the room with him, not in the bed but in a chair. Elvis was actually obsessed with Howard Hughes.

    • @trevorthompson330
      @trevorthompson330 Год назад +1

      @@ThoseElvisGirls Thank you, I love listening to you girls! Just remember in your Elvis search, not one person has all the answers. I also trust the people closest to him, Billy-Jo Smith, Linda--Sam Thompson etc.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      @@trevorthompson330 you are so right!! Our goal on here is to bring in lots of people from all different corners of the Elvis world to help showcase all the different sides and aspects as we can! Thank you for support!! 🙏⚡ and hopefully one day get to interview the people you mentioned! That would be amazing!!

    • @trevorthompson330
      @trevorthompson330 Год назад +1

      @@ThoseElvisGirls That would be amazing. The Howard Hughes stuff began when Elvis had a crush on Debra Padget, who was Hughes's girlfriend. She was so gorgeous! Elvis wanted a more serious relationship, but Debra did not. Later on Lamar Fike also talked about Elvis and Hughes.
      During production of Love Me Tender (1956), Elvis Presley became smitten with Paget, who in 1997 said that he had proposed marriage. At the time, however, the media reported that she was romantically linked with Howard Hughes and nothing came of this infatuation. A 1956 article quoted Paget's comments about Hughes:
      I was in love with Howard for two years, and I don't care who knows it... I was never alone with him in the whole two years. Mother was always with us... I haven't seen Howard for a long time now, because I'm a one-man woman, and I've got to have a one-woman man... But I'll always remember Howard with fondness.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  Год назад +1

      @@trevorthompson330 oh wow! I need to read more about it!

    • @trevorthompson330
      @trevorthompson330 Год назад

      @@ThoseElvisGirls Yep, great stuff!

  • @TCB0816
    @TCB0816 Год назад +3

    This book should be translated in german as well 😉

  • @gracieg7601
    @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад +2

    Billy Smith was so upset from what he says on EFM that Gladys was portrayed that way in the movie. It is irritating to me that Baz did that. Also that’s another thing about Elvis was a time bomb. Billy even says there was a couple of times on the road that Elvis scared him. He had to work to get Elvis awake.

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  11 месяцев назад

      Yes I heard that as well!!

    • @shellbigpineapple1322
      @shellbigpineapple1322 10 месяцев назад +1

      Billy flips depending which way the winds blowin'. Watch All The Kings Men where he talks about Gladys, he says the very things the movie shows her as. Then for his review says the opposite. He had his neck out cause he wasn't invited y'all to the premiere. Not that I think he'd gone anyway, but I reckon he'd have just wanted to receive an invite. It would have been a courtesy. Not that the movie portrayed Colonel accurately anwyay. Good story though and it's made a lot of money for EPE and by percentage ownership to the family. Set 'em all up for life after LMP passin'.

  • @gracieg7601
    @gracieg7601 11 месяцев назад +2

    The sleeping together was the heat wasn’t as available back then they put baby Elvis in bed with them to keep the baby warm.

  • @daysjours
    @daysjours 7 месяцев назад +1

    Looking forward to listening. But have heard her before. It seems deeply reactionary and puzzling to deny Elvis struggled with a massive drug addiction. It takes nothing away from him and it is not a weakness to have such a crippling disease. His whole entourage snd his doctors knee he was a drug addict. Why the denial with this author?

    • @ThoseElvisGirls
      @ThoseElvisGirls  7 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you for watching. Have you read Sally’s book entirely?