Elvis & Why He Died Young
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- čas přidán 2. 02. 2022
- Why did the world lose the King of Rock & Roll at the age of 42? The institutionalized answer has been drugs and decadence. Author and Elvis scholar Sally Hoedel begs to differ. She posits that Elvis was born with disease and/or dysfunction in nine of the eleven bodily systems and that his legendary drug use was an effort to self medicate. She proves her thesis with painstakingly sourced research into Elvis’s family tree, deep dives into medical records and interviews with those who knew him. Sally joins us to discuss her revelatory book, Elvis: Destined To Die Young.
Plus Fritz and Weezy are recommending We Need To Talk About Cosby on Showtime and The Gilded Age on HBO.
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Sally Hoedel
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Destined To Die Young by Sally Hoedel
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We Need To Talk About Cosby - Showtime
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Chasing Cosby Podcast
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The Gilded Age - HBO
www.hbo.com/the-gilded-age - Zábava
I'd like Sally's book to become mainstream eventually to get rid of all the nasty rumors. Especially about his drug use and why he took them,as well as some calling him a pedophile because of how young Pricilla was. The thing is it was a different time back then, especially in the south. Pricilla was more mature for her age and Elvis really was mentally immature for his age. I myself was dating 21-24 yr old because being raised mainly around adults and responsibilities of an adult younger guys were boring and silly to me. I never had the chance to be around girls and guys my own age. My mother was an alcoholic, so I had to run the house and raise my 3 younger siblings. I married a man 17 years older than me when I was 25. We had a wonderful life for 43 years before he passed 9years ago.
11 Sep 2022. Thank you for having Sally Hoedel. Very good.🙏🏽❤️
She is so great.
I think you got it spot on. It is amazing about how hard he worked & just was driven to please everyone. Great guy, beloved legend who fans have become lifetime friends & parts in a living history.
Yes, absolutely! So many important answers in this book!
Very interesting interview! The book is great! I always thought there were real reasons for Elvis using prescriptions. And these days We know more about how addictive certain drugs are prescription or not. It's a miracle we had Elvis as long as we did ... I just wish he had been able to enjoy a longer more peaceful life.
Great points and it's also a miracle he was able to perform as brilliantly as he did in all of that pain and discomfort.
Thank you Sally for clearing things up about Elvis health.
For sure!
Thank you for having Sally Hoedel on your program. I just loved her book. It really made me see Elvis as a person instead of just a super star.
It was such an eye opener for us as well!
Great interview. Will order and read the book. I am so glad that the accusations about Elvis being a drug addict, which I never believed, are being falsified. He and his mother have been treated so unfairly.
I agree!
Elvis’ addiction to drugs is what contributed to his early death. We all have genetic differences/ problems, but the very fact he took drugs for his so called “Ailments”, is what did him in. 😊
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Also the fact his body was poisoned by his constant constipation, so all the drugs he took with the unhealthy diet just stayed inside him like a poisonous toxic sludge. I am surprised nobody around him could help him with this issue. He had a constipation problem since his childhood and you can’t be healthy if you don’t empty your colon it would be impossible. I think his genetical health issues were only secondary to his mega colon issues. He had 4 months worth of colon impact when they opened him up.
Awesome< love this book and her views are so wonderful explaining and opening up the true story of this wonderful man.
Couldn't agree more!
I really enjoyed this interview, thank you!
Our pleasure!
Excellent interview and I’ve learned so much about Elvis from Sally Hoedel. I love that she values truth over sensationalism.
Truly illuminating.
The colonel has been demonised over so many things. Sally was right when she said Elvis and the colonel were friends with senators and presidents, and his past could have been sorted out very quickly. As far as world tours go, the colonel had three major issues. Firstly in the seventies America was the only country that had the venues big enough to accomodate the number of fans who would attend his concerts. Very few countries elsewhere had those facilities. Secondly, security would have been a nightmare. Can you imagine Elvis landing at Heathrow, Tokyo, Melbourne (my country) or any major city elsewhere in the world? After all those years not appearing overseas, the fans would have been crazy to see him, and it would have been chaos trying to control thousands of fans.
Finally I think the Colonel took the flack for a lot of things that Elvis didn't want to do. It has been documented that Elvis got stagefright before his stage shows. Some of his contemporaries have said that Elvis told them he was scared of going overseas because he worried that the fans would be disappointed in him. They had built up an image of this superstar, and he thought he couldn't live up to the image. Remember he said a similar thing in New York? So he kept touring America instead, where the fans knew him, the security people in every city knew what was needed to keep Elvis safe. All those things were an unknown quantity if Elvis went overseas.
Interesting points. Thank you.
Priscilla is one that I have read several times, burned over 300 of his books, but got them again.
"Fake Parker" got greedy and pushed Elvis to pay his gambling bills and forgot Elvis.
Not true.
Vernon Presley was just as guilty of using his son as "Fake Parker".
"Fake Parker", as far as I am concerned, murdered Elvis.
Sally forgot about the mad amounts of Qualuudes and Codeine and Demerol and Dilaudid that he was seriously addicted to. Ask Max Shapiro. 😊
Sally didn't forget. Her book is focussed on why Elvis was taking so many drugs just to feel OK and then, of course, became addicted.
Absolutely right. Elvis was taking Dexedrine as early as '57, read Anita's book about the safe he had in the back of his car and stopping at a pharmacists to get more medicine. What we have is an author here who has tapped into a market within the Elvis community that wants to believe it wasn't Elvis's fault he abused medication. Elvis was taking drugs to stay awake as early from his early 20's... and never stopped! He moved onto greater quantities and heavier drugs and surprise surprise, he eventually died. Who knows what a lifetime of abusing medication does to your organs. Well we know it causes fatty liver, oh yeah, Elvis had that. We know opiates over a long period of time can have damaging effects on your digestive system oh.. yeah Elvis had that too. The book is a hypothesis, and it's not even new. It came out in the early 2000's. Even Dan Warlick stated that to a degree Elvis ailments could have been genetic.
@@mediapathpodcast Sally didn't do simple research. She tried to prove her theory that the Smith kids all had genetic flaws because their parents were twins and used Tracy Smith as the example as the worst affected of the kids because she didn't find interviews where Billy Smith says his Uncle Tracy caught a bad fever as a child which left him mostly deaf and very slow. Tracy was born healthy and the book goes downhill from there. She marketed it to fans who want to believe Elvis' death wasn't his fault and she twists the facts to prove it. Save your money folks.