Do Go On - 48 - Elvis Presley with special guest NICK MASON

Episode Date: September 21, 2016

This week's episode is all about the life and times of Elvis Presley with special guest good guy Nick Mason from The Weekly Planet podcast filling in for regular good guy Dave!  Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] the show and get rewards like bonus episodes:www.patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenji Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there. Canada, we are visiting you in September this year.

If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. Oh, my name is Dave Waterkey. No, it's not. It's Jess Perkins. Dave Warnocky isn't here.

Matt Stewart is here. I am here. Hello, Matt Stewart. Hey, Jess Perkins. How was that intro? I was tried to do it exactly like Dave does. To be honest, it was a lot better. Thank you.

Your face was going the other way there, but I appreciate that. And we're joined by a special guest because Dave is away. Dave's not here. So we are joined by our good friend and return guest. Yes. Nick Mason. Hi, everyone. Hey, Mason.

How are you, Matt? I'm really good. I'm here to laugh and learn and be best friends. Okay. Yeah, well, we can definitely laugh and learn. Oh, but, but, right. We'll just see how we go, I reckon. Don't force it, man.

Be cool. Be cool. But I brought things. What do you bring? Baked goods? Unless it's baked goods, I'm not interested. That's a new phone. I bought some ray on cloth tape.

You just picked that up from that table. It's made in Korea. It's a, I do love things made in Korea. I know, right? Yeah, you know. You know. So well! Red's your favorite color.

It is. Put that there for you later. She just knows. He just gets it. He's got a six cents. Six cents. Oh, dear. Oh, no. So Dave is away at the moment.

Oh, yeah. All right. I think we should, because no one really knows or is, I think we should each give our guess, our best guess, is to where Dave is. Should we say at the same time? Well, I don't think, feel like that would be annoying. Okay, fine.

Okay, okay. Where do you think he is? I think, well, I'm confident. And I didn't, I asked him straight out on Facebook and he didn't reply. On Facebook. I think that means, that kind of confirms it to me. He's at a neo-Nazi university studying abroad for the semester. So, yeah, hopefully he's listening and hopefully he's doing well in his studies.

I know you said we'd both guess, but I don't think there's a need to because I agree with you. I saw an Instagram photo of him. He's in some sort of ice cave eating a pie. so I feel probably neo-Nazi university. That makes sense. That would be one of the electives, I imagine. Caves. Yeah, bunkers and caves.

Cave-diving. Yeah, cool. Sounds about right. Yeah, Dave is going to enjoy that if he... He's going to kill us. But he has the skills to do so now. The want of the Nazi. It's bad people.

So because we're a Dave short, and last time Mesa was here, I wasn't here, right? So now I will play the role of Dave Okay And try to keep everything in control Okay, right As Dave does Mesao, if you're okay with it

Would you mind playing the role of Jess Okay, does Jess have any defining character? God no Okay, great No, I disagree I think listeners would tell you That her biggest characteristic Is that she'll turn on things

She hates certain people Just all of a sudden And you've got no idea why I like this guy And then ten minutes later He's just like, no, no, I love this guy. Yeah, yeah. It goes from love to hate very quickly.

Now, in the grand tradition that I've invented, um, of me being on this show, I've decided to dress as the person who's, who's not here. Yeah. You have to. To dress as Dave. But I can be some sort of weird Jess Dave hybrid. Great.

Okay, cool. I love that. Thank you. Yeah, because last time you wore a mustard jumper and I'm apparently rather famous for one jumper that I have, but I'm okay with that. You worry about you. Yeah. You want us to buy you another jumper?

Yeah, I'm really cold. Okay, great. Please get me a jumper. Jess, do you think it might make more sense if you play the role of Jess and we just get Mesa to play Dave? But look, I'd kind of already mentally gotten into the character of Dave. No, that's fine. If it makes more sense that way than that's all, I just thought maybe.

Look, I can... But I overthink things sometimes. You do, as is the Matt way. That's classic Matt. Okay, I should know that down for when I'm Matt. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Overtink, underprepared. And speaking of underprepared,

you've got a report for us today. I do have a report for us today, which is good. And as all the reports do start with a question in mind, are normally the best questions. I think we've all agreed on that in the past. That's very, very true. All right, so here is the question. Here we go.

It's from the hat. Well, yes. The topics from the hat, the question is from my brain. Brain. Which usually sits under the hat. It does. They're a team in a lot of ways. Yeah.

My question is, it's so dumb, but who is your favourite monarch? Normally the question should lead to the... It's not, anyway, cool. It's like an opinion-based. Yeah, the consensus is what we do the report on, so you're going to have to work on the fly. You have to work real quick here. Mine's Prince Michael of Kent. Okay.

He's the only, he's the only... Does that count? Yeah, okay. Yeah, I think so, yeah. I have no idea who he is. He's the only royal with a beard. He's bald. He's got a...

beard. Like currently or forever? You can't... Was he always bald? No, was he always... Born bald? There have been previous bearded monarch. Oh no, the current royal family.

He's the only one. I haven't heard of him. Prince Michael. Prince Michael. Of Kent. And he has really big ties. Who's... How does he fit into the family?

I don't know. That's all I know. No, that's fine. He's very sharp. He's a very sharp dresser. All right, cool. What a cool dude. Well, I would have said

the big dog, Queen Lizzie. But we've already done her. I'm here. So then I was thinking like, you know, Prince, Prince William seems pretty cool. A little tiny Prince George is a little bit adorable. His little sister, his name is up. Sharwood? Look, to be honest, but I'm guessing it's an older.

I've deliberately misled you. Of course, yeah. It's more of like a, like, if you think more music royalty. Oh. Okay. Elvis. Oh, that's good. But that is more about the topic we're doing.

But Prince is better. Yeah. Fuck, I wish it was Prince. This one's out of the hat, though, and Prince isn't in the hat. And the topic, as suggested, was called The Life and Death of Elvis Presley's Smiley Face. That was how it was sent into us. You know what I really like? From Edward Bassanelli.

Thank you, Edward. What I really like is that from the beginning when we started doing this podcast, I would always sort of, I would think of things and write down. I had this list in my phone for ages of, like, potential topics. And I really like now that we're getting so many suggestions that there's, like, crossover or like people will suggest things that I've thought of and then I'm like, yes, I can do that topic and I can say it's from the hat and Matt won't yell at me for it not being from the hat.

Yeah, it's fucked when you don't go to the hat. Yeah, I know. We've got so many things in the hat and you've suddenly, you're pulling things out from other garments. Is it had a garment, Nick? Yeah. It's, um, is it habadashery? Oh, man, that's the best word.

It's an accoutrement. It's an accoutrema. Oh, Kutram. Oh my God, you're the coolest person I've ever met. He is playing the role of Jess. I can't wait for you to flip-flop later in the episode. Yeah, oh yeah, I'll turn on you. Okay, good.

Wait. Why do I do that? Are you back to Jess now? Yeah, maybe. Yeah, maybe I'm just Dave for the start and the end. And like how Dave is the good one at, like, all right, Matt, I can't think of the word because I'm not Dave. Well, when you said, when you said at the start and the end, I'm like, Dave, you did this kind of, this. You kind of crunched yourself up into a little.

Yeah, because he's a little man. Okay, cool. A little crab man. Look, I'm Dave now. Oh, I'm Jess. Oh, I'm Dave. Oh, I'm all scratched up from Dave now. Oh, I'm Jess again.

Back to a normal, in proportion, human. What a roller coaster. Caught that, Dave. Cut that, Hitler. Okay, so I've written quite a report here. Let me get stuck in. Please. And feel free to...

Do you guys... Would you guys know much about the man? Peanut butter and banana sandwiches? I hope that. I hope that makes it. appearance at some point. That would be great. Well, it's going to make an appearance now. He really liked

peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Awesome. All right, done. I'm done guys. Bye. Bye. I did read that a few times and I never wrote it there. I think I know more about Elvis from like parodies of Elvis. Yeah, sure. Like your

Walk Hard or like your Simpsons references or he's shooting a TV. Does he shoot a TV at any point? Don't spoil it. Yeah, no spoilers. No spoilers, but answer the question. Good. Yes and no.

Oh, very good. She shoots a person on TV. Yeah. Wow, okay. So do you guys know he was born in 1935 as a, he was a twin? Did you know he was a twin? Yes. Yeah, I think I'd vaguely rang a bell, but his twin was still born.

I was still born So that's great Still born after all these years Both weren't going to be born But we're still born Yeah So good What's he do now

Um Look Um Look like It's probably a car salesman Or like an accountant You know One's an entertainer

One gets a sensible job You know No I think I mean I think there's a bit There's a little misunderstanding there Oh okay I might have

Both entertainers Great Oh boy No go on with your report then I guess So Elvis Elvis was the second of the two born And ended up being

His parents' only child Vernon And his mum's name was Gladys Gladys and Vernon Classic old-timey names But his name was actually Elvis His name was actually Elvis Elvis is his middle name Aaron It is Aaron

Yes I don't know why I knew that He was named after Vernon's middle name was Elvis. Oh. And Vernon had a mate named Aaron. And that's very good his name. So he just kind of went, Elvis.

Like a couple of things I can see. Yeah, exactly. Like right now I would be naming my child, bag clock. Oh, I mean, you've got two people in front of you. Oh, boy. Didn't even think of it. Oh, dear. Yeah, but we're both boys and that's clearly a girl's going.

Oh, that's a clock. Very, yeah, that is a nice. But, yeah, fair enough. Bag clock. Come on little bag clock. On this podcast Matt said he would be okay with naming his child, fuckhead. Only if my partner wanted it and she was really rich. Yeah, no, that's exactly right.

Time for school, fuckhead. The rich and famous think they're going to be rich and famous forever. That's why somebody named their kid Pilot Inspector. Jason Liam named his kid Pilot Inspector, assuming that he would be famous forever. and then you're protected by celebrity. And yeah, but the kid probably isn't going to be really, is he? No. I always think because I shorten names too.

I mean, everybody does, but I'm notoriously about just always shortening people's names. How would you nickname or shorten pilot and spilo? Pilo. Pilo. Pfecki. Yeah. Specky Lee. That's kind of cool.

Yeah, specky Lee. I don't mind that. Sorry, Jason Leo. I apologize. Yeah, we take it all back. What do you reckon the odds are that they go by the name of Gary now or something? Yeah, it's a Zowie-Bowie situation. Yeah, what Zaui is now known is?

He's Duncan Jones. Duncan Jones. He went the other way. Oh, boy. So Elvis. Vernon and Gladys. I've written a lot of this in the present tense, which just sounds weird. So I'm going to see if I can change that on the fly.

Elvis grew up in it. Elvis grows up in her close to the family. Elvis growed up Elvis is growing up His family was quite poor But it was tight-knit He had his grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins

all living nearby in Tupelo which is where he grew up Tupelo in Mississippi. You guys know the Nick Cave song Tupelo? No, I don't know it. I know the John Lee Hooker song Tupelo. It's about raining?

Yeah, okay, so the Nick Cave song is probably a cover of the... No, I think it's a coincidence. Yeah. But the song's about... about the night Elvis was born, I believe. Oh, there you go. Yeah.

Kind of like how Christmas carols were about when Jesus was born. Very similar. Yeah. Tupperlo is an Elvis carol. Aw. The real king of the Jews. Dave's not going to like that. Not at all.

They are teaching him the opposite at his university at the moment. All right. First paragraph. Now, when I came to do this episode, listeners, I said, what's some characteristics of every, like I've listened to the show, I enjoy the show, but like what's some characteristics? And the only thing that I was given of the other people was that Dave is a Nazi sympathizer.

Yeah. I mean, if you just put that out on Twitter, even not directing it necessarily, do go on followers. If you just put it out, they said, anyone know Dave Warnocky, what's the first word that comes to mind? Nazi.

They'd say Nazi sympathiser. That's a hyphenated word. Cool. I'm saying cool a lot today. Hey, so they regularly, the family regularly hit up the Assembly of God Church in Tupelo, and that is where Elvis developed a love for singing gospel. Do he like singing? Yeah.

Oh, you didn't know that. I don't know. No, he was, it was one of his passions. Really? God, you think you know a guy. What, yeah, what, what did you think was note word? about Elvis just out of interest. Just the white suit with all the rhinestones on it.

Yeah. Yeah. It was a fashionista. I thought it was his thing. I thought he was just like Paris Hilton. Like nobody really knew why he was famous. But yeah, he had a few albums like Paris Hilton. Did he have albums?

Yeah, yeah. Much like Paris. Now did his older brother encourage him to get into gospel singing? Um, look, I don't know how to break it to you. Because older brothers are often like, go on, get him, you know, you're scared little Elvis. He doesn't want to. It's hard to sing in public, you know. Say, like, I'm two minutes older than you, Elvis.

I've lived. That's right, yeah. Moving on. Okay. I think we'll find out more about the brother. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I don't want to spoil. Yeah, no spoilers.

The second half is very... Oh, Brother Heavy. Yeah, great. Jesse, Garon, Presley, heavy. Aaron and Garen. Yeah, not good. Jesse, though. Jesse, though, big fan of that.

I didn't know it. Yeah, it's good, isn't it? Yeah. It's a name of a star. Yeah. Or an accountant. Who knows? We don't know yet.

No. No! Oh, if I found out his brother's an accountant. His... He'll not be in... I mean, I don't know if you like or not like this, but it's accounting related. His father Vernon wasn't able to hold down a steady job, and in 1938, was sentenced to three years in prison for forging a $4 check. Oh, $4.

$4? Three years in prison. For $4. that was probably more money. He was probably like, you know, $13, $14. Yeah, that's right. That's the reverse Frank Abagnale Jr. You got away with it for years.

This guy's like... Just one tiny little check. Yeah. But he only spent about a year behind bars in the end. Got off lightly, in my opinion. Should have been 14 years. They've gone soft on crime in the 1930s. Yeah, wait, is that...

A simpler time. That's building up the next year, isn't the... when Nazi war begins. What's that? 38. So he was in jail. Maybe he got out in 39. For some reason.

Not everyone in every story has to be a Nazi sympathiser just because Warnik is. We're really going hard today because he's not here to defend. Yeah. Have fun. Oh, no, no, no. I can hear him. He's turning in his grave and he's not dead. For his 11th birthday, Elvis was given his first guitar by his parents,

bought at the Tupelo Hardware Store. Oh. But I also actually read that he bought his first guitar, so I don't know which one of those is true. Let's say it came from the hardware store. And around this time, he performed at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Sounds like, I'm imagining like the Royal Melbourne show. Oh, you get to pet the little animals. Yeah, but also a combination of the...

that and like the fair in Charlotte's wed? Yeah. Just a fair. I'm imagining a fair is what I'm saying. Yeah, it's like, oh, like the Charlton show out in country, Victoria, which is also a fair. Or the scene in the notebook where they go to the fair? Yeah. I'm imagining that sort of fair.

Or like my skin. Or when you pay for a ticket on a train. That's far better. Should have started there. All right. His first record... Oh, sorry. Let's...

In 1948, the Presley's move to Memphis from Tupelo looking for more opportunities because they're battling. Sure. They're battlers. In Tupolo, they were living in a two-room house. Not a two-bedroom house. Oh, sure. Two-room house. Okay.

All right. If you've got to split them. How are we splitting them? Yeah, okay, that's tricky. Because you want probably the toilet and then everything else, right? Yeah, I was thinking that. Maybe that's an outhouse, though. Oh, yes.

But still, you'd have a bath or something inside. So that's got to be in its own space. And then... Maybe waterbed slash bath. Oh, that's good. There we go. Just pop off and dive right in. And then you'd have like open plan, kitchen and living area.

It's like a studio apartment, basically, is what you're saying. Sounds great. And I mean, it is only the four of them. Yeah, isn't it though, yeah Aaron and Gowran Yeah, we haven't heard much about his relationship with his brother It was probably in that time between 38 and 48 That's 10 years, probably.

Yeah, I have skipped over a lot of that Yeah It's probably just going through your Bertie Beatle show bags Yeah, just normal sort of siblings stuff Reading your phantom comics All the stuff you get at the show Phantom Comics Are you a Phantom fan?

Because it's the shittest one, right? Look, in a way. The shittest big one. Even big ones are stretch. Right. But people have heard of it. That's true, yeah. Look, it's of the...

Like, I know there's some big fans, and there are people who still get their Phantom comic every week, but it's over the past. It's one of those... It's like Flash Gordon. It's like the shadow. They're not coming back. Right. Yeah. It's been done, yeah.

Because, yeah, unless you somehow made it modern. Uh, it's been attempted. Okay. Billy Zane, if you recall. Yeah. Phantom 2040. Behind a waterfall. Yeah.

Yeah. In the ghost cave. Uh-huh. Skull cave. Ghost cave. Anyway, we digress. See, I'm doing a Dave. How do we get to that?

How do we get to that? No. Oh, Bernie Betel show bags. Oh, right. Yeah, that'll do it. Yeah. Um, so in Memphis, that's where he started going to school, or he continued going to school. He went, so in Memphis, he went to school.

he went to school and he graduated there in 1953 becoming the first member of his immediate family to earn a high school diploma. Oh, good job Elvis. That year he recorded his first tunes at the Memphis Recording Service a couple of cover songs, My Happiness, I think. My Happiness Slowly creeping back now you're at home. And yeah, it's funny, I didn't realize the connection there.

Yeah, yeah, he was a big powder finger fan. But, you know, aren't we all? I think that's true, yeah. Padder fingers been suggested, actually. Really? Yeah, I think powder fingers in the hat with a specific... No, maybe it's silver chair. I think it was silver chair, and it was like...

Silver chair had some... We want Jess to do it. Okay. I was like, alright. Are you from Newcastle? No. Do you love silver chair? They're fine.

They're fine. That's what we need. That's the enthusiasm we need. That's like me for Elvis. No connection or enthusiasm is what you need. The following year Elvis received a call from a local guitarist named Scotty Moore and along with bass player Bill Black they met at the Memphis Recording Service to jam out some tunes.

Oh yes. And they were there with Sam Phillips who was the Sun Records producer and they tried a bunch of different songs but Phillips wasn't digging the sound. He wasn't into it. But then all of a sudden, Elvis was like, hey, I've got an idea. Let's have a crack at Arthur Big Boy Crut Up song.

That's all right. And only let's do it in a sped up style. Oh, that'd do it, wouldn't it? And the slow one, ugh. Yon. More and black, kept up. And I imagine Phillips said something like, I think you've just cut your first hit record.

Oh, yeah, yeah. One of those lines. Yeah. And then he would have said something like, I mean, we haven't recorded it yet. But, you know what? I mean and that would have been like what what are you talking about Phillips we're very new to this yeah like this is not making any sense of it's like forget it let's just record this song I think

it's gonna I'm just saying I think I like it there was a weird time back there in the 50s 50s hey what is it weird that people existed in the 50s oh so long ago why even bother existing in the 50s my dad was born that year what is this 53 yeah oh that actually that's 54 now So you lied. I did lie straight up. And it did become Elvis's first hit single. So Phillips was right. Phillips was right, as I imagined it.

In a way, they'd cut their first hit record. Yeah, in some ways. Yeah. Great. In a way. In a way, you know, the correct way. In 1955, Elvis had caught the attention of promoter Colonel Tom Parker. Oh, I've heard that name.

Yeah. He's a key player. Tom Parker. Tom Parker. Colonel Tom Parker. Colonel Tom Parker. Now, was he a real colonel, or was he, did he just take the name? Is he like a Colonel Sanders?

Who might also be a real colonel, just to say. I don't think you have to Google it, Matt. I think we can just say, yeah. That is a great question. Look, I don't think he was a real colonel. Okay. Lies. His occupation is just down as talent manager on Wikipedia.

Yeah, so what do you get a but a colonel for? Yes, there she is. She turns. There we go. Now, because I didn't see it. When people said she turns on me, they're like, what? No, I don't. Now I see it.

Okay. So the colonel, he... No. I just turned you off. All right. I can hear myself a bit better now, too. Look, while you were faffing about, Matt Stewart. Oh, you turned out about the colonel.

Well, he apparently served two years in the 64th Coast artillery. So he was an artillery man. Although he had served honorably before, he went AWOL and was charged with desertion. Oh. Which army is this in? United States Army. Ooh. Because he was Dutch born, I believe.

Ooh. Oh. I mean, it doesn't say he became, like it doesn't say he was a colonel. Yeah. He doesn't sound like he rose through the ranks. I don't think he could become an artillery colonel. Anyway, that's the last research I'm going to do. Good decision.

Until you come back for the DC episode. Nah, I'll just wing it. That's great. Yeah, that's how we like to do it. That makes more sense. So, yeah, so the Colonel, Colonel Tom Parker, not a real Colonel. Not a real Colonel.

He got pretty excited about Elvis. He wanted to get involved in the business. And he did. Oh. Yeah. Oh. Dream achieve, believe. Yeah.

And one of his first bits of business for Elvis was that he was able to negotiate the sale of Elvis's son records contract to RCA records. I thought you're going to say Elvis's son there. Yeah, that's what it sounded like. I was like, he sold Elvis's son? Oh, look, Elvis didn't have a son, you guys. Do you think I would have mentioned that before?

I probably wouldn't have. Look, you haven't mentioned a lot of the stuff about his family members so far. Yeah, I know nothing about his mom. Look, it was a very private... Well, you know her name was Glendis. Brother was Garon. And we had...

The dad was the guy, the forger. What else do you know? need to know. That's a good point. So this deal was for the unprecedented sum of 35 grand, plus a $5,000 signing bonus or sowning bonus. That's a lot of money. It is.

Well, it was a fuckton back then. Remembering that $4 check gets you in jail. How much is a fuckton? Oh, I'm sure we've talked about it before. $69. $69,000, am I right? Yeah. $69,000.

$69,000. Yeah. Yeah, it's a fuck time. Yeah, right. All right. Settle down, guys. A lot of money. Great.

In 1956, Elvis makes a deal with the Colonel, which stipulates that he will be the sole and exclusive advisor, personal representative and manager in all and any fields of public and private entertainment. Well, that sounds all-encompassing, doesn't it? There's no way that would. come around and bite anybody in the house. He really locked locked Elvis up. Yeah. How old is Elvis now? Like

Elvis is... Like 20? Yeah, he's 21. 21. Good time to make that decision, I feel. It was around this time that he bought Grace Land. Oh. 21-year-old. He bought it for 100 grand. What a mad dog. I'll talk more about that later on. What a ham dog. What a hound dog.

Oh. Thank you. That's a... an Elvis thing. Stuart, Stuart, Stuart. In 1956... You're the king of my heart. Oh.

And this podcast. Wow, okay. Do go on. Sure. In 1956, Elvis records his first songs for the new label at the Nashville studio. And these sessions include recording the hit song, Heartbreak Hotel. Oh, yeah.

You'd be familiar that one. Yeah. Just sounds like all of Elvis's other songs. I was going to try and sing it, but I was going to sing it, well, that's all right, Mama, but that's a different song, yeah, exactly. Down at the Heartbreak Hotel, that's all right, Mama, Heartbreak Hotel. Heartbreak Hotel.

Yeah. He was strongly influenced by Bernard Fanning. They think? Aren't we all? Yeah, I was been saying. We've all been influenced by Bernard Fanning. In music and in life. Amongst all this Elvis is starting to get attention on the TV,

the body television, which is a relatively new thing in the 50s. Yeah. And during one appearance on the Milton Burl show, he performs a sensual rendition of his hit song, Hound Dog, and that episode was a huge rating success. A sensual. What would that sound like?

I think it was more on his hips and his, just his lips. really his lips was seen as being like basically vulgar. The way he moved his hips and his lips. His lips were vulgar. His sexy moves during hand dog drove the kids in the audience wild. And press and some of the adult viewers were so appalled that it becomes one of the most controversial performances ever. On the back of this, he gains huge popularity among teenagers

and audiences become wilder and wilder at his concerts. Pulling out. Start throwing their feces. Oh, yep. That's not listed here. Like wild animals. They listed screaming, rushing the stage, crying and fainting. Oh no, hang on.

Sorry. And throwing their feces. There it is. That's right. That bit is underlined. Okay. Underlined italics, the whole bit. Yeah.

It was the defining thing that his fans did his whole career. Yeah. Just feces. It's got an image, isn't it? Isn't it? Yeah. Music makes you do crazy things. Interestingly, yeah, the sensors and stuff had no problem with that.

I didn't think that was vulgar. No, that was fine. When he wriggled his lips. Yeah, come on, mate. The press expressed outrage across the country reporting on Elvis's obscene performance, and he was condemned by sections of the morally concerned establishment and the religious community.

The 1950s were a super... Super conservative time in America and he was seen as a real rule breaker. Rule breaker over here. Yeah, Jess, what was that? I'm wondering what that was in protest of. Was it in process of the moral right? Was it in a protest of Matt being boring?

No, it was just people like, people being conservative. We're just covering up a real fun? Is that what was happening there? That's smart. Yeah. That's really smart. Oh, gosh, she's so funny.

What is that smart? I don't know No, I was just The boring, conservative people Yeah You weren't being boring Oh, I thought you were talking to me About me there

So Elvis is now 21 years old And his star is exploding Much like Jess's asshole It's weird that's in the Wikipedia entry as well Right? It's weird Did you have to say that When I'd just take it a mouth full of water?

Yes Fair enough He heads back to Tupelo to perform two shows at the Mississippi, Alabama Fair and Dairy Show. Oh, back to the Dairy Show. Where he is. He performed about 10 years earlier, but this time he had 100 National Guardsmen surround the stage to control the crowd of excited fans. 100. That's crazy.

That's like that's a good audience in itself. A hundred right. I don't even 100 people come see you perform. Even if nobody else showed up. Yeah, that's great. I mean, they're facing the other way. And they're not enthused. But that's probably for the best.

It's self-conscious. You don't want everybody staring at you. Yuck, audience. No. At this time, he also started moving into the film business. His first film, Love Me Tender, premieres. It's set in the South in 1800s American Civil War times, and is a huge hit.

Seems like everything he does is a huge hit. Yeah, right. Where is this going to end, you know? All these hits. Where does it end? Well, no, to be honest, I haven't got that far. I just assume he's still out there making hits. Yep.

Movies songs. Oh, oh. What a tame. Do you reckon they bought a yacht together or something? Oh, definitely, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's so good. Probably started a restaurant together.

Not because they need the money, but just because it's fun. And they love it? Have fun with your brother. Yeah. Just like brotherly things. They probably go fishing. I did have it down as a fun. back, but Elvis did buy Franklin Roosevelt's presidential yacht.

Huh. With his brother? I didn't mention his brother. But you could only assume. Those two, I mean, they were twins. Inseparable in many ways. And all but the key one, I guess. Yeah, one of them can't sing, so they can't, you know.

So at the end of Love Me Tender, Elvis' character dies. Oh, spoilers. But that did not test well in the preview screening. Oh. So they tacked on footage of him singing the film's title song at the end of the movie. It's still a bit. It's not so bad. The character still died with those scenes.

But now he's singing from Heather. Yeah. It's really what a... He's happy. Oh, my God. Are you guys familiar with the million dollar quartet? No. So...

Hang on, let me guess. Yeah. Elvis is one of them. And there are... Oh, it's three more famous people. Yes. Buddy Holly. No.

Richie Valens. No. The big bopper? Snappy people who died to play and crash. Yeah. No. Okay. Holly Valance.

Oh, yeah. Steph McEnshaw. Delta Goodroom. No, neighbors. Jessica Mooreboy. Jessica Moore Boy. No. No. They aren't there aren't yet, no.

Okay. Well, that's my guess. So Elvis dropped by the Sun Studios, back to the old Sun's studio. and got involved in an impromptu jam session with Jerry Lee, Lewis and Carl Perkins. Oh, it was so close. Do you familiar with these guys? Perkins.

Perkins, yeah. Carl. No. So that's three. Yeah, who's the fourth? And the fourth? Oh, here we go. Big reveal.

Johnny Cash. Oh, actually, yeah, I was watching Walk the Line the other day. And I was like, oh, I didn't know they were mates, and I should have been able to guess that myself. Yeah, I think that might be one of those reverend. first engineered, I should have been able to do a thing. Like, I saw a movie that, like, vaguely showed that they were... Hey.

Come on. I mean, honestly... If I had more time, I definitely would have figured that out of my own. But the funny thing is that that was only because... Johnny Cash was only thought to be involved in that because he came down for a photo op later in the day. It was really only the three of them that jammed. Oh, interesting.

And then Johnny Cash came in later, and there's this classic photo of the four of them sort of sitting around a piano, I think. But yeah, Johnny Cash didn't actually jam. There's a photo in my high school yearbook of me on the debating team, not in the debating team. Just popped in on the... Yeah, very similar to that. I jumped in on the photo once when a trivia team won like a fundraising trivia, and they were getting their photo with the medal,

and I just jumped in on the side of my arm around them. And like, forevermore, I'm a champion trivia guy. That's right. Congratulations. Thank you. Is that how you got here? Was that on your resume to get into it on? I'm a champion trivia guy.

Yeah, that's why we hired. Check out this photo. Yeah, yeah, look. Look at me with all these other people. How did I get on it? I don't belong. Nah, Morad. The way it was, Dave, there's a trivia guy.

He got me on because I work for a trivia thing. And then I got you in because, you know, you got a good attitude. I disagree. I think she's got a bad attitude. I turn on people real quick. Yeah. That's what I like about it. All right.

See, you know, to me it's a bad attitude is a good attitude. There we go. Is that confusing? What am I talking about? Oh, yeah, the million dollar. So old mate, Sam Phillips was there, the producer. Of course he is. And he obviously no longer has the rights because he sold it for 35 grand.

But he... He, even though he wasn't really allowed to, he pressed record. So those sessions were recorded and eventually came out, I believe. I think that happened. That's naughty. Very. Very naughty, but very... He was all about that.

He was the original bad boy. Bad boy of rock and roll. Love a bad boy. But, like, you've got to do that, right? And I think everyone's pretty happy that he did. Anyway, a million dollar quartet. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was pretty good.

Because you're your favourite ever quartet. Oh, um... The film quartet with Billy Connolly and Maggie Smith. That's only two. That's only two, yeah. And the other two whose names I don't know. Wow, but you still like him. It's a great film.

The quartet. It's great. Check it out. That old people. So, I mean, that was a question. It was a question without notice. So it was a, I mean, it's fine that you gave an ordinary answer. Probably the Ninja Turtles.

Turtles, that's very good quartet. Because I was about to defend, I was like, it's a great moment, and he said Ninja Turtles. I'm like, now. How'd you do that? Now, imagine the film Quartet, but the Ninja Turtles are in it. Four memorable actors, as opposed to the two and the two.

Who were the four memorable actors? The Ninja Turtles. Yeah. They're not actors. They're turtles. Oh, a turtle can't be an actor, Jess. Wow. I can't believe what I'm hearing.

They're ninjas. I thought Dave was the Nauters. Nazi. Telling people what they can and can't do. This one's amphibist. That's her problem. I am a noted amphibist. Well, you find out eventually.

And you've broken my heart today, Jess. Oh. I think my mind's gone through a few. I was thinking awesome, foursome for a little while. Oh, yeah. But I think maybe the big four of thrash metal might be my favorite quartet. You guys know the big four? No.

It feels like I'm padding. I've got so much report. Is it also? Is it also the awesome for some? Did they switch over the trashm? After their disastrous fruit ad. Fruit sponsorship. What was the song when they had?

Fruit. It was like a... Love me tender. Peaches, mangoes, peaches? That's the one. Peaches, mango, peaches? Maybe. That's my favourite trio.

Let's move on. Metallica, Mega Death. And Thrax. Sure. Sure. And Slayer. Obviously. Of course.

I could have done that in my sleep. How about we get on with a report about Elvis? Okay. Following Elvis's huge ratings boost on the Milton Burl show, he was booked for an appearance on NBC's Steve Allen show in New York. Yes, Steve Allen. So Alan introduced Elvis in a white bow tie in black tails, and Presley sang Hound Dog.

to a basset hound wearing a top hat and bowtie. Oh, yeah. Yep. Yep. Some thought Alan... That seems cruel. When you think about it, that dog ain't no friend of his. Yeah.

So mean. You ain't nothing but a hound dog. Yeah. Don't be cruel. That's not true because he's got a bowtie and a top hat. Yeah. He is so much more. Some thought Alan was trying to make Elvis look silly.

But Alan later wrote that he found Presley's strange, gangly, country boy charisma his harder to find cuteness and his charming eccentricity intriguing and that he simply worked the singer into the comedy fabric of his program that sounds like something you would say decades later

now this guy's a star I didn't mean to mock him totally at the time he would have been thinking at the time like nah it's just a fad the stupid youth culture bullshit which wasn't even like rock and roll and stuff hadn't even really yeah that was almost the beginning of it is like he

Elvis was the planking of his day People thought That was like, oh no It's like if Beaver gets really big Yeah, and has credibility I mean he is really big But has credibility Yeah, yeah yeah

Which you know, may still happen I think he does though right I think he has some But I don't think he's got Elvis credibility No, it's probably true He's kind of well maybe Elvis was loved and hated too Because like Bieber is loved Adored but also hated

That's true It's not cool to like him Yeah, be interesting to see what the things that kick on I feel like at the moment it's probably, you know, Beyonce might have staying power in that way. Adele, I reckon Adele will. Okay. I reckon Adele will. I think she won't.

Yeah, I don't think she will either. She feels a bit too, she feels like a forgotten type. Like a bit blander. I feel she'll be like, I've done all I want to do. I'm retiring. Right, okay. So she's going to choose. But do you think her legacy will live on?

Yeah, I think. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's what I reckon. I think she'll be a forgotten one. Okay. But I think Oregon and Beyonce will, like, grandkids will be listening to Beyonce at, like, hipster bars in whatever the new hipster town is, Eltham.

That's a Melbourne reference, as everyone enjoys. Just before the show, Presley told a reporter, this is a quote, I'm holding down on this show. I don't want to do anything to make people dislike me. I think TV is important. I'm just going to go along. But I won't be able to give the kind of show I do in a personal appearance. And later he referred to the performance as the most ridiculous performance of his career.

The most ridiculous. It's interesting, though, because he felt like he had to jump through the hoops at the time because TV was important for his career. And then, yeah, I wonder. Maybe he did. Because he got the huge ratings and that led to more. opportunities. That's true.

And that's a way to break through. Like you're a big underground, like huge underground dish. It's probably not underground at all really at that stage. But it's a huge thing. But then he goes under these big mainstream TV shows where a lot of people are watching and taking notice. Yeah. So maybe it paid off obviously. Do you guys know Ed Sullivan?

Yes. Yes. I think it's where Letterman did you show. I personally ask me anything about Ed Sullivan. Okay. What's Ed short for? What's his address? Edmund?

Not an Edmund. New York, New York. Very good. The home of entertainment and the home of Ed Sullivan. A couple of facts here. We've got some New York listeners. I think they'll confirm both of those. He's a theatre.

I don't know if you know that. Yeah. He's a building. Does Colbert still use the theatre as the Ed Sullivan theater? Look, I'm not the one on trial here. Ed Sullivan is the one on trial here. And he is guilty. He's guilty of saying that he will never have Elvis on his show.

Wow. until he sees the ratings of his appearance on Alan's show and he quickly changes his mind. Oh, wow. Because that was that appearance on the Steve Allen show was the first time that he ever was outrated by Alan. Oh, wow. So he's like, oh, maybe I think this whole, I think.

It's my Ed Sullivan. Hey, boys and girls, I reckon, get the Colonel on the lawn. I reckon I want a little chat. And he... Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis President. So he offered 50 grand for three appearances on the show. And the appearances brought the same... And Elvis accepted,

brought the same sort of controversy that he was sort of becoming accustomed to. And on their third appearance, quite famously, he was shown only from the waist up. Oh, yes. So you can see them... The obscenity below. Those sexy hips.

Still see those lips, though. Yeah. Mm-mm-mm-mm-n-nam. His lips were carrying a lot of the load that night. Sullivan defused some of the controversy. He really turned it around, Sullivan. Because he goes during the show he said to the millions of viewers that this is a decent, fine boy.

We want to say we have never met a more pleasanter, we've never had a more pleasanter experience with a big name than we've had with you. That's nice. Pleasanter. Yeah. More pleasanter. Yeah, very good. Good. More pleasanter. There's a lot wrong with that, isn't it?

There's so much wrong with it. It's got to be, I reckon, he's not that dumb. I'm going to say that that is my mistake. No, people of the past were pretty dumb. I'm going to call that my mistake. Oh, that's true. They didn't have the education we have now. That's right.

Or the medical science. Social media. Yeah. Didn't have any of that. Couldn't have Googled things, for sure. Didn't have iPhones. He... Nah, a good contribution there, Jess, I think.

Also objectively wrong. Some of them did have iPhones. Oh, damn it! Yeah, that's right, yeah. All three singles that Elvis released in early 1957 went to number one on the US charts. Too much. All shook up and let me be your teddy bear. Doesn't that just sound awful?

Let me be your teddy bear. But it was a big hit. That sounds great. What do you mean? Good point. In 1958, Elvis arrives at the Memphis draft borders. Oh, my God. And is inducted into the US.

Army. After his physical, Elvis has put on a bus and sent to Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. Oh, Chaffee. At Fort Chaffy. Fort Chaffy. At Fort Chaffy, which is great. So good. Elvis receives his GI haircut. And then he travels to Fort Hood in Texas, where he goes through basic training and remains on due

there for six months. After training, Presley joins the third Armoured Division. in Friedberg, Germany. Over with Warnocky's mates. And apparently, Elvis is introduced to amphetamines by a sergeant and becomes practically evangelical about their benefits. Not only for energy, but for strength and weight loss as well. Love that stuff.

This episode of DoGo On is brought to you by Amphetamines. Yeah. You can lift a car. Try it. Go to Amphetamines.com slash do. go on for 20% off. No, is that a thing? Can we get some sort of...

We get a little kickback from amphetamines, big amphetamines. What? Not an amphetamines kickback. I've not seen any of that money. Ah. Have you been paid for that? It's all gone up that amphetamines,

Morton knows. Matt's been putting some amphetamines in your water. Yeah. That's why it feels so strong. That's why it feels so strong. Cause it causes flip-flopping. Yeah. Yeah.

Sorry about it. I should probably have checked with you. I just assumed that's how you would have wanted to have been paid secretly into your water. No, I'd just like cash into my bank account. That's very confusing. What kind of way do you do business? I've got rent and bills to pay. Yeah.

Well, you're going to be able to pay him with strength and the other weight loss. Oh, boy. And energy. All right. You can tell that I've got all of those things. Hey, all right. Oh no. Fellow soldiers have attested to Presley's wish to be seen as an able, ordinary soldier,

and despite obviously his fame, and he donated a lot of his army pay to charity, maybe even all of it. Oh, wow. Who's to say? Me, he did, all of it. While serving in the US Army in Freidberg, Germany, Presley met a 14-year-old girl named Priscilla Boliue. Uh-oh.

Fourteen. And patted her on the head and sent her on her way. And he's how old? With only some amphetamines. He'd be 20. Unless he's also 14. He'd be 20. It's largely irrelevant.

He's 23. So there's nine years between them. Yeah. She's 14. 14. Yeah, I know. And they just sort of said after a seven and a half year courtship, they got married. So when she was legal.

Yeah, great. Oh, that's so creepy, though. Yeah. Imagine, oh, imagine going back to your friends and be like, guys, I've met a lady and I'm really happy. Oh, great. You just bring her out. Oh, she's got homework, but maybe another time. Oh, like university homework.

Yeah, absolutely. No, no, no, no. No, you nine, so. Yeah, something, and it's just, it's funny that, yeah, it's just sort of accepted that that's fine. It's never talked about that he was a bit weird. Yeah, that's never, I didn't know that. She was so young. But I mean, it did say, all it said was that he met her then.

So maybe. Maybe nothing. Maybe it was just like a friend thing. Yeah, seven-year courtship. Yeah, seven-a-old, yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, I don't know. Unless he waited until she was legal and then they got married when he was like 50. Wait, I don't quite right.

Nine years is converted to 30. Yeah, but then they had a seven-year courtship after she was legal. So that's 50. 50. Oh, yeah, see. My maths is awful. We really are missing Dave. Amphetamines really ages you.

I don't know. It's a hell of a drug. It's a hell of a drug. There were fears that Elvis's time in the army. He was in the army for two years, right? And there were fears that that would finish his career that much time out of the spotlight. What if he gets a hip injury or a lip injury?

Oh, geez. Yeah. Imagine if he got shot through the lip. A lip injury? Lip jury. Yeah, lip jury. That was worth stopping you? That is like a classic podcasting joke formula is you say a couple of words and then you join them together.

Your portmanteau them. Your portmanteau and then everyone stops and laughs. Never fully got it, but geez, it goes on. It's a real scourge on the podcasting environment. But no, I like that. Yeah, that was a good one. Yeah. I think yours was so bad, it was good.

It's the ones that work really well. They're the ones that suck. Just go on with you silly little report. So, yeah, there were fears during, that is two years we're going to kill. off his career. Oh no, after last week, don't be sad because I'm not strong enough to handle the Twitter backlash.

They don't like a sad jest. They do not. It's really, it's, there are some people I can't handle when they're sad, because you're like, no, I need you to be, you're always happy, and then I, that's the basis that if you're sad, then everything's fucked. And I reckon that's what people feel like.

And that's why they all turned on Dave. Geez, they turned on Dave. Apart from a couple who agreed that Irish dancing is stupid, which I mean, surely everyone can agree on that. But anyway, all right. Portmanteau. They're fun. They're great fun, aren't they?

You know what else is fun? Fort Manto. Fort Manteau. Fun portmanteau. Fun portmanteau. You know what else is fun? What's that? Getting on with a report.

Oh no, please don't be, don't do it, Jess. She's smiling and having a great time, everybody. Nick, tell them. No, smile's fading. Smile's fading. It was there. We're back to, we're back to Sad Yes. Cess. That's what I call her.

Oh, no, no, no. So there were fears that, yeah, it was going to be a curricula, this whole war thing, army thing. This whole war thing. This whole bloody war thing. But did you know, here's a fun fact that in those two years, I'm pretty sure that his twin brother covered for him. I thought I heard that too. Nobody even knew that he was gone. That's right.

I think you're right. I remember hearing about Elvis performing at that time. And I think it was his brother. His twin brother. There were fears that Elvis's time in the army would finish his career. Can't believe you. Can't believe you cutting that out. Keep it in, Matt.

No, no, no. All right. But during his two years away from the limelight, RCA regularly released music that they had banked up of his. including 10 top 40 hits. Wow. 10 top 40, it's just of like off cuts from previous recordings.

That's great. Including hits like wear a ring around your neck. And then the number one hit a big hunk of a love. Hunk of a burn and love. Yeah. Which is a good one, right? That's one of the...

I always think of that late period Elvis where he's real big and fat. Yeah, the big white jumpsuit. In 1960 Elvis's... 1960 Elvis was discharged from the army. and in the years immediately following, he just maintained the huge success, even bigger than when he was away, finally now.

Just weeks after returning home, he entered the Nashville studio, and that session yielded the single Stuck on You, which was rushed into release and quickly hit the top of the charts. I don't know if I know that song. Never heard of it. I know the...

I'm stuck on you. Slowly creeping back. You know that one. Yeah, okay. Now, that does ring about it. actually. Slowly coming back into my head. Two weeks later, another recording session

included two of his biggest singles. It's now or never, and are you lonesome tonight? Very good. So he's come back and he's just like dropping fire everywhere. A review of the album came out from these sessions. The album that came out from these sessions, the review said that Elvis's singing wasn't sexy.

It was pornographic. Oh! And, Music historian John Robertson described Elvis on this record as many things including a flirtatious teenage idol with a heart of gold, a tempestuous, a dangerous lover, a gut bucket blues singer and a sophisticated nightclub entertainer and a raucous rocker. Gut bucket. Yeah. Gut bucket. He took that one to heart in late years, I feel.

Yeah. Gut bucket. I love that. Yeah, I've never heard that. Gut bucket. I don't get it. but I really like it Dibs on the nickname

Dibs on the nickname I reckon it works better Gut bucket On Mason Yeah it probably does I couldn't be a gut bucket It's me big fat party animal Gut bucket

Mesa And also if I walked in everyone I was like hey gut bucket Hey that's so mean Why are you calling But if they say it to Nick It's not Nah look at him

Guys Look at his little gut I've regretted my choice But I claimed it So You got him Gut bucket The Colonel

The Colonel scored Presley a deal to appeal. Oh my God. Reading is hard. The Colonel scored Presley a deal to appear on the Frank Sinatra TimeX special for an unheard of $125,000 fee for only eight minutes of singing. That's good money even today.

Even today? I'll take that. I'd take that. I'd take that. I'd take that. The show was another ratings, Benanza. Elvis rode this way of... What are great words in this report, I must say.

Gunnanzah. Gut bucket. End of list. Elvis rode a way... Portmanteau. Yeah. What's a portmanteau of gut bucket and bonanza? Oh.

Okay, now you're just being ridiculous. Gananza. Gananza. Gunanza. Gunanza. Gunanza. You've created a... It's worth more than the sum of its parts or whatever.

Yeah. Elvis rode this wave of success through the early 60s, and he went back to starring in hit movies, like he had prior to his army days. I don't think I mentioned it, but he was in movies just before the Army, like, Love Me Tender and Jail House Rock in the sort of mid to late 50s. The Colonel encouraged Elvis to continue to make movies, almost to his detriment. Almost as if he had some sort of financial stake in it.

It's like to smash him out. Oh, they suck? Yeah, that's cool. Don't worry about it. Elvis is like, I want to make some serious ones, and he did make a couple of more serious dramatic movies, and they flopped. So we went back to these sort of romantic comedy. I'm in a Hawaiian shirt.

Exactly. He's always just sitting there and there's guitar just there and they're like, come and Elvis, plays a little tune. Everything I remember is from midday movies. It's either that or he's like some sort of daredevil motorcycles. I was just going to say that there's one where he's spinning around a ball. He's spinning around up a wall on a motorcycle. Oh, good times.

But as the 60s wore on, they became more and more formulaic and less and less successful. Many of the earlier ones did have hit soundtracks. But they also became less and less successful as a decade war on. And these movies started to really take their toll on Presley's reputation. He eventually was starting to be seen as a bit of a joke. Like his music cred was waning and he was seen as just being a has-been. Who's Wayne? Yeah, now again, worth interrupting.

Probably that third brother. Yeah. Wayne Presley. What would Wayne's middle name have been? You got Aaron. Sparron. Wayne Sparren Presley. That's cool.

Who was unfortunately Baron. Oh. Yeah. In 1967, he marries Priscilla, Presley, who was the child. His child. 16 years old. Great. In Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ah. At a casino. Is that why there's so many... The Aladdin personate is that you can get married by Elvis in Vegas because he got married by Elvis in Vegas. That's got something to do with it, I reckon. That's got to be. He was more and more connected to Vegas in his later years.

Married life didn't change Elvis' story's story, unfortunately. The soundtrack flops started to really pile up. And with this, the Colonel, way later than he should have realized that it was not good for his career. And he shifted his attention back to TV. I've just built my 24 games. Carrot Gold Mansion and I finally realized that this isn't good for you. It's a coincidence. Yeah, it's weird.

I mean, because now, I mean, your reputation was copping a hit for a while and now I'm also not making much money out of you. So I think we should do what's best for you and turn out attention back to TV. But it was a great move because he made a deal with NBC to do Elvis's first TV appearance in eight years with a Christmas special. It was called simply Elvis. And it was called Elvis. The Simply was just me telling, look.

Tonight on NBC, simply called Elvis. No, it's called Elvis, me saying simply, oh no. That's at 11. This is the end for me, NBC announcer man. It's not my name. It's Wayne. My name's Wayne. Ah, that's Wayne.

I knew it was going to appear soon. Wayne, Sparren. I'm your long-lost triplet twin Oh What? Wait, that got it, all right Bit far, mate Yeah, come on, mate

You might have, this was the one that doesn't... Okay, you might be familiar with this, I had seen footage of this concert It was where he was wearing that, like, full black leather Yes, I had seen that, yeah And it... Concert or porno. Well, you know, the way he sings.

It's got to be Elvis Porn. Yeah, I didn't. Must be. There must be. He's Googling. Closing the Tom Parker page. Open up. Elvis Porn.

It was in front of just a small audience. It was the NBC's highest rating show of that season. Quite a lot of Elvis. Oh, okay. Yeah, there's a lot of Alves. Give us your top couple. No, probably shouldn't. I'm not saying, explain what's happening.

Just give us the title. Well, this one just says Elvis Triple X, a porn parody. And it says Scene 1. so presumably. Elvis Triple X a porn parody. Yeah. It's a parody of porn. Okay.

That's a confusing title. Not of Elvis. It's a very confusing title. It's like a scary movie of porn. Yeah. It's like, Leslie Nelson's in it. How silly is porn?

That's what it is. I went Google image search Elvis Porn, and it's exactly what you'd expect, except for like the 10th image down is a giant Eddie Murphy head on wheels. On wheels? Yeah. Promotion for the film Meet Dave.

one would assume. Right. Which was an Elvis parody porn movie. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So a writer named John Landau wrote about this special, there is something magical about watching a man who has lost himself, find his way back home. He sang with a kind of power people no longer expect of rock and roll singers. He moved his body with a lack of pretension and effort that must have made Jim Morrison Green with envy. I love it when people can get a dig in at someone

they don't like. That's right, yeah. In a positive review. Man, that's, his performance must have made my high school English teacher. Just, just regret her life choices and regret being mean to me. Yeah. So that special would be... Nah, she killed herself. Oh, jeez.

So there's that. Special would become known as the 68 comeback special. I don't know what she's laughing about. Is she laughing at the death of a beloved educator? What's she laughing about? You just never know what's going to hit with Jeff. No, that's right, yeah. It sounded like a porn title.

69, come back, special. Yeah, 68, but yeah. I mean, it was, yeah, it was close to being something. I know, but there was an explosive laugh that I didn't expect. I'm sorry. You haven't done one of those in a while. Off the back. Yeah, because Dave makes me laugh.

I used to make you laugh. What changed, guys? This is an intervention for you too. It's why Dave's off. at Nazi camp or whatever. He wanted me to come in and moderate this space. Maybe Matt needs to fuck off for an episode. Wow.

So I can really miss him. Yeah, no, I know, yeah. Absence, Heart Grafonda. I mean, we haven't seen each other for a month, but... That's true. More time is needed. Yeah. Off the back...

And during that month, we were just releasing stuff we had up our sleeve that we recorded from the RCA recordings. Much like Elvis. And they were one top 40. Off the back of the success of the special, Elvis was book. to perform at the brand new international hotel in Las Vegas, which boasted the largest showroom in the whole city, for 57 shows over four weeks.

What? 57 shows over four weeks. 57 shows over four. It's like a 15. Wait, so four weeks, that's like 20 a week. It's four shows a day for five. That's a lot of shows. I mean, it's an uneven number of shows, but.

There's a matinee. Yeah, maybe, yeah. Oh, that looks suck. I think it's two a day. Yeah, look, my maths isn't very good. Oh, look, but I'm not... Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's a lot of shows.

Two days, 14 a week. Yeah. Oh, yeah, it's... It's every day. It's a lot. How many gigs have you done this year, Jeff? This year? In nine months?

102. 104. Yeah, so he did more than half of that in a ninth of the time. You're still keeping count. Isn't that adorable? Yeah, I am adorable. Thank you for noticing. Adorable.

The run was a huge success. Presley was back, baby. I've written down. That's amazing. I'm glad you wrote that down. And I reckon when you wrote that, you thought, and here I'll say, Presley was back, baby! Yeah.

But instead what she said, Presley was back, baby, I've written down. That's good. Don't give us a peek behind the curtain. Just let it happen. Well, the funny thing is, because I wrote it so late last night, I was pretty delirious. I don't remember a lot of this. I mean, I wrote it so recently. Yeah.

But I still... Anyway, cool. Wasn't 12 hours ago. Wasn't it? No. It wasn't. At the press conference after the opening show, journalists referred to him as the king, but Presley gestured towards Fats Domino,

who was also in the room at the time, obviously, and said, no. Just a picture of me carried with him at all times. He said, no, that's the real. king of rock and roll, humble. I mean, wrong, certainly. I mean, name a Fats Domino song. 1,3,000, double, six. Pizza, delivery.

Fats Domino. Well, maybe that, but that's the thing. I guess that's what he's saying. He's like, I'm getting all the attention because I'm a white guy. But this guy is like, he was huge, Fats Domino. Yeah. All I know, the main thing I know about him is that Chubby Checker kind of ripped off his name and had a big hit.

Fat Stomino. Yeah, that's true. That's a weird fact. I'd never even made that connection. Yeah, that's actually amazing. I hadn't until someone pointed it out in a very similar manner. On a podcast. It was weird.

It was the only thing they said to me the whole time. What a weird podcast. It was really weird. They're just like, shh, no, that's all we brought you here for. Get out. Get out of here. The next day the Colonel negotiated a five-year contract for Presley to play each Feb and August at the international hotel

for the huge sum of one million dollars a year. Feb and August. So like all of Feb and August? Yeah, so it'll be similar to his four-week crazy deals. Fuck, I'd do that. For a million. Yeah, yeah.

Ten months off. That's your full-time job. That'd be fun. What'd you do for a million dollars, Jess? Would you perform a bloody sold-out rock and roll to her? That's that way you'd do, hey? So would you do that? I love it when people say so.

I think I'd do that thing that would, everyone would do? Right, yeah. You would do that for a million dollars. You'd do gigs to packed out audiences for two months of the year for a million dollars, would you? You know what? You know what? I would.

Hey, Jessus, the only thing is there's nothing guaranteeing packed out audiences, so I think... I think I'm guaranteeing packed out audiences. Okay, okay. Okay, I'm Elvis Presley. I'm Elvis Presley. Oh, okay, you're Elvis Presley. I get it. I get it.

In 1970, Presley organized to meet the then president of the U.S., who you would guys would know. What year was this? 1970. Nixon? It was Nixon. Yeah. Okay. I would not have known that.

So that is a good get. And in this meeting, I think it's kind of a famous meeting where he asked for a badge. He asked for like a narcotics. Oh, that's right. Yeah, like a DEA badge. Yeah, yeah. And he also was talking about how patriotic. was and how he

he had contempt for the hippies and the drug culture. Huh. Mr. Amphetamines. Yeah. Mr. Worldwide. Mr. Amphetamines is his thing. Still a bit jet lag.

Yes. Yes. Is that one? No. No. That's pretty good though. Yeah. It's close.

If jet lag was one word, then it would be. That's true. Is Jetlag one word? I think that might be a portmanteau. Portmanteau. Yeah, right, okay. Shortmanteau.

That's a Janice-Purkin's related portmanteau. Short man. Because I'm a short man? Yeah. Well played. I am short for a man. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So in this meeting, yeah, he was talking about how he does. He's not in it. He's like, yeah, drug culture and that sort of stuff is no good. Apparently Nixon found it really awkward. Like, and I definitely don't know this at all. But it just feels like Elvis was high. Oh, absolutely, yeah.

But, like, I have no reason to believe that apart from that. That's just a vibe. Like, he just sounds like he's been really weird. Yeah, yeah. It's just like, okay, be cool. You're a, what's something a man who's really high on drugs wouldn't do? He'd ask for a drug enforcement agency bad. badge.

Yes. And he'll also say to the president that the Beatles exemplify a trend of anti-Americanism and drug abuse in popular culture. He just threw the Beatles under the bus. What would a man who's on drugs not do? Throw the Beatles under the bus. And apparently, though, they'd hung out a few years earlier, the Beatles and Elvis and had a good time, did some stuff together.

You know what you never mentioned either is when Elvis met Forest Gump. It's very true. When he stayed at the house. Okay. I mentioned that in the formative years of Elvis' group. So that's in the fun facts, but you've ticked it off now. Oh, no!

You said it better than I was going to. Oh, no! And in a lot of ways, it wasn't in the fun facts. There we go. I didn't even know that was a thing. It's a thing. Okay. Paul McCartney later said that he felt betrayed by Elvis.

And he said something like He said in a nice sort of like You know those little little sassy tags You bet you the accent Did he do the accent And you have to say I'm Paul McCartney from the Beatles and

All right let me find the exact quote though And I endorse this message That's what it yeah All right I'm Paul McCartney Give me a word or something to get me in Beatles

Beatles Okay yeah Thank you. The great joke was that we were taking illegal drugs and look what happened to him. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Who was that? Who was that that was speaking?

It's no way of knowing. It's no way of knowing. The great joke. I think I nailed it. I don't know what you guys are going on about, but I think I fucking smacked it in them. That's why I always start my messages. I'm Jess Perkins and I'm here to say. Oh, wait, no, hang on.

Wait, and I forgot about the instruction. My name is Jess Perkins said I'm here to say. I wrap everything. What was I meant to say? I'm Paul McCartney and... At the start, okay, great, I can do that. Even better. I feel a bit portrayed.

I'm Paul McCartney. Good. And the great joke was that we were taking drugs and look what happened to him. I like the, I feel betrayed I'm Paul McCartney. And that's great. Do you think I probably smashed it though? I think it was better the first time. I don't know.

I think maybe you should stay in the room and not leave and let Paul McCartney come in and say that, which he just did. And then he leaves him. Show business secrets, Nick. Because we were just asking you to do an impression, not get Paul McCartney. You've blown the budget, mate. Don't you think that was a bit of fun having him in? Yeah. Yeah, it was kind of fun, actually, yeah.

Finally, I'd paid him to hang around a little longer. He shook my left hand because we're both left-handed. Are you now all shook up? Oh. Oh, this is fucked. Every time I do this, it feels like the worst thing that we've ever done. Are we really? Are we just like...

Yeah, it gets worse. Well, I'm happy to be here as part of the first podcast you've ever done. I'm so sorry, Nick. Everything you've done has been fantastic. Oh, thank you. I'm coming up to the end here. Great. He's about to die.

Wow. Oh, no. Oh, no. Spoilers. By the early 1970s, Presley's marriage was falling apart. No. With Priscilla. And he was starting to get around 10.

Oh, Priscilla. Priscilla also, did I talk about earlier how the army helped Elvis get into karate? No, but that sounds great.

Yeah, someone at the army got him, and he started studying karate. I imagine fat Elvis doing karate too. Well, you may well, because he started incorporating karate into his latest stage shows.

Yeah, there's a lot of chops. Oh, my God, that's... Yeah, there's a lot of stances and a lot of chops. That's so great. Your face is the best part. It's rage and confusion. That is Elvis' lip. That is perfect Elvis lip impersonation.

I missed it. It's a full face lip impersonation. You're bringing everything in. Thank you. He really commits. So Elvis, he got right into karate and he actually recommended a karate instructor to Priscilla at one point during their marriage.

Oh no. The sexiest one in town as well. Yeah. And it went that way. And Priscilla and the karate man. What'd they do? Do they get coffee? No, I want, I think Nick knows where there's a gun.

I want him to tell us, but incorporate somehow some sort of a karate terminology into the euphemism. Oh. Give us a karate euphemism. The old roundhouse kick to the vagina You know what I mean? Jess is on board I was hoping it was going to be clearer than that Oh sorry

He always leaves it vague Yeah sorry about that yeah So I guess that's the way you can still You keep her at the vagina That's so aggressive and mean That's how Mesa Keeps the G rating on everything he does Is he's able to hide his references

so well. Yeah, we've got an explicit exclusive rating on this podcast. You could have just said, you know, um, no, made love. But if you want,

they made a beautiful connection. They made a beautiful connection. The two, two hearts, um, beat it together. Wow. Yeah.

Wow. Oh, in, in it, in it goes. Jess, uh, just,

uh, just is putting her finger dick into her hand, more. Wow. You know how well? Let me tell you. Elvis did not earn, wait,

Priscilla didn't, wait, the karate instructor did not earn his black belt in blue balls. There we go. Finally round one. Yeah.

Very good. They did it. Yeah, they did it. They had the sex. And there was, there was alliteration in there as well. And there was a lot going on.

A lot to like about that. Check. So yeah, their marriage was falling apart. And around the, this time. Some people said that Elvis never really recovered from the breakup, but he obviously played a big part in it himself.

Yeah. Are you blaming the victim? No, he was also, he was having an affair. Oh, yeah, okay, fair enough then. I think Priscilla thing might have happened after he'd had multiple affairs. So, yeah, sorry, that was not. But, and along with that, he was also struggling with other personal problems, including an addiction of prescription drugs.

But their prescription? Yeah, doctors know what they're doing Yeah, that's all right Same as Michael Jackson Yeah, you got them from Dr Tom Parker That guy's qualified, I think He's got doctor He's got a lot of different qualifications that guy

What is a colonel? Is there like a colonel's felt like that? Is there part of the corn? The corn I can't think of, is there an actual army Or is that just an old, like, Wild West thing? No, you can be a colonel In the Australian army?

Just in American army? Who's to say? Yeah. There's no way of knowing. There's no way of knowing. That's his way of saying he doesn't know. No. Who's to say?

Mm. Who's to say? I don't know. Yeah. Oh, see? So well hidden. It's sneaky. Very sneaky.

Who's to say? I'm like, that's a good question. I mean, you could say. You could say. Matthew. Oh, so he turned that back on you? Yeah. Not bad.

There is no kernel in the Australian army. I just looked it up. How did you Google it so fast? Well, I mean, I will Google it later. And if it's not true, I'll edit it out. Nice. Smooth. It's sort of like that trick they did in Bill and Ted's excellent adventure.

Well, they went through time. Where they went through time. Yeah. But you know that bit where he's like, I need something here right now. In the future, in the past, leave a thing here. And then the thing was there. That's fucking Jesus. All right, it definitely will be edited there.

That's fucking Jesus. I mean, in the end, isn't that what life is? It's about fucking Jesus. Yeah, in a lot of ways. Get your blackbell in that. I'm my black belt and fucking Jesus. If we hadn't lost America before now, with the hand-mutt call, I think fucking Jesus might have really finished them off.

Anyway, thanks you. Now that America's gone. There we go. I don't think baseball's that good of a sport. Now we can drop some truth. That's right. I reckon we just finish it there. Yeah, good.

You guys have had a good run anyway. Yeah. Last episode. Despite his personal troubles, He remained a popular draw in Las Vegas and continued touring, and he performed his last concert in June 1977 in Indianapolis. After the concert, he returned home to his Memphis Mansion, Grayson, to prepare another tour.

And he went on another tour after that. No, I've already spoiled that, I think, by saying that show was his last one. Oh, but not his last tour. Yeah, that's a good point. Let's find out. Okay, cool. Sometime in the morning of August 16, 1977, Presley died of heart failure at the age of 42. Oh.

It seemed, to me, it seems, in those old, I love those celebrities from the old days. You're just like, he must have lived till 60 because how many, he looks so different through his career. Right, yeah. But that was only 20 years from that, like, that skinny hot guy to the fat hot guy. Fat hot guy with the big mutton chops. or whatever those were sideburns, all right? Let's not fucking get bogged down in the detail. It's not what this is about.

It was later ruled that his death was related to his prescription drug use, and Presley was buried on the Graceland property near the gravesites of his mother and father and grandmother, who has a cracking name, Minnie May Hood Presley. Oh. Mini Mayhood. Minnie Mayhood. Minnie Mayhood, she may not, I guess.

I don't know. That feels like her parents must have been celebrities to name her something stupid, like Minnie Mae Hood. What's a cute name? Minnie Mae. Oh, Minnie Mae's fine, but why would you, with a hood? Well, maybe Hood was the surname and then she just, like, hyphenated Hood Presley. That's probably true.

Oh. Fuck. Minnie Mae is adorable. Shock on that nickname. All right. Oh, Minnie Mae. Why again? Gut bucket.

Gut bucket. Gut bucket and Minnie May. Oh, yeah. Here are some stuff. So... Did he die on the toilet? That was going to be the question. No.

Did he die eating a peanut butter and banana sandwich? No. I think that's... I think the rumour was that he was eating a cheeseburger. Oh, he was eating something on the toilet, I thought. Yeah, right? Yeah, eating one of his crazy cheesburgers on the toilet. Why eat on the toilet?

But, no, he... He did... He was efficient. He had been on the toilet, but he... Look, we've all been on the toilet, right? Sometimes... Don't denigrate the man for being on the toilet. When we've all, at some point in our lives, being on the toilet.

I've been on the toilet. Some point during the day that he died, he was on the toilet. You were so open. That's why it's great to have you on the show. You're so free and easy. Dave would never mention being on the toilet. I was on the toilet before I came here. Oh, Jess, too much.

I kind of need to go on the toilet again. Oh, do go on the toilet. Go on the toilet. But it... I just, because I had said that he didn't die in the toilet. I didn't want to make it... Just for wheeze, by the way. All right, look, fine.

If anything, that's worse. If anything. Ugh. Gross. But he'd fallen off the toilet and died on the bathroom floor. Where he lay in a pool of his own vomit. Pants still around his ankle, then? No, because it'd be jumping.

jumpsuit so totally naked. It would be all the... It's around his ankle so he couldn't move. So he died on the toilet. He died on the toilet. Yeah, he died. He started... The death started but he was still on the toilet

because he fell off it. Elvis died of the toilet. Okay, sure. In a way, all our deaths start on the toilet. Careful. That's true. Ooh. I'll never go to the toilet again.

Throughout his amazing career, Presley won three grandkids. Grammy Awards and 18 number one singles. Three Grammy Awards. Seems low. Yeah. And they were for weird. Oh man, they were for the weirdest things.

I wish I'd written down there. Would have made sense to. Oh, in some ways. He won, so one of his Grammy Awards was for best inspirational performance. What?

Huh. I don't think they have that Grammy anymore. No. Is that like a gospel thing? Yeah. Yes, so. They were all for gospel recordings, all three. Okay.

He had 14 nominations altogether. So, yeah, but now I think there's more awards, but less weird, specific ones like that. Because you remember that famous photo of Nora Jones? Just hugging like eight. It's 10 Grammys, yeah. It's just like, they just hand them out for so many things now. So I imagine if Elvis was going around now, he would have won four or five. Six.

And he had countless gold and platinum albums. Like in some way, I'd just cut and pace of that because I imagine that they would be a countable number. Oh, absolutely. Countless, they've said. No, I disagree. Yeah, I disagree. He was one of the first performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. In 98, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

And in 2001, he was inducted into the Gospel Music Association's Gospel Music Hall of Fame. So he's like, in some ways, he's his own million-dollar. quartet. That was only three, wasn't it? He's in a lot of halls. He's in a lot of halls. So I've,

actually, I had a chance to write some fun facts because Jess Perkins was late today. Yeah, I got lost. So I've got a few quick fun facts to finish off,

which we haven't done in ages, but that was, that used to be really... Is that because the episodes have become less fun for you guys? Yes. Oh, definitely.

Yeah, yeah. It's really become a grind. We've lost the joy. We've lost the joy. So, here are some of them. Elvis didn't write any of his own song. What? Oh, yeah.

Okay, wow. I actually feel kind of cheated. Yeah. He did receive a few co-write-writer credits of it. But they were for, like, not for, he really didn't write the songs. He wrote some ahas. Yeah, yeah. And often it was like, Elvis will sing your song.

Yep. But he needs a co-writing, credit or something like that. So it's just a deal like that. But apparently one time, this is what he said in 1957, I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, maybe. I went to bed one night, had a, had a dream and woke up all shook up. I phoned a pal and told him about it.

By morning he had a new song, which was called, Heartbreak Hotel. Ha ha ha ha ha. Were you going to do a joke there? Because I swept in. I swept in Matt Stewart. I took you a joke.

Fuck you, man. I wasn't. No, I was all shook up. But I was, I did sort of pause thinking, someone should do a joke here. And you didn't disappoint. Because it was really,

that was a real set up for a like a, It was a real like just a lob. Yeah, it was a... It was a low ball. You're real... You've got a sweet... You've got a big middle spot, big sweet spot in your racket. Yeah.

And he just creamed it. Thank you. I don't even see it go by. That's right. But it's a love 40. Yeah. Hit it for six. Yeah.

Sports. Out of the stadium. Whoa. Elvis... Oh, here's another fun fact. If you thought that one was fun. Here we go. Did you?

Did you think that was fun fact? That was pretty fun. Elvis bought Graceland when he was only 22 I should have said all shook up and acted like it was a joke I've been really Graceland, boy old of 22 Yeah he bought Graceland at 22 Just over 100,000

The Memphis Mansion was his home base for two decades Like the majority Like his whole adult life It was built in 1939 by Dr Thomas Moore And his wife Ruth On land that had once been part of this big farm named Graceland in honour of the original owner's daughter Grace. Oh.

Who was Ruth Moore's great aunt. So when Elvis bought the place, he just kept the name. That's nice. You'd think normally something like that, it'd be like, all right, I'm coming in, I'm calling it. Elvis City. Heartbroke Hotel. Yeah, totally.

At top. Yeah, got him again. Got you again, Stuart. You dumb shit. He made many additions to the property, though. Didn't change the name, but made some additions, including the music theme on entrance gates

which are kind of iconic and also a jungle room which included an indoor waterfall and also made a racquetball building sure sure five years after he died at Graceland his ex-wife on the toilet

off the toilet immediately off the toilet just off the toilet toilet adjacent because gravity took her and he fell off the toilet. You can't be, you can't be, you're either off the toilet or you're on the toilet, Jack, in last.

And he was off the toilet. I'm not going to be on the floor. If you're keen for him to be on something, it was methamphetamines and the floor. Yeah. And 14 year old girls. It sucks that, like, so many famous people in the old days were just fucked. Yeah. I imagine we're going to find out that it's the same now, but fuck.

Yeah. Um, so, uh, his ex-wife Priscilla, five years after Elvis died, she opened the estate up to the public for tours. And something like 600,000 fans now, uh, get through there every year. And Elvis's only child, Lisa Marie Presley, who never mentioned, inherited Graceland when she was 25. And she continues to operate it today. Lisa Marie, who was... Did she marry Michael Jackson? Or had a relationship

Is she blanket's mum? Maybe Well that's the perils of fame once again Yeah We'll always be famous So Name a kid blanket Did he really?

Was it actually named blanket? No no No No Just because he wore a blanket on his head Yeah The final one This one

These fun facts are from history.com This final one Elvis never performed outside of North America Really? But he's still so big Yeah, an estimated 40% of his music sales were outside the US. However, apart from a couple of concerts in Canada in 57, he never performed on foreign soil at all. And a number of sources have suggested that Elvis's manager, Colonel Parker, turned down many lucrative offers for the singer to perform abroad because he was an illegal immigrant and feared he wouldn't be allowed back into the US if he travelled overseas.

Interesting. Yeah. That is a fun fact. That's a fun fact. That's the fun fact to finish. That's a good one. Good work. Wow.

And that was the story of Johnny Cash. Oh no. Yeah, that's right. What? Weren't you paying any attention? No. Because now I'm playing you. Oh.

I am so messed up in this. I don't even know who I am anymore. Did we? No one turned. I thought you were really going to fall in love with Elvis or turn on him at one point. Oh, you kind of turned on him when he became a pedophile. when he became one I guess yeah it was always in him

yeah oh dear hey Nick thanks so much for sitting through this that's been a pleasure I had a really good time I laughed and I'm sorry I think yeah next

I think next time you come in it would be great for you to take the reins because you are much better with the reins in your hands oh yeah okay guys I feel like he just said you were shit now now that's true he did didn't he

oh no deductive well I was meant to be the other way around Don't, don't project. Better than you. Don't project Jess. I was saying better than me. Gotcha. Well, you really, yeah, you should have worded that better.

Okay. Look, we're all great at podcasting and being best friends. Yeah. Now, how does Dave usually finish? Because I've usually switched off. Well, normally when we have a guest, we talk about the things that they can see them in. Oh, great. Okay.

Yeah, cool. Maysa, what things can we see you in? I'm on a podcast called the weekly planet, which like the weekly planet. The weekly planet. Correct. That's how it starts. Yeah. And movies sounds up your butthole.

It does feature that, yeah. Dun, down, Wiggly Planet. Yeah. I really thought I would have known all the words. No, it really gets in there. Yeah, so it's a podcast about your big superhero movies and your comic books and your TV shows. I've learned. Like a lot of podcasts.

Nearly everything I know about all that stuff from that show and the episode where Nick came on here last time. Oh, yeah. I think a lot of our listeners are fans of yours as well. So, well, thank you listeners of this show. Yeah, you do have a lot of fans. So really it's kind of selfish of us to have you on here because we're just like, oh, maybe we'll get more listeners. Jess, should get more listeners.

Yeah, but good to have you. But I'm, look, I'm on. Jess, you're making that sound a little grotty. It's just peatalk and just ban on podcasts. No, I'm a big fan of this podcast. I listen to it every week. Oh, thanks, mate. Thank you.

Sometimes late at night in my car eating bad fast food. Oh, that's great. That's right. You're my little fast food friends. Yes! That's really nice. I'm so okay with that. Next time you're doing that, can you just send me a picture?

Yes. I was like you sitting in your car with your dirty food because there's no judgment here. It's not shame eating when I'm involved. Yeah. Nah, it is though. I shame eat a lot. So yeah, thank you for coming.

Pleasure. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming. And this is our first one in the new studio. Yeah, let me tell you. It's not built yet. No. Well, I mean, it's our first one near the new studio.

Right, yeah. New studio adjacent. We're in a room nearby. it. Yeah. That's not bad. So that'll be exciting. This is the Elvis off the toilet of recording this podcast because it's near.

It's near the studio. You'll have to come back another time when we have the new studio. Yeah, it's going to be great. Matt, did you also want to maybe mention your... Oh, yes. I've got a fringe show. If you're in Melbourne, I've got a fringe show coming up. It's my first solo hour show.

And it is at the courthouse hotel in North Melbourne from the 26th of September for one week. Very good. 830 shows. And it's going to be... Well, you know me. It's going to be great. It's going to be really good. What's it called that?

It's called Pretty Dry. For a white guy. That's not the name. It's just called Pretty Dry, but I just thought about that. You made it so fucked. It's really the idea is that when people ask what my style of comedy is, I'm like, I guess it's pretty dry. Yeah, for a white guy.

Oh, fuck. Yeah, you should have really gone for that. You should have run the idea of us. I'm glad I did not. I'm annoyed that people might think that that is what it is. For a white guy. Fuck, yeah. Yes!

Could you turn off your Zing machine for two seconds? I can't. It comes naturally. For a white guy. No, I lost it. We'll put up links and stuff on our Facebook page and Twitter and all that jazz about that. So we can share that around. Okay, Maddie?

Oh, you've gone all quiet now. Okay, Jay. Oh, okay, Jess. Okay, great. Thank you, everybody for listening. I'm trying to pick up Dave's level of enthusiasm. You can, if you've got a suggestion for us, you can get in contact with us on Twitter at DoGoOnPod via email.

Do GoOnPod at gmail.com. We've got Facebook. You can send us a carrier pigeon or just telepathy. And what's your... Just try that. I'm loud all of a sudden. And Nick Mason's Twitter handle is at Wikipedia Brown. Which is a sweet joke that no one gets anymore.

No, but someone got it last time you're on, Dave got it. Oh, yeah. And it was because it was some... Wikipedia's the new. version it's like encyclopedia brown or something yes he was a he was a children's book character back in the day yeah that's very funny thank you the best Twitter handles are the ones you have to explain the best jokes in general the ones after then mine's Matt Stewart huh no it's stew art oh the underscore is

between stew and art that's pretty funny it's a very common name as it turns out Matt Stewart would you believe it anyway geez this outro has gone too long way too long I'm trying to wrap it up um uh review us on iTunes and... Only positive reviews. Only positive reviews, please. We have... We're comedians.

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